Welcome to Explorer Elementary

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Explorer is a partnership in learning for all students, staff, parents, and community. We are dedicated to developing self-directed, life-long learners in a safe and nurturing environment.

10 Things You Should Know About Us: 
1. Excellence - We are a National Blue Ribbon School.
2. Involvement - 50 to 70% of our K-3 parents volunteer regularly in our school.
3. Educated - Over 21 of our teachers have a Masters Degree.
4. Looping - Our lower elementary students stay with the same teacher for first and second grade.
5. Multiage teaming - All lower elementary students K-2 spend part of the day working in teams that combine all three levels.
6. Citizenship - Many fifth grade students are involved in a volunteer role at our school.
7. Planning - Our PTC pays for teachers to take one grade level planning day a month to better integrate our curriculum.
8.Community Service - Our Red Cross recycled 13,309 plastic bags, wrote cards for Nursing Home Residents and collected clothes for children in need.
9. Giving - Our students collected money for Juvenile Diabetes, Special Olympics and Jump Rope for Heart.
10. Sharing - Our school participated in Books of Hope by sending over 300 books to students in Uganda.

UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR

2/3                   PTC Auction & Family Dance @ 6:00 PM

2/6                   PTC Meeting @ 7:00 PM

2/8                   Supplemental Count Day

2/14                 Professional Development Day - 12:03 Dismissal
                         (no school for Young Fives)

2/14                 Valentine Parties @ 10:45 AM

2/20                 Mid-Winter Break - No School

2/28                 5th Grade Field Trip 

2/23 & 24        Hearing/Vision Screening