SoCal students, community join together for bluebird project

Kaden Helsel, 12, sets his group’s bluebird house on its post last week at South Callaway Middle School as his sixth-grade classmates assist.

Kaden Helsel, 12, sets his group’s bluebird house on its post last week at South Callaway Middle School as his sixth-grade classmates assist. Photo by Mandi Steele.

By Mandi Steele

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

MOKANE, Mo. — Sixth-grade science students at South Callaway Middle School are learning what real “tweeting” is about.

A new hands-on student project that involves building bluebird houses could mean the state bird may soon be flocking to South Callaway. With help from a Missouri Bluebird Society grant, all four sixth-grade classes at SCMS have been building and setting up birdhouses around the school.

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Eddie Mulholland, sixth-grade science and math teacher, said ...

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