Boone Trail Elementary School

Reminder: Tomorrow, Monday, February 19th is a Teacher’s Workday.

We are shouting congratulations to Bailey Cummings from Mrs. Thomas’ 3rd grade class. Bailey represented Boone Trail Elementary and Harnett County well today at the Region 4 Science and Engineering Fair at UNC Pembroke. She finished in the top 8 which qualities her for state competition next month at NC State University! She's so excited and we are very proud of her!

This is a reminder that Monday, February 19, 2024 is a holiday / optional teacher work day.

Harnett County Schools will be closed. (NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS)

Classes will resume on Tuesday, February 20, 2024.

Ms. May and Mrs. Chitwood’s kindergartens are igniting their curiosity with playful learning this morning through the FIRST® LEGO® League Discover Class Pack.

The 2023-2024 art-inspired MASTERPIECE materials will help students imagine and innovate new ways to create and communicate art across the globe.

Today ends our celebration of Love the Bus Week, but we hope our drivers and monitors know we love them and appreciate them every single day! This is post #6. Each day this week, we have honored our bus drivers. We are grateful for each one of them and all that they bring to Boone Trail Elementary! Thank you for helping us show our drivers and monitors how special they are.

Today we celebrated Meeting Academic Growth for the 2022-2023 School Year with pizza, snacks and duty free lunch! Thank you to the PTO Thrift Store for purchasing our pizza!!

Monday started Love the Bus Week. This is post #5. Each day this week, we will honor our bus drivers. We are grateful for each one of them and all that they bring to Boone Trail Elementary! Be on the lookout for different drivers each day!

Bus 26 was full of love bugs today! ❤️😍🐞

Mrs. Spivey and Miss Mason invited Ms. Mix and Mrs. Sam’s class to celebrate Valentine’s Day with them today! Just look at those faces!

Mrs. Spivey’s first graders STEM activity today: Will candy hearts sink or float in water, soda and vinegar?

Mrs. Crews took Ms. Womack’s fifth graders on a virtual field trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park this morning. Students spent time investigating invertebrates.
Students learned about some of the great research that happens in the park as they helped the Smoky rangers identify terrestrial macroinvertebrates in the virtual ‘lab’. Students used the Invertebrate Order Guide to see real Smokies invertebrates and identify them to the taxonomic order level.

Monday started Love the Bus Week. This is post #4. Each day this week, we will honor our bus drivers. We are grateful for each one of them and all that they bring to Boone Trail Elementary! Be on the lookout for different drivers each day!

Yesterday started Love the Bus Week. This is post #3. Each day this week, we will honor our bus drivers. We are grateful for each one of them and all that they bring to Boone Trail Elementary! Be on the lookout for different drivers each day!

Our whole kindergarten team made
Valentine’s Day cards for Pinecrest Gardens nursing home today. These cards will surely make someone’s day.

Today starts Love the Bus Week. This is post #2. Each day this week, we will honor each our bus drivers. We are grateful for each one of them and all that they bring to Boone Trail Elementary! Be on the lookout for different drivers each day!

101 Days of School Today!

Today starts Love the Bus Week. This is post #1. Each day this week, we will honor a few of our bus drivers. We are grateful for each one of them and all that they bring to Boone Trail Elementary! Be on the lookout for different drivers each day!

More 100 Day Pictures.

Congratulations to Nylah Wilson, from Ms. Womack’s 5th grade class, for winning our Spelling Bee today. She will represent BTES at our county Spelling Bee on February 23rd. Aaron Guerra, from Mr. Viloria’s 5th grade class, placed second and is our runner up. We would like to congratulate all of our representatives from each class today as well! Special thanks for Mrs. Langston for organizing this event for our school. We would also like to thank our announcer, and judges for your help today.

After reading “Clovis Keeps His Cool” in media, students collaborated about how to stack their “China cups“ only using finger each or one pencil each. Through persistence, patience, and determination these problem solvers conquered the task !

100th Day festivities are in full swing! Our Pioneers are having a blast celebrating today!

Mrs. Blauert and Mrs. Griffin’s first graders built igloos made from marshmallows and styrofoam bowls and even made some 3D snowmen. ☃️❄️

Students in Mrs. Raynor’s library read “Chester Van Chime Who Forgot How to Rhyme” and then participated in the Building Rhyme STEM challenge where they had to collaborate with a partner, decide on a way to represent rhyme, and build that representation.

Mrs. Spivey’s first graders “pushed” through their force and motion lesson today with Mrs. Crews. Students completed a brochure about force and motion and then put what they learned to the test by collaborating and creating a hot wheels track design to show different variations of force and motion.

Ms. Needham’s class had their thinking caps on today as they used their creativity to be innovative problem solvers today during their STEM activity!

BTES extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, Highland Middle School family, and Harnett County Sheriff’s Department for the loss of Deputy/SRO C. Johnson. 💙🖤