The Kindergarten and 5th grade students had a guest teacher for dance last week. Maria Travers is the parent of a third grader at EFA+ and a dancer with the LiRa Dance Theatre Company in Sioux Falls. She led them through an introductory ballet class with warm-ups at the barre, stretching, chassé steps, turns, and leaps.
Kindergarten is doing a Z to A Countdown to celebrate a fabulous year of learning.
Today was “You’ve really grown up day” for the letter "Y".
The final EFA+ Spirit Wear store of the year is open!
You can use the link below to purchase EFA+ items now through May 4th:
https://hauffsports.chipply.com/EUGENEAplus/store.aspx
K03 celebrated Earth Day and used their Nature Smart skills by planting sunflowers.
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Congrats to our former student, Joseph Bumann!
Students in 103 wrote their first poems this week. The poems were about recess activities. Their favorite part was getting to share in our authors circle.
403 folded and flew paper airplanes to enhance their knowledge of prepositional phrases. Each landing was described with a prepositional phrase. Their teacher nearly lost an eye!
403 spent time with our friends from Iron Fox Farm. They learned all about soil blocking, prepared and made their own soil blocks and planted cucumbers. Their soil blocks are soaking up some light in our hallway, and the kids will water them daily.
They are excited to plant them into the ground soon!
The stats are troubling-47% of SFSD students qualify for free/reduced lunches. Their family's income is not enough to make ends meet. That makes it difficult to support school fundraisers. Operation Hope & Caring helps! Get your tickets to the SF STORM game to support schools!
This past weekend, Lincoln High School presented their musical, Big Fish.
It was wonderful to see so many of our former EFA+ students working together in this wonderful performance!
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The EFA+ Sweet Arts Dance took place on Friday night. It was a fun evening of singing, dancing, and putting pies in staff member's faces 😂.
Does your child have conflict resolution skills to solve everyday problems? Join us Tues, April 18 at 6pm to hear from SFSD & Avera Behavioral Health in this month's Family Forum Series segment. Watch for the link in your email. It's practical advice to strengthen families.
The EFA+ SweetARTS Dance is tomorrow evening!
6:00pm to 8:00pm at the Edison Gym
Tickets are still available at the door!
Dance Entry: $5.00 per person attending (If you do not have tickets already)
Snacks and More Menu:
Meal Deal: Hotdog, Bag of Chips, Drink- $5.00
Nachos: $3.00
Hotdog with Condiments: $3.00
Pickles: $1.00
Popcorn: $1.00
Soda/Bottled Water: $1.00
Potato Chips: $1.00
Suckers $1
Glowsticks $1
Pie in the Sky Ticket: $5.00 (chance to pie a teacher at the end of the dance)
We hope to see you there!
A couple of weeks ago, the Northern Lights were visible in the Sioux Falls area.
A 5th grade student and his mother, embarked on a late night adventure trying to photograph them.
Then he brought in photos for each student in his class, which inspired a mini lesson on this phenomenon.
Everyone created lovely visual representations inspired by the beautiful Northern Lights.
The School Board has voted to move the last day of student classes to Friday, May 26, 2023 - requiring students to make up two of the five days missed due to weather. Staff will report through Friday, June 2, 2023.
5th graders participated in EGGsperiments to review reading objectives for test preparation.
Today we had a special visit from the USF and WHS Women's Basketball Teams.
Our students asked questions and competed in fun contests with them.
The Sweet Arts Dance is coming up on Friday, April 14th!
We hope to see you there!
Please click the link below for more information:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-zV7FT-Tb1aQ7vE-824Gkg963jWwWT_d/view?usp=sharing
We love to see our EFA+ Alumni doing amazing things!
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The 5th graders are hard at work writing their personal narratives.
