Park Avenue Elementary School held their annual field day on September 26th. To raise money for the school’s PTA, raffle tickets were sold to students for the chance to throw a pie at Principal Dianna Anderson, Tonya Bergmann, Allie Mackey, or Laura Steward. After the pies were thrown, school members completed the Ice Bucket Challenge.

You can now find out what’s for breakfast and lunch at every school on every day of the year. You can even find out nutritional information. Just visit the Dining section on the new DMPS Mobile App. If you don’t yet have the app, click the header to download it for Apple or Android and learn more about its many features.

To help the kindergarten students with practicing their alphabet, the 5th grade students in Ms. Willert’s class made ABC books. The 5th graders shared their ABC books with the kindergarten students in Mrs. Berg’s class.  The 5th graders read their …

Park Avenue staff and families walked in the Lincoln Homecoming Parade on Thursday, September 25th.  It was a beautiful night to celebrate the homecoming festivities taking place at Lincoln this week.

Park Avenue Elementary celebrated Spirit Week in correspondence with Lincoln High School’s homecoming!  Monday was dress like a hippie day.  Tuesday students dressed up as their favorite character from a book or movie, Wednesday students wore hats, Thursday …

Fall conferences will be held from 2:00 – 8:00 pm on Wednesday, October 15th and Wednesday, October 22nd. This is your chance to visit your child’s classroom and discuss the progress they are making this year. Look for scheduling slips to come home in early October. Be sure to drop in on the specials teachers to say ‘hi’ and get an update. The PTA will be holding a Book Fair in the Media Center on both dates, and would love to show you some great gift ideas. This is also a chance to turn in those Box Tops and Labels for Education that you have been saving.

Lifetouch has asked to change Park Avenue’s Fall Picture Day to Friday, October 10, 2014. Picture Order Forms will be sent home the week of September 29th to give families an opportunity to select the package they want. Order forms should come back to school with the student on October 10th, and be handed to the photographer when the class goes to their assigned time.

T-SHIRT READING CHALLENGE Want to win a t-shirt pillow to curl up and read with?  Read a book, turn in your report and get a ticket in the drawing to win the pillow of your choice! Kindergarten – …