Online Safety Workshop
The Future's So Bright! Learning in kindergarten cannot be fully understood unless it is experienced first-hand. It is intentional, integrated, meaningful, student-centered, powerful discoveries in action. This is exactly what children experience each day in our classroom.
This is what genuine learning should look like for all students. Children must have every opportunity to pursue their interests and questions. They should feel safe enough to take risks and make mistakes because they lead to deeper understanding. Children must have time and space to explore, wonder, experiment, engage, converse, grow, and play each day. They must believe learning is FUN and even feel confident believing they are acquiring important skills needed to be leaders...both now and for the rest of their lives as active citizens.
Ask these young students what school is like for them each day. They will likely talk about what they get to DO and the fun they experience at any moment in the day. They will tell you about good books we read together, games we play, new materials we get to investigate, big words we discover and put into context, songs we sing, creations we design and improve, experiments we conduct in our kitchen, stories we compose, and celebrations we enjoy together. They may even tell you they will ALWAYS stay in kindergarten and never leave...and then explain how they made their point absolutely clear by giving the teacher a great big bear hug.
Our Floodwood kindergarteners get to experience this level of learning every single day and are developing the characteristics of leaders right at this moment. They are curious, compassionate, confident, insightful community members and it's my hope their successes will only magnify as they prepare for the future.
Their future's SO bright! Our Floodwood kindergarten students are amazing individuals and are experiencing nothing short of the highest form of learning. We welcome you to come experience genuine learning with us and help support what we get to do in our classroom every single day.
Floodwood School District invites all to the 2nd Community Informational Meeting on Tuesday, March 19th at 6PM in media center regarding the April 9th, Special Election - Operating Referendum. For more information, go to:
https://www.isd698.org/o/floodwood-school/browse/38898
Come check out our ECFE spring classes. See the brochure for details!
K2 STEM Showcase is a Work in Progress: Check out the expanding display of Kindergarten and 2nd grade STEM projects in the elementary hallway across from the 2nd grade classroom. Students are proud of their perseverance and are excited to showcase their learning.
Bus Driver Appreciation Breakfast by 4.O Bus Services of Floodwood ~ Thank you for all you do!
Great job to these 8th grades nominated and selected for the 51st annual UMD Honor Band! There were over 300 students from around the state of MN whom participated in this fun day! Thank you for a great performance and for representing Floodwood so well!
Thank you, Floodwood School Board, for your dedication to the students of Floodwood! You are appreciated!
Driving Refresher Class to be held in April - please see the flyer for details
Basketball update: Tuesday's boys home game vs Cherry, JH starts at 5:15, Parents' Night between JV & V. Wednesday Girls Section 7A tourney at 7PM (Home) vs BFLF. Go Polar Bears!
There will be a two hour late start on Monday, February 25th. Preschool will be cancelled.
Peers as Problem Solvers: Kindergarten students strengthened their skills as problem solvers within authentic contexts throughout the week. Whether it's figuring out how to transport water for our playdough recipe without spilling, finding room in the refrigerator for a tray of cookie dough, knowing how much money to spend at our classroom grocery store without going into debt, or building a magnetic tower that will withstand the weight of toy animals, kindergarten students are developing the mindset to see problems as opportunities to learn every day!
K2 STEM Snapshots of the Week
Perseverance: Building on Challenges to Experience Genuine Learning
Last week's K2 STEM lab session focused on the essential trait of perseverance. We walked through the picture book, What Do You Do With a Problem? by Kobi Yamada and discussed ways that problems serve as opportunities to learn. After our brief introduction and review of the inquiry process, kindergarten and second grade students explored multiple STEM challenges displayed throughout the room. These challenges were intentionally designed to cause students to collaborate, problem solve, analyze, and improve their structures within the constraints of time and materials.
The results were remarkable! Students were deeply engaged in these processes and persevered despite setbacks. This character trait of perseverance will help these young learners continue to excel now and throughout their lives as thinkers, creators, and leaders.
Ice and Floodwood Lion faced off at the home basketball game tonight!
Congratulations to Floodwood's own Jeffrey Palmer on joining the 1000 point club. Jeff surpassed the mark on 1/28/19 during a road game against East Central and has continued to put up impressive point totals in every game since. The picture depicts Jeff and his family celebrating the achievement. Come cheer on Jeff and his teammates on Parent's Night 2/26/19 versus Cherry!
We LOVE Science! Kindergarten students are having fun conducting their own science experiments at home this week with their Valentine Science Kits. Students have been reading through the directions, making hypotheses, conducting the experiments, and analyzing the results. These projects utilize everyday objects and are serving as an effective "warm up" to our extended inquiry activities planned for next week! Here is one student's experiment with red hot candies and three different temperatures of water. Which one do you think won? What does this tell us? This is big learning for our tiny team of thinkers!
Congratulations to Kennedi Johnson and her Polar Bear teammates on Kennedi reaching 1000 points in her basketball career at Floodwood! Quite an accomplishment for Kennedi and her teammates! Good luck to the Polar Bear girls during their last two regular season games and the 2019 playoffs!
Exciting news from the Floodwood Library Media Center (LMC). The library has 61 titles added to its eBook collection. This was made possible through a Capstone matching grant & Mid-America Book company's give-away program. Patrons also have access to 10 ABDO web-based titles.
Lip Sync class contest
