Hello Bulldog Families,

We have a short week of school this week to celebrate Thanksgiving with our family and friends. Fittingly, I have a short message for all of you this week. I am very grateful to be a small part of our school community here at Washington-Caldwell. While each of us play a unique role supporting our students, staff and family, each gesture, voice and action creates a caring and safe environment for our students. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Sincerely,

Kevin McCormick

Monday, December 2:

• Boys Basketball Practice 3:40 pm - 6:00 pm
• Cheerleading Practice 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, December 3:

• Cheerleading Practice 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm
• Knitting Club 3:40 pm - 4:30 pm
• Boys Basketball Practice 3:40 pm - 6:00 pm

Wednesday, December 4:

• Fun Day-Food Drive: Candy Cane Day-Wear Red & White
• 8th grade PreACT Assessment
• Cheerleading Practice 3:40 pm - 5:00 pm
• Lego Club (last name beginning with A-L) 3:40 pm - 4:30 pm-must bring a note to stay
• Boys Basketball Home Game vs Kansasville - 4:30 pm

• Lego Club (last name beginning with M-Z) 3:40 pm - 4:30 pm-must bring a note to stay
• National Junior Honor Society Meeting 3:40 pm - 4:30 pm
• Boys Basketball Practice 3:40 pm - 6:00 pm

• Fun Day-Food Drive: Dress Like a Holiday Tree with Tinsel & Sparkle.

Bring non-perishable items to support Caldwell Food Pantry. They need our help with stocking the shelves!

For many years, Washington-Caldwell School District has supported our own community through an Annual Giving Tree for area children. We are continuing this tradition this year. Sign up to help through Sign Up Genius - https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C4AADAF2AA5F94-53456105-giving#/

1. Take a moment to look at the needed items on Sign Up Genius.

2. Sign up to donate an item or items.

3. Drop off the item at school or send to school with your student. Put items in a bag of some kind. Donations should be to school by Friday, December 13.

4. School elves will get the gifts to families before the holiday!

Please take a moment to tell a staff member why you appreciate them! Use this Google form - https://forms.gle/wH5ucfmFT6LeE2rV9 - to recognize one of our staff members! When you submit this form, it will generate a certificate that we will print and give to the staff member. This recognition can be submitted for all staff members including teachers, specialists, educational assistants, office staff, admin, custodial staff, bus drivers.... anyone!!!

Items for Paw Store Carts Needed:

The Paw Store Carts need more toys and trinkets, especially stuffed animals. Washington-Caldwell students will appreciate any gently used items your kids no longer use.

Printer Ink Recycled at Washington-Caldwell

The students of the Washington Caldwell chapter of the National Junior Honor Society recycle used printer cartridges. All you have to do is send printer cartridges to school, and the students take care of the rest. Help keep these items out of landfills.

Try a new Genre: Encourage children to develop a interest in a variety of genres such as adventure, mystery, fantasy and poetry.

It’s that time of year again…..

That’s right, it’s time to get excited…..

Classroom Baskets are here!!!

The PTO along with the Washington Caldwell teachers, have been organizing this great class spirit fundraiser for many years! It provides an opportunity for the whole class to work together and raise money for their school in a fun way.

Please help your child bring in an item that relates to their classroom theme

by Wednesday December 13th.

The class that with the “most tickets sold basket” will win a pizza party.

The baskets will be displayed for raffle on Facebook and at the Holiday Concert.

Tickets will be available for purchase on the day of the Holiday Concert.

Cash or Check preferred!

Basket winners will be drawn during the Holiday Concert and the winner can pick up baskets at the end of the evening. Thank you in advance for your help! If you have any questions, or want to help please contact Washington Caldwell PTO Washcaldpto1@gmail.com

Proceeds for this year’s baskets will be going to End of School Year Carnival.

Penguin Patch is back!!!

Look for more information on the next few weeks.

More new items are in our Lost & Found. Do any of them belong to you?

Thank you to everyone who have been responding to low lunch balance emails by sending in funds right away. We appreciate you attending to this in a timely manner. Please feel free to email asking for current lunch balances if you are wondering at any time. One full week of lunch is $16.25. You may go online to deposit money at E-Funds or you can send cash or a check to school with your student.

The student cost for school lunch remains the same as last year.

Student lunch is $3.25 (this includes 1/2 pint of milk)

Extra Entrée is $2.50

Milk is $0.40

Free and Reduced Lunch Applications are available year round on the school website under the Parent section. Please reach out to Kelli Vogt if you have questions. The link is referenced below.

Racine Literacy Council will be offering a FREE Family Literacy Program starting on November 12-December 17, 2024, running on Tuesday nights from 5:30-7:30pm at Waller Elementary School in the Library. Flyers are attached to this email. This program is for families with children ages 3-high school.

To provide you a little more information about the 2 hour program and what it entails:

• The first 20-30 minutes is a Family Building Activity w/whole family unit - the focus of this activity is relationship building/family strengthening through literacy activities
• Then, they will separate the kids and parents into groups for the next hour of the program. During this time, the kids will be in learning groups by age and/or literacy needs. They will match tutors based on kids' needs. They will do activities focused on literacy in movement, reading, games, social-emotional literacy, and can work on homework or just general reading, too. They have had kids ages 3-high school in the program.
• During this time, the parents are working on their own learning needs, whether that is just improving their reading and writing skills, learning more about how to help their kids with homework at home, EL, GED prep, job search/exploration/resume writing, digital literacy, financial literacy, etc, etc.- basically whatever the parents would like to work on literacy-related. RLC would do a needs assessment prior to starting, as well as assess the parent (and child) reading/writing or English literacy. This helps them match tutors to families/kids.
• The last 20-30 minutes of the session focuses on parenting topics (some ideas might be: how to engage with teachers during P-T conferences, how to collaborate/communicate with the school/teachers, parenting styles, parenting values, executive functioning, etc.) OR parent-child together time bringing everyone back together again and parent/child chooses an activity for their family to do (i.e could be reading together, literacy family enrichment activity/game, craft, etc).

RLC provides all the tutors. They have Spanish speaking tutors available. There is no cost to families. Registration is necessary so RLC can assess the family's goals, as well as insure they have enough tutors available to support who is in attendance. All of the tutors have been background checked and vetted. They are also always looking for volunteer tutors, if that is something people would like to volunteer for.

Flyers are attached!

(These opportunities are not affiliated with Washington-Caldwell School District.)

Waterford Recreation Department Program

ADVOCATE AURORA PROGRAM

(These opportunities are not affiliated with Washington-Caldwell School District.)

Ms. Kelli Vogt, Assistant Principal -- kvogt@washcald.com

Mrs. Sue Krystowiak, Main Office Secretary -- skrystowiak@washcald.com

Ms. Karen Kaldor, Main Office Secretary -- kkaldor@washcald.com

Dousman Transport Bus Company 262-910-1310

Website: www.washcald.com
Location: 8937 Big Bend Road, Waterford, WI, USA
Phone: 262-662-3466
Facebook: www.facebook.com/wcbulldogs