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There is no school April 4-8, for Spring Break. Classes resume April 11.

The next Sequim School Board Directors meeting is set for 6 p.m. Monday, April 11. See sequimschools.org/School_Board for more information.

GREYWOLF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Students in Maribeth Stewart’s fourth-grade class did a leprechaun St. Patrick’s Day escape room with math review material. “We set the leprechaun free in 45 minutes!” Stewart reports.

HELEN HALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

In Heather Riley’s class, students earn Fun Day Friday through positive behavior in the classroom and task completion. Students voted for a craft day. The theme for craft day was sensory fun. Students created their own calming jars with glitter, and stress balls stuffed with homemade play-dough. They also created their own scratch paper art. They used oil pastel crayons to create a design on paper plates, then painted over it with black matte acrylic paint. Once it dried, they etched a drawing.

After learning about Norse mythology, third-graders in Emily Ellefson’s class were challenged to make the Rainbow Bridge. They were each given Play-Doh, five pipe cleaners, a mini-cup and gold counters.

Teacher-Librarian Sheri Kruckeberg’s awesome Battle of the Books fourth-graders were busy recently, getting ready to read the final book for the club, “The Cardboard Kingdom” by Chad Sell. “We had a great discussion on ‘Dragons in a Bag’,” dshe said. “We used Nearpod to give the book star ratings, write book reviews, and play a Kahoot-style game on trivia from the book. Lots of fun and enthusiastic discussion!”

Kristin Mooney’s second-grade class had fun with pop rocks and learning how to use descriptive words to write about them. Students first had to describe a bag and guess what was in it. The next day they were given pop rocks and they had to use descriptive words to tell how they felt, looked, sounded, tasted and smelled. They took both writings and put them together into a paragraph.

SEQUIM MIDDLE SCHOOL

Track starts Monday, April 11. Print off the sports paperwork from SMS’s website (sms.sequimschools.org).

SEQUIM HIGH SCHOOL

The senior group photo will be taken at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 13, during Homeroom.

A Running Start Zoom information session is set for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Apri 13. Attendees can join the presentation by visiting pencol.formstack.com/forms/rs_info_session_zoom_choose and selecting their meeting. An email with the link, meeting number and passcode will be sent.

Submitted photo Dalton Wilkinson displays a stress ball he made in Heather Riley’s class at Helen Haller Elementary School.

Students (from left) Natalie Tripp, Evelynn Moose and Isabel Lawson create calming glitter bottles in Heather Riley’s class at Helen Haller Elementary School. Submitted photo

Madison Bell and Xavier Devlin create scratch paper art in Heather Riley’s class at Helen Haller Elementary School.

From left, Helen Haller Elementary School students Aidan Walsh, Ridley Bruni, Valentino Kompkoff display their descriptive paragraphs.

Laina Bo, a third-grader at Helen Haller Elementary, works on her rainbow bridge.

Aiden Fazio, a third-grader in Emily Ellefson’s class at Helen Haller Elementary, displays his rainbow bridge. Submitted photo

Courtesy photos Helen Haller Elementary’s Battle of the Books club prep to read “The Cardboard Kingdom,” the final book in the annual challenge.