To wrap up our K-2 Summer School Camp, we were scientists! We explored nature on our playground, collected items, and used them to create our very own sun catchers! We also selected a rock from our indoor water stream and had an amazing time painting them. A great keepsake to remind us of what an awesome and special time we had these past weeks. We also created marshmallow catapults to see how far they would launch. We have some truly great engineers! Then, we chose an item around our campsite to test whether it would sink or float. What surprising outcomes we discovered! We finished with some amazing crescent roll s'mores and yummy ice cream cones 😃 Thanks to each of the students for participating in our Summer School Camp. You are all AMAZING! Thank you to the families for sharing your kids with us for a great end of the year camp!
Today, to wrap up our “detective/mystery” week, the 3-5th graders used their senses to identify “mystery” food items, and solved a “mystery theatre” type crime by listening to clues read aloud by the students themselves acting a part.
Although our time has come to end, we hope the excitement and interest in Science, Tech, Reading, Engineering, Art and Math (STREAM) continues throughout the summer! There are a lot of easy prep resources available online to continue the learning at home. ALSO, Bookit has extended their program for reading through the summer to earn free Pizza Hut, the details are available at their website in the comments below.
Thank you for sharing your students with us these last 3 weeks!
Today was the last day of summer school. I want to thank everyone who helped for making summer school fun, engaging, and a great learning opportunity.. A huge “thank you” to all the staff involved.
Today was a great way to end summer school! Mr Vinyard had the group complete a HIIT workout and end with deadlifts! Thank you to everyone who taught sessions and the families in attendance — Ms Fletcher & Mrs Allen had a great time!!
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3-5th grade summer school students want to THANK our local celebrity, Tanner Sheldon (aka #turtleboi), for coming to speak to us today! Tanner is a 14 yr old from Harrisburg, has been SCUBA diving since he was in the 5th grade, is a WSIL Unsung Hero, was granted the Harrisburg Mayors Service Award, and Senator Fowler’s Service Award, and more! He showed us videos of his SCUBA dives, talked to us about his environmental efforts to clean up waterways, how pollutants can harm animals and their environments, and also what we can do to help take better care of our planet. His mom said they are planning a cleanup sometime soon and they would love for students from Galatia to be involved! You can subscribe to his YouTube channel or follow him on Facebook to show support and keep up with his efforts! #turtleboi
Today we talked about needs and wants. What we need to go camping versus what we would like to bring. We talked about what a community is. They worked as teams to build a community. They did an awesome job.
Had a blast last week during math and crafts. We played a lot of fun math games, talked about some of the animals we would see camping, and made those animals. Come join us for our last week. We are doing science 😁 Lots of fun activities planned.
3-5th grades solved some “mysteries” today! They read passages and used secret codes to solve a fairy tale “crime”, learned how to use chopsticks, and mixed different components to make the perfect edible Jello silly puddy. It was unanimous that it didn’t taste good, but it was fun to play with and our classroom smelled fantastic!
Harrisburg Medical Center is offering free sports physicals at Eldorado Primary Care on July 6 from 4:30-7:30. Please call 618-273-7723 to schedule your appointment, parent/guardian must be present.
Congrats Mollie Peterson for being chosen for 3rd team All State for Softball this Spring!
Thanks again Mr Vinyard for our Thursday workout @ Shawnee Fitness! Yesterday we did yoga with Jess Adams and could still feel the effects this morning! In the words of Mr Vinyard, yoga is sneaky hard! If you’ve never tried it, the Harrisburg Park District offers a few classes each week!
3-5th summer school took on a BIG project this morning and made solar ovens to cook s’mores! Below you will see the engineering process, the baking, and some of the eating. We took a vote before we started and most thought it would take 10-15 min for the s’mores to cook, but it only took about 5 due to the temperature! Special thanks to ROC for donating the pizza boxes! We had a TON of fun with science!
3-5th grade summer school started the day off talking about empathy and kindness. Students painted rocks with motivational messages and put them in various places around town! Let us know if you find one!
Our STEM activity today was a little magic, transforming a liquid (whipping cream) into a solid (butter). Everyone enjoyed eating their new creation on the rolls donated by Mrs. McCabe!
Grade School Parents:
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No Summer School on Monday, June 20
3-5th summer school beat the heat with STEM challenges today! Students looked up how to fold different types of paper airplanes, engineered their own, had a contest in the gym and measured to see who’s traveled the furthest.
1st Place Airplane- Malick
2nd Place Airplane- Brynn
3rd Place Airplane- Brody
Next, we discussed “buoyancy” and had a sink/float challenge. Each student crafted a boat from one 10x10 sheet of aluminum foil and tried to add 99 pennies without it taking on water. We had 2 students, Brynn and Autumn, get 99 pennies in their boat!
Alex Wallace from Egyptian Health Department spoke with the kids about setting goals and ways to stay motivated and/or focused. Sarah Heater also made a birthday cake to celebrate Ms Fletcher and Addy J’s birthdays!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳We truly appreciate the way our community pours themselves and their resources into our youth! It’s a great day to be a Bearcat!!!!
Here are a few pictures of our new HS gym floor! It’s not finished yet, but it’s looking great!
3-5th grade summer Week 2! Our theme for the week is “Camping”. They played “Save Fred” with Mrs. Morris focusing on cognitive skills and fine motor skills. Students also identified trees by their leaves, learned about symmetry in nature, and completed leaf rubbing art with Mrs Ruccia. To end our day we played a fun listening/following directions based game called “Boom, clap, snatch”. This was our favorite leaf of the day. Do you know what tree it belongs to? Ask your student if you are stumped. They can tell you some of the cool facts we learned!
A huge thank you to Doug Seagraves for sharing his knowledge and love of disc golf with us at Karel Park this morning! We had a great time learning something new!
