Mrs. Perry's horticulture class started up the germination machine and started seeds for garden plants. They are hoping for excellent germination and lots of seedlings in the next few weeks.
All the best to our High School Band and Choir students as they attend IHSA Solo and Ensemble Contest this Saturday! Pana will certainly be well-represented by our talent musicians!
Mrs. Chase's High School guitar students enjoyed practicing and performing their first ensembles!
The students in Mrs. Chase's High School Theatrical Arts class enjoyed creating Greek theater masks and then peforming a Greek Chorus as part of their Greek Theater unit!
Thanks to Mr. Perkins, from TCCU for speaking to the PJHS 7th grade Social Studies classes about budgeting, savings, checking, and loans.
Today in Mrs. Bowker's kindergarten PE classes, the students had a blast working with the Lummi Sticks. They were following the leader on the video and keeping the beat. They were getting quite a workout!
These girls dug deep and fought hard for the win tonight! Congratulations to our 7th grade volleyball team for winning the regional championship game!
We had success! All of the AP Biology students successfully transformed their bacteria! Check out the fluorescent glow of their specimens under a UV lamp! Woot-woot!
These kids are warming up their math brains by playing this card game, Make 11, with Mrs. Matthews before working on story problems. The person with the smallest remaining card is the winner.
AP Biology students are attempting to make bacteria glow under UV light by introducing a genetically engineered plasmid into the bacterial DNA. This plasmid contains the instructions for construction of a protein that naturally occurs in some species of jellyfish! Stay tuned!
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Winner of the Student Stock Trader Game at PJHS Money 101 class. (4 week total $19,759.98 )
These kiddos were Mrs. Epley's lunch dates on Thursday. Hailey and Flynn have both finished all four levels of Rocket Math, and Olivia has read more than a million words in Accelerated Reader. They definitely earned their lunch!
After learning about columns with Ms. Hahnenkamp, Miss Kuhn's class worked to create the sturdiest column. After, the initial test of holding six books, three columns kept standing. In the end, Olivia and Liam's columns held 21 books, but Liam's out-stood the weight for 2 hours longer, making him the winner of the column building competition!
Mr. Anderson from Willms and Associates spoke to the PJHS Money 101 class about Insurance.
The National Honor Society will be sponsoring the Red Cross Blood Drive on March 6th from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. You can sign-up on the Red Cross website or walk-ins are also welcome.
Mrs. Roberts leads our 7th/8th grade choir in spread-out singing! Save the date for our Music In Our Schools Recital on Friday, March 8 at 6:30 pm!
The Pana FFA came to third grade today to teach us about soil during FFA Week! We even got to make edible soil! We had so much fun!!
Mrs. Chernisky's 5th graders worked with drones today. They practiced taking off and landing it in someone's hand. Everyone was so excited! Check out the following links: https://shorturl.at/kRSY1 AND https://shorturl.at/bdgKY
Mrs. Holman's Art Ninja's are learning about artist Wayne Thiebaud focusing on how he used shadows and patterns while mostly portraying food in his works.
