Middle School Gifted Newsletter

Eighth grade students studied the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, father of the modern detective story.

Students worked in teams to solve creepy cryptograms.

Winners of the cryptogram challenge celebrate by making a candy salad!

STEM students at RMMS, working within their given parameters, created outfits entirely from newspaper and tape.

Students in Mrs. Munoz's class read Refugee by Alan Gratz. The novel follows the struggles of three teenage refugees and their families from Germany, Cuba, and Syria. Students worked to create a dessert from each nation.

In addition to studying culture through food, students also created concrete poetry and music samples for each nation in the novel Refugee.

Did you know you can make homemade ice cream with a few simple ingredients?

Rock salt, ice, vanilla extract, half and half, and sugar. It's that simple! I posted the directions to our Google Classroom page if students want to make the ice cream again at home.

Making homemade ice cream is considered an endothermic reaction because when you add salt to ice, it forces the ice to melt, which absorbs heat from the surrounding environment (like your ice cream mixture), causing it to cool down and freeze into ice cream.