Preschool

This week preschool has started their garden study. We talked about what kind of things a garden needs to be successful and potted our own plant! 

Kindergarten

Kindergarten has been learning all about friendship and making connections in Social Studies.  This week we made a friendship web by telling our classmates something we like about them 

First Grade

First graders have been busy working on reading fluency, reading math word problems and solving them, playing PE games with high school students, and being pranked on April Fool’s Day. Students were told we were practicing a new flood drill and they had to roll up their pants, take off their shoes, and “swim” outside to our normal drill spot. So fun!!

Mrs. Platt’s first graders are working on fluency and automaticity by pyramid reading. The students get with a partner and take turns reading each pyramid reading and then switch. This is a fun way to practice fluency. 

Second Grade

Second grade students had a visit from the wonderful Mrs. Sechler. The students love how her stories encourage the use of their imaginations. 

Third Grade

Third graders always love when Martha Sechler comes to share her magical stories!

It was so beautiful on Tuesday that we had our writing class outside. My third graders loved that we were able to complete our narrative pre writing lesson in our outside classroom!

Fourth Grade

4th grade students celebrate April birthdays with the school! Look at those smiles.

Fifth Grade

Fifth graders are busy preparing for Biz Town. They have learned so much about working in a business, balancing a checkbook, filling out job applications, and interviewing!  We even elected a mayor!

STEM

This week in STEM:

4th Grade spent some time learning more about rocks. Students were even able to share their own rock collections and try to identify the type of rocks they have (igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic).

1st Grade students learned how the sun can help us tell directions. They learned that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. They were able to use the “sun finders” they made to help figure out how the sun can help someone if they were lost.

STEM Student of the Week: Ottilia Zuercher

Tillie loves STEM and is always working so hard at discovering answers to real world problems and learning about the world around us. Tillie is always setting the example for others with following expectations and working hard at everything she does at school. Congratulations Tillie!