Franklin Elementary School - Gr. K-4 |
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On Friday, April 23, the EG Bears PTA sponsored an “in house” field trip for our K-4 students. Cook’s Country Connection came to Franklin Elementary and brought along goats, a pony, a lamb, and two llamas. Each class had a chance to go out and meet the animals, feed them some snacks, and even hold the baby goats! Thank you to the PTA and Cook’s Country Connection. The kids had a blast! |
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Parkview Elementary - Gr. PreK-2 |
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BEFORE YOU POLLUTE,
THINK OF FREDDY!
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Mrs. Davidson's kindergarten class did an activity with Freddy, The Fish (aka a household sponge). Freddy, The Fish wanted to take a trip down the river, but along the way, he ran into lots of different kinds of pollution from us humans! Humans had turned the river into an icky smelly place. Yuck! The class talked about how they can make sure they aren’t adding icky things into the water where real fish live or that we drink and play in! |
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On Earth Day, Mrs. Asuma’s kindergarten class learned about how to “bee" a friend. They got a generous donation of flower planting kits from the Eveleth Public Library. With these kits, each student was able to plant a packet of seeds to help the bees pollinate this spring.
They learned all about how bees help the earth, and by planting flowers, we can help the bees. It was just their way of helping out the earth on Earth Day.
They, now, are patiently waiting for the flowers to grow so they can take them home to plant outside.
Thank you, Eveleth Public Library!
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LOOKING OUT FOR OUR PLANET |
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North St. Louis County Soil and Water Conservationist, Becca Reiss and Natalya taught Parkview first graders at Silver Lake about the importance of water conservation. A key topic was stopping invasive species by cleaning, draining, and drying your boat. Students played a game to demonstrate what happens to our lakes and rivers when an invasive species takes over. One of the stations the students rotated through was a replica of a watershed. Students saw firsthand what happens to our soil, lakes, and rivers when fertilizers and pesticides are used. Fun Fact - If you compare the water on Earth to 1 gallon of water, only 1 cup of water is freshwater. Out of that 1 cup of water, only a drop can be used for drinking water! Conserve our water! Save the Earth! |
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Gilbert Campus - Gr. PreK & 5-8 |
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WE HAVE BUTTERFLIES!
The youngest learners at the Gilbert Campus were quite surprised to see their newly emerged butterflies on Thursday, April 29.
These three-year olds have been patiently waiting for the caterpillars to become cocoons and eventually turn into beautiful butterflies.
And on May 6, the students found a home in Mr. and Mrs. Berry's beautiful spring garden for their butterflies to enjoy!
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The Pre-K four-year old class at the Gilbert Campus held their annual “Spring Sing” on Friday, April 30. Some of the songs that were performed for parents and grandparents included: Hello Neighbor, The Alphabet Song, Kites, and The Goodbye Song.
Refreshments were served following the performance.
The last day for School Readiness classes will be on May 21. Thanks for an awesome year! We can’t wait to see you in Kindergarten next fall!
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The 5th graders at Nelle Shean also got to enjoy the goats brought over by Cook's Country Connection thanks to the EG Bears PTA. These goats sure got a lot of love and attention during their trip to Eveleth and Gilbert!
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Roosevelt Elementary School - Gr. 3-6 |
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Mrs. Spry's 5th Grade class has been quite busy learning, not only in the classroom, but also doing a variety of things outside of school.
They were able to go to the Ely Wolf Center for a class field trip. The students got to see the animals close up and learn about these beautiful creatures. After listening to Maddy, the tour guide, they did a scavenger hunt finding important facts in the display areas. The kids stated they would recommend to others to go and even wished they could go back.
