Purcell Intermediate School

📚✨ Mrs. Gee’s 5th grade Language Arts students have been busy stretching their sentences! Instead of writing plain sentences, they’re learning to spice them up with adjectives and adverbs: ➡️ “The fluffy brown dog ran quickly down the street!” 🐶💨 ➡️ “The gooey cheesy pizza disappeared hungrily in seconds!” 🍕😋 ➡️ “The fiery red dragon roared loudly across the sky!” 🐉🔥 These sentence-stretching superstars are making their writing more vivid, creative, and fun! 🌟✏️

Look at our third graders thriving in both reading and math! Mrs. Davis' class was spotted in the library, reading and enjoying their books with one another. 📚They also engaged in place value games that improved their understanding of numbers in the thousandths place, comparing five-digit numbers, and forming new numbers based on value relationships. We love seeing their motivation to grow! So smart!! ✨

🏐🔥 Today in PE we had SO much fun! We kicked things off with Switch on the 4-Square courts ➡️⬅️⬆️⬇️🤩. Then we started our volleyball unit 🎉🙌 learning the proper technique for the underhand serve 💪👏. Everyone worked hard and crushed it 💯! We’re already pumped for next class because we’ll be playing BATTLESHIP 🚢🎯💥🏐 using the skills we learned today! 🎉

📚🇺🇸 US History in Mrs. Arnold’s 5th Grade! Our students have been diving into early America by learning about the Powhatan people of Virginia. Today, we took history hands-on and practiced making cordage, just like the Powhatan people did long ago! Learning history isn’t just about reading—it’s about experiencing how people lived and connecting to their world. #USHistory #HandsOnLearning #5thGrade #Powhatan #Dragons

🌟✨ Science Fun in Mrs. Jones' 5th Grade! ✨🌟 Last week, we read "Bartholomew and the Oobleck" by Dr. Seuss, and today we got messy making our own oobleck! 🤩 It’s just cornstarch and water, so no worries—it doesn’t stain and washes off easily! This amazing substance is both a solid and a liquid, depending on how you handle it. Learning is fun! 🧪💚 #Oobleck #DrSeuss #HandsOnLearning

🐉🎉 Homecoming Week is here – September 15-19! 🎉🐉 Show your Dragon Spirit each day by dressing up and earning the Spirit Stick for your grade level!🏆🔥 👉 Don’t forget – tomorrow we kick things off in CHILL MODE! 😎🛌 Wear your pajamas, sweats, or comfy clothes to start the week cozy and full of spirit! Let’s go Dragons! ❤️🤍 #SpiritWeek #DragonPride #Homecoming2025

🌟✨ Science Fun in Mrs. Jones' 5th Grade! ✨🌟 Yesterday, we read "Bartholomew and the Oobleck" by Dr. Seuss, and today we got messy making our own oobleck! 🤩 It’s just cornstarch and water, so no worries—it doesn’t stain and washes off easily! This amazing substance is both a solid and a liquid, depending on how you handle it. Learning is fun! 🧪💚 #Oobleck #DrSeuss #HandsOnLearning

🔥🐉🏈 It’s GAME DAY, Dragons!!! 🏈🐉🔥 Our Purcell High School Dragon Football players & cheerleaders were at the front doors BRIGHT & EARLY hyping up our students this morning! ❤️🙌🏻The Dragon Family runs DEEP – we even had siblings & cousins representing! 🐲✨ 💥 Let’s pack Conger Field tonight and cheer our Dragons to VICTORY! 💪🔥 #DragonPride #GameDayEnergy

Our online book fair is now open! Our school book fair will be October 6-9! If you would like to shop online here is the link https://literati.com/store/?school=purcell-elementary-school-purcell-ok

🌳🇺🇸 Today our 4th graders learned about the Survivor Tree from 9/11—a symbol of hope, resilience, and new beginnings. Together, we created our own “Survival Tree” in honor of the lives lost, the heroes who served, and the strength of our nation. ❤️🤍💙 Even in the hardest times, growth and hope can still bloom! National September 11 Memorial & Museum #911MuseumEd

