Miss Wooden's Kindergarten at South Elementary has started their Dinosaur Math unit this week along with learning how to measure with non-standard units such as linking cubes. They were able to take turns learning how tall each friend was.
Famous Missourians came to present about their lives to 3rd graders at South
Elementary last week. They did a fantastic job!
Students at South Elementary got to enjoy their Valentine's parties, including games and treats.
Over the last couple of weeks 5th grade students at South have been studying gravity and laws of motion. Students researched what modifications could be made to a container that would slow the container filled with an egg down in order to protect the egg from cracking as they dropped it from a considerable height. Out of 20 projects only 1 egg cracked! All of the students did a great job on this project!
2nd grade students at South have been working on their persuasive and opinion writing skills with Oreo cookies. The opinions shared and taste tests, generated great responses from these young learners.
Happy Counselor's Week to our counselors! They are the best. Thank you for all you do for our students and staff!
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South Elementary announced their January top readers from each class in grades 2-5. These students read more words than anyone else in their class for the month of January. They received a t-shirt, pizza for lunch, and a coupon for a free piece of pizza from Casey's. Congratulations to Blake Wright, JuliAnn Lomax, Mason Costner, Gideon Yoder, Brooke White, Jackson Sneed, Macie Perkins, and Kairi Hair!
Today, we also got to celebrate some additional students who met their pizza from the principal goal for January. Special thanks to the Train Station for delivering pizza!
Mrs. Bell’s preschool class has been learning how to retell “The Mitten.” The students had to cut out and sew their mittens together, color, cut and label all their animals. Finally they got to retell the story, even to our principal.
Warsaw R-IX School District is excited to celebrate Chiefs going to the Super Bowl again! Please use the link to see our Spirit Days for the week of Feb 7th-10th: https://5il.co/1o6lu
Go Chiefs!
We were informed of a situation that there might be a student with a gun in a backpack. Our SOR responded to the South School and searched the student. There is no gun at the school. An investigation into the situation continues. All students and staff are safe!
Reminder: Elementary Tutoring is still on as scheduled from 4:00 - 5:00 today, Thursday 1/26.
South Elementary Reminder -
The opportunity to order personalized yearbooks ends February 1st. The opportunity to order non-personalized yearbooks ends March 3rd. There are additional order forms in the elementary office if needed.
Big “Thank you” to Joel Helland and Sonic for purchasing multiplication flash cards for our 3rd grade students. Our students and staff are excited to use them!
Yesterday students in Mrs. Hargrave's class made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches during their writing unit. The class is working on a "How To" writing for "How to Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich." Students checked their rough draft directions by making their sandwich.
Here is a direct link to a video about our current Continuous School Improvement Plan (CSIP): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MQqa8AN5JQ
Here is a direct link to our current CSIP: https://5il.co/1mw43
More pictures from our Professional Development Day! Thank you @KDFIREDUP for guidance.
Kevin Daniel (@KDFIREDUP) from FiredUp led our professional development morning. His topic was “Scaling Your Mount Everest!” Great presentation and great conversation! #WildcatTraditionPrideExcellence
Please use the link below to watch What’s Up Warsaw with Mac Vorce: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ZjoNUm_Mg
He interviews our head wrestling coach Coach Wisdom and our superintendent, Mr. Gemes.
South Elementary celebrated our top readers from each class yesterday! These reading champions had the highest word counts in their classes measured by the reading counts program. Great Job and we are so proud of these great kids!
