
We had a fantastic time at Buzzy’s STEM and Literacy Night! 🎉 We hope you and your family enjoyed it as much as we did! A huge thank you to our incredible community supporters: Reidville Fire Department, Kona Ice, Kat’s BBQ, Mexican Delight, Sweet Touch, One Eyed Donkey, Middle Tyger Library, and Spartanburg Science Center. What was your favorite part of the night? Let us know in the comments! 💬











🍉 🍑🍒🥕Ms. Evan’s 1st grade class is having a blast exploring the world of fruits and vegetables 🥦🍓🍎🌽! They’ve been learning all about how plants grow, discovering text features, and identifying central ideas and details and sortingg fruits and veggies! 🌱✨











📚✨ Fraction fun in Ms. Gaskins's 4th-grade class! 🤩💪 Students teamed up to simplify fractions and learn together! 👫❤️
#MathMagic #FractionFun #BerryShoalsBees











Check out these kindergartners reading and working with CVC words!!! They have grown so much this year!!








We had some excited kids in Mrs. Nelson's class today ❄️❄️





Wednesday, February 26th will be a district wide early release day. Please add this date to your calendar! We will begin dismissal at 11:30


🚨 Important news, families! We've changed the date for Buzzy’s Family STEM & Literacy Night! It will now be February 27th from 5:30-7:30 🐝✨ Join us for an evening filled with engaging activities that spark curiosity and a love for reading and science. 📚🔬


Students in Mrs. Carroll's 5th grade classes are working with partners and/or teams to add mixed numbers with unlike denominators...using WICOR strategies such as, organization skills, collaboration, communication!!






🎉 Happy SRO Day! 🎉 Today, we celebrate Officer Mathis and her unwavering dedication to our students and staff at Berry Shoals Elementary. 💙 We are truly proud to have such a committed officer in our community!


Mrs. Oliver's class loves visiting the library with Mrs.Cantrell and Mrs.Gohs! Reading with their new furry friends is the best!










Miss Grinnell’s class launched their new social studies unit by having students work together to categorize and organize the unit vocabulary words.








Kindergarten STEM class coding Beebots to travel from A to B on a grid. Be sure to visit STEM night on Feb. 20th to let your Kindergarten student show you how to do this!



3rd grade STEM class finishing bee habitats! Planning the design and working in small teams is a great way for students to practice positive engineering and communication habits for years to come!





🌟 Exciting times in Mrs. Fisher’s fifth-grade class! Today, students explored the world of figurative language through a captivating play. 📚✨ They’re learning how these literary devices enhance their understanding of the text.







🌟 Celebrating Groundhog's Day was a blast in Miss Thompson's class! The students dove into the world of shadows, created their own graphs, and learned all about groundhogs through some fascinating texts. 📚 Not to mention, they watched Phil see his shadow !! Then they celebrated with a special groundhog treat! 🍰











Congratulations to Savion Holland, he made it through the preliminary round all the way into the third round of the USC Upstate Regional Spelling Bee this past weekend! We are very proud of Savion. Way to represent Berry Shoals Elementary School and District 5!




🎉 Exciting things are happening in Mrs. Nelson’s Kindergarten class! Today, we explored CVC short vowel sounds 🔡. The kids had a blast sounding out words and discovering new ones!








Mrs. Fazzone's 4K classes as part of their 100th Day celebration they worked together to build a structure using 100 plastic cups.





🎉 Join us for an exciting event: Donuts for Grown Ups! 🍩
📅 Dates: Tuesday, February 11th (Last Names A-L) & Wednesday, February 12th (Last Names M-Z)
🕖 Time: 7:05 - 8:00 AM both days!
We can’t wait to see you there! 😊


💡Due to the widespread power outages and damage from the hurricane, Spartanburg District Five missed a total of six instructional days: September 30, October 1-4, and October 7.
State law requires all South Carolina school districts to build at least three makeup days into their academic calendars each year. While the South Carolina legislature is still discussing whether to forgive additional days missed due to Hurricane Helene, we want to make you aware that the following designated makeup days will be used:
🔴February 14, 2025 - eLearning Day for students (previously a makeup/staff development day)
🔵March 14, 2025 - eLearning Day for students (previously a makeup/staff development day)
