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Grant Elementary Students, Staff, and Parents are participating in a "Read Across America Dr. Seuss Family Fun Night" on March 3rd. The evening will be filled with fun activities from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. These special activities will include a Johnny Carson Presentation by Elkhorn Valley Museum, Dr. Seuss bingo & face painting activities, the Amazing Arthur Magic Show titled "The Magic of Reading",…

Wow! We have had a great start to a new year! The students have been working hard at Reading Mastery and Connections. It has been wonderful to see the improvements in their reading fluency, accuracy and pacing.

In Math, we continue to work on fact fluency. The first graders are currently practicing "Doubles Plus 1" facts. The class…

During the month of January, students in Miss Gleason's 3rd grade and Miss Cronin's 4th grade teamed up to complete a project entry for the Youth Philanthropy Contest. On the evening of February 6th, 14 students came out to visit with community members about our project 'Purse Power' which will be used to fill 55 gently used purses with day to day necessities for women at Bright Horizons. That evening,…

Second grade students celebrated the 100th day of school on Thursday, January 21st. The day focused on many learning activities centered around the number 100! Teachers read books about the 100th day. Students flipped coins heads or tails 100 times! Students rolled to 100, trying to see how many times it would take to roll the dice to 100. Students…

Second semester in third grade is exploding with new concepts and events to look forward to! First of all, third graders are working hard to master multiplication facts! Each week, we conquer a new fact family! Please help your third grader study these important facts. IXL and Xtra Math are great resources that are set up and available to help your student study at home.

Recently the students…

Every December Grant students make paper trees and decorate them for the Veteran's Home. These trees are traced by the Fourth Graders. They make around 250 trees! We start with outlines of a Christmas tree. Then we pass them out to the whole school. Not just Fourth Graders decorate them though, the Kindergarten, First, Second, and Third Graders decorate them too! They decorate them with glitter,…

On Thursday, December 3rd, Grant Elementary will be holding a Family Fitness night. Parents and children of all ages are welcome to come and participate. We will be doing a Hoops Night, where all of the activities will be with a basketball.

It is asked that you please wear tennis shoes for this event. It helps keep the floor clean and safe and also helps prevent any unintentional injuries.

The…

What a busy start to the school year we have had! Here is just a few things we have been doing...

~ Math - We've been busy using the IXL website in class to help us strengthen our math skills. The students can access this website at home - please encourage them to log-on and learn! Recently we have started accessing the site on our new Chromebooks! HUGE thanks to the Norfolk Public Schools…

Were you in attendance at the recent Grant Family Game Night? If you were, you probably walked away a winner! Over 200 people packed the gym for our annual Family Game Night (Bingo for Books) and won well over 500 books! (All donated by teachers and Grant families!) There were many happy faces and fun conversations as students picked from a variety of genres, including historical fiction, fantasy,…

Greeting from the Gym

Seems like we just started school. Can't believe that we are almost through the first semester. My how the time flies by. We have just finished up our volleyball unit, which the kids love. We are currently doing basketball with hockey and gymnastics units coming up, so the kids are excited about that.

I know that Parent Teacher conferences are over and I wasn't…