Walnut Street Wildcat Newsletter
Dear Wildcat Community,
Our iReady midyear testing window opened last week and our students are hard a work assessing their skills in Math and Language Arts. We use this academic data to see progress from the beginning of the year to now. This is just one of many markers we use to gauge student growth. As a school, we use this data to manage next steps for our students in these areas. iReady assessments will conclude and we will dive into the data together to review growth, areas for improvement, and next steps.
Attendance winners were selected randomly this week! Our positive gains continue! As a team, we are seeing great growth in all grade levels...please continue to reinforce at home that every moment and every day counts!
We continued our character education push this week. Mrs. Norcross got into many of our classrooms to discuss positive behavioral traits and continuing our expectations related to having a safe, responsible, and respectful school.
Our incredible Kindness Club is helping in this area as well! They are hard at work creating positive signs and coming up with ideas to promote kindness and understanding at our school. They are also running a donation drive for the Friends of Northern Ocean County Animal Facility. Please see the flier below and consider donating!
Our grade levels were amazed by a great assembly this week. Lead U delivered a high energy assembly to our students that continued our vision of further developing our safe, responsible, and respectful students. The presenters focused on decision making, kindness, and overall positive citizenship.
Unfortunately, our PTO meeting that was scheduled for Tuesday was postponed due to the weather that day. Our new PTO meeting date is on Wednesday, January 17 starting at 6:30 PM. We will recognize the students below at that meeting. We will see you there: Summer Patricia, Olive Romand, Amelia Meagher Dominic DiPalma, Payton Wright, Ahmad Shah, Alexander Donovan, Murad Shah, Luca Giovine, Jayden Li, Mateo Velazquez, Rosabella Flores, Noah Sosa, Evelyn Wagner, Henry Poloski, Joaquin Suerro, Milo Sylvia, Trystan Lang, Mason Miele, Magali Castro, Andrew Myers, Michael Torres-Montes, Frankie Allen, Alexa Bruno, Jayden Doncsecz, Aracely Andrade Pacheco, Karlee Baer, Emelia DeFranca, Liliana Vargas, Thomas Stringer, Raylee Kovacs, John Tinio, Joel Ponce, Santino Kocak, Anthony Velez, Andrea Breton and Alejandro Vega-Chacon
Staff PBSIS winners were Mrs. Bieber and Mrs. Childress! Student winners were pulled on Monday (from last week) and today...check out some of the winners below! Also take a look at the picture, our ticket box is already half full!
There will be no school on Monday, January 15 as we will be honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Students will return to school on January 16.
Have a great weekend!
Hispanic Heritage Club News
We were visited by Toms River High School East Hispanic Heritage Club this week. This club is headed by Mrs. Liz Rodriquez and they met with Walnut Street's Hispanic Heritage Club headed by Mrs. Robin Marra and Mrs. Kristen DeNardo. Together, we celebrated The Three Kings. It was a wonderful event!
