
April 9, 2024
Today our 3rd grade students got to witness the solar eclipse! Big thanks to Kristin at Pontiac Public Library for donating glasses, learning materials, and eclipse hats!

April 9, 2024
Students recently created a poster for a School Bus Safety Week poster contest. Winners were chosen from each grade level, and the 1st place posters will go on to compete in th...
March 21, 2024
15 phonics rules for reading and spelling
By Ginny Osewalt
When kids and adults learn to read, they’re connecting how words sound to how those sounds are represented by le...

March 1, 2024
3rd grade explored making animations on Google Slides this week. This is a brand new skill for them so it was a challenge, but the students really enjoyed animating and their proj...

February 28, 2024
Congratulations to Addilynn Marshall on winning our final treasure chest! Book Blast is not over yet! There is still time! Help your teacher earn free classroom supplies and boo...

February 28, 2024
Our third treasure chest winner was Maxwell Kucharski! Congratulations!

February 27, 2024
Yesterday, we announced that Luke Levin was the 2nd Treasure Chest winner! We will be announcing our 3rd treasure chest winner at the end of the day. It's not too late to sign up!...

February 26, 2024
March Events March 15th--End of 3rd Quarter March 19th--Board Meeting @ 6:30 at PJHS Library March 19th & 21st--Parent/Teacher Conferences from 3-6:30 p.m. March 22--No ...

February 23, 2024
Scarlett Vernia is our 1st Book Blast Treasure Chest winner! We still have three more Treasure Chests to give away, so be sure to complete your Treasure Map assignment tonight a...
February 23, 2024
Gummies, Gummies, Everywhere:
Protect Your Children from Downing Cannabis, Multivitamin and Melatonin Gummies Kids a...

February 23, 2024
Throughout the last two months, 2nd grade teachers have been implementing a social studies unit on the topic of citizens and government . In this unit, students are learning how t...

February 22, 2024
Please give a big round of applause to our winner - Jaxson Sancken! There is still time to complete your Treasure Map and get in on the fun.
February 22, 2024
What is reading fluency? Reading fluency is smooth reading that sounds like conversational speech. It is NOT reading as fast as you can.
Why is reading fluency so important? ...

February 21, 2024
Ms. Smith and Ms. Waldschmidt’s classes participated in Scholastic’s Read-a-thon for World Read Aloud Day


February 1, 2024
3rd grade has been studying motion and learning how we can predict the motion of an object based on its pattern. We used this new knowledge to create pendulum paintings and they t...

February 1, 2024
Mrs. Tuttle's class was the winner of last week’s Golden Spatula. Our focus was voice levels and Mrs. Tuttle's class did a great job using appropriate voice levels! Keep up the go...

January 22, 2024
Pontiac Grade School District #429 will be closed today, Monday, January 22, 2024 due to inclement weather. All scheduled activities will be cancelled as well. School will resume...


January 12, 2024
MLK Jr Day - No School - Monday, January 15, 2024