The Alma High School Jazz Band performed for the Hillcrest students today! Many of them are former Hillcrest students!



APS is hiring an Educational Support Specialist!
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What a fun morning for our 3rd graders today and the joy of making memories!! Such a great activity to close out 2024! We see some future architects and engineers!!!





What a fun morning for our 3rd graders today and the joy of making memories!! Such a great activity to close out 2024! We see some future architects and engineers!!!





A warm winter welcome at Alma High School this morning. Thank you to the amazing Alma Jazz band. Happy Holidays 🎄

1st graders at Hillcrest have had a very busy couple of days with Christmas station rotations in classrooms yesterday and their annual trip the Polar Express today!








Over the past six years, the Shark Tooth Woodshop Class from St. Louis High School has been crafting and giving elementary students in Gratiot County toys made out of wood in their shop class. Today, Pine Students was the school that hit the 10,000 gift mark. We appreciate the generosity of the St. Louis School District in ensuring all our students at Pine Avenue had a gift to unwrap today. Thank you students from the Shark Tooth Woodshop Class.



A HUGE thanks to MEEMIC Kingsley Insurance Group for this very generous donation to Hillcrest! This money will be used to purchase rewards and prizes for our Panther Paw drawings for students following their ROARS!

All Hillcrest students received a very generous gift today from Shark Tooth Woodshop at St. Louis High School. Every grade received a different handmade wood toy from the class! What a truly amazing gift! Thanks to Mr. Maxwell and his students for spreading the holiday spirit!





In Number Corner during the month of December, 2nd graders are learning about different shapes, their attributes, and lines of symmetry.







APS is hiring!
-Special Education Paraprofessional - (2 positions)
-Varsity Football Head Coach
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Our 1st graders have come a long way with their reading! Students can now lead their classmates for choral reading during Bookworms.

APS is hiring Paraprofessionals - Special Education (2 positions)
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Reminder - APS will have a late start tomorrow, Wednesday, 12/11/2024.

Today, Hillcrest Student Council members began their Safety Patrol duties to help make sure students are being safe and following their ROARS.




Many of our classes at Hillcrest were able to experience all different types of learning activities today, thanks to REMC (Regional Educational Media Center). These are materials that teachers can check out for student use.




Can a solid change into a gas without becoming a liquid first? Can we speed that process up? Check out the sixth graders investigating the process of Sublimation. SCIENCE RULES!!










Alma Public Schools will be closed today, Thursday, December 5, 2024. Childcare will open at 7:00 AM for those registered to attend.

Third graders learning division in many ways, including representing equal groups with models.




It's December!! That means our Elves are up to mischief! The Floor is LAVA !!
