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Recent News
Popularity vs. Friendship
On Tuesday, November 11th, we held a Third Grade Parent Night. The discussion for the evening centered around guiding children through the developmental stages of social skills. Presentations included what we do in the Lower School to enhance these skills...
An Election With a Unique Twist
Wanting to let the Lower School students experience an election while letting them make their own choices, the fourth grade teachers came up with a great alternative to the typical presidential election. It was an election about books! Prior to...
Kindergarten Family Night
People always ask me what is so special about MPA and I generally respond with, "The sense of community." The follow-up question revolves around how we establish this community feeling. Having students together in a PK-12 setting naturally keeps us...
Grandparents are Very Special
"But my favorite part of my Grandma is her face. It has lines all over. I say they are her story lines. My grandma has a story for every single line on her face. And that's a lot of stories!" This...
Upcoming Events
Night of the Wild Things is the perfect play for the young and the young at heart. Friday, November 21st at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, November 22nd, at both 2:00 and 7:00 p.m. our Middle School students are putting on...
FALL IS IN THE AIR
...and in the hallways and the classrooms. Fall is a wonderful time to be a teacher in Minnesota. The turning of the leaves and the crispness of the air always stimulates the senses and helps teachers bring nature to their...
We Can Use Some of Your Cast Offs
As the season is coming to an end, if you have riding toys that would fit the Pre-K and K we would love to make use of them. Bring your tricycles or Big Wheels to the Lower School Office and...
Role Models
When I was growing up the neighborhood was full of kids, and after school each day we changed our clothes so we could go outside to play. We spanned over ten years between the youngest and oldest of us, but somehow we always found...
. . . and the Beat Goes On
Actually, I am pretty sure the beat stopped a long time ago in the pigs' hearts that the third graders were looking at last Friday. Thanks to Julie and Dan Foster, parents of Jake, a team of people from Medtronic...
MPA at the Dome
The excitement was palpable as the third and fourth graders waited to be brought into the bowels of the dome where they would soon be singing the National Anthem. Who could have predicted that this experience would be happening in...
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