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 Newsletter for the Winnequah School Community - May/June
2017
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From Principal Angie Fassl
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Hello Winnequah Families!
It is hard to believe the end of the school year is drawing near! I would like to start by giving my heartfelt appreciation to all of you for making my first year as principal such a fantastic year! I am so thankful to be a part of such an amazing school community!
In May and June we are finishing our end of year testing, but also doing a lot of celebrating....
- Celebrating the great accomplishments students have made throughout the year
- Celebrating our amazing teachers and staff at Winnequah
- Celebrating the end to a fun and productive school year
- Celebrating moving on to the next adventure in our academic careers, whether it is the next grade level or the next school
- Celebrating all of the awesome talents of our students - musical, athletic, artistic, and more!
Thank you again for helping to make 2016-17 a great school year for our students. I hope you all have a safe and relaxing summer and I can't wait to see everyone in August!
In Appreciation,
Angie Fassl
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Important Dates for the 2017-18 School Year
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Student Information/Picture Day:
Wednesday, August 16th, drop in from 11am - 6pm
Kindergarten Ice Cream Social:
Thursday, August 17th from 5pm to 7pm
Back to School Night:
Wednesday, August 30 from 4pm - 5:30pm
First Day of School:
Friday, September 1st
Look forward to a packet of information detailing these events to come home during the last week of school!
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Online Registration for Returning Students
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Online registration for returning Students begins May 1st.
Online registration and enrollment for returning students begins on May 1st and ends on June 30th. Families of returning students are required to register each year. You will receive an email at the end of April with instructions on how to complete the online the registration process.
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4K - Winnequah Garden Nature Walks
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4k has been taking advantage of the warm spring weather by taking nature hunts and exploring Winnequah's lovely garden.
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Kindergarten - Career Day
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Kindergarten enjoyed a fabulous career day. Kindergarten parents presented to small groups about their occupations.
The students learned from a photographer, nurses, bike engineers, sound engineer, surgeon, car mechanic, banker, attorneys, pet rescue, an art director, therapist and admissions at the UW Law School.
What a great event!
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1st Grade Fun!
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April is always a busy time for the first grade classes. Each class makes a Dinosaur Museum with exhibits about what they learned from the dinosaur unit. Students create research reports, make dioramas at home, and make life-size replicas of dinosaur parts. The museums opened on Thursday, April 27th to the "public." Parents were in awe of what was learned and demonstrated. Students especially liked being the tour guide and sharing their knowledge.
From May until the end of the year, we will be studying Plant and Animal Life Cycles. We will be growing our own plants from seed and even incubating chicken eggs. Don't worry. The chicks that hatch find a home at Mrs. Jones' farm. We will end the unit with a trip to the Aldo Leopold Nature Center. It is sure to be a great end of the year!
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1st Grade - Trip to UW-Geology Museum
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The first grade classes visited the UW-Geology Museum on April 24th and 25th. Students learned about rocks and minerals, saw fossils of animals and plants, and saw actual dinosaur fossils on their trip. Their favorite part besides the dinosaurs was the rock room where rocks were exposed to black light and lit up once the lights went out.
Here is one of our tour guides discussing the skeletons we saw at the museum.
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2nd Grade Plants Seeds for Children's Garden
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The second grade students got a jump on area farmers by planting vegetable seeds for the Winnequah Children's Garden. Once the plants are mature enough students will transplant them in our community garden.
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3rd Grade Visits the Madison Landfill
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Winnequah 3rd graders visited the Madison Landfill to learn first-hand about the importance of Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling. This landfill takes in 700 tons of garbage a day! At this rate the landfill will be full
in 8 years.
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4th Grade Dioramas
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Students in 4th grade learned about the first people of Wisconsin. To further their knowledge, they researched one of the eleven Sovereign Tribes of Wisconsin, and then created a diorama to show what they discovered. Families were encouraged to help with the creation of the dioramas. The level of creativity and quality was outstanding!
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4th Grade - UW Field Trip
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4th-grade students spent the day at the UW. For the first part of the day, students picked related art focus area (music, art, pe, or library) to explore and learn about.
Students had the chance to do screen printing at Madison Central Library, see behind the scenes at the Chazen Art Museum and UW Theater, and visit an adapted fitness center. In the afternoon everyone stopped at Babcock Dairy Sciences for some ice cream and then ended the day with a tour of Camp Randell Stadium.
