Our littlest Vikings love earning Viking Victories to get in the drawing for prizes on Fridays! Check out our winners for this school year. https://photos.app.goo.gl/3NkF6EzH4pd3AApe6
The Board recognized four of our students for their hard work with our North Central Area Credit Union School Branch. Thanks to Izzy Rogers (not pictured), Dillon McKellip, Alivia Longhway, and Maddie Carlin.
Three of our students were recognized at the June Board meeting for graduating from our Michigan Education Corps reading tutoring program. Congratulations to Allie Ervin, Colton Lassen, and Danielle Baker.
Our 4th-grade STEM students worked together on an Earth Science lab last week. Students learned about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and explored the effects of oil spills on oceans, animals, and the environment. Students put on their “science hats” and worked through a hands-on challenge to test different methods for cleaning up an oil spill. Through this activity, students learned about human impact on Earth’s systems and how engineers and scientists work to solve environmental problems. Our students worked hard, persevered, and were true problem solvers!
Last week, our students who attended intersession learned through an Olympics theme. What fun!
Our ELY students have been creating their own putt-putt golf challenges in PE. What a fun way to learn and problem solve!
Each year, some of our first-grade students create a monster drawing. Those drawings make their way to the high school art students, who recreate the monsters in clay. This project is a great collaboration between our youngest and oldest learners, and both groups of students look forward to it! https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1w3BNqUEMgISQsoJCVAPXGjF3UeK1cAZkB8PaOZGx68g/edit?usp=sharing
GES students, families and staff participated in our last walk and roll event of the school year. The weather was finally beautiful and we had a wonderful turn out. Thank you to all those who have participated throughout the school year.
Last week we celebrated another successful Field Day here at GES where students got to spend extra time outside on the playground competing in a few different events and enjoying some special activities. We want to give a big thanks to the GHS students who came and spent their day running stations, the GES PTO for providing snow cones for all of our students and Millikin Portables for providing sanitation equipment to keep our kiddos OUTSIDE and playing the whole time.
We also want to give a big shout-out to our grade-level winners of the class v. class Tug-of-War contests: 4th Grade Mrs. Ranville's class, 3rd Grade Ms. Tedford's class, 2nd Grade Ms. Baerlocher's class, 1st Grade Mrs. Cobb's Cool Cats, and Kindergarten Mrs. Vincent's class. We can't wait until next year when we get to do it all again.
Here are a few pictures from the day and the album can be viewed at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QwrL3uzxdbWPzqV_egROe0GEWj1D0xbG?usp=sharing
We also want to give a big shout-out to our grade-level winners of the class v. class Tug-of-War contests: 4th Grade Mrs. Ranville's class, 3rd Grade Ms. Tedford's class, 2nd Grade Ms. Baerlocher's class, 1st Grade Mrs. Cobb's Cool Cats, and Kindergarten Mrs. Vincent's class. We can't wait until next year when we get to do it all again.
Here are a few pictures from the day and the album can be viewed at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QwrL3uzxdbWPzqV_egROe0GEWj1D0xbG?usp=sharing
BIG thanks to the Crawford County Sheriff's Department for sponsoring this year's safety patrol trip to the Otsego County Sportsplex. The safety patrols had a wonderful time celebrating a successful year of helping to keep our school campus safe! We would also like to thank the staff at the Sportsplex for making this such an exciting and memorable trip for our students!
Today was National Walk, Bike or Roll to School Day! Thank you to the students, families and staff members who came out to celebrate with us. Our last Walk and Roll of the year will be June 3rd.
Mrs. Kososky's class practiced belly breathing using bubbles! As they slowly blew the bubbles, they focused on calming their bodies. Then, they had fun popping them—imagining they were their “unhelpful thoughts” floating away. A simple, playful way to build mindfulness and support SEL skills!
In our Kindergarten STEM lesson, we explored how clouds form and how rain happens by making a “cloud in a jar.” We filled a clear jar with water, added a layer of shaving cream on top to act like a cloud, and then slowly dropped colored water onto the “cloud.”
As the shaving cream cloud filled up, the colored water began to fall through—just like rain! This helped students see that when real clouds get too full of water droplets, they release the water as rain. It was a fun, hands-on way to understand weather in action.
As the shaving cream cloud filled up, the colored water began to fall through—just like rain! This helped students see that when real clouds get too full of water droplets, they release the water as rain. It was a fun, hands-on way to understand weather in action.
Students, staff and families walk and rolled to school this morning. If you would like to join us, our next walk and roll is Wednesday, May 6th.
Calling all incoming Kindergarteners!
March Is Reading Month and these two young ladies are choosing some new titles from our Little Free Library. Be sure to visit to take a book or leave a book!
Students, their families and staff embraced our reading month book, Mr. Popper's Penguins by waddling to school this morning for our Walk and Roll. If you would like to join us, our next Walk and Roll is April 8th.
We kicked off March Is Reading Month this week at grade-level assemblies. Through One School, One Book, we are reading Mr. Popper's Penguins. Books and reading calendars are coming home this week! Mr. Flessner dressed up as a penguin to get the students excited about reading!
The Buddy classes of Mrs. Cobb's 4th grade and Mrs. Cobb's 1st grade had guest presenters from Huron Pines to teach students about local pollinators and the importance of native wildflowers. Each student planted at least 1 cell of native flower seeds: Black-eyed Susan, Coreopsis, Wild Bergamot, and Yarrow. The 4th graders are growing them in their classroom until the end of May, when Huron Pines staff will be back for a buddy planting day to create a new wildflower plot on campus!
Next week, March 2-6, is National School Breakfast Week! Breakfast is served every day before school starts. Students can pick up a grab-and-go or a hot breakfast from multiple locations on campus. Breakfast is FREE for all students, so come visit our lunch ladies and grab a bite! National School Breakfast Week (NSBW) celebrates the important role a nutritious school breakfast plays in helping students start their day ready to learn, grow, and succeed.
