Longfellow Middle School Archives - School District of La Crosse

Summer Music Camps

Heidi Mellem — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:53:11 +0000

The School District of La Crosse offers a number of camps for current music students. These camps will teach currently enrolled music students the skills needed for a successful school year in their music courses and co-curriculars. Among the courses offered are marching band camps, show choir choreography and vocal camps, string bass camp, drumline camp, jazz camp. These camps are restricted to students enrolled in correlating curricular courses for the 24-25 school year. Questions about enrollment may be directed to the student’s music teacher or Brian Renkas (brenkas@lacrossesd.org 608-789-3332)

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Summer Music Lessons

Heidi Mellem — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:42:10 +0000

The School District of La Crosse offers free high quality music lessons to students in Choir, Band and Orchestra. The weekly lessons are 30 minutes and are scheduled based on availability of teaching staff. Students should choose lessons at the school they will be attending in the 24-25 school year. Taking summer lessons is recommended for all music students, but especially beginners! Questions about scheduling may be directed to student’s music teacher or Brian Renkas (brenkas@lacrossesd.org 608-789-3332)

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Backpacking 101: Longfellow Middle School Students

Heidi Mellem — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:38:16 +0000

Course Registration Requirement = This course is available to current 2023-2024 Longfellow Middle School Students in Grades 6, 7, 8. Parent must complete a course required application. To obtain the application please email Lila Planavsky at lplanavs@lacrossesd.org. Application MUST BE SUBMITTED before March 15th.

Students will learn the skill set of adventure backpacking and apply this knowledge during a 2-night camping trip.

Day 1 and Day 2: During the first two days, we will meet from 8:00 a.m.-12 p.m. in Lower Hixon Forest. Drop off and pick up will be at Forest Hills Golf Course. 8:00-12:00

These two days will focus on building and practicing the skill sets for backpacking and camping. We will practice setting up and taking down camp, and will be gaining confidence with hiking while carrying gear.

Students should be prepared to hike with elevation for a 4-6 mile hike. They should bring a backpack with shoulder straps that would work for a day hike, wear comfortable shoes or hiking boots, athletic clothes, pack a snack and lunch, and bring a water bottle with 32 oz. capacity.

Day 3: We will meet at Longfellow Middle School in front of the Rotunda at 9:00 a.m. We will travel to Yellow River State Forest, Paint Creek Campground for our first overnight education and camping at the campground.

Day 4: From the campground, we will prepare to journey by foot on a 14-mile (total over two days) hiking loop through the Paint Creek Unit. We will accomplish about half of our mileage as the first leg of this hike, then set up a wilderness camp for a night of forest camping.

Day 5: After wake-up, campers will pack up and continue onto the second and final leg of the trip, as we return to our starting location at Big Paint Creek Campground. We will load the bus at 12:00 and should return to Longfellow Middle School at approximately 1:00 p.m.

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CS Discoveries: Interactive Animations and Games

Heidi Mellem — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:44:08 +0000

In this Interactive Animations and Games course, students create programmatic images, animations, interactive art, and games. Starting off with simple, primitive shapes and building up to more sophisticated sprite-based games, students become familiar with the programming concepts and the design process computer scientists use daily. They then learn how these simpler constructs can be combined to create more complex programs. In the final project, students develop a personalized, interactive program.

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CS Fundamental: Introduction to Coding

Heidi Mellem — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:40:28 +0000

Now even the youngest students can explore the limitless world of computing! Using Code.org’s Computer Science Fundamentals course, this class will blend online, self-guided and self-paced tutorials along with “unplugged” classroom activities to explore the underlying coding concepts behind web, app, and game design. By the end of each mini unit, students use coding principles to program and create interactive games or stories that they can share with others.

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Middle School Reading & Math – Longfellow

Heidi Mellem — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:30:09 +0000

Students in 5th-8th during 2023-2024 school year

Reading, Language Arts, and Math is a four hour summer course which targets, reinforces, and enhances skills from the previous school year. Time is split equally between reading and math with the opportunity for small group interventions. Current 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students with all ability levels are encouraged to attend. Families must enroll children for the entire four weeks. Classes will be held Monday through Friday, July 8th – August 2nd. Students may attend either of the two middle school locations.

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