Somers Elementary

☀️📚 Keep Reading All Summer Long! 📚☀️
Summer is a wonderful time for our students to explore new stories, discover favorite characters, and build a lifelong love of reading and there are plenty of incentives to encourage them to do so! We encourage all students to participate in summer reading opportunities through our school, local library, and community programs. Just 15–20 minutes of reading each day can help children maintain and strengthen their reading skills while having fun!

🌟 Somers Summer Reading Challenge Bingo – Turn in the bingo card in September to earn raffle tickets for prizes from our new prize vending machine in the Library! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v3fv-Bvd4r7rYOTgzX6YLfasRnxbVrlQ/view

🌟 Kenosha Public Library Gone Readin’ program – lots of fun activities that allow you to earn prizes or be entered to win some cool gift cards! https://mykpl.info/gonereadin/

🌟 Pizza Hut Book It – the beloved program is back! Follow the link to get information about how your student can earn a Personal Pan Pizza® https://www.bookitprogram.com/

🌟 Barnes and Noble - earn a free book when the tournament style challenge is completed.https://dispatch.barnesandnoble.com/content/dam/ccr/bnstores/books/pdfs/2026/2026-Summer-Reading-BN-Journal-eng.pdf

Let's make this a summer filled with imagination, learning, and great books! Share a photo of your child reading or tell us what books are on their summer reading list in the comments below!

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This last week we said farewell to the 5th graders with a Moving On ceremony and an all school clap-out on the last day! We will miss seeing all of them, but wish them the best of luck in middle school!

Farmer Stephanie from The Funkin Farm has so many fun things happening on her farm this summer! Be sure to check it out!

Congratulations and way to "bee" amazing Mrs. Jerry! 🐝 Thank you so much for your help in making our pollinator patch "soar" and to be such a success at Somers! 🦅🌼

Mrs Jerry: 4K Teacher and Bee Positive Award Winner 2025 for her Somers' Pollinator Patch work. Somers Elementary 4K teacher Justine Jerry received the Root-Pike W...

W is for Wild Animal! Third graders have been working hard this quarter on their animal research. To celebrate their learning and to see some of the animals right here at Somers, the Racine Zoo visited our school! Students were able to spend some time with a hissing cockroach, leopard gecko, box turtle, and bearded dragon! Students also shared their animal research with one another, presenting what they learned about their animals' habitats, bodies, life cycles, and more!

Just another reminder to mark those calendars for the BIG KINGFISH game!!

Please remember that for everyone who earned Kingfish Reading Tickets, our Somers Night game is on Wednesday, June 24.
Your 2 free tickets will be available at will call the night of the game in addition to any extra tickets purchased.

All students will get to participate in a parade on the field before the game!

If you are going to participate in the parade, please gather in the concourse on the first base side near right field at 6:00pm. The parade will start at 6:10pm.

The baseball game starts at 6:35 pm

Mrs. Bereza and Ms. Parker's classes were treated to a donut hole party for having every student in the class return their library books by the final due date of May 22nd! Nice job!

We also had 344 of our students return all of their library books by the final due date and 10 of those students won a raffle for a poster! Congrats to them as well!

Lost library book notices have been sent home, but it is not too late to get those books returned! We currently have 54 books marked lost for this school year - lets get that number closer to zero so those books will be available for all to check out next school year!

Check under those beds, in between couch cushions, in the car, and anywhere else books can get lost!

Another great day with Farmer Stephanie from The Funkin Farm and the students of Somers Elementary!

The 4K students did a little cooking project with Farmer Stephanie and made yummy veggie roll ups! They talked about all the healthy ingredients, some of which are growing in our garden beds and the importance of trying new foods😊

Farmer Stephanie also worked with classes on a new learning station for the courtyard, complete with a chalkboard area. Classes can talk about and record time and temperature!

A trellis was also made with the help of students! A few finishing touches and it will be ready for pumpkin and gourd vines! Like a grand entrance to the garden beds!

Thank you SO MUCH Farmer Stephanie for your incredible and generous connection with our school!

Make sure to follow The Funkin Farm for fun summer opportunities with Farmer Stephanie!

What an absolutely beautiful and perfect day for our Sports Day! WOW! So many fun stations where our students were having fun, practicing skills and working together!

A BIG thank you to our Gym teacher , Mr. Chamness, for organizing this fantastic day!

Thank you so much to our MANY family and community volunteers for giving of their time and resources to make such a wonderful event happen for our students!