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.
PLES is so proud of our PreK program! Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. Greger, Mrs. King, and Mrs. McGaha provide the foundation for learning that our students will need to be successful. Last week, these classes celebrated PreK week with fun activities. Mr. Smith talked to the PreK students about being a good leader since our Student of the Month focus is on Leadership.
Thank you Sam for agreeing to sell a box of chocolate bars for our school wide fundraiser. On Wednesday, Sam received the first box of our 320-box goal and met the Money Man, who wears an expensive-looking suit.
Congratulations to Josh for being the winner of the Golden Ticket!! Josh found the golden ticket in a box of chocolate that he agreed to sell. Our school wide goal is to sell 320 boxes of chocolate to help fund programs throughout the school year. Thank you to everyone who purchased from our fundraisers for your support of PLES!
We are sending a big thank you to Logan Brown and Amelia Brown for assembling the chicken cottage for our six-week old Cinnamon Queens. We are so thankful for these Adairsville High School BETA Club members for donating their time during fall break to finish the home for our newest Pine Log Chicks. Our volunteers and community partners are vital to support our PBLs and everyday student success. Thank you, Logan and Amelia! Go Tigers!
Pine Log Elementary is excited to grow our STEM program and is seeking community partners to help bring innovative learning experiences to our classrooms. Read the letter below for details on how you can get involved!
We need your help ! Thanks to a very generous donation from the Bartow Farm Bureau office, the chicken caretakers picked up a Producer's Pride Cottage Poultry Hutch yesterday. UPDATE: The cottage was built by Adairsville High School Beta Club members Logan Brown and Amelia Brown. Thank you for donating your time and work ethic to assemble the coop for our Cinnamon Queens. We need your help with assembly of this 6-chicken capacity coop to house the newest members of the Pine Log Chicks. Please contact Beverly Hughes at 770-606-5864 if you can help assemble the coop.
PLES is sending a huge THANK YOU to Kroger #444 in Alpharetta for their amazing generosity! They donated several boxes of goodies to our Dojo Store, where our students can earn fun rewards for their hard work and positive behavior! Our students are beyond excited to shop for their well-earned treats, and your support is making a BIG difference in keeping them motivated and engaged! (M. Allen)
🌟 Exciting News! 🌟
We are thrilled to announce that Mrs. Kylie Ray has been named Pine Log Elementary School’s Teacher of the Year for the 2024-2025 school year! 🎉
Mrs. Ray is an incredible educator who brings passion, dedication, and love for learning into her classroom each day. Known for her unwavering commitment to student success, she goes above and beyond to create an environment where every child feels valued and empowered to reach their fullest potential.
Please join us in congratulating Mrs. Ray on this well-deserved honor! Thank you for all you do to make Pine Log Elementary such a wonderful place to learn and grow! 👏
PLES is sending a big THANK YOU to Teamsters Union Local 1129 who donated nearly 300 cardboard tubes.
There are so many great projects in which our students can use these tubes to build and learn STEM lessons.
Mr. Smith and Mr. May tested the cardboard tubes to make sure they were safe for students and are ready to be stored in the PLES STEM-Mart.
We are so thankful for our Pine Log Partners and STEM community partners and donors.
As we continue to earn state STEM certification, we need more STEM partners and donors. If you can donate financially, with supplies, labor, or field expertise, please call Judson Smith at 770-606-5864.
*STEM supplies are used for educational purposes only. No tubes were harmed during the testing phase.
THANK YOU!! PLES would like to thank Mark Hamilton for his donation of wood shavings for our Killdeer sanctuary. Killdeer are a plover bird that nests in open areas on the ground to camouflage the parent birds and eggs. The Killdeer on the PLES campus sometimes choose our playgrounds from February through June to lay their nests which results in students have a disruption to recess and after school care recreation time. Our third, fourth, and fifth-grade students are working on the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) to create a bird sanctuary that they designed to encourage the Killdeer to relocate the nests away from the playgrounds. The students chose a spot on the PLES campus and decided to fill the sanctuary with gravel, mulch, and sand in three of the four sanctuary sections. We still need donations of gravel and sand. If you can donate financially, with supplies, labor, or expertise, please contact Judson Smith at 770-606-5864. Our school is continuing to earn STEM state certification through every day interdisciplinary units, PBLs, and community partnerships.
We are so thankful for Tracy Linthicum and Garmon Oates for donating their time and labor to complete the assembly of the second Hen Den.
The second Hen Den that they finished which will house our younger Pine Log Chicks.
We are in need of more community partners. If you can donate financially, with labor, supplies, or STEM expertise, please contact Judson Smith at 770-606-5864.
The Pine Log Chicks are hosting an egg raffle each Friday starting August 9.
Please bring in one dollar to be entered into the raffle.
If your name is pulled from the raffle box, you will win one dozen eggs from the Hen Den.
ALL of the money from the raffle will be used to buy more supplies and food for the chickens, including the new chickens that will arrive this month.
Wow! We are sending a huge shoutout to County Line Fence in Adairsville, Georgia for the donation of a fence and labor to keep the Pine Log Chicks safe while they free-range forage. Mack King and his crew quickly assembled a fence that will allow our chickens to roam the yard to forage in a safe location. The Pine Log Chicks are the focus of the PLES STEM Problem-based Learning (PBL) for students in PreK through second grade. PLES highly recommends that you contact Mack at 404-925-6758 for your next fencing project.
