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Today in class we read a very cool book that Mrs. Self’s nephew, Ben, and her niece, Maggie, gave her as a present. Yes, even at the young ages of 2 and 4 months, they both have already had lectures about when to use apostrophes and commas. We get a kick out of Mrs. Self [...]

Yesterday, students in grades 2, 3, 4, and 5 went Christmas Caroling at Bellaire, a residential facility for senior citizens. Students sang songs they had practiced, and even demonstrated how to use recorders. Our senior friends were very excited to see our friendly faces, and we were happy to do what we could to bring [...]

On Friday, Mrs. Self and Mr. Ramsdell were asked to speak on Your Carolina about integration of our Core Knowledge units into a 5-day a week physical education program. They were interested in how a physical education program such as ours can reinforce concepts taught in the classroom, as well as how it can develop [...]

Sometimes, a change of scenery helps us with our writing. Sometimes, it helps to edit the writing of a buddy you don’t go to class with day in and day out. Mrs. Burns and Mrs. Self decided to come together and team teach a writing lesson for third and fourth grade students.  On Monday, students [...]

On Monday we were fortunate enough to have Ms. Amy Clarke, a famous Greenville writer, visit our classroom and teach us her tricks for valuable and successful writing. We were very excited to host our first famous FEMALE author….our girls were very, very inspired by Ms. Amy’s visit. Stories that had stumped them for months [...]