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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Ms. Karen Wells ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ PLEASE VOLUNTEER We are looking for more volunteers to shelve library books. Lost Creek has the highest number of books checked out than any other school in Vigo County. By February 1 st , our students had checked out 42,379 books, magazines, and math kits. It would be great to have a few more helpers! A big thank you goes to Sara Sutton, Diana Smith, Dana Morlan, Jennifer Kellett, Mikki Jones, Jennifer Kelly, and Christel Walker who have made a big difference in our students’ lives by making sure that they have books on the shelves to check out. If you would like to volunteer for one or two hours once a week, please contact library media specialist, Ms. Karen Wells, at klw@vigoschools.org. 4 th GRADE LIBRARY HELPERS The 5 th grade library helpers volunteered during the first semester, and now the 4 th graders have taken over. We have a super team! They are: Hunter Boutwell, Maddy Tate, Lexi Allen, Audrey Jones, Adam Kapperman, Elaine Massey, Kaycee Schoffstall, Hannah Shoopman, Hailey VanVactor, Kendall Young, Ali Chumley, Jaelyn Fennell, Marley Ferres, Mary Gatrell, Kate Gauer, Brody Hendricks, Danny Dailey, Ross Egger, Max Glotzbach, Todd Jordan, Ethan Lynch, Miranda Butler, Liz Humphrey, Karlie Kellett, Morgan Thompson, Olivia Welch, and Sydney Woodason. Mrs. Deborah Anderson ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Physical Education is the fitness place to be! The Haunted Gym Obstacle Course had 76 pieces of equipment. At the end of class time the children did not want to leave the gym and they were hot, sweaty, and tired. The Winter Wonderland included the favorite Santa Slide, cross-country skiing, ice skating, snowball rolling, reindeer bowl, snowball throw, and roly poly! After Christmas break we began the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade floor hockey unit, and 1st and 2nd graders the primary action unit. In hockey, each class is divided into two teams, the Terminators verses the Predators. The students rotate to all the positions, keep their hockey stick to the floor, and love the game. The 1st and 2nd graders primary action unit includes, juggling, hula hoops, and frisbee throw. With the opening and closing run, each class has improved in leg speed, endurance, and recovery. The children love to run and moan if they do not have enough time to do the closing run which is a good sign! On January 3rd I was assigned by Indiana State University a new student teacher. Her name is Sarah Stump (Miss S.) She is from the Indianapolis area and played seven different sports in High School. Her favorite was swimming which she specialized in the breast stroke for four years. What a pleasant addition she is to our program! I am proud of all my students at Lost Creek. I love your kids! WLCN Students have started to broadcast the news again on Friday mornings. The Vigo County Education Foundation awarded Mrs. Diehl, Ms. Fendrick, and Ms. Wells a grant to purchase additional headsets and microphones. The VCEF originally awarded Lost Creek a schoolwide grant to purchase the equipment. Classes take turns preparing the news and serving as news anchors. The fifth grade classes will be first and then move to fourth grade. The WLCN Team operates the equipment, and they take turns being camera operators, floor managers, computer operators, and more. Team members are: Bitzegaio: Myia Lambert, Gavin Brown Ellis: Cameron Cox, Ashley Padgett Fendrick: Marti Fennell, Halie Keith Frisz: Tayler Sams, Logan Richards Laubert: Tom Ahmed, Michael Deckard Diehl: Devin Benedict, Aubree Nasser Gauer: Ben Johnson, Maddie Hunt Greulach: Braden Edington, Roman Harpole Thompson: Eric Scott, Saige Harper Kindergarten The children in Mrs. Casey’s classroom enjoyed a fun 100 Day of School with so many counting activities. The children counted to 100 by fives, tens, and ones!! The best part of our day was sharing 100 items with our classmates. We learned how easy it is to eat 100 things; Mrs. Casey confessed she can easily eat 100 M&M’s! Mrs. Casey and her students were honored to have Firefighter Berry speak with the children regarding “Fire Safety”. The children learned many important ways to stay safe. Mr. Berry’s son, Cole, is in Kindergarten and was very happy to have his Dad speak to his classmates. The A.M. Kindergarten children recently partnered with Mrs. Laubert’s classroom in the computer room. The fourth and fifth grade students will assist the younger children in the lab with many important computer skills. The afternoon children are partnering with Mrs. Greulach and Mrs. Thompson’s class. We are very excited and appreciate the students helping us learn new things. 2
