North Elementary welcomes our building substitute, Bethany Slater! Bethany graduated from Ithaca High School in 2019 and just recently graduated from Alma College. Her absolute favorite thing to do is spend time with her niece and nephew. Bethany also enjoys bowling, fashion, makeup, and photography.
Starting on Monday, September 18th our 6th graders will begin selling candy bars in the hallways. Please remember to bring small bills--nothing larger than a $5 so we can quickly make change. All sales from the candy bars help our 6th graders go to camp in May 2024. Thanks for all your support and remember to bring your money to buy a candy bar or two!
5th graders enjoying their recess after making it through their first full week of school! They are working on their teamwork skills they learned this week.
Our third-grade jackets are building positive relationships and displaying community pride today!
The fourth graders enjoyed the teamwork project for today's Positivity Project lesson.
Dear North Families,
We made it through our first five day week! Please remember to look in your child's Friday Folder for the Parent/Teacher conference request letter. I hope you are all enjoying this beautiful weather! Enjoy your weekend!
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Swarm Together!
Jessie Rayburn
North Elementary Principal
Ithaca Public Schools
jmiller@ithacaschools.net
989-875-3047
For a Social Studies assignment, 4th graders had to make a slide presentation to convince others why their Great Lake was the best.
The winners:
Workman's room- Lake Huron
Raymond's room- Lake Michigan
Bush's room- Lake Huron
Our fourth grade Lego club started on Tuesday and our builders got right to work collaborating on the assigned missions. Look forward to seeing their completed robots in the coming months!
This week our school community will be focusing on the character strength of Teamwork. Teamwork means you work well as a member of a group or team. You are loyal, reliable, and dedicated to helping your team achieve its goals.
“I am a member of a team, and I rely on a team. I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.”--MIA HAMM
Our CSO students and their families spent Sunday afternoon cleaning up our school woods. Their goal is to work with local businesses and community members to have this special space ready for classroom field trips in the coming months!
Fourth graders have been excited to learn all about their mealworms!
Our Ithaca Elementary PTO invites you to come to the first meeting of the new school year on Monday, September 11th at 5 PM at North Library--everyone is welcome!
North students were challenged to build models of the Mackinaw Bridge with the Imagination Playground blocks today. Collaboration was essential in order to successfully connect the lower and upper peninsulas (white cubes). Thank you Gratiot County Community Foundation for these amazing resources!
This week our school community will be focusing on the character strength of Curiosity. Curiosity means you like exploration and discovery. You ask lots of questions because you want to learn more about anything and everything.
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." --Marie Curie
Sixth graders were challenged to design a parachute that would bring a washer to the ground as slowly as possible. Collaboration was necessary for all steps...planning, building, testing, and revising!
Hi North Families!
We had a great first week of school! Please remember there will be no school on Friday, September 1st and Monday, September 4th! Enjoy your Labor Day weekend and we will see you Tuesday!
Swarm Together,
Mrs. Rayburn
Fifth graders started their "Earth's spheres" unit in STEAM by designing animal road crossings. Their bridges needed to allow two clay animals to access forest and water sources by crossing two roads.
North Elementary welcomes our newest paraprofessional, Marcine Shaffer! Marcine was a substitute paraprofessional last year at North and South Elementary! We are excited that she is joining our staff full time! When she is not working with our students as an aide, Marcine can be found at her children's sporting events cheering them on! She has one dog and two cats.
North Elementary welcomes our new 4th grade teacher, Katherine Raymond!
Katherine was a student teacher last year in 4th grade here at North and we are excited that she is now back as a classroom teacher! She graduated from CMU. Katherine enjoys reading and listening to audio books.
Great start to the beginning of the year! Our sixth graders had a principal chat with Mrs. Rayburn today. Some talking points we discussed at the chat were to be a role model to the rest of the students at North, the new changes with our school handbook, 6th grade camp and to be kind! We also were reminded to 'Swarm Together!'
