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Slaybaugh School Complex

Week of November 10, 2019

Slaybaugh SchoolComplexWeek of November 10, 2019

Student Achievement

Mrs. Urbon and Mrs. Hamilton’s 1st grade class wrote about their favorite Thanksgiving Food and they created turkeys telling what they are thankful for!

Mrs. Zompa and Ms. Steffan's class talked about how they can make a boring sentence more interesting by using descriptive words. To help them come up with descriptive words for a pumpkin, the students observed the outside and inside of one. They talked about the texture, odor, shape, and color. Some of the descriptive words they came up with for the texture of the outside of a pumpkin were smooth and bumpy (depending on their pumpkin). They also mentioned the color of the pumpkins being orange and that they’re round. One student even used the math term “sphere” to describe its shape! Some of the descriptive words used for the inside were slimy, sticky, cold, gooey, wet, and stinky. One student described the strings in the pumpkin to be “worm- like.” As if all this wasn't great enough, the class got to examine some of the seeds that started to sprout a few days later!

They are learning a lot (while having some fun) in second grade!!

Ms. Sheridan and Ms. Sansom's students stretched their brains to new limits playing a bath game that required finding the equation AND the answer!

Keep up the great work!!!

Ms. Swigert, Ms. Alverson and Ms. Ungerer's 3rd grade class have been working very hard on their multiplication facts. Here they are participating in some fun hands-on activities to practice the distributive property of multiplication.


Second graders are in the ART ROOM working hard. Last week we discussed LANDSCAPES and used permanent paint to create.

This week we learned how to use watercolors to add more pizzazz. Stay tuned for finished products!

Ms. Efstatos' 3rd grade class did an an election for their class mascot. The classroom was broken up into to campaign teams to work on speeches, songs and marketing publicity. The classroom voted against Peter Porker against Winston and Winston was the winner! The students get to bring home Winston on the weekends and write about their weekend!

Congratulations Winston!!!

Climate and Culture

Mrs Kaenzig, Mrs Lucia, Miss Katie & Ms Webster are so excited to meet Lucy Calkins and attend her Writers Workshop class at the NJEA Convention.

Ms. Kekatos is working hard with students to prepare for our Veteran's Day Lunch!

Our Renaissance “Kid” mmittee is hard at work at conferences selling Gobble Grams!

Ms. Swigert, Ms. Alverson and Ms. Ungerer's 3rd grade students are seen here enjoying some quality time with Snickers and Twix, their classroom pets! The students love caring for them and reading to them during literacy center time.

Community Pride