Woodbury Weekly Update for Families

Welcome to our weekly update! We are thrilled to keep you informed about the happenings at our school, celebrations & achievements and upcoming events, ensuring you're an active part of your students educational journey. In each update, you'll find some quick highlights of the past week and a preview of what's to come. Our hope is to foster a strong sense of community and collaboration between the school and our cherished families. Most weeks will be brief, but at times there is important information or updates that help support us in your involvement in our little school. Thank you for taking the time to read it!

So much festive Halloween fun this week! We enjoyed all of our students costumes and appreciate all of the fun classroom activities planned and carried out by all of our wonderful volunteers! Don't forget that we fall back this weekend!

REMINDER: NO SCHOOL ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5th.

Kindness Week: Kindness Week is coming up in November 11th-15th! Our school social work team has planned a dress up week and activities for students to participate in during this week. Details below!

Franklin Mall Food Project begins on November 4th!

Honoring Our Veterans: If you have a family member you would like us to honor in our annual Veteran's Day ceremony, please send in or email a picture to Mrs. Kern (jkern@sandwich430.org) with the name of your loved one, what branch of military they served in, as well as years of service & position/rank (if known) by Wednesday, November 6th. If you have a special veteran who would like to attend our short ceremony they are very welcome to. It will take place from 2:00-2:30 p.m. at Woodbury School. Our ceremony typically includes: Presentation of Colors, Pledge of Allegiance, Moment of Silence, Introduction of Veterans in Attendance, Songs for Veteran's by the SHS Band.

Reminders:

Please be sure to call when your students are absent. Absences where we are unable to have any parent contact become unexcused. Additionally, anytime a student misses for an appointment, please be sure to ask for a note from your physician so that we are able to excuse the absence.

SCHOOL BOARD MEETING: On Tuesday, November 19th, we will be hosting the school board meeting. The meeting will be held in our multipurpose room at 7:00 PM. We would love you to join us as we get a chance to share our pride for our little school, all of the wonderful people who fill it, including our amazing families! If there are any parents/guardians who would be interested in sharing about your (and your students) positive experience here at Woodbury at the board meeting that evening, please reach out to Mrs. Kern.

Please check out the 2024 Fall Superintendent's Notes.

Thank you to all who participated in our pumpkin storybook contest! All of the students did a wonderful job! Congratulations to our winners, who were chosen by their classmates!

NOVEMBER:

11/4/24: Franklin Mall Food Project Begins

11/5: Election Day, NO SCHOOL

11/8: End of First Trimester

11/11: Veteran's Day Recognition

11/12: Fall Picture Retakes

11/14: Third Grade Opera House, PPA Meeting

11/15: Trimester 1 Report Cards, Therapy Dog Visit

11/20: Author Visit

11/21-22: Breadmaking

11/25: Conferences - NO SCHOOL

11/26: Conferences - NO SCHOOL

11/27-29: FALL BREAK- NO SCHOOL

It doesn't matter how slowly (or quickly) you go: As long as you keep moving forward, you will eventually get to where you want to be!”

I have a #growthmindset!

The following core values are embedded in our Woodbury Way recognition and are goals for our students and staff. These are great skills to discuss with your students as we will be emphasizing them throughout each month.

September: OVERVIEW

October: Growth Mindset (Connection to Second Step-first unit, Start the year off right)

November: Responsibility

December: Respect

January: Collaboration

February: Empathy (Valentine’s Day, Black History Month)

March: Integrity (IAR Testing)

April: Citizenship (Earth Day)

May: Celebrate (Acknowledge accomplishments/achievements)