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Students in Mrs. Kluth’s class worked in small groups to learn how to write code using an online program for elementary students.  Coding helps build logical thinking, problem solving, persistence, communication, and team work.

Parent Steve Ogreenc helped students in Mrs. Gustin’s class learn about programming and algorithms by navigating Sphero through a homemade maze that he built specifically for the class to use with Sphero!

Students have been learning about the Engineering Design Process and states of matter.  We mixed together several solids and liquids until we found the perfect mortar mixture to hold up the walls to our houses for the Three Little Pigs, which we also read two versions of in reading and compared. None of the houses failed the test!

The a.m. 4K students helped celebrate Veterans Day by being a part of the program at the middle school on November 10. They did a very beautiful rendition of “This Land is Your Land This Land in My Land” that they learned from Mrs. Haines.

 

Mr. Oetjen’s 3rd grade class is working on a community service project to help the Sheboygan County Humane Society. A volunteer from the Humane Society came to speak to the class and brought some goodies along, too!

Strengthening Families–for parents and youth ages 10-14. This proven program brings parents and their youth ages 10-14 together in highly interactive sessions that improve parenting skills, build life skills in youth, and strengthen family bonds. Over the course of 7 weekly 2-hour classes that begin with a shared meal, parents and youth enjoy individual and shared activities including:

• large and small group discussion
• role playing
• positive communication skill building
• family bonding
• problem solving skill building
• participant bonding

To register or learn more:  http://fyi.uwex.edu/strengthening-families/ 

Love and Logic for Preschool through Early Elementary Parents –This parenting program is designed to give you practical skills for discipline that can be used immediately. In this class you’ll learn how to:* Avoid un-winnable power-struggles and arguments*Stay calm when your child(ren) do incredibly upsetting things*Set enforceable limits*Avoid enabling and begin empowering*And much more! Register today-classes fill early! FRC’s own, parent educator Melissa Udovich, leads this 4-part series.
When: Mondays, January 18th and 25th and February 1st and 8th from 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Where: Generations Building; 1500 Douglas Dr. Plymouth Cost: $20 per family; (includes cost of workbook) payable by January 11th, 2016 Register: 920-892-6706 or online