Longbranch Elementary
Spotlight!
Mr. Billy Edwards demonstrates how a negative credit report can financially impact a consumer during his presentation to Longbranch 3rd graders for their Economics Unit.
Recent Spotlight Stars!
Having collected the highest amount of donations for Jump Rope for Heart at Longbranch, Mrs. King's third grade class enjoyed a "Slime Party" with JRFH sponsor, Mrs. Jo McCool.
Longbranch Elementary students in Mrs. Robbins' kinder ESL class, are learning about the butterfly life cycle.
25 Longbranch students enjoyed getting dirty as they participated in the 1.2 mile "Dirty Scurry Mud Run", benefiting Cooks Childrens
Hospital. Last year there were 400 runners and this year 1200 runners showed up for this great event.
2nd grade students at Longbranch Elementary participated in a Recycle Fashion Show where they could show off their recycled outfits. What a great way to go "Green"!
Longbranch students in Mrs. Parrott's 3rd grade class were overjoyed to recieve letters of encouragement on the STAAR test, from teachers and administrators in their school.
Buttgen's Barnyard kinder friends at Longbranch were discovering surface area with a little help from a dinosaur footprint, tennis shoes and feet!
Students in Mrs. Wimpee's Kindergarten class at Longbranch recently learned more about insects by scanning QR codes to watch an insect video.
Longbranch student, Tyquell B. participated in the 50m dash at the Midlothian Special Olympics Track Meet sponsored by the Partners in P.E.
Longbranch Elementary's celebrated during an assembly for Jump Rope for Heart. We raised $27,238.00 for the American Heart Association. The top students were recognized and the all the students got to see Just-A-Bieber and the Biebs. It was a great party!
Students in Mrs. Mooring's classes studied the history behind The Star Spangled Banner and its meaning. Cooperative learning groups brainstormed ideas for a Longbranch anthem that would be reflective of their school. Landen G., Tristan P., & Rachel R. wrote the anthem titled "Longbranch Elementary is the One!" Watch their video
Third graders at Longbranch get rewarded for good citizenship during a visit from Midlothian Mayor Bill Houston.
Mrs. Kalinec's Kindergarteners at Longbranch learned the flag of the Czech Republic is similar to the Texas flag during a skype lesson with her daughter's class in Prague.
Mr. McKinney's class were learning about electricity on Super Outrageous Science Day, at Longbranch. They had a hair raising time with the Van De Graff Generator.
First graders in Ms. Cowell's and Mrs. Herrod's classes were super scientists on SOS Day (Super Outrageous Science)!
They enjoyed making Elephant Toothpaste and were amazed while watching the chemical reaction that is caused when water, yeast, hydrogen peroxide, and dish soap are combined.
Longbranch First graders in Ms. Cowell's and Mrs. Herrod's classes were super scientists on SOS Day (Super Outrageous Science)! They observed the colors in Skittles seperating and watched the S float to the top of the water.
Longbranch Elementary fifth grade scientists disected owl pellets as part of SOS day. They learned about food chains, food webs, and animals' niches in the ecosystem.
Longbranch Teachers and Students dress TaCkY in honor of hitting the $15,ooo mark for Jump Rope for Heart. Presently, they have raised approximately $26,000. They are on their way to their goal of $30,000!!! Way to Go LonGbRanCH!!
The Midlothian ISD Education Foundation recently awarded K-6 teachers $5,049 to purchase Cathy Fosnot materials! Kim Graham was awarded for Longbranch Elementary!
Longbranch Kindergarteners in Mrs. Benner's class are learning about Texas symbols. They painted Texas flags to represent the Lone Star State.
Longbranch Kindergarteners, in Mrs. Kalinec's class, shared the facts they learned about a great American president, Abraham Lincoln.
"The iMovie Award goes to..." were the words heard by Longbranch 5th grade IMAGINE students as they journeyed down the red carpet to receive awards for multi-media presentations on "Fabulous Fads" of the past!
