January 5, 2024

Wildcats had a great Winter Break, and we are so excited to be back this week!! Updates from the Front Office Dear Van Buren Families,  Our office staff are so happy to welcome back our students and families! Happy New Year!!! Preschool Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade Special Events

December 15, 2023

We had our completely FREE to students Santa Shop this week! We are SO appreciative to our PTO for sponsoring this event each year. Updates from the Front Office Dear Van Buren Families,  Winter Break is December 21-January 2. We hope you all enjoy your break, and get some well deserved time together!! Preschool Kindergarten Kindergarten had a successful Winter …

December 8, 2023

Kindergarten has been having special guests come in this month to talk about different careers! Updates from the Front Office Dear Van Buren Families,  We are having a door decorating contest!!! Voting is open until December 15th. Visit this link to cast your vote…. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyxSU-xG4v3ZPizAymy_BGhb4de_H_gcG04s6ar8cWEfwAgg/viewform?usp=sf_link. Preschool From sensory activites to building blocks and hugs, our preschoolers are filled with love. …

December 1, 2023

Wildcats are successful! Updates from the Front Office Dear Van Buren Families,  As you are aware we have entered the cold season. We still have outside recess when the temperatures permit. Please send hat, coats and gloves to school on a regular basis.  If you do not have these items please contact the Van Buren main office and we can …

Week of November 20, 2023

Wildcats are grateful! Updates from the Front Office Dear Van Buren Families, Be an Angel this holiday season!!  Van Buren Elementary is sponsoring an Angel Tree in the front office of our school for VBE families.  To participate, please select an Angel ornament from the tree, give it to Kim or Andri in the front office to receive the necessary …

Week of November 13th, 2023

Wildcats have fun! Updates from the Front Office Dear Van Buren Families, Be an Angel this holiday season!!  Van Buren Elementary is sponsoring an Angel Tree in the front office of our school for VBE families.  To participate, please select an Angel ornament from the tree, give it to Kim or Andri in the front office to receive the necessary …

11/10/2023

Preschool Prek is loving the beautiful weather!  Kindergarten The Kindergarten kiddos hit the STEM lab and got their creative juices flowing to build their own toys out of recycled materials to celebrate reaching their 1000 book class reading goal. They had a blast and did an amazing job! First Grade 1st grade filled their Star Jar for positive choices and …

11/3/2023

Preschool We have been celebrating Fall in prek!  Kindergarten This week in Kindergarten we are learning what authors do. We are working on our first writing piece that includes words! First Grade 1st grade Wildcats learned about adjectives this week! They chose 5 awesome adjectives to describe their spider that will help them write descriptive sentences. Some of them sound …

10/27/2023

Preschool This week in Preschool we continued our study of all things Fall, as well as a concentrated focus on the color red and our Alphabet letters. We read “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom”, learned the song, and then created our own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom trees. We’ve enjoyed the gorgeous weather and will continue to build on our social skills. …

9/28/2023

Preschool Pre-k is having a blast on our new playground!  Kindergarten This week in Kindergarten we are learning about the Artistic area of the RIASEC. We stretched our artistic muscles by creating never before seen animals out of Playdough.  First Grade 1st grade learned about what it takes to be an author and an illustrator this week. We had two …