CMS project encourages collaboration, good citizenship
Eighth-grade language arts teacher Lissa Lycan instructs students as they weave into the fence around Cortez Middle School on Feb. 9.
ABOVE: Eighth-grader Trinadie Lopez weaves his design into the fence at Cortez Middle School on Feb. 9.
The finished product of the eighth-graders’ work.
LEFT: A mountain design by one of the eighth-grade classes.
The Colorado State Flag, designed by eighth-grade class taught by Lissa Lycan. Lycan developed the weaving project in order to beautify the outside of the school.
Lissa Lycan’s eighth-grade language arts students at Cortez Middle School worked to beautify the school during the Feb. 9 school day.
According to Lycan, every Friday, her students participate in exercises that teach them to be good citizens.
The classes help clean up around the school or do projects, such as the fence weaving project.
“They weave these colors into the chain-link fences around the school to create designs and make them look a little nicer,” Lycan said. “They have been planning this and designing it and picking up trash to raise funds from the PTO to fund it.”
Designs included mountains, the state flag and a message that reads “Go Jags,” an homage to their school mascot.
The designs face the highway outside the middle school.
