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Two students are sitting on the bookshelf facing each other while working on their Chromebooks
Two students are each finishing coloring a leave project they are working on
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Principal reading to class

Read Across America Day takes place on March 2nd every year . It is an annual awareness program started by the National Education Association. The goal is to motivate and encourage diverse readers to take time out of their day and simply read! Mintonye Elementary staff and students had a week-long celebration for Read Across America with some fun spirit days!

Kindergarten Class with project

Leap year is a year with one extra day! 2024 will have 366 days instead of the usual 365. February 29th wasn't just an ordinary day in kindergarten at Mintonye. Mrs. Chase's class celebrated with a few extra special activities. With a fun read aloud, they discussed some facts about leap year and talked about what it would be like to celebrate your birthday on February 29th. In Math, they used a number line to leap and add.  The class followed the instructions of a directed drawing to learn to draw a frog.  The day was complete after creating a fun frog. What will you do with your extra day?

Dental Health Presenter

Mintonye Second graders have had an educational and fun filled February! The students began the month wondering if the groundhog would see his shadow. They learned about Friendship, Animal Habitats, Presidents, Science Experiments about the state of Matter, and Dental Health.

On Thursday, February 22nd, Morgan, a dental hygienist from the Tecumseh Dental Center, came to visit. She did an awesome job teaching the students how to properly care for their teeth. The students also learned about Healthy/Non-Healthy foods for their teeth. The second graders went back to their classrooms after the presentation and continued with activities that reinforced what they had learned. At the end of the day, every second grader took home their own bag of toothpaste, toothbrush, and floss!

Presenter with stuffed animial

Friday, February 16, 2024 Mrs. Christopher visited the second graders at Mintonye Elementary and taught them a lot about animal adaptations. Students learned how important it is for animals to be able to camouflage. Camouflage is an important adaptation that helps animals to survive. It can help them to avoid predators and find food. Using animals that are native to Indiana, students played a game and were able to camouflage animals around the classroom. The teacher had the hard job of finding the animals. Students did a great job of camouflaging their animals!

Class with Bulletin Board

The students in Mrs. Helm's First Grade spent the week reading nonfiction books and learning facts about Abraham Lincoln.  They used the facts that they learned to write informative paragraphs about our 16th president. Their paragraphs included a topic sentence and 3 factual sentences. The students also enjoyed making an Abraham Lincoln craft to display their writing for the hall bulletin board.

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