Slate Creek PTO raising hundreds of thousands for playground
By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—Since the average World’s Finest Chocolate bar contains 1.3 ounces of goodness, students at Slate Creek Elementary School……
Slate Creek Elementary School
Slate Creek students learn about Christmas around the world
By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—Christmas is one holiday celebrated throughout the world. Friends and families exchange gifts, eat their traditional foods and……
Slate Creek students participate in their own Olympics
By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—Newton physical education teacher Jim Brown had students sitting in the Slate Creek gymnasium close their eyes and……
Kindergartners learn about penguins
By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—Slate Creek Elementary School kindergartners snuck in a few bites of their “snow” in the form of popcorn……
Rocket launch: Students learn about physics, calculus
By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—Slate Creek Elementary School first graders looked up in wonder at their launched pop bottle rockets as they……
Slate Creek reaches bike fundraising goal, gets bikes
By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—Slate Creek Elementary School kindergarteners recently sat in a large circle in the school gym, looking at an……
Across the miles: Slate Creek students write to pen pals in Tennessee
By Wendy Nugent, Harvey County Now NEWTON—With internet and email, most people don’t write actual letters to friends and loved ones anymore. That’s mostly……
Hides and skulls: Slate Creek students learn about wildlife
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now NEWTON—Teachers are coming up these days with creative ways to go on field trips by bringing the field trips……
Slate Creek PTO has pumpkin patch ‘field trip’
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now NEWTON—If the mountain won’t go to Mohammad, then Mohammed must come to the mountain. That’s how the saying goes……
Trying out jobs: First-graders enjoy learning about careers
By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now Blonde little Graci Reed, who was emphatic about saying her first name doesn’t have an “e” at the end,……