Hammond Academy blanks Calumet : Preps. 21 hours ago • Matt Douthett Times Correspondent Hammond Academy 3, Calumet 0 Cody Glass had 15 strikeouts for Hammond Academy. GARY | Hammond Academy’s Cody Glass tossed curveball after curveball, proving he was in an excellent rhythm as he sent Calumet’s hitters back to the dugout wondering what hit them. Read More »
Hammond partnership gives back to community : Lake. Rob Earnshaw Times Correspondent HAMMOND | United Neighborhoods Inc., Havmack Construction and students from Hammond Academy of Science and Technology worked together Saturday to make their city a better place. Five students from the academy performed their National Honor Society group service project by helping to install Read More »
Yesterday the 7th grade students did the HAST version of a traditional Obon festival. Japanese Obon is very similar to the Day of the Dead. ??? ???? ????? They believe that the spirits of their ancestors come back to our world for three days. It is a happy time full of dancing and other festivities. Read More »
Congratulations to the winners of our 2013 6th Grade Invention Convention! Most eccentric/wacky: The Wedgie Preventer Evan Manley, Katherine Moreta, Juan Frias, Mariah Barber Most likely to be invented: The Balloon Bracelet Michelle Lopez, Lilly Musgraves, Johncarlo Perez, Everardo Gallardo Read More »
The campaign project for Ms. Projovic’s government class was a great way to step into the shoes of the political parties of the United States. The students each had to assume the responsibilities of a member of a campaign party for a minority political party to win HAST Grand Champion. ???? ????????? ??? ????? Read More »
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Recently in Mr. Smith’s Global Studies class and Ms. Burke’s English class, students were sent back in time to the Middle Ages to learn what life was like. ??? ??? They were assigned several tasks to complete before they could return to modern times. ???? ????? ????? The first task was to create a persona Read More »
With a grant from Taltree Arboretum to plant trees to beautify downtown Hammond, Mrs. ????? ????????? Projovic and Ms. Burke took the sixth grades classes to explore trees in our area. Students measured DBH (diameter at breast height) and named trees based on their location and appearance. ???? ???? ?????? Today was the beginning of Read More »
[weaver_youtube id=eqQuwtiHcS8] An important part of comprehension within a text requires that students understand the use of figurative language. Last week, we started discussing idioms. As a culminating activity, each student dressed up as a given idiom. ???? ????? ???? The students randomly chose two idioms in class, and had to choose the one that Read More »