Mission students share accomplishments
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Karen Peterson photo Mission Valley Uke Jammers play along with St. Ignatius students.
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ST. IGNATIUS – St. Ignatius School District opened its doors to the public on Thursday evening to allow everyone to see hundreds of projects students worked on during the year spread out all over the school.
“This is a great show by our children,” Superintendent Bob Lewandowski said to folks in the gym waiting to see the next round of talent.
Third grader Sackett Andres showed his father how his Great Horned Owl looked suspended in flight from the ceiling in the elementary hallway with about 40 other life-size birds.
“The third graders across the reservation study migratory birds with a wildlife biologist from the tribe,” said teacher Colleen Cordier. “We started making the birds from that project. The birds have to be true to size in length and wingspan.”
Kooper Page, fourth grader, stood next to her science project in the gym along with dozens of other science projects.
“I wanted to know which kind of wood burns the best according to temperature,” she said. “I wanted to do an experiment to find something useful in real life and this is good for camping. Juniper burns the best at the highest temperature.”
In the middle school, Sydney Brander, 12, talked about the medieval castles her class built using cardboard.
“In social studies, we were learning about the different types of offenses and defenses of castles,” she said. “We made walls and rooms and a catapult.”
Senior Irene Lopez explained that her class created individual displays showing the places they’d been during high school. Irene is a foreign exchange student from Barcelona so her project was “mostly about Spain,” she said. “I live in a big city. Here in a small town, everybody knows everyone, and it’s a good change.”
During the event, music was presented by students from the elementary to the high school. Patience Matt, 8, sang with her class, accompanied by the Mission Valley Uke Jammers, an adult band of ukulele players.
“It didn’t take long to memorize the words,” Patience said of the songs she sang with the group as a project to share with the
community.
