Kenton Elementary School
February Leadership Award
February Leadership Award 2025
Character Trait - Fairness: Fairness is to treat people in a way that is right.
Habit - Synergize ~ Together is Better.
Bryer Hollingsworth, Charles Wilcox, Aurora Highley, Aubreigh Walter, Christian Lawrence, Alayna Battles, Carter McPheron,
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KES 3rd Grade Visits Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum
KES Third graders had a great day in Wapakoneta at the Neil Armstrong Museum today! We watched a movie, took a tour and listened to a special speaker. On the tour they saw Neil Armstrong’s space suit, a moon rock,
… Read the rest Fun with ramps and cars with special guests!
Engineering students from Ohio Northern University joined us today for a fun lab exploring kinetic energy! We read a story about the three little pigs making sleds out of straw, twigs and bricks. Then the university students worked with small
… Read the rest Writing in Kindergarten
There are many people who believe that kindergarteners are not developmentally ready yet to write complete sentences, let alone a full paragraph. However, Sarah Fackler has shown that with steady support and modeling of how to do just that, her … Read the rest
STEM Sticker Design Challenge
We received an email this week that announced the finalists for the OSLN Sticker Design Challenge. Mrs. Dilley and I have submitted entries for several years and have never had a finalist selected. This year we are excited to announce… Read the rest
Viking Quest
This week, our classes have had a blast going on our Viking Quest where we pretend to be Vikings traveling the seas! Every day, we “row” our longship to a new island and meet famous Vikings from history: Lief Erickson,
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Mrs. Gammon's class participated in a virtual tour today of a dairy farm in New York. The farm took the students to see all the calves and how they fed them. Then they took the class virtually to the milking… Read the rest
The Mitten by Jan Brett
Today we read the book The Mitten by Jan Brett. Then we acted out the story two times, each student getting to be one of the characters. They LOVED this! After we acted it out, we colored pictures of the
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Amanda Raines, Hardin County 4-H Educator, helped 4th graders better understand Habit 7 Synergize by a reverse game of the classic Rock, Paper, Scissors. Students were challenged to match their opponent and join other groups until the entire class was… Read the rest
Explorers and Traders Play
Students in Mrs. Woodward's 4th Grade class last week performed an Explorers and Traders play. "The students performed twice through so that they could play different parts," said Woodward. "We even had some kids who tried out a British or… Read the rest