Reminder, there will be NO SCHOOL on Friday, November 4.
Enjoy the day off and we will see you Monday!
Kindergarteners have learned so much in the first quarter of the school year.
Students are now working on taking the sounds they have been learning and writing CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words and reading them aloud.
Before long, these students will be reading!
Way to go Kindergarteners.
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You can find students spread around the room reading and talking about their books during partner reading time. This is one of the 3rd graders favorite parts of reading rotations.
Partner reading is a great way for students to work on their fluency, as well as their social skills, as they talk with their partner about what they are reading in their book.
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Preschool combined their dramatic play center and Halloween into one today!
Preschool students were able to get into their Halloween costumes and participate in some Halloween activities today. Activities included Bingo, spider number toss, Halloween dramatic play and a Halloween craft.
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Our third graders practiced improving their reading fluency this week by performing a Readers Theater for their classmates.
Readers Theater is a story that is broken down into "parts" that are read by each student in more of a play like structure. Readers Theater helps students with fluency, speaking skills, comprehension and engages those that get the opportunity to listen.
Great work Third Grade.
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The first graders got to enjoy a special performance during library time this week.
The High School Library Club came over to do a readers theater of the story, "The Leaf Thief"
Thank you to our High School Library Club for coming over to share your talents and stories with our Elementary students.
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Reminder, there will be NO SCHOOL Friday, October 28 due to a Teacher Professional Development Day.
Enjoy your day off and we will see you on Monday!
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4th Graders got a little competitive in their reading review game today.
Students played Gimkit as a way to review some of the skills that they had been working on in reading class.
Gimkit shares questions on each of the student's screens, once answered correctly they earn "money" and depending on what game setting in Gimkit, the money can be used for various things to help move the individual student to the leader board in the class.
Students love getting to review with this game.
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The second graders at East Elementary led this month's all school assembly!
Students did a reader's theater to give examples of how to make the right choices when it comes to school work and balancing all of the other things they like to do.
Great job second grade!
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3rd graders went on a mystery scavenger hunt during library class.
Students practiced looking for mystery books throughout the library.
They've practiced searching for books before, but this time Mrs. De Zeeuw and Mrs. Freymann added a twist—students had to hunt in the dark with flashlights to find the correct books.
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Students at the Little Orab Preschool had some special visitors this week.
The FFA members brought some of the pumpkins that they grew this season to the preschoolers to paint! The students had a great time painting their pumpkins!
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East Elementary is continuing to focus on the book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," the book by Stephen Covey to help our students develop their leadership skills throughout the year.
Second grade students practiced Habit 2, "Begin with the End in Mind" with groups this week. Students were asked to create a paper chain out of one piece of paper, that reached a specific distance. Students were not given instructions on how many circles they needed, rather they were to work as a group to decide how they could create a paper chain, that met the requirements.
Our students worked well as a groups through this activity practicing their leadership skills.
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Our Kindergarteners did a Spooky Math Activity where they had to count spiders in tens frames that were hidden around the room.
Students loved getting to hurry around the room looking for the spiders!
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Our Kindergarten classes at East Elementary got to go visit the Fire Station for Fire Safety Week.
Students learned about what to do if there was a fire, how to get help, see the fire trucks and firefighters and they even got to use the fire hose and spray out a pretend fire. Our students had a great time learning and seeing all of the things at the station.
Thanks to the Sheldon Fire Department for letting our students come visit the station!
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The High School's Life Skills Class came over to East Elementary to do a peer activity group.
Students spent some time together frosting and decorating cookies.
Seeing our older students form relationships and do activities with our younger students is so great.
We have some great student leaders in our district.
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The second graders are finishing a unit on different roles they can have in their homes, at school, in their community, and in the future.
As a culminating activity they spent some time cleaning up the grounds around East Elementary as a form of community service.
Way to go 2nd Grade!!
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This week at Sheldon Community School District
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1st Grade Students had a reward day on Friday for their great FAST Reading scores this fall!
As students arrived to their classrooms, they received their ride bracelet and a set of Mickey or Minnie mouse ears. Students spent their day full of Disney themed learning activities.
Students went on a virtual tour of all the Disney world parks, played Disney Trivia, sorted Disney nouns, helped Buzz Lightyear shoot down alien attackers in a math subtraction game, practiced spelling with Lightning McQueen's letter lot, and students helped the 101 Dalamations escape Cruella in a heart word reading dash.
Such a fun reward day in 1st grade for their hard work and focus on their tests!
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Kindergarten students have been working hard to learn and understand their numbers.
Students have practiced writing, counting, using numbers to represent the days of the month and how many days of school we have had.
The students are also starting to get the basic understating of adding to and taking away from numbers 1-10.
Great work Kindergarten!
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Dr. Driggs and Dr. Hoogland, two optometrists from Sheldon, came in and did vision screening for our East Elementary students today.
We appreciate Dr. Driggs and Dr. Hoogland for taking time to do this for our students.
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