🎉 We love our amazing parent volunteers! Thanks to their support, the PTA School Store is open every Friday! Don’t forget to earn and save those PTA Bucks so you can shop for fun prizes! 🛍️

After checking out new books in the media center today, Ms. Polverari’s 3rd graders found a cozy spot and settled in for some reading time 📚✨

Ms. Horton’s 1st graders partnered up for a headband sentence writing activity ✨. This activity provided extra support and scaffolding to help students be successful with their UFLI sentence writing practice 📝👏

💚 Officer Slattery always goes the extra mile for our Panthers! Yesterday, in the middle of heavy rain and storms, he made sure a student’s bike was safe and secured so the student could get a ride home instead of pedaling through the downpour. Thank you, Officer Slattery, for always looking out for our kids! 🚲☔️

Ms. Zwemer’s 3rd graders are predicting whether animals are vertebrates or invertebrates, and then revising their ideas as they listen to the read-aloud. 🐒🐙📖

Ms. Osborne’s 6th graders went on a gallery walk of European explorers, examining and discussing artifacts along the way. 🗺️🔎

Small group, big progress in Ms. Ellis' first grade class! Personalized practice that helps every writer feel confident and capable ✏️❤️

🎶 Kindergarten students have been exploring the life and music of Ray Charles as part of the CKLA Knowledge Unit on The Five Senses. 👀👂 Students learned about braille by creating their own names using raised dots 🔤. They also built a timeline of Ray Charles’ life 📅, discovering how, despite being blind, he became a remarkable and influential musician 🎹✨.

A big thank you to the students in the VBHS HOSA program for teaming up with Nurse Whitt to complete health screenings. Your support and professionalism made a real difference for our students!

Mrs. Hatcher and Mrs. Sanz’s classes kicked off their upcoming unit on the Middle Ages with a chalk talk preview, giving students the chance to access prior knowledge, share ideas, and make connections before diving into new learning. 🏰⚔️

Ms. Osborne’s 6th graders engaged in peer editing their narrative writing, giving and receiving feedback to strengthen their stories.

Panthers, get ready for our Catalog Weekend Challenge! From Friday through Monday night, if you make at least three new sales, you’ll be entered to win an Amazon gift card! Since there’s no school Monday, you’ve got the extra day to reach your goal. Three sales by Monday night—good luck, Panthers!

Quiz-Quiz-Trade meets Inside/Outside Circle in Ms. Hrusovsky’s 3rd grade! Panthers teamed up to review text features while keeping each other moving, thinking, and smiling.” 🐾📖

Mrs. Hatcher and Mrs. Sanz’s class are busy typing and sharing their personal narratives—young authors in the making! ✍️💻📖

UFLI magnetic letters = word building fun! 🧲✨ Plus, we teamed up for a chalk talk to show what we know about body systems. These first graders in Ms. Ellis' class are thinkers AND scientists! 🧠💪

What a night! 🐾 Our Panthers were so proud to show off their classrooms at Open House 🏫✨ Families, staff, and students—this is what Panther pride is all about! 💚💚

Mr. Daulby’s class took a quick minute to review multi-digit multiplication before tackling their Topic 3 assessment—confidence check complete!

Keep crushing it, cuties! A little treat to fuel your collaborative planning magic. 💡✨

Girls on the Run is off and running! A big thanks to Ms. Clarke and Ms. Lutman for getting the team moving this season!