Final Reading Olympics Competition!

5th Graders at Commuunity School held their Final Reading Olympic Competition this afternoon at the  EPAC.  Teams of readers have been reading from a list of 20 books the past two months.  Prelimanary competitions took place and teams were narrowed down to two final teams.  The "Pickles" a group of 5th grade girls took on the "Spartans" a group of 5th grade boys.   The competition was back and forth with a TIE at the end  of 10 questions.......the tie breaker was broken using 'quote questions' from the different tiitles.  These questions are more difficult to connect to the pieces of literature.   After the tie breaker round the "Pickles" earned the top score!

Tangram Challenge with Yahara 5th graders!

A group of 5th grader students at Yahara took the "tangram challenge" tooday and are working hard to solve mysterious puzzles with their visual and spatial skills.....can they do it?  We will find out next week!

Learning to "Construct" with iPads

Using the iPad apps., Constructit and Geoboard, a group of third grade students worked hard creating designs and solving brain teasing puzzles.

State Qualifier in the Geography Bee!

This past week we received some very exciting news!   Edgerton Middle School 6th grade student, Michael Stockel, earned a trip to the State National Geographic Geography Bee in Madison, WI on April  4th.   After being crowned the Edgerton Middle School Geography Champion on January 23, Michael completed a 70 question written test that was sent on to the state level.  This past week we were notified that he earned one of the top scores in the state.  Michael will travel to Madison the first week of April and compete against other state qualifiers.  The state winner receives $100.00 and a trip to Washington D.C. to compete at the national level in mid May.  According to Mr. Zartman, Michael's Social Studies teacher, Michael has incredible knowledge of world geography and he would not be surprised if Michael was the first state winner from Edgerton!

"Math Rules" during Yahara TAG Time

Students in grades 3 and 4 took a break from their "Math Rules" activities.  Math Rules allow students to think about Math concepts at a higher level and try to figure out the answers independently or with the help of another student.  We focus on asking questions to better learn the material!

Math 24 Season Comes to an End

Edgerton Math 24 Students "showed their smarts" and brought home some Math 24 trophies!  Students from grades 4th-7th parrticipated over the past 3 weeks in Regional Math 24 Competitions.  The students worked hard to prepare themselves for a morning of mental math computation.  I would like to thank all of the students for their hard work, great sportsmamship, and positive drive they displayed in this fast paced math competition.   Local trophy winners were 4th graders Nadia Kim 1st place, Layne Hazzard 2nd place, and Grant Swenson came in 4th place.  7th grader Alex Apple also came in 3rd place in decimals and fractions which is the most challenging round of Math 24!

6th Grade Math 24

Last Wednesday the 6th Grade Math 24 Team competed at Whitewater Middle School.  Although the students did not place in the top 6, they were challenged and had the opportunity to reinforce their exponent and integer mental math knowledge!