Earth Week – Day 4

I love listening to a thunderstorm, but I am so happy for our students that the rain and lightening held off this afternoon. In order to once again defeat the N Bandit who tries to keep us inside, we spent an entire afternoon out of the classroom!The class learned the...

Earth Week – Day 3

Today the class was introduced to The Power Phantom! Students came up with ways that we can defeat this villain and the sneaky ways she gets us to use more electricity. We were thankful to use sunlight throughout the day to light up our classroom instead of...

Earth Week – Day 2

Fort Sheridan Forest PreserveThe students braved the windy and chilly weather out by Lake Michigan today! The class explored several trails as they paid special attention to items on a Fort Sheridan Scavenger Hunt page. We were surprised by several animal sightings...

Prevention Discussion on May 4, 2016

Dear Parents,On May 4th, our class  will participate in a Prevention Discussion presented by Caryn Meyer, School Social Worker. The yearly discussion is required by Erin’s Law which has been passed by the State of Illinois.  The purpose of the presentation is to...

Earth Week – Day 1

What a beautiful day to kick off Earth Week 2016!As you might have seen from the shirts and other news, our theme this year is Earth Week Superheroes (this was voted on by the Earth Week Committee – how great that it matches our classroom theme!). PCCS staff and...