North Augusta Elementary

📚✨ **Seeing the Story Through a Character’s Eyes!** ✨📚

Dr. McClure’s **4C and 4D Language Arts scholars** have been digging deeper into character perspective! Over the past two weeks, students have learned that a character’s **perspective is how they “see” and experience the events in a story.** 👀📖

Students selected characters and became text detectives, using **evidence from the text** to explain how their characters **acted, thought, and felt**. 🔎💭❤️ By supporting their ideas with evidence, our Dolphins are strengthening their reading comprehension, critical-thinking, and analysis skills!

Way to go, 4C and 4D, for looking beyond the words on the page and seeing the story from a character’s point of view! 🐬💙💛

#NAUES #MakingWaves #DolphinPride #LanguageArts #FourthGrade #CharacterPerspective #TextEvidence #ReadersAreLeaders

🍰🔐 Figurative Language + An Escape Room = A Piece of Cake! 🔐🍰 Today, scholars in Dr. Moore’s ELA class put their figurative language skills to the test with an exciting classroom escape room challenge! Titled “A Piece of Cake,” the activity challenged scholars to work their way through six different tasks, using their knowledge of figurative language to solve clues, complete each challenge, and ultimately escape the room with a piece of cake! 🎂 Students combined critical thinking, collaboration, problem-solving, and their ELA knowledge to reach the finish line. What a fun way to turn learning into an adventure—and make figurative language a little sweeter! 💙💛 Way to go, Dolphins! 🐬 #NAUES #MakingWaves #DolphinPride #ELA #FigurativeLanguage #LearningIsFun #EscapeRoomChallenge #EngagedLearning

🍫🐬 LET’S KEEP MAKING WAVES WITH WORLD’S FINEST CHOCOLATE! 🐬🍫

A HUGE thank you to all of our amazing North Augusta Elementary students, families, friends, and community members who have been selling and purchasing World’s Finest Chocolate! 💙💛 Your support is helping make a difference for our Dolphins!

We’re heading into the FINAL STRETCH, so let’s finish strong! 🌊

📦 Last Day to Pick Up a New Box to Sell: August 26, 2026
💰 Last Day to Turn In All Money: August 31, 2026

Every chocolate bar sold brings us one step closer to reaching our fundraising goals! Funds raised help support student incentives, staff celebrations, campus beautification, special activities, and so much more throughout the school year.

🍫 Every bar counts. Every box makes a difference. Every sale supports our Dolphins!

If you’re selling, keep up the fantastic work and sell as much as you can! Together, we can finish this fundraiser strong and continue making North Augusta Elementary an even better place to learn, grow, and shine! 🐬💙💛

Thank you for supporting NAUES and helping us continue MAKING WAVES! 🌊🍫

#NAUES #MakingWaves #DolphinPride #WorldsFinestChocolate #SupportOurSchool #BetterTogether

📣 **EARLY RELEASE REMINDER!** ⏰🎒

Mark your calendars! **Wednesday, August 19, 2026, is an Early Release Day.**

🚌 **Early Dismissal Schedule:**
🐬 **Elementary – 11:30 a.m.**
🏫 Middle – 12:10 p.m.
🎓 High – 12:30 p.m.

NAUES families, please make arrangements for our Dolphins to be dismissed at **11:30 a.m.** and plan for any necessary changes to transportation or afternoon schedules.

Thank you for helping us have a smooth and safe early dismissal! 💙💛🐬

#NAUES #EarlyRelease #DolphinPride #MakingWaves

🌟🐬 5th Grade Leaders Leading the Way! 🐬🌟 We are so proud of our 5th Grade Dolphins who are stepping up as leaders and making a difference at NAUE each and every morning! 💙💛 🚸 Our Safety Patrol students start their day by helping our newest and youngest Dolphins find their way to class. Their friendly smiles, helping hands, and willingness to serve help make our school feel safe, welcoming, and connected from the moment students walk through the doors. 🎙️📺 Our Dolphins News Announcers are also putting their leadership skills into action! Each morning, they welcome our school, share important announcements, and help start our day with positivity and encouragement—reminding everyone to be ready to learn, lead, and make the most of the day! These 5th graders are showing our younger Dolphins what leadership looks like through responsibility, kindness, confidence, and service to others. What a wonderful example they are setting as the oldest students in our school! 👏 Way to lead, 5th Grade Dolphins! We are proud to have you helping us Make Waves at NAUE! 🌊🐬💙💛 #NAUE #FifthGradeLeaders #SafetyPatrol #DolphinsNews #StudentLeadership #MakingWaves #DolphinPride #LeadingTheWay

📚💙 **CALLING ALL BOOK FAIR VOLUNTEERS!** 💛🐬

Our Fall Scholastic Book Fair is almost here, and **we still have LOTS of volunteer time slots available!** We would love your help making the Book Fair a wonderful experience for our Dolphins! 📖✨

Whether you can volunteer for **one hour, one shift, or several**, every bit of your time makes a difference. Volunteers help students find books they’ll love, assist with shopping, and help keep our Book Fair running smoothly.

