🐾Last week, the Alma High School Marching Band completed another successful band camp! During the camp, the band prepared for the upcoming marching season where it will perform at all home varsity football games, the Alma Public Schools Homecoming Parade, MSBOA Marching Festival and the DeWitt Marching Invitational! The band will also be playing "The Star Spangled Banner" for the Detroit Tigers game on September 8!⚾🐅 Alma High School will also once again be hosting a "Glow Show" that will showcase the area bands including Ithaca, St. Louis, Shepherd, Fulton, Breckenridge and of course Alma. The glow show will take place in the AHS Football stadium on Tuesday Oct. 20!🐾
🎶This year's halftime show is titled "The Road Back Home" and tells the story of a traveler who sets out on a journey only to find they are eventually led back home. The musical selections include "Caravan", "Hit the Road Jack", "Blacktop Mambo" (a drumline feature) and "Take Me Home, Country Roads". 🎶
🐾This is sure to be another exciting year of band performances! Great work, AHS band!🐾
📷Photo by AshLin Portraits
-MTSS Assistant at Luce Road & Hillcrest Elementary
-Fourth Grade Teacher
-Special Education Teacher
-GSRP/Childcare Aide
-Building MTSS Coordinator
*Please see our website for postings or contact Yvonne Neyer at yneyer@almaschools.net with any questions.*
This week, students learned about Japan by creating lanterns, exploring cultural traditions, and sharing their enthusiasm for Pokémon through card trading and friendly games. It was a wonderful week filled with creativity, friendship, and learning.
Next week, we will conclude our Around the World summer adventure with a visit to Mexico. It will also be our final week with our school-age summer care students before they return to school. We look forward to celebrating a fantastic summer and making a few more memories together before the school year begins.
Thank you to our families for sharing your children with us this summer. We have loved watching them learn, grow, and create lasting friendships.
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-GSRP Associate Teacher at Luce Road
*Please see our website for postings or contact Yvonne Neyer at yneyer@almaschools.net with any questions.*
*Please see our website for postings or contact Yvonne Neyer at yneyer@almaschools.net with any questions.*
Give your child the best start with Panther Cubs and GSRP at the Luce Road Early Childhood Learning Center! Whether you're looking for nurturing childcare, a play-based toddler preschool experience, or a FREE 4-year-old preschool program, we have options for your family.
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🐾We would like to extend a warm Panther welcome to our new CTE/GI-TEC Construction Trades teacher Mitchell Acker!🐾Mr. Acker has extensive experience in the construction industry, and we are excited to have him here at APS! Now let's learn a little bit more about Mr. Acker in his own words:
"I have been involved with the construction industry since 2000. Specifically framing and design in the Grand Rapids area, building around 35 homes per year. After earning my teaching degree from Central Michigan University in early 2013, I moved to North Carolina where my wife was working at the time and I began teaching elementary school In Greenville, NC. We soon found out how much we were missing our families and moved back to Michigan in 2016. As a former student in the carpenter shop at Central Michigan University, I was hired full time to assist the Architectural Trades department at CMU. After a two year apprenticeship I received Journeyman status and was promoted to a Journeyman Carpenter Position. I have spent the last eleven years with CMU until a colleague presented the APS posting for a building trades instructor!!!
I look forward to helping students gain more knowledge of both residential and commercial construction industries. I have many construction resources from relationships I have built over the years and I crave the opportunity to connect Gratiot County students with these resources.
Outside of work, I enjoy adventures with my wife and two children. Specifically lots of family fishing and bike riding. We love taking family trips up north to Indian River where we enjoy kayaking, fishing, boating, bike rides and beach time!"
🐾Welcome to APS, Mr. Acker!🐾
During his time as a student at APS, Killian was a member of the National Honor Society and part of the choir and the drama program. He says his involvement in performing arts at APS have helped prepare him for his role as director.
“Being in [the drama program] definitely helped me develop my directing because I was able to take an independent study and assistant direct one of the shows during my time at AHS,” Killian said.
Killian has put these skills to good use in his studies at Alma College too. Having recently completed the credits for a theatre minor, Killian says directing Something Rotten! JR. has been “a sort of capstone project.”
“It is very rewarding to be able to put into practice some of the things I have learned and pass on those lessons to these new actors,” Killian said. "My advice for current students is if you can get your own [doubts] out of the way, you can do so many great things and create so many beautiful things."
🎭For tickets to see Something Rotten! JR, visit GratiotCountyPlayers.com or stop by the box office! Performances are set for Aug. 7,8, 9 and 14, 15, 16.🎭
https://www.gratiotcountyplayers.com/tickets
