Welcome to SPRING and Sunny Skies Everyone!!!!!!! April has arrived and with it comes our FINAL Three Months of the School Year. Below you will find the Calendar of Events for April @ Valley Elementary.
- April 10th, 2015
- 4th Grade Dance (6pm-8pm) in the Gym
- End of the 3rd Ten Week Grading Period
- April 15th, 2015: Spring Pictures (Both Class and Individual)
- April 17th & 18th: PTA Officers & Mr. Graham will be attending the 2015 PTA Conference in Parkersburg WV.
- April 20th, 2015: Circus/ Carnival Meeting @ 6:30pm in the library at Valley Elementary. If you would like to help out with the end of the year celebration please join us for the meeting!!!!
- April 21st, 2015: PTA Meeting @ 6:30pm in the library at Valley Elementary.
- April 23rd, 2015: Art Show @ Valley Elementary (3pm-6pm)
- Parent Volunteer Coordinator Shirley Rogers is organizing BAKED GOODS Donations for the Art Show. If you would like to help out....Please Contact Shirley @304-698-3127.
- April 25th, 2015: Calendar Party Fundraiser @ the Cornerstone Church Invitation Only Event.
- April 28th, 2015: Kindergarten Field Trip to WVU Farms
- May 7th, 2015: Set-Up for teachers Luncheon. Contact Kim Wimer (304-680-1969)
- May 8th, 2015: Teachers Luncheon
Our Students and Teachers need YOUR HELP! Below you will find 2 Projects that are currently on our Donors Choose site. Take a look at these projects and read about our deserving children. Share the project with the community and help our children expand their academic achievement with these materials.
Inquiry Minds: Learning by Experiencing
Mrs. Strahin's trips & visitors project at Valley Elementary School in Arthurdale, WV | High Poverty
My Students: A typical day in my classroom involves hands-on learning, reading chapter book novels, Inquiry through research, science and math labs, writing, and positive reinforcement of my students learning.
My students are mostly from rural areas and come from low income families. Our school receives free breakfast and
lunch for all students this school year. Most of my students are eager to learn and seem to
enjoy coming to school. They enjoy being told what a great job that they do and how
awesome they are.
My Project: My students would like to visit the State Capitol museum in Charleston, WV.
They will take snap shots of various artifacts in the museum and use the pictures when
writing their research paper and answering questions about the State Capitol.
My project will make a difference in helping the students to bring history alive. They will be
able to visit the museum and actually see and hear in person what the State Capitol is really
like. The class trip will change my students lives from not only reading about our capitol and
how the government works, but they'll be able to see and experience touring the capitol for
themselves. My students will also get to experience sitting down and eating a meal in a
restaurant.
My students need transportation to tour the state capitol, and money for lunch.
Room on the Rug for All
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My Students: Our classroom is one full of learning, energy and love. This is my first year as a kindergarten teacher, I have been in awe with how much my students have grown in such a short amount of time!
I have the pleasure of teaching 20 five and six year olds every day! My student's
live in the beautiful mountains of rural West Virginia. We have a population of 60% + free
and reduced breakfast/lunch at our school. My students and I have really been on an
amazing journey together this year. Starting out as nervous, wide-eyed, children
transforming into confident readers, authors, illustrators, mathematicians and
so much more! Some of my students have difficult home situations, it is my hope
that I can be a person of positiveinfluence, one they can look up to and count on for support.
The biggest challenge I face is one of funding (who's isn't though!) I want to be able to
provide my students with the best education possible. At times with the cost of
educational supplies this can be very difficult. I want to be the teacher that helps them
to fall in love with education the way many past teachers did for me.
My Project: My student's would benefit from these materials tremendously! We have a very
small carpet to gather for calendar and morning meeting. Often this result in some children
sitting on the cold tile with no space to fit on the rug. A larger rug would accommodate
everyone with comfort! An easel in the room would help in so many ways. Often times we
read using "big books" it is difficult to keep the book open while reading and still making sure
my students are paying attention and engaged. With a book easel, I would be able to
secure it to the board while being free to use my hands and eyes to keep my attention
on my kids. My student's and I could also use an art drying rack. We have minimal space
in the room and finding areas to dry 20+ art projects while still finding room to teach can
be a task. With an art drying rack we will be able to neatly dry projects. In addition my
students will use the sentence builders in writing workshop, and puzzles/ ABC pops
for letter and number practice.I tell my students all the time that they are important,
smart, special and can do anything they set their minds to. They need to hear this from
me because for some it may be the only time they hear it. These supplies will enable
my student's to receive the education they deserve!
I know the materials will make my students happy, but for me, it is more about being able
to show them that I and others care and want them to succeed!
My students need a carpet for morning meeting, an easel for read aloud/general instruction,
an art drying rack, number puzzle, silly sentences and alphabet pops!
As our school year slowly dwindles down, there is the ever watchful eye on
the construction happenings at our school. Following a Construction meeting
April 1st, 2015 we are excited to announce things will be moving forward by the
END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR!!!!
At the meeting the Bid was awarded to the General Contractor that build
Central Preston's new school. They will begin moving in and preparing the site
as soon as the paperwork and the contracts are signed. No Major Work will
begin until the END OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR as the first part of the construction
is some REMODELING that will occur in our Existing School. We are excited
about the changes that are coming, and hope parents, teachers, and all VES
staff can work together to make the potential challenges, and obstacles that
may occur as easy on all us as easy as possible.
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