{"id":27370,"date":"2024-12-05T13:33:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T19:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=27370"},"modified":"2024-12-05T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:18:23","slug":"lower-school-division-news-december-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2024\/12\/05\/lower-school-division-news-december-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower School Division News December 5, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27385 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/LSWP.png\" alt=\"LSWP\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>from Jennifer Le Varge, Lower School director\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Your Calendars<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wednesday, December 11: LS CHAMP Assembly, 8:15-8:45 AM, Family Commons<\/li>\n<li>Friday, December 13: PreK-12 MPA Preview, 8:30-10 AM, Gallery &amp; Martin Lenz Harrison Library<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, December 18: Mini K Admission Day, 8:30-9:30 AM, Martin Harrison Library &amp; Makerspace<\/li>\n<li>Friday, December 20: Caroling with the Madrigal Singers, Faculty, Staff, and Alumni, 7:30-8 AM, Family Commons<\/li>\n<li>Monday, December 23-Friday, January 3: No Classes, Winter Break<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, December 24-Thursday, December 26: Panther Club &amp; PreK Closed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope everyone enjoyed a peaceful Thanksgiving break and enjoyed the recent Founders\u2019 Day Pancake Breakfast. We recently celebrated our November birthdays and welcomed Harvey the Reading Dog back to campus. Please read on for more information about the days ahead!<\/p>\n<p><strong>No Bad Weather, Only Bad Clothing<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a kind reminder, if you haven&#8217;t already done so, to send your child to school with a heavy parka, hat\/earmuffs, a scarf, and gloves\/mittens daily to school. You may also wish to send snow boots and snow pants to school to keep in your child\u2019s cubby\/locker for those freezing recess times. We will be outside most days unless the weather (including windchill) is \u201310 degrees or colder. To participate in sledding during recess, students must wear snow boots and snow pants. Take a minute to stop by the Lower School office lost and found to see if your child\u2019s snow gear is there!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Wednesday, December 11: CHAMP Assembly<\/strong><br \/>\nAt our next CHAMP assembly on Wednesday, December 11, we will celebrate the CHAMP attribute of &#8220;inclusive.&#8221; Please wear your CHAMP shirts!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, December 13: Virtual LS Quarterly Parent Coffee<\/strong><br \/>\nAs the winter season is a busy time for families, we will be offering a virtual, asynchronous Lower School Parent Coffee for this quarter. The topic is &#8220;Parent Wellbeing: Self-Regulation for Our Children and Ourselves.&#8221; A pre-recorded video link will be shared with parents on Friday, December 13, for you to watch at your convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Jennifer Le Varge, Lower School director\u00a0 Mark Your Calendars Wednesday, December 11: LS CHAMP Assembly, 8:15-8:45 AM, Family Commons Friday, December 13: PreK-12 MPA Preview, 8:30-10 AM, Gallery &amp; Martin Lenz Harrison Library Wednesday, December 18: Mini K Admission Day, 8:30-9:30 AM, Martin Harrison Library &amp; Makerspace Friday, December 20: Caroling with the Madrigal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":27386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27370","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\/27370","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27390,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27370\/revisions\/27390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}