Ithaca South Elementary

Our students have had the privilege of having Mrs. Colleen Horn, Gratiot-Isabella Nutrition Educator, come in our kindergarten classroom each month this year to share nutrition & health lessons. Our young students loved learning about healthy foods and a healthy lifestyle. When asked what their favorite part of all lessons were, of course they answered the yummy snacks Mrs. Horn served! Thank you Mrs.Horn & GIRESD for collaborating with many schools & classrooms to provide this fun and healthy learning experience!

Thank you Gratiot County Community Foundation for supporting our STEAM on the playground project! On this beautiful day, first graders used our blue blocks to build models of parents and offspring and second graders demonstrated diversity by designing different insects.

Students in Mrs. Vozar's classroom are learning to collaborate and use teamwork during their informational book clubs.

Each day in Mrs. Hessbrook's kindergarten room we use technology to engage & empower students during learning. Students use IPads for 20 minutes each day. We are now using Boddle to work on math skills. Students have taken a placement test to determine what math items they are ready to learn & practice. Mrs. Beach sent home login information, so students can access Boddle at home as well! We also access apps on our digital classroom screen to sing our good morning song each day, practice math & reading concepts using songs and movements, as well as science and social studies videos. Technology is an important tool in our classroom!

Kindergarteners were challenged to build brainflake rainbows in STEAM. It proved to be a tricky challenge that required a lot of collaboration and perseverance!

Our kindergarteners continue to learn how to communicate in writing. Today we worked on drawing a detailed picture, and adding one more idea to our story! Please have your child read their Friday Folder writing back to you. (They will need a little help!) I am amazed how neat these incredible learners are printing on the 132 day of kindergarten!

Our March Recycling 2nd grade students collaborated to pick up recycling from each classroom at South. Thanks helpers!

Thank you second grade recycling helpers for February!! Thanks for caring for our South Community!

Our South students work to be good citizens of our planet with recycling! Thanks to our January 2nd grade recycling helpers!

Students in Miss. Hartman's preschool class have been learning about community helpers. This week they learned about police officers and investigations. Students investigated their fingerprints and learned that their fingerprints are unique! 😊

First graders are learning about the similarities and differences between parents and offspring, so they collaborated to create parent and offspring models!

The amazing PTO team once again provided North and South School students with a popcorn snack before Spring Break! Our classroom was very excited to see, smell, hear, and taste this delicious treat! Thank You PTO team for your awesome contribution to our community! We ALL HAVE an opportunity to support these PTO activities this April at their fundraiser with the returning carnival! Please share and come support your PTO TEAM on April 21!

A BIG thank you to all of the AMAZING readers who came in this week to share books! Students loved engaging with community members, parents, & more about great books. Our literary champions are: Mr. Dan Carley Mrs. Melissa MacLaren Mrs. Jen Barancik Mrs. Jen Whitford Mr. Ruggie Ramereiz Have a wonderful Spring Break Everyone! See you in Monday, April 3!

South Elementary wishes all families a safe and enjoyable Spring Break! See everyone back on Monday, April 3, 2023!

Hello families! We had so much fun sharing our learning day with our stuffed animals. We left the animals all cozy on a shelf, and I'm a little worried as I look at a few camera images. I don't think they understand our class rules. Hopefully when we arrive tomorrow, the animals have not created havoc in our room! A special thank you to the Barancik Family for supplying extra stuffed animals for those that forgot. We were VERY grateful! Have a great day! Mrs. Simcox

Hello families! We had so much fun sharing our learning day with our stuffed animals. We left the animals all cozy on a shelf, and I'm a little worried as I look at a few camera images. I don't think they understand our class rules. Hopefully when we arrive tomorrow, the animals have not created havoc in our room! A special thank you to the Barancik Family for supplying extra stuffed animals for those that forgot. We were VERY grateful! Have a great day! Mrs. Simcox

Empowering our classroom with the love of reading through sharing laughter and fun with our best buddies in Mrs. Dawe's room.

We did it! South had a goal to read 7,000 books/chapters during the month of March. Reading logs were kept at home and school with each classroom reading at least 100 books. Everyone helped the cause by reading to themselves, to partners, to teachers and with family members. Students at South will celebrate their reading success tomorrow with a special snack, dance party and rainforest video. Way to go South! Don't forget it's pajama day tomorrow too!

These students shared their amazing book projects with our classroom today after presenting them at last night's community engagement Reading Fair!

Wow! These reading fair projects created by our South students and families really show off the wonderful community collaboration that we have here in Ithaca!