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5th Grade - Oregon Trail and GDS Lock-in
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We begin our Oregon Trail unit in May! Students will be participating in an interactive unit in
which they embark on a journey along the Oregon Trail. From creating a prairie journal to making smart trail
decisions, students are sure to have a blast!
In addition to studying the Oregon Trail, 5th graders will be gearing up for Middle School by attending a lock-in evening at GDS and going to GDS for a tour of the building and some advice from some 6th grade teachers and students.
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| Kindergarten Families - We need you for the Memorial Day Parade! |
Kindergarten Families - we need you!
Winnequah School kindergarteners are traditionally in the Monona Memorial Day parade and we want you to be part of it this year! The kindergarten students must walk with at least one parent. We will meet by the high school and walk together with signs and smiles down the parade route.
More information will be coming home with your child later this month. Please join in the fun and help represent our school in this wonderful Memorial Day parade! Any questions please contact Shannon Brunner;
shannonbrunner@hotmail.com
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608-338-9654
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| 5th Grade Lock-in Needs Volunteers |
Please consider volunteering for the GDS Lock-in.
To make the event a success, they need volunteers to help out with:
- Serving dinner, including set up & clean up
- Checking in students when they arrive and
- Supervising students in the gym and outdoors.
Follow the link below for more info!
Thanks you!
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| Thank you Volunteers! |
On Friday, April 28, Winnequah staff and students recognized
volunteers
at an all school assembly. Their dedication and support is appreciated by all!
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| Winn DI Team Moves on to Global Finals |
Winnequah's 4
th
grade Destination Imagination team is on their way to Global Finals! After a fantastic showing at the state tournament they were awarded a Wild Card position representing the state of Wisconsin at the DI Global competition May 24-27in Knoxville, TN. "The Team With No Name" will compete in the Scientific Challenge with elementary school teams from all over the world. Team members are Kalen S., Luciana M., Eliza Martin, William Jack Wright, Gordon Bumm, and Sean Clark. The team employed carpentry skills (they built a table from scratch that has two secret compartments!), art skills (they created a 6x10 foot found-object dragon collage that breathes crepe-paper fire!), robotics (a secret spy camera), 3D printing (they created a tangram puzzle and a Chinese vase), and dramatic skills (wrote and performed a spy thriller!).
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Don't Forget to Pick up Medication at the end of the year!
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We are on the final stretch of the year!
If your student has medication in the Health Room it will need to be picked up by Friday June 16th or we will dispose of the medication! We do NOT transfer medications to summer school, therefore, you will need to pick up the medication and bring to summer school with your child! We do NOT keep medications until the next school year! Thank you very much for your cooperation on this!
Have a Safe and Healthy summer! Looking forward to working with your children again next year!
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TerraCycle News
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Thank you all for your support of the TerraCycle program. We are on track to easily surpass the amount of TerraCycle items (by weight) we shipped last year - so keep collecting! Please drop the items you collect at home off at the Monona Public Library drop off site.
We want to send a huge shout out to the Winnequah families (Grant, Kutz, and Walker Families) that were able to join us for the April Box and Ship at the Monona Library - together we boxed up over 208lbs of items to ship for recycling!!!
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS:
Even though the school year is coming to an end, our TerraCycle collection at the Monona Public Library continues all summer long. We are in need of families that are willing to "adopt" the library collection site for a month and check in on it once a week to move items to our storage area and keep the space tidy/clean. You can choose the day and time you visit the library to fit your schedule. If you are interested, please sign up at this link.
We are also planning to hold a Library Box & Ship on Wednesday, July 12th @ noon. If your schedule allows, please consider joining us...all ages welcome! (volunteer sign up
here
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TerraCycle - planning for next year
As the 2016-2017 school year ramps down, we are starting to look towards planning for next year. Are you interested in being more involved in TerraCycle? Would you like to help us plan activities both within the school and within the community?
We are always looking for more volunteers! Interested in helping once during the school year? Want to help each month throughout the year? It is entirely up to you! We have a number of ways that you can help out - many of them on your own schedule and timing.
