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Teacher of the Year!
It is with great pride and admiration that we announce our Eastside Teacher of the Year — a true champion for kids, health, and learning! Born and raised in Holland, Arkansas, and a Greenbrier graduate she has dedicated over two decades to teaching kindergarten at both Eastside and Wooster Elementary. For the past four years, she’s served as our innovative physical education teacher at Eastside, and now also supports students as a kindergarten interventionist. Her passion for student wellness is unmatched — she launched the Arkansas Heart Challenge in honor of her nephew, Brody Wilcox, brought balance bikes to our youngest learners to teach them how to ride, and her most recent idea was creating Family Fitness Buckets that promote active play at home. She also leads our Little Dribblers and running club, and this year organized the most unforgettable Math, Science, and Wellness night with Cast and Dash. When she's not leading at Eastside you can find her cheering on those Panthers and her two sons Cannon and Cooper. She’s a difference-maker, a trailblazer, and a beloved member of our school family. Please help me congratulate our Eastside 2024-2025 Teacher of the Year — Coach Cassie Wilcox! #EESlegacy ##GreenbrierProud
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Success Criteria
Mrs. Koones kindergarteners review success criteria prior to beginning writing each day to ensure students are holding themselves to high expectations and trying their very best! In kindergarten, the daily success criteria includes: ➡️Begin the first word in the sentence with an uppercase letter. ➡️Use spaces between words. ➡️Include punctuation at the end of the sentence. ➡️Use your best handwriting! #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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Slinky Walk
Second Grade has been designing obstacles to make a Slinky walk down with Mrs. Daniels! We read how the Slinky was accidentally invented and what makes it so extraordinary- it can walk!! No batteries needed. The children engineered blocks, books and many other items to ensure their Slinky could walk. #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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Slide Physics
Mrs. Maxwell and her 3rd grade scientist toured the slides outside, rolled down the ramp, and discussed friction. Then they will be designing their own slides based on success criteria as they apply physics to their own creations! #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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3rd grade Weather Watchers!
Mrs. Maxwell and her third grade scientists have been learning all about weather. Nathan Scott, meteorologist from THV11, visited with them on Wednesday about weather patterns, making predictions, storms and how to stay safe. The students asked many great questions and even stumped him on a few. They even had a spotlight on the news with Tom Brannon! 🌪️
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Headbands!
Mrs. Burroughs switched up dictation today!! Students played headbands to practice reading and spelling words with the -ed pattern! One student wore the dictation word or sentence on their headband. The other student read the word or sentence to them while they spelled it in on their paper! 💯 percent engagement!!
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Young Authors’ Writing Contest
Madeleine Hancock won 1st place in the Young Authors’ Writing Contest 4th-5th grade category for her entry My Empowering Anthem. 🏆
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Fun Friday Clubs!
Fun Friday with Clubs! Your child does not want to be late or miss on Friday! Each student gets to attend a club of their choosing for the semester! Today we are featuring cooking club (where they made cucumber sushi), Zumba, Chess, and Nutrition with Officer Poindexter!
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Mrs. Berry's cooking show!
5th grade mathematicians were surprised to see their classroom turned into a bakery! Students went on a “cooking show” but had multiple obstacles to cross before they got on the actual show that included adding and subtracting fractions. When they finally go to the end and to the cooking show, they got to work with their co-hosts to make sprinkle chow! 🧑🍳🩷
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Family Fitness Buckets: Encouraging Active Fun at Home
Our school is thrilled to introduce a new program designed to promote physical activity and family engagement: Family Fitness Buckets! This innovative idea, created by our dedicated PE teacher, Coach Wilcox, provides K-5 students with the opportunity to check out buckets filled with fun, interactive games to play at home with their families. Students can borrow a bucket for one week, enjoying quality time while staying active together. To make it even more exciting, every student who returns their bucket and all its items will be entered into a drawing for a special prize that encourages movement and gameplay at home. This program was made possible by the generous support of WoodmenLife, Conway Chapter through Michael West, who donated items to help complete the Family Fitness Buckets. Their contribution ensures that our students have access to engaging tools to stay active and healthy. A huge thank you to Coach Wilcox for her creativity and dedication to our students' well-being and to WoodmenLife for their generosity. Together, we’re building stronger families and a healthier community! Stay tuned to see how our students and families are enjoying their Family Fitness Buckets! #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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UCA Basketball Visitors
Eastside’s basketball club had some extra special visitors play ball with them this morning! Big thanks to the UCA Women’s Basketball Team for waking up early to greet car riders and face off with our own EES ballers! (There are mixed stories about who won.😉) #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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Light Up Learning
1st Graders Are Lighting Up Learning! Our 1st grade students are taking their curiosity to the next level with a hands-on science experiment in Enrichment this week inspired by Ellie Electricity! After reading this exciting story, they applied their new knowledge about circuits to create light-up Christmas cards using LED lights and batteries. These little engineers combined creativity, science, and holiday cheer to bring their cards to life! #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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4th Grade Authors
4th graders are published authors! As a grade, we wrote a book together called The Best Part of Me. Every student got to pick their best external or internal character trait and wrote a page about it! Here we are celebrating our class book arriving from the publishing company! 📝🫶🏽 #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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'Y' swatter!
1st graders were learning the phonics rule for when to use a y for a long i sound! Mrs. Berry committed this sound to memory by having students listen for words that ended with the long i sound. When they heard a word that followed the pattern they would swat their ‘fly’ with their ‘y’ swatter!
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Veteran's Day
We were able to celebrate some special people who served in the military. Thank you Colonel John Tate for speaking to our students and guests about responsibility and integrity! Gracie, Meadow, and Anna authored some heartfelt words of appreciation that they shared with our guests and the Eastside Entertainers put on a show! We concluded the morning with a parade of heroes!
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Whatever It Takes Award
For our October Whatever It Takes award, we want to show specific appreciation to an important staff member of Eastside Elementary School. “Ms. Stacey” is an exemplar of calm, focused, positive support for young learners experiencing difficulty with self regulation. She serves as their guide, model, counselor, instructional aide, and confidant. The love and support she has poured into Eastside students for the last few years has resulted in many students becoming successful learners and leaders. Her empathy shines through some of the most challenging moments with students and has led to teachers and other staff being more thoughtful in how they interact with students when they are not “learning ready”. Mrs. Kinsman has enhanced a culture of kindness and high expectations for staff and students at Eastside. Her legacy will have a long term impact on our school! We are #GreenbrierProud to present her with the October Whatever It Takes award.
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Coteaching with Mrs. Daniels
🔦 This week Mrs. Daniels, our library media specialist, is coteaching with kindergarten! She is focusing on shadows! Students got to listen to a story about how shadows are made and then got to experiment! #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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Kindergarten 50's day!
50 days of school means 50's day in kindergarten! We are so proud of all the progress our kindergarten teachers and students have made thus far!
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International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
September 19th was International Talk Like a Pirate Day! So Mrs. Strick and students have been working on story elements, following directions, vocabulary, rhyming, sentence, structure, and grammar. Today the students participated in following directions and looking for a treasure chest through the school. It was so much fun! #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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Goal Getters!
Mrs. Burcham’s 2nd grade class got to RING THE BELL last week after reaching their class goal! 🔔 94% of her students can officially read multisyllable words with short vowel sounds fluently! This is a very important skill for the rest of their year as they begin to transition from “learning to read” to “reading to learn” and we were so excited to cheer them on for their hard work!👏🏻 #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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