Let’s Type!
Elementary School is beginning a typing unit. 1st and 2nd grades will be using Jump Start Typing to get familiar with the keyboard.
Mr. Boyd
Web Addresses
Elementary School has been learning exactly how the internet works and how web addresses are built. We tried entering web addresses and learned that they have to be exactly right to work.
Mr. Boyd
NEHS
On Thursday, May 26th, we were so excited to invite many new members into National Elementary Honor Society. This is a beautiful ceremony where students carry candles. The NEHS Officers spoke and there are many presentations give. Officers received blue cords and 5th Graders received yellow cords to wear at graduation. Please see below for the history of NEHS and click on the Red inserts below to see our bulletin. Please see “Galleries” for some great pics.When the National Honor Society was founded in 1921, the hope was to create an organization that would recognize and encourage high school students’ academic achievement while developing other characteristics essential to citizens in a democracy. The National Junior Honor Society was founded shortly thereafter-in 1929 to recognize middle school students in the same areas. Now, over 80 years later, these Societies have become prestigious organizations with outstanding faculty members and students from the school community. Their reputation for excellence is the result of years of commitment on the part of everyone involved. In 2008 the National Elementary Honor Society was established. NEHS now is the first stage for students in a process that can bring recognition in the elementary, middle level and high school years to those students who commit to achievement. Membership is thus both an honor and a commitment. NEHS recognizes outstanding Elementary school students who demonstrate excellence in the areas of scholarship, leadership, service, and character.
For the selection of Members to the NEHS Chapter:
Members must maintain a cumulative overall 85% average or higher for two consecutive semesters with 80% as the lowest grade in all subjects.
Members must be in good behavioral standing.
Members must demonstrate outstanding performance in areas of scholarship, service, leadership and character.
The selection of each Member shall be reviewed and approved by the this School’s Administration and Faculty each school year.
2011 outside bulletin
2011 bulletin inside
Please see “Galleries for some reat pics!
Ronald McDonald visited our students Pre-K through 5th grade on Wednesday, May 4th. Ronald shared a great message about being yourself. The show was filled with student interaction, comedy, games and a great life lesson. The lesson about “being yourself,” supported what our students are learning in their classrooms. We teach our students to be who God made them to be and not follow the crowd. It was a great show and students are continuing to talk about it. As students left, they each got to shake Ronald McDonald’s hand. How exciting! What a great show!
The sounds of singing and music could be heard and the smells of delicious food filled the hallways and classrooms of our school. What an awesome night it was! On Thursday, March 24th the school was filled with over 1,500 adults and children. One parent described it as a “huge party”! Students proudly explained their projects as eager listeners tasted, smelled, and watched.
The students and staff worked very hard and I believe this year was the very best Annual Academic Fair we have ever had. Pre-K focused on plants and they even grew their very own. One Kindergarten studied the planets and the Solar System and even made costumes and performed a play. The other Kindergarten focused on the book “A La Casa de la Mama Provie”. Were she goes door to door to gather food for her recipe. The Kindergartners made recipes and then cooked the dish. First Grade learned about community helpers and chose one to focus on.
Third through Twelfth grades chose their own projects from a variety of subjects such as: Science, History, English, Sports, Math, Bible, etc… Projects ranged from animal dissections to a car made out of recyclables to delicious cupcakes made from scratch. A big thank you goes out to everyone involved from staff to students to parents for making this event a HUGE success!
Check out “Galleries” for some amazing pictures!
Wonders Under The Sea
The PreK-K Afterschool students have been talking about sea creatures with their letters of the alphabet. They listened to a story about a Dolphin entitled Guru Dennis Dolphin: Communicate Kindness by Dr. Michael J. Tudor. The children also looked at beautiful photos in a book entitled Oceans published by National Geographic Kids written by Johnna Rizzo. National Geographic has wonderful resources for children. nationalgeographic.com/books. After coloring pictures of sea creatures we put them on the Bulletin Board.
Mrs. Hampton
March is all about choices
We’re also talking about making healthy choices when we eat during our Healthy Foods Literacy Day. God put so many yummy fruits and vegetables here for us to eat. We’re having fun reading books, watching videos, and making projects that will help us choose the foods that make our bodies strong!
Regina DiGiovanni
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Can you decide to be like Saint Patrick and use your life to spread the Gospel? Maybe we can’t travel an entire nation yet, but we can tell the friends and family we have around us about Jesus, just like Saint Patrick did!
Miss DiGiovanni
Percussion Fun
In Kindergarten music we did a review of loud and soft sounds, seasons, and also practiced clapping on the beat of a song. This class does lots of singing, moving and dancing to the words of the song. One of the songs which required various movements is a song called Locomoto-vation. It talked about a child going to school and included walking, running, crawling, and hopping. Kindergarten has also had the privilege of playing the xylophones, percussion instruments, small bells, and triangles to the beat of our class music for the day. They have fun with the musical instrument provided to them!
Music Games
In 1st grade music, we learned long and short musical patterns, high and low sounds. We also talked about all the sports games we could think of that used a ball. The class did an excellent job and named over 15 sports games, without any help. Our focus and song was Soccer Sounds and Silences. The song was about soccer, also known as futbol in some Spanish countries. The song has musical rests in it, which means there are silent sections with no singing. The class was given the music and taught about musical rests such as a quarter note rest. The activity with this song was to bounce their ping pong ball on their desk while the song was played and sung, and to hold the ball when there was silence in the music. The ball could not touch the ground. Whenever there was silence in the music, the students would say shhhh to over emphasize the break and rest in the music. It sounded great! It is a fun musical game, which also may have become one of their favorites!
Ms. Farrell