ELP Mo. Valley

Missouri Valley Community Schools are having Parent/Teacher Conferences this week.  They will be Tuesday, Oct. 22 and Thursday, Oct. 24th from 3:00-7:00.  Middle School and Elementary students have scheduled conference times.  Please check with your child regarding their assigned time or call the school for information.  5th Grade ELP students have created models of Camp Green Lake, based on the setting described in "Holes" by Louis Sachar.  Please check the display case for the models.  The final products are very creative! 4th Grade ELP students are beginning a Service Learning Project to help the Ronald McDonald House.  We are collecting pop tabs as an Elementary School.  Currently our school has collected 725,500 pop tabs!!  If we are a school that collects 1 MILLION pop tabs there will be a special prize awarded and our efforts will be recognized.  Please check with a 4th grade ELP student for more details.  Finally, as t...

Hey 6 th grade parents! We have been reading a novel named Maniac Magee written by the Newbery award-winning author, Jerry Spinelli! We just finished reading it about a week ago, and have been doing some projects to go with it. Right now we are doing power points using things that happened in the book. Your student and his/her classmates have also been listening to a book called The Best Worst School Year Ever , written by Barbara Robinson. We also have just finished that book as well, and will being doing some projects with this book to! Last and certainly the favorite, we will be eating mini pizzas and butterscotch krimpets on Friday, October 18 th . We will be doing this because in our most recently read book Maniac Magee the main character Jeffery “Maniac” Magee, is allergic to pizza and his favorite food is butterscotch krimpets. Each student will be bringing a pizza topping for the entire class. The krimpets will be provided by Mrs. Christensen. We hope that your st...

ELP 6 TH GRADE In ELP we are reading a book called Maniac Magee . Maniac Magee is about a boy whose parents died and then ran away from his aunt and uncle. Coming up We will be having a pizza party Thursday, October 17 th . The reason why is because in the book Maniac Magee Maniac is allergic to pizza and won a year’s supply of pizza also we will be tasting butter scotch krimpets. Thanks for reading our blog!!!!     Raine King

5th Grade creating "Camp Green Lake" from Holes . Teamwork is critical to creating......  4th Grade vocabulary charades---acting out the word "baffled" Kindergarten working on matching lowercase and uppercase letters and beginning sounds.  4th Grade---working on character traits in the computer lab. 4th Grade Solar System power points connected to Science curriculum.

ELP (extended learning program) is off and running again.  We have "tweaked" the format slightly but the big ideas are still the same:  build on literacy skills, higher order thinking and small group differentiation.  Below are a few of the topics we are covering so far:  2nd Grade:  Using "Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs" students are practicing fluency, phrasing, reading/singing with expression and building on being flexible with vocabulary skills.  We will be using a Bruce Lansky poem "What I Found in my Desk" to create our own silly dilly poems.  3rd Grade:  ELP students are connecting to the "Big Idea" in Science (plants and animals depend on one another) to learn more about the Rainforest ecosystem.  We created replica Rain Forest layers, practiced and shared a Reader's Theater based on "The Great Kapok Tree" and worked on vocabulary such as, deforestation, greenhouse gases and biodiversity.  4th G...

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...