Category Archives: Elementary

We have set May 24th as elementary track day for grades PK—5th. If the weather is nice, events will be held on the football field; if it is not, events will be held in Lister-Sage. Exact events will be determined by location. Events will begin following lunch at approximately noon. Students will eat at 11:30 am in the cafeteria and parents are welcome to join them.

Please RSVP for lunch by calling the school at 638-4434 before May 10th.

 The elementary awards are scheduled to begin at 2:30 pm following the track “day” events.

Last year, the elementary collected 81 pounds of pop tabs.  The fourth grade class found that it takes approximately 1000 pop tabs to make a pound, which would make our total pop tabs collected about 81,000 pop tabs! That’s a lot of pop!

IF the elementary as a whole can collect more than 81 pounds of pop tabs THIS year, we will have a PIZZA PARTY for the WHOLE ELEMENTARY!!!

Please have all pop tabs turned in by Monday, May 14^th. Stay tuned for the grand total…

The elementary students and teachers celebrated the 100th day of school on February 21st.  We started the day with a delicious pancake and sausage breakfast prepared and served by the elementary teachers and staff.  In the library, students’ creative collections of 100 items were on display for everyone to enjoy!  We ended the day with a Make-Your-Own Ice Cream Sundae Buffet and announced the winners of the 100th Day Collections. Everyone had a great time celebrating our 100th day of school.

100th Day Collection Awards

K/1 Division

1st – Toby Scherbarth

2nd – Abby Russell

3rd – Braydon Binger

2nd/3rd grade Division

1st – Hannah Wohl

2nd – Bailey Scherbarth

3rd – Taylyn Hopkins

4th/5th grade Division

1st – Rebekah Holtmeier

2nd – Jacob Roberts

3rd – Johnny Morrison

The fourth grade reading class recruited some third graders to help them put on a play.  The play they chose was “Rumpelstiltskin, Private Eye”  by Jason Sanford from Newfangled Fairy Tales, Book #2.

The miller approaches Rumpelstiltskin about his kidnapped daughter.  Seems he bragged about his daughter’s ability to spin straw into gold and the next day the king kidnapped his daughter.  Rumpelstiltskin doesn’t get along with the captain of the guard (who can never remember his name) so he has to sneak into the castle through the sewer.  When he finds the miller’s daughter, he discovers he has been tricked.  The straw is coming into the castle and gold is going out, but it is from the treasury, not the daughter’s talent.  Rumpelstiltskin must run for his life and figure out how to clear his name and save the king’s treasury from the greedy con artists.

On the day, the king is to marry the miller’s daughter Rumpelstiltskin appears at the castle. He leads everyone through the castle until he finds hidden straw (thanks to the captain’s hay fever), reveals the con artists’ plan, and tells the king where his money is hidden.

Play cast:

Jaiden Anderson – Narrator

Jake Roberts – Rumpelstiltskin

Kade Moore – Miller

Hannah Wohl – Happy

Jace Langford – Captain of the Guard

Miller’s Daughter – Joce Varvel

The King – Hunter Letcher

Play Directed by Mrs. Matthews

The first and second graders recently went on a field trip to the Binger farm. The lambing was at its peak and we had a great time viewing and holding all the new lambs. There were lots of interesting questions, like “How do you tell how old they are?” (Look at their teeth) And, “How are the lambs born?” (Very fast) But the true excitement came as a protective ewe jumped a panel. We finished the farm tour with ice cream and drinks. What a blaaaaaaast!

The second and third grade students worked for several weeks researching Christmas celebrations around the world. Each student took a different country and learned when the holiday is celebrated and about foods and decorations connected with the holiday. They spent one class period learning how to search Flickr for a picture to use with their report and how to give credit to the person who took the picture. Then each student made a three page slideshow. The finished slideshows were put together so everyone can enjoy them.

Students learned many skills in the process of creating their slideshow. They learned about researching on the internet, giving credit to others by citing their sources, taking notes, writing a report from their notes, how to insert text and pictures into the PowerPoint program, and how to adjust the size of pictures correctly.

Monday October 31, the Hay Springs first graders performed The Great Pumpkin Investigation. The Investigation was from 2:00-3:00 o’clock. There were three groups of little “investigators” with three kids to a group. Mrs. Anderson led one group and two parents led the other groups. Each group had their own pumpkin. The little investigators conducted a number of different experiments to do on their pumpkins. The tasks consisted of how many lines their pumpkins had, how big around they were, how tall they were, how heavy they were and many other fun tasks. They also counted how many seeds there pumpkins had. The smallest pumpkin had 491 seeds. The next biggest pumpkin had 461 seeds. And the biggest pumpkin had 432. The class found it funny and interesting that the smallest pumpkin had the most seeds and the largest pumpkin had the fewest seeds. After counting the seeds the kids carved faces on their pumpkins. Mrs. Anderson said, “I think the kids had a lot of fun, and I can’t wait to do it again next year.”