Alma Public Schools

We are so lucky to have a great partnership with Alma College. Today, our 2nd grade students were able to attend a "Science Blowout" on campus put on by Alma College Students! What a great experience for our students!!

Hillcrest Student Council served our students hot chocolate at lunch today! A HUGE thanks to Petticoat Junction for donation! It made a lot of smiles!!

Our building goal for this first week of reading month is to read a total of 6,000 minutes at home. Signed reading logs are due tomorrow to your child's classroom teacher.

Don't forget about the PTO Carnival tomorrow night, Thursday, March 7th from 5-7 pm! FREE Family Fun at Donald L Pavlik Middle School! Thanks to the PTO for planning and organizing this event!!

Congratulations to the APS vocal music program on a beautiful pre-festival winter program tonight.

Pine Avenue is a place of travel. Look at all the flags from around the world.

Pine Avenue students will enjoy a trip around the world for March is Reading month!

Miss Eddy's class enjoyed having their reading class outside on Monday, March 4, 2024.

First day of swim for the classes in the second session from Hillcrest! We are so thankful to have a pool and to have this opportunity at Alma Public Schools!

March is Reading Month means lot of guest readers at Hillcrest!! Today, we were thankful to have guests from Gratiot-Isabella RESD share stories with our students!

Congrats to the Alma High School Concert Band and Director, Mr. Tim Newman, for earning a Division 1 rating by earning straight 1's at the MSBOA District Festival.

March is here which means.......MARCH IS READING MONTH is upon us!!! Check out this link from Gratiot/Isabella United Way with stories read aloud by people from all over the community! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-AIxsV2_9wqXYaha-pLr7pDGkAmjFDbm

We are ready for some fun tomorrow!!

APS is hiring a Junior Varsity Softball Coach! *Please see our website for posting.*

Family Engagement Night - Free for all PreK-5th grade Panthers and their families!

Friday, March 1st:

Third Graders having a BLAST at CMU at the Michigan History Museum and STEM lab MakerSpace! All classes will be going this week!

At approximately 11:35-11:45, Pine Avenue, DLPMS, and Alma High School went into secure mode under the advisement of the Alma Police Department as they handled a non-school-related matter. Regular schedules have resumed.

Here is a link to a video from Center of Excellence in STEM Education from CMU featuring Hillcrest students! https://www.facebook.com/share/r/GtP5KZzdxhQED2nx/?mibextid=xCPwDs

A big part of our Shared Reading lessons at the elementary level is Partner Reading. This helps to build reading fluency and reading comprehension.