Circle Center News You Can Use: March 15, 2021

Week of March 15, 2021

Good Afternoon CCGS Families,

We had another great week of learning at Circle Center Grade School and we really enjoyed the warm weather too. This week while visiting classrooms, I saw our third graders working on equivalent fractions. They were using fraction strips to help them see the larger and smaller pieces. This is a great skill that can be practiced at home while cooking with your children. One of our remote teachers, Ms. Fenstra was able to bake donuts with her students. Check out the picture below of one of her students with her homemade donut!

As a reminder, on 3/19/21 all of our K-3 students have school, but it is an early release day for our p.m. students. School will dismiss at 2:25 p.m. Please plan to watch for buses or arrive to school an hour earlier on this day. Our early childhood students will not attend school.

Additionally, we are excited to be sponsoring a food drive event sponsored by the Kendall County Agriculture in the Classroom event. We will be collecting all foods, but we are particularly asking for cereal boxes of all flavors! Our goal is to have a domino run through the main hallway and both circles. That will take a lot of cereal boxes, but we know we can do it! Please see the flyer below for more information. We also have our Virtual Family Reading night with Mrs. Becker and Mrs. Niner on March 18th. On March 16th we have our virtual author visit and kindergarten registration. It is going to be a very busy week at CCGS!

Please watch our February CCGS video at this link. You can link your March photos to this album. I love seeing the pictures of our remote learners at home, so please continue to add them!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend with your family!

Mrs. Hamm

There are several important flyers and pieces of information below.

Do you know a future CCGS or Y115 kindergarten student? Please share this information with them if you do! We will be handling registration different in the past and each family will go to their home school. Circle Center's registration date is March 16th 4-7 p.m. Parents can bring copies of everything except the birth certificate or we can make copies for them!

We are excited to announce our next author visit! Shelley Johannes, author AND illustrator of the creative series Beatrice Zinker, will be zooming with ALL of our Y115 elementary schools on March 16th! If you'd like to order a book look for the order form that came home this week, and we hope you jump in to our sock puppet fun, too! Create your own one-of-a-kind sock puppet, and then post a photo or video with it to our Padlet at http://bit.ly/3dETCeV by March 15th, and you will be entered into a raffle to win a pre-order of Shelley Johannes's new picture book, More Than Sunny, releasing in May! (Make sure to include your name and school in the post!) If you have any questions about the above, please email Nicole Johnson [email protected].

HAPPY CREATING, and we are so very excited to "meet" Shelley later this month!

Virtual Art Show coming soon!

Music Program Update!

Our K-3 students have been singing, dancing and reading to prepare for our musical "Character Street!"

You can listen, practice and read our books at home in our virtual classroom. Click here to enter!

Don't forget to save the date: April 27 at 6:30 on Zoom for a Movie Night!

More details coming soon!

Congratulations to this student for being our Shout Out Winner and for following the 4 Cornerstones. He will get a chance to lead our school in the pledge of allegiance next week.

Congratulations to Ms. Campbell's classroom for being the Golden Platter winner of the week! They were following our four Cornerstones and get to have the trophy in their classroom and a recess with Mrs. Anderson or I! We look forward to playing with them next week.

Congratulations to our yearbook cover winner Kyle G. There are four other students who were chosen to have their yearbook pictures featured on the back cover of the yearbook and they are: Charlotte G., Blake W., Liv N., and Tillman S.

When pulling into the rear drive at drop off and pick up times, please only make a right turn into the drive. This allows for cars to safely pass the car line.
Remote families: If you are wanting your child to return to school in the fall, this would be the perfect time to begin working on independent skills during live instruction. We have found that our students who have returned from remote learning have struggled with not having an adult right by their side. Please encourage your child to work as independently as possible during this time and on assessments.
Please click HERE for the local library activities for March.
BACK FOR 2021! The Yorkville School District is hosting The Virtual Taste of Yorkville "Culture Matters" to feature the melting pot of cultures that make up the Yorkville School District community. This virtual event will feature several cultural highlights, recipes, and interviews. This year's event will be held virtually on YouTube due to the current pandemic. The event will kick-off this year on Saturday, April 24th. We are looking for participants to submit a video that will showcase aspects of your culture/country. You will be showcasing one aspect of your cultural heritage in a 5-10 minute video and allow others to travel the world experiencing your culture through artifacts, music, dance, food, arts, literature and more. If you are interested in participating, please fill out this Participant Google Form. If you have any questions, please contact Michael Camp at [email protected].
¡DE VUELTA PARA 2021! El Distrito Escolar de Yorkville está organizando el virtual Sabor de Yorkville "La cultura importa" para presentar el crisol de culturas que conforman la comunidad del Distrito Escolar de Yorkville. Este evento virtual contará con varios eventos culturales, recetas y entrevistas. Debido al COVID-19, el evento de este año será virtual en YouTube. El evento comenzará este año el sábado 24 de abril. Estamos buscando participantes que someterán un video que muestre aspectos de su cultura / país. Usted mostrará un aspecto de su herencia cultural en un video de 5 a 10 minutos y permitirá que otros viajen por el mundo experimentando su cultura a través de artefactos, música, danza, comida, artes, literatura y más. Si está interesado en participar, complete este Participant Google Form. Si tiene alguna pregunta, comuníquese con Michael Camp en [email protected].
If your remote learner is walking or running at home towards our steps goal, please email [email protected] at the end of the week with the total miles walked. If you are walking as a family and your child comes to school you can send it on a note with your child.

Ms. Campbell's Classroom Highlight of the Week

It has been a busy and fun time in Ms.Campbell’s second grade classroom! We have enjoyed learning about our community workers, and each had the opportunity to choose which community worker we would like to be when we grow up. From farmers, to police officers, to nurses, and veterinarians, we have big hopes and dreams to serve our community.

We have been spending time reading to each other, out of our favorite books. This has been a wonderful way to share our favorite stories, and also get recommendations on what we should read next!

After spending time reading various versions of “Jack and the Beanstalk”, we put on our engineer and scientist hats, and did a STEM activity where we created a contraption to protect our golden egg. This was by far our favorite activity this year! Whether a group protected their egg, or brainstormed ways to redesign their contraption and improve it, each group was successful! We look forward to doing more of these in the future.

Lastly, we really enjoyed creating our own ice cream flavors, while showcasing our “awesome alliteration abilities.” Some of our unique flavors were, “Gianna’s Gooey Green Garlic Ice Cream,” “McNamara’s Munchy Mocha” and “Mason’s Magnificent Marshmallow.” What a deliciously, delightful way to learn alliteration!