Mrs. Peters' second graders had a fun Friday doing all things apple for Johnny Appleseed's birthday last week. They enjoyed an apple breakfast, complete with apple Danish and apple juice. The students created an apple life cycle craft, tried apple pie, watched a movie about Johnny Appleseed, and ended the day with apple volcanoes! 🍎
Mrs. Flessner's students are having fun working on sounds in speech. Each group practiced their sounds in a different way, including games, drills, and even crafts!
Happy School Custodian Appreciation Day! We are lucky to have our custodial crew who work hard to make our schools a great place to be! Thank you for all you do!
Congratulations to the nominated Raiders of the Month! Keep up the good work, being Respectful, Responsible, and Reliable Raiders
There are so many fun things to explore in Pre-K! Today, Mrs. Waller's students traced letters with jewels, created letters with Play-Doh, read a book together, built with blocks, and enjoyed their snack! The students had a great day!
Mrs. Smith's second graders finished their unit on pumpkins. They each got to paint their own pumpkin. For some students, it was their first time painting pumpkins!
Mrs. Runde's class circled together on the carpet to review tens and ones on their fun Friday last week!
Grade School Lunch Update: There will be a couple of changes to the lunch on Tuesday, September 30. Chicken and Noodles will be served instead of Salisbury steak, and mandarin oranges will be served instead of peaches.
Mrs. Bierman’s second grade students are learning about ancient civilizations. In science, they created models of mountains and added rivers to them. They used water bottles to represent rain. The rain traveled down the mountains and created rivers. Some rivers flooded just like they had learned happened to the Indus River in India. It was a great knowledge-science connection.
The third grade was busy last week learning about how the library is organized. They discovered the difference between the types of books the library has to offer and how a call number works. The students showed off their new knowledge by playing a matching game in which they had to place the book with its corresponding call number. These third graders are library pros!
Ms. Koonce's kindergarten class has been exploring the five senses! They squished and stretched Oobleck to see how it looks, feels, and even sounds, then practiced forming Braille letters with pokey pins to focus on touch!
Mrs. Figgins' class has been diligently studying morphology, which focuses on understanding the structure of words through prefixes, suffixes, and roots. By exploring Latin and Greek roots alongside common prefixes and suffixes, students are gaining valuable insight into how word parts shape meaning. This week, the students are actively engaging with the prefix "un-" and the Greek roots "graph" and "gram" through interactive hand motions, reinforcing their learning dynamically and memorably!
Ms. Hemmen’s class enjoyed the PBIS reward of wearing hats and sunglasses today!😎🧢
Mrs. Chesnut's first grade students practiced their spelling and writing this week by using their senses! They traced letters and sounds in sand, identified vowel sounds they heard in words, and then wrote sentences and identified the tricky words! The students are on their way to mastering their words!
On Friday mornings, Mrs. Smyser's students get to play with indoor recess toys first thing in the morning!
Mrs. Smyser's third graders have been studying trace fossils. On Tuesday, the students tried to see if they were faster than a dinosaur! 🦖
This week, Mrs. Stierwalt’s kindergarten class is learning all about apples during science. The students enjoyed counting the seeds in an apple, learning the parts of an apple, and doing an experiment to see what type of liquid would keep apples from turning brown! 🍎🍏
Cumberland schools will dismiss at 12:01 PM on Friday, September 19, for a teacher's in-service.
Mrs. Young's third grade students enjoyed a tea party on Friday! The class had read Wind and the Willows, where the main character, Toad, was allowed only toast and tea. Connecting to the story and their classic tales unit, the class enjoyed tea and toast as well!
Brain break time! Every morning about this time, Mrs. Staley's third graders take a 10-15 minute brain break! After, they are energized, focused, and ready to learn!
