Woodland School News

Week of March 3, 2025

Updates from the Woodland Office

Dear Woodland families,

We welcomed March in like a lion this weekend with cold and snowy weather. Here's hoping the month will go out like a lamb in few weeks and the weather becomes more spring-like.

There are quite a few events scheduled at Woodland the next few weeks.

March 3 is National Unity Day. Wear and share orange to show you are encouraging kindness, acceptance, and inclusion. March 3 is also Read Across America Day.

March 3-7 is Right to Read Week, PTA Spring Book Fair, and National School Breakfast week.

March 6 at 7pm is the 4th grade choir performance at Woodland.

March 8 is the Turkey Super Bowl at Marhofer Chevy from 1p-3p. Ms. Piland, or her proxy, will be representing Woodland in the competition!

March 10-21 is Spring MAP benchmark assessment window. Your child's teacher will let you know when his/her class will be taking the assessments.

March 13 is the PTA Family Glow dance at Woodland from 6p-8p.

March 14 is the end of the 3rd quarter. This is a professional development day for staff so students in grades PK-6 will have no school.

March 20 is the 1st day of Spring and PTA Marco's Pizza Night.

March 24-28 is Spring Break for all students in SMFCSD.

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As the weather continues to turn colder, take a minute to review the Dressing for Cold Weather graphic below. Students will go outside for recess as long as the temperature and/or wind chill is 20* or above. Please send your children to school prepared with layers of warm clothing they can easily put on or take off. It is also recommended by our school clinic staff to have an extra pair of clothes at school for your child to keep in his/her locker. Extra clothing in the clinic is reserved for students who have had bathrooming accidents or injuries requiring a change of clothing.

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As a reminder, if your child will not be coming to school, please call the Main Office at 330-689-5470 by 9:30am each morning to let us know. Please leave a voicemail if the phone is not answered, as the office staff may be helping another parent at that time. You can also email Mrs. McClain at st_bmcclain@smfcsd.org with your child's reported absence.

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The tardy bell rings at 9:05am. If your child arrives to school after 9:05am, you will need to walk him or her into the building and sign in at the office. Dismissal begins at 3:30pm. Walkers and car riders are dismissed from the gym. Bus riders wait in their classrooms until each bus is called. Most busses depart Woodland before 4:00pm each afternoon.

With Bulldog Pride,

Christopher Keating

Proud Principal of Woodland Elementary

Woodland Counselor Update

Happy March! The month of February sure seemed to fly by! We are beginning our 10th encore rotation. I believe this is a good time of year to visit technology and the impact it can have on our children. We will explore things such as what is the internet, internet safety (what personal information is), what a digital footprint is (for grade 3rd-4th), along with how to balance our time on technology. I think these are all important concepts since technology is such an integrated part of our lives. As always, please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns regarding your student. I am beyond thankful to get to be a part of their educational journey.

Mrs. Karen Chapman-LPSC-ME.D.

Woodland/Highland School Counselor

st_kchapman@smfcsd.org

330-689-5330 ext.705475

National School Breakfast Week - March 3-7, 2025

March 3-7 is National Breakfast Week at Woodland Elementary! We will have a special breakfast menu (see below) and will have activity pages for the students to turn in for the opportunity to win prizes. Ms. Audrey will pick one buyer from each grade to win a prize. The only rules are the student must buy breakfast and turn in a completed activity page to Ms. Audrey. See Ms. Audrey for more information.

MONDAY: Breakfast Briefcase - Zee Zees breakfast bar, Danimals yogurt & fruit

TUESDAY: Fingerprint pancake bites

WEDNESDAY: New Muffin flavors

THURSDAY: Breakfast ice cream & Scooby snacks

FRIDAY: Glazed donut & fresh fruit salad

School nutrition information

Please review the information below from Woodland's kitchen manager Audrey Coy:

Breakfast for Lunch is moving! Breakfast for Lunch will now be served on MONDAYS instead of THURSDAYS beginning January 6, 2025.
Our schools accept cash (no change is given back) or checks for student lunch accounts.
Payschools Central accepts debit/credit cards (fees apply) - https://www.payschoolscentral.com
Breakfast and lunch menus are available at https://www.myschoolmenus.com/organizations/1129.

MARCH 3 - Dutch waffle and omelet OR Fruit & Yogurt parfait
MARCH 4 - Pizza crunchers cheese bites OR Protein packed Bistro Box
MARCH 5 - Beef hot dog OR Cheesy breadstick with marinara sauce
MARCH 6 - Boneless chicken wings OR PB&J Uncrustable
MARCH 7 - Big Daddy cheese pizza OR PB&J Uncrustable
MARCH 10 - Buttery maple waffle and omelet OR Fruit & Yogurt parfait
MARCH 11 - Mozzarella sticks OR Protein packed Bistro box
MARCH 12 - TBD OR Cheesy breadstick with marinara sauce
MARCH 13 - Tangerine chicken bowl OR PB&J Uncrustable
MARCH 14 - No school for PK-6 student today.

