Volume 4, Issue 9: November 7, 2020 |
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Welcome to The Mt. Lion Roar where you can read about some of the things happening in the Altoona Area School District. With nearly 8,000 students, AASD is the area's top choice for Academics, Arts and Athletics.
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AASD Students to Transition to a Hybrid Model |
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The AASD Board of Directors approved transitioning students to a hybrid model of instruction beginning Thursday, November 12. This A/B model will be apply to students in grades K-12. Students will be given an assignment of either Group A or Group B and will attend face to face instruction every other day.
With the increase in community spread of the COVID-19 virus, Blair County has seen a significant increase in the number of positive cases. The A/B model will reduce the number of students in the classrooms and allow for better social distancing district-wide reducing the potential COVID-19 exposures to students and staff.
This model was approved for November 12, 2020 through January 29, 2021.
Information will continue to updated on the AASD COVID-19 web page: COVID-19 Web Page
New to this page is a COVID-19 Dashboard that will provide information on the number of positive cases as well as the number of quarantine cases within the school district. This dashboard will be updated weekly.
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On Friday the 13th of November, the AAHS Performing Arts Club will present The War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast. For the safety of our community and student performers, this show will be streamed LIVE from the high school at 7pm on Friday, November 13.
Tickets are $5 and may be purchased in advance online at Tickets.
For more details about the show click HERE
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AAJHS Drama presents An Evening with Uncle Shel The Poetry of Shel Silverstein. Thanks to MLTV, students were able to video this year's Fall play to share with family and friends.
Shel Silverstein was an American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist screenwriter, and a children's author who is mostly known for his children's book The Giving Tree.
Student performances featured works form "Where the Sidewalk Ends," "A light in the Attic," "Falling Up," and "Everything on Top."
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Juniata Elementary teachers found fun ways to celebrate fall with students. They made skeletons from Q-Tips, Played multiplication Bingo, read some spooky stories, made pumpkin slime and a spider web STEM project—just to name a few! All of the students enjoyed the different projects and had a lot of fun!
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McAuliffe Heights students in Mrs. Plunket and Mr. McHugh’s 3rd grade class worked with Mrs. Aboud in learning about the election process and voting.
They were able to actually engage in the election process at school as they each were able to vote, votes were tallied and they determined the next president of the United States
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Voting Day at Learning Express |
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November 3rd was Voting Day at LEX for the five (5) day classes!
Miss Grove’s class voted on their favorite cookie, and the winner was Oreos.
Mrs. Hawkins’ class voted on their favorite classroom activity, and the winner was shaving cream!
Students who voted received an, “I voted” sticker just like at the community voting polls!
Both classes read aloud, “Duck for President!”
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AAHS students in Mrs. Curry's Art in Public Places recently completed an assignment where they had to create an individual public art piece. After reaching out to McAuliffe Heights' principal Mrs. Agnew for permission, students spent early Wednesday morning before teachers and students arrived creating beautiful artwork outside of the entrance of the school. The artwork also include quotes of inspiration! |
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AAJHS students in Mr. Solomon’s classes were asked to video themselves testing common, everyday household items to see if they were acidic, basic or neutral.
The students needed to boil red cabbage to make an indicator. From there, they mixed the indicator with everyday substances and used the ph scale colors to determine if the substance was an acid, base or neutral.
Students shared videos of their experiment and results!
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AASD Seeking
AmeriCorps Members
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Three service positions available to provide small group literacy intervention/enrichment to K-5 learners in AASD elementary schools.
Service term is from November 13, 2020 - June 11, 2021.
To apply or for more information click HERE
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ALTOONA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT NOW HIRING!
The Altoona Area School District is looking to fill the following positions:
Substitute Teachers – For more information or to apply, please visit aasdcat.com or contact Lynn Weakland, at Lweakland@ess.com or 814-515-3894.
Bus Drivers – For more information or to apply, please visit aasdcat.com or call 946-8220
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Horseshoe yearbook staff approaches first deadline
November 5, 2020
The Horseshoe yearbook has been working on production since September and has their first spread deadline due on Friday, Nov 6.
To read the complete article, click HERE
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REMINDER: Tuesday, November 10 is the last day to get a winter sports screening.
Student athletes participating in a winter sport at the secondary level and who have not participated in a fall sport, are required to complete a sports screening according to the schedule found at the link below:
Athletes who participated in a fall sport do not have to attend the screening, but must complete the recertification forms and return completed forms to their coach.
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