Miss Clinard's 2nd graders have been working on their big project for Family Learning Night all week. They have been researching ocean animals, writing about them, and then creating their animals for display. Come read about them on Wednesday, April 27th!
Emge Girl Scout Troop 191 dropped off 2 cases of cookies at Ellis Elementary to donate to local "Hometown Heros." Thank you again for the delicious donation!
Emge Girl Scout Troop 191 is thrilled to be able to donate 4 cases of cookies to Emge and Ellis staff members. Throughout the 2022 cookie campaign, members of the community donated boxes of cookies to the “Hometown Heroes”. The troop is proud to be able to pass these cookies on to our community heroes.
Mrs. Whitman's Kindergarten class made some special deliveries and distributed Earth Day trees.
Miss Rueter's ELA power hour group had a blast today swatting their way through some phonics practice! After a close match, Team 2 ended up with the win!
6th grade has been researching and planning trips to different cities around the world! Here is Ms. McClean’s class working hard on making sure they stay in budget—no overspending here!
Mrs. Bernhardt's 3rd grade class is getting ready for Family Learning Night and doing research on sea turtles.
Ms. Pappert and Ms. Sparks 5th grade class had fun using their new smart board to practice multiplication facts!
Mrs. Knavel and Miss Kaiser's 1st grade class writing jellyfish facts.
Did you know that Harmony-Emge School District 175 offers a preschool program for 3 and 4 year olds, and a home-visiting program for prenatal to 3? On April 29th, screenings will be held at Ellis Elementary school for ages 2 months - 4 years. Please call 618-538-6114 to set up an appointment. See the attached flyer for more details.
Harmony District 175 PTO is putting on a Crazy Hat Roller Skating Party this Thursday, April 21st from 6 pm - 8 pm at Skate City Fun Spot. Friends and family are welcome! See the attached flyer for more details.
Mrs. Marsh and Mrs. Wottowa's 6th grade class enjoyed a novel book study. Each group is working on a different novel and then will be presenting to the class.
To celebrate the end of IRA testing, students in Mrs. Adamson's fourth grade classroom made ice cream in a bag!
Mrs. Jarvis and Mrs. Steigerwald’s students worked with Mrs. Phelps again to complete Ozobot coding challenges she presented to them!
Last week in Mrs. Strubhart’s class, students used jellybeans for a little science experiment. Water bottles were filled with different amounts of jelly beans and students were instructed to flip each bottle 10 times. They made predictions as to which water bottle would land vertically the most and tracked their data. Most came to the conclusion that the bottle that was 1/3 full was the easiest to land vertically!
Mrs. Klein's class had so much fun counting their eggs as they put them into their bags on their Egg Hunt! What a great way start to Spring Break!
Ms. Niehaus’s 5th grade class working on their “create your own civilization” project. Students base their entire civilization around one crop. So much creativity with this project!
Mrs. Hettenhausen's First Grade Literacy Lab students read The Little Red Fort to learn about sequencing and using transition words. The students sequenced the story using a sequencing story map and then set to work designing their own fort. They drew designs and decided on supplies. The winning design belonged to Diab Qarrot, who led the building process as project manager. After the fort was completed the students finished their work inside the fort.
Great job to the Character Award winners for March who showed that perseverance pays off.
Ms. McClean's class has been learning about Egypt, including their writing system--hieroglyphics. Today, students wrote their names out in hieroglyphics! We have some great scribes in the 6th grade!
