🍫💙💛 ONLY 38 BOXES LEFT — HELP US SELL THEM! 💛💙🍫

🐬 North Augusta Elementary needs our community’s support!

We’re making progress! We started with 50 boxes, and now we’re down to just 38 boxes of World’s Finest Chocolate! 🎉 Let’s keep the momentum going and help us sell the rest!

Funds raised will support important projects at North Augusta Elementary, including our goal of updating our school cafeteria and other projects that will benefit our students and school community. 💙💛

🍫 Chocolate Bars — $2 each
📦 Full Box — $80

💙 HOW CAN YOU HELP?

🍫 Purchase individual chocolate bars
📦 Purchase a full box
🙌 Pick up a box and help us sell it
🏢 Share with your workplace, business, church, or organization
📱 Share this post with family, friends, and neighbors

📞 READY TO HELP?
Contact the North Augusta Elementary Front Office at 803-442-6280 to purchase individual bars or pick up a box to sell.

🐬🍫 JUST 38 BOXES TO GO!

Every bar and every box sold gets us one step closer to our goal. With the support of our Dolphin families, friends, businesses, and community partners, we can finish strong!

💙💛 Thank you for supporting North Augusta Elementary and investing in our students! 🐬🍫

#NorthAugustaElementary #NAEDolphins #WorldsFinestChocolate #SupportOurSchool #CommunitySupport #DolphinPride
3 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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💙🐬 Grandparents Lunch Week is Coming to North Augusta Elementary! 🐬💛 Some of the sweetest memories are made around the table! ❤️ We are excited to welcome our wonderful grandparents and special family guests to North Augusta Elementary for a special lunch with their Dolphins. Join us next week for Grandparents Lunch Week and enjoy a little extra time together filled with smiles, conversation, and special memories! 💙💛 📅 GRANDPARENTS LUNCH SCHEDULE 🍎 Monday, September 14 • Pre-K — 10:20–10:50 AM • Kindergarten — 10:10–10:40 AM • 3rd Grade — 12:00–12:30 PM 🍎 Tuesday, September 15 • 4th Grade — 10:50–11:20 AM • 1st Grade — 11:20–11:50 AM 🍎 Thursday, September 17 • 2nd Grade — 11:00–11:30 AM • 5th Grade — 12:10–12:40 PM Grandparents and special family guests are invited to join their student during the grade level's regularly scheduled lunch time. 💙 Grandparents and special family members hold such an important place in a child's life. We are thankful for the love, encouragement, wisdom, and support you give our students each and every day. 🐬 We can't wait to welcome you to North Augusta Elementary and make some wonderful memories together! Different generations. Special moments. Lasting memories. 💛 #NAEDolphins #GrandparentsLunch #DolphinFamily #MakingMemories #NorthAugustaElementary
4 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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A poster for "Semana del Almuerzo con los Abuelos" at North Augusta Elementary, featuring event dates and times for different grades.
Poster for Grandparents Lunch Week with dates and grade levels for each day. The poster includes books, flowers, and a heart.
🌟🏆 CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR AUGUST PE ALL STARS! 🏆🌟

Each month, our Dolphins have the opportunity to be recognized as a PE All Star for being an outstanding example during Physical Education! 🐬💙💛

Being a PE All Star isn’t about being the fastest, strongest, or best athlete. It’s about the qualities that make a GREAT teammate and leader:

⭐ Giving your best effort
⭐ Having a positive attitude
⭐ Being a good teammate
⭐ Making safe choices
⭐ Encouraging and helping others
⭐ Making PE a great place for EVERYONE!

Our August PE All Stars received a certificate and special prize, along with a PE All Star Coupon that gives them a pretty awesome privilege—they get to choose what their class does in PE for a day! 🎉🏀⚽🏃

And that’s not all! Their accomplishments have earned them a special spot on the PE Wall of Fame by the gym! 🌟

We are so proud of these Dolphins for the effort, leadership, sportsmanship, and positive attitudes they demonstrate in PE. Thank you for setting such a wonderful example for your classmates!

👏 Congratulations, August PE All Stars! Keep up the GREAT work!

