NOE NEWS March 2024
March 1st, 2024
From Your NOE Specialists
NOE Specials Newsletter
Winter Updates from Music, Computers, Enrichment, Gym, and STEAM
Music with Mr. Jarve - All grades are learning the goals and expectations for music class. They are learning new songs and music games at their specific grade level. They are also learning to play musical instruments, including the xylophone, metallophone, and other small auxiliary instruments. The third grade students will be receiving recorders in May and learn to play various songs on them.
All grades will be presenting their “Spring Sing” Concerts on Thursday, May 16 in the Auditorium at Gaylord High School. A concert parent letter has gone home with every student with specific concert information. Below are concert times for each grade:
9:00am Kindergarten
9:30am 1st Grade
10:00am 2nd Grade
10:30am 3rd Grade
If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Jarve at jarvep@gaylord.k12.mi.us or
989-731-2648 x1617
Computers with Mrs. Gerth - All grades are working on Digital Citizenship and are learning how to be safe, responsible, and respectful when online. First, second, and third graders have learned some coding concepts by using Kodable. Keyboarding skills are an ongoing skill for all grades as well.
Kindergarten - sign in and out of computers, learning how to navigate my classroom website, opening and closing tabs.
1st grade - sign in using individual username and password.
2nd & 3rd grade - Google Classroom login/logout continues, Google account security.
Enrichment with Mrs. Deisig - We have been learning so much this year!
We’ve learned about the calendar, Martin Luther King, and how looking at things mindfully can help us learn, stay safe, and appreciate beauty in this world. Each grade has enjoyed their science lessons. Kindergarten and third grade have learned about weather. First grade has learned about the stars, especially the north star. Second grade is learning about how the earth’s surface can change.
Coming up: Soon we will be learning about money and economy through the Junior Achievement program.
Physical Education with Mrs. Payton - All grades have been exposed to jump roping and using hula hoops. They all had a blast using the hula hoops and having a hula hoop party with their classes. Since we had such wonderful weather the students were able to use their class time outside and enjoy the warm weather and the sledding hills. It is amazing how simple fresh air and sleds can bring so much joy to the students. Our next focus will be on bowling, throwing overhand and underhand. We will also be working on food groups and knowing the different types of food we should eat each day, also how much water we should be drinking.
STEAM with Mrs. VanSteenis - Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math
Kindergarten - Weather and climate activities have included: building a rain, wind, and sun shelter. As well as learning the science behind the winter Olympic sport of snowboarding while designing and creating a snowboard.
First - Space system activities have included: creating a constellation viewer, Lego solar system and learning the science behind curling while creating a curling rock.
Second - Processes that shape the Earth activities have included: designing and creating a way to slow or stop erosion. Learning the science behind the winter Olympic sport of bobsledding while designing and creating a bobsled to race.
Third - Weather and Climate activities have included: Designing and creating a blizzard proof shelter, a hurricane proof house, as well as learning about the science behind the Olympic sport of ice hockey and designing and creating a hockey net and sticks.
Save The Date...
March 1 - Dress like a RAINFOREST animal (kick off to our March is Reading Month Rainforest fun)
March 12 - PTO Meeting & Kids Club
March 25-April 1 Spring Break
April 8-12 Book Fair
May 16 Spring Sing
May 30 We will travel to the auditorium to watch Mr. Jarve's Brass Quintet perform for us
Breakfast & Start Time
Please remind your student that BREAKFAST needs to be eaten when he/she comes in. The expectation for students, to keep the line moving and preserve academic time, is that once he/she enters the building a breakfast decision is made. If the decision is yes to breakfast, he/she is expected to go directly to the line. As the year has progressed we are noticing more and more students at school for 10-20 minutes then going in the line, then missing the first part of the classroom instruction. Again, please help by reminding your student that he/she needs to go directly to the breakfast line if the choice is "yes" to school breakfast. We encourage all students to eat to fuel their brain for the day!
School BEGINS at 8:00 am. As the year moves on, we are noticing many students arriving after start time. This is impactful as teachers begin morning meeting and instruction so if your child is arriving after 8:00 am on a regular basis he/she is not getting access to the same start of the day routine as his/her peers.
March is Reading Month - Rainforest Edition 2024
Please help us celebrate literacy at NOE and watch for all of your student materials to come home on FRIDAY, MARCH 1! See the calendar of events below!