St. Edward School Happenings

Mrs. Lois Spanton

Music: Grades 7 & 8 are finishing up a unit on Dynamic, Tempo & Articulation terms. Grades 4, 5 & 6 have been playing simple melodies on xylophones.

Grades 2 & 3 have been practicing playing ostinatos on various percussion instruments. They are really starting to make their playing sound like true “music!”

The Kindergartners & First Graders are exploring the concepts of High & Low and Loud & Soft. It can be very confusing!

Art: All students have finished up various projects using simple lines and shapes. We are working on drawings of pumpkins, trying to add the feeling of “roundness” using line and color.

They seem to enjoy working with the oil pastels and painting over the pastels with a paint wash is kind of fun as well!

Mrs. Emily Hennen

In PE, students have been taking advantage of the beautiful weather and participating in some outdoor activities such as Capture the Flag, kickball, various tag games such as Silly Bananas, and playground equipment obstacle course.

Students will be starting their football skill unit within the next couple of weeks. In Health, the 8th grade students have been learning about the 9 life skills and how to utilize them to better their health and wellness.

Students in grades K-6 have been learning about how our bodies grow. They are learning about the different body systems and how they work together within our bodies.

Mrs. Robin Traen

2nd graders are learning to identify even and odd numbers and working on identifying ordinal positions to twelfth. 3rd graders are dividing squares into two, four and eight equal parts, and shading halves, fourths and eighths.

4th graders are learning about problem solving, adding and subtracting whole numbers and subtracting across zeros. 5th graders are working on problem solving, and adding and subtracting whole numbers and decimals.

UPCOMING EVENTS Sept. 20 – School Mass – Gr. 2, NWEA testing begins and Midterms