🐬💙💛 GO DOLPHINS! 💛💙🐬

— Coach Wilson 🩵

#NAUES #PEAllStars #GoDolphins #DolphinPride #StudentLeaders #PhysicalEducation
1 day ago, North Augusta Elementary
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➕🧮 MATH THINKERS AT WORK! 🧮➕ Our second-grade mathematicians in Ms. Beck’s class have been diving into addition strategies within 100—and they’re discovering that there’s more than one way to solve a problem! 💙💛🐬 Working with partners, students explored a variety of addition strategies, including making tens, decomposing numbers, partial sums, open number lines, and hundreds charts. They also used hands-on tools such as tens blocks, number blocks, and bead strings to model their thinking and strengthen their understanding. But the learning didn’t stop with finding the answer! 🌟 👥 Students created their own addition problems with a partner and presented them to the class. 🗣️ They explained which strategy they chose, how they solved the problem, and why their strategy worked. ✏️ While each team presented, classmates solved the same problem on their whiteboards using the strategy of their choice. 💭 Then came the really powerful part—comparing mathematical thinking! Students discussed different ways to reach the same answer and used mathematical evidence to explain their reasoning. They even practiced identifying errors, explaining where the thinking may have gone off track, and helping classmates find a path to the correct solution. These Dolphins aren’t just learning how to add—they’re learning how to think, reason, communicate, collaborate, and problem-solve like mathematicians! 🧠✨ We are so proud of the confidence and mathematical reasoning growing in Ms. Beck’s second-grade classroom! 🐬💙💛 #NAUESDolphins #SecondGrade #MathMatters #YoungMathematicians #HandsOnLearning #CriticalThinking #StudentLearning
2 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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🧁🔎 THE CASE OF THE MISSING CUPCAKES! 🔎🧁 There’s a mystery to solve in Ms. McGurk’s third-grade Gifted & Talented intervention group! 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♂️ Today, our young detectives began unpacking the case of the missing cupcakes, putting their critical-thinking skills to work as they examined clues and evidence. Students used: 🔎 Clues & evidence 🧠 Logical reasoning 💭 Inferences 🔮 Predictions 📊 Data analysis 🧩 Problem-solving But the investigation is far from over! Students will continue gathering evidence, analyzing the facts, and narrowing down the list of suspects. ⚖️ And once they determine a suspect, the case is headed to court for a mock trial! Will our third-grade investigators crack the case? Who will the evidence point to? 👀🧁 Stay tuned… the investigation continues! 🔎⚖️🐬 #NAUEDolphins #GiftedAndTalented #CriticalThinking #ProblemSolving #ThirdGrade #HandsOnLearning #FutureLeaders
3 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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📣 NAUE Families — We Need Your Input! 🐬💙💛

At North Augusta Elementary, we believe that strong partnerships between families and our school play an important role in helping every student succeed!

As a Title I school, we work together with our parents and families to develop our Title I Parent and Family Engagement Policy and School-Parent Compact. These documents outline how families, students, and school staff share responsibility for supporting student learning and academic achievement.

📝 We would love to hear from you! Please take a few minutes to review the information and complete our short parent survey.

📅 Survey Deadline: September 18, 2026

🔗 Where can I find the survey?
The survey link has been shared with families through text message and email, and a paper copy was sent home with students.

Your feedback is important and helps us continue building a strong partnership between home and school to support the success of all our Dolphins! 🐬📚

Thank you for taking the time to share your input and for your continued support of North Augusta Elementary! 💙💛
3 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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🔥🐬 MS. McGURK IS ON FIRE! 🐬🔥

NAUES, we have MORE WONDERFUL NEWS to celebrate! 🎉💙💛

Please join us in congratulating Ms. Kaitlyn McGurk, our amazing 3rd-grade teacher, on being awarded a $5,000 STEM Grant from Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS)! 🔬⚙️🚀💡

Yes—you read that right! Another exciting STEM opportunity for Ms. McGurk and our Dolphins! 🌟

This $5,000 grant will provide additional materials and resources to create engaging, hands-on STEM learning experiences for her students. Through these experiences, our Dolphins will have even more opportunities to:

