"Poetry Alive"

A poetry group called "Poetry Alive" sponsored by Buena VIsta University came to entertain and educate our students at Schaller Crestland on TUesday morning.  They performed many famous poems by known authors. STudents and teachers from the audience got to participate in helping act out the poems.  Later that morning we broke into smaller groups and they taught the students the 5 Basic Elements of Presenting to an Audience.

The students wrote a poem together and acted it out using the elements they were taught. We enjoyed it very much!  Thank you Buena Vista University for bringing them to us!!!!

 

 

 

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

The preschool class at Schaller Crestland had their annual Math night on Tuesday, April 5th.  Many parents and their preschool children came to the classroom for a night of Math activities.  These activities were based around the story If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.  The students were able to go to various centers such as cookie taste testing and graphing, puppet making, playdough patterning, number matching, story writing, chocolate chip counting, and cookie estimating.  They also enjoyed a snack of milk and cookies with their parents before leaving for the night.

THanks,
Sherrie Grieme




Angelic Henningson with her daughters, Mya and Mazee.  Brian Pickhinke with his daughter, Nora.




  Sabrina Werbeburg counting her chocolate chips at the Math center.




Mike McDonough with his son Carson playing at the math table.



Kristy Bendixen and son Kane and Lori Anway with son Seth making playdough patterns

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 

TK celebrated St. Patrick's Day by decorating leprechaun traps or rainbows with their families. On St. Patrick's Day we didn't catch any leprechauns, but Liam the Leprechaun tricked us. We found all our yellow crayons and a bowl of Leprechaun potion in our watertable. At snack time we added milk to the white "potion" and it turned green:) What a fun surprise! Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 

 

 

 

 

Opera Iowa

This afternoon, Opera Iowa performed for the students. In addition, 3rd-5th grade participated in some workshops. As far as the performance of Sid, the Serpent Who Wanted to Sing, I am SO VERY PROUD of their audience behavior! They were attentive and participated when they were given the cues. I even heard some good questions afterward. I think we all had a good time.

Excellent job TK-5th grade students!