Celebrating McMasters' mini-grant award are (back row): Jaynie Mitchell, representing San Jacinto College; Pat Gregory of the Pasadena ISD Education Foundation; Darla Haygood and Morgan Meador, both from Meador Staffing; Education Foundation members Linda Lukaszewski, Rudy Ayles, Dana Philibert and Tom Hancock; and (front row) McMasters counselor Lorena Garcia, school Principal Andrea Hilger, and school librarian Fara Gray.

The fourth-grade bilingual students won the recent McMasters Track & Field Day trophy. Event photos follow with the winning fourth-graders pictured below.

As part of their geometry and measurement review for TAKS, fourth-graders in the bilingual program at McMasters made their own kites recently and then tried them out. Event photos follow.

Fourth-graders in the bilingual program at McMasters purchased lady butterflies as part of a life-cycles study. Students watched them grow from the larvae stage and topped off the lesson by giving the butterflies (in photos below) their freedom.

As part of their preparation for TAKS, students at McMasters participated in a Reading Carnival. Students went to different stations for various literacy activities. Afterward, everyone received a goodie bag of prizes. Event photo follows.

Students in Marisela Barrow's and Irma Martinez's bilingual fourth-grade classes took top honors in the Sesame Street Live Elmo's Healthy Heroes Classroom Art Contest recently. As part of a science unit on consumers and producers, students decided to make a collage of other students eating healthy snacks and exercising. Each student wrote two to three sentences on what being healthy means to them. Peer Facilitator Vicki Gonzalez coordinated the project. For their efforts, both classes received tickets to the show on Feb. 11. (Below) McMasters fourth-graders pose with their banner.