At Longbranch Elementary, Mr. McKinney's Fourth Graders are studying Capacity with Metric Units... And trying not to make a mess!!
2nd grade students at Longbranch Elementary are raising money for the American Heart Association. We are Heart Heroes!
Maddie T. shows off her Stephen F. Austin page in her Social Studies scrapbook. Longbranch fourth graders have been learning about Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas," and how he helped over 1,500 families settle in Texas in the early 1800s.
Longbranch students learn the warning signs for a heart attack and a stroke as they play a game with fat chasing them. The fat clogged their arteries and caused a heart attack.
Longbranch student, Sailor E., was "picked up" and brought to school by the SRRG/SRT (Southern Region Response Groupe/Special Response Team). She won this at the PTO carnival as part of the silent auction.
Mr. McKinney's class at Longbranch Elementary, is testing properties of minerals. They are learning that some minerals are harder than others.
Kindergarten friends, in Mrs. Savins class, at Longbranch Elementary are feeling 100 days older (and smarter) as they celebrate the 100th day of school!
Mrs. Terrell's 2nd grade students from Longbranch Elementary dressed up and presented an oral report on a famous person as a part of their guided reading assignment.
Mrs. Robbins ESL students made a 100 stick by making 10 groups of 10 cubes with different patterns. When joined together the cubes were as tall as the doorway. WOW!!!
Students in Mrs. Prindle's fourth grade Social Studies class debate the Mexican government's viewpoint of letting more Anglo American settlers into the Texas territory in 1833.
Longbranch first graders, in Mrs. Cowell's class, did a research project on Artic animals. They learned many interesting facts and enjoyed sharing their fantastic projects!
Mrs. Savins' kindergarten class at Longbranch celebrates the Jump Rope for Heart kick-off by writing a letter to Justin Bieber asking him to visit Longbranch and join in to help raise money for JRFH.
Longbranch Choir and "Fire Jumpers" participated in a Jump Rope for Heart Kick-off assembly. Student and staff are trying to raise $30,000 for the American Heart Association. Longbranch ranked 2nd in the state of Texas and 30th in the Nation last year.
Elliott M. from Longbranch Elementary talked about his heart survivor story at the Jump Rope for Heart Kick-off assembly. Elliott was born with a congenital heart defect and has undergone 4 surgeries. The money that is rasied for the American Heart Association goes to research, and ongoing discoveries of new treatmesnts, technologies and preventions are vital to saving and changing lives. Longbranch students and staff are trying to raise $30,000 for this organization.
Longbranch had an awesome Jump Rope for Heart Kick-off assembly and Justin McBieber, (Matt McCool) was there.
Students are trying to raise $30,000 for the American Heart Association get the "Real" Justin Bieber to recognize and join our efforts in this BIG project.
Longbranch Student Council provided and had lunch with Duke Burge to show appreciation for serving on the school board. Thank you Mr. Burge!
Mrs. Kalinec's class enjoyed acting out Jan Brett's "The Mitten".
Longbranch Kindergarteners have fun "snow writing" numbers.
Longbranch students performed during the halftime of MHS girls basketball games. The "Longbranch FireJumpers" performed a Jump rope routine to Hamster Dance and over 60 students signed the song, "Born To Be Somebody".
Mrs. Germany's second grade students at Longbranch begin a book study! The students will be reading 'Chocolate Touch'.
Thank you to Mrs. Simmons, Longbranch's media/technology specialist, who conducted a lesson on internet research for Mrs. Prindle's fourth graders using iPod Touches. They learned about evaluating websites, correctly citing sources and being careful not to plagiarize.
Kindergarten at Longbranch welcomed the New Year writing resolutions designed for the class and each student!
Longbranch Elementary students and staff had a great time participating in the Reindeer Dash. We ran and made our bodies healthy for a great cause, the "Special Olympics".
Longbranch students learned about the history of Christmas trees in P.E. They got to be very creative decorating their classmates as Christmas trees.
Fifth grade students worked together to give Santa a new look. Watch Video
"Twas One Crazy Night Before Christmas", at Longbranch Elementary
when 5th graders did a fabulous job performing their last elementary
performance.
