Music

May 9, 2025 This week, our students have been enthusiastically preparing for the upcoming Mini Spring Concert. Each grade level has been focusing on different musical concepts and skills that they have developed since returning from the winter break. Our third grade students will be presenting a selection of songs that highlight key areas of study including the Blues, ostinatos, …

Art

October 10, 2025 Helmsburg artists are working hard to finish their projects for Art to Remember! October 3, 2025 Helmsburg artists started working on their Art to Remember art this week! September 26, 2025 Helmsburg artists are finishing up their value artwork this week. We have also started designing shoes to help promote the Walk-A-Thon! Check out our work on …

Weekly STEM Blog

October 6, 2025 Scientist of the Week: Liliana Owens This week in Science… Fifth grade students investigated the hypothesis that an asteroid impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. In the activity, Create a Dinosaur Food Web, students used cards and construction paper connectors to create a food web from the time of the dinosaurs. Using this model, they followed the …

2nd Grade

October 10, 2025 This week in OG, we learned about “y” as a vowel and practiced identifying when it makes the long e or long i sound. In math, we continued our unit on addition, using different strategies to solve problems and strengthen our fact fluency. During reading, we explored two nonfiction texts and worked on comparing them by looking …

3rd Grade

October 10, 2025 It’s hard to believe we are already finishing up the first nine weeks of school! Our third graders have grown and learned so much in just a short time. We’ve built strong classroom routines, made new friends, and tackled lots of new skills in reading, writing, math, and science. Last week was extra special as we celebrated …

4th Grade

September 26, 2025 Fourth Grade: What a great week the fourth graders have had!  In Social Studies, students were grouped into four Native American tribes: Delaware, Shawnee, Lenape, and Miami. Our fourth graders will study these tribes, make a power point presentation about their tribe, as well as build their tribe’s dwelling and surroundings for display. In Math, our students …

5th Grade

October 6, 2025 Mrs. Joy’s Class: Welcome to the 5th grade blog! We have so many amazing things to share with you about our wonderful week! We have been really busy in math which we’re also doing activities in reading and writing connected to math! Keep reading to find out more about our AMAZING week! In math, we are making …

1st Grade

October 6, 2025 First graders have been busy learning how to subtract on a number line.  We are learning more strategies in order to solve subtraction equations.  We are exploring how the strategies for addition are related to subtraction.  Readers have also practiced reading their decodable readers with partners.  We are using all of our phonics skills to sound out …

Kindergarten

October 24, 2025 News from Mrs. Robison: This week in Kindergarten, we learned all about the Realistic career type from our Holland RIASEC code! We explored hands-on jobs like construction workers and chefs, and we even learned important lessons about fire safety. To wrap up the week, we celebrated FUN Friday with a camping day — building tents under our tables, using flashlights, and enjoying a yummy camping snack together. It was …

May 17, 2024

Preschool Kindergarten We had so much FUN at our Drive-In movie last week!  The race cars are AMAZING!  Thank you for helping your child to complete this special project!  Check out the photos from this week. 1st grade Camping day in first grade!! 2nd grade Second graders had such a fun morning. Our countdown to summer ballon pop yesterday was …