📅 **Book Fair: August 26 – September 4**

🙋‍♀️ **We need YOU! Sign up for an available shift today:**
👉 https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0E4DAFA72BA0F85-64854714-2026#/

⚠️ **Volunteer Reminder:** All volunteers must complete this year’s ACPSD online volunteer training before their scheduled shift. Learn more here:
👉 https://www.acpsd.net/o/naues/page/volunteering

Even an hour of your time can make a BIG difference! Thank you for supporting our students, our library, and our school. We can’t wait to see you at the Book Fair! 🐬📚💙💛

#NAUES #BookFair #BookFairVolunteers #DolphinPride #MakingWaves #VolunteersMakeADifference

📣 **EARLY RELEASE REMINDER!** ⏰🎒

Mark your calendars! **Wednesday, August 19, 2026, is an Early Release Day.**

🚌 **Early Dismissal Schedule:**
🐬 **Elementary – 11:30 a.m.**
🏫 Middle – 12:10 p.m.
🎓 High – 12:30 p.m.

NAUES families, please make arrangements for our Dolphins to be dismissed at **11:30 a.m.** and plan for any necessary changes to transportation or afternoon schedules.

Thank you for helping us have a smooth and safe early dismissal! 💙💛🐬

#NAUES #EarlyRelease #DolphinPride #MakingWaves

🚨 LOCKDOWN DRILL REMINDER 🚨

The safety and security of our Dolphins is always a top priority at North Augusta Elementary School. 💙🐬

During the week of August 17, our school will conduct a lockdown drill to help ensure that students and staff are familiar with our safety procedures and prepared to respond appropriately in the event of a real emergency.

Teachers and staff will guide students through the drill in a calm, age-appropriate manner while reinforcing the importance of listening carefully, following directions, and remaining quiet and safe.

Please remember that this is only a scheduled practice drill. Families with questions or concerns are encouraged to contact their child’s teacher.

Thank you for partnering with us as we work together to keep our Dolphins safe! 🐬💙💛

#NAUES #DolphinPride #SchoolSafety #SafetyFirst #MakingWaves

🎉💙🐬 Celebrating Our First Grade Leaders! 🐬💛🎉 We are so proud of this week’s First Grade Leader Loot winners! 🌟 These amazing Dolphins are showing what it means to make great choices, demonstrate leadership, and set a positive example for others. Way to go, leaders! 👏💙 🌟 And a HUGE congratulations to our First Grade YOU ROCK Winner… ZOE! 🌟 Zoe is a wonderful example of what it means to be a leader! 💙 She is kind to everyone, dependable, positive, and always willing to lend a helping hand or be a friend to someone who needs one. She follows directions, works hard, and gives her very best each and every day. 📚✨ And on top of all that—she is simply super sweet! 🥰 Zoe, your kindness, positive attitude, and dedication to learning make our school a better place. YOU ROCK! 🎸⭐🐬 Congratulations to Zoe and ALL of our First Grade Leader Loot winners! Keep leading, learning, and Making Waves! 🌊💙💛 #NAUES #MakingWaves #DolphinPride #FirstGrade #LeaderLoot #YouRock #StudentLeadership #ProudToBeADolphin

🏃‍♀️🏀 Views from PE! 🐬💙💛 Our Dolphins are moving, learning, and having FUN in P.E. with Coach Wilson! From staying active to practicing teamwork, sportsmanship, and new skills, there’s always something exciting happening in the gym! 💪🏽🏃‍♂️ We love seeing our Dolphins encourage one another, give their best effort, and discover just how much fun being active can be! 🌊🐬 Keep moving, Dolphins! 💙💛 #NAUES #DolphinPride #MakingWaves #PhysicalEducation #ActiveDolphins #Teamwork #PEFun

