VanBuren Elementary

Welcome to our virtual Leadership Fine Arts Festival! Please be sure to sign the guestbook and leave our amazing student leaders a comment. Enjoy! #vbrocks #vblearnersandleaders sites.google.com/janesville.k12…

It's here! The Championship Round in the Global March Book Madness competition. Voting takes place April 13-16. Did your favorite book make it to the final round? You can vote at: sites.google.com/view/globalmar… #globalmarchbookmadness #vbrocks

Good morning, Van Buren Eagles! Today is Mismatched Day. You can post your silly outfit photos on our shared Google Slideshow. We enjoy seeing all of you! #vbrocks #vbbettertogether docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Our Van Buren Eagles will be featured on the NBC15 School Shout Out. K/1 were today. 2/3 will be Nov. 6. 4/5 will be Nov. 11. AND if you missed today’s shout out or want to watch the others after they air you can see them on NBC15.com! #vblearnersandleaders

Check out this adorable pumpkin Humphrey! It’s the hamster who’s the main character in the Humphrey books by Betty G. Barney. Nice work, Eli! #vbrocks #pumpkinstorybookcharacter @sdjvanburen

Students, help us decorate the LMC! Design a storybook pumpkin using a craft pumpkin (not real) of a favorite book character. Bring it to the LMC this month. Here are some more that we’ve gotten. #vblearnersandleaders #storybookpumpkins

We’re watching the @Scholastic book fair preview during library and getting excited for the book fair to arrive next week! #vbrocks

It’s Monday! Our Staff of the Week is our new Early Childhood teacher, Ms. Anderson. #vbrocks

Our students enjoyed participating in the 6th Great Lakes Apple Crunch! This year’s apples came from Apple Hut. 11,000 “crunchers” from Janesville registered for this year’s crunch. #vbrocks #greatlakesapplecrunch

Students, help us decorate the LMC! Design a storybook pumpkin using a craft pumpkin (not real) of a favorite book character. Bring it to the LMC this month. Here are a couple we’ve gotten already. #vblearnersandleaders #storybookpumpkins

Van Buren students practiced their monthly fire drill successfully! Our kindergarten friends got a special visit from our local firefighters, reviewing safety expectations and learning about all the jobs a firefighter has to keep us safe and healthy. #vblearnersandleaders

Mrs. Perry’s student leaders starred in the broadcast of our weekly mindfulness activity which we do every Wen’ZEN’day! Today they showed everyone how to do triangle breathing. Nice work 3rd graders! #vbrocks #vblearnersandleaders

We welcomed 15 students, 2 teachers from China today! They’ll be spending time with us this week. Our 4/5 student leaders will be helping them. This afternoon we had an all school assembly to introduce them to everyone. It was a great day! #vblearnersandleaders @SDJanesville

The Kindergarten and First Grade students were using Seesaw this morning to practice their Lightning Words and to create selfies. Engaged and empowered learning! #vbrocks #JanesvillePromises

We have lots of great VB student leaders including the those who help tape and host our weekly Monday morning announcements! #vbrocks #vblearnersandleaders

Mrs. Cihlar is our featured Staff of the Week! #vbrocks #vblearnersandleaders

Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day! Mrs. Wente read Pirasaurs to the Kindergarten classes when they visited the LMC this week. Arrrrr!#vbrrrrrocks #vblearrrrnerrrrsandleaderrrrs

Say hello to Mrs. Buck! She is this week’s Staff of the Week. Mrs. Malchow was our first featured Staff of the week last week. #vblearnersandleaders

Mrs. Wente is reading The Dot by Peter Reynolds this week leading up to Dot Day on September 15th. The students are also coloring Dot Day augmented reality sheets, so they can see their dot in 3D. #vbrocks

The teachers are excited to meet you! #vbrocks #vblearnersandleaders