🎉 Celebrating our Pawsitive Panthers PBIS team for awarding over 17,000 PBIS Rewards points in Quarter 1! Their commitment to recognizing positive behavior earned them a fun goodie bag and a very special Golden Ticket! 🏅🐾
Congratulations to Mrs. Beal’s, Mrs. Mosher’s, and Mrs. Reed/Mrs. Hrusovsky's students for meeting their AR goals! These readers earned themselves a well-deserved pizza party celebration — proof that hard work and a good book really pay off! 📚👏
It was a force to be reckoned with! 💪 Fifth graders in Ms. Wheeler and Ms. Walton’s classes put their knowledge of unbalanced forces to the test in a friendly science competition today!
Ms. Davidson’s 5th graders are putting their creativity in rhyme time! Students are crafting original poems following an ABAB rhyme scheme — exploring rhythm, imagery, and the power of words! ✍️📖
Join us in celebrating a morning filled with joy and appreciation as we recognized our outstanding Teacher and Employee of the Year! 🎉
🍎 Teacher of the Year: Lindsay Zehr (1st Grade)
💻 Employee of the Year: Jasmine Jackson (Computer Lab Manager)
We’re so proud of their dedication, heart, and daily impact on our school community! 💚
From planting seeds to growing readers! 🌿 Ms. Cade’s class kicked off their plant life cycle unit and celebrated students who blossomed by meeting their AR goals with an ice cream party! 🍨🌼
A great day starts with Ms. Clarke! 🎲💬 Each morning, our amazing school counselor welcomes students into her office for games, conversation, and community—because every good day begins with feeling connected.
Ms. Polverari’s 6th grade students explored colonies, Kubos, and coding! 🧠💻 From studying early settlements to programming their Kubos to navigate colony maps, students blended history with hands-on technology—proof that innovation and exploration never go out of style!
Ms. Woodson’s and Ms. Stone’s classes kicked off their first weekly practice in preparation for the upcoming Special Olympics! 🏅 Students showed teamwork, determination, and plenty of smiles as they got ready to shine on the big day! 💪✨
2nd graders in Ms. Stranzin’s and Ms . Napier's class were busy preparing for the Greek Agora! Students shopped for supplies to make the goods they’ll be selling—true young entrepreneurs channeling their inner ancient Greeks! 🏺💰
National Principals Month 💜
Our front office celebrated Mr. Faust today — we “donut” know what we’d do without him! 🍩 We all wore our purple smile shirts in honor of his favorite color and his favorite reminder: Smile — it matters! 😄💜
Ms. Osborne’s 6th grade ELA students participated in a Socratic Seminar centered on their Amplify text about the cause of Yellow Fever and Dr. Walter Reed’s groundbreaking research. Students engaged in thoughtful discussion, citing evidence from the text, posing critical questions, and building on one another’s ideas — a true display of inquiry and academic dialogue in action!
4th grade wrapped up S/CORE Day with a royally fun Medieval Day! 🏰 Students took aim in archery, competed in jousting tournaments, and feasted like true knights with King Frank’s chicken for lunch! 👑⚔️ A day of learning, laughter, and a little bit of medieval magic!
Happy Boss’s Day to our Superintendent, Dr. David K. Moore!
Your leadership keeps us wired to learn fast and always focused on what matters most—our students. Thank you for inspiring innovation while keeping heart at the center of education.
From feathers to fur and scales to spots—Ms. Beal’s 3rd graders became zoologists in training! As a final project in their Animal Classification unit, they designed their very own new species with a mix of unique traits. The creativity was wild! 🐾🦎🦢
Double the smiles, double the style! More staff twinning around campus today! 👯♀️
Students in Mrs. Merritt’s Kindergarten class learned about a Double Bubble Map today! They used this thinking map to compare and contrast two characters from their story Tug of War. Great job using visual tools to build those early critical thinking skills! 🧠📚
Mrs. Zwemer’s students have been observing the life cycle of a frog to connect their Animal Classification learning in action.
Students in Ms. Horton’s and Ms. Zehr's 1st grade class became fairy tale detectives today! 🕵️♀️✨ They investigated a “crime scene” to determine which fairy tale it belonged to, then compared and contrasted the two stories to solve the mystery!
Coach Ferrari’s 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade Health lessons had students thinking about what’s inside—from the bones that move us to the systems that fuel us! 💪🧠
