Welcome Back/Update (1/6/16)

Happy 2016, awesome PCCS families! Keep an eye out for midterms, coming home with students this Friday.Here is an update on what we will be working on in the coming weeks:ELA: We are beginning a poetry unit themed around artist Charley Harper. Here is a slideshow with...

Composting: Starring our 1st Graders – Now Showing!

Good morning,I was too excited to wait for the end of the week to share the fantastic video project our students completed. They were featured during our morning Green Assembly today!The students learned more about composting, wrote a script based on the information,...

Mrs. Steinbeck’s Week 18 Review and Photos

The week before winter break is always a fun one. On Monday we watched the 8th grade boys basketball team play a close game against the male staff, Wednesday was early release, Thursday we gathered as a community to sing together, and Friday we watched the Grinch and...

Wrapping up before Winter Break (updated to include links)

In math, we will be solidifying students understanding of fractions as a way to interpret division, and as a way to represent portions of whole numbers. Students should be making connections between how operations with fractions are related to operations with whole...

Important Events this Week

Wow! I cannot believe we are in our last week of school before winter break (the weather seems unsure, too!). Our class is using each day to its fullest, though. Students are working hard on Kid Town, preparing items to sell and special setups for their stores. They...