February 21, 2025

Winter Olympics Sprunica Elementary held a series of Winter Olympics for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. Each grade battled it out in their own set of challenges, including the hockey shot, bobsled, speed skating, and curling. The energy was high as students showcased their athleticism and teamwork. At the end of each grade’s competition, medals were awarded to the …

February 14, 2025

Valentines for the Nursing Home Third and fourth graders spread some love and kindness to the residents of the nursing home. Grandparent’s Day We had a blast with our grandparents. Approximately 230 grandparents were in attendance! Kindergarten We had two very special visitors come yesterday! Our superintendent, Ms Tracey, and her high school intern, Chloe Sawyer, came to visit us! …

February 7, 2025

Spelling Bee Congratulations to Wrenn Drake for winning our spelling Bee. She will be representing Sprunica Elementary on March 8th in Bloomington. Amelia Walters came second place! Great job to all our contestants: Emmett White, Elysia Raisor, Everett Hilligoss, Adi Nickels, Lynora McGrayel, Natalia Harper, Coltin Keller, Hazyl Carl, Avery Kakavecos, and Eli Sanders. Student of the Month: K:  Alpha …

January 31, 2025

Kindergarten Mrs. Hanus’ class had a blast celebrating the 100th day of school!  Third Grade Third graders are working hard to learn their multiplication facts and understanding a non-fiction text. Besides working in partners, they are also using Math Fact Lab, SumDog, and iready to practice! Fifth Grade Look, we worked hard this week on using context clues and completing …

January 24, 2025

Playground Special thanks to Ally Excavation for plowing our blacktop! 4th Grade 4th graders completed a really fun decimal project in math where they created a fruit salad by picking fruit at the market and finding the total cost without going over their budget. We then took an anonymous vote on our top 3 favorite salads and here are our …

December 20, 2024

Students of the Month: K:   Faowyn Mascow has excellent behavior! She always listens and follows directions. She works hard and always does her best! Most importantly, Fae is KIND. She is considerate of others and  always looks out for her friends! 1st:  Aubrey Dersch is a hard worker, an excellent helper, great listener and is kind. 2nd:  Callie Higgins is kind …

December 13, 2024

Third Grade We celebrated our published writing by reading our realistic fiction stories to each other and having extra play time! Science 4th and 5th graders with their VEX vehicles driven by either Sphero robots or VEX motors and remote controls.  Kindergarten Gym Henry is Gym G.I.A.N.T. for having great sportsmanship in P.E.!  First Grade First graders sharing their writing. 

December 6, 2024

Students of the Month K:      Quintin Hostetler works very hard every single day. He is motivated to learn and wants to do his best work. He is a kind friend to everyone and asks great questions. 1st:     Zayden Young is a sweet boy with a huge heart! He is a great friend and helpful to everyone. Zayden …

November 22, 2024

Spell Bowl Congratulations to our Spell Bowl Team! Sprunica got first in their division and top at the competition location. Lucas Harden received a nearly perfect score award.  Third Grade Students are working together to find text evidence to answer questions over their anchor text: Earth. Fourth Grade We studied influential people of history after the Civil War and studied …

November 15, 2024

Walkathon Prize: Lunch at Casa Del Sol! Third Grade Students are loving the writing process. We have been focusing on realistic fiction. Students first brainstormed ideas of problems that could happen in the real world and ways to solve that problem. Then they drew a storyboard to sketch out the story across several pages. Next, they met with a partner …