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.
VALENTINE'S DAY
Before our long weekend begins, students celebrated Valentine's day with pink and red colors. Students also decorated flowers for a very special art project that our art department is creating for the AdventHealth COVID ICU wings. The artwork's purpose is to help uplift the patients, doctors, staff, and visitors! A very special thank you to Ms. Rachel Allen for her help with this heartfelt project.
ONLINE ACADEMY
Our Online Academy first and second graders celebrated Valentine's Day today.
PALETTE'S FOR PEACE
Exciting news! Ms. Dawson has received a grant from the City of Winter Park, Florida. Ms. Dawson is finding ways to transform and help the Earth. Today our third grade students, the "Palette Pirates", painted "Palette's For Peace".

A big thank you to Tyler Rothchild for helping Ms. Dawson put the palettes together and M. Lahr Homes and Poole & Fuller Landscaping company for donating palettes to the Park Maitland School.
JFF EVENT
Master Mark, brother-in-law of our own Mr. Eric Link, with Orlando Taekwondo & Kung Fu (OTK) made a special appearance for our JFF Event today. First graders and Super Seniors had a special surprise as the students celebrated an early Lunar New Year Celebration before Friday and shared a traditional Chinese lion dance, view performance here.

A big thank you to Master Mark for coming out today, making this a special day for the students. OTK has been part of our Park Maitland community for many years, providing martial arts classes to many of our students.
100TH DAY
1ST GRADE
2ND GRADE
First and second graders celebrated their 100th day of school. First graders decorated t-shirts with 100 items to present in class. Second graders celebrated their one hundred days in Math class by jumping one hundred times and other fun activities.
ONLINE ACADEMY
K-5
1ST GRADE
Online students were excited to celebrate their 100th day.
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LANGUAGE ARTS
All month 6th grade students have been working on Persuasive Essays. Read Nabiha's S. essay, Why Muslims are valuable in society? here.
SPANISH
K-5 students in Ms. Johnson's Spanish class are learning about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Students in K-4 through 2nd grade are making puppets this week.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Fourth graders in Ms. Higgs's class worked on their Florida History Inquiry Projects. Students created and presented dioramas based on events from Florida's rich history. Additionally, students wrote a mini essay discussing the event and the impact on our state's history.
ONLINE ACADEMY
This was a busy week for the Fourth Grade Online Academy! We presented our Florida History Dioramas and finished our first literature circles! Of course, there was also time left for celebrating how "Love Is Louder" than any of the other challenging emotional clamor of the world!