Education

The challenge: classify members of the animal kingdom only by the shake of the head or pointing a finger.
Fourth graders selected one person to roam from table to table in search of a spider, snake, kangaroo, fish or another animal cutout that belongs in their assigned class system.  
Jane Thompson, a 23-year veteran teacher in the Anderson County school system, said requiring students to work without talking keeps groups working together instead of one student overtaking the task.
“This way, everyone has to participate,” she said.

Christian Academy of Lawrenceburg students representing each segment of the school’s population —preschool, elementary, middle and high school — prayed, shared the pledges and sang the national anthem, according to Academy administrator Steve Carmichael.