May 2016

PTA Carnival a HUGE Success

Submitted by kali.brown on

Our PTA School Carnival was a HUGE success!!  A giant "thank you" to Kelly Burtenshaw and Emily Gunderson, as well as ALL of the countless PTA Board members, volunteers, teachers, last-minute helpers and ... YOU!  Thank you for coming out and spending the evening with us ... Your support for our school is greatly appreciated!

Step into Summer Robotics EXTRA

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We are so excited to offer a final Step into Summer Robotics EXTRA this year at Spanish Oaks!  Mrs. Aagard will be teaching this class for students in 3rd and 4th grade(s).  The class will focus on different robotics topics, i.e., programming, constructing, designing, etc. 

The dates and times are as follows:

Chalk Math in Second Grade

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We had a lesson on the difference between problems like 3x4 and 4x3 since we have been working on our multiplication unit and they got bored of arrays :) They picked a problem, drew both arrays, switched the numbers and wrote a story problem that represented one of the mult problems. The students had a ball!

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Jessica Young

6th Grade Orchestra Closing Concert

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"Your kids were FANTASTIC!  I thought that they did a marvelous job.  Even Principal Brown commented that this is the best performance by this group that she's heard yet.  That's quite a compliment, as we've had several strong groups already.  I hope that you fully enjoyed their efforts on Monday evening.  Thank you for turning out to watch them demonstrate what they've been learning all year," said Mr. Russell Hansen.  "Each student has contributed to many different facets of the course.