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Snack Suggestions
Snack ideas that are safe for the classroom:
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Fresh fruit
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Vegetables
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Cheese sticks
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Pretzels
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Goldfish
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Popcorn
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Crackers
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Graham Crackers
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Yogurt
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Fruit cups/applesauce
Transportation Changes
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Our Specials Schedule
Monday- Music 10:40-11:10
Tuesday- P.E. 10:40-11:10
Health (T3 Only) 8:25-8:55
Wednesday- Art 8:25-9:05
Thursday- Music 8:25-8:55
P.E. 9:00-9:30
Friday- LC 8:25-8:55
P.E. 9:00-9:30
Hello-
My name is Lisa Piskule and teach 5th grade.
I am excited to begin my 13th year in District 70 and 12th year at Adler Park School in fifth grade. I graduated from the University of Colorado in 2005 with a degree in Marketing. I then began my career working for Coca-Cola, and after five years with the company, decided to pursue my dream and go back to school at National-Louis University for my Master's degree in Education. Teaching is my passion and I am truly blessed to work in District 70.
My husband and I have three school aged children; Eden, Emery, and Noah. We love going to the park, riding bikes, reading together, and playing with our dog, Rusty.
Weekly Reporter Job-Student Highlights
Peachy News -By Viv T.
On Monday, we were doing our Don Quixote graffiti boards, luckily we finished. We had music at 10:40. We practiced our spring sing songs. my favorite is under the sea. Also in math we only did a review because we have a test on friday.
On Tuesday, we had Pe and it was so fun. We played knockout with the whole class, we also had IAR practice which is not my favorite but it was quick so it was fine. Those are the highlights of Tuesday.
On wednesday, it was Allison's birthday hooray. We also had art at 8:25. I made a thank you card for my soccer coach. There is an art show that has a piece of art from my class at the Adler art center. That was the highlight of Wednesday.
On Thursday, we had pe and music in music we did the same as last time my favorite song that we are singing is under the sea many people agree
We had an extra long math lesson too. It felt like it. It's ok and that was the highlight of Thursday.
On Friday, we did not do much because i left early for my soccer tournament in saint louis but i did have to take a math test sadly it was pretty easy. We also had merit Friday. I sadly left before that. Lastly we had a 6th grade prep talk. I learned lots of new things. Those were the highlights of the week.
Peachtastic News!
By Priya A.
Monday
(No School)
Tuesday
Tuesday was a normal day. We had Pe and we almost finished our reading which is about Don Quixote. But it was too cold to go outside.
Wednesday
On wednesday we had lots and lots of pictures so people were going in and out of the room which was crazy! We got to finish the last chapter of Don Quixote. It was still too cold to go outside.
Thursday
On Thursday we started our reading test. We also had our first basketball game for the boys and girls. The cheerleaders cheered for their first game so great job everyone!
Friday
We finished our test on reading. We all went outside but it was still cold. We had a s.e.l. lesson for flex time. We had a class meeting and had indoor meritt friday.
A Perfect Peachy Week
By: Michael
What a week! The Piskule Peaches had a great time at Adler this week. Lunar New Year took place this week! The Piskule and De Paz classes all assembled in Mr. De Paz´s classroom to see the presentation Mrs. Kung had to offer! The weather hasn't exactly been as cheerful as we were, but there is nothing that can stop us from having an amazing week! By next week, it will be February, a fresh month for new learning and new holidays. With the hilarious Don Quixote CKLA unit, we'll be having fun until Spring! We´ve all learned a lot of lessons this week, educational or not. But even with all the gloomy weather and the sadness of having our last year at Adler before shifting to middle school, nothing will stop us from making our very last year of elementary school the best one yet!
A-Peachy A-Pochy A-Newsy -By Mila🍑🍑
This week, we had lots of “stuff” going on. We had NO SCHOOL on Monday, a FREEZING cold Tuesday with a low of -11, and a high of 3. Wednesday, we had no orchestra, and early release. On Thursday, we had the 2025 Adler TALENT SHOW!!!!! Y'all did GREAT!!! Friday was normal.
Congrats on participating in the talent show, and bearing the cold weather of the Arctic freeze!!! (If you came on Tuesday, you got a prize!!!)
We started Don Quixote on Thursday, and had our Highland Placement Tests. We also had the CML. Congrats if you understood that, ‘cause I most certainly did NOT.
Thanks for reading the A-Peachy A-Pochy A-Newsy!!!
-Mila ⭐
See you next week with another reporter!!!
Bye G-A-T-O-R-S!!! 🍑
THE PEACHTASTIC NEWS THIS
WEEK!
By: Ana-Christian
MONDAY: Monday was pretty normal, we did decide we would have a… PEACHY PARTYYYY on Thursday! We were all pretty excited about that! We shared our peaks and valleys, and then the day was pretty normal.
