Check out the flyer for the next essential oils class - Total Home Upgrade
In honor of Dr. Seuss, the kindergarten class celebrated creativity through a variety of STEM-infused studies. Creativity is an essential characteristic of a 21st-century learner who thinks outside the box to solve real-world problems. One picture book that helped us understand creativity this week was Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty. Rosie uses her imagination to create amazing creations out of recycled junk and eventually discovers she can do her best work after experiencing defeat. She was our inspiration for using our creativity, persevering, and using mistakes as opportunities to learn.
Over the course of the last three weeks, we have been learning about the basic needs of all living things. This week, we designed a product that represents some of our learning. With adult support, students read about an animal of choice and identified its basic needs. Afterward, students wrote and drew about the needs of the animal in their STEM journals. We reread our inspirational text of the week, Rosie Revere, Engineer, and discussed how Rosie designed a unique hat for her Zookeeper uncle. We decided to demonstrate our learning about animals by constructing creative hats depicting their individual needs.
Students wrote a list of needs, drew a blueprint for their designs, gathered recyclables, and created, experimented, and revised plans when things didn’t go quite right. Just like Rosie, kindergarten students persevered and experienced deeper understanding of the content within a highly creative product.
This entire process was extremely rigorous and integrated multiple reading, writing, social studies, science, and math standards as students worked within the parameters of the highest level of learning--knowledge utilization--to use what they've learned and applied in a new, creative, authentic manner to solve a problem.
We're expanding our brainpower and using it in new and creative ways everyday in K!
Showing Polar Pride with the new sweatshirts from the senior fundraiser!
5th Grade March Madness Book Bracket
Pilates Class to begin; morning and afternoon classes to fit your schedule. Check it out!
Tonight's boys basketball Section 7A playoffs at Cook County at 6PM will be streamed online on www.wtip.org. Go Polar Bears!!
7-9 graders Talent Search trip to St. Scholastica and Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College yesterday. Making plans for the future
Get ready to be entertained at JAM'D
I can wonder. This short statement written phonetically by a kindergarten student this week reflects the attitude and confidence of a learner. We pause to consider things we don't understand yet and then take the next step to research, hypothesize, and believe our ideas have merit.
I can wonder. A simple statement. A huge impact.
Boys Basketball Playoffs! Good Luck Polar Bears in their Section 7A playoffs tomorrow (3/6/19) at Cook County at 6:00PM!
The Floodwood Senior High Band performed at the North East region contest in Virginia, MN today. We received two Excellent ratings and one Superior rating! Also great job to our 3 soloists who competed today. Sky Kienbaum was awarded an Excellent rating and Zoe Johnson and Jayna Kemp received Superior ratings! Congratulations Floodwood Band!!
Online Safety Workshop
The Future's So Bright! Learning in kindergarten cannot be fully understood unless it is experienced first-hand. It is intentional, integrated, meaningful, student-centered, powerful discoveries in action. This is exactly what children experience each day in our classroom.
This is what genuine learning should look like for all students. Children must have every opportunity to pursue their interests and questions. They should feel safe enough to take risks and make mistakes because they lead to deeper understanding. Children must have time and space to explore, wonder, experiment, engage, converse, grow, and play each day. They must believe learning is FUN and even feel confident believing they are acquiring important skills needed to be leaders...both now and for the rest of their lives as active citizens.
Ask these young students what school is like for them each day. They will likely talk about what they get to DO and the fun they experience at any moment in the day. They will tell you about good books we read together, games we play, new materials we get to investigate, big words we discover and put into context, songs we sing, creations we design and improve, experiments we conduct in our kitchen, stories we compose, and celebrations we enjoy together. They may even tell you they will ALWAYS stay in kindergarten and never leave...and then explain how they made their point absolutely clear by giving the teacher a great big bear hug.
Our Floodwood kindergarteners get to experience this level of learning every single day and are developing the characteristics of leaders right at this moment. They are curious, compassionate, confident, insightful community members and it's my hope their successes will only magnify as they prepare for the future.
Their future's SO bright! Our Floodwood kindergarten students are amazing individuals and are experiencing nothing short of the highest form of learning. We welcome you to come experience genuine learning with us and help support what we get to do in our classroom every single day.
Floodwood School District invites all to the 2nd Community Informational Meeting on Tuesday, March 19th at 6PM in media center regarding the April 9th, Special Election - Operating Referendum. For more information, go to:
https://www.isd698.org/o/floodwood-school/browse/38898
Come check out our ECFE spring classes. See the brochure for details!
K2 STEM Showcase is a Work in Progress: Check out the expanding display of Kindergarten and 2nd grade STEM projects in the elementary hallway across from the 2nd grade classroom. Students are proud of their perseverance and are excited to showcase their learning.
Bus Driver Appreciation Breakfast by 4.O Bus Services of Floodwood ~ Thank you for all you do!
Great job to these 8th grades nominated and selected for the 51st annual UMD Honor Band! There were over 300 students from around the state of MN whom participated in this fun day! Thank you for a great performance and for representing Floodwood so well!
Thank you, Floodwood School Board, for your dedication to the students of Floodwood! You are appreciated!
Driving Refresher Class to be held in April - please see the flyer for details
