Honesty and Integrity

Honesty and integrity were demonstrated by Ana who found a $20 bill at school. She could have kept the money and no one would have ever know, but she did the right thing and turned it in. She is just one of many fine young people we have at Estes! She is pictured wearing the I'm Awesome necklace. Yes, she is AWESOME!

3rd Grade Science

Third grade students learned about what it takes to be an environmental engineer. These students found ways to clean up an oil spill. Take a look at our future environmental leaders.

Researching Penguins with Ms. Billings

Ms. B's first grade class kicked off their penguin research project today. They broke into 2 groups. They did research online through a safe search engine as well as reading non-fiction texts.  Today, they focused on "How do penguins move?" After recording their notes we had a share session where Ms. B recorded all of our findings. We are doing our research so we can write our very own non-fiction book. It's going to have lots of features of a non-fiction text, even a glossary and table of contents.

An Elf Visits Estes

Attention ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and students of all ages I have announcement to make. Starting tomorrow a life sized elf will make his way to Estes Elementary. This elf has been sent from the North Pole to check how the boys and girls of Estes are doing. Come to school every day to see where this elf will be sitting and watching you. You never know where he could be! He might just end up in classroom for the day. The elf will also be here Thursday night for the K and 1 sing along, so bring your cameras and get your picture taken with the elf.

The Teacher from the Black Lagoon

Our first grade students went to see The Teacher from the Black Lagoon at the River Park recently. Before the play and after the play the students did various activities to activate their schema of the book and play. Here are a few pics to show what they were doing.

Fourth Graders Working Hard on a Thanksgiving Project

Students participating in filling and delivering food bags to Estes families

Jolly delivery folks!

 

Sorting and delivering

Hard work is a team effort!

Second Grade Makes Butter

Here are our second grade students making butter to go along with the reading of Sara Plain and Tall.