The Wildcat
Wamsley Elementary School Newsletter - October 2021
Important Dates
October 11th - PTAC Butter Braid Sales Begin
October 14th - Preschool Pictures & Picture Retakes DayOctober 18th-21st - PTAC Scholastic Book Fair
October 19th & 20th - Student Led Parent Teacher Conferences
October 25th - PTAC Butter Braid Orders Due
October 27th - 1st & 2nd Grade Music Program (time to be announced)
October 28th - Halloween Parties in Classrooms
From the Principal
Dear Wamsley Wildcat Families!
As October arrives, fall is finally in the air and we are enjoying the cooler weather and moisture. Please send your children prepared for cool mornings outside and warm days. Also, please make sure to label your child’s clothing with their first and last name. This helps find lost articles quickly.
Experiential Education or “EE” is off to an AMAZING start! Your students have been hiking, studying animal habitats, cooking bagels and dehydrating fruit. It’s also finally time for some field trips! Kindergarten and first grades are headed to a pumpkin patch while the rest of the grades will be going on some longer hiking excursions. With all these experiences happening at school, we are expecting that your children learn a skill or concept when they are completing the experience. Please ask them what they “learned” from their experiences in “EE” during the week.
Effort = Achievement! This is again a major focus for us here at Wamsley! We have progressed from Why Try lessons to WE TRY lessons every week. Recently, your students took the iReady beginning of year assessment which helps us know what to focus on in math and reading. Students that showed effort or achievement on the assessment earned a reward. The reward this time was “scootering” to the Rocket Park. We have enough scooters and helmets left from summer school for an entire grade to scooter all at once. Ask your student if they participated in this fun reward and look around town because you may see some wildcats scootering to the store to buy supplies for EE or scootering to other places for some learning time. :)
Thank you for your patience with our transition to masks again this year! Your children are doing a great job with this new expectation. Please remember that our top priority in Garfield RE2 is keeping our students and staff safe; our mission is to keep kids in-person with uninterrupted learning with their teachers.
By wearing masks in school, it helps to eliminate quarantines and:
We keep kids in school learning with their teachers because we rarely have to quarantine in homeroom settings when a positive Covid case arises;
We keep teachers teaching in school and not online because our students can participate in uninterrupted, in-person learning with their teachers;
We keep parents working to support their families because our parents do not have to choose between child care and work because their child is in a quarantine;
We support local businesses during an already tight employee market;
We keep our schools open.
Thank you for sharing your children with us and for all you do to help make our school a great place! Please check the Sunday weekly email for important information and details about all our upcoming events! As always, call or stop in and let us know how we are doing.
Kathi Senor, Principal
Art
G'day mates! In Art class, we flew to our first continent...Australia! We learned about the geography, culture, and art of Australia created by the Aborigines. 5th & 4th painted animals of Australia surrounded by stipple or "polka dot" designs. 3rd grade painted X-ray view fish. 2nd grade blended chalk pastels for their koala bears. 1st graders painted kangaroos on "bark paper," and Kinder painted their handprints like the ancient Aborigines. Hoo! Roo!
Music
Don’t forget that our 1st and 2nd grade Halloween themed program is October 27th!! Time will be announced soon! Please let me know if you have any questions!!
Physical Education
This month in P.E., all students are learning how to work together as a team, and show good sportsmanship. Kindergarten through second grade are learning how they can kick, trap, and pass different types of balls. While third through fifth grade started their soccer unit. This unit focuses on how to dribble, pass, and shoot a soccer ball in different situations.
Preschool
Kindergarten
First Grade
First graders learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin last week. Students also dissected pumpkins and used their 5 senses to discuss what they observed about the different parts. We will travel to Studts Pumpkin Patch on Thursday, October 7th to experience some fun at a pumpkin patch and corn maze!
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
This month fourth graders have been working hard! In Writing, students have been practicing writing biographies and opinion pieces. In Science, we just wrapped up our unit on the study of fossils and are diving into the science of light and sound. In Math, we have done a great job learning new skills. We are wrapping up this unit and your students have learned how to round to the ten-thousandths place, add and subtract to the millions, solve multi-step word problems and they can identify greater than and less than equations. I'm so proud of the hard work they show every single day. Students have been working hard in reading to reach their middle of the year goals. One way you can support them in doing this is by reading with your child or encouraging them to read for 20 minutes each night. Thank you for your continued support! We are looking forward to another month of learning and growing. -Mr. Rowe and Ms. Ferraro
Fifth Grade
Experiential Education
Parent Teacher Action Committee (PTAC)
PTAC will be sponsoring the Scholastic Book Fair during the week of October 18th. Look for more information to come home about when your child can shop, or you can shop with your child during Parent Teacher conferences on the 19th & 20th. All proceeds will go towards free books for our school! Also, you can sign up to help the PTAC feed our teachers during conferences. Look for more information to come home! PTAC will soon be sending home Butter Braid order sheets for your children to sell to friends and family. Sales will help to fund the many school activities that our PTAC supports and your children can win prizes, too. Thank you for your participation!
Outrageous October is Here!
From the Health Room...
What's For Lunch?
Wamsley Elementary School
Office Hours: 7:30am-4:00pm
Email: wamsley@garfieldre2.net
Website: wamsleywildcats.net
Location: 225 East 30th Street, Rifle, CO, USA
Phone: 970-665-7950
Facebook: facebook.com/WamsleyWildcats