First Grade Mrs. Bilyeu’s class: Our class has been working hard to squeeze everything in between delays and snow days! We started off the New Year by writing resolutions and setting goals for the year! Staying in touch with our pen-pals at Riley Elementary School is fun and we are looking forward to the opportunity to meet them at the end of the year! Thanks to everyone who sent in items for our "care" package delivered to a soldier who is a very close family friend of Mrs. Bilyeu's. Troy is serving in Afghanistan until December. We discussed the importance of trying help the soldiers, families, and friends who are dealing with loved ones serving our country in very dangerous territory. We are so fortunate! Topics and themes we have been learning about include: the Solar System; long vowel words; past and present tense verbs; contractions; MLK, Jr. Day; Groundhog's Day; Valentine's Day; place value; basic addition facts; number scrolls; measurement; and a lot of fun, new math games to help with basic math skills practice! We celebrated the "100th" day of school on January 27th and look forward to our remaining days of learning until the end of the year! We are also looking forward to Spring weather and fresh air! Mrs. Plasse’s class is loving being back at school! The five snow days were fun, but we were ready to get back to learning. Here is what we missed… Dylan missed math. He likes addition. Molly missed PE. She likes to run. Ryley missed doing math. She likes using the dominoes. Jazzy missed spelling. She likes to learn new words. Nicole missed spelling too. She likes to write her words. Joey missed Mrs. Plasse. He likes to do math with his teacher. Reagan missed PE and Reading Counts. He likes to race and take quizzes. Austin missed learning about the solar system. Mars is his favorite planet. MacNeil missed reading about sharks. He also missed his friend Kenzie. Max missed doing PBS Kids in the Computer Lab. Isaac missed going to the Library and Drag n Brag. Brady missed going to the Computer Lab and learning about the solar system. Ellie missed PE. She likes to race. Evan missed reading planet books. Kenzie missed racing in gym and math. She likes to add numbers. Skyler missed doing calendar. He likes to count the money in our graph. Maci missed doing the hula hoop in PE. And she likes to take Reading Counts quizzes. Nolan missed being first in the races in PE. He missed reading from our animal tub of books. Griffin missed reading Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. Curtis missed building with Lego’s at recess. Nathaniel missed building with blocks. Mrs. Plasse missed learning with all her little darlings! Mrs. Ralston's class began their unit on famous Black Americans by starting the American Girl “Addy” books. They enjoy reading about this young girl who overcame slavery, learned to read and write, and reunited her family. February is a busy month and the students are eager to start learning about the solar system, dental health, and the groundhog! Our groundhog predictions needed to be made at home this year due to our snow days! Hopefully, Punxsutawney Phil was right that we will be having an early spring. We're ready to hit the Pride Path again. Second Grade Mrs. All’s class has been very busy this year. We would like to welcome Mr. Skinner to our classroom. He will be student teaching in our room until February 25th. He has already taught us many interesting things this year. We especially liked studying about fossils and measuring our arm spans in math. We would like to thank Ms. Wells for helping us make autobiography books in the computer lab. We drew pictures on the computer and took pictures with the digital camera. It was a lot of fun making the books. They will be on display sometime in March at the Literacy Fair. We would like to congratulate Will Egger, Chloe Loughmiller, Matt Gauer, and Rylee Pender for being our “Student of the Month” winners for November, December, January and February. We are very proud of them. Our class is looking forward to Second Grade Family Game Night on Tuesday, February 22nd. We will receive a bag full of language and math games. We hope everyone can come. We are also looking forward to our next field trip on Thursday, March 24th to the Allen Memorial Planetarium. Our class will learn about the moon, stars, and sun. This is always an enjoyable experience. We would like to wish birthday greetings to Allison Cloutier, Trenton Tuberosa, Lauryn Smith, Chloe Loughmiller, Matt Gauer, Taylor Foxworthy, Skyelee English, Nathan Gauer and Bradyn Bower. Our class continues to read many Reading Counts books. We also do a lot of writing and math each day. We really enjoy reading our weekend writing stories to each other. We are looking forward to an early spring and hope it will be here soon. Mrs. Bartley’s class would like to welcome our student teacher from ISU, Miss Angie Lampe. She will be with us through February and will then go to Mrs. Laubert’s 4/5 class. We are very busy with our Book Bagging and are enjoying having new books for the second half of the year! We also take home our reading books often as we know that practice makes perfect. Everyday Math is exciting. We have been measuring jumps and our arm spans and learning how to find the median number of them. We like how our book keeps reviewing, or spiraling, so we don’t forget all of the things we’ve already learned. We love doing Mountain Language, Mountain Math, Making Words, Scholastic Reading Counts Quizzes, Daily Words, centers and many other things during our I/E time! 3
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