wattsburg area elementary center

Wattsburg Area Elementary Center

Inside this issue:

Kindergarten Registration 3

Spring Pictures 3

YMCA Summer Program 3

Lost and Found 3

From the Music Room 4

From the Nurse’s room 5

FUTP60 Book Drive 6

Kindergarten News 6

Library News 7

Second Grade News 8

Fourth Grade News 9

First Grade News 9

Third Grade News 9

See these and more of our Elementary student's art projects

on Saturday, March 21 at the PTO Family Fun Day/Art Show.

Dates to Remember:

March 8 Daylight Savings Time Begins—set clocks ahead 1 hour

March 12 PTO Meeting 6:30 pm

March 13 School in Session to make up for Feb. 2 DAY 1

March 19 Spring School Pictures

March 21 PTO Family Fun Day/Art Show

PTO Fundraiser pick-up

Mar26-Apr. 1 Reading Warehouse Book Fair

April 1 School in Session to make up for Feb. 20 DAY 1

April 1 Spring Celebration—Kindergarten, First, and

Second Grades 2:30—3:15 pm

April 2-6 Spring Break

April 7 School resumes


Our Lost and Found table is overflowing with hats, coats, sweatshirts, and other items. Please have your child check the table if they are missing any clothing. We will be donating any items left on the tables.

LOST AND FOUND Kindergarten Screening

and Registration

April 29, 30, and May 1

at


Children must be 5 years old

On or before August 31, 2015 to register

Please call the WAEC office

for more details.

824-3400 ext. 4566

A survey form is located on the WASD website www.wattsburg.org

Summer Camp 2015

Wattsburg YMCA

* Located in the Wattsburg Elementary Center

Winter Blues have you thinking about summer? Summer is right around the corner and your children

would enjoy heading off to summer camp at the Wattsburg YMCA. The teachers at the Wattsburg YMCA are

very excited for another fun summer!

We go on weekly field trips to places such as Pymatuning Deer Park, the Children’s Museum, Lakettes, and

more! We also take weekly trips to Camp Sherwin where we participate in Swim Lessons, Art activities and Sci-

ence adventures!

If you are interested and need more information please contact Miss Stacy

at the Wattsburg YMCA at 825-2706 or [email protected]

Who: All WAEC students

What: Lifetouch Spring Pictures

When: Thursday, March 19

All WAEC students will be photographed and later will receive

a picture package. You may send in payment for any portion of

the package you would like to keep or simply return the entire

package if you do not want to purchase anything.

Our kindergarten students at the

Elementary Center are learning

about pitch in music; how some

tones are high, some are middle and

some are low. They are getting

good at aurally identifying high,

middle, and low sounds. The kinder-

garteners have explored pitch

through listening, moving, and play-

ing instruments, which included

playing the tone chimes. “Popping

Corn”, “The Tugboat” and “Dr. Suess

We Love You” are a few of the

songs that our kindergarten stu-

dents enjoy singing.

Our fourth grade students at the Elemen-

tary Center have been working hard at play-

ing the recorder. They are able to play

many songs from the “Best in Class” record-

er book and they can even play in two-part

harmony! Keep up the practicing fourth

graders. Our fourth graders can also sing

in harmony. They are able to sing a three-

part round called, “Sandy McNab”, and they

can sing a four-part round called, “I Love

the Mountains” (this is one of their favorite

songs). The fourth graders have also begun

learning songs for their musical play, “A

Kid’s Life”! All fourth graders will be per-

forming the musical on May 6th. There will

be a letter coming home with more details

about the musical.

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The third graders at the Elementary Center

have been exploring Melody. They can aurally

and visually identify how a melody moves: by

step, leap or repeat, and they can create their

own melody on the piano using steps, leaps, or

repeating tones.

Soon the third grade students will compose

and play their own melody. During music, our

third graders have also learned about a song,

and can sing the song called, “Follow the Drink-

ing Gourd”. This song, and book, tells the sto-

ry of how a song helped to free the slaves. If

you are interested in learning how, ask a third

grader! The third graders have also begun

learning songs for their musical play, “A Kid’s

Life”! All third graders will be performing the

musical on May 5th. There will be a letter com-

ing home with more details about the musical.

The first grade students at the Ele-

mentary Center are exploring the Per-

cussion Family of instruments. They

are learning that percussion instru-

ments are played by either hitting,

rubbing or shaking the instrument.

They are learning by sight and sound

the names of our classroom percus-

sion, for example, the cabasa and the

castanets and orchestral percussion

instruments such as the snare drum

and the timpani (kettle drum). Some

of the songs our first graders enjoy

singing are: “Chicken Soup with Rice”,

“The Angel Band” and “One More Riv-

er”.

Our second grade students at the

Elementary Center know all about a

musical scale, and they can play one

on the xylophone and the Boom-

whackers. The second graders can

sing the song “Do Re Mi” from the

“Sound of Music” from memory.

This song has helped them learn the

syllables and signs for a scale. Us-

ing three pitches of the scale, our

second grade students created

their own melody. “The Old Woman

and the Pig” and “There’s a Hole in

the Bucket” are two other songs

the second graders enjoy singing.

