Thank You Arno Teachers!
and
A HUGE Thank you to the PTA and everyone who was involved in the delicious breakfast and lunch,
as well as the goodies and well wishes during Teacher Appreciation Week!
Coming soon to Arno…
May 14
No events
May 15
K Screeners
May 16
Jazz band @Arno 10:30
May 17
No events
May 18
Arno Planting Day
May 21
No events
May 22
5th grade Counselors at Arno 9:00
Smalley boat trip
May 23
No events
May 24
No events
May 25
PBIS reward
Senior Walk
Thank you PTA!
All of Arno joins me in thanking our PTA for their dedication and hard work in raising the bar on what this group can do. What our PTA has accomplished over the past two years is nothing short of remarkable. Their willingness to do things different, and bring the digital age into the mix has allowed our PTA to bring in funds to do amazing things, as well as amazing events. Please check out their post below, Thursday’s PTA meeting vote has given us a brand new kindergarten playscape! Amazing! Thank you Jenny Sauve, Shannon Mihalik, Nicole Atkinson, and Julie Hegedus for all your service.
Congratulations to our new Board as well, whom was sworn in for the upcoming 2018-19 school year. Our new Board includes Stacey Sisson, President, Sascha Mansfield, Secretary. and Julie Hegedus continues as Treasurer. There were no candidates for VP of Fundraising, the Board is actively looking for someone who is willing to step forward and help out.
PTA Board delivers Robots used for coding lessons to Carrie Solak, Tech Teacher. Julie Hegedus and her husband Gary received a combined grant from Consumers Energy that paid for the entire purchase. As you can see, there were many smiling faces.
Congrats to our new Board at their swearing in!
President Stacey Sisson, Secretary Sascha Mansfield, and Treasurer Julie Hegedus are sworn into office by Shannon Mihalik.
From the PTA
Happy Friday! Let’s hooe the weather this weekend is kind so all of us mothers can enjoy a wonderful, sunny Mother’s Day!! Happy Mother’s Day to all the hard-working, wonderful moms!
A BIG THANK YOU to Stacey Sisson and her mom, Jill, for chairing our Daddy/Daughter Dance that was held at the Prestige Banquet Hall on Friday, April 27th! The girls and dads had a great time dancing to the music played by Scott Piestrak! This event would not be possible without ALL of our wonderful volunteers that helped to make it so successful!
✅Our last PTA Meeting was quite eventful! Our members voted in a new Executive Board, to replace the older, orange playscape with a brand new one (coming this Summer!), two of our PTA Members (Julie and Gary Hegedus), gifted Mrs. Solak with coding robots and mice from a grant they earned from Consumers Energy for all of their volunteer work, the PTA was able to donate 10 Books about ALICE to the school, a new wheelchair and foot rest for the school, and we have our chair for the Fun Run next year!!
Please help us congratulate our 2018-2019 Executive Board Members:
President: Stacey Sisson
VP of Fundraising: Tricia Moore
Secretary: Sascha Mansfield
Treasurer: Julie Hegedus
️Last week also kicked off a fun week to for our staff: Staff Appreciation Week!
This years theme was Tigers Baseball! The Fin started the week before on April 21st with a FREE Tigers Game courtesy of the Detroit Tigers commission and then continued the full week of April 30th! That week started with a catered breakfast by our wonderful resident Caterer: Mr. Kyle Kalis! Kyle dishes out homemade muffins, eggs, fruit, bacon, sausage, and biscuits and gravy. The staff also enjoyed juice, water, coffee, and Larabars! We were also able to share with them some the homemade cookies from Yah-ki-doc Bakery! Thursday was a catered Lunch from Brass Kitchen! Homemade sandwiches, bags of chips, fruit, pop, and water! It was a delicious spread that Kyle was able to obtain for us and everyone enjoyed it so much!
The week was also filled with lots of treats in the lounge and a gifts that were distributed to the staff on Thursday at the luncheon from many of the parents! Some of our teachers received headphones and gift cards from our Sign Up Genius link! For a full list of all of the goodies, check out our Facebook Page!
If you are looking to help out with 5th grade and Kindergarten Celebrations please contact Mrs. Hool (for the 5th Grade Celebration) and Ms. Stanley (for the K Celebration).
Thank you to everyone who helped to make these past two weeks so fun and successful! We appreciate all that our members do for our school community!
Art for the Sky Updates!
