Hillcrest School District

The junior class came up with a creative way to raise money—they sold tickets for a chance to bedazzle Coach Smith’s bald head! ✨😂 Conall Qualls was the lucky winner and recruited Grace to help with the sparkle-filled makeover. They had a great time, and Coach Smith definitely left with a little extra shine! ✨ A big thank-you to Coach Smith for being such a great sport and letting our students have a little fun! We think he wears the sparkle well! 😎✨

Look at the amazing things happening in Mrs. Johnson's 7th and 8th grade math classes! In 7th grade, students participated in a game of Integer War using playing cards to practice adding and subtracting integers. This activity strengthen their understanding of integer operations while building accuracy. In 8th grade, students worked collaboratively to match exponential expression flash cards. Students applied their knowledge of exponent properties while discussing problem-solving strategies with their peers.

Last week in Dr. B's english class, 9th grade worked on sentence puzzles for compound sentences with semicolons, comma FANBOYS, and semicolon- conjunctive adverbs-comma.

📖 Screamin' Good Eats – Hillcrest Cookbook! 🦅❤️🤍💙

The Jr. Class is putting together a cookbook filled with favorite recipes from our Hillcrest family! We want recipes from students, teachers, staff, parents, grandparents, and community members.

👩‍🍳 Have a favorite family recipe? We want it!
🍪 Desserts, main dishes, appetizers, casseroles, drinks, and more!
📅 Recipe submission deadline: September 30th

To submit your favorite recipe, simply follow the link and fill out the form.
https://forms.gle/yKbrGfnjrUeGMGoa6

Let's make this cookbook Screamin' Good! 🦅🍴

Attention parents/guardians: if you have not signed the digital student handbook please go to the school website and click on student handbook link. Thank you!

📝✨ A Recipe for Great Sentences! ✨📝 Mrs. Kara’s 7th grade English class practiced their sentence skills today with a fun Card Recipe Challenge! Students mixed and matched different sentence parts to create simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Who knew sentence structure could be so much fun? Great job, 7th grade! 👏📚

✨ Positive Vibe Tribe is Back! ✨ Today, our Positive Vibe Tribe met to kick off preparations for their yearly activities! Students had the opportunity to share their ideas and provide input as they begin planning for another great year. They also enjoyed spending time getting to know our new members and building connections within the group. We’re excited to see all the positive things this group will accomplish this year! 💙🙌

🦖 Exploring Earth’s History! 🌎 Mrs. Amber’s 8th graders have been diving into the geologic time scale, researching three major eras of Earth’s history! Each group explored the time periods within their assigned era and presented information about major events, life forms, and animals that lived during that time. We love seeing our students collaborate, research, and bring Earth’s history to life! Great job, 8th grade! 👏📚🔬

Today brought some sweet celebrations at the high school! 🎉🍦 Our students were recognized for a variety of accomplishments, from showing kindness to others to achieving academic success. We are so proud of each student who was celebrated! Check out the list of all the students who earned a special recognition, along with photos of some of our students enjoying their “cool” treats! 🍧 Keep up the great work, Eagles! We love celebrating your successes! ❤️🤍💙

📖 Screamin' Good Eats – Hillcrest Cookbook! 🦅❤️🤍💙

The Jr. Class is putting together a cookbook filled with favorite recipes from our Hillcrest family! We want recipes from students, teachers, staff, parents, grandparents, and community members.

👩‍🍳 Have a favorite family recipe? We want it!
🍪 Desserts, main dishes, appetizers, casseroles, drinks, and more!

📅 Recipe submission deadline: September 30th

To submit your favorite recipe, simply follow the link and fill out the form.
https://forms.gle/yKbrGfnjrUeGMGoa6

Let's make this cookbook Screamin' Good! 🦅🍴

Mr. Maxwell’s classes have been hard at work learning about the parts of a microscope and how to properly use this essential scientific tool. These photos feature his 11th grade Anatomy and Physiology students collaborating as they explored microscope techniques and strengthened their laboratory skills. Hands-on learning and teamwork are helping our students build a strong foundation for future success in science!

Dr. Spurlock’s 9th grade English students explored rhetorical devices in persuasive speeches by examining real-world examples centered on school activities such as basketball, baseball, softball, and shooting sports. Through engaging discussions and analysis, students discovered how an author’s word choice, appeals, and supporting evidence can shape opinions and influence an audience. It’s great to see our students strengthening their critical thinking and communication skills through meaningful, real-world learning!

Mrs. Brannon's classes have been engaged in learning. This morning’s business intelligence class learned to decode 8 bit binary to develop our computational thinking skills and better understand input and output processing.

Check out what is happening in Mrs. Bre's. This week in Rooted in Nature, our Plant of the Week is the sunflower! Over the last two days, students have been learning all kinds of interesting facts about sunflowers. One fact that shocked us all was learning that young sunflowers move throughout the day to face the sun! ☀️ Today, they’re putting what they’ve learned into action by creating detailed 3D sunflower sculptures! I love seeing them learn about nature while also getting creative and working with their hands.

ATTENTION: Intramural sign up forms were sent home last week with 1st-6th graders. They need turned in by tomorrow In order to play.

Ms. Natalie’s students are starting school off with a fun watercolor activity! They learned that “We’re All Wonders” based on an adapted book inspired by the original 2012 bestselling novel Wonder, which was later adapted into the 2017 feature film Wonder.

The Positive Vibe Tribe held its' first meeting of the school year today. Several student heard a presentation from Officer Raina about how to handle stress and worry. Members also discussed different trips and events that will be happening throughout the year. Any interested high school students can see Officer Turner, Mrs. Marnie or Mr. Ben about joining the club.

Coach Isaacs’ 8th grade social studies students jumped right into learning as they reviewed early American history through student presentations. It’s always exciting to see students building their knowledge while strengthening their communication and presentation skills. Keep up the great work!

Mrs. Britton’s 8th grade students have been busy reviewing and extending their understanding of claims, counterclaims, and rebuttals! Through a collaborative poster rotation activity, students actively created, analyzed, and evaluated each component while building their critical thinking and writing skills. We love seeing our students engaged in meaningful, hands-on learning. Great job, everyone!

ATTENTION: Josten's will be on campus tommorow, August 11th, for ALL SENIORS to make cap&gown orders; also for 10th grade class ring and letterman jacket orders.