September Newsletter

These ladies use their PBIS yellow tickets to have lunch with the principal!

Each kindergarten literacy unit introduces a letter and sound through a Super Kids friend. The Superkids have their own personalities, background, likes, and dislikes. After each unit, Kinders celebrate the Super Kid they’ve been learning about. The first Superkid Kinders met was Cass, who likes to cook casserole concoctions with her cat Coconut. They had fun cutting and sorting foods out of magazines, having a float/sink discovery center with fruits and vegetables, using balance scales with fruits and vegetables, pretending in the bakery center, making a cooking caps like Cass’, and writing “Our Favorite Foods” book.

Kinders also met Oswald this month. He likes to learn about and create odd animals. For Oswald Center day, Kinders created and drew odd animals by using magnetic animal pieces, sorted animal manipulatives, wrote “Our Favorite Animal Book,” and pretended to be zoo keepers. As zoo keepers they washed the animals, fed and watered them, and gave them checkups with flashlights and magnifying glasses.

Mrs. Schlotterbeck's first grade friends have been busy with all things APPLES! We learned about the life cycle of the apple tree, how an apple tree changes through the seasons, and all about the legend of Johnny Appleseed. We celebrated APPLE DAY by peeling and chopping our own apples to make applesauce and sampling a variety of other apple-inspired snacks too!

Ms. Kile's students workshopping their writing with one another.

Mrs. Robertson's class walked to Ms. Taylor’s “yarden” and learned a lot about gardening!

Ms. Shogren's class displaying their grumpy old men faces for senior citizen dress up day during Homecoming.

Ms. Dighton's class had their first Red Ticket Party celebration with a movie and popcorn!

5th graders celebrated filling up their 1st red ticket chart with a movie and campout

5th graders in Mrs. Chalupa's class had an electronics and games party last week!

The 6th graders are looking at brine shrimp under the microscope. They are finding evidence that brine shrimp are living organisms based on the needs and functions observed with the microscope.