Grand View Elementary Newsletter

October 2024

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, November 12th School Board Meeting 1:00 at Bruneau Elementary

Wednesday, November 19th School Talks 6pm at Rimrock

November 25th-29th Thanksgiving Break

Monday, December 2nd School Resumes

A Note From Mr. Meyers

It’s hard to believe October is nearly over – the year is truly flying by! Our students have been hard at work, tackling new challenges, reaching for their goals, and growing with each passing day. It’s been incredible to see their progress!

This week, we’re excited to focus on Red Ribbon Week, helping our students understand the importance of making safe and healthy choices. From themed dress-up days to meaningful classroom discussions, Red Ribbon Week has been a wonderful opportunity to come together as a school community promoting positive choices.

Thank you for all you do to support your child’s learning journey, and we’re looking forward to an amazing November ahead filled with learning, growth, and fun!

Mrs. Morrison's Class

We have been doing a project on pumpkins. We have learned so much!! How they grow, what they need to grow, what is inside of them, how they decompose and what we can eat from pumpkins. We took a walking field trip to a pumpkin patch and picked pumpkins!

Kindergarten Miss Wampler

Kindergarten has been working hard to learn the alphabet and find the beginning sounds in words. One of our favorite activities is drawing and writing in our journals. In math we have been working on adding to 5 and playing games to find the ways to make 5. During science we have been learning about pumpkins, their life cycle, painting pumpkins, and counting to find out that our pumpkin had 420 seeds!

1st Grade Miss Baker

We’ve had a really fun few months. There has been a lot happening! Last week we had our first Mystery Reader come in! The students had a blast, hearing a clue every day, and trying to guess who they were going to be. In reading the students have worked on all the short vowels and are now onto the digraphs! This week we covered /sh/. In math we are using our knowledge of doubles, partners that make 10, and teen numbers, to add three addends! The students have been catching on really well and are very excited to be working with larger and more challenging equations. They have also learned quite a few games that focus on math doubles, and enjoy getting to play them whenever there is free time in math. We’ve been learning about animals in science. We just finished up a lesson on animal traits and how they are different and the same between parents and babies.

2nd Grade Mrs. Gordon

In 2nd grade math, we have been working on adding and subtracting two digit numbers along with word problems. In reading, we have been working on our spelling and phonics skills to move forward into reading comprehension. We took our iStation and MAP assessments this month and I was super proud of how much they grew in iStation just from September to October!

Recently in science, we learned about matter and how things are built. We did a puzzle rotation where they had to build a house/castle out of their puzzle pieces they were given at their specific rotation in 10 minutes or less. They had some great designs!

3rd Grade Mrs. Rice

Reading- Since August we have covered so many great stories and learned a lot! We are learning to read to understand. This has led to the introduction of text structure, point of view, theme, and literary elements. This month we are focusing on stories about our nation and showing everything we’ve learned.

Math- We started the year reviewing rounding and addition/subtraction with and without regrouping. We have since moved on to learning the connection between addition and multiplication as well as the different strategies we can use to solve equations.

We also had a chance to practice what we know during our very own escape room! We were successful and had fun!

4th Grade Mrs. Meyers

This year has been going by fast! It is hard to imagine we are already a quarter into it.

Fourth grade has been working hard on factors and multiples to get ready to learn how to multiply multi-digit numbers and divide multi-digit numbers. They have been reading a variety of stories to help them learn about different ways to rise to the occasion and to not give up when things are hard. They have been practicing going back into the text to find their answers and evidence. In Idaho History they worked so hard on creating their Idaho out of clay to show the geographical features they had learned. They have been loving learning the state symbols now! In science they are loving learning about animal adaptations. They just learned about a frogfish and how they use their adaptations to capture and eat their food.

5th Grade Miss Corza

This quarter, 5th grade has been learning about decimal place value using a variety of fall-themed activities to guide them through their centers as well as mastering their long division skills. They are exploring gravity on different planets and how it compares to gravity on Earth. They were surprised to learn that the smaller the planet or moon, the less gravity there is, so we could jump higher! This month we are diving into westward expansion and what this period looked like for different groups in our nation. 5th grade is starting our reading unit about natural disasters and how learning about them can make us safer. I am so excited to see the work they continue doing and what we will accomplish in the next few months!

Cape Run

Congratulations to all of September's cape run students for working so hard on their Istation math and reading tests! Our September cape runners are Macy Owens, Lilliana Velasco, Rylee Gill, Brandon Belieu, Miles Steiner, Sofia Araujo, Kyle Bridges, Freya Williams, and Chuck Steiner.

Congratulations to all of October's cape run students for working so hard on their Istation math and reading tests! Our October cape runners are Bella Sherburn, Rayven Wrightsman, Eli Hipwell, Addie Appodaca, Shawn Ramirez, Zach Boren, Liam Bowman, Rodger Bridges, and Robert Boren.