As part of Read Across America Week, students are dropping everything and reading (DEAR) books throughout the day. Here #atthePark, Ms. Groene's Kindergarten class is taking time to explore and read a variety of books!
Before the reading of our weekly story, students practiced some pre-reading and test-taking strategies. With their partners, students completed a "walk-through" to help them set a purpose for reading. After looking at the genre of the story and the title, students flipped through the story while keeping an eye out for illustrations and other text features that may give them some insight to what the story is about. After looking through and discussing what they noticed with their partners, students wrote their ideas, and we took turns sharing those ideas with the class.
Good afternoon Panthers!! Next week is Read Across America Week! To celebrate, we will have a few special things happening throughout the week #atthePark!
SCA collected valentines across all grade levels and delivered them to the residents at Culpeper Health and Rehab. SCA members were excited to give back to the community and are already thinking about their next service project!
Mrs. Jenkins' class was counting money and learning how to write it two different ways.
Good afternoon Panthers!!
Next week is Read Across America Week! To celebrate, we will have a few special things happening throughout the week #atthePark!
Today #atthePark, the Kindergartners are enjoying computer time outside. Hope you get a chance to enjoy the weather too!
In Kindergarten we are learning about equal shares. Today, we made playdoh food and practiced cutting them in halves to share with a friend! #atthepark
Everyone please plan on coming to Sycamore Park's first Fine Arts Festival tomorrow, Wednesday, February 22nd from 5pm-7pm In the SPES Gym! We hope to see you #atthePark for this event! https://5il.co/1pajk
Students in Ms. Nuble's reading group earned their class incentive and enjoyed a reading camp out with popcorn! The students were super excited and can't wait to do it again! #atthePark
Mrs. Lacey's 2nd-grade ESL Math class is working on identifying coins and writing their values in different ways. Also, Mrs. Lacey's 4th-grade Newcomer ESL class is reading and writing cause-and-effect scenarios.
Everyone please plan on coming to Sycamore Park's first Fine Arts Festival next week! It's on Wednesday, February 22nd from 5pm-7pm In the SPES Gym! We hope to see you #atthePark for this event!
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During our speech session today with Mrs. Hauman, Mrs. Lindsey’s class worked on fine motor skills and on the words “love” and “like”. We made a Valentine’s Day crafts to give to those we love the most!
A big thank you to Mr. Shifflett from 3RC Services for taking time from his day and being a guest speaker to our 5th Grade ACE class for the engineering unit. Students have studied angles, types of bridges, and the engineering process while taking part in team mock construction company these past weeks. Mr. Shifflett came in to help discuss the importance of plans, team members, materials/budget, safety, and a schedule for a company. Students were able to tie in their group experiences in the discussion and reflect on how their projects may have changed if more attention was placed on certain aspects within their team company (ie: blueprints or the budgeting of materials).
Students were excited to study real blueprints and learn that they are no longer blue along with the angles they too used in their blueprints. It was a wonderful opportunity for the students to reflect on their progress so far and connect it with a real-world experience.
Mrs. Brooks-Smith and the students truly appreciate this experience! #atthepark
Mr. Jennings and Mrs. Deal’s reading class has started reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone #atthepark to work on fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary skills.
Ms. Feld’s class used candy conversation hearts to practice probability! Students had to count their hearts by color, randomly select one, and determine the probability. Then students had to eat some to figure out how their probability would change! Candy always makes math sweeter! #atthepark
Ms. Prentice's kids are playing "Coin Bingo," in stations, during 2nd grade Math instruction. Students earned rewards by identifying the described coins and their worth. #atthepark
One of Ms. Daniels' classes uses a playdoh activity to practice prepositions. The students had fun building vocabulary and following directions. Students also worked on complex syntax and spatial concepts. Looks like fun! #atthepark
Sycamore Park recently celebrated World Read Aloud Day! Panthers love hearing great books #atthepark!
Ms. Hackley's class enjoyed some "ants on a log" this past Friday! #atthepark