Longbranch First graders in Ms. Cowell's class presented their gingerbread boy and girl creations.
Longbranch Kindergarteners play the More or Less Game with Santa's reindeer.
Longbranch Kindergarteners are ready to hang their stockings by the chimney in number order.
Longbranch Elementary helped break a Guinness World record in sport stacking on November 17. The goal for this year is 350,000 stackers. Sport Stacking is an amazing sport that promotes fitness, agility, concentration and quickness.
2nd grade students at Longbranch Elementary enjoyed using the wampums they earned to purchase homemade items from their peers at our annual Trade Days.
Longbrach CBI played a Wampanoag Indian game of Hubbub before they enjoyed their Thanksgiving feast with the class.
Third graders from Longbranch stepped back into the 19th century at Dallas Heritage Village.
Longbranch 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders learned about careers during Career Week. Mr. Crawford came and told about his adventures being a pilot for American Airlines.
Mrs. Benner's Longbranch Kindergarteners pay tribute to our veterans by creating soldiers and writing about our nation's heroes. These students wrote "Soliders are brave, fight for our freedom, and love the USA."
Longbranch 4th graders in Mr. McKinney's class are discovering what makes sound and learning that sound must carry through a medium. They tested a lab to find out which medium (solid, liquid, or gas) sound travels best through.
Longbranch P.E. class learns about bones and how to keep them healthy.
Students in Mrs. Villa's classes studied conductors and insulators, and then reviewed electrical circuits with circuit balls and books on electricity.
Longbranch first graders enjoy some flashlight reading time in the library.
Longbranch students dressed up as famous Americans and presented a biography to their classmates.
Longbranch kindergarten working in computer lab - creating and labeling pumpkins!
Longbranch Kindergarten friends in Mrs. Savins class celebrate storybook character day!
Longbranch students in Mrs. Money's 5th grade classroom enjoyed exploring pond water to determine if it is healthy.
Longbranch 3rd grade students went on a QR code information hunt in the library as they learned about inventors and inventions.
Ms. Cowell's first graders had fun creating different types of clouds and thought up many different adjectives to describe their clouds.
Longbranch's CBI class visited Paws for Reflection and rode horses and enjoyed the nice weather!
Longbranch Kindergarteners have fun learning about double-bubble maps on Pumpkin Day.
Longbranch Kindergarteners enjoy sharing books and activities with their book buddy Austin.
Kinderfriends in Buttgen's Barnyard at Longbranch are learning all about pumpkins... to jack-o-lanterns.
Over 60 Longbranch Rowdy Runners ran in and encouraged one another during the Downhill Dash.
Mrs. Harp and Mrs. Chapa's class had a fun time today in Reading Buddies. Our laptops provided a wonderful sharing time as we took some crazy pictures using Photobooth.
Miss Watkins' first graders learned about the eating habits of owls by dissecting owl pellets. They dug through the fur and bones to discover what the owls had eaten. Morgan S. was not excited about it first - but later, ended up loving the hands on experience!!!
Mrs. Terrell's class was excited to get to spend the day with Faith and Sweetpea, friends from the counselor, on Friday. Our special friends saw us make and scan QR Codes. We used QR codes to solve math problems and students made codes to ask Mrs. Madden, Mrs. Nix and Mrs. Simmons a question.
Mrs. Germany's Second Grade students made 'PEACHY" projects after reading James and the Giant Peach!
Fifth grade students had fun creating totem poles that represented important events from their families.
Mrs. Thorne's first graders make a number tree with dominos.
Longbranch reading buddies share a good book!
Longbranch Kindergarten students are learning how to tie their shoes.
Longbranch Kindergarten students, Gracie C. and Kennedy S, thank Midlothian firefighters for all their hard work!
Longbranch 2nd graders listen to a fun story read by their football buddy.
Kids enjoying their first "Reward Day", of the year. We celebrate at the end of each six weeks with this fun day.
