The doctor is hiding information; the footprints show the way; fingerprints on the wall are a mystery. Finding clues and figuring out all the suspects will help CFK students figure out who stole the dinosaur bones and why.

When the dinosaur bones w ere stolen, it was up to the BE THE DETECTIVE II teachers, Mrs. Virginia Weigle and Ms. Beacon-Styers, to teach third and fourth grade students to become star detectives before the bones were lost forever.

Clara Howey said, “We went around and found pieces of paper with clues and suspects, then went back to the room and tried to put the pieces of the puzzle together.”

Weigle said they also worked on several projects, including fingerprinting and combining D.N.A.

Nick DeSanto and Erick Drummer agreed, “We will be good detectives being taught by Mrs.Virgina Weigle and Ms. Beacon-Styers; they taught us a lot.”

Class members worked all week trying to solve the mystery of the dinosaur bone theft. By Friday they found out who stole the bones.

 When they got back the bones, they ate them! They were sour candy dog bones.

Artworks is an exciting drawing experience for fifth through eighth grade students, taught by Mr. Geoffrey Haun.

Janaya Daniele liked the class because, “It’s fun to draw with charcoal because you can make the picture light or dark or even textured, and you can draw anything you want.”

She has been learning not to draw with just stick figures art. Janaya likes her teacher, Mr. Haun; “he’s nice and helpful,” she added.

Overlapping shapes to mold into a figure was cool. We worked on making cubes. We sketched what we saw outside, such as buildings, poles, trees, and animals as three-dimensional objects.

After each day’s thirty minute lesson on whatever the topic of the day was (such as blending), students were  encouraged to do free drawing for the rest of class. However, the lesson for the day had to be incorporated into the drawings.

Haun constantly helped all the students who asked his advice.

Messy art was fun! The students scribbled without looking and then tried to figure out if they could see any pictures in the scribbles. If they couldn’t, they kept scribbling. If they still couldn’t see anything, Haun would help them see something. They added to the found picture to create a final drawing.

Students used pricey note pads to draw on, using either colored pencils, lead pencils, charcoal pencils and regular charcoal.

The students found that they were more artistic than they ever imagined.