Sunday, February 26, 2017

Southeast Native American Exhibit by Ashlyn

 We have finished our Native American artifacts about the southeast region. We all have looked at are classmates artifacts and wrote some notes about the artifacts and gave feedback to our classmates. The shelter group made 3 shelters. the tools group made 7 tools and the clothing group made 6 pieces of clothing. The food group told about the green corn festival and what they hunted and about the environment.

Southeast Native American shelters: Roundhouse, Wattle & Daub, and Chickee (from left to right)

Southeast Native American tools: axe, spear, and club

Southeast Native American tools: Bow & arrow and blow gun/darts

Flat Bottom canoe

Green Corn Festival

Southeast Native American environment

Shawl and deerskin leggings


Saturday, February 25, 2017

Just Move It Challenge Information

The Just Move it! Challenge 5k and 1 Mile run/walk fundraiser will be held on April 22nd at South Middle School.  This is a great family and community event that raises money for ABC25 grants.  Please consider participating as a runner/walker or a volunteer and help Dryden bring home the participation trophy this year!!

Early registration for the JMI Challenge is now open to all walkers and runners!  Please go to registration.  In order to guarantee that you receive a t-shirt for the race, you must register before April 7, 2017.
If anyone would like to volunteer to help make this year's race a huge success, please sign up here.

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Valentine Party 2017

Thanks Mrs. Wilt, Mrs. Picicco, Mrs. Erickson, and Mrs. Ferguson for organizing and volunteering at  our Valentine Party!  The kids had a blast!!
























Valentine Design Challenge

Can you design a container that can hold 20 valentines? The Innovative Beastly Adventure Squad can.  They brought their usual creativity, problem solving, and helpfulness to this task.  Check out these pictures of our building experience and the finished products.  "It's a lot easier to design than build," said Xander after we began our challenge.  This activity brought lessons in flexible thinking, problem solving, and the power of feedback.  All kids were proud of their finished products, and they all accomplished their final goal!