Social Studies-Inquiry into our families and heritage

We have begun our social studies unit on family and heritage! The kindergarten and first grade students have designed their family trees and shared great family stories with each other. The older students are working hard on gathering lots of information about their family history and they are all working on creating their own family trees on ancestry.com's web site. Any information you can give your child about family birthdates, death dates, birth places, maiden names, etc. is very helpful when using ancestry.com. Also, you are all welcome to use Mrs. Clifton's login information to create/update a family tree with your child at home. The web site is http://www.ancestry.com/. The login is Lriley156 (case sensitive) and the password is xj9j6m2 (also case sensitive). It is amazing the kind of original documents that they will find for you on this site so have fun searching!

A Day in the Garden (photos courtesy of Ginny Chadwick)

Sketching the flowers and plants we saw

Observing a beautiful garden spider

Tasting fresh basil and walking through the rows of produce with Adam

Olivia and the chicken coop

Bobby teaching us about the benefits of chickens

1st K-1 Showcase of the Year!

Our interviewer, Nicole (3rd grade), talks to two kindergarteners about their showcases:

Stephens College in the News

Field Trip to Garden this Friday

Who: All SCCS Elementary Students (Families are welcome too!)
What: Learn about gardening, composting, vermiculture, chickens and more!
When: Friday, September 10th – Leave at 1 p.m. return by 4 p.m.
Where: Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture’s Garden at Smith and Fay St. (map)

Details:
• Families will pick children up at the garden between 3:15 – 3:50 p.m!
• At 3:50, teachers will walk back to school with any remaining children and take them to Extended Day.
• We are walking to the garden at 1 p.m. – wear comfy walking shoes!

Driving Directions from the Elementary Classroom…
Go West on Walnut.
Turn right on College Ave.
Turn left on Smith Street.
The garden is at the intersection of Smith and Fay Street.

*The walking route to and from school will take students on St. Joseph St. and Fay St. (parallel to College Ave.)

Math Haiku

Today older students combined poetry and thoughts about math to produce some powerful Haiku. We were not concerned about having the correct amount of syllables for our poems - we focused more about getting our thoughts about math captured in poetry. Take a look at our work!

Parent Association Meeting

The Parents' Association (PA) will hold its First General Meeting of the 2010-11 school year on Tuesday, September 7, 2010, from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Topic: SCCS Orientation with Guest Speakers: Dr. Leslie Willey & Elementary/Preschool Faculty

When: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Where: Drop off children at Preschool, with child care provided by SLATE (Students Learning About Teacher Education); Adults meet at Elementary School across the street (corner of Walnut & Melbourne).

This is a great opportunity to connect with SCCS faculty & families, to ask questions & learn more about what your child(ren)'s day at school looks like, & to learn more about planned PA & School activities for the 2010-2011 school year. We look forward to seeing you there.