Shannon Park 5th Graders had the opportunity to participate in Youth Frontier Kindness Retreat, a high energy retreat to empower kids to be “everyday heroes” by using kindness to include others, to be respectful and to make their school a better place. We are grateful for the opportunity for our students and for the RHS students that volunteered their time to serve as small group leaders.

Shannon Park students in grades 3-5 will take the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment between April 10 - May 3. While illness cannot be helped, we are asking families not to schedule any appointments or vacations during this testing time. Make-ups are very limited.

• Grade 3 Reading: April 13-14
• Grade 3 Math: April 26-27

• Grade 4 Reading: April 10-11
• Grade 4 Math: April 24-25

• Grade 5 Reading: April 10-11
• Grade 5 Science: April 18-19
• Grade 5 Math: May 2-3

Site Council is continuing on with the tradition of classroom baskets as part of our Silent Auction. The Silent Auction is one of our largest fundraisers of the year and relies on support from our families to be successful. This year we will be holding the entire Silent Auction online beginning Friday, May 10th – Thursday, May 16th. Our classroom baskets will be available to bid on online along with all our other donations! View your child's classroom basket theme here.

Silent Auction Information

The Site Council will be collecting business donations, gift cards, tickets, experiences & more for our annual Silent Auction. This year's auction will be held online and we need your help making it a success! Please take a second to consider if you, a grandparent, neighbor or even employer could donate the following:

• Tickets (concert, theater or sporting event)

• Experiences (hotel stays, timeshares, ski passes, park passes etc.)

• Items (handmade goods, electronics etc.)

• Gift Cards

Email spbooster@gmail.com by April 28th to arrange pick up or drop off your donation in the office at Shannon Park labeled ATTN: Silent Auction.

There were four classes with three or more students that completed Finn’s Lifesaving Mission:

Mrs. Kerndt, Mr. Snyder, Mr. Evenocheck and Mrs. Grothe

There are five students who raised over $500:

• Caleb from Mr. Evenocheck’s class
• Dean from Mrs. Kerndt’s class
• Dawson from Mrs. Feldhaus/Mrs. Schwab’s class
• Alex from Mrs. Peterson’s class

Asutosh from Mrs. Kerndt’s class. Asutosh raised over $1000.oo!!

The top three fundraising HOMEROOMS:

Mrs. Feldhaus/Mrs. Schwab: $1310.93

Mr. Evenocheck: $1823.93

And……..the highest fundraising classroom was Mrs. Kerndt’s class with $2,992.07!!

The highest fundraising GRADE LEVEL was THIRD GRADE!

AMAZON GIFT CARDS for completing Finn’s Mission and students registering online:

3 Teachers will receive 2-$25 gift cards

Shannon Park will receive $850 in gift certificates to purchase equipment for Physical Education!

And finally………..the GRAND TOTAL for Shannon Park was……$11, 385.85

The Family Insight Dashboard allows you to track student progress in DreamBox and receive email tips on what your child is working on as well as what you can do to support their learning at home. Dreambox is an adaptive program that adjusts the difficulty based on the data it receives as the student completes tasks. Due to this, it is important to remember not to help your student complete the tasks or it may get too hard too quickly.

Login to your student’s school account on a PC/laptop or Chromebook. This feature is not available from your student’s iPad.

Use the URL: https://play.dreambox.com/login/jk34/9emg

Or, go to sp.district.org

Click on “Menu” - “Families” - “Student Resources” - “Dreambox”

Your student will then need to log in to their account. In most cases, this is the same as their Collab account. If they don’t recall their login information and are in kindergarten or first grade, click on “No classroom code? Click here.” and select your student’s classroom. They can find their name and picture password.

Once logged in, click on the “Set up parent access” link.

You will then be prompted to enter your personal email and create a password for your family account. You can add multiple students. You then will be able to log in from your own device and access information as your student completes Dreambox milestones, read suggested related activities you could do at home and view their standards dashboard to monitor their academic progress. You can also view the activities that your student has recently completed to try it out yourself without impacting your student’s account.

For a video of these steps

https://dreambox.wistia.com/medias/tr0iyqwgab

Do you know a child who will be 4 years old by September 1, 2023? Connections Preschool will be available for the 2023-2024 school year at Shannon Park. Applications for Connections Preschool for the 2023-2024 school year will be available sometime in February. You can sign up to be notified when the application window opens. Connections Preschool gives children an opportunity to interact with other children in fun, engaging activities while learning important skills. The curriculum supports young children in developing skills in the following areas: creativity and the arts, language and literacy, mathematical and scientific thinking, physical and motor, and social and emotional. Children in Connections Preschool assume increasing personal responsibility and independence as they grow and develop. For information, click the link below or contact Connections Preschool teacher, Kathy Adams, at kathy.adams@district196.org . The link for further information is:

https://ce.district196.org/early-childhood/connections-preschool

• Cory Johnson, Chairperson
• Sachin Isaacs, Vice Chairperson
• Sakawdin Mohamed, Clerk
• Jackie Magnuson, Treasurer
• Joel Albright, Director
• Art Coulson, Director
• Bianca Virnig, Director