The first week in February was National School Counseling Week. This year’s theme was “School Counseling: Helping Students Thrive,” and that is definitely what our counselors do for our students, as well as our staff. Counselors hold a special place in students’ hearts because sometimes they just need someone to talk to, plus they are always there to guide…

  As part of their ecosystem unit, Mrs. Newsome’s fifth graders used microscopes to observe prepared slides of pond organisms. They also observed living microorganisms, including Euglena, Volvox and Paramecium. They learned the parts of the microscope, the correct way to use a microscope and how to make a wet mount slide of living aquatic microorganisms. They had…