April is Oral Health Month, so students in K-2 enjoyed presentations given by the following students and their instructor: Annika O'Dell, Monica Ruiz-Hernandez, Sarah Wisslead; they are second year dental hygiene students at Carl Sandburg College and Becky Echelberger, RDH & Adjunct Clinical instructor who also works at The Dental Group of Galesburg. Becky and her students discussed dental health, taking care of our teeth at home by brushing, flossing, and eating a healthy diet. Lastly, they stressed the importance of having a professional dental cleaning and exam, twice per year.
Mr. Trill took students to Rock Island on Wednesday night to learn how to get started in different careers and unions such as electrical, plumbers and pipefitters, carpenters, an masons.
Fifth graders will begin taking the Illinois Science Assessment (ISA) on Tuesday, April 16th, while 8th grade students will begin taking it on Tuesday, April 23rd. Please help your child be prepared for these testing days! We want all students to experience success!
Thank you to the Galva Rotary Club for donating books to our 2nd and 3rd grade students! The Galva Rotary Club paired with the Kewanee Life Skills Re-Entry Center on a grant to provide students with age-appropriate books in addition to hand-drawn laminated bookmarks created by those involved.
Each eighth grader in Mrs. Hagaman's Music Appreciation class created a "Soundtrack of My Life" and presented it to their classmates. The students picked songs that meant something to them from their early years to the present day! "The beautiful thing is music can be like a time machine. One song - the lyrics, the melody, the mood - can take you back to a moment in time like nothing else can."
Our 5th-8th grade Band & Choir Spring Concert is tonight at 6:30. Please join us for a great night of music!
The WHS Art Alliance Club hosted a barn quilt painting night! Community members and staff were invited to purchase tickets to attend. Mrs. Kegebein and her club members led the workshop, and everyone had an amazing time! The fundraiser was a wonderful success. Everyone left with a beautiful and unique painted barn quilt to display at their home. The Art Alliance would love to hold more workshops in the future!
Fifth grade students in Mrs. Hagaman's music class completed a musical composer project. Students were able to choose a composer from a list and then create a Google slide presentation, which they shared with their peers.
7th grade students in Mrs. Dana's science class are learning about the reproductive system in plants and dissected all areas to see all the structures and learn the functions.
5th grade science students studied why a solar eclipse occurs and why we don’t see one every month. Here are a few of the students' models
We will host a 2024-25 School Planning Night on April 22nd in the Cafeteria at 6:00 pm. The first hour will be for incoming Freshmen and the second hour will be for students who will be Juniors or Seniors next year.
We had several students and staff wear blue today to show solidarity and raise awareness for Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Attention Titan Baseball fans! Saturday's and Tuesday's baseball games will be played at Northeast Park in Kewanee! Due to field conditions in Annawan with the persistent wet weather, this change was made. No game time changes have been made, only venue.
Wethersfield Elementary and Jr. High students will be participating in the IAR and ISA state assessments. Please use the link below for more details.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10UyZygOjhOLGcvDAvDchHuF_qD5oOIsCMyz16Eya9XA/edit?usp=sharing
To recognize Child Abuse Prevention Month, we encourage all students and staff to wear blue tomorrow!
Baseball (Knoxville) and Softball (Putnam County) have been canceled for today. No make-up date has been set.
The Girls Track meet at Princeton has been rescheduled to April 9th. Girls Track will NOT go to Hall on 4/9 on account of rescheduling.
With the help of PATT's funds, Ms. Evans, Title Reading Specialist, was able to create a decodable books library in her classroom for the teachers and students to utilize. Decodable books align with the Science of Reading's approach to teaching reading. These types of books can help students practice the phonics instruction they are receiving in their classroom. Ms. Evans has been purchasing decodable books for the past two years in order to build this library. Thanks to PATT and title funding, the decodable library now has over 300 books available!
National Scribble Day is celebrated on March 27th, but due to spring break, the Kindergarten classrooms recognized National Scribble Day on April 3rd. This day focuses on kindness, acceptance and expressing yourself. In the Kindergarten classrooms, social-emotional learning lessons have been focusing on A Little Spot of Emotions. In this curriculum, students learn about happiness, sadness, anger, anxiety, love, confidence, peacefulness and a scribble emotion! A scribble emotion is when the spot is feeling many emotions at a time. The spot needs to talk and sort out his emotions to find out how he is feeling!
Wethersfield PATT presents another Freeze Dried Friday on April 5th!
Also included is the PATT Newsletter from last month.
The next meeting is tomorrow, Thursday 4/4, in Wethersfield's Elementary Library at 6pm.
The Kewanee Rotary Club has done it again! Each year the Kewanee Rotary Club kindly donates money for students to pick out books from the Scholastic Book Order. The order came in today and there is nothing but smiles in 3rd Grade! Mrs. Gripp, Mr. Anderson, and all the 3rd grade students can't thank the Kewanee Rotary Club enough for this kind donation!
