Sunday, February 27, 2011

Star of the Week: Greenlee

Greenlee shared that she likes reading and playing golf with her dad.   

Greenlee's dad, Jamie, visited with us about his job in hog processing.  He told us that communication and math skills are most important for his job.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Star of the Week: Emma

Emma shared that she likes to play with friends.  Her favorite foods are steak, cinnamon rolls, and party pizza.  Her favorite movie is Punky Brewster (a blast from my past).

Emma's dad, Brett, shared about his job with Pepsi in Marshalltown.  He had a delivery truck stop by so that we could see that part of the process.  He even got a bottle of juice or water for each of the kids right off the truck.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Author visit: Ry Sloth

Ryan Sloth showed us helmets from some of the teams that he played football for.  They include the Iowa State Cyclones and this helmet from the Iowa Barnstormers.  He is currently a defensive coach for the Iowa Barnstormers.

He taught us a lot about sloths and we got to act like a sloth and pretend to get ready for school very s....l....o.....w...l....y.

Ryan Sloth read the book that he wrote to us and told us about the names of his family that he used as characters in the story.

His Iowa State Cyclone jersey.

He signed books for those students who purchase one.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Valentine's Party





G-R faculty vs G-R middle school champion basketball game

"Go Teachers!  Go Teachers!"

Mrs. Koester got "injured" during the game and Emma had to shoot her free throws.




Happy Half Birthday Ashlyn!

Happy Half Birthday Dalaney!

"We All Fit In" assembly



We learned that fitness is an important part of keeping us healthy. We had trainers from Millennium Therapy teach us some fun ways to stay fit.

Classics by Mercer Mayer at Gallagher Bluedorn


Thank you to PTO for paying for the tickets to the show and for providing for the transportation.

Star of the Week: Sophie

Sophie like dancing and camping.  Her favorite food is chocolate.

Sophie's dad, Brad, shared about his job at John Deere.  They work to make the equipment that farmers want and need.

GO REBELS!

Thank you Coach Olson for the Rebel jerseys!

Star of the Week: Cierra

Cierra likes doing Daily 5 at school.  She likes cookies and her favorite movie is New Moon.

Cierra's mom, Amy, shared about her job with the city of Marshalltown.  She pays the bills for all of the departments.

100th Day of School - Jan. 24, 2011

Thank you PTO for donating the t-shirts.  The students painted 10 dots of 10 different colors.

In the kindergarten classroom, students made scratch art on 100s.

We had so much fun popping 100 balloons in the gym.  We found surprises inside the balloons!