🔬 Explore and investigate
⚙️ Design, build, test, and revise
💡 Think critically and solve problems
🤝 Collaborate and communicate
🚀 Apply their learning to real-world challenges

What makes this accomplishment especially exciting is the dedication behind it. Ms. McGurk continually looks for ways to make learning student-centered, meaningful, engaging, and FUN! Her efforts are helping our students develop not only their academic knowledge, but also their creativity, curiosity, confidence, perseverance, and love of learning. 💙

👏 Ms. McGurk, congratulations on this well-deserved accomplishment! Thank you for seeing possibilities, pursuing opportunities for our students, and continuing to find innovative ways to make learning come alive in your classroom.

🐬💙💛 We are incredibly proud of you and can't wait to see the STEM WAVES you make with this opportunity! 🌊🔬

🔥 Way to go, Ms. McGurk! 🔥

Help us give her another BIG Dolphin congratulations! 🎉👏🐬

#NAUESDolphins #DolphinPride #STEMEducation #STEMGrant #SRNS #HandsOnLearning #FutureInnovators #MakingWaves
3 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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🎉🐬 EXCITING NEWS AT NAUES! 🐬🎉

We are thrilled to share some WONDERFUL news with our Dolphin family! Please join us in congratulating Ms. Kaitlyn McGurk, our amazing 3rd-grade teacher, on being selected as a recipient of the Kid Spark STEM Grant! 🔬⚙️💡🚀

This is an incredible opportunity for North Augusta Elementary—and especially for our students! Through this grant, Ms. McGurk is bringing an exciting collection of hands-on STEM resources to our campus that will benefit students from Pre-K through 5th grade! 💙💛

The grant includes:

🔹 12 Early Inventors Labs and activity guides for Pre-K–1st grade
🔹 6 STEM Pathways Labs for grades 2–5
🔹 📚 A complete collection of STEM-focused storybooks
🔹 👩‍🏫 Three hours of virtual professional development for teachers
🔹 🛠️ Implementation planning and ongoing program support

These incredible resources will give our Dolphins even more opportunities to design, create, build, problem-solve, collaborate, engineer, experiment, and explore through meaningful hands-on learning experiences! 🌟

👏 Ms. McGurk, thank you for taking the initiative to pursue this opportunity and for helping bring innovative STEM learning experiences to our entire school. Your dedication, creativity, and commitment to our students are part of what makes NAUES such a special place to learn and grow.

🐬💙💛 Congratulations, Ms. McGurk! We are so proud of you and cannot wait to see the WAVES this grant will make across our school! 🌊🔬

Help us give Ms. McGurk a BIG Dolphin congratulations in the comments! 🎉👏🐬

#NAUESDolphins #KidSparkSTEM #STEMEducation #HandsOnLearning #InnovativeLearning #DolphinPride #FutureInnovators
3 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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🏈📚 READ WITH THE GAMECOCKS STARTS TODAY! 📚🏀

Our North Augusta Elementary Dolphins are ready to READ, READ, READ! 🐬❤️📖

Today, September 8, marks the beginning of our Read with the Gamecocks reading challenge! Over the next two weeks, students are encouraged to build strong reading habits by spending time reading independently at home and recording their minutes on their reading logs.

📅 Reading Challenge: September 8–21

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parents, you can help!
Encourage your child to read each day, help them keep track of their minutes, and celebrate their progress along the way. Bedtime reading, reading after homework, or curling up with a favorite book all count toward building a lifelong love of reading!

🏀 And there’s an exciting reward!
Students who meet their reading goal will earn a voucher for TWO tickets to a University of South Carolina men’s or women’s basketball game!

