GR8 STAFF- We are GR8FUL for you!
A GR8 big round of applause also goes out to staff member, Stacie Merriott, for sharing her creative vision with the entire school! This afternoon each junior high and high school student was partnered with an elementary buddy. The upper level mentors assisted their buddies as they worked through 10 stations in their classroom. Later, the partners completed a balloon character of their choice as part of a STEM Balloon Project. It was a student-led afternoon that culminated in a Thanksgiving Day Balloon Parade led by Grand Marshall, Mrs. Hammers! The amount of time and effort to coordinate these activities is deeply appreciated by staff and students! Thank you, Mrs. Merriott, for a wonderful afternoon! We are extremely GR8ful that you joined our Tiger Nation this year!
Ms. Dailey's students enjoyed eating lunch with their teacher! The Thanksgiving feast was AMAZING!!! It was fun to see their little eyes light up when tasting turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, cranberry sauce, rolls, and pumpkin pie! Her Firsties enjoyed having the "big kids" in their classroom this afternoon!
Mrs. Piscopo's Kindergarten class had so much fun with their new friends from Mr. Rollins' advisory class!
Mr. Taylor's students had fun prepping for the Balloon Parade!
From Ms. Schmidli: "More 6th grade gratitude poems were delivered today!"
So much thoughtful planning....down to every last detail!
So many things to be thankful for!!! Definitely thankful for this school and community family! Check out the transformation of our GR8ful Tree! Heard one student say, “This is the best day of my life!”
Thank you, Mrs. Brock, for all your work on our Food Drive! A big thank you to all who donated!!!
In Mrs. Lamar's kindergarten classroom the students have been working hard on writing sentences. They celebrated becoming authors today by enjoying some pumpkin roll and reading their stories to the class!
Mrs. Miller and her students were the Pumpkin Pie Crew today! Yum!!!
From Mr. Hendrix: "AG 1 students are in their dairy cattle unit right now, and they have been exploring how to make butter! Today in class, we put the steps together and made some fresh butter to put on our rolls."
From Ms. Schmidli: "5th grade has started reading Hatchet, the wilderness survival novel by Gary Paulsen. To better relate to the main character, students worked together to complete a survival scenario where they had to decide which supplies were most important for survival and why."
From Mrs. Anderson: "In coding we took a day off of computers to work on team work, problem solving, and reflection to improve our work. Students made a paper tower, answered a series of questions, brainstormed ways to improve, and then made a bigger and better tower."
From Mrs. Anderson:
"Business Tech learned about rapid prototyping and sunken cost with a fun paper airplane activity."
From Mrs. Anderson:
"Personal Finance Class 1: Students competed against each other in a Stock Market Game to see who was the best at investing."
From Mrs. Anderson:
"Careers Class was challenged to write as many words that related to careers class in 2 minutes. Then, in their groups they were each assigned a word and had to pick a song that made them think of that song. After we created our playlist, we listened to the song and groups told us how the song relates to class and the word they chose."
Mrs. Hammers, Mr. Edington, and Mrs. Sleeper were busy today handing out gobble grams students made for all the teachers to show gratitude! They even had the speaker going with a turkey call!!! GR8ful to be a Tiger!!!
These entrepreneurs have been studying real world money skills. Today's authentic assessment---a hot drink cart for staff! Yum!!!
GR-8 is in session this week on, Monday, November 20 and Tuesday, November 21. Thanksgiving break will be November 22-27. Happy Thanksgiving!
