Mrs. Kreke’s kindergarten class earned a pizza party!! They worked together to fill their class jar!!
Jennifer Jones from the Effingham Co. Extension Office came on Earth Day and taught the sixth graders about the dangers of pollution in a watershed. Here the students are interacting with a model of a community to see the effects of water runoff.
Happy Earth Day! Mrs. Meyer's homeroom learned all about Earth Day in class today! The entire class filled up 27 bags of TRASH and watered the trees on the school grounds. Great job FIFTH GRADERS!
Thank you to Dale and Lora Repking and Bill and Lisa Zumbahlen and families for making our 3rd grade field trip so amazing today! Also, a huge shoutout to all the local companies for the donated drinks, treats, and goodie bags. We had a wonderful day learning about your farm!
Three groups of students were able to “escape” Mrs. Drees’ reading escape room. They had to work together to answer the questions. Context clues, text structures, and inferences were some of the skills the students practiced.
Mrs. Bushue’s and Mrs. Yager’s class were food critics during the Dragon Diner. They used adjectives to describe different foods after reading “Dragons Love Tacos”.
The students in Mrs. Siemer’s third grade class created marble mazes and enjoyed practicing the different creative and difficult mazes!
After reading the story “The Moon Over Star”, students in Mrs. Schackmann’s 4th grade class created models of the moon phases using Oreos. Not only was this educational, but delicious too. Mrs. Schackmann was assisted by Ms. Flood, a practicum student from EIU.
Olivia's artwork was selected as one of the 100 finalists for Picture the Music this year! There were thousands of entries and Olivia represented Teutopolis Grade School very well. She attended the virtual ceremony Saturday March 27 and learned she received a blue ribbon award for her artwork “River of Music”. Great work Olivia!
This kindergarten student had fun completing a "Write the room" while learning new words about space.
Cassie Carpenter and high school helper, Hannah Rodgers, helped the kindergarteners learn about space using VR goggles.
Mrs. Jansen's class made constellations with toothpicks and mini marshmallows. It was a great way to end their space unit.
Mrs. Jansen's kindergarteners worked on setting a trap to try and catch the Leprechaun. No luck again this year!
Mrs. Hoene's and Mrs. Jansen's second graders took a virtual tour of the
White House using the virtual reality goggles. They viewed and learned about interesting places in the White House. This ties in with the story they are reading called Grace for President.
Mrs. Schackmann's 4th grade students traveled to a few locations in the Southern United States. They toured Big Cypress National Preserve and the Kennedy Space Center through the use of the virtual reality goggles.
Brittany took first place in Mrs. Habing’s challenge to recite Pi. She recited Pi to 165 decimal places! Gus took second place by reciting to 107 decimal places. Both received a ‘Pi’neapple and Oatmeal Cream ‘Pi’es. Brittany also received a gift card to Niemerg’s for a free ‘Pi’e!
More pictures from Mrs. Meyer's 5th grade American Revolution project.
Mrs. Meyer’s fifth grade class got to choose an American Revolution topic to recreate. The students did a wonderful job creating games, making 3D models, creating Google slides, and making puzzles. The students will be presenting their projects in class this week.
Third graders in Mrs. Siemer’s class enjoyed some hands on activities with magnets after studying about electricity and magnets in science class.
