5th Grade Rockin‘ the Test!!
Coming soon to Arno…
April 22
Earth Day Stations
April 23
No events
April 24
MTSS meeting 7:45
Fire drill p.m.
April 25
Mobile Dentist in media center
Safety committee (Steve/Sandy)
April 26
No events
April 29
PBIS reward
April 30
No events
MAY 1
ALICE evac drill to Church 1:30
May 2
PTA meeting 6:30
May 3
National School Lunch Hero Day (honoring lunch employees)
ARNO VISION
ARNO ELEMENTARY WILL PROVIDE A SYSTEM OF SUPPORT TO EMPOWER
AND INSPIRE STUDENTS TO BECOME COLLABORATIVE LEARNERS
THAT STRIVE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
5th grade M-STEP Booster
Our 5th graders were treated to applause and cheered on as they made their way to the ELA M-STEP on Tuesday. We are so proud of our students and know that they will be successful!!
From the PTA
A huge thank-you to April Lowry and Amy Muse for planning a very successful Daddy Daughter Dance! The event was absolutely beautiful, so well organized and very memorable! This event is a massive one, it requires lots of time and dedication to host a party for 337 people! These ladies along with a team of volunteers totally rocked it! Thank-you all from the hearts of many!
Staff appreciation week is coming up!! This year we are having a summer theme Staff Appreciation Celebration the week of 5/6-5/10! Join us in giving back to the staff by donating items or your time & signing up below! All items must be labeled “for staff appreciation” and turned in to Arno office by Fri 5/3 unless noted below. We can’t wait to spoil all of Arno’s wonderful staff!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4ca4aa2aa4fe3-20191
Are you interested in chairing an event for next school year? We still are in need of several chairs for next years events. Without a chairperson the PTA can not hold the event. Contact the Arno PTA atarnopta@gmail.com and reserve your event today!
We are happy to announce the Executive PTA board for 2019-20 school year will be:
President: Stacey Sisson
VP of Fundraising: Maribel Martinez
Treasurer: Julie Hegedus
Secretary: Sascha Mansfield
This will be the last year on the Executive board for several members. If you are interested in shadowing a board member during the next school year please contact us at arnopta@gmail.com.
Daddy/Daughter Dance
What a beautiful night filled with Arno Princesses- at the annual Daddy/Daughter Dance. Once again the Prestige was filled with excited families and friends who enjoyed good food, fun dancing, and some daddy/daughter time. Thank you to the Arno PTA for putting on another spectacular event for our families!
Pics from the Martian Marathon
From the District
Allen Park Summer Kids Camp is open to all districts and offers children ages 3-13 an opportunity to enjoy a variety of fun activities, field trips and more! Each week offers a different theme and a special event. Our staff will help your child have fun, make memories, and create friendships in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. Flyer with more info attached – registration form on district website – allenparkschools.com – https://www.allenparkschools.com/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=971884&type=d&pREC_ID=1292547
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Allen Park Public Schools Latchkey program is designed to provide children with a safe, well-supervised environment when an adult is unable to be at home. The activities include crafts, games, outdoor and indoor play. Our program is play-based and encourages a relaxed environment for the child who is in school all day. We are licensed with the State of Michigan to take care of children between the ages of 3 and 13 years of age. Flyer with more info attached – registration form on district website – allenparkschools.com – https://www.allenparkschools.com/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=971884&type=d&pREC_ID=1292543
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Honor Choir Opens Up April
Congratulations to all of our Arno Honor Choir members and Mr. Hoffman for a fantastic performance on April 8th!
Limited Schools of Choice Program for 2019-20
The Allen Park Public School District has established a successful Schools of Choice Program for the past several years and the Board of Education has approved continuation of the program for the 2019-20 school year for Kindergarten through 8th Grade. (Requests for specific elementary schools cannot be guaranteed)
Applications will be available beginning Monday, April 8, 2019 at the Riley Education Center, 9601 Vine or at www.allenparkschools.com Completed applications will be accepted beginning Monday, April 8 through Friday, April 26, 2019 from 7:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. weekdays in the Pupil Accounting Office at the Riley Education Center. Completed applications may also be emailed to schoolofchoice@appublicschools.com by Friday, April 26, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. Absolutely no late applications can be accepted.
A random draw selection will be held on Tuesday, April 30 at 9:00 a.m. at the Riley Education Center. The draw will determine numerical selection for acceptance of candidates.