Breakfast (8:55-9:15) price - $2; Lunch (11:45-1:05) price - $3; Milk price - $0.50.
Meal eligibility and fee waiver applications can be filled out by parents or guardians in Final Forms or by asking Ms. Coy for a paper application.
Additional information can be found online at https://www.smfschools.org/departments/nutrition-services.
Audrey Coy can be reached at st_acoy@smfcsd.org by email with any questions you have about nutrition services. SMF's district nutrition services supervisor is Angela Hearty (st_ahearty@smfcsd.org).

February Safety Patrollers of the Month

Penelope Schneider

Peyton Segan

February Students of the Month

Act Responsibly

4th grade Math problem-solving tournament

Congratulations to all the students that participated!

Bulldogs Dig Reading campaign

The Stow Munroe Falls City School District is excited to share a new reading initiative with families. The program is called Bulldogs Dig Reading and students will track their reading minutes on a digital platform known as Beanstack. Families can read more about the program here.

Mrs. Hall, Woodland's library assistant, has created this At Home guide for parents to help their children with Beanstack at home.

Currently, Woodland is in 3rd place for total minutes read behind Echo Hills and Fishcreek Elementary schools. Our students have read 383,464 minutes! For any student that reaches 5000 minutes by May, 2025, they will be invited to an end of the year Reading Celebration at Kimpton tentatively scheduled for May 17. The following students have read 5,000 minutes or more (as of 2/28/25): Isaac Yeager, Bo Gerbig, Yamin Aldwimer, James Smerick, Jonathan Herchick, Kellan Leach, Riley Norton, Chloe Merrill, Katelyn Mueller, Landon Ruper, Emmett Cofojohn, Aaron Dorsey, Finley Norton, Leo Navis, Brandon Lint, Jihad Jackson, Rachel Stultz, Baylee Myers, William Schoenstein-Turner, Hudson Rankin, Yaman Talal, & Nico Goede.

I would like to recognize each classroom's top readers (as of 2/28/25):

Room 16 - Hazel Remp (1495 minutes)

Room 19 - Ava Artl (945 minutes)

Room 11 - Eloise Marshall (3558 minutes)

Room 13 - Aaron Dorsey (6119 minutes)

Room 15 - Kenley Farina (1919 minutes)

Room 12 - Bo Gerbig (8797 minutes)

Room 14 - Katelyn Mueller (6333 minutes)

Room 22 - Hudson Rankin (5275 minutes)

Room 1 - Yaman Talal (5111 minutes)

Room 3 - Nico Goede (5019 minutes)

Room 7- Connor Webb (2544 minutes)

Room 4 - Chloe Merrill (6820 minutes)

Room 5 - Isaac Yeager (9647 minutes)

Room 6 - James Smerick (7933 minutes)

Woodland Parent/Student Handbook

Parents and Guardians,

Please take a few minutes to read through the Woodland Parent/Student Handbook . Pages 5-6 of the handbook go over Bus Safety and Bus Conduct referrals. I have been receiving reports of some students not following school bus expectations. Please review these expectations with your child, as well as the Stow Munroe Falls City School District Transportation Code of Conduct. Continued violation of bus safety rules can result in disciplinary action up to and including removal from the school bus.

Woodland PTA updates

It's never too late to join PTA! Parents, guardians, grandparents, aunts, uncles are welcome to join at https://woodlandstow.givebacks.com/store.

Take a minute to read the attached Woodland PTA Newsletter for March. See the flyer below for the PTA Light up the Night Family Glow dance scheduled for March 13 at Woodland from 6p-8p.

The next PTA meeting is March 20 at 6pm in the Woodland Library.

PTA Reflections Contest results...

A big congratulations to the following students for having their PTA Reflections submission recognized at the building, district, and/or state level. The students and their families will be invited to an district awards ceremony later in the Spring.

Jude VanAllen - Visual Art - "Sesame Street: The Last Traffic Light in New York"

1st place at Woodland

1st place in District

This project moved to States

Ava Lewis - Literature - "The Odd One Out"

1st place at Woodland

Sithu Costa - Literature - "My Sad and Imperfect Story"

2nd place at Woodland

Ava Lewis - Photography - "The Imperfect Pumpkin"

1st place at Woodland

3rd place in District

Sithu Costa - Photography - "Learning from Mistakes"