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First-grader Joins Band of Reading Champs

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Being able to read books scores big points with Claire Greenwood. "My mom gets them for me at the library," she said. "I read them...

Spelling Bee Winner off to National Bee

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The third time was the charm for Aiden Mischley. The Forest Hills eighth-grader bested 18 students from six counties on March 22 to take first...

Every Student Helped Create This Work of Art

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Artist Cara O'Brien stood near a group of third-graders wearing rubber gloves and showed them their next task on the enormous mural in front...

Robots Take Over Schools for State, World Qualifiers

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Four Kenowa Hills students surrounded a box of wires, wheels and pulleys they called Judy, making last-minute adjustments. They had spent six weeks putting...

Dinosaurs Make Reading Far From Extinct

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Bushnell Elementary students recently got the chance to show off their class projects at the school’s annual Family Fun Night. The event typically coincides...

Open the Taps, Close with Pickles

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Nearly 300 Lowell Area Schools' second grade students visited the Wittenbach/Wege Agriscience and Environmental Education Center in March to learn about maple syrup. During their...

Appreciation for History Begins at Home

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Diane Titche's third-grade class is so enraptured by museum exhibits, they've made their own. "This is who I'm named after," explained Payton Hoffman -- whose...

Students Explore Michigan History at Local Museum

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Nearly 30 students in Diane Titche's Murray Lake Elementary third-grade class crowded into the 1960s exhibit room of the Lowell Area Historical Museum recently...

Studying Human DNA with Help from 3-D Printers

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Noah Korhorn thinks working with 3-D printers, where hours of computer calculations become a three-dimensional reality, would make for a pretty cool workday. “Seeing it come...

Earth Science Rocks!

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Earth Science teacher Burt Breuker has hit on a way to use all those good-for-next-to-nothing, stubby crayon nubs and at the same time engage...

There’s an App for That

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Go to any school sporting event, sit in any medical or dental office waiting room or watch families in parks, at malls, grocery stores...

Beloved Tree Gets New Home

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A beloved old downtown tree is getting new life and a new home in familiar surroundings, thanks to a local resident and some Lowell...

Around the World in Two Days

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What are the holidays like in other countries? Kindergartners at Bushnell Elementary recently learned how "the most wonderful time of the year" is celebrated...

Not Your Average Kiln

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Students from Caledonia Community Schools and Lowell Area Schools recently learned what it was like to fire pottery in an unconventional location: the school...

‘This Makes Me Feel So Awesome’

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Connor Smithee stood on the concrete of the otherwise deserted Alto Elementary playground on a recent afternoon. He wasn’t alone for long. At recess...

School of Rock: Will Play for Free

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The high school band room before a recent evening practice was a flurry of activity and chatter, as students uncased their instruments and shrugged...
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