ELP Mo. Valley

A few highlights from our ELP (extended learning program) groups, as created by the students: 4th Grade ELP Service Learning Project for The Ronald McDonald House collecting an 113, 250 pop/soup tabs  A grand total of 1, 134,000 pop tabs have been donated by the Missouri Valley Little Reds! 5th Grade ELP Service Learning Project for The Giving Tree Project students called the Harrison County Food Pantry to ask for the most needed items students created morning school-wide announcements about collecting items for the food pantry students created posters and brochures to inform students about what to bring, when to bring items and our goal for items collected. K-1st ELP added pre-computer programming skills to our weekly small group time. www.code.org kodables  Hour of Code 2nd Grade ELP groups developed early robotic skills using OSMO, bee-bots and pro-bots 3rd Grade ELP added a course 3 to their studio.code section  vertical stacking of code unders...

The 3rd, 4th and 5th Grade ELP students have been working online at www.code.org and/or www.scratch.mit.edu to build their knowledge and application of computer coding/programming and computer "language".  Over the last 2 weeks, the small groups have taken their online knowledge and put the skills to practical application by working on early robotics.  Students have rotated through 3 stations:  3D Geometry and Magnetic Building, Cubelets Robotics (stackable magnetic cubes that create robots with sense, think and action settings) and Pro-bots (turtle computer and LOGO) programmable robotic cars.  Below are a few pictures and videos from the students' work time. Growth Mindset also played a key role in these lessons.  Students had to be flexible with their thinking, plan on trial and error (with an emphasis on there being error) and working on through situations where the tasks seemed more difficult than they would have liked.  A few of the standards add...

The 5th Grade ELP students are continuing the Missouri Valley Elementary's annual "Giving Tree" project.  Students are collecting items for The Harrison County Food Pantry.  They are asking for non-perishable items such as macaroni-n-cheese, soup, canned vegetables or fruit, pudding, toothbrushes/toothpaste, paper products and peanut butter.  Donated items may be turned in to the Elementary office or Mrs. C.'s Room (209).  Students will be running the service learning project from December 1st-December 20th.  Thank you for the continued support of this school and community endeavor.

The 6th and 7th Grade ELP students have recently wrapped up an independent study in a program called "Genius Hour".  Students selected a topic/idea/theme they had a great deal of interest in or passion for, mapped out a research plan and final project idea, created a final project and then presented their projects to their peers.  We had students with projects ranging from creating rainbow cupcakes to experimenting with "elephant toothpaste and building sugar rockets. Below are pictures and videos from a few of the projects shared with their peers.  The ELP students will plan to create 2 more "Genius Hour" projects over the course of the school year. Ben H. and his "sugar rocket" Shelby D. and her science experiment to create a "bouncy egg" Henley A. replicates a tsunami Chris D. explaining how to create a model hover craft Maya Z. and her experiment for "elephant toothpaste" Emma K. explaining wide ...

The 4th Grade ELP students are doing their first service learning project:  collecting pop tabs/metal can tabs for The Ronald McDonald House.  The pop tabs are collected, weighed at a collection station and then a money amount is given to the Ronald McDonald House based on the weight of the tabs donated.  So far Missouri Valley Elementary has collected 1,020,500 pop tabs for a total of $25, 500.00 donated.  For more information visit www.rmhc.org.  Pop tabs may be turned in to the MV Elementary office or dropped off in Mrs. C.'s classroom (room 209).  Thank you. By, 4th Grade ELP students

ELP (Extended Learning  Program) for K-7th is up and going....with a few bumps, potholes, swerves and detours along the way......learning to navigate whatever life throws at you, is what I remind the students of when changes come to our class. Below are pictures and/or video clips demonstrating what our students are currently working on.  We are beginning our year by delving into abstract reasoning, visual/spatial learning, potential energy, kinetic energy and chain reactions.  In addition students are continuing with building coding skills and early computer programming processes.  Check out www.code.org and www.playcodemonkey.com for additional ideas. For the Middle School students we are also venturing into an independent study called "Genius Hour" (www.geniushour.com).  Students began with an interest inventory and then developed a driving question to research based off their results.  We are nearing the completion of the 1st set of research and beg...

Mission/Vision/Belief Statements-- -2017 Mission (per web page) : The Missouri Valley Community School District will create an engaging environment that fosters inquisitive learners who can effectively apply their skills in an ever changing world. Mission for ELP: Missouri Valley Community Schools will create qualitatively differentiated instruction in core curricular areas for students who exhibit high performance or potential to achieve in intellectual, creative or artistic areas; or excel in specific academic fields. Students will be considered for the program based on multiple assessment pieces, both standardized and informal,  and services will be reevaluated on a regular basis by parents, classroom teachers, administrators, and the extended learning program instructor. It is the goal of the Missouri Valley ELP (extended learning program), along with all educators, staff and administrators, to foster inquisitive learners, expand their knowledge and...