Welcome!
At Greenleaf Elementary, we provide an orderly, safe environment with high-quality instruction and high expectations, where students experience rewarding, meaningful learning each day.
Music
Music brings Greenleaf students together. During our distance learning days, ask your child to play an instrument, sing a song with you, or listen to music together. Keep connecting through music.
Teamwork & Technology!
At Greenleaf Elementary, we provide our students many opportunities to collaborate with classmates and integrate technology into their learning. Whether they are working in our Makerspace, creating items for our 3D printers, or using robotics, our students are learning skills that will prepare them for the future.
Supporting Our Students
One of our goals at Greenleaf is to support each student's individual learning needs. We offer a wide variety of student support services and small group opportunities aimed at helping all students meet and exceed their learning goals.
SCHOOL NEWS
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Formerly known as the Free and Reduced-Price Meals Program, the Educational Benefits Program is more than just a free meal application. It also provides critical funding for your child's school.
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"We will continue to promote a culture of acceptance, understanding and achievement for all students and families in District 196."
As regulations and executive orders expire with changes in the pandemic, updated protocol include less regulations and requirements, and more personal/family choice and responsibility.
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Browse our online catalog and register now to ensure your spot in a class that sure to engage, inspire and enrich you and your family!
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Interested in your student continuing to learn fully online next school year? Explore our new virtual school, 196Online.
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Please continue to call us when your child is identified as a close contact to someone who is COVID-19 positive, or if you have any positive COVID-19 test results in your home.
We now have a Google form that you may use to report COVID symptoms or illness when school is not in session. This form will be available on our school website under family resources, and may also be found here: COVID reporting form for families
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Review this important information about free meals, late start Wednesdays, technology help, transportation and wellness checks.
Grades preK-2 will return on Thursday, January 21 and grades 3-5 will return on Thursday, February 4.
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Governor Walz announced a change in the state’s Safe Learning Plan to allow a phased-in return of elementary students to in-person learning. Details of our plan for elementary students will be shared by January 8.
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Browse our online catalog and register now to ensure your spot in a class that sure to engage, inspire and enrich you and your family!
Both calendars are based on an all in-person learning mode. Each calendar has 172 days of instruction for elementary students and 171 days for secondary students.
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In recognition of this important declaration, we encourage District 196 families to explore the rich history of indigenous people around the United States and in Minnesota.
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Each school will share site-specific details about the change at their building. There will be no school for all preschool and elementary students only Nov. 19 and 20.
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Minnesota and Vault Medical Services have teamed up to offer at-home COVID-19 saliva testing for any person who believes they need to be tested, with or without symptoms, at no cost.
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