SLEUTh Academy

A gigantic THANK YOU to Bette and Sandy Baldwin for arranging an amazing donation from Rolf Kleinwort of a humongous seashell collection.  These shells (and the fantastic custom cabinets that house them) will be used at Eagle Point for years to come to learn to sort, classify, identify the organisms that used these “homes” and [...]

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It was wonderful to see Papa John’s at school today supporting our Learning Garden by sponsoring the Pizza Garden section.  This part of the garden also includes a banana patch — a small edible garden conveniently located near the cafeteria.  Additional vegetables have been growing wonderfully over near the West Wing – peas, tomatoes, cabbages, [...]

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Please go to http://www.nbcgreenerfuturecontest.com/ and vote for the Sci-Tech club’s recycle bin – it is the one with my name that looks like a “inspector” with an Earth head.  One vote per email/per day for the week (now through April 20)….so please VOTE OFTEN!!!!

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Second and third graders have used their detective skills to identify a mystery liquid and reveal a secret message using red cabbage. This experiment is available as a virtual activity online at the ZOOM website. To create your own “invisible ink” write with a cotton-swab using a solution of baking soda and [...]

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All grades are becoming true “birders” and working to earn a beautiful ruby-throated hummingbird certificate from the State of Florida’s “Wings over Florida” program. Students will be bringing home a small bird field guide to get them started on spotting 15 different Florida birds – return the top page signed when the 15 different [...]

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Here is a cute video from Recycle Rex in California. Keep an eye on WNEST for our own EPE Recycling Commercial coming up soon!

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Happy Winter Solstice! Friday, Dec. 21 is the first day of Winter in the Northern Hemisphere – 24 hours of darkness on the North Pole. Do you know why?
Some classes and science club have been making shrink plastic keychains/zipper pulls from the cafeteria salad containers (rescued from the trash, of course!). These [...]

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