Dear Burns Park Families,

We want to start by saying Happy Mother's Day to all of those that celebrate today! We hope you had a wonderful day.

Additionally, we would like to acknowledge Jewish American Heritage Month. This is a time to recognize and honor the history and contributions of Jewish Americans to the development of our nation and to our communities. Please join us in celebrating and embracing our Jewish American school and community members this month.

This Friday, May 19th is the Ice Cream Social AND a half day! School will dismiss this Friday, May 19th at 11:28 AM. Please make sure your student knows their after school dismissal plans. Then, at 5:00PM, join us for an evening of food, games and fun at ICS! We look forward to seeing everyone there.

We invite you to join us for Burns Park Elementary's first Art in the Park. This event will take place on Wednesday, May 31st and will showcase art from all of our amazing students.

Only a few more weeks!

Love and Peace,

Heather & Leslee

The BP School Garden needs your help for the 2023 summer season! Please sign up to adopt the garden for a week or more this summer! The garden this year has added some beautiful sensory garden beds and we will be adding lots of veggies and flowers this year. Students and staff have been putting lots of love into our garden. We need and want to keep this energy going!

Please consider signing up to take care of the garden this summer so our students have a welcoming return in the fall. Tasks we will need help with include pulling weeds, watering, harvesting, and other minor items! Click on the link below to sign up now!

Burns Park School Garden 2023 Sign Up

Feeling nervous about caring for the garden for a week, or worried that you will weed something that you shouldn't? Don't worry we have you covered! We will provide a welcome meeting at the beginning of the sign-up summer season to introduce you to the garden and show you how to help. We also provide a comprehensive guide for you to take a look at. We can't grow this garden for the Burns Park Penguins without your help. Please sign up and consider helping our garden grow. Thank you!

The Burns Park Garden Committee

Community Education & Recreation (Rec & Ed) will soon begin planning programs for Fall 2023 and beyond. We are kindly asking you to take a 1-2 minute survey to let us know what types of afterschool classes you'd like to see offered at your child's school in the 2023/2024 school year. Once the survey has closed, we will analyze the responses and attempt to schedule our afterschool classes based on interest and need.

This survey will remain open until Friday, June 2nd. If you have more than one child, please fill out a separate survey for each. Thank you in advance for your participation!

Link to Survey

As of today, May 14, Washtenaw County is in the CDC LOW/GREEN Community Level. Masks are optional. Link to CDC Community Level page here.

For more detailed information about the AAPS 2022-2023 COVID and Health Guidance, please click here.

AAPS Listen and Learn 2023: A Community Conversation

We value the input of our students, families, staff and community members, and we are currently engaging our Ann Arbor community in a conversation as we plan for the future of the Ann Arbor Public Schools.

The premise of the Listen and Learn is straightforward: No one knows better the strengths and celebrations, the challenges and areas for improvement, dreams and hopes for the future than those individuals who live, work and bring their children to learn and grow in the Ann Arbor Public Schools each day.

There are two ways you can participate.

Join the Conversation on ThoughtExchange.

You can join the conversation today through May 26th via the ThoughtExchange available here.

Through ThoughtExchange, you can anonymously leave your thoughts and review and rate the thoughts of others in our community.

If you’ve already participated, we encourage you to check back in and see new thoughts posted by other community members.

Visit the ThoughtExchange today! bit.ly/TECommunitySpring2023