Our final 2024-2025 Summer School day at Skyline Elementary ended with splashes, smiles, and exhaustion by all! Thank you all for enrolling your kids to learn, experiment, and build friendships. Enjoy your summer with your families, stay safe, and we will see you all again at our Open House set for August 14th!
How many rubber bands does it take to force a watermelon to break under pressure? Skyline summer school students did an experiment today using force to find the answer. 533 rubber bands!
Our last day of summer school will be on Thursday, May 29. We will be going to the Grand Country Waterpark in Branson. Our bus will leave the school shortly after 8 am, and arrive at the waterpark shortly before 10 am. We plan to leave around 1:45 pm. Students can bring money for a drink if they would like. Please send your child with a swimsuit, towel, change of clothes, and appropriate footwear. Also please send a life jacket or floatie if your child has one.
A Skyline Summer School day at the West Plains Movie Theatre watching the new movie release of "Lilo and Stitch" then to the public park for Splash Pad and Park fun!
REMINDER: Our field trip to the movie theater is tomorrow, May 23. Each student will get a free popcorn and drink. If they want other snacks, they will need to bring money. We will be eating lunch at the park/splash pad in West Plains. Please send your child with a towel and an extra change of clothes.
Mrs. Karen having fun with the summer school kids!
Middle school made homemade ice cream today!
Bubble fun!
Middle school made lava lamps today!
We also had special readers during snack. Bailey Pete read to us while we ate snack. We used this to practice good audience manners for the movie field trip on Friday.
Our junior paleontologists dug for fossils! Using chocolate chip cookies as our example we used toothpicks for tools to extract our chocolate chip fossils.
Skyline summer school students will be going to the movie theater in West Plains this Friday, May 23. Each student will receive a free popcorn and drink. They will need to bring their own money if they would like to buy extra concessions. The movie begins at 10 am. After the movie, we will be eating lunch at the park/splash pad area in West Plains around noon. If your child would like to play in the splash pad, please send them with a towel and extra clothes.
A permission slip will go home with students today regarding our field trip on the last day of summer school, May 29. We will be going to the Grand Country Water Park in Branson. Please fill out and return this permission slip as soon as possible. Good attendance is required in order to attend. This will be a great trip, we want all of our summer school students to be able to participate!
More pictures from yesterday's field trip.
Our summer school students had a great time at the pool in Ozark yesterday.
We are having a fun with food building project tomorrow (May 16) at summer school and we are needing some extra supplies! If you have any of these items and would like to donate them to our project we would greatly appreciate it! You can send them to school tomorrow with your child. If you do not have a child attending summer school but would still like to donate items, please bring by the school before noon on Friday the 16th. This is a list of dry items we are needing:
Uncooked pasta
Oatmeal
Marshmallow
Coconut
Dry Beans
Cereal
Crackers
Pretzels
Rice
Tortilla shells
Bread
Chocolate chips
Cookies
Anything else that would be fun to build with! Check back in tomorrow afternoon to see what the students have created!
All hands on deck today! 3rd-8th grade worked the soil for our outdoor classrooms. Speaking of all hands on deck, Mr. Luna assisted Mrs. Rhonda in the kitchen today.
REMINDER: Field trip to the Ozark pool is on Wednesday, May 14. Please send your child with a swimsuit, towel, change of clothes, and footwear suitable for the pool. Concessions will be available if you would like to send money with your child. The permission slip and waiver must be turned in for your child to attend. We plan to arrive in Ozark at 11:00-11:15 and eat lunch in the park, then go to the pool around 11:45.
Our 3rd-5th grade summer school classes enjoyed getting cooled off by the truck from the Skyline Area Volunteer Fire Department on Friday.
Summer school is having an
EGGcellent time!! Today the lower and upper grades designed egg holders to be dropped off the fire truck! The kids loved it! Congratulations to the winning team, Myson, Jax and Tucker! Everyone enjoyed getting cooled off by the firetruck!
