One of our youngest Eagles (along with her mother) made an appearance on KELOLAND Living.
Click the link to find out more:
https://www.keloland.com/keloland-living/recipes/kid-approved-charcuterie-boards-for-parties-of-all-ages/
Our students have been so fortunate to partner with and learn from Dan and Megan from IronFox Farms.
Click the link to learn more about this fantastic urban farming project:
https://www.sfsimplified.com/how-a-couple-turned-a-vacant-lot-into-an-urban-farm/
EFA+ students develop confidence through performing arts opportunities offered to them during their elementary school years.
Click the link below to learn more:
https://youtu.be/7eBCZixLmxs
The students in 201 recently completed a nonfiction writing unit.
They had a writing celebration to reflect and share their learning.
This was part of a Student Centered Coaching cycle.
To celebrate completing their Life Science unit, kindergarteners decorated biodegradable pots and planted bean seeds!
Students loved having the opportunity to use their Art Smart and Nature Smart skills.
They are looking forward to watching their plants grow!
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Today we were treated to a beautiful concert performed by our EFA+ 4th and 5th grade orchestra and 5th grade band.
If you look closely, you’ll notice a member of the orchestra is none other than our Principal, Mr. Mees.
Participation in the fine and performing arts is a lifelong opportunity.
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During the month of March we kept track of our reading for our participation in Everybody Reads.
Each time a book was read a leaf was added to our tree.
EFA+ read 8,886 books!
This contributed to the total community count of 382,755 books.
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One of the Essentials of an A+ school is offering Multiple Learning Pathways. This includes the use of Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory and practice.
Please click the link below to learn more about how this looks at EFA+.
https://youtu.be/IQUC0iy9Vxg
A bird’s eye view of EFA+ 5th graders working on editing and revising their personal narratives using sensory details and adjective triangles.
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Students in second grade have been working on peer editing their writing.
First, they conferred with a partner and gave feedback.
Then they shared their final pieces using a Kagan structure called Inside-Outside Circle.
This activity resulted in high engagement and was part of a Student-Centered Coaching cycle.
Maxed out on NCAA basketball? Switch gears and take in some football to raise funds for Sioux Falls Schools without PTA/PTOs! The Sioux Falls STORM take on the Iowa Barnstormers (that's the team Kurt Warner played for before he became SuperBowl MVP!) at 7:05pm tonight at The Premier Center.
50% of net proceeds from tonight's game go to Night of Hope & Caring!
https://www.ticketmaster.com/sioux-falls-storm-vs-iowa-barnstormers-sioux-falls-south-dakota-03-28-2022/event/06005C3CC1FA7A1E
The EFA+ 3rd graders attended Agriculture Day at The Washington Pavilion.
In Music and Drama, the 1st grade students learned the story of Peter and the Wolf. They used their Music Smart skills to identify the instruments that were used to represent each character.
Then they performed an informance of the story complete with costumes and props.
Now that they are experts on the story, they are creating maps of the setting during Art Integration. Their maps will include key locations and the pathway that each character takes throughout the story.
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Did you know Nature Smart includes sorting and classifying?
In physical education, kindergarten and first graders had a color relay.
They used People Smart skills to work as a team and develop a strategy.
Then they raced relay style to collect the color pieces.
After collecting and sorting, a color was drawn, and the team who had the most of that color was the winner.
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#multipleintelligences
#EFA+
The gym was filled with mariachi music during lunch today.
The group “To Mexico with Love” serenaded our students to celebrate their SOARing choices during 3rd quarter.
As a school community, we work together to:
S-Stay Safe
O-Own Your Actions
A-Achieve A+ Greatness
R-respect self, others, and this place
Today our 5th graders traveled to Whittier Middle School to watch a matinee performance of Moana Junior.
Some of our former EFA+ students were actors in the show.
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Belonging to a family is an important part of life.
Click the link below to hear more about the family experience at EFA+:
https://youtu.be/mAw2dMrpfro
Community Engagement is a strong focus for the Sioux Falls School District. Take this 7-question survey to help us learn more about your interactions with your school and with other families.
https://survey.k12insight.com/survey1.aspx?k=SsXRVPsQQSYsPsPsPsYQRWQRXQQ&lang=0
During Innovation Lab, 3rd graders learned a traditional Native American game called Sticks.
They enjoyed it so much that they played it again during their classroom community time.
Teaching Native games honors culture, and teaches focus, perseverance, being a good sport and more!
Sticks:
The game of Sticks is played with 10 thin sticks about 6” long that are held in a player’s fist with the bottoms of the sticks hidden in the lower fist. One stick is marked on the bottom. The idea of the game is to draw as many sticks as possible before getting the marked one. The winner of the game is the person who can draw the most sticks before getting the marked stick. This game is for developing pure intuition, until the person can identify the marked stick, then the game becomes the skill of observation. (Assiniboine)
The 1st graders were busy using their MI (multiple intelligences) “Smarts” during math.
They used their People Smart skills to work in groups.
They used their Nature Smart skills to sort animals into categories of those that walk, fly, or swim.
They used their Math Smart skills to graph their sorted data.
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#multipleintelligences
#EFA+
