The Westmoreland Wrap Up
April 5, 2024
We hope all of these April showers bring us BEAUTIFUL May flowers!
Can you hear the song "Please Mr. Postman" sung by the Marvelettes? Our first mail delivery took place on Friday, April 5th! You can feel the excitement when the mail truck rolls up and down our hallways. Thank you to our second graders for serving as our post masters!
They worked hard collecting mail from the mailboxes all week long, sorting all of the mail by street and address. servicing as our post masters!
Addresses for classrooms have been provided for parents, should you wish to send a letter to your child. Simply send your letter to school and your child's teacher will be sure they are placed in our school's mailboxes. Students get VERY excited when they see our mail truck rolling up and down the hallways each Friday afternoon. Mail delivery dates are: April 5th, April 12th and April 19th.
National Letter Writing Month
ELL Program Highlights
After reading about communities doing great things together, 1st and 2nd grade multilingual students designed kindness rocks to place around the community to offer English words of encouragement and support to their neighbors. After choosing their best design, students used paint markers to decorate their river rocks. Keep an eye out in the neighborhood because KINDNESS ROCKS!
Autism Acceptance Week
To expand upon our understanding and awareness, students and staff took part in a special spirit week!
Upcoming Solar Eclipse
On April 8th, our schools will operate on a regular schedule. The total solar eclipse is expected to occur between 2:09 - 4:35 pm in our area, with the maximum sun coverage at 3:24 pm.
Students have learned about this rare event during our visiting planetarium show. Lessons will take place in their classrooms as well. Students under staff supervision will receive reminders to only view the sun directly with appropriate safety eyewear. Parents have the option to acquire safety eye protection for their families. However, it is important to note that our schools will not be supplying safety eyewear for this event, as it takes place outside school hours.
Directly viewing the sun during a solar eclipse can result in severe eye damage, emphasizing the importance of taking necessary precautions to safeguard yourself and those close to you. We encourage you, as parents, to review and follow the safety precautions below and discuss them with your children to avoid any potential harm. Read more by visiting the website below.
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Evacuation Drill Information
Each month, our staff and students practice a variety of security drills. One drill we typically practice during the warmer, spring months is an evacuation to an off site location. It is likely we will practice this type of drill during the month of April. This drill begins as a typical fire drill. Once we evacuate from our school and all staff and students are accounted for, we practice moving to an alternate location close by. This is something we would need to do in the event we could not return to our school building (fire, gas leak, bomb threat, etc...)
During the evacuation drill, students will practice walking along the sidewalks to our evacuation site. The department of emergency management assist us with closing roads.
Once all students and staff are accounted for at our evacuation site, we will walk back to our school building. This drill typically takes approximately 30-40 minutes from start to finish.
FLASE Fair Lawn-Opoly Sale
2023-2024 Care Plus Parent Workshops
SAVE THE DATE for WESTAPALOOZA 2024!
Upcoming Important Dates:
April
4/10: SCHOOL CLOSED/EID
4/17: PTO Meeting, 7pm
4/18: Earth Day Assembly
Week of April 22: SCHOOL CLOSED/SPRING BREAK