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Happy Poetry Month!!!
Remember, this is our Poetry Week
Monday-Friday: Poetry over the intercom
Wednesday: Poetry workshops with teachers & staff
Thursday: Kindergarten's Poetry Extravaganza!
Friday: Poem-in-your-pocket Day AND the First grade's Poetry Cafe
In addition, students will read poems at every Monday Morning Meeting for the rest of the year! Enjoy!!
Spirit Week was a HUGE success! Thank you to the entire 4th grade for organizing a truly fun and creative week of events! Keep checking back here for more pictures...
Remember when you voted for Spirit Week during the school election?
Well, it's SPIRIT WEEK at the elementary campus this week! The Spirit Week Student Committee has decided on the line-up:
Monday – School Colors and Face Painting
Tuesday – Pajama Day
Wednesday – Joke in Your Pocket Day (tell a friend a joke)
Thursday – Backwards/Opposite Day (clothing and hats)
Friday – Crazy Hair/Crazy Hat Day
Overheard on Wednesday:
"How could three dogs use one umbrella and not get wet? It wasn't raining!" - 1st grader
"What is brown and sticky? A stick!"
"What is brown and 3 feet long? A yard stick!"
"What do you call a broken boomerang? A stick!"- teacher Keep checking this week and next for new photos.
Did you know...
This year’s 1st through 5th graders more than met the Summer Reading Challenge! When the final count came in, we found that our students had read a combined 312,000 minutes this summer. As a special treat, the entire elementary campus dropped everything and read on Monday, October 29. Students and teachers happily munched popcorn and read for 30 minutes. Our 4th graders announced that we read a combined 8,340 minutes on that day.
Math Corner
Debby Roosevelt recommends some great math sites you can explore at home:
PrimaryGames.com — The Fun Place to Learn!
http://www.primarygames.com/math.htm
Cool math 4 kids .com — Online Math Games
http://www.coolmath-games.com/
Global Classroom
http://www.globalclassroom.org/ecell00/javamath.html
A+ Math
http://aplusmath.com
Rainforest Math
http://rainforestmaths.com
All about money
http://www.usmint.gov/kids/
Words and Wisdom
"I am happy. I am very happy.
This morning
when I woke up
I felt good because
the sun was shining.
I felt good because
I was a frog.
And I felt good because
I have you for a friend."
—from Days With Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
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Panther Pause
When Elle McDougald’s (3BE) brother Ryan brought home a flyer from his 7th grade humanities teacher Elizabeth Noreña, Elle was inspired. Elizabeth was encouraging her students to enter a contest for aspiring poets and essayists. Elle decided to submit a poem that she had written a few years earlier. She ended up winning the contest and her poem will be published in an anthology very soon!!
The group that sponsors such contests is Creative Communication, and their information can be found at: http://poeticpower.com.
Congratulations Elle!!!
How to Feed a Poem
By Elle McDougald
How to feed a poem
because if you think you can just give it some letters
it will scrunch its eye and wrinkle its nose
and tighten its mouth as tight as a lock.
So you have to think very hard to feed a poem.
You can beg or plead
but it will refuse when you try.
It won’t eat question marks
or periods or commas
or even Jell-O.
I mean everybody likes Jell-O.
You just have to read it to feed it.
Congratulations to our Chess Players!!!
Once again, Prospect Sierra did an outstanding job at the Berkeley Chess School's annual tournament. This year we had 12 participants (last year we had 4!) and PS came in Fifth Place out of 31 schools! We now have an impressive trophy for the school!
The 12 players are (in alphabetical order):
*Kai Burgmann
Liam Burgmann
*Finn Casey (who came in 1st on the PS team)
*Oliver Casey
Jack Ferris
Ian Harding
*Nameer Hirschkind
Isaac Monheit
Seth Goldberg Pierson
Max Reinhold
Leo Sullivan
Leo Tillson
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the top four scorers for PS
Prospect Sierra's Top 10
What a great picnic we had on Earth Day. We loved seeing all your waste free lunches and your re-usable lunch containers. Here is the list of Prospect Sierra School's Top Ten Ways to Save the Earth we read at the assembly. These are ideas from you and from the middle schoolers. If we do all these things, we will help make an impact and help our environment.
1. Buy local, organic produce from sustainable farms (for example – avoid apples from New Zealand)
2. Conserve water (take shorter showers, turn off water when brushing your teeth, fix leaky faucets, wash dishes in dishwasher with a full load)
3. Turn off the lights and electronics, unplug appliances and chargers when not in use
4. Walk or ride your bike
5. Conserve heat – put on a sweater rather than turning on the heat
6. Check for recyclable signs when you buy something and before you throw things away. Recycle paper, plastic, and glass.
7. Use recyclable bags or your own reusable bags for groceries. Take lunches in reusable containers
8. Reduce waste by composting (non-dairy) food scraps
9. Conserve paper – print on both sides of the paper and think carefully about when you need to print something.
10. Eat more plants and less meat.
First Graders, your play today was spectacular! You all knew your lines so well and spoke them with such expression. We loved your singing and acting. Thank you so much for inviting us to see your play about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
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