It has been a great year for the lake central school corporation. Another school year has come and gone in a blur. Congratulations to all of the 2018 graduates and good luck in your future endeavors. Have a great summer everyone!

It has come to the end of the school year. The time that kindergartener are moving on to the first grade, 8th graders are graduating to high school and Seniors are graduating to college. Today some of Lake Centrals Seniors went back and visited where it all started. Some of the Class of 2018 went to pay a visit to their old elementary schools. They said hi to their old teachers, reminisced about some of their memories and got to show the current students where they will be someday. It was a bittersweet moment for everyone, the staff and students, to see how fast time has flown by.

Peifer students have covered the halls with their art. Students invited family to come look at their work and even dance a little. The art show is to showcase the very talented students in Peifer elementary. Parents couldn’t look more proud while gazing at all of the hard work and beautiful creations that lined the walls and hung from the ceilings. Then they ended the night with music and dancing for everyone to join.

The kids pro show brings everything to the table. Their is magic and jokes and singing. Really anything a kid could want. So and sis we how to get the students excited as well as the parents. It was a night of fun and laughter, a nice break from all the school work.

There has many award shows going on in Hollywood but this award show went on in oeifers classrooms. The 2nd graders had an award show for their favorite stories so far in the year. They also had awards for things like their favorite authors of these stories. The students dressed up in their best clothes and got to read off the nominees and then the winners to the whole class. After all the awards they got to go take a group picture on the red carpet in the hallway.

Peifer students are feeling the loving spirit on this Valentine’s day. All classes had a Valentine party at the end of the day. With students playing games and making crafts. Then of course giving out Valentine’s, like cookies or suckers to each and everyone. The classrooms were full of pink , red and hearts everywhere. They walked out of school with smiles on their faces, big candy bags in their hands and love in their hearts.

On Feb. 8th Peifer had a visit by Amazon John from Silly  Safaris. Amazon John visits different schools around the area, but he is not alone when he visits. Along with him are some of the animals that can be found in a rainforest. The animals he brought with ranged from an owl to a tree frog and even a beetle. He began by teaching the kids about each level of the rainforest and each levels role in its society. Once he started to explain each role, he would show the animals or insects that inhabited that level. He even allowed for some of the kids to play these roles and let them hold the animals in the process. So not only was it something exciting and new for the students but they learned something as well. Then once it was over each kid was able to get a closer look at all of the animals and even pet Amazon Johns dog that tags along on his trips.

In Mr. Terrys art class students would be learning from paint. To start off the class they had to separate their paper plates into sections for the primary colors. Once they all had the primary colors down they were ready to create new colors out of just those three. Taking blue,red and yellow, they would combined two at a time to create colors such as orange. It was all smiles when the art students began to see new colors forming on their plates.

Peifer students are learning different character conflicts in the book, “The Wizard of Oz”.  They were going through different conflicts; character vs. self, character vs. nature and character vs. society. Each character was put onto the smart board and students were asked what character conflict they had gone through during the chapters previously read. Later, they would take what they have learned and after the hard work they would get to be creative. Each student would be assigned a character and would have to make it out of paper and then write about what they know on that character.

Students are starting to get into the holiday spirit. Now that it is officially after thanksgiving they can break out all of the Christmas decorations and projects. Starting out with something simple and a Christmas classic,they are coloring gingerbread. But it is not just any coloring project,they have to follow different rules to know what to color with which color. For example,if they are a boy they color it blue,if a girl, color it pink. This makes for some exciting final pictures. And then once they are done with that,they learn of a surprise. There were many guesses to this surprise but no one guessed it. They were going to be watching, “The Polar Express” in class!

Kindergartners in Mrs. Dobias  class are showing off their holiday decorating  in some different way. Covering part of the floor of their classroom, were beautiful fall colored moons, painted by Peifers very own. The students were able to show how unique they could make their personal moon with colors like yellow,orange, and red. They called them their, Halloween Moons.

Pumpkin Contest

The students at Peifer are really getting into the fall festivities. Kids of all ages had the chance to enter into  the pumpkin contest. But it was not your usual carving contest, it was decorating included. Students were able to bring their creative ideas to life with; paint, cotton balls, glitter or anything they saw fitting. Then throughout the day  teachers and staff would stop by the pumpkin patch to vote in who they thought was the best and most creatively decorated pumpkin.

Hit a Home Run, was the name of the walk-a-thon held in the gym, at Peifer Elementary School, on Friday,September 22nd. Students,teachers and even the principle were all participating. Students that helped raise money for different programs such as the playground. Those that raised the most were given the title of 1st,2nd and 3rd place and given an award. Not only were individual students awarded but the class that raised the most as a whole. Students put in some exercise while walking around the gym,they did this all while dancing,spinning and skipping to music.

Only a month into school and students are well on their way. They start off class with a group activity. Students got together with their peers and took turns reading out loud. After different parts were read they would discuss answers to questions given by the teacher. It is a good start to the year and the students are ready to learn ,and participate.