Blue & White Newsletter - 4/26/24
Week of April 22, 2024
Last week, our 4th and 5th grade bands and choruses filled Trimmer Elementary's gymnasium with their musical talents. The 4th grade Beginning Band and 4th grade chorus performed on Wednesday night and the 5th grade concert band and 5th grade chorus performed on Thursday night.
Each night's programs, each with a variety of covers, were designed by several of our Trimmer students, sharing their artistic talents! You can check them out below, along with the songs performed each night.
Congratulations to the band and chorus students, and our Trimmer music teachers, Ms. Sarah Foery, and Ms. Janine Miller, for two awesome nights of music! No surprise that West York Area School District was again recognized as a Best Communities for Music Education District
Leamsi Rivera-Diaz and Keniel Ruiz-Nieves, students in Ms. Shanda Goodwin's ESL class at Trimmer Elementary, created a play. After learning about the moon by reading Midnight on the Moon by Mary Pope Osborne, the boys expressed a desire to make a Magic Tree House movie. Therefore, together with Ms. Goodwin, the boys wrote a script for their movie by creating characters, settings, and a plot that all were loosely-based on Osborne's book with their own creativity evident. This writing allowed for work in comprehension and repeated readings. They then chose music, created characters, and illustrated scenes for the play. After practicing their parts, they were ready to record their play. They culminated the project with a viewing of their play and all of their hard work coming to fruition. They developed language through their writing, understanding, reading fluency, and speaking to collaborate on this project.
Ninth grade students in Mrs. Mary Ann Sweitzer's and Ms. Madelyn Myers' classes at the High School completed an object project as part of the Speak novel unit.
The novel, Speak, is part of the 9th-grade curriculum. In the novel, the main character, Melinda, receives an object in art class that she must create all year in order to “figure out how to make [her] object say something, express an emotion, speak to every person who looks at it” (Anderson 12).
Our students were also responsible for achieving this goal in different manners. They were to create an original visual or written project that represented an object. They were allowed to use different mediums to creatively make their object ‘speak’ a certain message, bring it to life, and discover what the object symbolizes. Everyone did a great job and enjoyed viewing each other's finished projects.
Eleventh grader Abigail Cook and fifth grader Lola Canty were both recognized for their well written poems in the 35th Annual Poetry Celebration at Martin Library. Abby Cook was the fourth place winner with her poem "I See Through the Glass" in the 11th-12th grade category. Lola Canty was awarded second place in the 5th-6th grade category with her poem titled "Cherry Blossoms." They received a little gift bag and a copy of the published book with all of the winning poems.
Congratulations Abby and Lola!
Our kindergarten students in Ms. Kelly Lurz's class at Wallace Elementary enjoyed the Recycled Products Project as part of celebrating Earth Day. The project engaged families in making something new from everyday recycled products they had at home. The students then presented their projects to the class! Some of the projects we had were bird feeders, bird houses, a rocket, a picture frame, planters, pen holders, robots, and various containers!
Pictured below, Mrs. Lorrie Rodriguez's kindergarten class at Wallace Elementary made Earth Day projects as well with their families!
Four of our Trimmer Elementary students, WMT players from the 10u team, enjoyed themselves while attending West York Area High School's softball youth night earlier this month.
Pictured (L-R): Addison Elder (4th grade), Kaylee Myers (5th grade), Nylah Robertson (5th grade), and Ava Durst (5th grade).
Check out this week's issue of the Bulldog Breakdown, a weekly recap of the prior week's athletic accomplishments and lists the upcoming sporting events.
Don't miss important information on the PIAA postseason events, brackets, schedules, and how to purchase tickets! Simply click the Bulldog image to view the latest issue!
Kindergarten registration for the 2024-2025 school year is now open. We encourage families to register early. Simply click the image to the right and click on Create A New Account. Even if you already have students in West York, you will use the Create A New Account to begin the registration process for your incoming kindergarten student. Children need to be five years of age by September 1, 2024, to be eligible for kindergarten.
If you have any questions, please contact our Registration Office at 717-792-2796 extension 1216.
Check out the Kids Bowl Free Program! This program is designed by bowling centers to give back to the community. We have three bowling centers in our area that are participating:
- Colony Park Lanes
- Laser Alleys
- Suburban Bowlerama
Step 1: Go to https://www.kidsbowlfree.com/all_centers.php#PA and find a center near you.
Step 2: Create an account for your family.
Step 3: Enjoy an entire summer of bowling FUN!