TUESDAY: Days counting down till the party! Everyone is pretty excited, but it is still tuesday. Once again, another normal day. We have been staying inside to eat our snack then go outside to play. Thankfully, it's freezing!
WEDNESDAY: Eek! Tomorrow is the peachy party! But let's focus on today right now. In social studies we started a project. We get to build legos! There is a little work involved but not really much! We had a sub for the afternoon and I think we did pretty well! But, that's for the whole class to decide. Anyways, I cant wait for tomorrow!
THURSDAY: It's party time! As you would expect, today was awesome! We had all kinds of snacks! Personally, my favorite snack was definitely the cotton candy! We didn’t even have math, social studies, or science! Anyways, today was awesome!
FRIDAY: One week until winter break! I'm super excited! But today was pretty fun. We had snack inside, then in the afternoon we made up time for indoor recess. Then we had merit Friday. Overall this week was super fun! That's the end of the Peachtastic week!
The
Peach
News
By: Merritt
This week was very eventful. The first thing was that it is Thanksgiving break next week so everyone was excited.
We were at 24 peachy points and were racing against Mr. De Paz’s class to get the final one because they were also at 24 dollars. This week, after many weeks we finally got the final point! We will have our celebration when we get back from a week of Thanksgiving break. The last thing that happened this week was that we accidentally mirrored Mr. De Paz’s screen so we did a fan cam of our class and then he did one too on our board. We will get him back after break though. We are planning to mirror a Rickroll when he is not expecting it. That is all for now, see you next week.
Peach-tastic Week! By: Lawson
This week was PEACH-TASTIC! Everyone worked on their origin stories and they were all amazing! 5th grade also worked on the Aztec in reading and everyone is doing wonderful in their groups! This week TONS of students got orchids!!! And even if we didn't get any awards at the assembly everyone behaved and were WONDERFUL role models!!! And everyone was also cheering even if we didn't win any! All in all we had a PEACH-TASTIC week!
Peachy News By: McKenna
This week we played a new game in PE. We also continued creating are songs in music. We learned more about the Ancient Maya in reading. Learned about matter in science, and on Friday we went to see the little mermaid at LHS. Friday we ate lunch in the classroom before the play. On Monday we had Jimmy John's for lunch bunch
🍑Peachville News🍑
🐶By:Harper🐶
On Monday we all came in and did our DLR📃 and then we did our Peaks and Valleys. When we did Peaks and Valleys Ana was the first one to share aloud because it was her birthday. Happy birthday Ana🎂! Then we shared in our table teams and finally aloud one-by-one. After that we went over our DLR and watched the announcements. Then we started the reading lesson, we were doing more on Rosa Parks, and we also learned about a new person, he had his own story. We also learned about how to use pamflet, it was fun! After reading, we went to snack and came back in to start some people reading their name narratives. Then we went to lunch and recess, and a ton of people went to maker club. When we did flex, it was some boost. After flex it was the math test, but we weren't able to get to social studies and science. Then after almost everyone finished we went outside to end the day.
Quite a Peachy day!🍑
On Tuesday we started out with DLR📃 and watched the announcements. Happy birthday Ben🎂! Then we started CKLA, we are starting a new narrative that will take us to the end of this unit. After a bit of reading, we went outside for snack, it was pretty wet from the rain! When we went inside we continued with our lesson. Then we went to PE, we did the push-up test. When we left PE we finished our lesson and went to indoor recess, some people went to study hall. After lunch and recess, we did dreambox and Ms.Tayla was there. Then we stayed in our homeroom classes for the math pretest and everyone finished! Then we switched for science and social studies. Finally the day was over.
Awesome day for the Peaches!🍑🍑
On Wednesday we did our DLR📃, then went to art. When we got back, we went over the DLR and watched the announcements. Great job showing connection Mrs.Piskule👑😀! After announcements we started our reading lesson, we worked on our Rosa Parks story. Then we all went out to snack, today it was nice☀️ ️!! After reading we went to lunch and recess. Once we got back, we had Mrs.Kung come to tell us about the 5th grade class gift🎁! We stayed in Mr. Depaz´s room to learn what our new sections were (Highway or Autoban). Soon after that we went to our Math classes. Finally we switched for social studies and science to end the day!
Normal day for the Peaches🍑🍑🍑!
On Thursday we did our DLR📃, then went straight to PE🏀. After PE, we went over our DLR and watched the announcements. Then, we started our reading lesson and we finished the Rosa Parks story! After that, we went out for snack. Then we went inside and did a little more with our surprise narrative. Soon after that, we went to recess and lunch. During flex we listened to Priya, Alden, and Merrit. Priya👑 and Merrit👑 won!! Great gob Alden😊! Then we switched for Math, Social studies, and Science. Finally, it was the end of the day!
