School Happenings

At Christmas Box House, the older, experienced students are teaching the newer/younger, inexperienced students how to break open locks and solve clues to win the BreakOut.EDU puzzle. This activity shows the amazing power this game has to foster community and communication within the classroom.

Ms. Sherrie and her students at Christmas Box House had a great time growing mushrooms. They set up a terrarium and started to grow radishes. Then, upon learning about mushrooms as part of a “forest” habitat lesson, the students asked if they could try growing mushrooms. Students were incredibly enthusiastic about it and ran to […]

Ms. Sherrie had a fun activity where she had her students code Ozobots.

Decker Lake had a great Career Day for their students where they learned from the owners of Fear Factory and Newmark Mountain West Commercial Real Estate. 

Check out the fun lessons and activitied Ms. Sherrie is doing with her students at the Christams Box House.

Happy retirement to Pamela and Carolee this December. We have enjoyed working with these amazing people and appreciate all the hard work and love they have given to the students at YESS over the many years in the district.

Kristen, our Counselor at Roosevelt Transition Unit, held a FAFSA day to help our seniors fill out their FAFSA to be ready for college. She set up a delicious food truck to come for those who attended.

Angie at Decker had STEMCAP bring HawkWatch to her classroom. Students learned how Hawkwatch conserves our environment through education, long-term monitoring, and scientific research on raptors as indicators of ecosystem health. They were able to participate in a presentation and have guest birds in class with them.