Physical Education Update from Mrs. Homman

Students in grades K-5 have been practicing foot skills such as dribbling, passing, kicking, and trapping in Physical Education. It has been wonderful to see their progress over the past few classes! 

Have you started making your summer bucket list? Check out these ideas to make your summer the best one yet!

• 1,000 Hours Outside
• Let's Roam: 2021 Family Bucket List
• 50 Outdoor Summer Activities for Kids

Music Update from Mr. Plekan

All grades are working hard on the music curriculum.  I am very proud of their progress.  

All grades have been learning to play instruments this month.  These include Recorders for 5th Grade, and BoomWhackers K-5 with each grade playing age appropriate music while tying in their solfege singing and color system with playing their individual BoomWhacker and reading music.  

The last couple of weeks students will be learning about the history of Djembe drumming.  Students will be playing and reading age appropriate music as well as improving their own drumming skills in class drum circles where they will improvise their own rhythmic playing.

We will have a lot going in the music room at Lakeside and I am very proud of the progress our musicians are making.

Musically Yours, 

Mr. Plekan

Art Update from Mrs. Wollangk

A race to the finish!

• Kinders - Are finishing the year with a summer sculpture.
• 1st - We are having an out of this world last project, reviewing how we can use our newly learned textures in different ways!
• 2nd - Summer selfies will be going home in just a few weeks.
• 3rd - We are ending the year discovering impressionism and one point perspective.
• 4th - Romantic artist, William Turner, is the inspiration for our chalk pastel land and waterscapes.
• 5th - The colorist Paul Gauguin, helped us experiment with our colorful landscapes.

Ms. Jeske’s art classroom:

We are wrapping up our final art projects this month! Kindergarten artists explored the work of Vincent Van Gogh and created sunflowers inspired by him. First grade artists learned how to weave paper and created amazing oil pastel lions to put on top. Second grade artists experimented with large origami creations and created symmetrical butterflies. Third grade artists learned about Earth Day and developed an artwork that has a message through images; they also created some delicious looking texture tacos out of clay. Fourth grade artists have been hard at work to create paper mache donuts inspired by artist Wayne Thiebaud. Fifth grade artists experimented with metal tooling and created musical inspired artworks. It has been a joy to watch each and every artist grow in their artistic abilities, skills, and creativeness this year!

Technology Update from Mrs. Stephany

Learning without Limits

As we wrap up the school year, students can continue to access classroom content over the summer from the OASD Student Portal at: https://sites.google.com/a/oshkosh.k12.wi.us/student-portal/ or the district website.  Students can log in using the username and password Student usernames are the first 5 letters of the last name followed by the first initial of the first name.  Then they include the last 4 digits of the student ID number.  For example, for “John Student” the username would be “studej5678.”  The student may want to keep the password in a safe spot and/or share with you.

School Counselor Update from Mrs. Palecek

Counseling News May 2021

Hello Lakeside Families!

The end of another school year is upon us! This school year has been full of change, ups and downs, uncertainty and still we have seen so much growth as well. In May we have met for our last guidance lesson in grades K-5. We have covered topics from goal setting, self-esteem, to transition to middle school for 5th graders. 

For many the end of the school year is bittersweet. Some students are more excited than others and for many the excitement of time away from school can quickly wear off. Below please find some fun family ideas for how to fill your summer. Some ideas are bigger and some are quick and easy things to do. 

I wish you and your families a very happy and safe summer vacation. If you or your child need anything over the summer I will be checking my email weekly. 

I look forward to catching up with all of the students in September!

Mrs. Melissa Palecek

Lakeside School Counselor

Pronouns: she, her, hers

melissa.palecek@oshkosh.k12.wi.us

Media Update from Mrs. Rucinsky

Digital Citizenship

Our Digital Citizenship this month focused on the older grades, and we used NearPod as our lesson platform. Kids were able to interact with the lesson using their chromebooks to respond, draw, and answer questions about the topics below:

Summer Reading

On May 28th the Oshkosh Public Library (OPL) will be doing a virtual presentation for students highlighting their summer reading opportunities. Students will watch the virtual presentation in class with their teacher. OPL also created a recorded video for families highlighting all their summer reading programs for children, teens and adults.

Consider adding a listening library to your summer reading plans! Tales2Go has compiled some fun titles to listen to this summer. Check it out here. If you need help logging into Tales2Go, please follow these directions.

Scholastic News has a parent night coming up. The information about that is here.

Library Materials

Please make sure all library materials have been returned. Books are due Friday 5/21. Chromebooks will be turned in by teachers the final week of school. Please check around your house to see if you have any extra materials, like chromebook chargers, guided reading books or library books! We appreciate when you help us conserve our materials!