Our Chief Science Officers joined CSOs from area districts for a STEAM-based field trip to Detroit. We enjoyed the Ford Piquette Plant Museum, the Belle Isle Aquarium, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Thank you Center for Excellence in STEM Education for this amazing opportunity to see STEAM skills at work in the real world!
Today our sixth graders traveled to Delta College Planetarium in Bay City as part of our PTO sponsored field trip! Our program was titled, STARS, and it included many interesting facts. Everyone enjoyed the program, especially the roller coaster ride at the end of the feature program. The students learned more about how to identify stars in our night sky and also just how big the universe really is. After our trip to the planetarium the students enjoyed a picnic lunch. Again many thanks to our PTO for sponsoring our trip along with all of the parents/family that were able to join us!
Third and Fourth graders learned about the importance of Memorial Day during art class. Afterwards they engaged in an opportunity to create agamographs to honor those individuals who gave everything for us to enjoy the freedoms we have today. From one angle an eagle is visible in front of the USA flag, and from the opposite angle the silhouette of a soldier saluting is visible.
Thank you to everyone who has served our country and to the families who have sacrificed even more.
Our 3rd grade Yellowjackets delivered 51 birthday bags to the Community Food Pantry today. These kids were inspired by the idea and thrilled to know kids in our community will have a birthday cake on their birthday! Thank you to all the families who donated supplies for the cause.
The 5th graders took a trip to the Gratiot County Commission on Aging to visit some incredible military Veterans. Their stories were incredible and we greatly appreciate them for taking the time to do this for us.
Here is our North Elementary 2023 Graduation walk with the seniors!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq5wlMSsudE
Our wonderful librarian, Mrs. Morris, set up a book walk around our North Elementary School. A book walk is like a gallery walk, but for books! During the book walk, students moved around the school and read each page of the book. This was a great way to incorporate movement into reading as well as enjoy the outside!
On Monday the sixth graders went to visit the junior high school to tour around and eat lunch. This experience gave our students the confidence of becoming familiar with their new school next year as well as what to expect lunches will be like too! Our 7th and 8th grade guides were wonderful sharing their knowledge with us as well as introducing us to their classroom teachers in junior high. We even learned how to open up a combination lock for our new lockers.
6th grade camp was a huge success! We enjoyed three days at YMCA Camp Nissokone in Oscoda. While at camp the students worked together and had many engaging opportunities to build positive relationships with their peers as well as be challenged along with teamwork skills. Activities included: ziplining, arrow tag, OLS (outdoor living skills), kayaking, teams course, archery, rock wall, and arts & crafts.
We would like to thank the parent chaperones who made our trip possible as well as everyone who helped support the students in raising the funds for camp.
This week the Positivity Project (P2) focuses on: TEAMWORK “Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."--HENRY FORD
Hello North Families,
We hope you are enjoying this beautiful spring weather! Please pay close attention to the dates on the back of The Buzz for important
end of the school year information! Also, next week will be the last week of library for the year. All books must be turned in by May 26, 2023.
Have a great weekend and swarm together
The 3rd graders sure enjoyed their tasty treats from Big Top Ice Cream this afternoon! Thank you for letting us visit today. We are grateful to our community partners for building positive relationships with our staff and students.
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Fourth graders started their renewable energy work in STEAM by constructing and testing wind-powered vehicles. They were actively engaged in revising, testing, and measuring throughout the challenge!
Are you "Banana's" about games? Please join us for Family Game and Reading Night at the North Elementary Media Center tonight, Monday, May 15th from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
*Play word games with family and friends
*The first 35 families get a FREE Banagrams or word family game!
*Enter a drawing for a FREE book! Pencil and Sticker give-aways!
*Read books and take AR tests to earn points!
This week the Positivity Project (P2) focuses on: INTEGRITY “You’re looking for three things, generally, in a person: intelligence, energy, and integrity. And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two.”--WARREN BUFFET
Our Ithaca Chief Science officers were recognized for their outstanding STEAM projects this year at the CMU celebration tonight. Their family STEAM nights, Imagination Playground blue block project, audio drama club, and Invention Convention earned them the "best action plans" award for our region!
Sixth grade science students had to be resilient as they learned about competing organisms in an environment! They learned how some organisms are better suited to gathering resources like food by engaging in a simulation with dry beans.
We developed models of the nervous system in STEAM lab by using musical marble runs--it was a perfect way to engage these young scientists and help them better understand sensory input, processing, and reactions.
This week the Positivity Project (P2) focuses on: LEADERSHIP “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” -RONALD REAGAN
After watching a video about robot artist Robin Davis in STEAM, sixth graders collaborated to construct their own free-standing robots with our rigamajig kits.
