Every week students are exploring a variety of academics, technology, and the arts. Please enjoy some of our favorite traditions and new traditions happening at Park Maitland School.
Over the winter break we highlighted our superstar teacher of the week on social media. You can leave comments for them on Instagram or Facebook to support our wonderful teachers.
Jeanette Lukens, Assistant Principal, 6th grade Design Thinking teacher, and 1st grade Homeroom teacher

This is my 16th year in education and my 1st year at Park Maitland. Participating in special traditions like Jelly Fudge Friends, Gothic Fiction, and Polar Express have been a highlight! It has been wonderful to be a part of these unique events and other collaborative projects that enrich and extend thinking.

I love the children’s enthusiasm for learning, and I share their excitement for the holiday season!

Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with family, relaxing at the beach, traveling, and retail therapy. 
Daniel Minkow

Number of years at Park Maitland School: 3

Favorite Memory: I attended Park Maitland as a kid. It's a joy to be a teacher here now. What I love most is seeing the traditions & customs that have continued through the years such as the 6th grade play, stone soup, and the wax museum. I remember doing all of these activities and more as a student, and it's fun being a part of them now as a teacher. 

Subject: 5th Grade Social Studies

Fun thing about me: I am an avid runner and love to compete in Tough Mudder's. 
Fun thing about my family: My wife and I are big animal lovers. We are parents to a dog named Jax and two cats (from the same litter), Anna and Elsa.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Before winter break, Ms. Schultz and Ms. Cardamone worked on a fabulous project call the "Jabberwocky" poem in 4th grade Language Arts.

Fourth grade students read Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" poem based on Alice in Wonderland. The poem uses a variety of figurative language devices such as similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, etc. Taking the poem as an inspiration, students created their own "Jabberwock" creature and used descriptive language to create visual imagery of the character and the setting. Their "Jabberwock"creature came to life as they wrote poems of their own modeled after this Lewis Carroll pattern. Students used rhyming patterns and figurative language to develop a poem completely their own! 

"The creative ownership the kids displayed was so imaginative and they were thrilled to be real-life authors!"

~ Ms. Schultz
ESW
Ms. Fondo's first grade class had a fun day writing and celebrating for their New Year's resolutions.
MATH
Near our winter break, Park Maitland students participated in the Perennial Math Top 10 playoff competition. In order to qualify for this tournament, students had to finish in the top 10 in one of the earlier Perennial National Virtual Competitions. 

Some of our Park Maitland students who attended this incredible event were 3rd Grader Sophie Lou, who finished 6th, 4th Graders Liem Murphy and Lette Baum, and 6th graders Rylan Chaput and Ashwin Anand, who finished 4th. 6th grade student Luke Kang was categorized for 7th grade.

We could not be more proud of our Park Maitland students! Way to go!