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Our second week of Mr. Popper's Penguins activities was very educational. Cara Nicholl was our guest speaker. Cara traveled to the Antarctic this past year and has created a great PowerPoint with many fantastic photos that she had taken. Her presentation was very informative and enjoyable. The students asked great questions which taught them a lot about penguins and Antarctica.

After the presentation, the students broke into two groups. One group created a Ven Diagram comparing the Antarctic and the Arctic using the information they learned this week and during the presentation. The second group created a food web that displayed the natural food chain in the Antarctic. Our One School, One Community, One Book is proving to be a great success!

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Friday, March 7, 2025 was our first activity assembly for our One School One book program. The students made a few penguin crafts to jump-start the theme of penguins. They made mini habitats, a penguin stuffy, and started a third craft with clay that will be finished up at the next Friday activity. It was such a great afternoon spent with parents and community members. The students are very excited to continue reading this wonderful book.

Monday morning we revealed "Mr. Popper's Penguins" as the book we will be reading for the next seven weeks. All families were given a copy of the book along with a reading schedule to follow. Each Friday afternoon we will host whole group activities such as crafts, science experiments, songs, and games. The Temple community has also been invited to read this book along with us and are invited to join us at TES for the Friday afternoon activities. The Mansfield library has joined us for this adventure and has multiple copies of the book and penguin activities as well. We look forward to the next seven weeks as we dive into the life of penguins, their habitat, and their eating habits. At the end of the seven weeks, we will have an evening celebration to exhibit all that we have learned and created.

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Last night, March 18, 2025, was a very exciting night for our third and fourth-grade students. It was Biography Night! The students have been working very hard on their presentations over the last two months. Fourth-grade students picked a president to study, and third-grade students chose an influential person to study. They all worked hard looking up information in our library and online. Once they had gathered all of their information they wrote an essay for an oral presentation and created boards or posters to display some of the information that they discovered. The fourth-grade students also made president statues to sit beside their boards during the presentations. All of the students did an amazing job presenting the information to family and friends in the audience. After the presentations, everyone was treated to special food items that were some of the president's and influential people's favorites. We are so proud of all of the hard work and the presentations that were done by our third and fourth-grade students. It was an amazing night.

February 15, 2025, is Officer Appreciation Day. Temple Elementary School wanted to show our appreciation to Temple's finest. We made cards signed by all the students and staff and took a collection to give each of our police officers a gift card to a local establishment. Our families and staff really came through to show our appreciation. We are so thankful for the service of our local police department.