That's a Peachy day🍑🍑🍑🍑!
On Friyay, we did our DLR📃 then went straight to library📖. Right after library, we went to PE🏀. After that we watched the announcements. Then we started our CKLA lesson, and went to snack. Soon after that we went to lunch and recess. When we got back we did our SEL lesson. Then we switched for Math and had our class meeting. Finally we went out for Merit Friday!
That was our Peachy week🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑!
Peachy News- By Viv
On Monday,it was picture day. One of the first things we did was take our pictures. We had music at 10:40. We had ipad music time. That's my favorite. Also in math we only did a review because we have a test on wednesday.
On Tuesday, today we had student councils, the people who ran were very brave to go up and speak to the whole school after that we soon had pe. We did the pacer test. Most students don't love pacer tests; it's hard and exhausting. We made it past pe exhausted. Those are the highlights of Tuesday.
On wednesday, we had a half day hooray. We were trying to squeeze some 9/11 videos that were very fun to learn about but also sad. We also had art at 8:25. We did watercolor paint. We did an experiment wet on wet and dry on wet as an example. That was the highlights of wednesday.
On Thursday, we had pe and music . in musicWe did a warm up song for the whole time. In pe we did flag football that was fun i scored. We had an extra long math lesson too. It was 12:00 to 1:40. It was just ok and that was the highlights of thursday.
On friday, we had pe in the morning at 9:00 and library 8:25 in pe we played capture the football i scored two points my team also won. In the library we learned about class representatives. I am not gonna run for that position. We also had a dance party during math for a break that was so fun! That was the week thank you for reading my report of this week.
Our Peachy Week-by Logan
Tuesday
Day 1 Math: We learned how to find equivalent decimals to other decimals. \
Day 1 SS: We shared our news articles.
Day 1 science: We tried to memorize a picture and write what we saw on it.
Wednesday
Day 2 Math: We learned how to see which decimal is bigger or smaller.
Day 2 SS: We had to write the definitions of different terms.
Day 2 Science: We wrote our different ideas of things that can help us in life.
Thursday
Day 3 Math: We learned how to round decimals.
Day 3 SS: We wrote terms again
Day 3 Science: We wrote more about our invention.
Friday
Day 4 Math: we did a mad minute then we went outside for Merit Friday.
By: Priya
Monday (1st day of school!)
The first day of school was crazy! There was a lot of talking from Mrs. Piskule and Mr. De Paz. When we started organizing everything it was crazy! Stuff was everywhere! And we had music in the middle of organizing stuff so we went and came back to finish our work.
Tuesday 8\20
The 2nd day of school had not as much talking. We did science in Mr. Depas’s room which was really fun! We made bubbles and used gloves to try to catch them!
Wednesday 8\21
Wednesday we were kinda back to normal. We had our first day of art with our new art teacher Mrs. Gordon. We also had our math test for switching classes and the start of the year.
Thursday 8\22
Thursday was pretty calm, no switching classes yet though so we were but fine. We were working on our tee shirts and bucket list stuff.
Friday 8/23
Friday was fun. We were finishing our tee shirts and bucket list and slides. We also had a back to school assembly which was kinda like a game show. The gym was split into half, half red half blue. When we were getting ready to leave Mrs. Piskule said that Monday we will start switching and be doing 5 by 5s.
Weekend 8\24 - 8\25
Monday 8\26
Monday just like Mrs. Piskule told us, we did start 5 by 5s and switching classes. We also started flex time which is every day. At flex time we did boost reading. It took longer than Mrs. Piskule and Mr. Depas expected so we started to switch classes a little later. We also started to read the book James and the Giant peach which is Mrs. Piskule’s favorite book. It was also a SUPER Hot day!
Tuesday 8\27
Tuesday was normal. We did all of our morning work
and because it was also a very hot day we did not go out to
lunch recess. After lunch we had flex time and we did
Dreambox for it. The test took a long time to finish
so we were behind and only did math. It was also the first day of homework. At the end of the day we read more of James and the giant peach.
Wednesday 8\28
Wednesday we had our normal stuff in the morning and it wasn’t as hot so we got to go outside. (Anyone who did chalk was pretty sad because it got washed from the rain) (I was sad too) But that happens sometimes.We also had star testing. After lunch we had flex time and we started math, social studies, and science at the right time.
Thursday
Thursday we had music and pe right in the morning so we came into the classroom later. After lunch we had a presentation about kindness which was good. Also we had Star testing for math and the rest of the day we did S.S.
Friday 8\30
On friday we had a normal morning but when we started flex time that was when we started the fun stuff. We met with our soul circles and we made a talking piece. We also had our very first merit friday!
Weekend 8\31 -9\2