Tomorrow! The best day of the school year 🦇👻🎃
Last week in Library our kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade classes read the story Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert Then we got the chance to go outside, and collect leaves to make our own Leaf Man! They did such a great job!
Save the Date🌟
TONIGHT! 🎃 Get ready for our Spooktacular Family Reading Night! 👻 School-appropriate costumes welcome for all your boo-tiful ghouls & goblins! 🧙♀️
We've brewed up some spine-tingling fun:
🖍️ Create a Haunted Stress Busters craft
🍪 Make a Frightful Fingers snack
🍭 Trick or Treat throughout the building
🚪 Vote in our door decorating contest
📚 Enjoy reading & A.R. Testing
Don't miss this fang-tastic evening of literacy and laughs! 🦇 The fun awaits... if you dare! 😉
Meal served 5:00-6:30
Reading & Activities 5:30-7:00
We've brewed up some spine-tingling fun:
🖍️ Create a Haunted Stress Busters craft
🍪 Make a Frightful Fingers snack
🍭 Trick or Treat throughout the building
🚪 Vote in our door decorating contest
📚 Enjoy reading & A.R. Testing
Don't miss this fang-tastic evening of literacy and laughs! 🦇 The fun awaits... if you dare! 😉
Meal served 5:00-6:30
Reading & Activities 5:30-7:00
Sixth grade students have been preparing for our Veterans Day Program. We would like to invite veterans in our community to join us on November 11 at 9:00 am in the gym at Monroe Elementary. After the program, veterans are invited to stay for breakfast in the cafeteria. Please RSVP to brittany.kibler@caseywestfield.org or call 217-932-2178.
Invitation designed by sixth grader, Serenity Kemper.
We will call this a Close to all school collaboration project (a few students were absent and no kindergarten). Students were given one color family to use and had to complete a self portrait picture. My student assistant, Lucy Moore, arranged them in rainbow order! ROYGBIV for the win! 🌈
🌰✨The last couple of weeks in Zone Room sessions, our younger students read Acorn Was a Little Wild by Jen Arena and talked all about what it means to have self-control and make safe, kind choices — even when we feel a little “wild”!
Our older students focused on the same theme of growth and self-control, sharing real-life examples of when they made strong choices and how they can keep growing this fall.
No matter our age, we can all be a little wild sometimes — but like Acorn, we’re learning that growth happens when we slow down, reflect, and make good choices! 🌰✨
Help out the Monroe Art department! Thank you for all your generosity!
T is for texture! Implied and actual texture-we are building those layers in 2nd and 4th grade art. Getting our hands dirty and our papers pretty!
We read Pumpkin Jack in the library last week, so we brought in our own Pumpkin Jack. The kids are going to get to watch the life cycle of a pumpkin first hand!
Just a reminder that all Casey-Westfield information, events, and calendars are available at www.caseywestfield.org
It's the perfect week to sell some Oakland Noodles! Our fundraiser is live for another week. We are looking to revamp our BRAVE Program incentives to motivate students even more. The Oakland Noodle Fundraiser will allow us to purchase exciting, new incentives! This is such an important fundraiser for our school. We appreciate any and all support!
On October 8, sixth-grade students visited Springfield. They had been preparing for the trip by studying Abraham Lincoln and the state government. In class, they analyzed the Gettysburg Address, and they got to see one of Lincoln's handwritten copies in person! For the trip, they explored the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in the morning. Then, in the afternoon, they took guided tours of the Capitol, the Old State Capitol, and Lincoln's Tomb.
Update on ASC.
First Grade had Ag in the Classroom last week. We looked at honeycomb, tasted honey, and learned how bees make honey. This great program will visit the classrooms once a month.
New Teacher Spotlight!
Lindsay Shawver 6th grade (Science)
"I had an awesome biology teacher in high school who instilled a love a science."
Lindsay Shawver 6th grade (Science)
"I had an awesome biology teacher in high school who instilled a love a science."
New Teacher Spotlight!
Megan Gallagher Kindergarten
" I love teaching kindergarten because you see so much growth in students from the beginning of the year to the end. "
Megan Gallagher Kindergarten
" I love teaching kindergarten because you see so much growth in students from the beginning of the year to the end. "
New Teacher Spotlight!
Chelsea Cox 1st grade
"I enjoy seeing the growth in my student's Reading and Math abilities throughout the year. It is fun to be a part of their learning each day. "
Monroe's Homework Help
Mrs. Davis' First Grade class has been practicing Reading Center routines all week. They were excited to try reading on their own. We have been trying to increase our reading stamina and today's goal was 15 minutes.
