“Animal Adventures” On their last adventure of the year, Kindergarten visited the Barton Farm to meet and learn about all their animals. A big THANK YOU to the Barton family, especially Angie and Ellie, who gave students the tour. Running a farm is a lot of hard work, and it was definitely a special treat for Kindergarten to love on all the animals. What’s your favorite farm animal?
Have you ever done something that really was a challenge? A second grade student wrote a book about stuttering and then read the book to the class. He showed great courage, effort, and perseverance in this challenging task!
“STAR Creators” Our youngest elementary students get to build and invent with magnetic connect toys. Show us your creations!
“Hike and Bike” 3rd graders got to bike and hike for a second time this school year, blazing down more challenging trails at Locust Grove Park. One student even mastered riding a bike for the first time! What’s your favorite place to bike and/or hike?
"Calling all Lost Boys” The 3rd Grade Peter Pan Play is in full rehearsal with performances set for June 1st at the Woodland Theatre. Mrs. Graves/Mrs. Edwards' cast perform at 4:00 pm, and Mrs. Thompson/Mrs. Edwards’ cast perform at 6:00 pm. Which one will you attend?
"Poster Time” 3rd Grade is building 1-digit by 2-digit numbers with base ten blocks. Do you remember using base ten blocks to help you understand the size and place value of numbers?
“Caring for Our School” 2nd Grade spent some time cleaning up the plant beds across the front of the school. This combines both their new learning about plants and character development. Have you been out gardening yet?
"Divide and Multiply” 4th grade students in Mrs. Woods’ class are trying out new strategies to solve multi-digit multiplication and division problems.
Are you feeling Ducky? Students in Mrs. Maier’s Kindergarten class had some special feathery visitors. Maverick brought his new baby ducks (Mallards and Khaki Campbells) for show and tell. The students got to practice holding them and ask questions to learn more. They learned the Khaki Campbells grow to be bigger than the Mallards and that as babies they need to stay very warm.
"Sight to Sidewalk” Kindergarten students in Mrs. Donnelly’s class have been practicing their sights words outside their classroom on the sidewalk. Do you chalk your sidewalk too?
WINGS PAPER SKY First graders have been learning about birds in expedition. This week they learned how to fold paper airplanes to mimic birds and their wing shapes. After their airplanes were folded, they took to the sky! Students completed this task by filling in a venn diagram to compare and contrast the way each airplane flew.
The Kettle Falls Elementary and Middle school students and staff participated in an all school challenge to be more understanding and including for Autism Awareness month in April. An assembly was given to each school to present information on autism and to begin the challenge. Each puzzle piece on the trees represents a student or staff who signed their name, saying they pledge to see past the label.
2nd Grade wrote pollinator stories after learning how plants need pollinators, how they move pollen, and how the parts of a plant work. Each student picked a pollinator choosing from moths, butterflies, beetles, flys, and wasps. Students had studied bees earlier to practice researching the other pollinators. They wrote, edited, and self published including a scientific drawing as the cover of their book. Then, Mrs. Rubin’s Current World Affairs class came to the elementary school so that both the 2nd graders and the seniors could share books with each other. The seniors wrote books about different careers. The opportunity energized and built confidence in all the students to share the hard work they had put into the writing process.
4th Graders wrote poetry during their 1st expedition, then after Christmas, they began working on performances combining poetry reading, music composition, and speaking and listening standards. In small groups students composed music played by other students in their group. Families were invited to come watch the performances, and then afterwards everyone joined up to participate in a whole group drum circle. Students also shared other learning about the Oregon Trail. Overall, it was exciting to introduce a new KFES tradition to the school especially one to share with families.
Kindergarten has been busy starting a new expedition about weather. They wrote about 3 components of weather including temperature, wind, and moisture. Students used the word wall and anchor charts for support. They also learned about weather through activities like a puzzle of weather around the world. In math students have been using a manipulative cogs to make patterns.
2nd Graders are being paleontologists. Practicing their fossil digging skills on chocolate chip cookies, and then moving on to digging dinosaur bones from fossil kits and recording their findings just like real scientists. This week they also got to create air dry clay dinosaurs.
1st Grades first outdoor adventure included a gorgeous hike along the Lake Roosevelt Boy Scout Trail from the Sherman Creek Hatchery to Haag Cove. Students also got to drop down to large beach where they could construct something magnificent out the sand and other found nature items. It was a blast of a day!
