Mount Pulaski Grade School

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3B made hot cocoa mugs today for our writing activity but since it was crazy hair and sock day we had to show those off too!

Today was crazy hair and socks day at school! Here are some of our looks in 1A!

7th Grade Badminton Doubles Tournament Champions: Luke Martin and Alyson Murphy

This is the Christmas tree we decorated collectively. I will laminate them and send them home after break.

3B went on a holiday trip around the world learning about all the winter holidays other cultures celebrate. Today we made dreidels to play during recess time

It was Pajama Day today! We were having some fun with the Grinch.

It is almost Christmas break, which means this week was National Coding Week. After practicing how to program, code, and debug algorithms, 4A began programing robots to accomplish a series of 4 mazes.

Nothing like a little morning "Simplifying Fraction" War to get your day started!

Here are some busy little elves in KA! We enjoyed completing our December crafts.

4A students have been working hard all week learning about coding (in honor of National Computer Science Week). Stay tuned - next week they will try their hands with programming robots!

Second graders compared answers after finding all of the vowel team words in our story this week.

The 5B elves are keeping an eye on all the kids at school. So far everyone has been wearing their masks and being kind to others.

Dress Up Days for Next Week!

6th Grade Badminton Doubles Tournament Champions: Carter Clark, Aaron Volle *Not pictured - Keoni Charron Runner up - Karsyn Wilham, Claire Bobell

Miss Powell's class practiced breaking apart arrays using Cheerio's today. The distributive property is way more fun with a snack!

Grade School Drop Off Parents, in order to get our drop off line moving more quickly, we would like to start having the cars pull to the crosswalk and the front 4-5 cars drop off at the same time. If your child would then walk straight to the building through the parked cars onto the sidewalk we will be able to get the kids in the building more efficiently. We will be helping with this each day this week to see if this alleviates the congestion of the drop off line. Thank you for your continued help and support!

We made words using the letters in Thanksgiving it Title 1 today!

We made Thankful Turkeys to show what we, in 1A, are thankful for this year. They had so much fun creating these! Have a safe and fun Thanksgiving break everyone!

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