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Health and Physical Education is a vital part of our education system at Mineral Point Schools. It is the key to improving a child’s confidence, brainpower and long-term health. One of the major goals of health and physical education is to prepare students to be active and healthy for a lifetime. Mineral Point Schools makes this… Continue Reading The Importance of Good Health

Music helps the mind develop and grow. Participation in a music program in school will help develop your brain to a higher level and faster than other students. Music improves communication between the right and left sides of the brain, allowing you to gain better comprehension and memorization skills. So, why do we need music… Continue Reading The Importance of Music

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Mineral Point, WI – 1-10-14 – The Mineral Point School District is the recent recipient of a $25,000 grant from the Wisconsin Technology Initiative to help reduce the financial barriers of integrating instructional technology into the Mineral Point classroom. The grant will be used to develop learning in students through an engaging environment through the purchase… Continue Reading Mineral Point receives $25,000 grant from the Wisconsin Technology Initiative

By the end of the year, students will be able to read and comprehend literature [informational texts] at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band. Students write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view, informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas clearly, and narratives to develop… Continue Reading Grade 5 Standards

By the end of the year, students will be able to read and comprehend literature [informational texts] in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently. Students write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view, informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas clearly, and narratives to develop real or imagined… Continue Reading Grade 4 Standards

By the end of the year, students will be able to read and comprehend literature [informational texts] at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band. Students will write: opinion pieces on topics or texts supporting a point of view with reasons, informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas clearly, and… Continue Reading Grade 3 Standards

By the end of the year, students will be able to read and comprehend literature [informational texts] in the grades 2–3 text complexity band. Students write opinion pieces, in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also), and provide… Continue Reading Grade 2 Standards

By the end of the year, students will be able to read prose and poetry [informational texts] of appropriate complexity for grade 1. Students will use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about,… Continue Reading Grade 1 Standards