Culpeper County Schools will open 2 hours late today, Thursday, September 26, 2024 due to road conditions.. Essential personnel report on time, all other personnel report 2 hours late.
Mrs. Abbott's students are celebrating National Hispanic Month with a Read Aloud: Proud to Be Latino (food/comida) a book about Latino foods. Students enjoyed a "Follow the Directions" cooking activity for preparing Pico de Gallo. Kindergarteners and First Graders carefully chopped tomatoes, onions, cilantro, sprinkled salt/pepper, squeezed lime for flavor and added a handful of tortilla chips. Students savored each crunchy bite with delight!
Meet our Yowell Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs)-Dr. Capellini and Ms. Musso (soon to be Mrs. Ruffner after October 5th!) Our SLPs work with students (ages 2-post high) with difficulties in speaking due to articulation (speech sounds), language (how they use and understand their language), pragmatics (social use of language), fluency (stuttering), and voice (tone, pitch, and volume of your voice) that negatively impact a child’s ability to communicate in the school setting. Nearly 1 in 12 U.S. children ages 3-17 have a disorder related to speech and language. Dr. Capellini and Ms. Musso are currently screening all new to county students (PreK, K, and transfer students) for hearing, speech, language, fluency, and voice disorders. If you have a concern about your child, please reach out to the school (540-825-9484) and ask to speak to Cara Capellini.
Last week in art class, Kindergartners used paint sticks and tempera paint to make their own “Elmers”, inspired by the story Elmer the Elephant!
Mr. Koch's class is using digit cards to practice place value and reading large numbers.
Mrs. Gomez's kindergarteners have been constructing shapes out of everyday materials like popsicle sticks, string, and toothpicks. They are learning to make squares, rectangles, circles and triangles.
Mrs. Jenkins' class used what they knew to solve puzzles in Mrs. Dugger's class to "breakout" during a Matter Breakout this week.
Mrs. Murdock's 5th graders are simulating the process of developing a cutting edge healthy snack. First, they discussed how important it is to create a product that will appeal to many people. After considering a handful of ideas, the agencies decide on a snack that
will surely earn them lots of money! Students also considered how color psychology impacts the buyer when planning their ad campaigns. In October, we'll find out which group's product and marketing earn them the most "money."
Mrs. Houston's third graders have been working on Place Value in Math. To finish out the unit they each made a donut with the sprinkles made out of their 4 digit number in model form. But, the fun didn't stop there! They reviewed graphing by making a whole class graph about their favorite type of donut. For snack they got to eat a donut and listen to the story "Arnie the Doughnut." Donut you love place value?
How do the teachers at Yowell celebrate 9/13? By bringing in their favorite dish that's made in a 9x13 pan, that's how! Happy Friday to all of our stallions and stallion families! Have a great weekend!
Ms. Fabris’ class has been working on the scientific method in science. They have been learning all about making a hypothesis, differentiating between variables and constants, and finding conclusions. They put their knowledge to the test with an experiment to make elephant toothpaste to reveal the gender of Ms. Fabris’ baby! It’s a…….
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Miss Mahokey's class works hard each day to earn handfuls of marbles to fill their class marble jar. When they fill the jar, they earn a whole class reward! Last week their reward was to spend some time with Mrs. Dugger in the STEM lab! They got to show off their knowledge of the scientific method and work collaboratively to stack cups using only string and rubber bands! They had so much fun! Thanks Mrs. Dugger for helping to reward some awesome Stallions!
In Ms. Rozwadowski's ESL classes, students are learning about heritage, our inherited culture and traditions, while working on a collaborative mural to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. The theme is "We are all connected," "Todos estamos conectados."
Mrs. Silver’s class has been busy getting adjusted to another new year. We have practiced lining up on our numbers, learning each other’s names , greeting our friends, and learning our ABC’s and 123’s.
Ms. Butterfield’s Kindergarten Class had a special guest reader on Friday. Mrs. Bopp’s mom stopped by to share some great stories with the class. Math time has been filled with learning how to count, write and identify numbers 0-10 and learning all about the calendar. Ms. Butterfield’s class was excited to wish everyone a happy Friday last week!
Students have been learning about book care in the library before their first library book checkout. Ms. Zuna showed the students the "Book Hospital" where damaged books go that can't be repaired. Some of the damaged books that the students saw have mold from water, spilled milk, syrup spills, chewed pages, and many books with crayon, pen, and scissor cut pages and rips from younger siblings.
Ms Zuna taught students to keep water bottles in a side pocket outside of their backpacks to prevent spills. They discussed keeping books in a safe place at home like a bookshelf, or backpack. They discussed the importance of one of our Yowell school rules, "being responsible" , and taking care of our things.
Before checking out their first book, all students say, "the book care pledge," promising to do their best to take care of their books. If there is a "book accident", students are encouraged to bring it to the library for repair, if possible.
We are looking forward to checking out and reading many wonderful books this year!!
Mrs. Hook’s class is having fun with phonics! Using mirrors, they are learning what their mouths should look like when saying different letter sounds. It has been a great start to Kindergarten!
Mrs. Simms' class is learning about magnetism in science and practiced with like and opposite magnetic poles today using Kinect It magnets!
