Gobble, Gobble! It's almost Thanksgiving....What's a turkey to do? Check out the amazing turkey disguises the students in Mrs. Martinez's class created with their family. 1st place Lawson W. Taco, 2nd place Savannah C. Popcorn, and 3rd place Lia L. Nemo
Help Mr. Dennison return to Pajama Day at Wethersfield Elementary School! Mr. Dennison was “kidnapped” by local law enforcement as part of raising funds for the Kewanee Area United Way “Jail and Bail” Event. Donations may be dropped off at the Elementary School Office or via Venmo: Kyle-Dennison-6 description “Jail and Bail”
Saturday's (11/18) JH Boys Basketball game will be played in Sparland. The gym's address is
901 Hilltop Drive in Sparland 61565
Alexis Sauer and Brooke Shores both made queen size bed frames in Mr. Trill's class. Alexis used oak with a walnut stain and Brooke used oak with an ebony stain. Both students did terrific and have made something to be very proud of. Great job girls!
Eighth graders in Mr. Alepra's Digital Literacy class got to work with drones this week. Students controlled the drones with hand gestures.
What are you thankful for this year? Students in Mrs.Gripp's third grade class created a keepsake book of personal gratitude. Students wrote an acrostic poem about things that they are thankful for.
Fourth graders in Ms.Schmidt's science class did two experiments this week to demonstrate how weathering and erosion changes the Earth’s surface. Did you know hands-on learning serves as a spark for cognitive development by actively engaging students in the learning process?
Reminder that tomorrow Friday 11/17 Wethersfield students will attend a full day of school with normal dismissal at 3pm. Thanksgiving Break will run from Monday 11/20-Friday 11/24 (no school) with students and staff returning the following Monday 11/27.
Eighth grade students are working on their roller coaster project for their physics unit in Mrs. Dana's class. They will build, test, redesign and engineer a complete roller coaster. They will calculate the kinetic and potential energy at different points on the coaster and the average speed.
Eight new members were inducted into National Honor Society last night. Inductees included Ellie Merrick, Kendall Vincent, Emersyn Nelson, Castin Rash, Cohen Newman, Kellan Keane, Zebulon Rashid and Riley Rumbold. Congratulations to all of you!
HSCSED Life Skills students have been working on fulfilling everyone’s ornament orders. Ornaments are $10 and made by students and staff. Please help support our efforts to ensure student build necessary skills in and around our community. Order forms due December 1st.
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Who remembers the catchphrase, "I want my MTV"? Students in Mrs. Hagaman's Music Appreciation class designed their own MTV logos using current trends or things they liked. Check out their creative artwork!
Did you know that popcorn is the official Illinois state snack? Mrs. Jansen with Ag in the Classroom visited the second grade classrooms today. She shared where popcorn comes from and various lesser-known uses for corn.
Mrs. Vancil's class completed an agamograph for Veterans Day. All of the students participated. Through collaboration, they created this mural. An agamograph is an artform that uses optical illusion to change the image seen in artwork, depending on the angle of the viewer.
Eighth graders in Mr. Alepra's Digital Literacy class are using Spheros to do BattleBots.
BattleBots are a take-off of the TV show where people design robots and go against each other and try to destroy each other's robots. In Digital Literacy, students only try to pop the balloon!
Congratulations to sophomore, Joey Drawyer, who just completed an online course through Harvard Academies on Pre-law and Government on 11/11/23. As Amelia Yoder once said, "Never stop learning because knowledge is power."
Thank you to everyone who supported Wethersfield by attending McTeacher Night. We sold 200 cookies in the first hour!
A special guest helped recognize these two ladies, Charlie Carpenter and Karlee Branom, on their $5 Friday Outstanding Goose Awards!
McTeacher night at McDonalds is underway! Tons of staff and students! Cut the line and order via the McDonald's app! Drive thru also available.
Bridgeway workers visited Mr. McGunnigal's Health class to do a week-long training on Mental Health First Aid. They will be back in the spring to educate the rest of our sophomores, so the entire class will be trained.
