Recently, Park faculty, parents and students rejoiced at the wonderful news of becoming a Lighthouse School.  When you think of a lighthouse, you imagine a beacon illuminating its light in all directions beckoning to the incoming ships there is safety after the storm.  A lighthouse also warns of danger of rocks and other obstacles that stand in the way of reaching the shore.

After lessons on gravity, second grade students participated in an Egg Drop where they designed devices to prevent an egg from breaking when dropped from the roof of the school.  As Humpty Dumpty Hales sat on the wall dropping the eggs over easy for a great fall, students cheered their egg on to live another day or hoping the king’s men could put it back together again.  Some eggs were packed with cushions and some glided to the pavement with a parachute, while others would simply never see a frying pan.  It was definitely a sunny-side

“Aruba, Jamaica, ooh 5th Grade wants to take ya… on their Cruise Day.”   Well, it wasn’t exactly Kokomo, even though that is where we would wanna  go, fifth grade students enjoyed themselves nonetheless.

Gandhi once said: “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.”  Well, there were 25 satisfied students with full bellies because of their own victories Friday morning.  Yes, Park students enjoyed another Victory Breakfast with special guests Julie Warren, Elementary Education Director and J. Lynn Jones, Federal Programs Director from Nebo School District.