D. R. Hill Middle School

🎶 Sound Waves in Action! 🎶
Students have been exploring sound waves in our wave unit and learning how amplitude and frequency affect pitch and volume. Today, they put that knowledge to work using Chrome Music Lab to create their own music remixes!
By experimenting with pitch, tempo, loops, and waveforms, students applied what they know about amplitude and frequency in a fun, hands-on way. 🎧🎼
We might just have some future composers or music producers in the making! 🎹✨

Student Scientists in Mrs. Bowles class studied population change of the wolves and elk in the Yellowstone National Park ecosystem. Students recorded data in a Google Sheet and then inserted a graph to analyze. Students also explored how the change of one population can affect the entire ecosystem.

D.R. Hill just got a visit from some creepy crawlin vermin, but they are ready to make it a home! Come meet our crew of insects in JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH JR. in the District Five Fine Arts Center on Thursday, February 12th at 6PM!

Tickets are $5 and can be purchased by clicking the following link. You may present your confirmation email to the usher at the door, or you may purchase your ticket the day of the performance. We hope to see you there!

LINK TO PURCHASE TICKETS:
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Tattoos on Teachers!

Come out and support us on February 11th at Big Air in Spartanburg!

Band and Orchestra tryouts!

Spring Sports Kickoff

🎨 D.R. Hill Art Club is Back!
We are excited to announce that the Student Council Art Club is officially back in session! We had a fantastic start as we introduced our teacher sponsors—Ms. Deleu, Mr. Haskins, and Ms. Brian—and jumped right into vision boards and sketching.

Join us next week:

Time: Wednesdays

Location: Room 711

Details: No fee to join, just show up!

All are welcome to come and contribute. Go Tigers! 🐯

It's Game Day!!

Mrs. Sud's students grew mineral crystals this week while exploring Geoscience.

Student Scientists in Mrs. Bowles class compared photosynthesis and cellular respiration by creating the chemical equations for both reactions using cereal. Students were able to visualize the cycling of matter in a tasty way!

After a successful Region Band Audition on Saturday, we are excited to announce that nine of our students earned All-State callbacks! These students placed in the top percentage of their sections and will advance to a second round of auditions on Saturday, January 24, at Chapin High School. Official Region Band results will be released following the All-State auditions, but in the meantime, please join us in congratulating these outstanding musicians!

Mr Haskins' class working on area and perimeter! Always earning as we go!

Mrs. Taylor’s Geometry students worked hard today creating congruency posters for their classroom gallery wall. They used SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS, and HL to prove triangle pairs congruent. Way to go tigers!

We love having our students back on campus this week after a well-deserved Winter Break! 💛🐯 Here’s to a great start to the new year! 🎉

After working hard all week on tutorials IN AVID, it was time for some reindeer games!

Our Student Council hosted their first Service Project Saturday.
Our students were in two locations at once. They visited Breaking Bread for Jesus and the Greer Relief Agency.
More great projects to come!

🧪 Hands-on Science Fun! 🧪

Camp Leopold delivered an awesome lesson on pH balance! Students tested the pH of everyday items and discovered which liquids are acids, bases, or neutral. Learning science through real-life experiments makes it even more exciting! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

Student Scientists in Mrs. Bowles’ class reflected on what we have learned this semester by using Adobe’s generative AI to create ugly sweaters. Students entered prompts to create sweaters representing a topic from the semester and the wrote a paragraph explaining the sweater. A big thanks to Ms. Stapleton, our tech coach, for helping us!