Kate Stall from Augustana visited Terry Redlin this week to talk about butterflies for Read for the Record.
Mrs. Sylvester's class read "The Busy Little Squirrel" this week and finished the week being busy with their 4th grade buddies making squirrels with fall leaves.
Members of the American Legion stopped by Terry Redlin Elementary today to provide 4th graders with a lesson on the American flag. They learned about the history of our flag, how to take care of it, and how to properly fold the flag. 4th graders raise the American flag each morning in front of our school. Thank you to the Sioux Falls American Legion for their service and sharing their knowledge with our students!
Mrs. Beier's 1st grade class has reached their first milestone this year - everyone has passed level 1 in Lexia! We love getting to celebrate student growth! Way to go first graders!
October is National Principal's Month! Terry Redlin Elementary is lucky to have an amazing principal! Thank you, Mrs. Dobberpuhl, for always loving our students, staff, and families. You are the best!
Ms. Ounnarath's Kindergarten class took a mini break from plants and became chef scientists and created their own ice cream! They learned that you needed milk, sugar, and vanilla extract to make the "cream" in ice cream and needed ice and salt to make the "ice" in ice cream! Students were able to choose between chocolate and strawberry flavor after creating their experiment!
The downtown library is hosting a Kidz-N-Coats giveaway on Friday, October 18th. Kids must be present to receive a coat and they will have sizes infant-18 years.
Mrs. Sylvester's 1st grade scientists have been exploring different defenses animals have against predators. They created models of animals with spikes and used the predator (the comb) to test their models.
Parent-teacher conferences continue tonight at Terry Redlin! If you missed the chance on Tuesday to visit with your child's teacher, call the school and see what times are available for tonight! This is a great opportunity to hear about your child's progress and be able to have time to talk with their teacher! The book fair will also be open tonight! conferences run from 3:00-7:00pm. In addition, the food pantry will also be open. Bring your blue card, or get one from the office, and use door B.
Students are working at earning 8,000 SOAR slips this month to participate in a Character Crawl. Students earn SOAR slips by showing self-control, taking ownership, having a positive attitude, and being respectful. We keep track of SOAR slips and, throughout the month, our thermometer becomes filled in with characters. The best part - we have a 2nd grader who free draws the characters! He is an incredible artist!!
We have reached 4,000 slips so far! Once we reach 8,000 SOAR slips, students and staff will be able to dress in their favorite character costume and we will have a character crawl (parade) to celebrate their success!
Happy Boss's Day to these two incredible leaders! Thanks for all you do, Mrs. Dobberpuhl (Principal) and Mr. Wagner (Assistant Principal).
In case you didn't make it last time to Mrs. Saavedra's "mini salon" in 4th grade for touch ups last picture day, or you need a "redo", here's your chance! Picture retake day is Wednesday, October 23rd.
The Scholastic Book Fair will be open this afternoon in the lunchroom from 12:00-7:00pm and on Thursday from 3:30-7:00pm. If you want to order books online or cannot attend, check out the link in the comments!
Did you see the new soccer net we received this week? The students love it! Our students enjoy playing outside. We are looking for more playground balls for our students! They enjoy playing soccer, basketball, football, and kickball. If you would like to donate a playground ball (any kind or size), our students would be so thankful! You can drop off in the school office.
Thank you to all of the families who walked with us this morning at the Native American Parade downtown! We had a great float, lots of candy, and Terry the Eagle with us today!
The Terry Redlin Elementary OSO club will be participating in the 7th Annual Native American Parade on Monday, October 14th. The parade starts at 11am and travels down Phillips Avenue starting at 13th street. Families who are going to walk in the parade will meet starting at 10am in the Sunshine Foods parking lot. Students are encouraged to wear their Terry Redlin t-shirts or regalia. We hope you will join us walking in the parade or see you as a spectator on Monday!
Terry Redlin Elementary celebrated attendance on Friday afternoon! We have over 100 students who still have perfect attendance this year! That is amazing! Students with perfect attendance were randomly drawn and then were able to select a staff member to race against!! The teachers had to race wearing a fun inflatable! We will compile more pictures and share them this week!
Our playground added a couple new features this week including two new picnic tables and a huge soccer net! This project was made possible by a grant awarded to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sioux Falls through the State Farm Youth Action Grant Program. The youth group members from Good News Church assembled the picnic tables and a soccer goal before delivering them to Terry Redlin Elementary. Bill Thompson from State Farm was on hand to help set up our new tables and soccer goal. Thank you to Habitat for Humanity, State Farm and Good News Church!
The Terry Redlin Elementary Food Pantry will NOT be open on Tuesday, October 15th. It WILL BE OPEN on Thursday, October 17th. The pantry will be open from 4-5pm.
No School on Monday and Tuesday, October 14-15. Parent-Teacher conferences are Tuesday, October 15 and Thursday, October 17.
Terry Redlin is starting a "need it station" for students in the nurse's office. Nurse Allison and School Counselor Mrs. Tagtow are collecting items like hair ties, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, Chapstick, and Kleenex . All items will be mini/travel size. If you're ever at a store and would like to pick up a travel size item to help stock the cart, we would greatly appreciate it! You can drop off any donations in the school office. We are also looking for a fun cart to store all of our items!
