Forest Lake Events

Haiti benefit concert
Tri-M is hosting the second annual benefits concert at Forest Lake Senior High School Friday March 3 at 6 p.m. featuring Paige Parucci, Grayson DeWolfe of Time Atlas, Early Eyes, and the Forest Lake Jazz Band. Tickets are $6 at the door and all the proceeds from tickets and other donations will help fund music programming in Haiti. Donations of musical instruments will also be accepted.
Mini golf pub crawl
The Forest Lake American Legion Post 225, 355 W. Broadway, will host a mini golf pub crawl with registration at noon and a shotgun start beginning at 1 p.m. March 4. The cost is $25 per person. The costume theme is any music group or singer. Costumes are not mandatory. Registration forms are available at post225.com.
FTD support group
A frontotemporal degeneration caregiver support group will meet the first Tuesday of every month beginning March 7 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at

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Pokemon run wild through Wyoming Elementary math lesson

Wyoming Elementary first- and second-graders chased Pokemon throughout the school hallways on Feb. 3, all in the name of math.
During the school’s TARGET time, a half hour of instruction time to meet the students’ academic needs at their level, students walked around the school looking for Pokemon pictures with math equations written on them that included one, two and three digit addition and subtraction. Each equation was tailored to the specific grade level and performance levels within that grade level. Students traveled the hallways with a partner in search of Pokemon that were in plain sight, on the ceiling and some more hidden. Once the student pairs solved an equation, they used an iPad to check if their answers were correct. If not, they had to go back and try to solve it again. All correct answers gave students points, which were indicated on the Pokemon paper. The goal by

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