Students at Longbranch Elamentary enjoy a free day during PE.
Longbranch CBI went to Tuscan Slice and made their own pizza and enjoyed a tour of the restaruant.
Third grade students in Mrs. Parrott's class enjoyed a morning R-time lesson on "What we wished we were better at". R-Time is a program designed to build positive relationships amongst students in the classroom.
Ethan H., from Mt. Peak Elementary, came to speak to 5th graders at Longbranch. He has an amazing story about how he has been battling cancer for the last 16 months. He attributes his recovery to his positive attitude and perseverence.
Third graders at Longbranch practice spelling word wall words with playdough.
Longbranch 3rd grade, students having fun playing a game about the 6 important food groups. We are learning how to eat healthier!
Longbranch Kindergarten celebrates "apple day" with apple graphing, apple sorting and sequencing.
Kindergarten students learn about the different "Hats" the counselor wears.
McKinley M. and Paige I. in Miss Watkins' class are busy peeling apples! For the past two weeks, Longbranch first graders have been learning all about the parts of an apple and doing a variety of math and science activities centered around apples.
Mrs. Gentry's class presents their football reader, Mr. Tre a Homecoming gift after he read Quarter Back Granny!!
Mrs. Terrell's 2nd grade class wore their Panther shirts to cheer on the football players. We would like to say, "Good Luck Panthers!"
CSI: Longbranch! Third graders from Mrs. King's class are crime scene investigators as an introduction to the Scientific Method.
Fifth graders in Mrs. Villa's science classes have been busy, busy, busy, learning about the process skills in science. (
Picture 1) Austin and Dawson measure to find mass using the pan balance and the triple beam balance.
(Picture 2) Lexie and Harley create tables and graphs to record their findings.
Students in fifth grade learned about our country's constitution in honor of Constitution Day.
Students were on the hunt for words which have prefixes. Students found words in the newspaper and then sorted them into a prefix chart.
Longbranch Elementary Students are getting a workout doing parachute pushups.
92 Longbranch Elementary Students are enjoying the first Rowdy Runner practice. We are getting ready for our first 5k on October 15.
Mrs. McCool is hiding out under the parachute with her kindergarten friends.
Students in Mrs. Coker's class shared reports about famous scientists. Leonardo da Vinci was a favorite among the students. Rachel S. Ashley M. and Jackson are shown here with some of his works.
Fourth grade is learning about the mass and density of objects. To do this we measured and compared cereal to raisins.
3rd grade students used the Scientific Method to observe a crime scene.
For College Week at Longbranch, Brooke S. in fourth grade drew herself graduating from Midlothian High School on her "Ticket to the Future."
Mrs. Kalinec's Kindergarten class at Longbranch works on graphing their birthdays.
Longbranch Elementary students are enjying a game of Crab Soccer with a giant beach ball.
Mrs. Germany's Second Grade Class at Longbranch used laptops for the first time this school year to learn about rocks. The students enjoyed learning how-to use the Print Shop program to design a page with rock facts and rock graphics!
Kinder friends in Mrs. Buttgen's Class were retelling The Napping House during their study of families.
Students in Mrs. Parrott's class judging posters on subject/predicates.
Mrs. Parrott's class is playing a game of 9's or bust to work on place value.
Morgan L. in Mrs. Benner's Kindergarten class uses her 5 senses to learn about coconuts.
Third grade students at Longbranch enjoyed listening to a story from a member of the Midlothian Panther Footall Reading Program.
Mrs. McCool and Mrs. Clayton are showing the new dance socks. The P.E. teachers were introducing the new theme for the year, "Born to be Somebody". They are all learning how to sign the song "Born to be Somebody" and learning how they are meant to be special no matter who they are.
Josh and Jacob were ready to find that perfect book to read after having our Library Orientation to learn new library rules.
Students in the 4th grade science classes at Longbranch Elementary conducted a lab involving paper airplanes and measured which would fly the greatest distance. Science rocks!
Longbranch fourth graders brush up on their map skills by applying grid systems to locate cities on various maps.
