The Harmony 175 Prevention Initiative Families as Partners and Pre-K programs had a wellness event last Thursday at Bicentennial Park. Families enjoyed the beautiful weather, learned about yoga, massage, and healthy sleep, and munched on healthy foods.
Last week, to celebrate Earth Day, Miss O'Neill and Mr. Dunn's 2nd grade class had so much fun cleaning up and saving the animals from oil spills!
Mrs. Crawford's 7th and 8th grade Science classes have been working hard on a fitness trail. Seventh grade labs worked on succession and eighth grade labs worked on distance vs time in various trials set up.
Miss Johnson’s 2nd grade class started learning about measuring today and decided to take their learning outside!
Mrs. Klein's Pre-K class had so much fun creating an ocean mural with Ms. Probst! They have been learning about oceans all week!
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!
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 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.
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!
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!
Mrs. Bernhardt's 3rd grade class is getting ready for Family Learning Night and doing research on sea turtles.
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.
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.
To celebrate the end of IRA testing, students in Mrs. Adamson's fourth grade classroom made ice cream in a bag!
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.
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. 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!Â
