The Mt. Lion Roar Newsletter

Volume 4, Issue 18: March 7, 2021

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.

Students Return to In-Person Learning March 15

The AASD Board of Directors voted 9-0 at a Special Board Meeting last Thursday to return AASD students to in-person learning, full-time, beginning Monday, March 15. All students, PreK - 12, who choose to return full-time will follow the regular school schedule.

Virtual instruction as well as the Altoona Cyber Academy will still be available for those students who wish to remain in a virtual instruction model.

Efforts are underway to vaccinate all district employees with many employees in the 1A category already receiving at least one dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine. With the upcoming release of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, it is highly probable that all district employees who wish to be vaccinated will receive a vaccination by the end of March.

Details regarding the return to school will be provided to families from their school principal. To read Dr. Prijatelj's most recent message to families click HERE.

Kindergarten registration is now open for all children who will be 5 years old on or before September 1, 2021. Online registration is encouraged. Kindergarten registration Instructions and Dates of Registration can be found at Kindergarten Registration. Upon completion of the online registration parents will be contacted by a Student Registration representative. Don't delay, register today!

Pleasant Valley Principal Mr. Krott was invited to a second grade indoor soccer game. As part of Mr. Tanneyhill's physical education class, students kicked different color rings across the floor. Students with red color rings tried to hit other rings to freeze students. Once frozen, students had to wait until someone kicked a ring through their legs to unfreeze them.

Needless to say, when Mr. Krott entered the room, students ganged up and tried to freeze Mr. Krott!

Wacky Wednesday

What a great way to celebrate Wacky Wednesday Day. Learning Express Preschool students celebrated Dr. Seuss week last week with theme days throughout.

Desks upside down is definitely wacky!

Homecoming games night, theme week scheduled for April

Myah Lear, Reporter

March 5, 2021

Since Homecoming was cancelled in the fall, it has been rescheduled for April. The homecoming scavenger hunt and games night will be on Wednesday, April 14 at the Roosevelt Field. Coronation will be on Friday, April 16 at Roosevelt Field as well.

To read the full article, click HERE.

For some the idea of writing and publishing a book never gets beyond the thought of actually doing it. That is not the case for AAHS social studies teacher Tom Fox.

After contemplating the idea for nearly 15 years and scribbling ideas on and off, Fox recently accomplished not only his goal of writing a book, but also the goal of becoming a published author.

To read more HERE

AASD Accepting Instructional Applications

ALTOONA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT ACCEPTING INSTRUCTIONAL APPLICATIONS

Chemistry, Biology, Math, Special Education, English, Computer Science, Technology Education, Physics, Art, Business Education and Health & Physical Education.

For application details, go to: Instructional Applications

AAHS Athletes have Successful Weekend

Like other sport teams, the AAHS swim team was not without its challenges this year. Despite those challenges, Coach Cummings and her team were able to qualify seven (7) boys and four (4) girls for the District 6 competition. The swimmers worked hard to make the qualifying standards which were lowered this year to limit the number of potential qualifiers in order to have fewer swimmers participating to meet the COVID guidelines.

Congratulations to all those who qualified. Placing at Districts were the following:

3rd Place - 200m Freestyle Relay - Ethan Pacifico, Zion Weaver, Patryck Webster, Brennen Dugan.
4th Place - 200m Medley Relay - Jacob Steinbugl, Ryan Hopkins, Brennen Dugan, Ethan Pacifico
5th Place - 500m Freestyle - Patryck Webster
6th Place - 100m Butterfly - Jacob Steinbugl