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IMPORTANT DATES
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Oct. 26 -
Red Ribbon Week - Hats Off to Being Drug Free - Wear your favorite hat
Oct. 27 -
Red Ribbon Week - Be a Jeanious - Blackout Drugs - Wear jeans & black shirt
Oct. 28 - Red Ribbon Week - Team Up Against Drugs - Wear clothing to support PWS or your favorite team
Oct. 31, 10:45-11:45 am - Fall Party for AM Kdg
2:45-3:45 pm - Fall Parties for AD Kdg and 1st-5th Grades
Nov. 3, 6:30-7:30 pm - PTO Meeting (Band Room)
Nov. 7 - Lifetouch Retakes
Nov. 10, 6:30-7:30 pm - 4th Grade Music Program (MHS Auditorium)
7:30-8:30 pm - 5th Grade Music Program (MHS Auditorium)
Nov. 23-25 - Fall Break - No School!
Dec. 6, 4:30-8:30 pm - Chick-fil-A Spirit Night!
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Mission :
The mission of Maize USD 266 is to inspire students to discover their potential through connecting, learning and leading.
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| The Pray-Woodman Way October 25, 2016
Volume 21, Issue 3
Pray-Woodman Elementary 
605 W. Academy Ave.
Maize, KS 67101
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A Note from Nils...
It was great to see so many of you at conferences! We had a 96% attendance rate. Working together we can help each of our students be successful in all of their endeavors!!
When you were here for conferences, we hoped that you noticed some of the building enhancements that have been funded by our awesome PWS PTO and implemented by various staff members.
Last year a team of staff members formed the PWS Building Beautification Task Force led by Crystal May (4th Grade teacher) and Paige Hill (1st Grade teacher) to brighten our school and enhance the educational environment.
Here are some of the enhancements:
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Adding bright colors to each hallway.
(300 Hall-Purple, 400 Hall-Yellow, 500 Hall-Green, 600 Hall-Orange, Connecting Hallways-blue). Special thanks to the district summer painting crew which included Michael Bateman, PWS FAA teacher, for brightening up our building. We are in the process of adding inspirational quotes to these newly painted areas.
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Colorful frames throughout the building for displaying student work.
Each class has a frame and the color of the frame matches the hall color. Special thanks to Crystal May for creating these frames.
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PWS Pride and One Maize
banners have been posted in connecting hallways as well as in the foyer area. These banners were designed and produced by students at Maize High School.
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Be Awesome
letters in the cafeteria. Next time you visit the cafeteria check out this large, colorful, inspirational message. Special thanks to Karen LaMunyon, PWS Assistant Principal, for designing and implementing this project.
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Do The Right Thing Even When No One Is Looking 
mural in the cafeteria. Craig and Kristin Scribner, 5th Grade teacher, painted this mural to inspire our students as they leave the lunchroom and head out to recess. Special thanks to Karen Grundman, Coop Para, who designed a launch pad that students can touch as they head outside.
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Volunteers from the Westside  Rotary Club updated our supersized United States map and four-square lines on the playground.
Special thanks to these dedicated volunteers who spent a Saturday morning on our playground creating this fun learning tool for our students.
And congratulations to Crystal May, 4th Grade teacher!!!! She is one of eight finalists for the 2017 Kansas Teacher of the Year Award. The recipient of this award will be announced on Saturday, Nov. 19. We are very proud and very appreciative of all of the awesome things that Crystal has done for her students and colleagues throughout her career!
Principal
Pray-Woodman Elementary School
Maize, Kansas
316-350-2603
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Kansas Anti-Bullying Awareness Week Celebrated at PWS
A purple hand with a heart in the center is the symbol for the Hands and Words Are Not For Hurting Pledge: "I will not use my hands or my words for hurting myself or others." Each student initialed a heart to add to the grade level hand symbolizing their pledge of kindness. Classrooms are teaching the Second Step Bullying Prevention Unit with topics of Recognizing, Reporting, and Refusing Bullying and Skills for Bystanders. Fourth and Fifth graders have an additonal lesson on cyber bullying. Please call me or your child's teacher if you have any concerns about bullying behaviors. The Pray-Woodman page on the USD 266 webpage has a link titled Bullying Incident Report Form, that allows you to make a report directly to administration. The Second Step Curriculum in combination with the Bullying Prevention Unit is equipping PWS students with the skills necessary to build positive relationships and handle difficult social situations with confidence!
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PWS PTO would like to thank all of you that have supported us by attending the spirit nights at Sonic, Papa Murphy's and CFA, and thanks to all of you that have linked your Dillion's shoppers card to the school. All the funds raised help us meet our goals for this year. Keep an eye out for more spirit nights each month and join us when you can! Don't forget to mention PWS when you are at one of the spirit nights. The directions to link your shoppers card to our school are further down in the newsletter if you haven't taken care of that before.
Please join us at the second PWS PTO meeting of the year on
Thursday, November 3rd at 6:30 pm in the band room. We would love to have your input! Also, if you are interested in helping us with the Spring Walk-A-Thon please email or contact us and we will get you signed up.
We appreciate all the help and support you give to us as well as your child's classrooms. Have fun at the Fall class parties on
Monday, October 31st!
Have a great day!
Petrissa Palmer
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Wanted: Substitute teachers!
