Altoona Elementary

National School Bus Safety Week is an active and evolving public education program and an excellent way for parents, students, teachers, motorists, school bus operators, school administrators, and other interested parties to join forces and address the...

Southeast Polk Grading and Reporting Teaching and learning at Southeast Polk is based on identified standards. Rather than a reflection of student behavior, how much work is turned in, or unrelated task completion, grades are a reflection of...

National School Counseling Week – February 5-9 Lori Rhodes has spent 34 years in education, 24 of those years have been spent as a school counselor at Southeast Polk.  Rhodes is the school counselor at Delaware Elementary...

In order to prepare students for college and career opportunities, math teachers incorporate various problem-solving tasks.  No longer is math just a series of formulas to be memorized.  It is an engaging process that encourages students to...

New ELA Materials are in Full Swing this Year At the beginning of this school year, Southeast Polk adopted new language arts materials.  The last language arts adoption was over 10 years ago.  The new literacy materials...

Kindergarten Mrs. Mundell’s class and 3rd grade Ms. Borich’s class teamed up to show what they were thankful for!

At Altoona Elementary Mrs. Piatt’s first-grade and Mrs. Anstine’s third-grade class won the Top Dog award through the PBIS program.   This month’s Top Dog classroom incentive was to take a field trip to the Iowa Wild Hockey...

Officer Friendly, Joe Meola Visits Altoona Elementary’s Kindergarten classroom.

Last week Mrs. Mundell’s Kindergarten class ended their thematic unit on apples.  Throughout the week they learned about the lifecycle of an apple, graphed their favorite kinds of and learned the different parts of the apple.  To...

On September 26, 2017, the two fourth grade classes went to Red Feather Prairie.  The students had a fun-filled day with several naturalists at the prairie leading the activities.  Each class explored the tall grass prairie by...