Pawprints
November
E-newslet
ter for the
Franklin R
egional Sc
FRSH CalcuSolve Team Takes
2nd Place
F
ranklin Regional
Senior High School’s
(FRSH) Calcusolve
team brought home
several wins at a recent
CalcuSolve competition.
Evan Zhou was the Third
Place Individual winner and Bhav Jain and
Elena Swecker were the
Second Place Individual winners. The FRSH
CalcuSolve team earned
Second Place. They
competed against several
teams from Allegheny
and Westmoreland County school districts. The FRSH CalcuSolve Team
includes Bhav Jain, Elena Swecker, Vineet Madduru, and Quincy Bayer.
7, 2016
hool Distr
ict
FR Shines In
Science Week 2016
S
ixty (60) 4th graders, 20 3rd graders,
and 40 5th graders from area school
districts converged upon Sloan
Elementary School to particpate in The 24
Challenge®, which is a tournament-style
competition organized around the 24®
Game. Millions of students in more than 20
countries have participated since 1988.
Over a period of months preceding
the event, teachers use the 24® Game in
their classrooms to help students hone
their mathematics skills. Then—using the
official rules available on this site—schools
or districts hold local or district-wide
playoffs to determine which students will
n Saturday October 22 Franklin Regional ESL advance to a Championship Event.
Franklin Regional winners includ(English as a Second Language) teacher, Dr.
ed
Anika
Jadia (third grade finalist) and
Janet Pierce, was invited to present a workshop for teachers and pre-service teachers ti- Cruise Lamnna (first place in the third
tled, “Utilizing Writing Forms to Teach and Learn About grade division); Julianne Landsberg,
Your Students” at the Three Rivers TESOL (Teachers of Katelynn Hyndman and Bill Scully (fourth
grade finalists); and Lucy Zheng, RoEnglish to Speakers of Other Languages) conference
man Colangelo, Nick Matus and Siddarth
held at Slippery Rock University.
Ramineni (fourth grade finalists).
Teachers, and pre-service teachers from Indiana
Attending the 24 Challenge at Sloan
University of Pennsylvania, Point Park, Edinboro, Merwere Kiski Area, Penn-Trafford, Norwin,
cyhurst, and Slippery Rock Universities met to discuss
Greensburg Salem, Derry Area, Mt. Pleashow important it is to get to know their students in orant and Southmoreland School Districts.
der to reduce their affective filter and increase learning.
This is the third year that FR has hosted
“As teachers get to know their students with writing
the event.
formats such as cartoons and postcards, they are not
only teaching the students language, but the student and teacher are learning to know each other,” said Dr. Pierce. “The rubrics and examples I used
during my presentation were from my students this year, since many of them
are new and we are all getting to know each other.”
Dr. Pierce added that incorporating visuals in messages also helps beginning level English language learners understand what they are writing, saying,
and reading. Tools such as cartoons and postcards utilize visuals that help
them gain a better understanding.
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