Andrea Urmston’s fourth graders got really creative, combining math and art on Pi Day – March 14. On graph paper, students drew a building as high as each of the first 20 digits of Pi, in order, from left to right. Then they got creative in designing a pi-line (or skyline) at sunrise or sunset. …
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Circleville Elementary School music teacher Danielle Hommel wanted to give her music students another option to pique their interest in music. What better than jazz band to do that! Elementary schools have concert band and the district has jazz in both middle and high school so Ms. Hommel thought it was a perfect fit. “I …
Happy Pi Day! Yes today, March 14, is the celebration of the mathematical symbol pi, which of course is written as 3.14 for short. Pi Day was first celebrated in 1988 at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, a museum of science and technology. It was physicist Larry Shaw, an employee of the museum, who decided Pi Day …
Circleville Elementary School celebrated literacy and school spirit all week long the first week of March. With Dr. Seuss’s birthday and Read Across America Day being March 2, everyone got into the spirit. Wacky Wednesday saw students wearing mismatched or backwards clothes. Reading “Green Eggs and Ham” was a blast, especially with our green egg …
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CES is celebrating literacy and school spirit all week long! March 2 is Dr. Seuss’s birthday and it’s also Read Across America Day. CES has lots on tap for the week, including Wacky Wednesday on March 2. Everyone can be silly and wear their clothes backwards, inside out or mismatched. Thursday is Fox in Sox …
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CES had some fun on its superhero day! And in dramatic fashion!! Have a look.
Enjoy this recorded version of the CES Winter Concert 2021 Happy holidays to all!
Andrea Urmston’s fourth grade class recently learned about the dreidel game, one of Hanukkah’s favorite traditions for children. The class read the book “I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Dreidel” by Caryn Yacowitz to go along with the …
Students at Circleville Elementary School took part in the annual “Trick or Treat for STEAM” with activities that involved science, technology, engineering, art and math. Fourth-grade classes participated in three experiments throughout the afternoon on Friday, Oct. 29. They built structures with toothpicks and marshmallows, hypothesized about the results of putting a jelly candy in …
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Nov. 16 is SRP Recognition Day! The district honored all our school-related professionals, which includes behavioral aides, school monitors, teacher aides and teaching assistants, with a small token of appreciation – some sweets! Executive Director of Human Resources Angela Wise-Landman visited each school in the district handing out the bags of sweets that included …