🔬✨ This week in Mrs. Jones’ 5th Grade Science class, curiosity was everywhere! Students explored the properties of matter through hands-on experiments—testing magnetism, reflectivity, conductivity, and more! 🧲💡⚡ They also viewed specimens under the microscopes 🔎, explored the outdoors 🌿, and sketched their discoveries in nature journals. One exciting highlight? Observing different types of moth eggs found on trees! 🦋 It’s been a week full of wonder, creativity, and scientific adventure! 🚀🌎

🎉 This week in PE we kicked off the playground classic… 4 SQUARE! 🟨🟦🟥🟩 Students worked hard on: ✋ Striking the ball 👀 Hand-eye coordination 🏃‍♂️ Moving to the ball ⚡ Reacting quickly! Our vocab words this week fit the game perfectly: ⏳ Patience – waiting in line for your turn 🤝 Integrity – playing fair & honest 👑 Responsibility – the King must referee the game! The Dragons are LOVING it! 🐉💥

This group of third graders have been engaging in many cooperative learning games that help build community, communication, and compassion for one another! One day, Miss Windham's class read the story "My Mouth is a Volcano" and discussed how they could prevent themselves from "erupting" in class. Then, they learned about different volcanos and worked together to form their own! 🌋Another activity her students participated in was the paper chain challenge. Each small group was given paper and a 10-minute timer to see who can create the largest chain. They had to do a lot of problem solving together and figure out how their pieces needed to be to make it the length they wanted. ⛓️Her students also participated in the balloon challenge. They were given various tasks and had to work as a team to keep the balloon up before the 1-minute timer went off. At the end, every group won at least once! 🎈Finally, Miss Windham's class worked in groups to "save Fred." Fred is our friend the worm who was stranded and couldn't get to his life preserver on his own. Her class used only a single paper clip to carefully help Fred find his life preserver and wiggle into it. After some trial and error, most of the groups were able to save Fred! 🛟🐛

🏓😃 While we had the 2-Square courts out, we decided to play some PING PONG! 🎉🙌 Students worked on striking an object with a short implement 🏐➡️🏓 all while laughing, learning, and having a blast! 💥🔥 #DragonPE #GameOn

📣 Spirit Week is almost here! 🎉 September 15-18 (same week as Homecoming 🏈). Purcell Intermediate will be dressing up just like the high school! ❤️🤍🖤 The grade level with the MOST participation will win the Spirit Stick for the day! 🏆🔥

🎉🏐 Today in PE we had a BLAST playing 2️⃣ Square! 🙌 We learned what it means to volley and practiced striking the ball with CONTROL 💪🎯. Students teamed up with lots of different classmates 👯‍♂️🤝, building connections all around the gym! 🏃‍♀️🏃 We also added some new POWER words to our vocabulary: ✨ Perseverance 💥 ✨ Encouragement 💬👏 ✨ Etiquette 🙏🤗 2️⃣ Square was the PERFECT lead-up game to get us ready for 4️⃣ Square fun down the road! 🔥💯 #DragonStrong 🐉❤️ #Teamwork #KeepBouncing

REMINDER!!! In observance of Labor Day there will be NO SCHOOL tomorrow!!!

Exciting things are happening in Mrs. Jones' 5th-grade science class! Our garden is thriving, and the radish seeds we planted are already sprouting! The students have been busy weeding and prepping the soil while learning so much about gardening. We’ve also made some fun friends—a baby bunny, helpful garden spiders, and a stunning luna moth! 🐰🕷️🦋 Plus, we’re watching fruit decompose for composting and exploring the movement of matter. It’s a hands-on adventure in learning! 🌿 #GardenScience #HandsOnLearning

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🌈🎉 Parachute favorites are always a HIT in PE! 🪂 Today we had a blast playing Cat and Mouse 🐱🐭 and Shark Attack 🦈—two games full of energy, laughter, and teamwork! The parachute always brings the fun! 🙌🔥 #DragonPE #Teamwork #ParachuteFun