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Spotlight
Four Seasons April 2024
Calendar
- Monday, April 1, 8:40 MN Orchestra Concert (Pre-K, Mrs. H, Ms. B/Pappas, Ms. Hughes)
- Monday, April 1, 9:45 MN Orchestra Concert (Ms. Chelsea, Ms. Carissa/Brissett, Ms. Stenerson)
- April 1-5, Spirit Week (see below for more information)
- April 8-12, NO SCHOOL, Spring Break
- Tuesday, April 16, 7:30-8:30am Coffee with the Principal
FREE SWIMMING LESSONS!
St. Paul's Como Park and Highland pools are offering FREE swim lessons this summer. This is a great opportunity to help kids learn to swim. Registration is April 1st. Register soon, lessons will fill up fast.
Spirit Week
Hello Four Seasons! Next week, April 1-5th is Spirit Week at school. Students and staff are encouraged to dress up in the theme of the day. Let's have some fun the week before Spring Break!
- Monday: Cozy Clothes Day (could be your favorite sweatpants, sweatshirt and/or PJs)
- Tuesday: Hero Day (or if you don't have a hero—silly clothes day—like mismatching socks or a backwards shirt)
- Wednesday: Dress up in clothes in your Favorite Color
- Thursday: Sports Day (or dress up like someone you look up to)
- Friday: Culture Day (dress up in something that represents or is associated to your culture)
Coffee with the Principal
Four Seasons parents and caregivers, please join us for Coffee with the Principal Tuesday, April 16, 7:30.
- learn what is happening at Four Seasons
- meet other families
- talk with Principal Fell
- enjoy a treat
Help us plan for Four Seasons A+ success and learn how to support learning at home. A Spanish interpreter will be present.
Tuesday, Apr 16, 2024, 07:30 AM
Summer EBT Benefits
The S-EBT is a federally funded program that provides families of qualified school-aged children $40 per month during the summer months to purchase healthy foods while school is not in session. SPPS in-person students who qualify for free or reduced eligibility will qualify for Summer EBT benefits. SPPS online students who are directly certified for free or reduced eligibility will also qualify.
It is critical that the primary parent/guardian contact info in Campus is up to date to ensure that S-EBT benefits are received at the beginning of summer. Parents/guardians contact Four Seasons' main office if any updates are needed.
If a student does not currently qualify for free or reduced eligibility, parents/guardians are encouraged to complete the Application for Educational Benefits to see if they qualify.
More info will be shared at spps.org/summerebt, including updates as more info about the program is available from the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
Minnesota Orchestra Musicians Visit Four Seasons!
As part of a week-long arts residency program, our PreK, kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd graders had an amazing opportunity recently. These students got to work with a teaching artist who introduced students to the book Max Found Two Sticks and provided them with a variety of opportunities to create music and explore rhythms. Our kindergarten and 1st grade classes also got to touch and play violins and learn how string instruments work. The culminating event was a concert on April 1, with eight musicians from the Minnesota Orchestra performing at our school.
Special thanks to the Friends of the MN Orchestra and teaching artist Amanda Beininger for this great experience!!
Progress and Standards
Thank you to families who attended conferences last week. If you need to schedule a conference, reach out to your child's teacher. The documents below show Grade Level Standards.
- Kindergarten - English
- 1st Grade - English
- 2nd Grade - English
- 3rd Grade - English
- 4th Grade - English
- 5th Grade - English
- Hmong - Information in Support of Progress Reports
- Karen - Information in Support of Progress Reports
- Somali - Information in Support of Progress Reports
- Spanish - Information in Support of Progress Reports
At Four Seasons A+ Elementary School, and throughout SPPS, we use a variety of assessments to measure each student’s academic growth. When you hear the word “assessment,” you may think about standardized tests like the MCA (Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment). MCAs are one method of measuring reading and math skills for our 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. These tests are given in the spring (April/May). The test results are not fully available until late summer. Because of that timing, MCA scores are often used to look at overall trends, but do not play a large role in guiding instruction.
Other assessments are given at multiple times during the school year and are more helpful in planning differentiated instruction. These assessments include FAST, benchmarking, and unit/quarterly assessments in math. FAST is given three times each year (fall, winter, and spring) and measures each student’s knowledge/understanding of literacy skills such as letter names and sounds, decoding of words, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Teachers also use a reading benchmark assessment (benchmarking) to determine each student’s reading level. This information is used to help students pick books at the appropriate reading level (not too hard or too easy), and to create guided reading groups. In math, teachers assess learning at the end of each unit or quarter. Based on this information, teachers know what students have learned and what needs to be reviewed or re-taught.
In addition to MCAs, FAST, benchmarking, and Math unit/quarterly assessments, our Multilingual Learners (MLL) take the ACCESS test, which measures their progress in reading, speaking, listening, and writing. The proficiency levels determined by this assessment are used by teachers to help plan instruction and support for students. ACCESS performance also determines when students exit the MLL program.
Ask your child’s teacher about recent assessments and how your child has grown academically during the school year.
ENGLISH
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KAREN
ကျိာ်ဂုၤဂၤတခါလၢနအဲၣ်ဒိးအီၤ လၢအတမ့ၢ် အဲကလံးကျိာ်န့ၣ်အိၣ်ဧါ. နအိးထီၣ်ကွၢ်လံာ်တၢ်ကစီၣ်ပှာ်ဘျးစဲ ဒီးစံၢ်လီၤဖဲ ပှာ်ဘျးစဲအဖီခိၣ်ဖဲစုထွဲတကပၤ(လၢခီၣ်ဖၠူထၢၣ်ဖီခိၣ်) မ့တမ့ၢ် စံၢ်လီၤဖဲတၢ်ဖီလာ် (လၢနလီတဲစိ ဖီခိၣ်) ဒ်သိး တၢ်ကကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤလၢကျိာ်အဂုၤအဂၤအဂီၢ်သ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဝံသးစူၤသ့ၣ်ညါလၢ လံာ်လၢ တၢ်ကွဲးကျိာ်ထံအီၤန့ၣ် ကအိၣ်ဝဲဒီး တၢ်အကမၣ် မ့တမ့ၢ် တၢ်တလၢတပှဲၤသ့ဝဲဒၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. နမ့ၢ်အိၣ်ဒီး တၢ်သံကွၢ်တဖၣ်န့ၣ်, ဝံသးစူၤကိးပှၤဖဲ 651-290-7595 န့ၣ်တက့ၢ်.
SOMALI
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HMONG
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SPANISH
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