After reading the story, Officer Buckle and Gloria, purchased by the Teutopolis Education Foundation, the second graders enjoyed a visit from School Resource Officer, Eric Higgs. Officer Higgs described his job and talked about the tools on his belt. The students also got to check out his squad car. Thanks Officer Higgs and TEF!
Mrs. Yager and Mrs. Bushue’s classes had a fiesta last week to wrap up their reading story, “Mice and Beans”!
Mrs. Kreke’s kindergarten class enjoyed pet day last week! Thanks to all our parents, grandparents, and friends who brought pets for us to see!
In there Effingham Daily News Mother of the Year essays, these students wrote that their mothers were kind, creative, playful, hardworking and smart! These students in Mrs. Probst’s room had winning essays! We are so proud of these students!
Second grade didn’t let the rain stop them from having fun and exploring nature on their field trip!
Teutopolis Kindergarten spent the day away last Friday!! We enjoyed time at the park and made masterpieces at Stang Arts! Thanks parents and TGS for making this day a great one!!
Mrs. Jansen's second graders had a special visitor from London, England. Olivia, Mrs. Jansen's niece, spoke to the class about English money, the countries of the United Kingdom, and the different words used in England such as ice lolly, queue up, bap, and candy floss. She read The Tale of Peter Rabbit by English author Beatrix Potter and the children enjoyed a tea party complete with fairy cupcakes.
What a great day Mrs. Jansen's and Mrs. Hoene's 2nd grade classes had at the Ballard Nature Center!
Mrs Jansen’s Kindergarten class has fun releasing their 3 butterflies.
Preschoolers are closing out the year with a dinosaur theme. There’s just something about dinosaurs that younger learners love!
TGS preschoolers enjoying a beautiful day playing with sidewalk chalk 😎
Fourth graders wish Miss Flood and Miss Bueker good luck as they continue studying education at EIU. We celebrated their final day with a field trip to Silver Dollar Lanes.
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.
