North Park Elementary School

Congratulations to these former Explorers who visited us last Thursday! We wish you all the best!

PTO would still love some donations for the staff meal on Thursday. Comment below what item you can donate and drop it off at the school office by 8:00 on Thursday. Thanks

Dear parents who want to be involved with North Park's PTO but can't attend the meetings, here is a great opportunity for you! We are looking for a few donations for the meal that NP PTO is providing for our staff next Thursday. Comment below if you can donate and please have your items dropped off at the school office Thursday April 23rd by 8:00 AM. Thanks

Next week, April 20-23, PTO will be celebrating North Park's amazing staff! PTO has some special activities planned for the staff. We are encouraging the students and families to get involved too. The graphics have some fun ideas that you can do to help celebrate our staff. Let's show the North Park how much we appreciate them!

Staff Appreciation Week is April 20-23. PTO will be providing a meal for the staff on Thursday, April 23. Please look over the items that are needed for the meal. If you can donate an item or items, comment below. Please bring items to North Park office by 8:00 AM on April 23rd. Thank You

Ms. Branting's class had TONS of fun this week reading in many different ways for Read Across America week! WE LOVE TO READ IN 2B!!!

You ALL are Amazing! Look at all those donations towards the staff meal for tomorrow's Parent/Teacher Conferences! Please drop off your items in the school office by 3:15 and ask Ms Rawls for a donation form. If you are interested in donating an item, we could use more fruit! Thank you AGAIN!

Mrs. Schwartz's 1st graders enjoyed taking their learning from Science and applying it to the real world. We spent 21 days incubating 8 eggs, learning about how they develop, and candling the eggs to check for viability. 7 of the eggs hatched (2 happened during school!) and joined our class for over a week. The chicks were read to, checked on, visited by other classes, and observed growing wing feathers before going back home to Mrs. Jareske's farm.

Huge shoutout to North Park PTO for helping purchase the incubator for our classroom so students could experience this!

In our school, we encourage every student to grow as a leader each day. Students take on daily leadership roles to help our classroom run smoothly and build responsibility, confidence, and teamwork. One of our Kindergartener's favorite traditions is having our Junior Teacher lead our morning meeting routine, helping classmates start the day focused and ready to learn.

We love watching our students step up, support one another, and discover that everyone has the ability to lead in their own way!

Mrs. Luedders' bunch creating erosion solutions for Tangier Island!

Last week students worked on social skills and created a presentation about understanding how their brain works when they face different situations. They practiced recognizing their thoughts, feelings and reactions.

Students worked on identifying coins through a puzzle activity. Learning can be interactive and fun while building confidence!

Our kindergarteners celebrated the end of their kings and queens reading unit with a royal tea party!

Throughout the unit, students learned about the roles kings and queens played long ago, how leadership worked in the past, and how royalty still exists in some places today. To celebrate their learning, students dressed in royal attire, created crowns, enjoyed a fancy tea party with juice and special snacks, and even learned how to waltz like royalty.

It was a wonderful way to bring history to life and celebrate all they learned during this royal adventure! 👑

Our kindergarteners had a 100-day celebration full of fun and learning! 🎉

Students made 100th-day crowns, counted Starbursts, discovered how many licks it takes to finish a lollipop, created 100-Fruit Loop necklaces, stacked 100 cups, completed 100 exercises, and even wrote about what they’ll do when they’re 100 years old.

What a fun way to celebrate 100 days of growing, learning, and exploring together! 💯

Ms. Branting's 2nd grade class was busy exploring wind erosion today! 💨💨

Look at these 2nd grade scientists! They investigated how wind causes erosion. We love science in 2L!

We love the focus that our students bring to the classroom!

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Join us TONIGHT from 5-8 PM for our PTO fundraiser at Pizza Ranch! Bring your family and invite your friends to enjoy some delicious food! We hope to see you there!!

In 2L, we made pipe cleaner butterflies. Then we flew them from flower (containing cornmeal for pollen) to flower (containing coffee for pollen). We were able to observe how the pollen fell off the butterfly and mixed into the next flower. Fun!