At the Board of Education meeting held Monday evening, the Board voted to make up one of the four snow days that we had in February. School will now be in session on April 18th as the make-up day.
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Snow Make-Up Day 04.18.25
Spring Recess is March 17-21. Enjoy Vikes!
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A picture with flowers and bees announcing Spring Recess March 17-21.
Board of Education minutes from the February 10, 2025 meeting. https://5il.co/3aah6
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02.10.25 BOE Minutes
Parsons Middle School students passing all their classes, who had high attendance, few tardies, and 0 discipline referrals for this quarter enjoyed the sweet reward of getting to go bowling Wednesday.
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A student holds a ball, talking to a friend, before he starts.
students set up the machine to start their game.
Three girls step up to the ball return and one grabs a bowling ball.
Susan Hill helps a group of young men with inputting their names to manage scoring.
A group of students gather around a scoring machine to put their names iin.
Students bowl.
Lanes are filles with student groups bowling.
A group of girls gather around a scoring machine as their names are put in.
Susan Hill talks to a student about technique to bowl.
Students slip on bowling shoes.
There is no school Friday and next week is Spring Recess, but there was still lots of learning happening at Lincoln School today.
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A student uses an Osmo to practice writing his letters.
Students work in a small group with Mrs. McGuire on reading and English.
A student works on finding words with the "op" sound.
Mrs. Hutley's students took an assessment test.
A student follows instructions to build a slide with a construction set.
A students uses an iPad during reading time.
Students in Mrs, Hicks class spent tinme working in a large group on their workbooks.
Students work on their reading skills with Mrs. Varner.
A teachers assistant works with a student on her sight words.
Students work on a worksheet for reading, themed for St. Patrick's Day.
Parsons Choir Winter Concert https://youtu.be/o-dbSFnzzb0
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2025 Parsons Winter Choir Concert
Parsons Middle School seventh grade students accompanied small groups of Garfield students on a Nature Scavenger Hunt in Forest Park this morning. Students attempted to find as many of the 25 items listed as they could, like a bird, a feather, a squirrel, a worm, and clover.
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A middle school boy talks to his group of Garfield students about the remaining items on their list to find.
A middle school student and her teo Garfield students walks along a path looking for items.
A girl spots a bird and points it out to the others in her group.
A boy holds a handful of treasures from nature he collected.
A team talks about where they are going to check next for items.
A Garfield girl shows her middle school leader the leaf she found to kick off their hunt.
A group of three students look over everything they need to find.
A students shows an item she found on the list to another student.
A boy shows a leaf he found and his middle school leader checks it off the list.
Two girls spy a squirrel by a tree.
Some Parsons Middle School seventh grade students spent the morning reading and playing games with children at Lincoln. Other seventh graders went to Forest Park with Garfield, while eighth grade went to Pittsburg State University, and sixth grade participated in Finance Now. .
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Two Parsons Middle School students play Connect four with Lincoln first grade students.
Two middle school boys play Headbanz with first graders.
Mars. Woods and a middle school student play Sorry! with a group of first graders.
A middle school student reads Green Eggs & Ham to three boys.
A middle school student plays UNO with three Garfield first grade students.
A middle school student plays a matching game with a group of first graders.
Two Parsons Middle School students play a board game with three Lincoln students.
A middle school student plays a game with a group of first grade students.
Some middle school students help first grade students build a dinosaur puzzle.
Parsons schools will dismiss early Monday, March 10.
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Announcement of early student dismissal March 10.
This is National School Social Work Week! Take a minute and thank our wonderful social workers!
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A poster with hands holding hearts thanking Parsons USD 503 Social Workers during National Sschool Social Work Week.
Board of Education Agenda for the March 10, 2025 Meeting. https://5il.co/39o7m
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March 10 BOE Agenda
Parsons District Schools • USD 503 • Home of the Vikings!
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Parsons Kansas • Home of the Vikings
Preschool and Kindergarten Round-Up Coming Soon!!!
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Preschool & Kindergarten Round-Up
PHS art students exercise their imaginations as they work on individual sculptures in ceramics class.
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a student works on a shark sculpture
A student stacks coils of clay to make a sculpture.
Students work on their various sculptures
Mrs. Fabrycky gives instructions and a demonstration to a student on how to use the pottery wheel.
Mrs. Strode's third grade centered some of their learning about the many leaders of this country around President's Day. Students researched individual presidents and used the information they gathered to make informational posters they can put up to share what they learned.
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A girl makes a poster about Pres. Wilson.
A girl makes a psoter about Abraham Lincoln.
A boy makes a poster about Pres. Roosevelt.
A girl makes her poster about a president.
A boy makes a poster about Georg W. Bush.
Darece Waun's third grade students set about writing poetry Friday. Each individualized poem fit under the theme "The Best Part of Me.". The assignment allowed some introspection for students, and appreciation for who they are, as they learned about this form of literature.
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Atwo girls write their poems.
A boy thinks about his nxt line of poetry.
A boy writed his next line of poetry.
A boy looks up from writing his poem and smiles.
A girl looks up from her poetry writing.
Studying the letter "W" in kindergarten never smelled or tasted so good as it did Friday at Lincoln, as children wrapped up the week with some wonderful waffles.
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Alesha Morrison checks on the waffles on the iron.
One child dips their waffle in syruo while another takes a bite.
Children eat waffles
A little boy licks his plate clean while another uses a stick to clean syrup from his plate.
SparkWheel coordinator Tanner Smith stopped by Mrs. Kennett's kindergarten class Friday and helped students with some word puzzles.
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SparkWheel coordinator Tanner Smith stopped by Mrs. Kennett's kindergarten class and helped with some word puzzles.
Mrs. Kennett took time to help individual students with their handwriting skills Friday, like this young man practicing writing the lower case letter "p".
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Mrs. Kennett helps a student with his handwriting skills.
Today's children might think it silly that children had books that had paper dolls in them you could cut out, and clothes you could cut out and bend the tabs on to hang the clothes on the doll. Now the clothes are a fitted with the move of a finger tip on a computer screen.
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a girl taps the screen of an iPad to dress a girl on the screen.