Cool Kids

What a great year we have had! I will miss everyone over the summer, but I am excited to think about having the same great group again come September!

Class Picture

What a class!

It's that time again...

It's that time again... SOLs are upon us!

Please remind your students that they are prepared! With a good night of sleep and a proper breakfast, all that's left is to relax and do their best.

Reading Group Project

One of our reading groups, the Sweet Frogs, recently finished a book by Avi titled Something Upstairs. They created a project to showcase the main events of the story (and their summarizing skills) and they shared with the class today. A job well done, Sweet Frogs!

Field Day

Friday, we enjoyed a very HOT! and fun field day. A few pictures of the day:

Beach volleyball

Inside art project ... changing into the Hulk?

Roller floor hockey

Boys versus girls tug-o-war. Girls won!

Tug-o-war

Tug-o-war

And more tug-o-war!

Bouncy ball relays

Finally... last activity of the day .. sponge and water relays

We participated in many activities and had a great time! Thanks to Kim Arnall, our new PE teacher, for putting together the day.

Pamplin Park Field Trip

Last week, we enjoyed a field trip to the Pamplin Historical Park in Petersburg, Virginia. Despite the rain, the kids had a great time and explored all aspects of the Civil War.

A big thank you to our 10 (yes, 10!) chaperones for accompanying us.

Learning about camp life during the Civil War

Practicing marching formation

Learning about the rifles used 

Practicing loading and shooting rifles (pretend)

Exploring artifacts to learn about field slave, house slave, farmer, and plantation owner lives

In addition to the activities in the above pictures, we explored the museum on site, walked through a plantation house, slave quarters, and learned about life in Confederate army camps.

Reading Olympics Competition

Yesterday, we had our annual Reading Olympics competition, and boy was it a fierce competition! A lot of the teams were neck and neck with points toward the end and we ended up having to have a tie-breaker round to figure out who the 3rd place winner would be.

Ms. Colllins & I were proud of our team, The Pirates, who took 3rd place! I don't have first-hand knowledge of how each team performed, but I can say that all of the teams we faced worked together well and made the competition an exciting one. Congratulations to all!