Color assignments
K and Guyot – RED
1st and 5th – BLACK
2nd, Wesley, Warneck, and 4th – ARMY GREEN
Link to order shirts www.accentstees.com/arno
Deadline: FRIDAY MAY 11TH
How You Can Help…
Hat Day
We are having a fundraiser on May 18th at all 3 buildings to raise money for this project. Students can wear a hat for $1 to be paid on that day. A eblast will go home in the next few weeks about this event!
Blue Jeans
Our turtle image will be surrounded by the “water of the Great Lakes” by using blue jeans, but we need many, many jeans to pull this off, about 1200 pairs! If you can donate any pairs of blue jeans, please turn them in to the school office, labeled for ART. We will donate all pairs after the project.
Please contact us at cunningham@appublicschools.com or trapani@appublicschools.com with questions!
Update from the District
Arno Gardening Club
Twenty 3rd-5th graders have been meeting on Tuesdays for 25 minutes after school to attend Garden Club and beautify the courtyard. On our first meeting, we created some goals for the area which included planting some food plants and flowers, weeding, and doing experiments. We weeded last week and are getting our garden boxes ready for a salad garden. A salad garden is a garden that grows salad produce (think different lettuces, radishes, etc.) at a faster rate allowing us to enjoy some of our fresh produce before summer vacation. We are also one of this year’s MSU Tollgate Education Center and MSU 4-H Children’s Garden Cool Kid Plants collaborating classrooms to determine which plants (petunias, geraniums, pentas, and marigolds) attract butterflies. While we are collecting data through June, Garden Club has requested that the classrooms that are studying butterfly life cycles release their hatched butterflies in our courtyard to encourage butterfly attraction to our plants and add to our data. Happy Spring!
Arno Planting Day
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Want to Sign up? Click on the link below
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d4eaaac2ea4f94-arno
Band Concert Excellence
Safety Town Program
Who: 2018-19 Kindergarten and 1st Graders
When: June 18 thru June 28 – AM & PM Classes Available
Where: Lindemann Elementary, 9201 Carter, Allen Park
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 a retired Allen Park teacher, with hands-on topics led by community guest speakers as well as visits from the AP Police & Fire Departments. Please see attached for more information and sign your child up today!
Safety Town Program – June 2018-1pxtjoz
4th Grade Inquiry based learning using cupcakes…
How are earth’s layers formed? How. An geologists view what is underground?
Students predicted, took core samples of their cupcakes, drew models of their findings, and shared with the class.
4th grade photos from our stormwater drain stenciling with Arch Environmental Group.
Smart Money Magic Show
Arno was treated to some Smart money advice via magic at an assembly last week. Great tips were given to students, while having a fun time. Arno students also received a free book with similar money lessons.
TEACHER REQUEST PROCEDURE
As we close one school year and begin to plan for the next, student placement is one of our primary considerations. Our school team of teachers, administrator and social worker spend many hours working together to form classrooms for next year. We strive to balance classrooms with a blend of students based on academic strengths and needs, social and emotional supports, and the unique personalities of each child.
If you have any special concerns about your child’s placement for next school year, please submit a written explanation of the concern. For example, “my son is very active and needs to be placed in a classroom where he will have opportunities to move around” or “my daughter struggles with reading and needs a teacher with a strong background in reading”.
We do not/cannot accept any requests for a specific teacher. Letters requesting a specific teacher will be not be considered. The one exception is a request for your child to not be placed in a specific classroom based on previous first-hand experience you’ve had with a teacher. And, that parent concern / issue should be documented in the office. All such letters are due to the office no later than Friday, May 18, 2018.
This is the same procedure that has been used in previous years and is the same procedure used at Lindemann and Bennie. If you have any questions or concerns about this process, please feel free to contact my office.
Steve Zielinski, Principal
M-STEP UPDATE
Congratulations to all of our 3rd, 4th, and 5th for their completion on this year’s MSTEP state testing. None of these assessments were easy, but our Cougars came in and gave it the very best they had to offer. The parent report with all of their score information will likely be available sometime around the middle of September.
NWEA TESTING
Our Final round of NWEA Spring testing will begin in May in Reading and math. Our staff uses this assessment to measure the growth that students have achieved in Reading and Math over this school year. Students will be taking the NWEA assessment on Chromebooks in their classrooms in grades K-5.
KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION
If you have a child who will be entering Kindergarten this fall, please be sure to register him or her at Riley Center as soon as possible! This helps us to accurately predict enrollment and class sizes for the coming year. Please read below for info on Kindergarten Registration, Roundup, and the new Young 5s Expansion with a class opening at Bennie this fall!
