Academic Showcase was tremendous

The variety of displays at the St. :Paul School Academic Showcase was -- as the pre-kindergarten offering above suggests –- tremendous. There also seemed to be a nice crowd of parents on hand in the Parish Activity Center on Wednesday evening to take note.

Getting a lot of attention was a large wall filled with cards with the theme “When I Grow Up.”

Fourth grade teacher Janet Hazlett put up a card showing a photo of her as a young child with the message “I worked in the Main library downtown when I was in school. I used to water ski slalom style (one ski)! I have three sisters and two brothers.” The inside of the card revealed it was ‘Mrs. Hazlett.”

Science teacher Jud Hartman drew crowds with his science projects.

There was a screen showing videos.

Principal Robert Brodbeck was busy trying to get around to all of the displays. He spent some time serving behind the refreshment dtable

Students also were playing cornhole (bean bag toss) in one area of PAC

Parents could pick up a handout to test their knowledge of religion, English, math, social studies, science and reading.

Here’s the science quesion:
What is the purppose of the cambrium?
A. to make food
B. enable growth of xylem and phloem
C. to make flowers

If you got the answer without googling, you might be almost as smart as a fifth grader.

Or you could just click here and look at more photos of the Showcase.