Around the world at Thomas Magnet School
November 19, 2010
T-G Photos by Mary Reeves
Thomas Magnet School held a showcase for student projects in November 2010.
Rebar and feather dusters gave up their former, dull existences to become a bright, fun flamingo for Gwynet Segroves.
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The third-graders declared their sea anemone "a little sad" when the cotton-stuffed fingers of the rubber gloves kept falling over.
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At the showcase night, parents learned all about the residents of the first grade's "Gooseland," with characters, jobs and even companies based on nursery rhymes.
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A somewhat scary gorilla invites parents into its habitat, part of the fourth grade's enrichment project.
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Fourth grader Katelyn Shearon explains how she and her mother glued pine cone bits to look like the feathers of her soda-bottle bald eagle.
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Students got to show their mummies to their mommies -- and daddies and grampas and grandmas and everyone else.
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Thomas third-graders got to question an Australian scuba diver in real time, as he explored the great barrier reef, even though it meant coming back to school after hours.
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Fifth graders mapped out the Tennessee Civil War campaigns on a huge map and made dioramas to illustrate individual battles.
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