Mustangs we have made it to Fall Break!! Be safe, have fun and we will see you on Tuesday, October 21st. 🍁🍂
As October comes to an end, Halloween excitement is in the air! The preschoolers are buzzing with ideas about what to dress up as—superheroes are a big favorite! Their imaginations are incredible, even down to details like painting their characters’ toenails! 🤣
The library is the best place to learn about new books as well as relax and dive deep into their books!
At the beginning of the month, a few teachers from Meadow Brook had the opportunity to attend a Professional Learning Communities (PLC) conference in Salt Lake City.
The conference focused on ways to strengthen collaboration—both among teachers and with students—to support learning for everyone.
Ms. Farnsworth’s biggest takeaway was the power of the word all.
She shared, “The goal is that all students reach proficiency, all teachers support the vision, all staff members take responsibility for student success, and all teammates collaborate, learn, and use student data to achieve growth.”
Mrs. Anderson also reflected on what she learned, saying, “Schools are built for students to learn at high levels. Someone said, ‘Ideas don’t help kids—actions do.’ I’m excited to find ways to put these ideas into action to strengthen my teaching and help students succeed.”
Learning starts with teachers, and this experience gave us a wonderful chance to grow and refine our practice. We’re excited to bring back what we learned and continue collaborating with the amazing Meadow Brook faculty to help every student thrive.
The conference focused on ways to strengthen collaboration—both among teachers and with students—to support learning for everyone.
Ms. Farnsworth’s biggest takeaway was the power of the word all.
She shared, “The goal is that all students reach proficiency, all teachers support the vision, all staff members take responsibility for student success, and all teammates collaborate, learn, and use student data to achieve growth.”
Mrs. Anderson also reflected on what she learned, saying, “Schools are built for students to learn at high levels. Someone said, ‘Ideas don’t help kids—actions do.’ I’m excited to find ways to put these ideas into action to strengthen my teaching and help students succeed.”
Learning starts with teachers, and this experience gave us a wonderful chance to grow and refine our practice. We’re excited to bring back what we learned and continue collaborating with the amazing Meadow Brook faculty to help every student thrive.
We have been learning about ancient Asian civilizations in second grade! While studying ancient China, we learned about Chinese New Year. We made dragons similar to those that parade through the streets during the celebrations in China!
First grade had a fantastic week last week! We kicked things off with Chalk the Block on Monday, filling our sidewalks with creativity. In math, students worked hard on adding and subtracting with missing numbers and had a blast playing math bingo to support their learning. In reading, we explored the story elements of a fairy tale by acting out Tom Thumb. What a week of fun and learning!
We've been having an amazing time learning how to be great kinder kids in Mrs. Neilson's classes this year!
Recess just got even more fun in first grade! Our students are learning classic games like jump rope, four square, and hopscotch. It’s been wonderful watching them laugh, play, and build social skills together. We’re excited to continue these activities throughout the year and see their friendships and playground skills grow even more.
Full day kindergarten has been enjoying institutional play time this year! Each class gets to experience a different theme and rotates to different teachers. In Mrs Peterson’s class we learned about fire safety and got to pretend to be firefighters in our truck, knock down fire while bowling, and save our fire dogs from the fire sensory bin! 🚒 🔥
Did you know that speech therapists do more than just help your students produce all speech sounds correctly?
Another common thing we work on at speech is helping students improve their overall receptive and expressive language skills! One way to do this is by using our EET tool, which helps students understand how to give good descriptions about objects/events, and expand their expressive language. A great way to work on expanding sentences is by playing the game “Hedbandz”, which makes a harder language task feel like a game! Give it a try!
Another common thing we work on at speech is helping students improve their overall receptive and expressive language skills! One way to do this is by using our EET tool, which helps students understand how to give good descriptions about objects/events, and expand their expressive language. A great way to work on expanding sentences is by playing the game “Hedbandz”, which makes a harder language task feel like a game! Give it a try!
Do you know what form of government we have here in the United States? The third graders in Mrs. Dyal’s class do!
❤️🤍💙 A Constitutional Republic!!! ❤️🤍💙
Our social studies lessons have lined up perfectly with Constitution Month. So fun!
We have learned about different types of government,
How we are not a pure democracy and why that’s a big deal,
What the first three words of the Constitution are and why they are important, And how the Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
If you see a third grader, make sure you have them tell you what they know about the Constitution of the United States.
❤️🤍💙 A Constitutional Republic!!! ❤️🤍💙
Our social studies lessons have lined up perfectly with Constitution Month. So fun!
We have learned about different types of government,
How we are not a pure democracy and why that’s a big deal,
What the first three words of the Constitution are and why they are important, And how the Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
If you see a third grader, make sure you have them tell you what they know about the Constitution of the United States.
Welcome to the Wellness Room!🌈 Sometimes we all need a little break and that’s what this space is for! Our Wellness Room helps students calm down, reset, and get ready to learn again. Inside you’ll find cozy chairs, calming activities, fidgets, and tools to help students feel their best. We love seeing our amazing Mustangs take care of themselves and get back on the saddle ready to learn! 🪑🎨🧸
Don’t miss lunch this Thursday; the cafeteria will be serving up fresh corn on the cob, and it’s going to be a-maize-ing! 🌽 Students, come grab a plate and enjoy the golden goodness. #CornyButTrue #FreshFromTheCob
Kindergarten has been learning how to write our names! We have love using different materials to try and make our names like Playdoh, pretzels, and marshmallows!
Fourth graders are discovering through Mystery Science how animals have certain behaviors and instincts to survive. Not only that, they are also learning the skills of contributing to a group through listening, speaking, adding on to others' comments, respectfully disagreeing, and collaborating to complete a task. Way to go fourth graders!
Ms. Fullmer's class was so excited to cheer on their classmate, Yamir, with his keyboarding accomplishment this week. Yamir won 4th place in the fifth grade district-wide keyboarding competition, winning a golden keyboard and a cash prize. Go Mustangs!
✨ Mrs. Robison’s class wrapped up our Classic Tales unit with a celebration day! ✨
We watched Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, inspired by The Wind in the Willows, enjoyed themed snacks, and colored character illustrations from the story. 📚🎨🍿 Our students loved connecting literature to fun activities—and we love watching their excitement for language arts grow!
We watched Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, inspired by The Wind in the Willows, enjoyed themed snacks, and colored character illustrations from the story. 📚🎨🍿 Our students loved connecting literature to fun activities—and we love watching their excitement for language arts grow!
This year in preschool we also have a western theme! We were excited to welcome back our “wanted” students!
We are ready to saddle up and have a great year!
We are ready to saddle up and have a great year!
In 4th grade we are working hard! We just finished our first writing project!! Each student wrote a detailed personal narrative about their favorite, least favorite or most interesting food memory! Yesterday they had the opportunity to share their narrative with the class, they did GREAT!
New school year, new friends, new adventures! 🌟 We’re learning our routines, how to share and play together, and building friendships that will last all year long. 🧸❤️ #PreschoolAdventures #GrowingTogether
