{"id":28233,"date":"2025-04-10T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=28233"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T14:39:43","slug":"lower-school-division-news-april-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2025\/04\/10\/lower-school-division-news-april-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower School Division News April 10, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28227 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/LSFeat.jpg\" alt=\"Lower School students examine a booth at Cultural Celebration Day.\" 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>Friday, April 11: New Student Enrollment Deadline<\/li>\n<li>Monday, April 14: No Classes, Professional Development<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, April 16: LS CHAMP Assembly, 8:15-8:45 AM, Family Commons<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, April 16: LS Duty-Free Lunch with Parent Volunteers, 11:40 AM-12:40 PM, Playground and Family Commons<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, April 17: Coffee with the Candidate for Lower School Parents, 8-9 AM, Martin Lenz Harrison Library<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, April 22: LS\/MS G4 Lunch-Up, 11:35 AM-12:30 PM<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, April 24: Spring Musical: \u201cThe Wizard of Oz,\u201d 7-9 PM, Nicholson Center, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/fine-arts\/theatre-arts\/spring-show.shtml\">Tickets &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Saturday, April 26: Spring Musical: \u201cThe Wizard of Oz,\u201d 7-9 PM, Nicholson Center, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/fine-arts\/theatre-arts\/spring-show.shtml\">Tickets &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sunday, April 27: Spring Musical: \u201cThe Wizard of Oz,\u201d 2-4 PM, Nicholson Center, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/fine-arts\/theatre-arts\/spring-show.shtml\">Tickets &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, April 29: LS Quarterly Coffee, 8:15-9:30 AM, Martin Lenz Harrison Library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Welcome to April! It\u2019s hard to believe that we are almost at the end of the school year, with less than two months remaining. We\u2019re still moving full steam ahead in Lower School. Read on for more updates!<\/p>\n<p><strong>No Classes: Monday, April 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please note that there are no classes on Monday, April 14. This is a day off for students and a professional development day for our teachers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lower School CHAMP Assembly: April 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our next CHAMP Assembly will be held on Wednesday, April 16, from 8:15-9 AM in the Family Commons. We will have a visit from the cast of &#8220;The Wizard of Oz,&#8221; MPA\u2019s spring musical. We&#8217;ll also launch our positive behavioral interventions with the students along with a new CHAMP Challenge with emphasis on the CHAMP attributes of accountability and self-control. Feel free to join us!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lower School Parent Coffee: April 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our next Lower School Parent Coffee will be held on April 29 from 8:15-9:30 AM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lower School MAP Testing for Grades 2-4: April 28-May 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spring MAP assessments will be held on April 28-May 9 for our students in second through fourth grade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fourth Grade Neighborhood House Food Drive Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fourth-grade students are proud to share that the food drive they organized for Neighborhood House resulted in 1,445 pounds of food! This year\u2019s total showed an increase of over 245 pounds from last year\u2019s drive. Thank you for your generosity, as many Twin Cities families will appreciate our efforts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Jennifer Le Varge, Lower School director\u00a0 Mark Your Calendars Friday, April 11: New Student Enrollment Deadline Monday, April 14: No Classes, Professional Development Wednesday, April 16: LS CHAMP Assembly, 8:15-8:45 AM, Family Commons Wednesday, April 16: LS Duty-Free Lunch with Parent Volunteers, 11:40 AM-12:40 PM, Playground and Family Commons Thursday, April 17: Coffee with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":28229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28233","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\/28233","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=28233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28297,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28233\/revisions\/28297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}