Reminder to all elementary bobcats: Monday, September 13 is the first day of Golden Rule Week. Remember to dress like a superhero to defend and protect good character!
NAC Elementary had a great first day of the 2021-22 school year!
Reminder: this Wednesday, August 4 is the last day of open Library hours in the NAC Elementary Library! Stop by to hang out, get new books, play board games or do origami... or just pop in to say "hi!" Mrs. Smallman loves seeing students in the summer (even too-old-for-Elementary-students!) The library is open 8:30am-11:00am on Wednesday August 4.
Mrs. Williams' second graders checked on our pumpkin patch today, and are excited to see that the plants are growing! Sunshine and fresh air are good for kids .... and PUMPKINS!
Happy Flag Day! NAC Elementary gathered today to honor the American flag and hear students' patriotic poems and essays.
Mrs. Williams' 2nd grade students were scientists this week! They dissected owl pellets to analyze what the owls had recently eaten.
Spring is for planting! This week students planted pumpkin seeds in our very own NAC Elementary pumpkin patch, in anticipation of a fall harvest. Pictured are 5th graders from Mrs. Manor/Mrs. Baker's class.
5th graders celebrated Career Week by dressing up as their future selves! We can't wait to see what you accomplish!
Head to the Elementary Events page of our website ( https://www.nacs1.org/o/naes/events ) to check out all the upcoming end of the year dates and events!
It's Elementary Memory Book time! Preserve those memories for your child and order a 2020-2021 yearbook today!
New this year: families may order online to pay with a credit card or PayPal. MemoryBooks will still be delivered to your child at school. To order online, go to:
https://www.balfour.com/new-york/ellenburg-dep/northern-adirondack-elementary-school
If you prefer to pay by cash or check, please request an order envelope from your child's classroom teacher and one will be sent home.
The deadline to order Elementary Memory Books is May 26!
It's all come down to this! The winner of the Bobcat March Madness book tournament at NAC Elementary will be decided tomorrow! On Wednesday, March 31, elementary students will decide the outcome of the final match-up: will it be "Tek the Modern Cave Boy" or "How to Catch a Monster?" The school will celebrate with all new videos and a treat from Ms. Silver!
Congratulations, NAC Elementary! Thanks to your generosity, Mrs. Peryea was able to present a check for $600.00 to the Vermont Children's Hospital as part of the Big Change Roundup! YEE-HAW! That's a lot of change! If we start a change jar now, just think how much we will be able to donate next year....
Elementary students have been fascinated with the video footage of the landing of NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover that STEM teacher Amy LaPoint shared with them! Kristen Patnode channeled that excitement into a P.E. challenge for her students: to create a vehicle that Astronauts could use on Mars. She laid out all sorts of equipment and gave a few requirements - the vehicle had to move across the gym (Mars) and have a covering to protect the Astronauts. The students used their bodies and brains to build these amazing "Mars rovers!" Kudos to our students for their inventions and to our inventive teachers!
Bobcat March Madness Tournament of Books begins March 8!
Each day during the last three weeks of March, Elementary students will watch a pair of read-aloud videos and vote for their favorite book to advance in the tournament of books. That day's winner will be announced and advance in the tournament bracket. Beginning March 8 and culminating with the final match-up on March 31, the competition will be fierce! Can perennial favorite Pete the Cat hold off against a read-aloud FROM SPACE by a real astronaut? Will a scrappy newcomer unseat the venerable award-winner “Where the Wild Things Are?” WHO WILL WIN?!! There can only be one….
Key Club members and Elementary students recently created more than 400 Valentine cards/pictures which were delivered to area Nursing Homes. Key Club wanted to spread a little cheer to residents who can not have visitors at this time and decided to send Valentines to Meadowbrook. The idea was shared with Elementary staff, hoping to get enough cards to send to other nursing homes. Faculty and students overwhelmingly responded and cards were dropped off at Meadowbrook (185 items), Clinton County Nursing Home (100), CVPH Skilled Nursing (70), and Vilas Home (50). Key Club created 125 cards and the Elementary students made 280! Special thanks to Ms. Latrell and her art students for a beautiful variety of cards and the Valentine box as well as to Ms. Vanier, Mrs. White, Mrs. Matthews, and Mrs. Spoor for their classroom contributions.
Pictures are of two Key Clubbers and their creations, cards made by Key Club, and the many Valentines and box from Elementary students.
One of Mrs. Whelden's 3rd & 4th grade reading groups has been reading "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls. After they read about building a 'coon trap, Mrs. Whelden built one in her living room during a Google Meet and challenged her students to do the same with household materials. These are some of their amazingly imaginative homemade traps!
The description in the book is:
-find a log
-bore a hole about 6 inches down
-bright shiny object cut in a circle to sit flat on bottom of bored hole
-4 nails, drive in on a slant opposite each other, the nails will enter the hole about halfway down
-leave an opening between the sharp ends of nails big enough for a coon to get his paw in
NAC Elementary is feeling festive this week! Thanks to all the staff who decked the halls and jumpstarted our holiday spirit!
NAC Elementary students are participating in the annual international Hour of Code this week! Students in grades 1-4 learn to build algorithms and code short programs, as an introduction to computer science. Keep the fun and learning going at home by visiting code.org or trying out the coding tutorials on Mrs. Smallman's library webpage: https://www.nacs1.org/o/naes/page/library
Tune in to CodeBytes all week for live computer science and coding mini-lessons from the Hour of Code folks! Today, Friday, December 11th, at 11am & 4:30pm, let’s dig into the world of Minecraft to help the Agent activate switches, place blocks, and clear obstacles to pick up items for the journey! Recommended for grades 3-7
Link to the live feed: https://codebytes.live/now
More info at: https://code.org/codebytes#activities
Tune in to CodeBytes all week for live computer science and coding mini-lessons from the Hour of Code folks! Today, Thursday, December 10th, at 11am & 4:30pm, want to help your community? Learn the basics of designing a simple app in AppLab that you can immediately share with others. (recommended for grades 6-12)
Link to the live feed: https://codebytes.live/now
More info at: https://code.org/codebytes#activities
