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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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Laban's 8 Themes of Movement
Kindergarten and 1st-grade students are working through Laban's 8 themes of movement in Mrs. Wickless' music class. Rudolph Laban was a Hungarian-born dancer who studied human movement and inspired several generations of dancers and educators. He summed up movement into 4 major categories- space, body, relationship, and effort. Students tried Paper Plate Balancing while listening to different types of music this week to discover how they could move individual parts and not just their whole body. They played a game where they had to balance on different parts and move around but when their plate fell, they had to freeze and wait for someone else to come and give them their plate back and then balance it somewhere new.
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Character Kids!
These students were selected as our Character Kids of the Month for showing Heart! Each month, students and staff focus on a character word and students are chosen for leaving their Eastside Legacy!
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Relay Run of the Week
From Mrs. Revels, "Change is uncomfortable. But, it is when we are uncomfortable we see ourselves grow. This teacher has embraced a new role this year that has been out of her comfort zone to say the least. It has been challenging, but she has, and continues to put in the work with a smile and a grateful heart. She has truly taken the baton and ran this year in her new role. Paulo Coehlo said, 'When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.” This week, it is my pleasure to pass the Relay Run of the Week baton to Mrs. Berry."
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Prideopoly
Did you know that children can suffer academically if they miss 10 percent of the school year? That’s just 16 days or 2 to 3 days a month. And that can add up before you know it. Eastside Elementary is working to give a renewed push to get all kids to school—on time, every day. This year students will earn a square on their PRIDEOPOLY game board for each day their class has 95% percent of students present. After 5 squares have been earned, the class will get to move their game piece to the next incentive! We are so excited to reward students for coming to school!
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Ms. Martinez and her 4th graders kicked off their first read aloud of the year, Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing! The setting is New York City so they went on a virtual tour to gain background knowledge! #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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Relay Run of the Week
Passing the baton... This “runner” always has a positive attitude and is uplifting to others. She goes above and beyond to ensure others know they are valued and important. When she sees something positive she makes sure to point it out! This “runner” used her old yearbook ad-selling skills to guarantee our teacher retreat had the best prizes! Our relay run of the week goes to Mrs. Revels! #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud #eesnolimits
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Selfies at Sonic
We would love to see all our Eastside families on Tuesday, August 6th! Drop by anytime between 5:30-6:30 to visit with Mrs. West and Mrs. Barnett, see some teachers and snap a selfie!! We hope you all are having the best summer and we can't wait to see you soon! ##EESlegacy ##GreenbrierProud
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4th Grade 'Smells'!
As review for testing, 4th grade scientists have been extending their learning about how the brain controls everything they do through taking in stimuli! Yesterday, they performed a ruler drop to measure how long it took their brains to send the message to their arm to catch the ruler. Some of them were as quick as the blink of an eye, literally! Today, the stimulus is smell. They were challenged to find their “family” by only using their sense of smell, no talking allowed. Afterwards, they had a great discussion on how once they smelled the scent, what decisions the brain had to make to help them find their “family”. It’s been a fun day! #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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Daffodil Contest Winner
Congratulations to 3rd grader Madeline Hancock and her art teacher, Crystal Moore, on her🥇place award for the Daffodil Daze Art Contest! Another example of a student leaving her #EESlegacy! #GreenbrierProud
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Test Bash 2024
Test bash 2024! All year we have been ‘daring’ students to work hard and go the extra mile! So today staff got them pumped up to show what they know for their end of year testing by throwing them a game show themed test bash!! We took it old school 😎 back to the days of Double Dare! Staff competed in test taking strategy questions and challenges to determine the Double Dare winner! The staff hit the Q.U.A.N to remind students to read the QUESTION, UNDERLINE important words, ANSWER all the questions, and NEVER give up! Also, big THANK YOU to Mr. ToadMaster himself (Brian Ratliff) for being our famous talk show host and Mr. Cayden Wallace for recording a message for students about finishing with integrity! #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud Click this link for our HYPE video! https://youtu.be/ENM9F_YPGG0
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Whatever it Takes Award
Mrs. Araya Ossius is an exceptional example of a teacher who does whatever it takes for the students at Eastside Elementary. During her tenure, she has taught literacy and science, mentored at-risk students in our VIP program, and served as a leader on our district science curriculum team. As a guiding coalition member at Eastside, she supports novice teachers through instructional coaching. Her high expectations for what learners can accomplish with the right will and skill creates a culture for learning and growth mindset in her classroom. For the last several years, she has led Eastside’s Black History Month experience through the coordination and facilitation of projects in six different grade levels that educate our school community on the rich culture and contributions of black figures throughout history. This year, she took that endeavor past our own walls by sharing her work with teachers at Springhill Elementary, as well. Recently, an at-risk student was posed the question “who is the most important person at our school?”, to which they responded “Mrs. Ossius, because she won’t let anyone fail.” Eastside is building a legacy of strength and high expectations in large part due to the relentless pursuit of greatness by Mrs. Ossius. We are #GreenbrierProud to present her with the April Whatever It Takes Award.
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Vowel "arrrrrrr"
🏴☠️ Captain Bossy R has been in Mrs. Hamaker’s class all week teaching about how an r right after a vowel changes its sound. We’ve done a multi sensory “challenge” with our new bossy r sounds each day to see if the kiddos can join Bossy R’s crew. ❌ They were challenged with creating a map of AR words that were set out around the class, with a few trick words that did not have ar (and therefore had to walk the plank) ❌ They had to choose and read the correct word with “IR” to feed my bird, Miranda ❌ They were given “silver” and had to read them and decide which words to put in the treasure chest (words with “ER”) and which words were “counterfeit” to toss back to the sea. #EESlegacy #greenbrierproud
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Kindergarten Registration Coming Up!
📣We are excited to meet our incoming KINDERGARTENERS and their families. We will be holding kindergarten registration on April 9th from 4-6! To prepare, families can do a few things that will ensure you complete your registration: go to greenbrierschools.org, click - for families, choose how to register from the drop-down menu, and select new student online to begin the registration process. Please do this step before arriving on April 9th. On April 9th from 4-6 pm bring: ▪️a copy of your child’s birth certificate (We can make the copy for you if need) ▪️a copy of your child’s social security card ▪️2️⃣ proofs of residency in the EES zone (Drivers license may serve as one form of proof.) ▪️your child’s most recent physical and up-to-date shot records If you are still awaiting shot records, the 5-year checkup, or have any other issues, we can help! Come by that evening so we can get you registered and in our kindergarten numbers. You will also be given a date for your child's kindergarten screening on this night! These dates and times are first come, first served! Please share this post to pass the info on to others in our school community! ##EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Happy birthday Dr. Seuss! Today we celebrated by dressing up, bubbles, Kona Ice, guest readers and cookies! It was a great day!
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Writing Land!
🍭 Mrs. Jutze started her 5th grade literacy class in a really ‘sweet’ way! 🍬 She transformed her room into ‘Writing Lane’! Students worked in groups on different writing skills and activities including cupcake commons🧁 with appositives and lollipop woods🍭 with complex sentence creation to name a couple! Students were so engaged with this unique ‘hook’!
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MC Grammar
MC Grammar showed up today for 3rd-grade literacy! Who wouldn’t be excited to learn some grammar with a teacher dressed like this! Mrs. McWilliams's class is sharpening their grammar skills in writing and speaking! #EESlegacy #GreenbrierProud
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