From the Music Room…………………………………………

Kindergarten Kindergarten First Grade First Grade

CLOTHING AND SNEAKER DONATIONS

If you have clothing and sneakers that your children have outgrown, we can always use

them in the nurse’s office. We especially could use pants in smaller sizes (size 6 or 8

jeans or sweatpants) and smaller size shoes (sizes 12 to 3).

Thanks for your help!

Mrs. Rea, School Nurse

Physical and

Dental Exam

Reminders

We are preparing to have the Kinder-

garten and Third grade dental exams,

and the Kindergarten Physical exams

for those students who have not had

these state-mandated exams complet-

ed by their family dentist &/or doctor.

Please return the dental &/or physical

paperwork if you have not already done

so.

March is National Reading Month

WAEC 4th Grade FUTP60 group is sponsoring the

2015 Book Drive

To Benefit Books For Kids

Hookedonbooksforkidserie.org

Kindergarten News Kindergarten will celebrate Dr. Seuss’s Birthday and read across America with a Pajama Party on March 4th.

Students will enjoy hearing Dr. Seuss’s books read by teachers, staff, parents and volunteers.

On March 17th Kindergartners will be wearing the green, and writing about leprechauns , rainbows and pots of gold.

In March we will start the countdown to Spring!!! (March 20th) Yea!!

LIBRARY NEWS

BOOK FAIR is coming at the end of MARCH!

Mrs. Hedderman is trying a new company called

The Reading Warehouse. It is a bargain book

fair. Paper backs are going to be $3. Hard

back books are $5. Pencils are 3 for $1. NO

POSTERS or other “non-book” items.

It is a BOOK FAIR!

Mrs. Hedderman will still be able to take cash,

checks, and credit cards.

Library lessons in 3rd and 4th grades

Students in grade 3 and 4 are re-visiting areas

in the library that are not “favorites”, but con-

tain great books for reading.

We have read a variety of poems by Jack

Prelutsky and explored his website. In addition,

we talked about Chinese New Year and Dr. Seuss

(for biographies). Plus we re-visited EduTyping.

This is great practice for learning to type. Stu-

dents can access it from home. The license ID

is senecahs. They should know how to log in oth-

erwise!

GRADE 2

The second graders are learning

about SAFE websites. We explored

a variety of NASA based websites.

Students can explore them at home

by going to www.wattsburg.org

Then Elementary Center

Then Media Center

The links will then be on the right

under WEBSITES WE LOVE

Kindergarten Library Lesson

Plans

READ ALOUDS for this month in-

cluded Bear Wants More, Polar

Bear Night, Dr. Seuss—a biog-

raphy and more!

We are almost done with fiction

books and ready to start looking

at NON-FICTION. Look for some

fun dinosaur and animal books

soon.

First Grade Library Lessons

The students are exploring various authors and

simple chapter books. Students have listed to

Nate the Great and the Monster Mess, and many

other read alouds. First graders are encouraged

to take out picture books and easy non-fiction,

but are given a small selection of chapter books

for weekly check out.

Second Grade News Our second graders were extremely busy in February. There were Ground Hog day activities to do, the

one hundredth day of school to celebrate, our Friendship to party to enjoy and President’s Day activities to

complete. We also had The Mandy and Randy program from Erie Bank come to our classrooms. They taught us

about money and told us how to start our own savings accounts. E.B. Bear was excited to shake hands and give

hugs to us after the program. Please continue to give your child opportunities to count money and make change

whenever possible. Last but not least, please remember to send in those Box Tops!! We want to earn many

items for our school.

Thank you for your ongoing support!

Second grade teachers

FOURTH GRADE NEWS

Wow! We can’t believe Spring is almost here! Fourth graders are

busy preparing for the PSSAs. In Math, the students are learning about

fractions and decimals. We will be tackling geometry soon. In Reading, we

are studying story structure and character development. Be sure to con-

tinue studying multiplication and division facts!

First Grade News

First Grade has held three Positive Paw Morning Meetings so far this year. This is when we meet in the gathering area to greet first grade friends from other classrooms and to honor those students who have earned a Positive Paw from their classmates’ votes. The character trait for October was Responsibility, for January it was Tolerance, and for February it was Kindness. Here are pictures of our proud Positive Paw recipients from each month! We look forward to awarding more Positive Paws in the months of March and May.

Third Grade News

The third graders had a very busy and productive month! We started off the month by celebrating the 100th day of school and dressing up like we are 100 years old. It seems like this group of students will age very well! Students and families got involved in a home project this month of creating an ecosystem, the results were stunning! The projects lined the hallways of the third grade area and were a sight to see for all students in the school. This month was spent working on various reading strategies, writing personal narratives, and developing all of our telling time and elapsed time skills. We also enjoyed celebrating kind-ness and friendship at our Friendship Celebration. Thank you to all of the parents who have helped with projects, Valentines, sending in box tops, helping their child dress up as 100 year old, and all of the many other ways that you support education. We appreciate it all!

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