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Ms. Kalie Sturch: Homepage

Ms. Kalie Sturch: Homepage

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Kalie Sturch Teacher 5th grade teacher.       Phone: Email: Kalie Sturch Putnam County R-I Schools 803 S 20th Unionville MO 63565  

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Busy Bees in Third Grade

The first week of school was a busy one for Miss Sturch's third graders. On Monday, they got to know each other through the M&M game. For each color of M&M they had, they answered a question and told their friends about . . .

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Kalie Sturch: Teacher Spotlight

Help us celebrate our next Teacher Spotlight and birthday girl, Miss Kalie Sturch! Kalie graduated from Pekin Community High School (another PCHS) in Pekin, IL. After high school, she attended college at Maryville University in St. . . .

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PC MVP January 2022

Congratulations to Miss Kalie Sturch, our January 2022 PC MVP! Miss Sturch’s enthusiasm and passion for teaching shine every day through her interactions with students and staff. Miss Sturch is always willing to . . .

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Sweet Science

Third grade has been learning about the states of matter. Recently, they learned how matter can change from one state to another by either losing or gaining heat. They tested this claim by making homemade ice cream. Students measured out and . . .

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Map Masters

Miss Sturch's third grade has been learning about the different parts of a map. They put their knowledge to the test by reading real maps. Students were challenged to find the compass rose, map key, and scale on . . .

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Animal Adaptations

Third grade has been learning about animal life cycles and adaptations. To finish off our unit, students were given a specific environment and had to create a new animal with special adaptations and characteristics that would help it . . .

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Fun with Fractions!

Third grading is 'halfing' fun with fractions! Today, Miss Sturch's class used M&M's to learn about numerators and denominators of fractions. We compared the different colors and the fractions that represent . . .

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Missouri Mania!

Learning about our great state.

Miss Sturch's third-grade class has been studying the state of Missouri. We have learned about the major cities, rivers, and regions of Missouri. Now we are using our Missouri knowledge and research skills to create . . .

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Matter Matters!

For the past few weeks, our class has been studying the three states of matter and their properties. We've looked at how solid, liquid, and gas particles are arranged and what kinds of changes they go through. Recently, we looked at how . . .

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Reading, Writing, and Creating in Third Grade: Off to a Great Start!

Miss Sturch's Class is off to a great start in Third Grade! Our students have enjoyed decorating their writer's notebooks, writing letters to their book sponsors and even reading outside.

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Miss Sturch’s class

Miss Sturch’s class did their weekly Google Meet to catch with each other. This week they did a scavenger hunt to find items around their house! They had to look for items that were yellow, shiny, round and even tiny. The last . . .

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Celebrating Black History Month

Each student in our class chose a different influential African American to research. We learned about their life, what important things they did and why we celebrate them. Student then decorated a pennant about their person’s life.

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Sweet Science!

Third grade is wrapping up our first science unit about matter. In our last lesson we learned about how matter can change from one state to another by either adding or taking away heat. To investigate this claim to we decided to see what . . .

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Thank You to our Book Sponsors

Miss Sturch's class drafted and wrote letters to their books sponsors. A book sponsor is someone who donated $9 towards a student so that they can get a free book each month of the school year. Our first book was Charlotte's Web. We . . .

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Creative Collaboration

During the January 2nd professional development day for teachers, I learned about several new ways to utilize technology in the classroom. One way that stood out to me was a program called "Flipgrid" which allows students to post . . .

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5th Grade is Decked out for Christmas!

Fifth-grade got into the Christmas spirit early this year and made tree ornaments for the Christmas Tree at the courthouse. Students in Miss Sturch's class made ribbon trees and Mrs. Chapman's class made puzzle piece reindeer. The . . .

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Taking Science to New Heights

As we ended our Scientific Method unit of study, students were challenged to build a structure that could hold a full cup of water off the ground using only 50 straws and tape. Teams used the engineering design process to help them plan . . .

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Flying through the Scientific Method

The past few weeks, we finished investigating vertebrates and invertebrates in science. The students researched both a vertebrate and an invertebrate and made a presentation to show the class about their animals. Recently, we took . . .

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5th Grade Scientists

5th grade has started the year by learning about the scientific method and the tools that scientists use. Recently we got to try out some of these tools and learn what they're used for. Soon we will begin to conduct experiments . . .

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Are You Smarter Than a 5th-Grader?

Are you smarter than a 5th-grader? If your student has our new teacher Miss Sturch, you're probably wondering who she is.👩🏻‍🏫 Please welcome Miss Kalie Sturch👩🏻‍🏫, 5th-grade teacher. Kalie recently moved to Putnam County . . .

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