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Winskill Weekly Update
Together We Are Better
Movember= Mo-Gratitude
I am grateful for small, daily sacrifices that each of you make on behalf of your students- those small moments add up in big ways. I am grateful for the children who enter our doors every day, knowing that they are entering a place of warmth, love, and support. I am grateful for the child who responded to the news that he would get a free book at our Books N Bingo Night with a huge smile and a raised fist of jubilation. And so very thankful for all of the people in that child's life who have helped to created that excitement over books. I am grateful for this staff who, while they may be apprehensive about all of the new things happening in education, are willing to dip their toes in the water of innovation, because they want to do what is best for the children we serve. I am grateful for the way that you all support one another. That is truly a blessing. I am blessed to be a part of the Winskill family.
On a personal level, I am grateful for my family. For a husband who understands this passion that I have for reaching and supporting children and only rolls his eyes a little when I struggle to shut that off after the school day/week ends. I am grateful for three children who have taught me more in their short lifetimes than I have learned in any grad class about how to be a better person. They have taught me how to approach the children who enter my classroom and now my office in ways that support their learning with dignity, empathy, and respect. I am grateful for my Wisconsin family. I have two sets of in-laws and while they could not be more different from one another, they each love and care for me and our children in the most wonderful ways possible. I am always grateful for my own extended family, but even more so this month. My mother was recently diagnosed with cancer and while that has truly been a scary, scary thing to hear and go through with her, I am grateful for the doctors who caught her tumor early, for those same doctors and nurses who have been caring for her, and for the positive prognosis she has been given. I am grateful for my sister and my brother, who kept me informed every step of the way. I am especially grateful for my father, who loves my mother in the way that she truly deserves and has taken care of her every step of the way. Because of their example, I was taught that I deserve the same kind of relationship in my own marriage- and hopefully we are teaching our children that same lesson. How blessed I am to be a part of such a special family.
During this month, please take a few minutes for yourself and consider all that you are grateful for- and know that YOU are on my gratitude list.
- Leah
All About Those Books
Thanks, Trish, for sharing this resource!
Every day, YOU are helping unwrap their gifts!
Always Believe That Something Wonderful Is About To Happen
#Fistbumps and #HighFives
#Fistbumps to Brent and Angie Straka, who with the help of Tricor Insurance, created the "It's a Great Day to be a Flying Arrow" yard signs posted around Lancaster. #ArrowPride is strong in this town!
#Highfives to everyone who has been completing the ODR forms for us. Grade level reps, I will have your data for you this week because...
#Fistbumps to Tracy for figuring out how to navigate the SWIS system to create grade level specific data reports!
#Highfives to Diane Schneider for placing a shortcut on the desktop to Lancaster’s homepage on the computers in Lab 112. Everyone that logs into one of those computers will have this shortcut. It is called LCSD Home Page. Thank you for creating this time-saving link for us! This was submitted by Jen Ingebritsen- thank you!
Winskill Elementary School- Where Kids Come First
Email: whitfordl@lancastersd.k12.wi.us
Website: leah.whitford.blogspot.com
Location: 861 W Maple St, Lancaster, WI, United States
Phone: 608-228-6853
Twitter: @leah_whit
November Happenings
11/10/2014 3-5 RtI meeting WK (Moefu) BK (Roesch) in Title Room @3:30
District Culture Club meeting at 3:35 in D.O.
Friends of Winskill Family Movie Night @ 6:30 Grantland Theatre. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day $5 gains entry, plus small popcorn & small soda
11/11/2014 Veterans Day Program: We will begin calling classes at 1:45; Program will begin at 2:00
11/12/2014 Leah out of district
PBIS meeting @3:30
Board Meeting @ 7:00 pm
11/13/2014 Winskill Pride Assembly- We will begin calling classes at 9:15
World Kindness Day
Evening Conferences (5:00-8:00)
11/14/2014 No School for Students
Morning Conferences (8:00-12:00)
Lancaster Flying Arrows vs St. Catherine's @ Middleton
Breitenbach Stadium @7:03
11/17/2014 K-2 RtI RH (Sperle)
11/19/2014 Faculty Leadership Meeting
11/24/2014 3-5 RtI
11/26/2014 Early Release/Vacation Day
11/27/2014 Happy Thanksgiving!
11/28/2014 No School- Vacation Day