Fourth Graders make face masks!

by Jessica K. and Abbi A.

Mrs. Mitstifer's class was making holiday masks on Wednesday, Dec. 23. The kids were making elves, Santa Claus, and reindeer masks. Some adults helping were Mrs. Zaccaria, Mrs. Arrigonie and Mrs. Roan.

Rocket Star Reading Celebration in Kindergarten!

by Chanelle and Alexa

Students in Ms. Rall's room were enjoying a movie and popcorn treat to celebrate their Rocket Star Reading achievement for the month of November. The kids were really excited, and some were even jumping up and down!

Reindeer Tracks Found in Mrs. Hoffman's Room!

By Chanelle and Alexa

Mrs. Hoffman's students were getting their feet dirty with brown paint this past Thursday to make reindeer tracks for a project. This will be a special gift for their parents. Her class was also watching movie to celebrate reading their Rocket Star Reading goal.

Mrs. Rall's Kindergarteners Celebrate Rocket Star Reading Accomplishment

by Chanelle C. and Alexa C.

Today, students in Mrs. Rall's room were having a movie and popcorn party to celebrate reaching their goal for Rocket Star Reading. They watched, "All of the Other Reindeer." It was really cool. The kids were really excited, and some of the boys were jumping up and down.

Fifth Grade Chorus Spreads Holiday Cheer!

by Miss Kilmer
Fifth grade chorus performed for family and friends at Schick Elementary on Thursday night, December 3rd. The students sounded great! The next week, they took a field trip to Sycamore Manor Nursing Home to perform their holiday music for the residents there. It was a wonderful trip. They performed very well and even got a treat at the end! The fifth grade chorus enjoyed the trip where they could show all of their hard work to so many people.

Storytime with Mrs. Cozza

by Mr. Greevy

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to listen to Stella Louella's Runaway Book in the library with Mrs. Kuntz's class.  Mrs. Cozza was reading this book by Lisa Campbell Ernst while the group listened attentively.

As Stella Louella searches for her missing library book--due by five o'clock that day-- she asks everyone she sees, her brother, the letter carrier, the gym teacher and many others to help her find the book.  As  the search party ends up at the library with just five minutes to go, Stella learns that the librarian (who was Mrs. Cozza in our story) has already found the book on a bench out side of the library.

The students loved this book and I enjoyed taking the time to listen to the story with this class and predicting its end with them.

Thanks, Mrs. Cozza for storytime!

Service Project: Operation Christmas Child

by Miss Roush,
4th grade teacher

This year, we decided as a class to participate in Operation Christmas Child. This service project involves filling shoeboxes with Christmas gifts to be sent to children who might not get any Christmas presents. The kids in our class were very generous. We brought in enough gifts to fill 12 boxes for boys and girls who are the same age and the kids in our classroom! Our class enjoyed writing letters to put in each box as well. We spent some of our recess time wrapping each box to send to some very special children for Christmas.

Special Visitor in Mrs. Hubbard's Room!

by Jessica Kregar

On, November 12, Mrs. Hubbard's fourth grade class had a visitor. Officer Snyder is a Williamsport police officer. He came to the class to talk to the kids about being a police officer and what police officers look for at a crime scene. When they get to a crime scene, they look for sweat, blood, and fingerprints. Fingerprints are exactly what Mrs. Hubbard's class was learning about! What an interesting lesson they learned!

Schick Staff Spotted During After School Hours!

ZUMBA! If you want to know what Zumba is, just ask Mrs. Novotny, Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Zimmerman, Ms. Knittle or Mr. Cuff to show you their moves! They can be found every Thursday night grooving to Latin tunes at the Fitness Factory. Mrs. Cathy Hall is the instructor, and the class is the place to be if you are looking for a fun way to stay in shape!

Hurray for Mrs. Hillegas's Room!!!

Mrs. Hillegas's Life Skills class has done it.  They are super Rocket Star Readers.  They got to eat on the stage today with Mrs. Hillegas and the other adults in their classroom. 

Here is the hard working group of readers.  Super Job, Everyone!

Mr. Greevy Teaches Kindergarten

Mr. Greevy taught Kid Writing today in Mrs. Kuntz's classroom.  Mrs. Kuntz is Miss Schrei's mentor and was spending 1/2 hour working in that Kindergarten classroom.  Mr. Greevy taught the writing assignment "I like to visit...."  Students talked about Knobels, McDonalds, Hershey Park, the lake, my grammy's and other fun places.  The class taught Mr. Greevy that he must use 'Space Man' in order to make sure that he had spaces between his words.

