Pine Avenue Elementary School

You're invited! Virtual Title 1 Parent Night Wednesday, October 27 5:45PM https://bit.ly/Title1ParentNight21 All families are invited to attend our annual APS Title 1 Informational meeting. See the photo attached for additional information.

Learning how to use sensory words to describe unknown items creates some funny faces and memorable moments in 4th grade! This creative science lesson also provided opportunities for our scholars to use senses other than vision to determine unknown objects. 😊

Mrs. Oswald and Mrs. Engel’s classes were certainly provided a perfect fall day today to enjoy their time at Anderson & Girls! 🍎

This week's APS Staff Spotlight is on 5th grade teacher, Mr. Mark Kemler! Mr. Kemler has been with APS for 10 years and also serves as our "go-to" building technology support guru. The best part of his job is definitely being able to provide students the opportunity and space to be creative. When thinking of the best quote or piece of advice he's been given, it's "Do something fun with your students each day." Outside of school, Mr. Kemler enjoys horse riding and training. Thank you, Mr. Kemler, for all you do at Pine Avenue!

The October 18-29th lunch menu is here! Thank you Ms. Grace & the food services team for all you do!

Join Alma College for Family & Community Appreciation Day, October 30. There are many events to participate in. Go Panthers! Go Scots!

Here's the October 15th edition of Pine Press! Have a great weekend!!! https://bit.ly/2XkiTFG

Have you downloaded the APS App yet? Access all things Alma Public Schools from your phone. Check out this video to learn more! https://youtu.be/VDDuR1CBEFM

🚀🚀 5th graders in Mrs. Engel and Mrs. Oswald’s classrooms are putting their engineering skills to use today! They constructed paper towers to withstand “hurricane force winds.” After testing, they could reconstruct and retest. Science is so fun! 😎

Tonight, we get to listen to the final chapter of Zoey & Sassafras. We have loved sharing this book with our Pine Avenue families and hope your family has enjoyed reading with us. https://youtu.be/WjPKEe-ij8M

Mrs. K, instructional paraprofessional from Pine Avenue reads chapter 13 to us tonight. It's hard to imagine that Zoey & Sassafras, Caterfiles & Ice is nearly finished! https://youtu.be/RYVdiL4R2lo

Students in Mrs. Adams' class have been busy! Take a peek at what they've been up to? https://bit.ly/3lzwRwD

Three more chapters remaining... Tonight, we read chapter 12, "Magic?" with Mrs. Sandro. We love family book club reading with you! https://bit.ly/3iFuI0s

Check this out! Our fourth grade students are working on scientific process, measurement, and timing skills all in one!

We cannot believe that our family book club is almost finished! Mrs. Hanson, 3rd grade teacher at Hillcrest is our guest reader for chapter 11. Click the link below to read along with us. https://bit.ly/304MS5v

This performance will be streamed at the High School Auditorium on October 21st at 7:15 – we’ll have some folks from Alma College explaining the project and providing some brochures on the history of the Opera House. This would be an interesting event for parents to bring their students who are studying Michigan History. If you have any questions, please contact Sheryle Dixon at sddixon@alma.edu or (989) 463-7967.

This morning, students in Mrs. Fornusek’s class played a math facts race game. It was a close match and came down to the final round. So much fun!

Thank you to all who attended conferences. We appreciate the time families took out of their day to discuss their student(s). Here's this week's Pine Press. As a reminder, this was the last week a paper copy will be sent home. Pine Press will be emailed to families, as well as posted to Facebook and the APS app. https://bit.ly/3FsV9R2 ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND!!!

Our school wide Title 1 program allows our students to receive supplemental instruction for students as they demonstrate need. Mrs. Case and Mrs. Hohlbein provide small group instruction in Math and Reading. These ladies also guide and train our instructional paraprofessional staff to provide supplemental support in the classroom.

Please see this Superintendent Update ~ October COVID Q&A from Mrs. Criner. https://bit.ly/2YtoPwk