So grab a great book, find a comfy reading spot, and let’s get started! 📚✨

Dolphins, how many minutes can YOU read? 🐬📖

#ReadWithTheGamecocks #ReadingChallenge #NAEDolphins #LoveOfReading #Gamecocks #ReadersAreLeaders
4 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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📚💙💛 THANK YOU FOR AN AMAZING FALL BOOK FAIR! 💛💙📚 What an incredible 8 days! Our Fall Scholastic Book Fair was filled with excited readers, happy faces, great books, and countless moments that helped strengthen our students’ love of reading. 📖✨🐬 A heartfelt THANK YOU to our North Augusta Elementary families and community for supporting our Book Fair. Your support helps our library continue providing wonderful books and reading opportunities for our Dolphins! 💙💛 🌟 To our fabulous parent volunteers—we are incredibly grateful for EACH of you! 🌟 Whether you volunteered for a few hours, a day, or several days, every minute you gave made a difference. You helped students find books, assisted with purchases, answered questions, organized shelves, and helped keep eight very busy days running smoothly. We simply could not have done it without you! 💙 We would also like to recognize our NAUE PTO President, Lisa Takashima-Haggerty, for an extraordinary commitment of time throughout the Fair. Lisa was with us every day, all day, working alongside our volunteers and helping ensure that our students had the best Book Fair experience possible. Lisa, thank you for your incredible dedication and support! 💐 It truly takes a village, and every person who gave their time, supported the Fair, purchased a book, or encouraged a young reader helped make these eight days a success. 📚 So many books. So many smiles. A stronger love of reading! Thank you, Dolphin Family! Keep reading, Dolphins! 🐬💙💛
8 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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🇺🇸🐬 Happy Labor Day, Dolphins! 🐬🇺🇸

As a reminder, there will be NO SCHOOL on Monday, September 7, 2026, in observance of Labor Day.

We hope our NAUES students, families, teachers, and staff enjoy a safe, relaxing, and well-deserved long weekend! 💙💛

We are especially thankful for the hardworking individuals in our school and community whose dedication makes a difference each and every day.

Enjoy your Labor Day, Dolphins! 🌊🐬

#NAUES #LaborDay #DolphinPride #MakingWaves
8 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
Labor Day no school 9/7/26

Investing in Our Students. Supporting Our Schools. Building Possibilities.

We are incredibly grateful to SRP Federal Credit Union for investing in the future of our elementary students and educators through its new Investing in Education: Unlimited Possibilities initiative.

At the kickoff event held at the WOW! Club at, SRP Park in North Augusta, SRP Federal Credit Union announced that 83 schools across 10 CSRA counties will each receive $2,500 representing a remarkable $207,500 total investment in local elementary education.

This generous support gives our principals the flexibility to respond to the unique needs of their schools — whether that means providing instructional resources, creating hands-on learning experiences, supporting teachers, or offering enriching opportunities for students.

“This investment empowers our principals to respond directly to the unique needs of their schools and create meaningful opportunities through instructional resources, hands-on learning, and enrichment experiences," Dr. Charlene Heard, Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Schools said.

Partnerships like this remind us what is possible when our schools and community come together with a shared commitment to student success. We are proud to have SRP Federal Credit Union investing alongside us and helping create unlimited possibilities for our students!

To read more on this story, please visit www.acpsd.net/invest-education

9 days ago, Aiken County Public School District
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A group of adults stands in a room holding a large check and banners that read "Investing in Education."
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📚🎉 ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT TO VISIT THE BOOK FAIR! 🎉📚

The excitement isn’t over yet! Our Scholastic Book Fair closes this Friday, September 4, which means there are still TWO DAYS LEFT to shop! 🛍️📖

💙💛 Parents & Families: If you weren’t able to join us on your child’s scheduled lunch day, it’s not too late! You are welcome to come have lunch with your child and stop by the Book Fair during these final two days.

There are still lots of great books waiting to find their way into the hands of our Dolphin readers! 🐬📚 Every purchase also helps support our school library and our students.

