Wiggin Street Parent Update
October 18, 2021
Better Together
Last week was a full week even with having students in session for only 4 days! First Grade went to Lehner's Pumpkin Farm, Second and Fifth Grade had YES Concerts to attend, and the building was a buzz of actively engaged learning! We also had time on Friday to reflect on school initiatives, attend Professional Development, and plan for the second nine weeks.
As for October, make sure you have marked your calendars for some fun events including Pumpkins on Parade and the Harvest Parade and Parties. Also, 3rd Grade will be completing their Fall State testing during the last week of October, so please make sure your child's appointments are scheduled to not interfere with their attendance.
Sadly, we will not be having a Veterans Day assembly this year, but are happily making other plans to educate our students about the holiday as well as honoring Veterans for their service. We will be having a flag ceremony with our students on the morning of November 9th as a culminating event. This ceremony will be recorded and shared with families in the form of a video. We would love to include videos of students recognizing a Veteran that is or has been in their life. It's as easy as going to this site and recording your student thanking a veteran for their service. The following are examples of questions that may be answered in the video:
1. How is the student associated to the Veteran?
2. What years did the Veteran serve?
3. Which branch of our U.S. Military is this Veteran a member of?
We appreciate all you do to support our school and kiddos! Have a great week!
Warmly,
Christy Grandstaff
Fifth Grade YES Concert- Eric "The Fish" Patton
Great Apple Crunch Event
Thrive Kids Update
We are excited that Wiggin Street and Thrive Kids will be presenting tonight in video format at the MVCSD Board Meeting! We will share the presentation also in the next Wiggin Street Parent Update for all to view.
Thrive Kids with Coach Hannah
Lunges and more lunges! This week we worked on completing an alternating lunge using the proper form - strong core, squash bug, *kiss* floor with knee, rocket up! We also worked on creating a plan before we did our challenging workout to make a plan on what we would do when things got hard through the workout. Then we put our plans to the test by completing a variety of movements in :30 second increments. The students did an excellent job and worked hard throughout the entire class!
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Weekly Before School Movement Activity
*Make a PLAN for what you will do when your legs start to hurt!*
:10 sec lunges
:10 sec squats
:20 sec lunges
:20 sec squats
:30 sec lunges
:30 sec squats
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See you Thursday, October 21, at 8:15am!
*If your child is interested in joining Thrive Kids, please email hannahkelling@gmail.com for a permission slip or stop by the office!*
Pumpkins on Parade
Fall Harvest Parade and Parties
Costumes should come to school in a bag and children should be able to get in and out of their costumes easily. (If you feel your child needs help with his/her costume, please contact the classroom teacher.) Please make sure that there are no scary costumes because of our younger students. There should be no Halloween masks, but protective masks due to the Pandemic are optional, since students will be outside. No pretend weapons of any kind are permitted at school even as a part of the costume. Please save those for trick-or-treat night.
We ask parents not to pass out treats along the route. Any treats brought to school for the class parties must be individually wrapped.
3rd Grade Fall ELA Ohio State Testing
Fifth Grade Robot Arms
Friends of Wiggin Street
October 26- Pumpkins on Parade; 6-7:00 pm
November 2- Friends of Wiggin Street meeting; 5:00 pm
November 11 & 12- Paragraphs Bookstore Book Fair
Not Too Late to Order Pictures!
Upcoming Important Dates
Click here for the 2021-22 Mount Vernon City School District Calendar
October
18 Board Meeting (Wiggin Street will present Thrive Kids)
19 YES Concert-Grade 4
22 Report Cards go home 1st 9-wks
26 Pumpkins on Parade (Bring a pumpkin to decorate on the front lawn.); 6-7:00
26 3rd Grade Fall ELA Ohio State Testing Part 1
27 YES Concert-Grade 1
27 3rd Grade Fall ELA Ohio State Testing Part 2
28 3rd Grade Fall ELA Ohio State Testing Make-ups
29 Fall Harvest Parade/Parties 2:15 pm
November
2 Election Day
2 Champions of Character Grades 4-8; 10:30 am
2 Friends of Wiggin Street Meeting; 5:00
3 Gifted Seminar @ Fieldhouse
5 Popcorn Day
7 Daylight Savings Time Ends
10 Parent/Teacher Conferences; 5:00-8:00 p.m.
10-12 Paragraph’s Book Fair
11 Veteran’s Day
11 Parent/Teacher Conferences; 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
12 No School in lieu of Conferences
24-26 Thanksgiving Break
29 Picture Retakes
Principal- Wiggin Street Elementary
Email: cgrandstaff@mvcsd.us
Website: mvcsd.us
Location: 207 Wiggin St, Gambier, OH, USA
Phone: (740) 427-4262
Twitter: @LCGrandstaff