After writing, the students had snack and one student set up her fish snack in an A-B-A-B pattern.  Wow!  Mr. Greevy can not wait to be invited back.

Rocket Star Readers Luncheon

Mr. Rhoads passed out erasers to Mrs. Morehart's class for making their Rocket Star Reading goals for the month of October.  The class ate on stage to celebrate their goal.  Great Job, Mrs. Morehart's class.

Mrs. Rall's Room Works in the Library

By Alexa C. and Channelle C.

Grade 5

Do you want to know what's happening in Mrs. Rall's classrom at the Library?  Okay.  Well, Mrs. Rall's Kindergarten is working on a project in Mrs. Cozza's room.  They are learning how to make teddy bears.  Another thing is that they are also learning how to pick out books and to care for books.  Plus, they are learning to use shelfmarkers.  And afterwards they are going to color teddybears.  That's what's happening in Mrs. Rall's class in the library.

Another Successful Scholastic Book Fair

ROCKET STAR READER ACHIEVERS!!!!!

It was just announced that SEVEN classes reached their reading goals for the month of October.  The monthly goal was EVERY student reading 15 minutes at home at least 20 times each month.

The following classrooms are READER ACHIEVERS this month:

Mrs. Hillegas

Mrs. Novotny

Mrs. Morehart

Miss Rall

Mrs. Hoffman

Mrs. Dunlap

Miss Schrei

GREAT JOB, CLASSES!!! 

We had 322 students reach their Rocket Star Reading Goal!!!  Great Job, Schick Students!

That's a Great Guess!

Mrs. Fox wants to thank everyone who tried to guess the weight of the gigantic pumpkin that was outside her gym this week. The actual weight of the pumpkin is 54 pounds, 13 ounces. There were 29 people who guessed within five pounds of its actual weight. Of those 29, 15 guessed within three pounds of its weight, and 7 guessed within one pound! The winner of the 54 pounds, 13 ounce pumpkin is Kindergartener, Brendan C from Mrs. Dunlap’s room. Congratulations, Brendan!

A Fall Festival 'Thriller'

That Mrs. Fox was at it again...her students treated Mr. Rhoads and Mr. Greevy to their rendition of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video dance on friday which they had learned during their Physical Education classes.  Mr. Rhoads and Mr. Greevy were called out to hallway where they found students strewn across the floor in zombie-like positions.  Then the music began and dancing ensued.    Boy, was it a THRILL to watch them dance their stuff.

Check out Mrs. Cooley in the background doing her best ZOMBIE...

Fall Festival in Miss Krape's Room

by  Alexa C. and Chanelle C.
5th Grade

Here's what's happening in Miss Krape's room.  The third graders are working on a bingo project and they're watching a movie having a cool time.  In Miss Krape's room they're having donut holes and working on spider pumpkins.  They made handprint trees, so there is what is happening in Miss Krape's classroom.

Simple Machines on Display....

Students in Mrs. Hubbard's class this week designed and shared with classmates their simple machines. Students then gave written reports on their projects and explained how each project worked. Here are just a few designs...

That Kindergarten in Busy...

Kindergarten is really busy...

...They have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar this week, so they are ready for their field trip to the Community Arts Center.

...They are painting sweatshirts and t-shirts with fall-colored leaves.

...They are illustrating and writing a sentence to describe their artwork.
...And, I caught Mrs. Hoffman and the other teachers today reading talking about a scrap book in which all students will be designing their own page. Cool Stuff.

Catch a falling Snowflake....

Look at my CRAZY friends from Mrs. Morehart's Kindergarten class. Mr. Greevy caught them "taking a 'snowflake break'" on their way to gym class yesterday. Boy, were they having fun.

THE LITTLE LANCER NEWS STAFF

Today, the Little Lancer News Staff was introduced to this Little Lancers Blog. That group of hard working writers will soon be publishing articles of there own on this blog...stay tuned.

A Schick Week (+1) in Pictures

6 + 1 Writing Fun Assembly

Student Authors in Mrs. Shiralkar's Class.

My friend, Chad Weaver (the fully-attired LT Firefighter)
Exploring Owl Pellets in Mrs. Mitstifer's Class.

Title I Picnic and Bingo Meeting Tuesday Night.

A New Addition to Schick....

This year the news about our students, teachers and staff are being proudly displayed on a bulletin board outside of the office. Stop in and see what's going on here at Schick. If you see anything about Schick students, teachers and staff feel free to send it in...let's fill the board.