Preschool

This week Preschool is wrapping up our Tree Study, soaking up the warm weather, and working on letter recognition and name writing.

Preschool is moving into our weather/clothing study for October!! Today we read The Mitten and made our own mittens! 

Kindergarten

Kindergarten students spent some time this morning observing and drawing insects we found around our school gardens. The children have found a love of insects inspired by the book ” I Love Bugs” by Emma Dodd from our Wonders curriculum.

First Grade

This week, the first graders had a visitor, student resource officer Minor. He came to read them a story and talk about sheriffs and police officers. Officer Minor spoke about the differences between sheriffs and police officers, uniforms, and how they help in their communities. The first graders loved having Officer Minor visit and had a lot of questions for him. It was a very good time. 

First graders working hard on comparing numbers and learning to use Elkonin boxes for sounding out words.

Second Grade

Second graders created haunted house arrays! 

Third Grade

Third graders working on their Native American projects.

These pictures are from last week’s field trip on September 23 to Blue Springs Caverns in Lawrence County. It was amazing to take a boat tour of the caverns, traveling 1 mile on Mystery River. We saw bats and cave frogs and braved total darkness!!! The kids also had the chance to do gemstone mining. It was a fun day!

Fourth Grade

Listening to a good story during reading time.

Fifth Grade

4th and 5th graders are spending some time brushing up on their math facts!

STEM

First graders discovering why different birds have different types of beaks. These students are trying model warbler beaks and model duck beaks to see which beak works best for picking up the model food (macaroni).

Fifth grade playing a STEM game called Big Fish. In this activity, students have to find the right combination of decomposers, producers, and consumers to be in their model pond in order to add their big fish to the pond.

STEM Student of the Week:  Kaelum Hancock

Kaelum loves STEM class. He has been working so hard lately and trying to set an example for others. He is always interested in what we are working on and takes an active part consistently in work and in discussions. Congratulations Kaelum.