Early Learning School

Orange for inclusion! 🧡 Our staff and students wore orange this week to celebrate inclusivity before World Inclusion day tomorrow! At Alliance City Schools, we believe everyone deserves to feel welcomed, valued, respected and included. Our differences make us unique, and together, they make our Aviator community stronger!

Today and every day, we encourage our students and staff to lead with kindness, celebrate differences and make sure everyone feels like they belong. Small acts of inclusion can make a big difference!

Together, we can create a school community where everyone belongs! ✈️ #RepthatA

Alliance City Schools has officially joined Kindland's initiative of completing 250 acts of kindness this school year!

Kindness can be simple: invite someone to play with you or sit with you, help a classmate, give someone a compliment, tell someone thank you for helping you, or offer an encouraging word. Small actions help people feel welcome, happy, valued and connected and can inspire others to be kind, too.

Throughout the year, students and staff will report their acts of kindness, and we will track them as a district until we reach our goal of 250!

Parents are able to report acts of kindness through Kindland's reporting form at https://www.usofkindness.org/share-an-act-of-kindness.

We are excited to see all the amazing acts of kindness our Aviators complete this year! Follow along as we help to spread kindness throughout our schools and community!

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📢 Reminder: There will be no school on Monday, Oct. 12 for a Teacher Day. Enjoy the long weekend, Aviators! #RepthatA

Tracy Bowser's kindergarten class had some science fun when they planted grass and bean seeds! 🌱 The students watered and measured their plants each week and even created a house to put behind the plants. They enjoyed watching the plants grow over time and comparing the two different kinds using descriptive words! Our budding botanists had so much fun with this project! 🪴 #RepthatA

We're a month away from the annual Alliance City Schools Futures Fest on Oct. 29! 📅

Join us for a night of career-oriented activities designed to get Aviators from kindergarten to 12th grade thinking about and exploring careers they are interested in.

Activities include:
💼 College & Career Fair
👩‍🍳 Career Fashion Show
🎲 Career-Themed Games and more!

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Each month, Becky Robertson's 1st grade class will welcome back at least one retired teacher to be a guest reader! Their first guest reader was Joan Skidmore! 📚

She read them a fun, interactive book called “I Say OH You Say NO.” The kids loved participating in the story. Mrs. Skidmore also brought them fun “boots & books” coloring pages for Dolly Parton Day and fall bookmarks to color. 🎨

Thank you, Mrs. Skidmore! The students can’t wait for their next reader! #RepthatA

Even our kindergartners at Alliance Early Learning School are celebrating Start With Hello Week! 😊 Students in Tracy Bowser's class learned how to introduce themselves to someone new and ask questions. They practiced in their classroom and throughout the building, including introducing themselves to Shelli Grove's 1st grade class! 👋 #RepthatA

Students in Megan Harper's kindergarten class have been working on counting! As a fun end to the unit, students were given "recipe" cards to make "math soup." 🍲 They visited stations around the room to collect their "ingredients" (buttons, blocks, etc.). Then, they had to count out the correct number of each ingredient to put in their soup, according to their recipe. When finished, they exchanged bowls with a friend to check each other's work! 😃 What a great activity! #RepthatA

Assistant Superintendent Shawn Jackson was the first guest reader for Baeli Kimble's 1st grade class! 📚 He read them the story “There’s an Alligator Under My Bed.” At the end, the students had the opportunity to ask Mr. Jackson questions.

One student asked, “What is your favorite part of your job?” He responded with visiting classrooms and interacting with students of all ages! 😊 The class loved having Mr. Jackson visit so much, and the kids loved the story. #RepthatA

Grandparents Day is always a special event at Alliance Early Learning School! ☺️#RepthatA

Each year, Alliance City Schools participates in Start With Hello Week! 👋 A simple "Hello" has the power to change a person's entire day. Throughout the week, all Aviators will participate in activities that strive to make connections, build relationships and provide a sense of belonging in our school community.

It all starts with "Hello!" 😃 #RepthatA

Crystal Gibbons' 1st grade class had their first guest reader of the year! 📚 Mariah Gibbons, Mrs. Gibbons' daughter, read "Skippy Jon Jones Lost in Space." 🚀 It was also her birthday, and the class made sure to give her her very own birthday crown and balloon! 🎈

Thank you for coming to read to our Aviators, Mariah! ✈️ #RepthatA

Tracy Bowser's kindergartners read "Have You Filled a Bucket Today?" 📚 They sorted pictures with a friend into "bucket filler" or "bucket dipper," then practiced giving compliments and filling each other's buckets with coins. The students then wrote a message on the back of paper buckets and walked around the building giving them to staff to practice filling others' buckets. 🪣

What a great activity for our young Aviators! ✈️ #RepthatA

When our little kindergarten friend Charleigh was nervous to ride the bus by herself this morning, Mrs. G didn't give it another thought before jumping into action! 🚌 She met her and her mom at the bus stop and hopped on the bus with Charleigh and her sweet, little bear. 🧸

We are so proud of Charleigh for being a brave risk taker and riding the bus all the way to school with Mrs. G and her new friends! ☺️

Sometimes new experiences can be scary for our little Aviators, but we have amazing principals and staff members, like Mrs. G, who help to inspire our students to be courageous! ❤️✈🩵 #RepthatA #WinTheDay

Students in Connilyn Cross’ class enjoyed using Play-Doh to play a game of Race to 20 during center time! 🎲 Students took turns rolling a die to make marks in their Play-Doh ten frames. The first student in each group to get to 20 won the round. What a fun activity! 😊 #RepthatA

Students in Becky Robertson's class at Alliance Early Learning School used their Play-Doh to create a pattern and represented their pattern with a math equation! ➕➖ They worked with a partner and then presented their work to classmates as they did a "gallery walk" around their Math Pattern Gallery. Way to go, Aviators! ✈ #RepthatA

Aviator Families! ✈️ Your child's busing information will be sent through ParentSquare this afternoon. Keep an eye out for the message! 👀

If you are accessing ParentSquare for the first time and need assistance, please use the link below. ⬇️

🔗 https://www.parentsquare.com/blog/2020-7-15-help-please-frequently-asked-parent-questions/

Please note: Postcards with student busing information will not be sent home this year.

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On Friday, we officially welcomed the newest members of our Aviator team! They took part in a full day of Flight School, where they learned about our culture, participated in a bus tour of Alliance and discovered what it means to be part of ACS.

We are so excited to welcome these amazing new Aviators aboard! 🩵✈️❤️ #RepthatA