⏰ Book Fair Hours: 7:15 AM–2:45 PM
📅 Final Day: Friday, September 4

Thank you to all of our families who have already visited and supported the Book Fair. We have loved seeing the excitement, smiles, and—most importantly—students excited about BOOKS! 💙💛📚

Don’t miss your last chance to shop! 🐬📖✨

#ScholasticBookFair #DolphinReaders #NorthAugustaElementary #LoveOfReading #DolphinPride
10 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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➗✨ Hands-On Math in Third Grade! ✨➗ Ms. McGurk’s third-grade mathematicians were busy learning by doing! 🧠🙌 Students were introduced to the distributive property using tiles to build, break apart, and explore multiplication problems. By using hands-on manipulatives, students could see how larger arrays can be divided into smaller, easier-to-solve groups—helping make an important math concept meaningful and concrete. 🔢🟦🟨 We love seeing our Dolphins explore, problem-solve, and build their mathematical thinking one tile at a time! 🐬💙💛 #NorthAugustaElementary #DolphinPride #ThirdGradeMath #HandsOnLearning #DistributiveProperty #MathIsFun #LearningInAction
10 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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🐬💙💛 Dolphin Treasures is OPEN! 💛💙🐬

We are in full swing with the opening of our school-wide store, Dolphin Treasures! 🎉🛍️

Throughout the school day, our Dolphins have opportunities to earn points by demonstrating positive behavior, making responsible choices, and showing leadership. Those hard-earned points can then be spent at Dolphin Treasures on some exciting rewards! ⭐

Making the store even more special are our amazing fifth-grade Student Ambassadors! These students have been selected because they demonstrate leadership, responsibility, and excellent behavior, and they are doing a fantastic job helping our younger Dolphins shop and enjoy the experience. 🐬👏

Our first graders were excited to visit the store, check their points, make their selections, and practice making thoughtful choices about how to spend what they have earned! 🛒✨

Dolphin Treasures is more than a store—it is another fun way to recognize positive choices, encourage leadership, and celebrate our students' success!

Way to go, Dolphins! Keep earning, leading, and making great choices! 💙💛🐬

#DolphinTreasures #DolphinPride #StudentLeadership #PositiveBehavior #StudentAmbassadors #LeaderInMe #NorthAugustaElementary
10 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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Three children stand at a table with green storage bins on it. A boy in a blue shirt and red shorts holds an object.
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🎶 Our fourth-grade students enjoyed an exciting musical field trip to Carnegie Hall’s Link Up concert today! They experienced the power and beauty of live music performed by the Aiken Philharmonic Orchestra and enthusiastically sang along with “Come to Play,” “We Shall Not Be Moved,” and Jim Papoulis’s “Oye”—a song inspired by children in Mexico asking the world to listen to their voices. Students also expanded their musical knowledge by seeing and hearing the orchestra’s four instrument families: strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. A special highlight was watching three Aiken County Public School District music teachers perform on recorder with the orchestra during Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” and music from Dvořák’s New World Symphony. Students were also thrilled to see a ballet dancer perform to the powerful finale of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite! It was a wonderful opportunity for our students to connect what they have learned in music class with a live orchestral performance! 🎻🎺🪈🥁🩰🎵
10 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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📚💙 A Special Morning for Our Third-Grade Readers! 💙📚

What an exciting morning at North Augusta Elementary! 🐬 Our third graders had the wonderful opportunity to visit the Scholastic Book Fair and choose books of their very own through the Diana Floyd “My Own Book” Program!

Made possible through Public Education Partners of Aiken County (PEP) and generous community sponsors, the program provides each of the district’s 1,742 third-grade students with a $15 Book Fair voucher to select books they want to read and take home to keep. 📖❤️

The smiles said it all as our Dolphins browsed, compared books, discovered new favorites, and proudly showed off their selections! Giving students the opportunity to choose their own books helps make reading personal, meaningful, and exciting.

The program honors the memory of Diana Floyd, a past Chairperson of PEP, and is now in its fourth year. It has already helped place an estimated 5,000+ books into student households while supporting school libraries.

🌟 We are incredibly grateful to PEP, Meta, The Charitable Foundation of Aiken, Community Foundation of CSRA, and ALL of the generous sponsors who made today's experience possible.

Because of you, our students left the Book Fair this morning with more than books—they left with stories they chose, books they can call their own, and excitement about what they will read next!