Maize USD 266 is looking for substitute teachers. If you are available for occasional work during the school day and enjoy working with students and being in schools, please consider joining us as a sub! We are especially in need of subs for our elementary schools. Please share this information and encourage qualified candidates you know to apply.
Our subs:
* are paid $95 a day.
* have the option of indicating specific schools, grade levels, etc. they would like to work with.
* always have the option to pass on subbing opportunities that may not meet their interest and/or schedule.
* must have either their current teaching license or a Kansas State Department of Education-issued Emergency Substitute License, available to those who have at least 60 hours of college credit or a degree (that does not have to be in education).
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Don't Forget Lunch Money!
USD 266 uses the Skyward Food Service and RevTrak fee payment systems. Please check your email and phone numbers in Skyward, so you may be alerted when your child only has 2 lunches left. Parents receive an email when your child has $5.00 left in their account. Parents receive a 2nd email after your child has 1 lunch left. When your child doesn't have any money into the account-we have your child go to the office and call you. Please put money into the account that day. You will also receive a 3rd email when your child has a zero balance.
Please check with your child if they are eating breakfast at school or getting a 2nd milk-the charges add up quickly. If you have more than one child, please check both lunch accounts. We are not allowed to go into one child's account to pay for a sibling.
Parents may keep as large a balance as they wish in a child's account (for example: $5.00, $10.00, $15.00 or more). If the student doesn't have enough in his/her lunch account to cover a meal, the account will be charged for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and milk if the student chooses to take one. No meal charges will be allowed.
If you have any questions regarding Skyward and the RevTrak system, please call our school office. We want every child to have a good lunch, every day!
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Hearing and Vision Screenings
We are busy in the nurse's office preparing for our health screenings, which will begin in November. Students in
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 4th grades will have hearing and vision screenings this year, as required. Parents will need to notify me, either by note or e-mail,
ONLY if they do
NOT want their child's hearing and/or vision screened. Please have notification to me by October 31st. Screening results will
ONLY be sent home if further testing is needed. These screenings are very basic and are not meant to take the place of professional screenings.
*Please note, all students new to the district, regardless of grade, will be screened. It may also be necessary to screen any students that have an IEP, in order to update their health information.
Alli Lampkin, RN
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The Maize School District introduced an Online Bulletin Board, which replaced all paper flier distribution.
Click here for information about student-related activities and events, which could include those sponsored by a Maize school or partner agency and that are related to academics, athletics or fine arts.
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ATTENTION DILLON'S CUSTOMERS Pray-Woodman School was recently accepted into the Community Awards Program with Dillons!! PWS will get credit for most purchases its members make using their registered Plus card. The more we shop at Dillons, the more opportunity for PWS to earn big rewards. It's so easy!! To enroll:
- Visit Dillons website at www.dillons.com/communityrewards.
- Sign in OR create an account.
- Click on "Enroll now."
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Enter the 5-digit NPO and search (
our schools unique NPO
number is 84604).
- Select PWS and click "Enroll."
To create an online account at Dillons Website:
- Visit Dillons website at www.dillons.com/communityrewards.
- Click on "Register" at the top of the page.
- Enter your email address, password, zip code (select preferred store).
- Click on "Create Account" at the bottom of the page.
- You will receive an email confirmation to your inbox, to activate your account click on the link in the body of the email and enter your sign in information to confirm.
For assistance in setting up an online account or with general questions, please feel free to contact Dillons at 800-576-4377, option 3. THIS IS A TERRIFIC WAY TO EFFORTLESSLY SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL. THANK YOU!! |
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AFTER SCHOOL PICKUP/PARKING
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Parking along Academy Street or in one of our parking lots is an option for picking up your children after school. If you choose to pick up your students this way, we ask that you walk over and pick your students up from the waiting area. If you are unable to do this, please wait in our parent pick-up car line. Thank you!
After school transportation changes need to be made before 3:00 pm on M-T-TH-F, and before 2:00 pm on Wednesdays. Thank you!
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Hello!
We have some super pull tab collectors at Pray-Woodman! The pull tabs we collected from the Summer Contest until the end of the first 9 weeks was more than a 32 gallon tub would hold. Please see the attached picture! We collected.......
drum roll please...... 70 lbs and 6 oz!
The grand prize winner is Mrs. Brownlee with 21 lbs and 11 oz! They win a yummy pizza party.
We had lots of huge numbers:
Graber - 10 lbs 14 oz
Baird - 7 lbs 12 oz
Sidwell - 6 lbs 13 oz
Hobbs - 5 lbs
Ewert - 4 lbs 10 oz
Wiltse - 3 lbs 5 oz
A. Johnson - 3 lbs 4 oz
Hill - 2 lbs
Keep up the good work!
We have collected over 100 lbs already.
Our totals from previous years:
2012/2013 = 413.7 lbs
2013/2014 = 167 lbs
2014/2015 = 186 lbs
2015/2016 = 231 lbs
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EMERGENCY ALERTS & NOTIFICATIONS
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In the event of an emergency in your child's school, the Blackboard  Connect parent notification system will be used to notify you of the situation and will alert you to steps you need to take in order to reunite with your child. Voice messages will be sent to all phone numbers and emails listed in Skyward Family Access "Family 1" and Guardian 1 of "Family 2". To view the contact information the district has on file, please log on to Skyward Family Access and click on "Student Information." If you are unsure how to log on to Skyward Family Access, please contact your child's school for assistance.
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