Christmas Background

If you are looking to make a Christmas card come by school and take a picture in front of our Christmas background. Just park your car in the parking lot and walk your child in and snap the pick.

The Sorce of the Sound

Mr. Sorce's class is learning about sound waves and made a real life model of how sound vibrations could travel through the air to break a windshield.

No-Shave November and Goodfellows

If you came to school any day during the month of November you saw that I grew a beard, but what you didn't see was that Mrs. McDonough grew her leg hair out. Why? We did this to raise money for the Goodfellows organization. I am happy to say that we raised $150. This money will help provide Christmas presenst to several boys and girls. Thank you to everyone that contributed and if you didn't have a chance to contribute you can still make a donation to Goodfellows.

One Exceptional Artist

Sam Kravets from Ms. Huskisson's room competed in an art competition with other students in the state of Kentucky earlier this school year.  Sam was 1 of 17 students who was chosen to have their art displayed at the 2016 Kentucky Exceptional Children Conference in Louisville.  Sam chose to create a robot using pencil and crayons and we are hopeful that the Exhibit will travel here to Estes later this year so the Estes family can view his wonderful art work.  Congratulations to Sam on his creativity!

A Time for Giving Thanks

As I sit here and write this blog post about Thanksgiving I am flooded with great memories of past Thanksgivings. I grew up in a small farming town in Henderson, KY. Most of my Thanksgivings took place at my house with my immediate family. I would wake up with the smell of a Turkey in the oven and my mom cooking all the fixings. My mom's family lived in the same town and we would often visit with them on Thanksgiving. Occasionally my dad's family who lived in the Cincinnati area would come down and have Thanksgiving. At the time I didn't realize how blessed I was to be surrounded by my immediate family but also my extended family.
Back then there was no Black Friday shopping instead we gathered around and listened to stories that were told by our parents and their parents. We played board games, watched football and when the weather permitted we would go outside and play various games. I wish I would have recorded all of these memories with pen and paper. I do have photos from those past Thanksgivings but my memory isn't as good as it once was.
Here is something that I suggest that your children might want do: record a sentence or to to go along with the picture that was taken on your smartphone or digital camera. Have them record what was going on in the pic. What were people doing and talking about in the pic. What happened prior to the pic being taken and what followed after the pic was taken. I am going to try to do this with my family. They might not like doing it right now, but I bet in 30 or 40 years they will treasure having this written history of their family.

Winners of the Food Donations

Mr. Belcher's class first with 214 food donations
Mrs. Lusk's class in second with 156 food donations
Mr. Sorce's class third with 120 food donations

Total food donations! 909!!!!

Thank you to our top three classes and all of Estes of giving so generously!
From 3rd Grade

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Thank you to all the families who came to celebrate our Thanksgiving stone soup meal! I hope that you have a blessed Thanksgiving and enjoy your time with your family!

We will be having our publishing party on Monday, November 28th from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM. Come and celebrate with our class as they read you books from our narrative unit!