Sadie received a reading coin today to select a book from our vending machine. Sadie is always reading when she has an extra minute. She even carries her book to lunch and recess. I know she truly loves to read!
Students in Mrs. Sullivan and Mrs. Singer's 4th grade classes joined together to celebrate and demonstrate their learning of what it means to have a literal great heart by creating candy diagrams of hearts. Students focused on pieces of candy that could figuratively represent the different parts of the heart, how it works, and also included a main idea statement of what their diagram is representing. ❤️
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Students in Pre-K 4 learned about what it meant to retell a story during our Room on the Broom Day! We retold the story by talking with a partner, using visuals, making a craft, having a snack, and acting it out. There is defiantly room on our broom for a friend like you!
4th graders participated in a Math Amazing Race to practice multiples, factors, and prime and composite numbers before taking a quiz in Math.
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4th graders participated in a Socratic Seminar to help them gather ideas to add into their informational paragraphs. Students are writing about what makes a great heart literally after reading The Circulatory Story.
3rd graders at SES were visited by a park ranger from Assateague Island. They learned about how pony DNA determines the variety of traits found in Assateague Ponies (eye color, fur pattern, hoof color, etc.). The children were excited to develop and name their own ponies based off of sample DNA.
The Pre-K goal is to reach 500 Books read aloud in class. Students in Mrs. Cole and Ms. Gault's Pre-K 4 Class celebrated logging 100 Books in class by bringing in stuffed animals. The stuffed animals participated in Dance Friday, helping with our Morning Meeting, and playing in centers. Way to go Pre-K, keep up the great work! ❤️📚❤️
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Good evening, WCPS families. This is Superintendent of Schools Lou Taylor, and I have written an open letter to our community this week correcting some misinformation about our school system. I hope you will take a moment to visit our website, www.worcesterk12.org, to read it. Thank you.
Elle Nichols received the Ripley’s Believe It or Not student of the month for September. She always works hard in class and is willing to help others. Way to go Elle! Keep up the great work!
Attention WCPS families: If your family received Maryland SUN Bucks over the summer, be sure to use them before they expire on October 30. For more information or to check your SUN Bucks balance, visit https://dhs.maryland.gov/sunbucks/.
Third Grader readers sort details under different headings. The book was teaching them about the sunlight's importance to the ocean.
Students in Mrs.Lovell's enrichment class made images using Canva Magic AI that helped them visualize the characters, setting, and plot of a story that they are writing. Students added the photos to a Freeform board to gather their ideas.
Students in Mrs. Lovell's class participated in a "graffiti wall" project to make a poster that showed their learning about the circulatory system and figurative language.
Students in Mrs. McDowell's 4th grade class did a scavenger hunt through books to find examples of the rules of capitalization that they learned about in class.
Students in Mrs. Lovell's class created a model of the eye and learned how the pupil and retina work together to help people see images!
Fourth graders loved visiting the mobile STEM lab!
Ms. Rankin's students worked in groups to create and present a community with different types of homes, a business and a place to play.
