Wakefield Hills Elementary School
January 18th- January 22nd, 2016
I hope that you all enjoyed the three day weekend! it is always nice to have a bonus day. Last week we had a very successful spelling bee with our 4th grade students! Our winner: Michael Strain and Runner-Up: Mason Meloccaro will both compete in the district level spelling bee at WHES on January 28th. I am so proud of all of our students who competed in the class and school level bee! Math Day was also a wonderful success. We received a lot of very positive feedback from our families. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the students as they taught their parents how to do "today's" math. Thank you for all of the hard work you put in each and every day to make events like these so successful!
Upcoming....
Happening this week...
Monday:
*Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: No School
Tuesday:
*IEP Team Meeting Day
*ACCESS ELL testing begins today with Mrs. Jochmann
Wednesday:
*Happy Wednesday!
Thursday:
*WHES Winter Chorus Concert: 6:00-7:00pm in the Gymnasium. We are looking for volunteers for the evening. Please see Mrs. Mang or myself if you are available to attend.
*Pay Day!
Friday:
*Happy Friday!
Important events, deadlines, etc...
* WISH LISTS: Send me a wish list of resources, materials etc. that you would love to have to enrich your instruction! I am looking at our budget for the remainder of this year and need to make some purchases. Please send your grade level leader an email or google document by Tuesday, January 19th with your requests. I will then be meeting with grade level leaders to discuss the wish lists and make decisions. Grade level leaders I will set up our meetings this week.
*The Hi-Five Patrol has been selected! Our students started last week and are already doing a wonderful job! A new set of Hi-Five Patrol members will be selected every 6 weeks. Please encourage all 4th grade students to submit the patrol application (via google forms).
*WHES Winter Chorus Concert: Thursday, January 21st from 6:00-7:00pm in the Gymnasium. Mrs. Mang is handling the details of this event. Please see her with any questions.
*Mentor Celebration Event: WHES will be hosting a mentor celebration event on Tuesday, January 26th from 3:30-5:00pm.
*WWPS District Level Spelling Bee: WHES will be hosting the district level spelling bee for all school finalists on Thursday, January 28th from 6:00-8:00pm.
*Special Educators: All Mid-Year LRE predictions are due by Friday, January 29th. I will be scheduling meetings with case managers during the first week of February to discuss and confirm these predictions.
*SATURDAY SCHOOL: Our Saturday school Co-Coordinators will be Joanne Pigott and Diane Tourangeau. We have been discussing and planning for Saturday school during our SIT meetings. Please start to think about students in your class whom would meet the criteria for Saturday school. We will be putting together some guidance around this to share. Our hope is to choose students similar to last year that are "on the cusp". Saturday School begins on Saturday, February 27th and runs for 8 weeks.
*Yoga for Relaxation begins on Tuesday, January 26th at 2:55pm in the Gymnasium. Please join us!
*Sodexo is hosting a "Farm to Table" taste testing in our cafeteria on Monday, February 1st for all lunches.
*SIT Meeting: Wednesday, February 3rd in the Media Center from 2:45-3:15pm
*WWPS School Committee Meeting, Thursday, February 11th at 6:30pm in the John F. Deering Middle School Media Center.
*** Reminders***
*Please arrive with your class on time to lunch and specialist classes. If you are unable to arrive on-time due to unforeseen circumstances please notify the office, cafeteria or specialist teacher.
*Outdoor/Indoor Recess will now be decided consistently among all three of our Elementary schools. Each week a school is in "charge" of the decision and it is shared with all three schools. We will notify you by 10:00am of each day regarding recess. Please call the office if you take your students out for recess before this time and check before going outside.
Wakefield Hills Elementary School
Email: lbessette@westwarwickpublicschools.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/westwarwickpublicschools.com/whes/home
Location: 505 Wakefield Street, West Warwick, RI, United States
Phone: 401-822-8452
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wakefield-Hills-Elementary-School/223614024389459
Twitter: @wakefieldhills