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Music with Mrs. Langer
Music with Mrs. Langer
Kindergarteners are learning songs, “Busy Like a Bee” and “ Happy Happy Hummingbird” while practicing moving with body awareness and control. Friday classes have been getting special visits from 4th grade band members, too! It’s been a fun way for our 4th grade Gators to share their hard work and show off their skills.
First Grade began working on our MUSICAL, Go Fish! Students have BLOWN ME AWAY! They are so excited for this musical debut at Gulph.
Second Graders are beginning to learn how to read recorder notes and are practicing holding the recorder and blowing gently (we are using feathers for practice!).
Third Graders are still rocking the recorder. We’ve learned some popular songs like Brother from the movie Mufasa and Thunder from Imagine Dragons.
Fourth Graders are wrapping up recorder and are going to begin ukulele this week. Believe it or not, we are also beginning to rehearse our Moving Up Ceremony songs!
Art with Mrs. Paciotti
Art with Mrs. Paciotti
April was a BUSY month so far in the Art room! We are putting finishing touches on projects for our upcoming art show on May 14th. We have been incorporating literacy into our art lessons by starting with a story, then discussing it before starting a related art lesson. In kindergarten and first grade, we read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and made amazing hungry caterpillars using a variety of materials. We are also learning about mosaics and creating our own. In second grade, we read “Planting a Rainbow” and created rainbow gardens using oil pastels, watercolors, and patterned paper. In third grade, we are finishing up our bird and animal collages. They look amazing! In fourth grade, we read “Change SIngs” by Amanda Gorman and are creating beautiful “I am” projects.
Enrichment with Mrs. Forcine
Enrichment with Mrs. Forcine
Congratulations to our Gulph Reading Olympics 2025 Team for competing at North Penn HS on March 27th.
4th Grade Math Enrichment-our combined Upper Merion 4th grade team finished in 8th place out of 179 teams in the USA and in 1st place in the region for 2024-25.
The Gulph School Store, curated and run by 3rd Grade Excel, returned the week before our Spring Break with new items, same format.
4th Grade Excel created infographics to raise awareness for endangered animals and presented their animals to 1st grade students.
3rd grade Excel completed an integrated research unit, March Mammal Madness, with the grey wolf taking the bracket for 2025!
2nd Grade Excel created animal cryptids on Canva using the SCAMPER technique and their notetaking knowledge of various animals’ adaptations.
1st Grade Excel completed their unit on penguins with their first research report and a penguin fun day to follow.
All grade level Excel classes began a unit on poetry and advanced figurative language throughout April.
ESL
Miss Hendrick’s Classroom:
All of our ESL groups celebrated Holi, Ramadan, and National Learn What Your Name Means Day. We also celebrated Read Across America Week and St. Patrick’s Day by reading Green Eggs and Ham, naming green foods, and then taste testing these foods! We practiced using phrases indicating whether we liked a food or not and why. We also practiced vocabulary describing different tastes.
Kindergarten and First grade have been learning color words and using colors to describe objects.
Second grade has been focusing on reading with fluency and digraphs.
Third grade has been studying states of matter. We have practiced identifying whether something is a solid, liquid, or gas. We have been conducting science experiments involving States of matter, including making Root Beer Floats.
Fourth grade has been studying March Madness!!
Guidance with Mrs. Besz
Guidance with Mrs. Besz
Kindergarten students are learning to be problem solvers! They are learning how to solve kid sized problems on their own.
Grades 1-4 are spending time dreaming about the future. We are discussing how our strengths, interests and hobbies guide us to think about what we may be interested in pursuing as a career. We have enjoyed some career stations that have exposed them to many career options in the future.
Library with Mrs. Jackson
Library with Mrs. Jackson
Second through fourth graders have been learning a lot about birds. Ask your student: why do birds lay eggs in the spring? Why is a nest a “crib” and not a “house”? Each spring we watch a pair of red tail hawks - the mom Big Red and dad Arthur - who have been nesting and raising their young in the same spot since 2012. Students take home a QR code for the live hawk cam at https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/red-tailed-hawks/
ALSO: We’re excited to welcome author Baptiste Paul on May 6: if you would like to purchase an autographed book in advance of the visit, Children’s Book World needs parent orders by APRIL 16. Order here: https://childrensbookworld.net/paul-at-gulph-in-may/
Phys. Ed. with Mr. Edwards
Phys. Ed. with Mr. Edwards
Kindergarten–2nd Grade:
This month in Health & P.E, we’re learning the names of important bones in our body—like our cranium and clavicle—while also playing fun basketball games. March Madness has us dribbling all over!
3rd–4th Grade:
In Health, students are learning to identify major bones in the skeletal system and understand how they help us move. The students then work as two separate teams to solve and build a 5ft skeleton puzzle! In P.E, They’re also practicing basketball skills like dribbling, passing, and shooting through fun, active games that tie everything together!
Reading with Mrs. Hunter & Mrs. Morgan
Reading with Mrs. Hunter & Mrs. Morgan
Thanks to all our Gators who participated in the Spring Break Writing Challenge!
School Updates with Lead Teacher, Mrs. Worth
School Updates with Lead Teacher, Mrs. Worth
Slime ban! Please do not send your child to school with slime. We have had an uptick in some very messy slime incidents, so we’d like to prevent any future incidents from occurring. Thanks for your understanding and help with this!
STEM with Mrs. McDannell
STEM with Mrs. McDannell
Kindergarteners have learned about conditions and loops in coding using the Kodable app. Students have also practiced using their creativity and perseverance during Tinker Time.
First and Second Graders learned how to use the onion skin feature while making Stop Motion movies. Students also coded “Bunny Bot” to gather up “carrots.” Then students created addition math problems based on how many “carrots” they scooped up.
Third Graders spent several weeks creating backgrounds and characters. They then used their backgrounds and characters to make Stop Motion movies. Students enjoyed walking the “red carpet” during their class’s movie premier.
Fourth Graders spent several weeks using the Engineer Design Process to plan, build, and test a carnival game created out of cardboard. Over the next few weeks the fourth graders will run a mini carnival for our first graders!
Strings with Mrs. Moskwa
Strings with Mrs. Moskwa
District Band/Strings Concert is on Tuesday, May 13th
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