Clarke Elementary

📚🎉 Read Across America Week at Clarke Elementary! 🎉📚

March 2–6, Clarke Elementary is celebrating Read Across America Week and we are SO excited! Reading is an adventure, and we can’t wait to celebrate all week long with some FUN dress-up days!

🎶✨ Mark Your Calendars! ✨🎶

Our Kindergarten & First Grade Concert will now take place on Tuesday, April 14!

🐐🤎 3rd Grade had the cutest visitor yesterday — Brownie the baby goat! 🤎🐐

Brownie belongs to 3rd grader Hope, and she came to share her with her fellow 3rd graders! Students learned how to make Brownie's bottle 🍼 and how often she eats each day.

📕 National Read Aloud Day 📕

Big readers and little readers came together! Mrs. Coates’ 4th grade WIN reading class enjoyed sharing great books with Ms. Hueser’s 1st grade class.

3rd grade has wrapped up their unit on space and launched right into a new adventure... organisms! Students in Mrs. Gray’s 3B class will work towards answering the unitphenomenon question:

Why are some organisms less likely to survive in certain environments? 🤔

Using research cards, students are exploring evidence, asking great questions, and building their understanding of how environments impact living things. Curiosity is high and the learning is just getting started! 🔍

Students in Mrs. Pankey’s class are diving into Amplify Science by reading science books to build and strengthen unit vocabulary. Literacy and science truly go hand in hand—students are sharpening their reading, comprehension, and vocabulary skills, then bringing it all to life with hands-on experiments!

When students read it and do it, the learning really sticks! 💡✨

Students in Mrs. Carrall’s 2nd grade classes are getting hands-on with Amplify Science by making their very own glue! They’re carefully measuring different numbers of “spoonfuls,” mixing ingredients, and putting their creations to the sticky test 🥄

Before testing, students recorded their predictions, then compared results to see which mixture was the stickiest of them all! Next up: comparing their results with other groups to see how changing the number of spoonfuls makes a difference.

So much learning, curiosity, and fun—this is what science is all about! 🔬💡

🌾🐄 Ag Club Alert! 🐄🌾

Clarke Elementary Ag Club is meeting again and we can’t wait!

🕒 3:00–4:30 PM
📅 February 10th

We’re excited to see our Ag Club kids grow, learn, and have fun; see you there!

🕊️✨ You’re Invited to a "Night of Peace" ✨🕊️

Join us as our 4th and 5th grade students share songs of kindness, unity, and hope. 🌍🎶 This special concert celebrates peace and the power of music to bring us together.

📅 Thursday, 1/29/26
⏰ 6:30pm
📍 Clarke Auditorium

Come enjoy an evening of beautiful music and meaningful messages, and support our amazing young musicians. We hope to see you there! 🎵

Please join us for Family Night tonight at 5:30pm in the Clarke Elementary cafeteria. Free dinner, resources, ideas to "beat the wintertime blues", and the Blank Park Zoo!

4D launched a lunchtime book club. Students are reading at home and meeting once a week during lunch to discuss their books. It’s been wonderful to see their commitment, responsibility, and excitement for reading!

Today, our kindergarteners took their farm learning to the next level with a virtual farm tour led by Farmer Chad!

They learned all about cattle, how corn is grown, and what life on the farm is really like. The students were especially excited to ask questions and loved getting an inside look at farming—such a fun and engaging experience!

Fourth grade looks good on us! Happy National 4th Grade Day 🎉

Kindergarten students are right in the middle of an exciting farming unit, and yesterday they got a hands-on look at how it all comes together! Jennifer Miller visited to demonstrate the journey from a wheat crop to seeds to milling it into flour—bringing real-world learning to life in the classroom.

And the fun isn’t over yet! Next week, our kindergarteners will take a virtual field trip as they tour a farm and see farming in action. We love seeing their curiosity grow and their excitement bloom!

🎨🏗️ Creativity in action!

Students in Mr. Walljasper’s 4th grade class had a blast in Art today as they dove into 3D building and architecture stations! From designing structures to bringing ideas to life, their imagination and teamwork were on full display. We love seeing learning take shape—literally!

Sweet learning is happening in first grade! 🍪🧱

Students in Ms. Weber and Mrs. Perez’s first grade dual language classes were busy at learning stations before break! From gingerbread men to creating animal habitats students were engaged and having a great time!

Hands-on, creative, and fun—what a great way to learn and grow together!

Students in Ms. Hueser’s first grade and Mrs. Glenn’s classroom teamed up for some festive, cross-grade math fun! Mrs. Glenn’s fourth graders joined our first graders for math rotations that included Santa Sleigh Subtraction and Color-by-Ten Frames.

The older students stepped into leadership roles, the younger students gained confidence, and everyone learned together—all while getting into the holiday spirit! 🎁✨

We love seeing collaboration, teamwork, and learning across grade levels at Clarke!

Cozy vibes in full swing! Today, Ms. Follmann's Kindergarten class hosted Fireside Reading! Families and staff joined in on the fun and enjoyed some great books—all while a warm, cozy fireplace flickered on the projector. Such a wonderful way to share the love of reading!

🌟Second Grade 2A with Mrs. Ramos is reaching for the stars! They’ve been learning all about the solar system in Spanish and got to create their very own solar system drawings. Even better—they presented them to the class in their own words! Way to shine, 2A! 🌟
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🌟¡Segundo grado 2A con la Sra. Ramos está alcanzando las estrellas! Han estado aprendiendo todo sobre el sistema solar en español y ¡pudieron crear sus propios dibujos del sistema solar! ¡Y lo mejor de todo: los presentaron a la clase con sus propias palabras! ¡Qué brillen, 2A! 🌟