💙📚 A Thank You From the Library — Five Years in the Making! 📚💛 As your Library Media Specialist, I want to take a moment to say THANK YOU to our NAUES families and our incredible NAUES PTO for your continued support of our school and library program. Five years ago, I set a pretty big goal: replace and update our library furniture that dated back to 1986! I knew it wasn't something we could accomplish all at once, so I created a three-stage plan and began saving our Scholastic Book Fair profits little by little each year. 📚 Stage 1: New student tables and chairs 💻 Stage 2: Additional seating for our computer area 🛋️ Stage 3: New “comfortable seating” where students can settle in with a great book Thanks to the families who have supported our Book Fairs year after year, I was able to use our Book Fair profits to complete Stages 1 and 2. Then, last spring, something wonderful happened. 💙 Our amazing NAUES PTO generously contributed funds to the library, and by combining their contribution with the Book Fair funds I had saved, we were able to complete Stage 3 ahead of schedule! Without their generosity, I would likely have been saving for another two years to make this final stage a reality. Today, when I look around our library and see students reading, learning, collaborating, and enjoying these new spaces, I see so much more than new furniture. I see what happens when a school community comes together for its children. 🐬📚 To every parent, grandparent, family member, and friend who has shopped at one of our Book Fairs over the years—YOU helped make this happen. Every book purchased and every Book Fair supported contributed to improving our library for the students we serve today and for the Dolphins who will come through our doors for many years to come. And to our NAUES PTO—thank you for believing in and supporting our library program and for helping me turn a long-term dream into reality much sooner than I ever expected. Your support of our students, faculty, and school means more than you know. I am incredibly grateful and can't wait for our families to see and enjoy the completed transformation. 💙💛 With parent and community support, all things are possible! With sincere gratitude, Stephanie Morin Library Media Specialist 📚🐬 #NAUES #DolphinPride #MakingWaves #NAUESPTO #SchoolLibrary #BookFair #ThankYou #BetterTogether

🎫🍫 WE HAVE GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS! 🍫🎫 Congratulations to Lillian and Addison, who each discovered a Golden Ticket inside their World’s Finest Chocolate boxes! 🌟🎉 What an exciting surprise! But the fun isn’t over yet… 👀 TWO Golden Tickets are still out there waiting to be found! Could one be hiding in YOUR chocolate box? 🍫✨ Keep selling, keep checking those boxes, and keep your eyes open—you could be our next Golden Ticket winner! 🐬💙💛 Congratulations, Lillian and Addison! 🎉🎫 #NAUE #MakingWaves #GoldenTicket #WorldsFinestChocolate #DolphinPride #FundraiserFun

🏀📚 Math in Action in Mr. Anderson’s Fourth Grade! 🔢✨ Mr. Anderson’s fourth graders have been putting their math skills to work with some fun, hands-on learning! Over the past couple of weeks, students have tackled a Basketball Math Rounding Activity 🏀, practicing their rounding skills while adding a little game-day excitement to math. They also completed “Where Do I Belong?”, an interactive place value activity that challenged students to use their understanding of digits and their values to determine exactly where numbers belong. 🔢🧠 Activities like these give our Dolphins opportunities to think, problem-solve, collaborate, and apply their math skills in meaningful ways. We love seeing our fourth graders building confidence while making learning fun! 💙🐬💛 Way to go, Mr. Anderson’s mathematicians! 🌟 #NAUE #MakingWaves #FourthGrade #MathInAction #PlaceValue #Rounding #HandsOnLearning #DolphinPride

💙🐬 THANK YOU, DOLPHIN FAMILIES! 🐬💛 What a wonderful evening at North Augusta Elementary School! Thank you to all of our families who joined us tonight for our Annual Title I Meeting & Open House. We were so excited to welcome you into our school, visit together in classrooms, share some of the great things already happening at NAUE, and strengthen the partnership between home and school. 📚✏️💙 Your involvement, encouragement, and support make such a difference in the success of our students. We are grateful to have such an amazing school community working together to help every Dolphin learn, grow, and shine! 🌟 Thank you for spending your evening with us and for helping us continue Making Waves at NAUE! 🌊🐬 #NAUE #MakingWaves #DolphinPride #OpenHouse #TitleI #FamilyEngagement #BetterTogether

🍫🐬 **WOW, DOLPHINS—WE ARE AMAZED BY YOUR SUPPORT!** 🐬🍫

Our World’s Finest Chocolate Fundraiser is going strong, and we cannot say **THANK YOU** enough! 💙💛 We have been blown away by the support from our students, families, friends, staff, and community members who are selling, purchasing, and helping spread the word!

But we’re not finished yet! 🌊 **There is still time to help us MAKE EVEN BIGGER WAVES!**

🍫 Keep selling those chocolate bars!
📦 Ready for another box? Keep it going!
💙 Haven’t participated yet? It’s not too late to join us!
📣 Friends and family—you can help by purchasing a delicious **$2 chocolate bar** from one of our Dolphin families!

