News from around the district
Exam Care Package
Attention Parents! Want to bring a little cheer to your students during the dreaded Exam season?! Buy an Exam Care Package to help support your student as well the 4th annual Unity Day. Please fill out this Google Form or use the form embedded below.
School Messenger Policy
In an effort to be more efficient with our communication, we are going to limit the amount of School Messenger emails we send to our Eastern families. We will send two emails a week. One will come to you on Monday and the other will be from the principal on Friday. The email that you […]
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 […]
