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The Middle Ages

Sixth grade students at Haynesfield Elementary School were studying the middle ages and the Black plague. They were to choose a part of the middle ages life and recreate it. Several students went all out with their presentations. One student designed a knight’s armor, while another student built a castle. Some students designed clothing worn by women in waiting and other students made weapons used in warfare. They wrote a report on it and then recreated something that they found in their research to be interesting.

Hooray for the U.S.A!!

Haynesfield’s kindergarten students from Mrs. Debusk, Mrs. Camper, and Mrs. Duncan’s classrooms spent time studying their country in a unit titled “Hooray for the U.S.A” During their unit, they studied national symbols, first Americans, explorers, and national celebrations. Using classroom maps of the United States, students shared stories of the places they visited.

To wrap up this unit of study, kindergarten held a special Red, White, and Blue Day. Each child was encouraged to wear something colored red, white, and blue. The classes held a parade around the school grounds chanting U.S.A., U.S.A.! Rattles of tambourines and colorful head-banded students lit up the sidewalk. All three classes met at the flagpole, recited the Pledge of Allegiance, sang “My Country Tis of Thee,” and then ate red, white, and blue popsicles.

Green 4th graders

Haynsefield Elementary hallways were green with Glamour on St. Patrick’s Day. Most noticeable was the fourth grade hallway. In conjunction with their simile and metaphor unit, students held a contest for the person with the most green. It was definitely like “seeing the world through green sunglasses” one student said. Many comparisons were made between the students and their environment. Tricia Markel’s wig was like a giant lime, JonAlan King is like a green bean, and Jeremy Kinkead’s hat is a pot of green gold were all popular comparisons

Pizza Lunch Reward

Haynesfield’s Mrs. Rutherford is well knows for her enthusiasm when it comes to reading and AR. Her fourth grade students rose to previous challenges for AR this school year; the fourth six weeks was no exception. The prize this time was a pizza lunch restaurant style. The waiters were the fourth grade teachers Mrs. Rutherford, Mrs. Morton, and Mrs. Lamie. With classical music soflty playing in the background, students were lead to their table decorated with flowers. Their order was taken and delivered to them. Students were very excited to be waited on by their teachers.

Read Across America Week

Public Relations Office - March 23, 2009

On Monday, March 2, a group of kindergarten students gathered in Ms. Debusk’s classroom for a very important visitor. Marcus Lynch, local meteorologist from WCYB News 5, joined the group to read a book written by Dr. Seuss.
Monday was the beginning of Read Across America Week. Students in fourth grade were also treated to a book reading by Mr. Lynch.

Posted: 3/23/2009
 

100 Day Food Drive

Public Relations Office - March 12, 2009

As part of the 100 days of school celebration, kindergarten classes rally together for the common good of our Bristol community. Haynesfield’s kindergarten annual food drive was a success again this year. The goal for each class is to gather 100 items of food to donate to the Community Resource Center. The hope is to bring awareness to students about helping those in need.

During the food drive, kindergarten teachers focused their instruction on advertising this year. They used lessons as an opportunity to promote the food drive. Each class designed posters and delivered them to each Haynesfield classroom. The students talked to the classes about the importance of donating items to the food drives.

This year was a successful as students brought in six barrels of food. Six classrooms brought in more than the 100 items asked for. A total of 1604 items were donated.

Kindergarten students and staff would like to thank Kay Ward from the Community Resource Center for working with them and helping to provide the barrels.

Posted: 3/13/2009

Spelling Bee Winners!

Following classroom spelling bee semi-final rounds, twenty four students were picked to fight for the coveted spot as the best speller.  Finalists and alternates were given study packets and invited to attend after school study sessions.  A member of the final three, David Russell was eliminated after the twelfth round leaving Victoria Russell and Eric Faidley.  The pair will move on to the system wide spelling bee.  As the duo continued, Eric Faidley was named Haynesfield spelling bee champion on the word "affinity".

Congratulations to all fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students who participated.  Thank you to Mrs. Roberts, librarian, for pronouncing.  Thank you to Mrs. Morton, Buckmaster, and Horner, for judging.  Thank you finally to Mrs. Rutherford for her dedication to this program.

Pizza and Pajamas in Pre K

Our entire Pre K class has memorized their meal account number. They now take responsibility (just like the big kids) for typing it in at meal times. To celebrate this accomplishment, they wore pajamas to school and made their own homemade pizzas!!

Tuck Everlasting Study

Fourth grade students studied the book, Tuck Everlasting, in class and completed literacy-based activities related to the story. However, the students did not read the end of the story in class. Instead, they had to wait for the novel study’s culminating activity to find out how the exciting book would end!

On the final day of the unit, students attended the Tuck Everlasting play at Barter Theater. The play was true to the book, and the ending surprised many students. One student commented, “I loved the book and the play. This was really fun. The ending of the story was a little sad, but the book was still great.” 

OPEN YOUR EYES BE ENERGY WISE!

Nikki Neutron was called to Haynesfield Elementary on November 19^th on his first mission to save the day. Fourth grade students along with Bert the Dirt Expert, Thunderstorm, and U.R. Fired helped to teach Nikki what energy and electricity are and how we can use them efficiently. 

Helpful hints for your family to be energy wise are to:

1. Use compact fluorescent light bulbs.

2. Turn off all electronics when you are not using them. 

3. Close the blinds in the summer to keep cool air inside, and open them in winter to keep in warm air.

4. Get a programmable thermostat set at 78 degrees in summer and 68 in winter.

5. Turn down the temperature on your water heater.

Storybook Character Dress Up and Read Day

On October 31, Haynesfield pre-K students celebrated Storybook Character Dress Up and Read Day.

Eleven special visitors (family members and friends) came to read to the class.

Students and teachers dressed up as their favorite storybook character and brought the book that their character was in.

In all, the class read a total of 21 books that day!

Posted: 11/24/2008

Meeting AR goals

Fourth grade students who passed their AR goals got to participate in the second annual PIE IN THE FACE day. At the end of the second six weeks the three top AR goal passers from each class got the privilege of throwing a pie in the face of the fourth grade reading teacher Mrs. Rutherford. This messy activity is highly sought after by students in fourth grade. Many worked really hard to be to top reader in their class on both points and comprehension goal. In the end nine pies in total were thrown.

School days!

Posted: 9/3/2008