
Miss Dee, from the U of I Extension, visited pre-k yesterday to talk about healthy snacks. The boys and girls tried vanilla yogurt with raspberries on top. It was delicious!

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Mrs. Van Hyfte had some awesome visitors for lunch today! Any 3rd and 4th grader who completed their 8 weeks of "Beginning to Read Music" and received a 100% on their test got to participate in a pizza party during lunchtime in the music room! Great job!




In the Maker Space this week, kindergarten students were mixing technology sciences with reading, math, and social studies skills! Students coded our BeeBots to go to specific letters, numbers, and places on a map! You better BEElieve we had fun! 🐝





This week, Mrs. Schaumburg's class used an engineering and design kit to build tree houses and playgrounds in Maker Space!





This week, Mrs. Schaumburg's class used an engineering and design kit to build tree houses and playgrounds!



They did!





Can they make the Pringles Ring?





Mrs. Meidel’s class hatched 10 chicks! It was so fun learning about the life cycle of a chicken and seeing it played out in real life. The students were great caretakers of the fluffy chicks.





Practicing for IAR by partner reading and playing games!





Pizza adventure 2019: a great way to honor student achievement! 💙




Surprise pizza delivery for academic achievement on STAR tests!!





Live Music Monday with Mrs. Van Hyfte's music class was spent with Tuscola's Denny Ellis this week! All of the kids had a blast playing the bongos, Cajon, electric AND acoustic guitar, and got a chance to do some singing on a real microphone. We Will, We Will, Rock You!





Mrs. Schaumburg's class wrapped up their math chapter on data analysis and their reading theme of "cooperation" by doing a group project. Each group created a survey, collected data, made a graph of their choice, and analyzed and presented the data. See them at conferences!





Mrs. Schaumburg's class wrapped up their chapter on data analysis, and their reading theme of "cooperation" last week by working in groups to create their own surveys, graphs, and analyzing and presenting data over class favorites. Come see the graphs at conferences!





AR Inflatable Day was so much fun!





AR Inflatable Day was so much fun!

More 3rd quarter behavior party fun - painting with BHRACHS art class and making slime.





These students earned a dance party by displaying positive behavior this quarter! 💙





First grade had so much fun learning about how maple syrup is made. We were able to experience first hand how much work it really is. We even got to taste real maple syrup!



