As part of our Ecosystem unit, students have been getting plenty of exercise understanding the benefits and disadvantages to living in a group or as a solitary animal.
Our first lab was called Food Fight! Students were split into habitats and instructed to gather as much food as possible in a 3 minute time frame. Some students were solitary animals while others worked as a group of 2, 3, or 4. Each food item of different size was worth a different amount of points. The real challenge was that students were only able to touch the food items with their spoon!
Our second lab, titled Tag You’re Sick!, showed students how quickly disease can spread throughout a group of animals. (We are currently experiencing this in our classroom too!! 🙈) students that lived in a group had to lock arms. If one student was tagged, the whole group became sick. Our first game took about 30 seconds for everyone to become infected!
Learning can be fun!
Students in Mrs. Hansen’s 3rd grade class put their Auditory Processing skills to work in a restaurant setting building pizzas!
Each student had the opportunity to be a waiter or waitress who had to know all the menu items by memory. They then had to take the customers order and rely that order to the cook. We discussed ways to make this easier and tricks to help with memorization skills!
Good morning! Please see the school Facebook page to learn more about setting up an e-wallet for the upcoming book fair!
Here is an easy way to create a digital account for your child to shop at the book fair!
Our Gettysburg Elementary Book Fair will be held on Wednesday and Thursday after school. We will be open all day during conferences on Friday, too!
This year no cash or coins will be accepted. Debit, credit cards or checks will be the forms of payment.
Here is the January edition of the middle school newsletter, "The Chatterbox." Check out what has been happening in the middle school. Note: There are two slides to see!!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cXFRCKg-aMg4iz7fBMkQH5nQj-YrNF8f6_kXwANWUlk/edit?usp=sharing
Due to dense fog, Gettysburg School District will start at 10 AM on Monday, February 5
Happy Groundhog Day from the Kindergartners!
The alumni/student band, GO BATTLERS ❤️🤍
Happy 100th day of school!! Fun times in K today!
Happy 100th day of school! First graders had fun doing different activities with the number 100 with some help from middle schoolers.
Look what is happing next week, the BOOK FAIR! The book fair will run after school on February 7th and 8th. The book fair will be open all day on February 9th during Parent Teacher Conferences, too!
Heart-warming things happening in 5th grade. Rowan Brown, Leah Larson, and Kyley Saltsman came up with a fundraiser for Paws Animal Rescue in Pierre. They spoke to all the elementary classes, had a coloring contest, awarded prizes, and ended up raising over $200 to donate to Paws🐾❤️ Way to go girls!
The 8th graders are learning about distance, time, speed, and displacement. On Thursday, they had fun with a speed and displacement sled lab.
What a great day to celebrate a great guy! Happy Birthday, Mr. Smith! #victoryforvern
Due to weather conditions, the Gettysburg School District will start at 10AM Thursday, January 25th. Please take your time and drive safe.
MSBBB Announcment:
1. YTC unable to be rescheduled.
2. Onida game rescheduled for 2-16 in Onida @6pm, 2 games.
3. Game added vs Timber Lake on 2-23 in GB @4 pm, 2 games.
Due to road and weather conditions, the Gettysburg School District will start at 10AM Wednesday, January 24th.
Miss Gettysburg, Izzy Mikkelsen was a mystery reader in K!
We invite the community to help us celebrate Mr. Vern Smith in honor of his Birthday tomorrow, January 24th! Please join us in sporting your Battler gear or Victory for Vern shirts, and post or send him some pictures and well wishes to brighten his day!