News from Lakeside Elementary at Glen Elder
by Glen Elder Staff
March 09, 2010
Lakeside Elementary School at
Glen Elder
The 13th annual Read-a-Thon at Lakeside Elementary School at Glen Elder was held on March 2 in celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Readers came for 20-minute periods throughout the day. The presenters helped stress the importance of reading by telling about a wide variety of occupations and activities, as well as sharing some favorite books.
Lori Augustine, school bus driver for our building, was the first presenter of the day. She read two fun books and one informative book about driving a bus.
Cassi Walsh chose to read some books that she remembered liking as a child. She also read a Dr. Seuss book for all to enjoy. Thank you for sharing your books with us!
Quilts were displayed for the next session with Majean Schneider. She read a book about a quiltmaker and then explained some of the how-to’s of making a quilt.
The children each received a coloring book “Play It Safe” from Senior Special Agent Bill Pettijohn. He read through the book with them and they discussed safety issues.
Where does wool come from and how is it made into a sweater? Kathleen Hughes read some books about sheep and helped answer these questions.
The Glen Elder Postmistress Penny Cool read a book about mail carriers. She also read a hand-made story about the life of a letter as it goes from being mailed in the mailbox to arriving at someone else’s house.
Lunch that day included “green eggs and ham” in honor of a familiar book by Dr. Seuss. Head cook Diana Roe read the book to us as we ate.
We heard a book about garbage collectors from Karen Brinker. She also told us how to recycle and gave the students some coloring pages to help them think about recycling.
The day ended with Pastor Rich Miller reading a book about the Good Humor Man. We even heard the music from the Good Humor truck. He provided popsicles for us to enjoy. What fun!
As you can see, books can inform us about many activities. The students and faculty wish to express a huge “Thank You” to all of the readers for taking time to come to read to us. It was a very enjoyable day of reading!
Newsletter
Kindergarten – Mrs. Gradig
We would like to welcome Xavier back to our class. With this addition, there are now 18 students in Kindergarten. The Kindergartners have been working very hard this month. We have learned about Presidents Washington and Lincoln and soon we will be starting our unit called “Let’s Explore.” In math we have almost completed our unit on “Shapes and Geometry.” Then we will start numbers 10-30. In science we have moved on and are studying Earth Science. We are learning about the soil and what it is made of and what we can find in it. We will also be looking at rocks and different landforms such as mountains, canyons, plains, and valleys.
We are becoming very good readers. Reading and phonics are going great. Every day there are improvements in reading skills. We have read seven books from our phonics series and are learning to read many phonics words as well as sight words. Please continue to help us with our reading skills. Ask us what words are when you see them and let us read to you.
Second Grade – Mrs. Clausen
The second graders are doing a fantastic job adding and subtracting two-digit numbers with regrouping. This has been the topic of their past few chapters in math and they have mastered this with very little difficulty. Great job, second graders! We are now ready to learn about geometric shapes. In reading we have finished our first reading book and started on the second one. This theme is called “Family Photos” and has many stories about many types of families and family situations. The second graders are also learning many interesting things about dinosaurs. They are making a book and singing songs about all types of dinosaurs.
The students have been busy making decorations for the classroom. You would find Valentine’s Day and Presidents’ Day art hanging from the ceiling. We also had our final party of the year.
No School
Monday – Friday, March 15-19
Spring Break!
Class pictures and casual individual pictures will be taken at LES@GE on Friday, March 26.
