This Week's Principal's Award Winner

This week’s Principal’s Award Winner is Jaccob in Mrs. Shea’s first grade class. Jaccob does his best every day at school. He tries to listen carefully so that he can learn more new things. His class enjoys his funny stories and all of the interesting things that he knows about sports and famous athletes. He loves to tell them about the fun activities that he does with his family. He loves to play and watch hockey and knows that to be your best you need to work hard. Other children learn about working as a team from him because he is always helping others. Thank you for all you do!

This Week's Staff Spotlight

Robin Litwalk, Occupational Therapist
Miss Robin grew-up in New York City and came to Boston to attend Boston University. She loved Boston so much that she decided to stay after college. Miss Robin has been an Occupational Therapist in Wakefield for 23 years. She loves to travel to far away places like Europe but her favorite place in the whole world is Block Island.

Standards Based Report Card Feedback

The Standards Based Report Card committee is seeking feedback regarding first year implementation of the K-4 report card. If you have any suggestions or comments, please send your feedback to Nancy Santapaola at santapaola@wakefield.k12.ma.us. Please send all feedback by Friday, May 13, 2011. Thank you.

Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week

Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week: May 2-6 is Teacher and Staff appreciation week. The PTO has organized goodies for the teachers each day. I encourage you to reach out and let the staff that work with your children know how much you appreciate them.

Reminders

With the warmer weather approaching, I would like to send out a few reminders in regard to school safety.
• Flip flops: According to the Elementary Handbook (p. 11), flip flops are not to be worn to school.
• Bikes: Also, according to the handbook (p. 23), only students in grades 3 and 4 can ride their bikes to/from school.
• Toys from home (balls- i.e. tennis balls): As I’ve written in the newsletter in the past, toys from home are not to be brought to school.
• Dogs: Dogs are NOT allowed anywhere on the Woodville School campus.

I thank you for your help and cooperation in keeping all our students safe!

Jump Rope for Heart

Mr. Feldman, our Phys Ed teacher, organized a great day for our students to raise money to fight heart disase for the Jump Rope for Heart day. Even I had a fun time dancing with the students!

Biography Projects

Students in Mrs. McCarthy's 3rd grade class were proud to show off their biography projects they created at home and are in our display case.

Dodge Ball

Students in Mrs. Ferguson's class were having a lot of fun in Mr. Feldman's gym class playing dodge ball.

4th Grade Art

These 4th grade students were honing their artistic skills in Mr. Marino's art class with these projects.

PreK Art

Our PreSchool students have created some wonderful artwork in Ms. Beinart's art class.

4th Grade Math

Mrs. Foley's 4th graders were involved in a math lesson preparing for the upcoming Math MCAS.

Writing in 3rd Grade

This student in Mr. Verge's class was typing up a piece of his writing.

Place Value

Mrs. McCarthy's 3rd graders were learning about place value in math.

Multiplication in Grade 3

Students in Mrs. Siafakas' class were busy practicing their multiplication facts.

Word Work

Students in Ms. Bedrick's and Mrs. Russell's first grade classes and students in Mrs. McDonald's second grade class were doing their word work for the week. This is part of our Fountas and Pinnell Phonics program.

Second Grade Poetry and Money

Students in Ms. Bedrick's class have been linking poetry and their study of money by reading this Shel Silverstein poem.

Guest Reader

Mrs. Jaena was a guest reader in Ms. Kontos' first grade class and the students were enjoying the book about baseball that she was reading.

2nd Grade Writers

Students in Mrs. Ryan's 2nd grade class have completed a project in which they found synonyms for words to help make their writing more interesting.

Center Time in PreK

Students in Miss Ellen's morning class were busy in their centers. Students were making patterns, drawing the life cycle of a butterfly, and playing in the doll house.

Morning Routine

Mrs. Campbell's Kindergartners were conducting their morning exercises on a recent visit.