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Building Readers Elementary Newsletter(12/2019)
Building Readers Elementary Booklist
Building Readers Extras
How can we build a food web display model? Each group of fourth graders picked a different biome and made a display model of it. They are going to be adding food webs and a report to their display model.
Mrs. Heiting’s first grade class gave a performance of The Great Turkey Race to their parents and family this morning just before our annual Thanksgiving Dinner. Hay Springs Public Schools is thankful for such involved and caring parents!
4th grade is really excited about working with Chaley Jensen and Jade (from the bird conservancy) on our pollinator garden. We received a $750 grant to help us with our project.
We are researching the best plants and flowers to bring in pollinators, and to bloom from spring until fall to help keep our school beautiful! We are hoping to get some donations from our wonderful residence of Hay Springs when they thin out their flower gardens in the spring, as well as we plan to grow a lot of our flowers to help save money.
The plan is to do some landscaping, in front of our school, make a path where people can wander to enjoy flowers, as well as to convert an eye sore to something beautiful!
On a beautiful November 19th day, Megan Reimann brought her two Morgan horses, Rusty and Harvey, and showed the preschool and first grade classes some of the tricks they know. Rusty demonstrated how he can fetch, play an instrument, and rope a “calf”. Harvey was too shy to dance very much but showed that he knows his colors almost as good as the children, choosing between blue and yellow balloons when asked.
Students who were on the A/B Honor Roll for the first quarter were treated to a pleasant surprise this afternoon! Mr. Hagge called those students in grades 2nd-6th to the football field this afternoon at 3:00 to have a celebration. The students enjoyed games of kickball and football or even just had a good time visiting with each other on this beautiful 57 degree day in November. Congratulations to all students at Hay Springs Public Schools for a great first quarter!
Is there a relationship between the number of lines on a pumpkin and the number of seeds? Or between the circumference of a pumpkin and the number of seeds? Fifth graders explored these questions on Halloween, and while we didn’t come up with a definitive answer, we sure had fun getting our hands dirty!
Fifth graders have been learning about properties of matter and chemical reactions. On Wednesday, we explored the idea that chemical reactions create new materials that have useful and interesting properties. We then mixed 2 substances together to see if we could cause a chemical reaction, and as a result, a new substance.
4th grade was working as inventors Wednesday in Mystery Science. They were inventing apple pickers using only paper. We have some very successful inventors!
During the magazine sales fundraiser for the elementary school, Rayden Starke learned he was the winner of $100. With the help of this brother, Brecken, and his mom, Mindie, they decided that half the money would go to his bank account and with the other half they would donate fun chairs to Rayden’s kindergarten class. It was a proud moment when they opened the box and pulled out the chairs.
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