What makes an awesome building?!?! An awesome STAFF!!! They had some great costumes yesterday and here are a few. The 3rd grade team dressed as the Panther football team along with a ref, and many paras were dressed as candy!! Our staff sets a great example for our students!!!
November is Homeless Awareness Month and we’re excited to be partnering with United Way of Gratiot & Isabella Counties to raise money for Gratiot County Hope House through a coin war challenge called “Coins for a Cause”! Start saving and collecting your coins to send with your student! The classroom that raises the most amount of money will win a PIZZA PARTY! 🍕
Reminder- There is no school tomorrow for students (11/1/22).
Facebook Live will begin about 2pm!!!
Lots and lots of fun Halloween activities today! Mrs. Wofle's class partnered up with Mrs. Howard's class for some "spooky" activities!
Students are beginning Unit 2 this week in our Social Emotional Learning curriculum (SEL), Second Steps. Unit 2 focuses on learning about empathy.
ENJOY the beautiful fall weekend!!!
Hillcrest Island Happenings-Oct 28
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2nd graders are reading and writing all about frogs!!
Please check out the video of our reminders about our Halloween Parade on Monday!
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Our staff is playing Hillcrest Staff Bingo and our first winner is Mrs. Wolfe!! It is a great way for our staff to have some FUN!!
Let’s have some fun and wear the colors to support your team on Friday with the big game on Saturday! 🖤🧡💙💛💚🤍
We love our partnerships with Alma College! Today, students in the Teacher Education Program came and read to a couple of our classrooms!!
Reminder that Alma Public Schools does not have school on Tuesday, November 1st. Teachers will have a day of learning.
We all know that Halloween is something that many of our students look forward to, and we are so excited to be able to celebrate this year! Please see the information below regarding costumes, parties, and our parade.
Here are a few guidelines to consider.
-Classes will have Halloween activities in their classrooms on Monday, October 31st
-Teachers will be sending out information about their classroom activities.
-Costumes will be allowed, but teachers will provide more information about what times they will be wearing them in their classrooms.
Guidelines for Costumes:
-Students are prohibited from wearing/using face paint, blood, gore, or weapons and costumes must be school appropriate. Students are not allowed to wear masks in the building, but will be able to during the parade outdoors.
2. Students must be able to put on their costume without assistance.
-Parents are not permitted to help with costumes, parties, or bring food/snacks to the building throughout the day.
3. If sending snacks, please consider healthy options (such as pretzels, popcorn, fruit snacks, fruit, cheese sticks, etc.)
Parade (WEATHER PERMITTING):
-We will have a building wide parade on Monday at 2pm. Please see the route below. We are working with Alma PD to help block the roads to help make this as safe as possible.
-We will do a Facebook Live video as well for parents that are not able to attend.
For specific questions about your child's class, please make sure to contact the teacher.
What a great way to start the morning! Many of our teachers do a greeting with each student as they enter the room to get the day off to a great start!
Enjoy the SUNSHINE this weekend!!!
Please make sure to note our Halloween plans for Oct. 31st!
Hillcrest Island Happenings-October 21
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In our Bookworms ELA curriculum, students practice writing skills daily and is typically connected to Science or Social Studies concepts.
The M in STEM stands for mathematics! This STEM class the students are doing all different type of hands on math games!
We are so excited for our new island themed sensory walk around the building with physical activities for our students to do!
This morning we had our first practice ALICE drill of the year. The students did an incredible job barricading in their location. Before, we all read the book, “I am Not Scared, I am Prepared” so the students remember they have many options to keep them safe.
