At the Hawaiian Day celebration at SES students did a beach ball relay where they had to carry a ball around cones and the goal posts with a partner using no hands. Next they played a game of bags. Then came pass the water where students had to dump water from their glass over their head into another student's cup behind them. Then came "Flamingo Ring Toss."
A great time was had at the Hawaiian Day Good Behavior Celebration at SES today. Here you see students doing the limbo, crossing "hot lava," finding marbles in the sand with their toes, and playing musical towels.
Teachers showed their school spirit while marching in the Homecoming parade!
First grade has spirit! How about you ?!
https://youtu.be/PppzyTJVs78
When it's Homecoming week and your Principal is Thor, you know it's going to be a great day! #SESRocks
Here are the dress up days for the elementary school next week (Homecoming). *please note, these are different from the high school!
Parents of Sullivan Elementary Students, we want to again cordially invite you to attend the family assembly featuring Daniel Lusk. It will be at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, September 19 in the high school gym. THE SHOW IS FOR SULLIVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES ONLY. We look forward to seeing you there!
4th Grade students are using QR codes to check math problems.
On September 19th, well-known speaker and magician Daniel Lusk (Sullivan High School graduate) will be doing assemblies at the elementary school during the day, then will have a whole family assembly (free) that evening at 6 pm in the high school gym. Through his interactive program entitled "Leggo My Magic Show!" he teaches kids about building a better world in their classrooms, school, and home. It is a fun and magical character-building show that is highly entertaining. Find more information on his website: https://www.antibully.org/about
Grandparents Night is this Thursday from 6 to 7 pm at Sullivan Elementary School. This open house is always a wonderful event!
Don't forget that this Thursday there will be a book fair at Sullivan Elementary School from 3 pm to 7 pm. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a school library that was damaged by Hurricane Harvey. We hope to see you here!
Like our SES PTO page today!
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Fourth grader, Liam Donovan, wants to increase his chances of winning the marshmallow guessing game so he checked out this book. He's excited about the book fair, are you??
Mrs. Grohler's class just completed a thematic unit about pigs. They read many books about pigs, and used the information they learned in their writings. Overall, If You Give a Pig a Pancake was the students' favorite. The unit concluded with following a recipe to make pancakes for themselves.
This picture is two-thirds of an amazing team of people who help make sure children are getting safely in their parents' cars after school. Not only do Mrs. Martin, Ms. Jancauskas, Mrs. Donovan, and Mrs. Bragg get the students to the cars safely (with the help of Mrs. Austin and Mrs. Graham who are not pictured), they also use this time as an opportunity to talk with the students and ask them about their day. They help make students leave school knowing they are genuinely cared for. Great job ladies!!!
Looking for a challenging and rewarding job working with children? Come work in a friendly, fun, and positive environment. Sullivan Elementary School is looking for an RtI Aide. This position entails working with students in both small group and one-on-one settings. If you love children, want to help make a positive change, and are a hard worker, this is the job for you. To apply, please mail or email a letter of application, resume, and 3 letters of recommendation by September 12th to Mr. Daniel Allen (allend@sullivan.k12.il.us), 910 N. Graham St., Sullivan, IL 61951.
Students in Mrs. Haegen's 2nd grade class have been studying folktales during the first three weeks of school. Today they got to use their hands to create a wagon for Paul Bunyan to carry his heavy knapsack and a conveyor belt that can haul rocks out of John Henry's way!
Students in Ms. Heddins 5th grade class have been studying Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset. Students have developed skits in their groups to demonstrate what it means to have a growth mindset and to not give up when challenges get hard! They used different parts of the playground to come up with challenges and used their iPads to record the skits!
Mr. Campbell's class went down to Mrs. Becker's class to partner read. Her students choose books to read to his students and his students brought down their fluency paper they've been working on to read to Mrs. Becker's friends. We plan to continue this at least once a week.
Today Mrs. Watkins' class jumped into hands-on math centers. They were having so much fun playing; they forgot they were working! Centers included: addition and subtraction dice, Ice Cream Addition Game, creating their own addition and subtraction fact puzzles, and addition/subtraction games on the learning palette.