Remember, **every bar sold adds up to something BIG for our school!** Funds raised help support student incentives, staff celebrations, campus beautification, special activities, and so much more.

📅 **Last day to pick up a new box:** August 26
💰 **All money due:** August 31

We’ve already accomplished so much together—now let’s see how far we can go! **Keep selling, keep sharing, and keep MAKING WAVES for NAUES!** 🌊🐬💙💛

#NAUES #MakingWaves #DolphinPride #WorldsFinestChocolate #SupportOurSchool #BetterTogether

🍫🐬 **WHAT AN AMAZING START, DOLPHINS!** 🐬🍫

We’re only on **DAY 3** of our World’s Finest Chocolate Fundraiser, and our North Augusta Elementary families are already **MAKING WAVES!** 🌊💙💛

A HUGE thank you to everyone who has picked up a box, started selling, purchased chocolate, or shared our fundraiser with family and friends. We are so grateful for the incredible support! 💙

Haven’t joined in yet? **There’s still plenty of time!** 🎉
🍫 Pick up a box and help us sell!
🍫 Purchase a delicious $2 chocolate bar from one of our Dolphin families!
🍫 Encourage friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors to support NAUES!

**Every single bar sold makes a difference!** Money raised helps us provide student incentives, staff celebrations, campus beautification, special activities, and more—all things that help make our school an even better place for our Dolphins to learn and grow. 🐬✨

We’ve had a fantastic first three days, but **we’re just getting started!** Let’s keep the excitement going, sell those chocolate bars, and see just how BIG of a wave our Dolphin community can make! 🌊🍫

**Thank you for supporting NAUES!** 💙💛

#NAUES #MakingWaves #DolphinPride #WorldsFinestChocolate #SupportOurSchool #BetterTogether

🎉➕✖️ FACT FLUENCY SUPERSTARS! ✖️➗🎉 A HUGE congratulations to Lucas and Josue, two amazing 5th graders in Mrs. Lewis’ class, for an incredible math achievement! 🐬💙💛 These hardworking Dolphins have officially cleared ALL FOUR LEVELS of the XtraMath Fact Fluency Program! 🏆🧠 That means they have demonstrated outstanding dedication to building their math fact fluency and strengthening the skills that will help them tackle more challenging math with confidence. Reaching this milestone takes practice, perseverance, focus, and determination—and Lucas and Josue put in the work! 💪📚 Way to go, Lucas and Josue! We are so proud of you for Making Waves in Math! 🌊🐬⭐ #NAUES #MakingWaves #MathSuperstars #FactFluency #XtraMath #FifthGrade #DolphinPride #StudentSuccess

🐬💙 TOMORROW NIGHT — WE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE OUR DOLPHIN FAMILIES! 💛🐬 Join us at North Augusta Elementary School for our Annual Title I Meeting & Open House! 📅 Thursday, August 13 ⏰ 5:30–7:00 PM We’re excited to welcome our families back to campus for an evening of connection, information, and a chance to see all the wonderful things happening at NAUE! 🌊✨ 💙 Here’s what you can look forward to: 📌 Learn more about our Title I program and how it supports student success 📣 Hear from our amazing PTO and learn about the exciting events and opportunities planned for this year 🏫 Visit your child’s classroom and see what they have already been learning and accomplishing 🤝 Connect with teachers and our NAUE school community 🌮🍧 Come hungry! Beefed-Up Food Truck and Kona Ice will also be available during the evening! Family involvement makes such a difference, and we hope you’ll join us as we continue working together to make this an incredible year for our Dolphins! 🐬💙💛 📍 North Augusta Elementary School 📅 Tomorrow — Thursday, August 13 ⏰ 5:30–7:00 PM See you tomorrow night, Dolphin Family! Let’s keep Making Waves together! 🌊🐬 #NAUE #MakingWaves #DolphinPride #OpenHouse #TitleI #FamilyEngagement #BetterTogether

🍫 Support North Augusta Elementary School! 🐬💙 Our World’s Finest Chocolate Fundraiser is underway, and every purchase makes a difference for our Dolphins! Your support helps us provide student incentives, staff celebrations, campus beautification, special activities, and so much more throughout the school year. When you support NAUES, you’re not just buying chocolate—you’re investing in our students, celebrating our staff, and helping us make our school an even better place to learn and grow! 🌊💙 Thank you for supporting North Augusta Elementary School and helping us continue Making Waves! 🐬🍫 #NAUES #MakingWaves #DolphinPride #WorldsFinestChocolate #SupportOurSchool #BetterTogether