Encore Updates
for the week of October 3-7
Happy Fall!
Here are a few details from each of our areas!
Media
- Kindergarten is reading the tall tale of "Paul Bunyan."
- First Grade is reading "Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale."
- Second Grade is reading "The Ghost Catcher: a Bengali Folktale."
Open checkout has been extremely successful this week! Remember, students may return their library book and check out a new one during a designated block of time each day, so make sure they are bringing their library books back to school!
Fall Bookaneer Book Fair: Where Books are the Treasure!
Interested in helping? Sign up via Scholastic or contact Marli Boyd for more information!
Monday, Oct 10, 2016, 07:15 AM
W.R. Odell Primary School
Maker Space
In P.E. we are beginning our movement and cooperative games units. Students are getting the opportunity to participate in activities where they are having to work together with other team members!! For our culture unit, students will soon be learning and performing a dance specific to their assigned country.
Kindergarten: Country Line Dancing
1st Grade: Yang Ge
2nd Grade: Bhangra
I am very excited for the students to get to experience all of these new things!
Currently, in Art class, we are continuing our cultural projects. Kindergarten students are handprint painting a HUGE American flag and the Olympic flag. First graders are looking at Chinese lanterns and parasols and are printing cherry blossoms for their backgrounds. Second graders are readying their Indian elephants for the annual Elephant parade and festival, celebrated in Jaipur.
Next Tuesday, October 4th, our Odell Primary students will have a special educational and theatrical treat! Duke Energy sponsors a National Childrens' Theater production titled CONSERVATION CAPER, and it will be at our location teaching our students about the importance of not wasting resources and electricity. Your child should have brought home to you earlier this week a flyer with information about the program. When you log on to MyEnergyKit.org or call the phone number provided on the flyer, you can receive a free energy kit with free light bulbs, etc. And for EVERY 100 KITS that our Odell Primary families sign up for, Odell Primary gets $250. (If you have signed up for a kit in the past two years, you will not receive a new one right now; however, your registration still counts as one of the 100 registrations our school needs to receive the $250). There are no strings with getting the free kits, and contact information is not sold to third parties. Also, the two schools throughout their production region who have the most kits requested will win $2,500 each! Last year our school received $10,000 from Duke Energy as part of this program, so we can tell you that it is legitimate and a great way for us all to receive energy saving items and teach our children how to save electricity. Be sure to go on line and get yours ASAP!