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FHPS District News
Reading is Elementary for These Word Detectives
–Article by School News Network: Having trouble sounding out tricky words, identifying consonant cousins or picking out vowel teams? You would be in good hands to ask for help from the 20 or so badge-carrying word detectives in Lana Tran’s first-grade classroom at Knapp Forest Elementary. For the first full school year, students across the […]
Meadow Brook Students Create Many Art Projects to Learn About Chinese Culture During Confucius Week
Students at Meadow Brook Elementary School, home of the district’s Mandarin Chinese immersion program, recently finished projects they created during Confucius week. Students in all classes participated in projects which reflected the Chinese culture. Kindergartners created the borders for the large ink drawing of Confucius by practicing the principle of patterns using gold paint, often […]
Ada Vista Fourth-Graders Immerse Themselves in Education at the GR Museum
Roarrrrr! Triceratops, Brachiosaurus, and Stegosaurus…oh my! Fourth-graders at Ada Vista Elementary School recently spent two weeks at the Grand Rapids Public Museum taking a “deeper dive” into dinosaurs, and much more. For four years, Ada Vista fourth-graders have spent time at the local museum as part of their Immerse program. According to their website, the […]
Spanish Immersion and Chinese Immersion Kindergarten Registration Begins Dec. 3 for Siblings
It’s not too early to begin thinking about kindergarten for next fall. If you are a resident living within the Forest Hills Public School District and have a child who will be entering kindergarten in the fall of 2019, did you know that you could enroll your child in a kindergarten language immersion program? Whether […]
Making Students Feel Like Superheroes
Students helped their classmate feel like a superhero. Just imagine, when you were a kid, how sad you felt if you ever were sick on Halloween. Having a costume ready, all set to go to school to show off the costume to your friends and go trick-or-treating, and then the unthinkable. You’re sick and can’t […]
Language Immersion Kindergarten Enrollment and Deadline Information for 2019-2020
It’s not too early to begin thinking about kindergarten for next fall. If you are a resident living within the Forest Hills Public School District and have a child who will be entering kindergarten in the fall of 2019, did you know that you could enroll your child in a kindergarten language immersion program? Whether […]
