Dragons' Dish
Updates from Allenwood School
Elementary Summer Assignments 2024
Dear WTPS Elementary Parents and Guardians,
As we are wrapping up the 2023-2024 school year, our students are looking forward to a well deserved break! Summer is a great time to recharge and reset! While we’re doing that, we want to be mindful of the “Summer Slide.” Summer learning loss is a real thing, but it can be significantly minimized with meaningful and consistent activities to keep those brains sharp.
If you didn’t have a chance to attend last night’s parent presentation, “Let’s Avoid the Summer Slide,” please take a moment to click through the presentation as it contains many links with resources to help your child become a Summer Climber and avoid becoming a Summer Slider! Don’t miss the incentive slide, which explains how to earn raffle tickets to win individual and class rewards!
Although nothing is mandatory, these opportunities provide a chance for our students to engage their brains and minimize summer regression. Parents are encouraged to assist their children when needed.
Have a great summer!
Mrs. Erin Embon
Director of Curriculum PK-5
Fifth Grade Junior Jeweler Contest
Congratulations to Olivia Sprague, the winner of the Junior Jeweler Contest sponsored by Corinne Jewelers! Fifth-graders sketched designs and wrote dedications to someone special, explaining their inspiration. Olivia refined her design through the CAD process, and the final proof was made into a beautiful necklace for her mother.
The Wall Township Wellness Department and I would like to thank our parents, guardians, and community caretakers whose support contributed to the success of The 7 Mindsets program. Year one of implementation surpassed expectations as our community joined together to celebrate each mindset in ways that honor the spirit of the program. To best capture the essence of the mindset experience, we invite you to view the presentation linked HERE and posted on our District website.
Next year, we will embrace our second year of implementation with continued instruction on each mindset, school-wide activities for children to apply positive habits of mind, Wellness in the Works parent newsletters, and monthly showcases to the community at Board of Education meetings. We will dive deeper into the program with some new instructional initiatives including Wellness Webinars for students grades 3-8 to facilitate grade-level discussions in real-time, 9th-grade transitional curriculum aligned to the mindsets, student leadership opportunities a.k.a. Mindset Mentors, and additional curricular connections embedded in classroom instruction.
Before we break for the summer, I would like to offer access to the 7 Mindsets audiobook HERE if you missed the opportunity to read it last year.
With warm regards,
Tiffany A. Steiner
Director of Intervention Programs and Student Wellness
