We ask that all parents and guardians complete the Intent to Return Survey as to whether or not your student will attend MSSD14 for the 2025-2026 school year.
Please complete one form for each student currently enrolled at MSSD14. For additional submissions, a link will be available to begin the survey again after submitting responses.
Parents/Guardians of graduating seniors do not need to complete this survey.
All parents and/or guardians of returning students will receive instructions to complete the 2025-2026 Returning Student Registration Form in the beginning of July. The Returning Student Registration will need to be completed prior to the first day of school on Friday, August 15, 2025.
Individual schools will send specific information during the summer months such as calendars, activity/sports information and required check-in days.
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First grade has been busy learning about how stories teach us lessons. Students spent time reading about the lessons different characters learned, we made connections to previous stories, and wrote about the lessons the characters taught us. We are beginning to learn to compare and contrast stories, find key details, and summarize stories in our own words. We had a blast spending time creating our own "Inch Town" where we built and measured everything we put in our towns as a cumulative activity to finish our measurement module. Next up is place value. In writing we are learning ways to make our words more interesting by using conjunctions.
Kid Power came in and taught us ways to keep ourselves safe. Our favorite books were brought from home and read in our classroom while we were cozy in our jammies. Buddies celebrated Read Across Manitou with us and helped us read some of our favorite books. We enjoyed the warmer weather by chillaxin in the sun. Cave of the Winds was our first field trip and lots of lots of fun things are on the horizon in Quarter 4.
Math has been fun and hands-on as we explored the hierarchy of quadrilaterals which involved cutting, pasting and quite a bit of mess! We now understand that even if the sides of a rectangle are fractional lengths, we can still apply length x width to find the area. We are excited for the 4th and final quarter of elementary school!
Fourth grade artists designed lanterns from putting together 2-dimensional constructed frames into 3-dimensional forms.
Kindergarten students learned the story of the "Ugly Duckling" in Spanish, practicing vocabulary related to the family. Vocabulary: The Ugly Duckling... sad, happy, pretty, ugly. They continue practicing the days of the week and the months of the year. Big, Small.
First grade students learned the story of the "Ugly Duckling" in Spanish. This topic has content about emotions in Spanish (sad, happy, ugly, pretty), which was applied to the topic of family (dad, mom.) Vocabulary: El patito no es feo (the duckling is not ugly), El patito es feliz (the duckling is happy). Students continue learning numbers and vowels in Spanish.
Second grade learned the story of the "Ugly Duckling" in Spanish. Vocabulary: positions left and right, ugly, pretty, sad, happy. They continued learning the months of the year in Spanish. What is your favorite month? Using numbers, for example, "How old are you?" Culturally, the students learned about tropical fruits and were surprised to learn about the cashew seed and its iron-rich fruit, "El Marañón."
Third grade learned the story of The Ugly Duckling in Spanish, applying vocabulary related to family and feelings. They are reading the book "The Hen Says," which is about emotions in Spanish. Some of the vocabulary words are ugly, pretty, sad, happy, angry, good, bad, siblings, father, mother.
Fourth grade students studied the topic of family members and practiced sentences about family members. They continued learning about numbers and colors, feminine and masculine, and articles (a girl and a boy, the girl and the boy). Culturally, they learned about the tropical cashew nut seed and created Day of the Dead cultural art for the Night of Excellence.
Fifth grade students completed the Places unit and they are excited about holding a contest, "The Scarf and the Places." All students have the opportunity to participate; it is not mandatory. Following the sequence of the family theme, the students practiced sentences on the topic "Rosita and the Frog's Family." Culturally, the students learned about tropical fruits and were surprised by the cashew seed and its iron-rich fruit, "El Marañón." For the purpose of reading comprehension in the next unit, students are learning vocabulary such as: This is not mine. / It's an excellent idea.
