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In place of Five For Friday: A Reflections at the One Year Mark of the Pandemic. Last year, on this day, I was standing in the hall after students left talking to Dayne Fletke about his new house. Teresa Michalski came out and asked if I had seen the email stating that field trips were on hold until further notice. I had not, but within 4 hours I was watching the Governor's press conference informing us that schools were closed for in-person learning. A lot has happened since that evening. In looking back this Friday, I can't let the day pass without mentioning a few things. Kids are Resilient- It's impressive to see students every day in-person at Page. Our students have weathered this storm amazingly well. While there are standard ups and downs, I cannot believe how great our students are doing. Their progress is incredible in light of everything that has happened. This Community is Great- From Distance Learning Packets and Drop-off Bins last Spring to masks, crazy drop o...

 It's been another great week at Page, but don't take my word for it. Check out just FIVE of the many amazing things going on here! 5. Donors Choose! - 5th Grade Teacher Mrs. Schneider applied for a DonorsChoose grant for a project on where the Red Fern Grows. Grateful this happened and excited to see the work this class will do! 4. WINning- Mrs. Witt has been using our Reading Street program to differentiate for and in this case extend some of her high level readers. Using the "Inquiry: Extended Concepts" part of Reading Street students researched and presented information about historic wildfires this week and their Google Slide presentations turned out great! 3. It's a Figure of Speech - For part of March is Reading Month several of our 5th grade classes had students dress up as "idioms." Pictured here are several students and Ms. Corey and Ms. Schrader. 2. Not Taking it for 'GRANT'ed - Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Meredith applied for and received a...