Thank a Farmer Week is a time to celebrate the abundance of food, fuel and fiber produced by the American farmer.

Students at Altenburg Public School are excited to join in the celebration with two new books in our library. Our local Missouri Farm Bureau stopped by to visit last week and donated two books for us to enjoy, I LOVE Strawberries! and Hero for the Hungry.

Both books are available for check out in the APS Library! Thank you to the Missouri Farm Bureau for donating those books and thank you to all of the hard working Missouri farmers!

Check out these pictures from our Goodies with Grand Day!

As the school year is winding down and sports are coming to an end, we are ready to celebrate our amazing athletes! 

Athletes and their families are invited to join us for a banquet in their honor.

April 4 at 6 pm

UCLS

We will once again continue the tradition of raising money for others right before Easter with our Easter Egg Sale.

All eggs will contain smarties and some eggs will contain a special prize! Eggs cost 50 cents each with a maximum purchase of $10 per student.

Egg sales are due by March 24th and will be delivered the week before Easter.

Proceeds go to the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau.

Click the link below for more information!

Screening is open to all children ages 3 through 5 years old. Each child will receive a Dial-4 Developmental Screening.

Call Mrs. Jen Eifert at 824-5857 to schedule an appointment for your child.

*APS Preschool is currently accepting enrollment for the fall for all potty trained children who are 3 years old and up!*

It seems like I always have the opportunity to share with you all in March.  I think from the time I started working at APS I have been given this time of year to share.  As I was looking back over past articles I have written, a common theme can be found.  We are all SO ready for SPRING!! Can I get an AMEN!!  The sun’s a little warmer, the air carries the scent of spring flowers and freshly mowed grass.  I absolutely love this time of year.  

I do believe the third graders are also excited to see spring appear again.  Many are getting ready to play spring sports and in the classroom we are truly at the point in the year that I love being with my 3rd graders.  We have mastered all of our multiplication facts and are moving on to work on adding and subtracting big numbers, and fractions will be the next adventure to tackle.  In reading, we are currently reading Charlotte’s Web. A perfect book to read during “apple-blossom time”. This is the term the author, E.B.White uses to describe spring in chapter 2.  In Fundations or phonics time we are learning how to use prefixes on words and how to attach them to bound base latin and greek roots.  (If you are not sure what that is, ask a third grader around the end of next week.  They should be pros at using them by then.)  

All in all, I love being with my kids and having them share stories every day about their lives outside of school.  Some have taken trips far away, some have gone to concerts, many have had ballgames, one or two have shown cows at fairs, one wrestles in her off time, some have chickens/goats/horses/donkeys at home, most share a story or two about a pet.  On my door we made a decoration the first week of school that explains them to a “T”.  It reads, “There’s nothing better in this world than being who YOU are supposed to be.” I truly hope they never forget it.