From the students and teachers of North Augusta Elementary School—THANK YOU for investing in our young readers! 📚💙🐬

#NorthAugustaElementary #MyOwnBook #DianaFloyd #PublicEducationPartners #LoveOfReading #YoungReaders #BookFair #NAEDolphins
10 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
A colorful poster lists sponsors for the Diana Floyd "My Own Book" Program, with names, hearts, books, and a backdrop of stars.
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A woman with pink hair sits with two boys at a table, looking at a book and white papers.
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PEP Of Aiken My Own Books Student selecting new books
⚡🔬 Science was ELECTRIC in Ms. McGurk’s third-grade classes! 🔬⚡ Our young scientists had an exciting time experimenting with conductors and insulators! Students tested different objects to discover which materials allow electricity to flow and which materials stop it. Through hands-on investigation, teamwork, and plenty of scientific thinking, students made predictions, tested their ideas, and classified objects based on their results. 💡🧪 We love seeing our Dolphins learn through discovery and turn curiosity into understanding! 🐬💙💛 #NAEDolphins #ThirdGradeScience #YoungScientists #ConductorsAndInsulators #HandsOnLearning #LearningIsElectric
11 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
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Three kids sit at a table, two boys and a girl, working on a small circuit with wires and a spinning toy.
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Classroom with students seated at desks; a boy in red holds a wire, another holds his hand.
Children work on a project at a table in a classroom with other children and teachers.
Four girls at a desk, one holding a tablet. Two of them have braids, one in a pink shirt. The background features blue cabinets and shelves.
Children in a classroom with blue chairs and desks. A girl works at a desk, and a boy uses a tablet.
A classroom with children seated at desks, one standing and raising hands. Papers, a tablet, and pens are on a desk.
Three young girls seated at a desk in a classroom, looking at a project. One has a necklace, another holds a book.
Kids work at a table in a classroom with a whiteboard and other students in the background.
🔔⚙️ Science in Action in Fourth Grade! ⚙️🔔 Ms. Budreau’s fourth-grade scientists are putting their creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving skills to work! Students worked in groups to design a device that converts mechanical energy into sound energy by ringing bells. Throughout the challenge, students had the opportunity to design, build, test, observe, and improve their ideas while exploring how factors such as speed can affect energy and sound. What a great example of hands-on learning! These young scientists are discovering that sometimes the best learning happens when we work together, test our ideas, and learn from the results! 🧠💡 Way to go, fourth grade! 🐬💙💛 #NorthAugustaElementary #FourthGradeScience #HandsOnLearning #STEM #ScienceInAction #Teamwork #YoungScientists #DolphinsLeadTheWay
11 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
An educational poster with the words "Hands-on Science Learning" in large letters. A dolphin and other icons are displayed below.
Group of students in a classroom setting, some sitting, some standing, gathered around a cardboard model.
Three children pose next to a cardboard project in a classroom. The two on the left hold cardboard, one kneeling on the floor.
Three girls sit on a floor with a cardboard ramp in front of them. One wears a white shirt and pink skirt. Another wears a pink shirt. A third wears a purple shirt.
Three children sit on a floor with a long cardboard track. One holds a paper. Behind, a classroom has a blackboard with green boxes.
Three children sitting on a floor, engaged in a school activity with a cardboard tube.
Three children are sitting on the floor in a classroom. Two are smiling, one with glasses, scissors, and orange paper. Behind them are shelves with storage boxes.
Three girls in a classroom with a cardboard bridge in front of them, smiling. Other students work behind them.
Children gather around a cardboard structure in a classroom, with one student holding a piece of cardboard.
🎉💙💛 TONIGHT IS SONIC SPIRIT NIGHT! 💛💙🎉

Skip cooking tonight and join your North Augusta Elementary family for Sonic Spirit Night! 🐬🍔🥤🍦

📅 Tonight — September 1
⏰ 5:00–9:00 PM
📍 Sonic — 1187 Knox Avenue, North Augusta

Bring the whole family, invite your friends, and stop by for dinner, drinks, or a sweet treat! Every purchase helps support our students and teachers at North Augusta Elementary. 💙💛

Let’s PACK SONIC and show our Dolphin spirit! 🐬🎉

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11 days ago, North Augusta Elementary
A poster advertises Sonic Spirit Night on Tuesday, September 1, from 5:00 to 9:00 PM. It includes food items and the mascot.