The second graders set a class goal of reaching 500 tickets so they could earn a stuffie party in class! They did it! Way to go!
Here are our High Flyers this week! Thanks for working hard to be a good leader at Jane Addams!
Happy Boss's Day! Thank you, Mrs. Van Duyn, for all you do for our school!! We appreciate you!!
It's Coding Week in Family! Students got to program and code Ozobots robots, code on the Osmos, and play a coding game online called Interland! Students will get to rotate through the stations all week during Family! Cool!
Miss Nelson's 4th graders and Mrs. Gray's 5th graders meet once a week with their buddy classroom from Mrs. Peterson's 4th-5th grade class from EIC. They enjoy playing games with each other!
The K-2 Science Club were engineers today while building towers out of paper to see if they could withhold the weight of a can for 30 seconds! They were so excited to test out their builds! Way to go! Thanks for all of the parent help!
Chess Club members love to quiz over the rules and play chess against their friends! Thanks Anthony and David for volunteering your time to this after school club on Wednesdays!
Check out the art from some of our ACE & EIC 2nd graders and ACE 4th graders! Very cool! This year we have a new art teacher, Cassidie Smilloff! Welcome!! Check out her poster to get to know her even better!
Big thank you to the parents who signed up to bring food for the teachers during conferences! It was delicious! Thanks to the Hohn family for organizing! We appreciate it!
The Book Fair is today and Thursday this week! Check it out!
The first swimming Friday was a blast! Students get to go to Embe to swim once a month! They have a blast when K-1, then 4-5, and 2-3 get to swim together! So much fun!
Congrats to our High Flyers! We are proud you worked hard to be a good leader this week! Way to go!
Our Eagle Expectation for this week was to "Disagree Respectfully." Students learned these skills in the classroom and practiced and reviewed throughout the week. Discuss with your child at home what they learned about disagreeing respectfully. Keep working hard on all these social skills, Eagles!
Save the date for the Fall Festival!
Happy Coaches Day! We are celebrating our instructional coach, Shari Kvistero! Thank you for all you do to support our teachers/staff and students!
Kids Care for 4th and 5th graders kicked off last Friday with an introduction to what they will all be volunteering for this year and then they picked up trash at Elmwood Park! Thanks for keeping our neighborhood clean!
Mary Jo Arboretum is so beautiful this time of year with the leaves changing for fall! On October 4th, Mrs. Ernster's 3-4 EIC blend and Miss Leloux's 3rd grade ACE class took a field trip together to check out the awesome sites during a nature scavenger hunt, learned about classrooms of the past, and explored the trails! It was so fun to go as buddy classrooms and learn together! They had the most perfect day outside for this field trip!! Thanks to all of the volunteers at Mary Jo Arboretum who led each station and to our parents/helpers who helped out as chaperones! It was a great day!
Chess Club started up this week for fifth, fourth, and third graders! There were only 30 spots and there were over 40 kids interested in learning chess from Chess Master David Kerkhove! Thank you to Anthony Pizer for leading the charge in getting chess back! The kids were chanting "Chess Club" in the halls on the way there today! So fun!
On September 29th, the ACE kindergarten and third graders went on their buddy classroom field trip to Riverview Tree Farm and Pumpkin Patch! It was a hot, beautiful day to be out on a hayride to pick a pumpkin, learn about the Christmas Tree Farm, launch some gourds, and play on the inflatables! The kids had a blast! Thank you to all of the parents who drove and helped chaperone!
K-2 Science Club meets on Wednesdays after school. This week they were paleontologists digging for fossils! How cool! Thanks to all of the parents who help make this possible and to Sharla Svennes for organizing it! The kids were having a blast!
