Dear Logan Families,
This weekly update is packed! There's a lot of year-end announcements and information. Thanks in advance for taking the time to read through everything!
This weekly update includes information about:
Updates COVID Notification Process
NEW DATE: Please join us for the 2022 Family Traditions & HeritageFestival Potluck
School of Choice Window Open
Summer Learning in the AAPS
Summer Enrichment in the AAPS
Bikeapalooza - Downtown Ann Arbor - Sunday, May 22 - 12noon - 2pm
Disability Awareness Workshop: Volunteers Needed
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Events
Important Upcoming Dates
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Will Wright
Updates COVID Notification Process
As we near the end of the school year, student and staff cases of COVID remain high across all of our schools and our county. Thus, our safety guidelines remain in place, specifically masking while indoors.
In addition, our protocols for reporting student cases are being modified as follows:
Parents/guardians shall now report their student's case directly to the district using this form: bit.ly/AAPSCaseReport. Reporting your student's case promptly helps our AAPS COVID Response Team prevent the spread of COVID in our schools.
For families needing assistance with reporting, please contact our main office.
The school-wide notification of COVID cases will now be sent to school communities once per week, instead of daily (when there are cases), on Fridays, beginning the week of May 16. Classroom and outbreak notifications will continue to be sent as often as needed.
NEW DATE: Please join us for the 2022 Family Traditions & HeritageFestival Potluck
DATE: Friday, May 20, 2022
Time: 6-8 PM
Where: Upper EL Playground
One of our favorite events is almost here! Please consider joining us for our Family Traditions and Heritage Festival. We are excited to be able to gather again in-person while honoring and celebrating our traditions and heritages. Bring your picnic blankets, lawn chairs, and family & friends! Join the fun and ask other Logan families to participate with you!
Click Here For Logan Family Festival Flyer
School of Choice Window Open
AAPS’s School of Choice window is now open. It will be open from May 2, 2022 through May 31, 2022. If you live outside of AAPS’s attendance boundaries and if you have a new student to enroll, please apply. If you have any questions about enrolling students in AAPS, please contact our enrollment office at enroll@a2schools.org or Mrs. Landefeld at landefeldc@aaps.k12.mi.us.
Summer Learning in the AAPS
We are pleased once again to offer summer learning opportunities for our AAPS families, with many open enrollment options to meet the needs of our students. Summer learning encompasses all academic content areas, and programs are designed for elementary, middle, and high school, special education and English learners.
Families will find information and enrollment links for all of our summer learning opportunities here: https://www.a2schools.org/summer
We encourage everyone with interest to enroll now.
Summer Enrichment in the AAPS
Registration is open now for Rec & Ed Summer Enrichment Camps. We’re inviting campers to have fun, form friendships, find new talents and gain confidence with a summer they won’t forget. The possibilities are endless, with art, science, music, chess, robotics, drama, sports and many other types of camps available. Summer Camp 2022 will be in-person, and the AAPS COVID-19 Health and Safety protocols will be followed. Call Rec & Ed for details on scholarships.
Rec and Ed has also shortened the registration process by adopting a software package called ePACT. This allows parents to fill out most information forms one time and will only take a few minutes to review your information and sign any new waivers when registering for subsequent classes.
Bikeapalooza - Downtown Ann Arbor - Sunday, May 22 - 12noon - 2pm
The Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority (DDA) is hosting a family friendly educational event in celebration of the progress made on the protected bikeway network in downtown Ann Arbor. The event will feature activities in the surface parking lot at 350 S. Fifth Ave. and four educational stations located along the bikeway. Participants visiting all four stations get a Bikeapalooza t-shirt. Activities include Chalk Art by David Zinn, bike helmet fittings and giveaways by Safe Kids Huron Valley, a new rider clinic and mobile bike repair pop-up hosted by Common Cycle, Switched samples from Blom Meadworks, cargo bike demos by Urban Rider, face painting, City of Ann Arbor Public Works bikeway snowplow display, and our friends from the Ann Arbor District Library, City of Ann Arbor Office of Sustainability & Innovation and the Transportation Department will also be part of the festivities! We hope you can attend! Here is the Facebook link : https://bit.ly/3yuNb8S
Disability Awareness Workshop: Volunteers Needed
Attention Parents! Volunteers are needed to help coordinate and plan Logan’s Annual Disability Awareness Workshop- on May 27. The Disability Awareness Workshop is a one-day program to teach 4th graders an empathetic understanding of physical, developmental, and learning disabilities.
The hands-on-activity based program is designed to help students understand how difficult and complex daily living can be for individuals with “Diverse Abilities.” The program benefits all Logan Leopards by nurturing a more caring and inclusive community, and we welcome parent volunteers from all grade levels! Want to help but not a planner? Look out for a sign-up genius coming soon. Please email Virginia Allen to volunteer or for more information at vczorn@yahoo.com
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Events
In celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, AAPS and APISA/A Parent Advisory Group hosted a Zoom poetry workshop led by Carlina Duan. Duan is a writer-educator from Michigan and an AAPS graduate. She is the author of the poetry collections I Wore My Blackest Hair and Alien Miss, and a recipient of a Fulbright grant and the Edna Meudt Memorial Award. Duan is currently a doctoral student in the University of Michigan’s Joint Program in English and Education, where she studies community-engaged writing and documentary poetics. If you missed the workshop on May 4 that centered around themes of home, joy, and community, you can still participate!
Watch the recording of the workshop from May 4 and/or review the poems and writing prompts here https://tinyurl.com/APISAApoetry2022. Write a poem, or a "word doodle" as Carlina calls it, that centers around the themes of home, joy, and community. By Friday, May 20, add your writing (or an excerpt of it) to this form: https://tinyurl.com/APISAA-poem. Carlina will work to create a collaborative, crowd-sourced poem from the submissions. Students who submit work will also be invited to contribute a recorded video to help create a mash-up video of the poem, as well.
Important Upcoming Dates
Wednesday, May 18 - Early Release Day, 1:18 PM dismissal
Friday, May 20 - Logan Heritage Festival, 6:00pm-8:00pm
Wednesday, May 25 - Fifth Grade Band/Orchestra Concert
Monday, May 30 - No School, Memorial Day
Wednesday, June 1 - PTO meeting, 9:15 AM
Friday, June 3 - Logan Spring Carnival, 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Friday, June 10 - Last day of school, 11:28 AM dismissal
