Photo by Pat Sunderland Stocking caps are in order for Paul Rodriguez and Timothy Fifer, LES administrators.Recently, Lincoln Elementary students engaged in a two-week fundraiser for new instructional technology at LES. Within that short period of time, LES students sold over $30,000 worth of Believe! fundraising items.

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Celebrating the change of seasons

Students from Garnet Mesa created fall wreaths to celebrate the changing seasons. The kindergartners gathered leaves, twigs, berries, flowers and other fall symbols to contribute to the project.

Photo by Pat Sunderland DMS art students Jade Mahaffey (left) and Devin Siettman created the “cityscapes” above using oil pastels.Delta Middle School art students studied one-, two- and three-point perspective, historic black-and-white photographs of Delta and nearby towns, and the art style of expressionism to create the framed works of art that are displayed at Clubb's Frame Shop and Bank of the West.

Alexia Quinn, Shelbi Ledesma, Katrina Bate, Kaleb Hawkins, Alex Rolf, Alexis Williams, Jade Mahaffey, Devin Seittman and Stormi Archuleta participated in the project organized by DMS art instructor Anna Couch.

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Learning about agriculture

As part of its lesson on farms, the BELA Preschool from Hotchkiss K8 School made a visit to Big B’s Juice in Hotchkiss. The students had a great time watching as apples were turned to fresh juice. They then enjoyed sampling the sweet treat. Pictured above with teacher Lynette Clock, Jeff Schwartz from Big B’s, and teacher Susanne McCallister is the morning class of Finneas Gingell, Bradley Raybun, Ty O’Connell, Gage Adam, Brooke Angelovich, Chayton Falkner, Terrence Runch, Braeden Flores and Austin Littlejohn. Below, “Mr. Jeff” is joined by the afternoon class of Ryker Gallob, Nick Duran, Delilah Rodriguez, Edwin Perry, Will Wrich, Roan Spencer, Mya Fear, Jaylen Monroy and Guadelupe Elizalde.