Congratulations to Miss Joffer for receiving one of the Levo Credit Union $500 teacher grants this year! She has been an amazing addition to our staff this school year and such a ray of sunshine! We are lucky to have her at ACE! Thank you to the Erickson family for taking the time to nominate her! Levo received 73 total nominations and Miss Leloux received one of them too. We are proud of all of our staff at All City/Jane Addams! Thanks for all you do! Thank you to Levo Credit Union for providing this opportunity for teachers! Congrats again, Miss Joffer!!
Check out the Kelo news report on the award celebration at ACE!
https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/6-sioux-falls-area-teachers-awarded-500-grants/
For our last Family outing of the year, we have our annual tug of war! Kindergarten vs first grade, second vs third, and fourth vs fifth! We love our ACE traditions!
We had our annual Family Kickball face-offs at Elmwood Park! This year it was Gray family vs. Rausis family, Nelson vs Joffer, and then Leloux vs Pike. We had lots of fun on this hot sunny day!
On May 19th, it was every kid's dream come true to pie their teacher in the face!! Kids have been working hard to earn tickets for our PBIS reward system! When students were responsible, respectful, and safe, they earned a ticket. At the end of the year, these tickets went into a drawing to see who got the honors! What a fun, messy way to celebrate good behaviors!!! Thanks for working hard kids!! Thanks for being good sports, teachers! 😜
Field Day Fun
On May 19th, students took to the fields at Elmwood Park to show off their athletic skills in a variety of different events organized by Mr. Borges, our PE teacher. Despite it being a little chilly, kids had a blast and worked hard! Thank you to the parents who helped volunteer at each station and to Mr. B for organizing it all! We love field day!!
Kindergarten graduation was on May 23! Mrs. Pike's class sang songs and presented a video full of memories! We are so proud of everything they accomplished this year! Way to go! Thanks, Mrs. Pike, for being an amazing kindergarten teacher and getting these kids on a successful path at ACE! Thanks also to the parents for all of their help!! Congrats!
Miss Leloux's class always reads Charlotte's Web as a class at the end of the school year! It is then tradition to paper mache little runt piggies like Wilbur! Students get to name them and keep them! They always turn out so cute! Thanks to the parents who helped with this messy project!
5th graders enjoyed some time in the warm sun utilizing the yoga mats and stools we got for the Outdoor Classroom! Only a couple days left of
school til summer!!
Third graders got a chance to do some STEM activities that were items donated through grants from Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation. They coded Botley robots and a coding mouse! So much fun!!
Our last Kids Care of the month was busy on May 19th! We went to Ronald McDonald House, DakotAbilities, Foster Network, Banquet, Lifescape, and some stayed at the school to do other service projects! Thank you to the parents who helped and drove! Big thanks to Kristen Benidt who led the charge on lining up places to go and organizing parents and groups this year! We appreciate all she did!
Be sure to plan to come to our farewell/welcome social on May 23 at 6:30pm!
Life Church has been such a blessing to our school and staff this year! Every month they brought the staff special themed treats to our staff meetings! They went above and beyond to make each of us feel loved! Thank you so much!! You all are so wonderful! Thank you!!!!
Music class with Mrs. Anderson has been booming this past week with the chance to do some Drumfit! Kids love to be up and moving and making lots of noise! What a fun way to make music! These materials were donated by sponsors a few years back through a grant from the Sioux Falls Public Schools Education fund!
It was autographing signing day in Family! Kids take to the hallways and collect as many signatures as possible from their classmates, friends, teachers, parents, and other students! They love getting as many kids as possible to sign their booklet!! Maybe some of these signatures will be worth some money someday when they are famous!?!? 😉 Everyone felt like a celebrity today when signing their name over and over! 😁
The All City 5th graders had their graduation on May 18th at the ACE gym. Families, former teachers, and the students shared in memories and favorite moments through the years at ACE! There was singing, reflections, and a beautiful tribute video! It is always so bittersweet to have such pleasant fun memories come to an end, but we are so excited for them all to thrive in middle school! We will miss you all fifth graders and your families especially those who this is their last child at ACE! Thank you parents for all of your support and help through the years! Thanks to all of the parents and staff who helped organize this event, assisted in anyway, or brought treats! It turned out awesome! Thanks for the memories, 5th graders!
We want YOU here!
The Sioux Falls School District is looking to fill their Custodian, Clerical, and American Sign Language Interpreter/Tutor roles. Visit the links below to learn more about each position and apply!
🧹Custodian: https://sf.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=3836
💻Clerical: https://sf.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx?jcat=clerical
👋American Sign Language Interpreter/Tutor: https://sf.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=5525
On May 15th, we had "Fly Up Day" in Family! This is an opportunity for each grade to 'fly up' to the next grade to officially meet their new teacher next year!! For example, kindergarteners got to meet Miss Joffer, first graders met Mrs. Rausis, second graders met Miss Leloux, third graders met Miss Nelson, and fourth graders met Mrs. Gray. The fifth graders got to go back to Mrs. Pike in kindergarten where they got to sing their old kindergarten songs, watch the K graduation video, and relive their old memories from the past! It's a fun exciting day to think about next year! It's also a little bittersweet to know the end of the year is near with their current teacher/grade!
Students are loving having the option this spring to use our new grassy area added this year to the playground!! They love playing kickball, soccer, football, or tag!!
Sooooo many thanks go out to the parents, PTO, Life Church, Promising Futures, and anyone else that helped plan, organize, implement the fun/food/gifts given to the teachers and staff last week during Teacher Appreciation Week! We all felt so loved and appreciated! Thank you!!
We had Electronic Day in Family last week which is a big highlight for kids to bring in their own device from home to get to play and learn from! Kids also got to explore through Virtual Reality headsets! So cool!
