{"id":23811,"date":"2023-06-01T12:57:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T17:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=23811"},"modified":"2023-06-01T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T17:59:04","slug":"lower-school-division-news-june-1-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2023\/06\/01\/lower-school-division-news-june-1-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower School Division News June 1, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23826 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/LSInStory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>from Ann Jurewicz, Lower School director<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Dates and Upcoming Events <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>June 2: Colianni\u2019s Grade 3 and both Grade 4 drama performances<\/li>\n<li>June 5: Grade 1 drama performances<\/li>\n<li>June 3: MPA Commencement 2023<\/li>\n<li>June 6: Grade 4 Moving Up Ceremony, 2 PM<\/li>\n<li>June 7: Last Day of School\u2014Early Dismissal, 10:15 AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was wonderful to see so many families at our Lower School Field Day yesterday enjoying the activities and embracing the heat! The students had a fabulous time and tremendous thanks go out to our parent volunteers along with the members of our PE department: Tim Sheehan, Sean Ryther, Jess Powell, Chris Hopkins, and Mike Scinto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drama Performances Are On! Break A Leg!<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was a joy to watch Mr. Klein\u2019s grade 3 class perform in our black box theater on Wednesday for classmates, parents, siblings, and other family members. Performances continue on Friday for Ms. Ruane\u2019s grade 3 and both grade 4 classes. Monday we will have grade 1 performances. A big thanks to Ms. Heather Mastel for all of her guidance in these theatrical endeavors!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade 4 Moving Up Ceremony<\/strong><br \/>\nWe are excited to usher our grade 4 students into Middle School with our annual Moving-Up Ceremony on Tuesday, June 6, 2 PM. Please mark your calendars now to celebrate our grade 4 students moving into Middle School!<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll have popsicles for all students on the green just outside the gallery immediately following and it\u2019s a wonderful time to visit with other parents!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Day Of School!<\/strong><br \/>\nWe will have our annual Yearbook Assembly at 8:15 AM, in the Nicholson Center on the last day of school. Parents and families are welcome to attend. Immediately following the assembly, students will report to their homerooms to pick up their yearbooks (if they ordered one!) and then we have a great signing party.<\/p>\n<p>It is typical for most classes to gather immediately following the end of our morning activities on the last day of school at an event coordinated by the Parents Association Grade Representatives. Please check your respective Schoology group for details.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Dismissal on Wednesday, June 7, is at 10:15 AM. Please be prompt in picking up your student and make plans for this special day!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summer Events From The Parents Association <\/strong><br \/>\nThanks to our Parent Association, MPA will have three opportunities over the summer for you to gather together and have some fun building community over the summer. We hope you\u2019ll consider joining us at one or all of these events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pre-K: Sunday June 4, 11 AM-1 PM at the Lake Elmo Park Reserve, North Pavilion in Lake Elmo<\/li>\n<li>Kindergarten: Wednesday, June 7, 11 AM-12:30 PM at Richard Walton Park, Oakdale<\/li>\n<li>Grade 1: Wednesday, June 7, 1-3 PM at Richard Walton Park, Oakdale<\/li>\n<li>Grade 2: June 6, 5-7 PM, Battle Creek Park Pavilion, Maplewood<\/li>\n<li>Grade 3: Wednesday, June 7, 3:30-5:30 PM at Richard Walton Park, Oakdale<\/li>\n<li>Grade 4: Wednesday, June 7, 11 AM-1:30 PM at Seaquest, Roseville<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please reach out to <a href=\"mailto:mpapa@moundsparkacademy.org\">mpapa@moundsparkacademy.org<\/a> with inquiries and questions!<\/p>\n<p>Warmly, Ann Jurewicz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Ann Jurewicz, Lower School director Important Dates and Upcoming Events June 2: Colianni\u2019s Grade 3 and both Grade 4 drama performances June 5: Grade 1 drama performances June 3: MPA Commencement 2023 June 6: Grade 4 Moving Up Ceremony, 2 PM June 7: Last Day of School\u2014Early Dismissal, 10:15 AM It was wonderful to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-lower-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23811"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23973,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811\/revisions\/23973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}