Students succeed at Skeleton Test!

Kindergarten and first grade students were tested today on a few of their bones. I picked the bones that we had studied the most (and the easiest for the kids to remember). I also threw in some “extra credit” bones that were harder for them to remember. Students were asked to make an X on [...]

Elementary Debate 2008- voting on recess equipment!

What do you do when it’s an election year, your school is a polling location, it’s also celebrating it’s 40th Birthday and it’s full of kids who can’t vote for a president? You have a recess equipment election!!! To celebrate all of this, we are incorporating a vote of our own! The big debate is [...]

Skeleton Stations

Students are now in the final stage of the skeleton unit. After learning the upper body bones, lower body bones, how they fit together and where the bones are- they are ready to build and decorate a skeleton of their own! Each class builds a paper skeleton together then groups take turns decorating the skeletons [...]

Skeleton Tag, Skeleton Search, and Build-a-bone Relay

Today was a skeleton-packed day of P.E.! We started out with our warm up as usual then moved into skeleton tag. In this game, students are told the “safety bone” and are required to show and tell where it is in order to be safe from the tagger. If they can not correctly identify what [...]

“Volleybones” unit off to a spooktacular start!

Since many classes did not have much time to play volleyball, Mrs. Hitchcock decided to continue the popular volleyball unit. BUT…classes really needed to start their bones/skeleton system unit also so, she mixed the two! 2nd and 3rd graders had the chance to start the unit, first by playing a volleyball game then learning some [...]

Walk to school day a success!

I was very excited to be hosting and participating in the Walk to School Day! As soon as I pulled up to the first meet-up, I could see that kids were excited and ready to go. We had about 7 bike riders and 12 walkers. Along the way we picked up a few more of [...]

Cheer Clinic to be hosted at MSHS

Saturday, October 18th from 8:30am-1:00pm- What: Cheer Clinic Cheer for the Cure* Where: MSHS Old Gym When: 8:30-9:00 registration, 12:45-1:00 Performance How much: Clinic Fee-$5, Picture with Manny the Mustang-$2, T-shirt-$10, Pink hair ribbon-$3 Bring: clothes to exercise in, water bottle and lunch *A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Susan G. [...]