Elementary

Elementary students had great fun last Wednesday coming to school in jammies, eating pancakes and sausage for breakfast, and joining the Preschool for the mask parade and singing with Derrick.  They also enjoyed putting the birthday bags together for CCC.  Lots of thought went into which cake mix goes with what frosting, which goes with what party plates and candles, that match what pillowcase in which to assemble it all! Thank you to everyone who donated items for this project; students took 33 bags over to Clemson Community Care (CCC) on Thursday. 

Our next CCC project will be putting together casserole bags.  Students will collect and assemble the components and attach a recipe card. Please help out by adding canned tuna or chicken, cream of chicken or mushroom soup, canned milk, canned peas, or a 12 oz. bag of egg noodles to your grocery cart in the next weeks. 

The Juniors also enjoyed lessons on graphing.   We turned excitement that lingered from the Fall Festival and that mounted over Halloween festivities into collecting and graphing data, including which festival activities were most frequented by the group, and which items were most collected Halloween night.  Students have begun conducting their own surveys and graphing their data. 

All Elementary students are preparing for their second book share this Friday afternoon!  Dioramas of settings, acting out scenes, 1st chapters of sequels...we can't wait to see what's in store.

Peanuts - Marjory

Our presentations on the Rainforest went great! Each of the Peanuts did a fantastic job!

A topic of interest this week will be what is an election? What is voting? Why do we vote? The students will create a ballot, and cast votes for their favorite character (they will nominate their own characters). We will not get into politics, but will talk about the two parties; Democrats and Republicans. This will be very brief, fun and educational.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Pre-Primary - Trish and Sam

October was busy and fun! We enjoyed Halloween games and songs, making masks, and our parade on the playground with Derrick. Sam carved our pumpkin and put a candle inside.

We would like to welcome our newest student, Nora.

Peanuts - Marjory

Peanuts have been working hard on preparing for thier presentations. Parents, please have your Peanuts bring thier projects in Tuesday so they can practice. We are looking forward to our parents being here on Wednesday; please arrive at 1:00pm so we can start promptly. Also, Friday we are going to the Tri Arts Center to see "SkippyJon Jones". We will leave at 9:00am, and return at 11:00am.

Primary 1 - Susan and Patrick

We have an exciting week coming up.  Our pumpkin is scrubbed and ready for carving….well, almost.  First, we will need to gut our pumpkin.  While doing so, we will ponder whether a pumpkin, which isn’t very sweet on its own, is a fruit or a vegetable.  We will also discuss the parts of our pumpkin just as we did our apple. 

We will be making Aztec sun masks this week for our Halloween parade.  On Wednesday, we will all be wearing our pajamas.  Around mid-morning, we will march around the playground in our beautiful masks while Derrick entertains us with his fun songs.  The week will culminate with a tasty snack of pumpkin pancakes.  Like I said, exciting!