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During a recent trip to the school forest, students used recyclable materials to build boats. They then took the boats to the school forest and used a stopwatch to time it as it floated downstream. It was quite a lengthy journey as the average boat trip was 13 minutes to cross the finish line! Along the way, they were able to discuss rapids and currents as well as questioning what they would do to revise their boat if they had a second chance for a better outcome. Overall, every student thought they should stay in the forest a bit longer - purely for educational purposes! |
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Students worked in small groups to choose a Passion Project topic. This is a topic they absolutely love and wanted to learn more about. In order to do this, they needed to come up with a guiding question, use several sources for research, and choose any method they'd like to present it to the class. Topics included the Toronto Maple Leafs, Teenage Stars, Amur Leopards, forms of cancer, Ferruccio Lamborghini (who developed car and tractor engines), modern dance and ice animals. |
Mrs. Spry's class used Snap Circuits for a fun and safe way to experiment with electricity. They made a closed and open circuit, created a series or parallel circuit and others. If they connected them properly, the results varied from a song playing, colorful lights coming on, a buzzer beeping or could play a song, show colorful lights, scoreboard buzzer, spinners that would fly off, but if it didn't work, they had to figure out where the circuit was broken. How cool is that? |
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Eveleth-Gilbert Senior High - Gr. 9-12 |
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BADMINTON, ANYONE?
Eveleth-Gilbert High School’s Youth In Action (YIA) sponsored a badminton tournament (April 13-16) during lunch. Twenty-nine teams signed up for the four-day tournament. At the end of the chaos, Lunch A winners were Bodi George and Jake Bradach; and for Lunch B, the winners were Elli Jankila and Brandon Lind. Each winning team was awarded a consolatory badminton game against Principal, Angie Williams and Activities Director, JoJo Scott. Each winner received a $10 gift certificate to Dairy Queen. The two adults were kind enough to let the students win so as to not damage their delicate sensibilities. As we enter the final month of school, be on the lookout for more activities sponsored by EGHS YIA!
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Ten E-G campus Vocal Music events carried on the strong vocal tradition of participating in Solo Ensemble Contest. COVID didn’t slow us down. Rather, this year’s hybrid schedule provided us the unique opportunity to hone the students’ singing skills and talents, during individual and small group lessons. Thank you to the district for your support of these lesson arrangements. Time was well spent - students worked hard, improved their singing, and achieved their contest goals.
While we are still waiting for results, all singers are proud of their accomplishments.This year’s performers were: Maggie Landwer - soprano solo “Habanera” from Carmen, Rebecca Muster - soprano solo “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables, Jaelynn Wright - soprano solo “Memory” from CATS, Jasmine Brock-Miller - alto solo “Sunrise, Sunset” from “Fiddler on the Roof”, Sophie Statsman - alto solo“By the Sea” from Sweeney Todd, Isaiah Erickson - baritone solo “Danny Boy”, Brennan Muhich - baritone solo “Sonntag”, Rebecca Muster and Sophie Statsman - duet “Getting to Know You” from The King and I, Allie Bittmann, Sarah Jarvela, Ava Kraushaar, and Jake Bradach - quartet “May It Be” from Lord of the Rings, Jake Bradach, Josh Creer-Obserstar, Isaiah Erickson, Max Gritzmacher, Dakota Mousseau-Jerde, Brennan Muhich - Men’s Ensemble
“Drunker Sailor”. Submitted by Reida Forsman, Vocal Music Instructor.
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Virginia High School - Gr. 7-12 |
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Mr. Foster’s Engineering Club had a second opportunity to tour the construction sites of the new Miners Entertainment & Convention Center (MECC), the new Rock Ridge High School and Rock Ridge Elementary School. Their original tour was back in early November and their current trip gave them a chance to see all of the phases completed over the winter. |
While this group of students will not attend the new high school and most of them won't play hockey at the new MECC, they all agreed these are exciting times for the underclassman. The new elementary school has some innovative touches, "The kids are getting a slide down from different floors, it's sick!!" commented Senior Daniel Squires. |
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Senior Matt Callister found the field trip very interesting. "As a hockey player, it was cool to see the beginning of the hockey arena being built. Our guide explained to us that it would take only 24 hours to either take the ice out or put new ice in, which is pretty impressive. We also learned that they would be smoothing out the concrete for the hockey rink by hand, because they found it to be more reliable than using machines. You’d think that they’d have crazy technology to do it, but it’s interesting that they find it better to do manually." |
Senior Tom Nemanich said, "I found it extremely beneficial and interesting because it gave us more insight on the stages of a project in which an engineer is involved. We got to see a lot of the groundwork that was done for the poured walls and learned about how many of the precast walls are put in and how they are finished. It also helped show us many of the trades that are wide open for people who want to work."
Many thanks to the Applied Learning Institute for helping to facilitate this field trip. Hopefully these students get the chance to tour the sites upon their completion.
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