Park School News
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Important Dates
May 04 5th grade Marinette Middle School tour and introduction
May 7-8 STAR Assessments
May 08 Mrs. Klein/Ms. Nohr and selected Middle School students go to Park Elementary for in-classroom presentation.
May 09 Parent Information Night for incoming 5th grader Parents at Marinette Middle School from 6-7 p.m.
May 11 Early Release 11:30
May 16 1st Grade Lambeau Field Field Trip
May 16 4th Grade Heritage Hill Field Trip
May 17th 2nd Grade New Zoo Field Trip
May 23 3rd & 4th Grade Jr Olympics
May 25 Last Day DAR
May 28 NO SCHOOL
June 1 3rd Grade National Railroad Museum Field Trip
June 5 Picnic with a Pal
June 7 4th grade celebration 2:15 in gym
June 8 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
Dream Big Award Winners April 2018
3-Act-Task Presentation for the Board of Education
Family Fun Night
1st Grade Reading
First graders just completed a writing unit on poetry. They explored poetry by acting out and visualizing poems. They discussed movement and sound words and used some of those words to write their own poems. They also explored figurative language such as personification, simile, and metaphor. They learned to write many types of poems, including acrostic. They also continued to practice the social skills of making decisions together, listening respectfully to the thinking of others and sharing their own thinking, and solving problems respectfully.
First graders also completed a nonfiction unit in reading. They heard four nonfiction books about animals and their habitats and discussed what they wondered and learned about the topics of the books. Socially, the students practiced contributing different ideas during class discussions and working in a responsible way. You can support your child’s growth as a reader at home by collecting nonfiction texts that interest your child and by talking about what your child is learning from the nonfiction texts that you read aloud or that your child reads independently. Before reading a nonfiction text to your child, it is helpful to ask questions such as: • What do you think you know about [lions]? • What do you wonder about [lions]? Consider stopping every so often during the reading to ask what your child is learning and what he or she is still wondering about. After reading, you might ask questions such as: • What did you learn about [lions] from this book? • What did you learn that surprised you? • What are you still wondering about [lions]?
Junior Olympics May 23
History Comes Alive Through Music!
Opera for the Young!
This professional opera company presented Antonin Dvorak’s Rusalka: A Mermaid's Tale, with the help of 16 of our 4th grade students.
All of the music classes spent some time learning about the music and plot of the opera, which was about a mermaid that falls in love with a human.