6th Annual Holiday Basketball Tournament

Great game Cougars and congrats to the East Chicago Tigers for winning this years Holiday Tournament. Here are some photos from the tourney!

21st Century Charter School @ Gary playing a great game!

Another photo of 21st CC. Great shot!

Great game boys!

A visit from the Gary Library!

This morning  our kindergarten and 1^st grade students indulged in a visit from the Gary Public library.  The students listened to many stories with Ms. Lee. The students engaged in great think, pair, share questions to build wonderful comprehension skills. We appreciate that our community has enjoyed our students and school!

Ms. Lewis' Class studying wheels & axels

Ms. Knight helping Ms. Lewis' students with the wheels & axles lesson on the computer

Mr. Ward's spelling lesson!

Mr. Ward’s class playing spelling race games. Each spelling word is a number on the dice. They roll the dice and whatever number comes up they write that spelling word. All students pair up and the race begins!

Ms. Sterling's Kindergarten News for December!

Twitter Tutorial!

Twitter Tutorial!

Do you know how to follow us on Twitter? Get updates on what is going on Daily at 21^st Century Charter School @ Gary right to your phone or your computer! Below is a step by step tutorial on how to access our twitter accounts.

1.       Visit www.twitter.com

2.       Under ‘New to Twitter? Sign up’ Enter your name, email and password you would like.

3.       Fill out the remaining information. At this point you will create, what Twitter calls, a ‘handle.’ For example Principal West’s handle is @Prin_West and the school handle is @21stCharterGary

4.       Once you have created your account search us by our handles and click ‘Follow’! You will then be able to keep up with all the latest happenings at 21^st Century Charter at Gary!

5.       Don’t forget to search us @Prin_West and @21stCharterGary and Follow us today!

BONUS:

Here is a link to the Twitter Glossary to fully understand how to read/reply/retweet a tweet!

https://support.twitter.com/articles/166337-the-twitter-glossary

Lots of learning going on around school today!

Kindergartner Dennis Rock writing his spelling words in shaving cream! 'Big' round of applause for Dennis! 

Kindergartner Tramell McHenry practicing his spelling words in shaving cream too! We could 'jump' for joy about all the learning going on today!

Kindergartners practicing their rhyming skills with rhyming puzzle tests. Looks like fun! 

Ms. Sterling assisting the students in preparation for shaving cream spelling words!

Ms. Sterling's students practicing their words