The Wildcat Way
Monday, February 28-Friday, March 4
Woodfield Elementary
Mrs. Julie Voegeli, Woodfield School Counselor
Mrs. Sara Hammer Woodfield/Trailside School Psychologist
Mrs. Kim Rivera-Kloeppel, WGSD School Social Worker
Mrs. Alicia Burton, Principal Secretary (Enrollments, student information/support)
Mrs. Joy Jackson, Building Secretary (Attendance, Food Service accounts, Health Room)
Mrs. Rachel Pankonin, WGSD Nurse
School Day hours: 8:40 a.m. - 3:40 p.m. Students enter the building at 8:35 a.m.
School Office hours: 7:50 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Email: burtona@waterford.k12.wi.us
Website: https://www.waterford.k12.wi.us/o/woodfield-elementary
Location: 905 Barnes Drive, Waterford, WI, USA
Phone: 262-514-8230
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoodfieldElementary/
Mark your calendar:
- February 28-March 4: Read Across America Spirit Week
- March 3 & 4: 4K/5K screening at Evergreen Elementary
- March 7: End of 2nd Trimester
- March 8: First day of 3rd Trimester
- March 18-25: Spring Break - No School
Join us for a Read Across America- Themed Spirit Week!
Woodfield Elementary will be participating this week through many fun-filled reading activities. We hope all will join in on the fun of our themed spirit days!
Celebrating Math Success!
Dear Woodfield Families,
Kindergarten through fifth grade students take the i-Ready assessment in the fall, winter and spring. The i-Ready diagnostic is an adaptive computer assessment that matches the difficulty of test questions to the ability of each student. As students answer questions correctly, the test gets more difficult. As students answer questions incorrectly, the test gets easier. In both cases, the test adapts to find the precise ability of the test taker. The purpose of the diagnostic assessment is not to give your child a score or grade, but instead determine how best to support your student's learning.
At fall conferences, your child's teacher gave you your child's fall i-Ready assessment results. Teachers will be sending home winter i-Ready reports soon. Remember, this is just a snapshot of your child's ability and teachers use many other formal and informal assessments to track your child's progress. If you have any questions about your child's progress in math, please contact your child's teacher.
The picture below demonstrates the growth that Woodfield Elementary, as a school, has made from fall to winter, as measured by the i-Ready math assessment. Within the triangles, green indicates that students are working on or above grade level. The yellow in the triangles demonstrate students working slightly below or up to one grade level below, and red shows students who are more than one grade level below. You can see that we have a lot of growth to celebrate! Our goal is for 100% of students to score on or above grade level and also for students to reach their individual i-Ready stretch goals by the end of the 2021-2022 school year.
During the month of March, students will be participating in an i-Ready math challenge to promote engagement and focused practice. Teachers are excited to introduce the challenge to their students this week. Please ask your child for updates throughout the month. As always, we thank you for your support and involvement in your child's education.
Sincerely,
Jessica Grimm, Principal
Counselor Corner Updates from Mrs. Voegeli
Kindergarten - We will be reading the book Tattle Tongue by Julia Cook. The students will be able to tell the difference between tattling and telling.
1st Grade-Mean teasing is aggressive behavior. Repeated teasing can turn into bullying. This lesson promotes the norm of respectful behavior and not calling people names while building empathy for students who are teased. Responding effectively can help students reduce the extent to which they are teased.
2nd Grade - Personal Space- We will identify proper personal space in order for others to feel comfortable and stay safe.
3rd Grade In this lesson, students learn how to use positive self-talk to calm themselves during disappointment, a common stressor for children. Positive self-talk can effectively engage the thinking part of the brain in emotional situations, while negative self-talk can escalate emotions and decrease students’ self-control. Students should identify and practice words and phrases that work for them so that positive self-talk comes easily when needed.
4th Grade-Students can create or escalate conflicts when they jump to conclusions about what is behind other students’ actions. This lesson focuses on helping students use emotion-management techniques to keep strong emotions from pushing them into jumping to conclusions about others. Students who calm themselves down are better able to accurately assess others’ intentions. Students can use the Calming-Down Steps to make it less likely they will act impulsively on their emotions. When able to take the next step and assertively ask questions of others, students become better able to understand others’ perspectives and intentions. Calming down strong emotions is also a necessary prerequisite to effective problem solving.Home Link
5th Grade- Students can create or escalate conflicts when they jump to conclusions about what is behind other students’ actions. It is easy to jump to conclusions that create problems unnecessarily. This lesson focuses on helping students use emotion-management strategies to keep strong emotions from pushing them into jumping to conclusions about others. When students can calm down, they are better able to assess others’ intentions accurately. Students can use the Calming-Down Steps to make it less likely that they will act impulsively on their emotions. When they are able to take the next step and assertively ask questions of others, they are better able to understand others’ perspectives and intentions. Calming strong emotions is also a necessary prerequisite to effective problem solving. Home Link
In addition, every month, WGSD will be highlighting a spotlight skill. Please check out each month’s newsletter to see more about the spotlight skill including keywords, definitions, and areas of focus. Our District Wide SEL Spotlight Skill this month is Social-Awareness
More about Social-Awareness
Keywords: Self-Confidence, Growth Mindset, Sense of Purpose, Identify Emotions
Definition:The ability to consider the perspectives of others individuals, groups, or communities, and apply that understanding to interactions with them.
Focus area for each grade level:
4K-5K: Learners will be able to recognize the feelings of another child and respond with basic comfort and empathy.
1st-3rd:Learners will be able to predict how someone else may feel in a variety of situations.
4th-5th: Learners will be able to use perspective-taking to predict how their own behavior affects the emotions of others.
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Please note: You may order multiple yearbooks in the same transaction if your children attend the same school. Simply change the quantity of yearbooks to the amount you want to order and write both students names in the checkout form. Please DO NOT order multiple books in the same transaction if your students attend different schools.
Also, please ignore any instructions to print a receipt as nothing needs to be turned in.
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Let our staff serve you at Dairy Queen!
Monday, Mar 7, 2022, 05:00 PM
Dairy Queen Grill & Chill, 6th Street, Waterford, WI, USA
Spring Music Concerts Return!
Grade levels: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade will be at 10:00 a.m.
Grade levels: 4th, 5th and 5th grade band will be at 1:30 p.m.
At this time, parents and grandparents will be able to attend in-person. The concerts will also be live-streamed via Facebook for anyone not able to attend in-person.
Waterford Union High School Community Tours
You can also watch an overview video to learn more about the proposed projects by visiting this link.
The 2022-2023 School Year Calendar is now available!
Breakfast Menu
Lunch Menu
Register online at: https://waterfordrec.digitalsignup.com/ Deadline is Tuesday, March 1st
Skyward Family Access
If you do not know your login information please contact Alicia Burton.