ELP Mo. Valley

Below are a few photos from 4th Grade ELP.  We read the fiction book "How to Eat Fried Worms" and then students created their own "worm experience".  The culminating activity was to write a personal narrative about the experience.  All student photos and narratives are posted on the bulletin board in the lower level hallway of the Elementary.  Connor--"The toppings are great.  The worm, aka, a hotdog, aren't so tasty." Millie--"Do I really have to try this?"  Peyton--"The toppings will make me forget the worm is on the bun."   Dani--"Oh I hope the gummy worms and ice cream make me forget about the other worm."  Zack--"I can't wait to give this worm experience a try!"

The 6th Grade ELP students have been doing a literature study with the novel "The Cat Who Went to Heaven" by Elizabeth Coatsworth.  The setting in ancient Japan, so we have done research about ancient Japanese culture, the ancient art of Origami and how karma plays a key role in many cultures.  The pictures below are from an Origami lesson we worked on.  Students were to follow 7 written directions to create an Ancient Samurai Helmet (since the Japanese believed paper has a spirit, it was considered ill-will to cut or tear or cause harm to the spirit of the paper.....thus paper-folding became important).  We hope you enjoy seeing their "artwork." Kinley M. also brought in an example of her name written in Japanese.  Students played a game with the Kana chart and attempted to write basic nouns in Japanese. 7th grade ELP students creating raccoon tracks to extend the learning from the novel "Where the Red Fern Grows".  Teamwork was key to having...

The 5th Grade ELP students and I would like to say a great big "Thank you" to all who participated in The Giving Tree project.  What a great way to build community connections.  The support was overwhelming! The 3rd quarter is in full swing and I wanted to take a minute to share what ELP has been doing since Winter Break.  So here we go...... The 1st and 2nd grade students meet for ELP two times a week (hopefully, depends on weather and schedules).  Our focus has been on adding vocabulary to our reading and writing.  Over the past few weeks we have used a snowball/snowman theme to build synonyms into our repertoire.  We read aloud, "The Biggest Snowball Ever" and then created a "Blizzard of Synonyms" with hand-made snowflakes.  Pictures will be added later.....so, stay tuned.  The 3rd grade students had been studying Native American tribes, their cultures and habitats for Social Studies.  To enhance the learning, we created a Native Ame...

      Missouri Valley students have been collecting food for the Harrison county food pantry. In the past two  weeks we have have gathered more than our goal of five hundred (500). We have 636 items!  Whoever participated, thank you for your help. By 5th grade ELP. Nick, Noah, Morghan, Maddy, Caitlynn, Brianna, Ashlyn, Kimberlyn, Kinsey, Emma, Raine, Kellen.

                Our Giving Tree is a project to help collect items for the Harrison Co. Food Pantry. We will be collecting items through December 3rd - December 18th. We will be collecting  items that are most needed. cereal peanut butter soap shampoo mac-n-cheese canned soup toilet paper  paper products toothpaste                                                                                                                                                                    If you have a...

Wednesday, November 7th the 5th/6th grade ELP students competed in the online Thinking Cap Quiz Bowl.  As a team of 23 students, they scored 1, 110 points, had 91/100 questions scored correctly in under 100 minutes!!!  The questions covered a wide-range of topics in all curriculum areas.   Out of 33 teams in the 6th grade competition (5th grade competed on the 6th grade Quiz b/c the 6th grade team was with them), our students placed 13th.   Wow, what a great job for a first try! On Tuesday, November 13th the 7th grade ELP students competed in the same competition.  Out of 28 teams...... our team of 16 7th graders placed 4th!!!   They earned 1, 042 points, had 89/100 questions scored correctly and also completed the quiz in under 100 minutes.  Please take a minute to congratulate your child on his/her academic efforts!  It was a fun competition and we had some great discussions along the way.  To learn more about the Thinking C...

Mr. Searl's 4th graders watching the 7th Grader's perform their Reader's Theater scripts. Performing "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" The first novel we completed in 7th Grade ELP was "King of the Wind" (Newbery Winner in 1948).  It began in Morocco and traveled throughout Arab countries and into Europe.  As an extension activity into cultures, the students found and read a script for "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves."  One section of 7th Grade ELP created "revised endings" to  "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves".  In an attempt to find an authentic audience, we utilized the Skype-pals the 4th and 5th grade ELP students have.  Our 7th hour class "skyped" in with Mr. Searl and his 4th grade class in Bloomington, MN.  Students shared the original "Ali Baba" and then 2 smaller groups shared the original scripts they had created.  Mr. Searl's students shared their thoughts on the scripts, the intonation, ...