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In December, Grant students make large paper trees to decorate and share with the Veterans Home. Before our fall break, 4th grade students trace and send home nearly 250 trees to be decorated! Every student, Kindergarten through 4th takes home their very own blank tree. They are returned decorated with everything from paint and stickers to bows and real twinkling lights. The creativity and effort…
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Team-building. Problem-solving. Creative thinking. Hands-on learning. All of these are skills our Grant 4th graders have gained this year through the incorporation of monthly STEM projects. Each month, the students are challenged to complete an assigned task with various materials to encourage out-of-the-box thinking and problem solving. At the start of each task, students are given an end goal…
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Grant students received a wonderful gift from our church friends at First United Methodist Church. The church purchased a new book for each child so that the love of reading can continue at home. Pictured are Pastor Petz and some of the kindergarten students looking at their books for the first time. We are incredibly thankful to FUMC for all that they do for the students and staff at Grant.
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Mrs. Commerford’s Kindergartners at Grant School have been studying colors. During their study of color blue they read the storybook, Blueberries for Sal. Afterwards, they went for a blueberry hunt around the school building. It was fun to find blueberry muffins, blueberry cereal and even real blueberries. Each item was placed into their own ‘blueberry basket’ and enjoyed back in the classroom…
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