Press Release
By Nassau School District
09-20-24
Grandparent’s Day
Southside Elementary celebrated Grandparent’s Day this week! Grandparents were invited all week to have lunch with their grandchildren!
Summer Memories
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During the first week of class, elementary gifted students with Mrs. Cruce were given the opportunity to create a model of their favorite summer memory. After creating their models, the students were given the opportunity to share their creations while the other students asked yes or no questions, trying to guess what activity was being shared. It was a fun way for students to share a memory of their summer creatively.
Reading Buddies
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At Hilliard Elementary, Mrs. Williams’s third-grade class buddies read with Mrs. Bowerman’s kindergarteners. This will be a year-long mentorship and peer buddy reading program. The third graders help the kindergarten students learn to read and take AR quizzes on their books. It is wonderful to see them working together so nicely. It helps build confidence for both grade levels, and they look forward to it each week.
Elementary Art
The PreK—5th-grade students in Mrs. Ballard’s and Mrs. Butcher’s art classes at Wildlight prepared for International Dot Day by reading The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds and decorating our own dots, which will be used in a collaborative school mural for Open House!
Out of the World Learning
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Yulee Elementary 5th grade students and teachers were GLOWING with excitement today as the learned all about SPACE 🪐
Students learned about inner and outer planets using their reading strategies. They then identified similarities and differences between the inner and outer planets as they completed a Venn diagram.
🌎 It was an OUT OF THIS WORLD day of learning!
Yummy Science
Southside’s amazing para, Mrs. Ostaffe, led a fun (and yummy!) science and math activity this afternoon in Ms. McGee’s classroom. Students earn astronauts at her table for meeting behavior expectations, and they’ve worked together the last few weeks to fill up their rocket! So today, they got to do their special assignment with her! She taught them about moon phases, and then they got to create them using Oreos.
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Natural Resources
For three weeks, 5th-grade students at Emma Love Hardee Elementary have been learning about the costs and benefits of developing and cultivating natural resources. Students have read multiple texts that help teach them about the author’s purpose and perspective, supporting the author’s claims and central ideas, and vocabulary in context, all while focusing on one of the United States.
Turn and Talk
Reading the story “Lessons from Mama Bear,” Mrs. Connors dresses like a “mama bear.” She also includes cutouts of bears for students to hold during their “turn and talk” to engage and teach listening skills. The students only speak to their partner if they are holding the bear; then, they give the bear to their partner and listen while their partner is responding to the question.
