Upcoming 6th graders!!! Tryouts are coming up!
Beware of the predators! Last year, students in fourth grade created predators using recycled materials. Those students researched Killdeer predators during art class to find away to keep Killdeer from nesting on the playgrounds since the sanctuary was not built yet. Today, the now fifth-grade students who built the predators last year attached their build to the chain link fence that stands between the upper playground and the Killdeer sanctuary.
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We would like to thank Sherwin Williams-Cartersville location and Grateful Painting for their generous donation of Paint and Brushes for our 5th Grade STEM Project with "Legacy Art". This project will be displayed outside near our Killdeer Sanctuary in hopes of keeping the Killdeer off the Playground and cause them to use the sanctuary that was built for them. Without the generosity of the community, Pine Log Children would not be able to be exposed to all the wonderful learning experiences we work to provide for them to be successful.
This class stopped by the Learning Log to check out decorations for the book fair with a medieval theme.
These third-grade students enjoyed reading by a window filled with art work.
We are so proud of our esports team for winning first place at a county meet on Monday, March 10, also known as Mar10 Day.
Happy Friday! Anthony is a very talented designer who always brings his best to our STEM challenges. Anthony built this cardboard chicken coop to celebrate the Pine Log Chicks!
It's easy to find a good friend at Pine Log Elementary School. In addition to engaging academics, we promote good character, teamwork and social skills, problem solving through S.T.E.M. activities, and pride in our community.
It's always a beautiful day at Pine Log Elementary School where we celebrate Pride, Leadership, Engagement, and Safety.
Good news from the Killdeer sanctuary:
We received a generous donation of 31 eight-foot 2'x4' pretreated boards from Kendra Johnson and North Georgia Truss Systems.
The boards will be used to keep the donated materials separated in the sanctuary (habitats) and reduce erosion (5th grade science). Students will be adding the materials (mulch, sand, sawdust, slag) to complete the sanctuary on Friday.
You can learn more about North Georgia Truss Systems at http://www.ngtruss.com/ or call Kendra at (770) 387-4227.
Thank you for being a Pine Log STEM Community Partner!
Update from the Hen Den:
Meet Fluffy! Luke West donated money to support the Hen Den for a month and named one of our new Cinnamon Queens (CQs). Luke learned about the financial needs of maintaining the Hen Den when his second-grade class recently studied economics.
We are hopeful that the CQs will start laying soon to supply fresh eggs for our weekly egg raffle. The Hen Den’s focus is to give students at Pine Log a living, on-campus example of life cycles.
Thank you, Luke!
Fluffy is being shown by: Branson, head chicken wrangler
PLES is sending a thank you to Tidwell Plumbing for removing the top layer of grass from the Killdeer sanctuary site on Thursday, January 30. We believe that moving the dirt, then adding landscape fabric will reduce the weeds growing through the sanctuary materials: mulch, sand, sawdust, and slag. Thank you Tidwell Plumbing for the donation of time and labor to help our Killdeer PBL.
Pine Log families,
We are looking for volunteers who do not work on the PLES campus to read to our students in PreK and first through fifth grades on Friday, February 14, 2025.
Our goal is to foster a life-long love of reading, and you can help by showing how much you enjoy reading to our students.
Books will be provided, or you can bring in one of your favorites to read to a class.
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PLES faculty members picked treats off the Woot Woot Wagon on Wednesday.
The PLES PTCO filled the wagon with snacks and drinks
The sign on the wagon reads "Woot Woot Wagon is here today to spread some joy and brighten your day"
We're sending thanks to the PLES PTCO for this midweek pick up.
We are so thankful for our newest community partners: Gerdau and Tyler Franklin Landscaping.
When we expressed a need for bird sanctuary materials, Phillip Sutton, a proud Pine Log community member, recommended slag. Located in Cartersville, Georgia, Gerdau's steel mill creates slag as an off product of the steel-making process. Sutton stated that the Killdeer love the slag and nest in the lava-like rocks on the Gerdau campus. Sutton advocated for PLES by asking for a donation of slag to add to our Killdeer sanctuary.
Tyler Franklin, a local landscaper, donated his time by picking up the slag in his landscaping truck from Gerdau and delivering the load to the Killdeer sanctuary on the Pine Log campus. Franklin stated that he was happy to help our school and be a part of our sanctuary build.
Our goal is to complete the Killdeer sanctuary no later than Friday, February 14, 2025, to increase the chances that the Killdeer will choose the sanctuary for a nesting site this season instead of our playgrounds. The success of Pine Log students in S.T.E.M is improved with community partners. We are so thankful for Phillip Sutton and Tyler Franklin for representing Gerdau and Tyler Franklin Landscaping to support our Killdeer sanctuary.
If you would like to be a S.T.E.M. Community Partner or a Pine Log Partner, please contact an administrator at 770-606-5864.
Fifth-grade students visited the Learning Log this week from their technology class to work on flying drones. Shout out to Collins for being a top pilot!
See our positivity on our Positive-tree!
The Christmas tree in the main hallway at PLES is decorated with positive comments about each Pine Log employee. We each wrote two and received two positive comments to add cheer and goodwill to our hallways.
Third-grade students worked on making grids on a state of Georgia map. They will eventually create one for our campus that we will use to track Killdeer nesting data.
Fifth-grade students stopped by the Learning Log today during Tier 2 time to build a plant or animal cell from LEGOs.
