Central Elementary Portage, IN

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Due to the weather field day has been postponed. The make-up date is Wednesday May, 16th.

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Reminder: Picnic is May 18th. Attendees wanting to purchase a meal need to turn the money in by May 4th. 4.00 per person. Background checks required to attend. PSO is in need of volunteers to assist at picnic. Forms being sent home today.

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Great job Central Choir

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5th grade students visited Sunset Hill Park. The students were able to observe animal habitats and how they changed throughout the winter season. Everyone had a blast exploring the wilderness around them and comparing the environment to the fall months of their prior visit.

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STEM Club is an after school program available to 4th and 5th graders. Students are encouraged to work collaboratively in order to reach a specific goal. These students are working together to build a tower out of newspaper that can hold a basketball for at least twenty seconds.

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Last week third grade students participated in Dr. Seuss themed activities to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday. These activities included a stem challenge, making Ooblick, and trivia just to name a few. The students really enjoyed themselves.

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Mrs. Winkoff's class participated in a STEM challenge. Their challenge was to create the tallest free standing structure they could. Obstacles were thrown there way through the challenge, such as only being able to use one arm each for a period of time and not speaking to others.

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On February 22nd our students competed in Math Bowl; they came in 1st in their division and placed 12th in the state in the orange division beating out 51 other Indiana schools. Way go to math bowl participants!

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Ms. Robyn Markos from SmileBrite KiDS visited the first grade classes to teach students about dental health. Students learned about the importance of keeping their teeth healthy, and how to properly brush and floss.

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Mrs. Anderson has started the ACES program in Mrs. Jones' class. ACES focuses on feelings and how we can better react to those feelings. Our first lesson we learned all about how people (dogs like Darling) show us how they feel using body language We are excited to learn and grow

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anti-bullying poster recognition Mr. Hamacher, Kindergarten student Tyler Fiegel, Mayor Snyder