February 27th, 2026 February 20th, 2026 Artists are working on finishing up our symmetrical cities! February 6th, 2026 Sunset painting to use with our Symmetry city! January 23rd, 2026 Artists have been working on positive and negative space art this week. We had a GREAT week! January 16th, 2026 Helmsburg artists worked on a review of the Elements of Art. …
February 20th, 2026 Scientist of the Week: Willow David This week in Science… Fourth grade students learned about the types, causes, and dangers of landslides. In the activity, Slide City, students were faced with the engineering problems of protecting a house from a landslide and preventing a landslide from happening. They used a brainstorming technique to design creative solutions. Third …
February 27th, 2026 This week in second grade was full of creativity and hands-on learning! Students continued working on their Cinderella stories, adding more details and imaginative twists to make their writing come alive. It has been wonderful to see their creativity and storytelling skills grow. We also partnered with Mrs. Ely’s class for a fun STEM activity. Students worked …
February 27, 2026 Third Grade News & Updates We have been busy learning and growing in third grade! In Reading, we are learning about the origin of our National Anthem through our current story. Students have enjoyed discovering the history behind “The Star-Spangled Banner” and understanding why it is such an important part of our country’s story. We’ve been practicing …
March 6, 2026 Fourth Graders are so excited about BookBlast and our Cat in the Hat themed dress up days! What fun! In ELA, students are working on homophones, homographs, and homonyms, figurative language, poetry and dipping their minds into genres like fairy tales, folk tales, fantasy, and myths. Reading a fractured fairy tale made all of us laugh! Students …
February 20th, 2026 We have been doing so many fun things in science this week. We had no school on Monday but we had invention convention on Tuesday.We were learning how to make our trifolds. We learned that we have to use colors that complement each other. We also did a test to see which colors went better on white …
February 27th, 2026 On Friday, it was the 120th day of school. First graders became secret agents and had to solve the case of missing Zero the Hero. Agent 119 had kidnapped him. Without the 0, we could not have the 120th day of school. Agents learned how to do fingerprinting, used invisible ink with a blacklight to write 1-120, …
March 13, 2026 News from Miss Croft: This week blog includes pictures from Read Across America week (the week of March 2nd) and the week of March 9th! During Read Across America week at Helmsburg we had a Dr Seuss themed day for each day of the week, but since we missed a few days during that week, we did …
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 …
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