We ask that you help us by sharing this information with friends and/or family members who may be interested in having their children become a part of the Allen Park Public Schools Family.
For more information about the Schools of Choice Program, please see the attached FAQ’s, visit our website at www.allenparkschools.com or call (313) 827-2105.
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Kindergarten Registration 2019
Preschool Information
Safety Town is an interactive safety awareness program for children from 5-6 years of age. Each day the children will be introduced to various safety issues in a fun and safe environment. The program is taught by a Police Officer and an AP teacher, with hands-on topics led by community guest speakers as well as visits from the Allen Park Police & Fire Departments. Teen volunteers from Allen Park High School lead the children through Safety Town every day and receive valuable training along with obtaining National Honor Society service hours. The children learn about stranger danger, water and beach as well as playground safety, fire safety, pet and bus safety, electrical and gun safety, and personal safety with an emphasis on pedestrian safety. The kids will be bicycling through a miniature town complete with streets, sidewalks, buildings, stop signs and a working traffic signal. Importance is placed on having the children memorize a cell phone number to call if they should ever become lost. We use fun songs to reinforce all of these principles and the children memorize our very own Safety Town Pledge!
Parent Orientation: All children and parents will meet for a 30 minute orientation on the first day of your session (Children stay for full session). It is the parent’s responsibility to bring their child to Safety Town daily and to pick them up promptly. Parents who will have someone else picking up the child will designate that on the enrollment form the first day.
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March Wrap-Up
A BIG Thank you to all of the teachers who participated in or had a role in organizing March is Reading Month activities, especially Mrs. Smalley and Mrs. Cervantes!
Flashlight Friday in Mrs. Haskin’s Young 5’s room
Reading with Rotary in First Grade
Tech Time
Word Hippo – Convenient Source of Definitions, Antonyms, Translations, and More
Word Hippo is a nice little tool that students can use to find definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and translations for words. The service also provides students with verb conjugation assistance, pronunciation assistance, and assistance with prefixes and suffixes. In total, Word Hippo offers more than a dozen tools for students.
Applications for Education
Seven Good Tools for Creating Word Clouds
The popularity of word cloud generation tools seems to have declined from their peak of about six years ago. None-the-less they are still useful in providing students with a nice way to visualize the most frequently used words in a passage of text. Wordle is probably the best known tool for making word clouds. But Wordle doesn’t work well in many web browsers today so here are seven other word cloud generators to try.
On WordClouds.com you can create word clouds in a variety of shapes and sizes with a wide array of color schemes. I’ve even used it to make a word cloud about cats in the shape of a cat. In my video embedded below I demonstrate the features of WordClouds.com
Word Cloud Generator is a free Google Docs add-on for creating word clouds based on your Google Documents. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to quickly create a word cloud in Google Documents.
WordWanderer attempts to be different from other word cloud creation tools by letting you drag and drop words to rearrange the look of your word clouds. Additionally, WordWanderer includes a search tool that you can use to find a word. The context of your chosen word is shown below the word cloud itself.
Paste your text into Analyze My Writing and it will generate a ton of information about your writing. Analyze My Writing will give you a break-down of the readability of your writing on five indices. The analysis will include listings of the most common words and most common word pairs in your writing. A listing of how frequently you use punctuation and punctuation types is included in the analysis provided by Analyze My Writing. Finally, a word cloud is included at the end of the analysis of your writing. The word cloud and the graphs can be saved as images.
ABCya! offers a nice word cloud generator. Like all word cloud generators you simply copy and paste chunks of text into the text box to have a word cloud created. Common words like “the” are automatically excluded from your word clouds. You can edit the font style, adjust color schemes, and flip the layout of your word clouds on the ABCya! Word Cloud Generator.
Word It Out creates word clouds out of any text that you paste into the word cloud generator. Once the word cloud is created you can customize the size and color scheme of the cloud. You can also customize the font used in your word cloud. The feature of Word It Out that I like the best is that you can choose to have Word It Out ignore any word or words you choose. Ignoring words keeps them out of the word cloud.
Tagxedo makes it very easy to customize the design of your word clouds. You can select from a variety of shapes in which to display words or you can design your shape for your word cloud. You can enter text into the word cloud generator manually or simply enter a URL from which Tagxedo will generate a word cloud. As with other word cloud generators you also have options for excluding words from your word clouds.
