Wickliffe Family Update
November 11: Veteran’s Day Breakfast & Town Meeting;
Book Fair open from 9 - 10
November 11-15: Scholastic Book Fair in the Library
November 12: Restaurant Night at Dewey's Pizza
November 12, 13: Book Fair open from 3pm - 6 pm
November 18: Square One Art Fundraiser
November 25: Town Meeting (Thanksgiving)
November 27-29: No School, Thanksgiving break
December 13th: Wickliffe Parent Social, 7 -11pm @ Woodlands Backyard 668 Grandview Ave.
On Monday afternoon, we’ll be practicing an evacuation drill in which students will walk together to Riverside Methodist Church. This is only a practice drill, and students will stay with their class and walk calmly to the location.
- Our School Resource Officers will be stationed along the route to manage traffic and help make sure everything runs smoothly.
- Once there, teachers will take attendance using our regular fire drill procedures to ensure all students are accounted for.
- Thank you for your support as we practice these routines to keep our school safe and prepared!
We have extended our food drive for Heart to Heart until Friday November 22nd. Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Oberlin's classes will deliver the donated items on a field trip to the food pantry after that. We would like children to bring canned soup but all non-perishable items are welcome as well as diapers, toothbrushes, toilet paper and toiletries. Our donation box is in the Town Square.
Wickliffe Student Advisory is off to a great start! We had a chance to meet with several students this week to hear about their hopes and dreams for the group. We included many of the students that teachers recommended to represent their classes, but have received a few recommendations from the remaining classes that did not yet have representatives. We will be reaching out to those students and their adults prior to our next meeting.
Below is a list of our meeting dates for the school year on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at 7:30am. We look forward to seeing all of the Student Advisory representatives together at our next meeting on November 20th!
- 11/20/2024
- 12/04/2024
- 12/18/2024
- 01/15/2024
- 02/05/2024
- 02/19/2024
- 03/05/2024
- 04/02/2024
- 04/16/2024
- 05/07/2024
- 05/21/2024
Students will visit the book fair with their class November 11-13th during their assigned classroom time. The fair will be open to families after our Veteran’s Town Meeting on November 11th from 9-10am. Additional in-person shopping hours will be held on Tuesday, November 12 and Wednesday, November 13 from 3-6pm. To volunteer, sign up here: Book Fair Volunteer Sign-Up
We are in the initial planning stages for Wolves Around the World and are looking to recruit volunteers for our planning committee! If you’re interested in helping organize this event, please join us for our first meeting on November 19 at at 8 pm via zoom .
Roles include volunteer coordination, donation outreach, event activity planning, and more. Thank you for considering being part of this exciting event!
When you receive a missed call from the school, please wait briefly to check for a voicemail before calling back. Our staff will leave a message with details if follow-up is needed.
We also encourage you to talk with your student (in an age appropriate way) about how voicemails work and why leaving one is important. This can be especially helpful when they’re calling you from school.
Thank you for helping us streamline communication!
Hello Wickliffe Families!
This November all grade level’s counseling lessons are going to focus on gratitude and thankfulness. We will discuss the power of gratitude and how, according to positive psychology research, gratitude is strongly associated with greater happiness, improved health, and stronger relationships (Harvard Health Publishing). Students will make gratitude rainbows to show their classmates what is important to them and what they are grateful for. Finally, we will discuss how knowing what other people are grateful for can help us connect and build a stronger community. I hope your students share their rainbows with you at home and let you know how grateful they are for you! I am so grateful to be a part of this community and to work with such an awesome group of students and families each day!
For more ideas on how to practice gratitude at home see this 21 days of gratitude challenge!
Please reach out if you need anything!
Kaitlyn Karam
Here is the latest issue of the Elementary Explorations newsletter.
In it you will find a recap and pictures from Lesson 4 (Windy City Design Challenge) and a preview of Lesson 5 (Hour of Hode collaboration with UAHS Students).
