Attention AMS/AHS families: the first-ever Blue Jay Family Fun Night will be held on Monday, 11-6-23 from 6-7pm in the AHS ITLC (library). Please bring a cell phone, tablet or laptop along as tips on valuable screen time to enhance literacy skills for your child will be shared. All students who attend will go home with a pretty cool tech gadget to use...
A new month means more chances to guess staff members from the Athens School District based on just a couple of fun facts. This person is at Maple Grove. He or she lives in a shed/shouse and has traveled to 19 different states in a span of just one week. Is it: Sabrina Riehle, Jessica Barrick, Dana Blume or Chris Czech?
The skiing, sheep-handling, former nanny administrative team member is: Andrea Sheridan.
There is another administrative team member to guess the identity of...
When she was eight years old, her 4H pen of three sheep won grand champion at the county fair. She lived in John and Yoko Ono’s house while working as a nanny for a family who at one time owned the New York Mets. Lastly, she loves to mountain ski with her son.
Is it: Joy Redmann, Robin Hanson, Andrea Sheridan, or Juli Gauerke-Peter?
The administrative team member who has strong ties to Maple Grove and failed her driving test the first time is Robin Hanson.
It's time to guess another administrative team member in the Athens School District. This lady failed her driving test the first time. She attended Maple Grove as a youngster and received the Walter and Mabel Fromm scholarship.
Is it: Joy Redmann, Robin Hanson, Andrea Sheridan, or Juli Gauerke-Peter?
Juli Gauerke-Peter is the administrative team member who had adventures in Punta Cana and Key West.
Whisper phones are handy devices that amplify voices to truly enunciate and hear all the sounds in words. Did you know that simple white PVC elbows and couplings from home improvement stores like Menards can be constructed into homemade whisper phones?
Staying with the administrative team in the Athens School District, which team member zip-lined in Punta Cana and parasailed with her daughters in Key West?
Is it: Joy Redmann, Robin Hanson, Andrea Sheridan, or Juli Gauerke-Peter?
Joy Redmann is the administrative team member who spent time in New Zealand.
Which member of the administrative team completed her student teaching in New Zealand and also bungee jumped while there?
Is it: Joy Redmann, Robin Hanson, Andrea Sheridan, or Juli Gauerke-Peter?
The fitness fan and professional Opera singer in the Athens School District is: Emily Triebold.
The next staff member to guess is stationed at Maple Grove. She loves hiking, running, and weight-lifting. When she isn't teaching, she is a professional Opera singer. Is it: Sabrina Riehle, Jessica Barrick, Emily Triebold or Kaylin Byer?
Tonight is Family Fun Night at Athens Elementary School! See you at 6:00pm in the AES gym.
The AES staff member who loves to travel and do DIY projects is Bridget Kottke.
4th graders learned about different animal life cycles and created a project on an animal of their choice. Different animals go through complete metamorphosis, incomplete metamorphoses or that specific animals life cycle. Their next project is going to be creating a creature based and identifying physical and behavioral adaptations.
It looks like the Guess Who game might need some multiple choice answers to make things easier. No problem! That's an easy tweak.
The next staff member to guess is from AES. She loves to travel, evidenced by having been to 18 states, Jamaica and Mexico. She also plans on going to Scotland for her 40th birthday. Home improvements and DIY are her jam.
Is it: Jackie Schelling, Bridget Kottke, Beth Heier or Renee Haines?
The staff member who likes the colors pink & black and who considers Lake Superior a place of happiness is...(drumroll please): Jess Bingham! How'd you do? Did you guess Mrs. Bingham? There will be a new person to identify in just a couple of days. (I know, I know. Very exciting!)
First graders tested the order of addends in addition sentences to find out if it changes the sum. The students engaged in a game of "find your flip flop friend" to match their addition sentence with a friend who had their same addends ordered differently. They quickly discovered that the order in which numbers are added doesn't matter. This is the commutative property of addition.
It's time again to guess the identity of a staff member in the super School District of Athens. This person works at both Athens Middle and High School. He or she states that pink and black are his/her favorite colors. Lake Superior is this person's "happy place". Who could it be? Please write your guesses in the comment box. Check back soon to see if you were correct.