Upcoming TerraCycle events/meetings (All are welcome!):
Library Box & Ship @ Monona Public Library:
Sunday, May 28th @1:30pm - volunteer sign up
here
Summer Meeting:
TBD - please send message to kechristo@gmail.com to be included on invite
Library Box & Ship @ Monona Public Library:
Wednesday, July 12th @Noon - volunteer sign up
here
For more information on all things TerraCycle, visit our
website
or
Facebook page
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We appreciate hearing from you!
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Attention all Future Silver Eagles Entering 5th-8th Grades
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As we finish up the 2016-2017 school year, we are already excited to begin the 2017-2018 football season. In 2016,
the Monona Grove Silver Eagles entered the varsity football season chasing their 8th consecutive conference title but knew the conference would be very competitive. Though we came up short defending our conference title, we celebrated a memorable season at Camp Randall as the Division 2 State Runner-Up. Though Monona Grove Football graduated a class of 32 seniors, we are always excited to see what the future holds. We look forward to watching these young flocks take shape as they grow into successful Silver Eagles.
The game of football has had its fair share of media attention as of late but I can assure you that it is safer than ever before. I personally am part of a committee alongside numerous head football coaches examining the youth rules to constantly promote safety. Our staffs are constantly educating themselves on how to develop a child's skill set as well as promoting team development while always keeping safety at the forefront.
PEE WEE Football (5th & 6th Grades)
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| 5/6 Math Meet |
On Monday, April 24th, students from Winnequah joined students from Glacial Drumlin in hosting the 5th-6th grade Math Meet at Glacial Drumlin. The meet consists of 4 individual events and a team event. The team that included students from Winnequah scored the highest on the team event! Overall, they came in third. Students who were part of the team were Abby M., Kateyn E., Marcella S., and Kelley R. Team members who are alumni of Winnequah were Katherine R., Anne B. and Cory A.
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| Winnequah Students Artwork to be displayed at MMoCA |
Congratulations to Miles R., Aniyah S., and Isabel K.! Their work has been selected to be included in the Art on Tour exhibition at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA)!
Here a few details you need to know.
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Friday, June 2, from 6 to 7:30 pm Reception
for families, friends, and administrators.
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This exhibit will take place at MMoCA inside the
Works on Paper Study Center
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Saturday and Sunday, June 10 and 11, 17 and 18 from
12 to 4pm.
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Tuesday through Thursday, June 13 through 15 from
12 to 4pm.
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Friday, June 16 from 1
2 to 7 pm.
"This exhibit's aim is to highlight the results of student engagement with Art on Tour through lessons implemented by participating teachers".
-MMoCA , Art on Tour Program.
Please contact Jen Goodnough with any questions.
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Monona PTO Needs You
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There are openings for chairpersons for the 2017-18 school year. Please email Cathy Bernards at
Monona PTO has the following positions open:
Monona PTO Board Member-At-Large- Be on the PTO Board! Meetings are typically the 3rd Thursday of every month at 6 pm. Help with the allocation and raising of funds for Winnequah School. Help with implementing community building events for our school.
Walk to School Day Co-Chairperson-Walk to School Day is Wednesday, October 4th, 2017. We need a co-chairperson to help plan the snacks, community helpers and work with school officials to have our annual Walk to School Day event.
Kindergarten Float Chairperson- Do you have a kindergartner for the 2017-18 school year? Be a chairperson to help coordinate the kindergarten float for the 2018 Monona Memorial Day Parade.
Back to School Night Social-Help coordinate the Back to School Night Social in the Cafeteria. This will take place on Wednesday, August 30th in the late afternoon.
After School Classes Committee- Help coordinate the after school enrichment courses at Winnequah School. This is a wonderful combination of enrichment of our students as well as a fundraiser for PTO.
Terracycle Co-Chairperson-Help coordinate the PTO's involvement in the Terracycle recycling program. Terracycle serves two purposes to help keep items from our landfill and as a fundraiser for PTO.
Winter Conference Book Fair Chairpersons- Help coordinate the Winter Conferences Scholastic Book Fair.
Endowment Fundraiser Co-Chairperson-Monona PTO holds a small popcorn and freeze pop sale at the end of the school year. All funds raised go towards the Winnequah School Endowment Fund.
Kindergarten Social- Do you have a kindergartener in the 2017-18 school year? If so, would you like to help plan and implement the back to school social for all kindergarten families? The social is typically held the day after Enrollment Day which would be tentatively Thursday, August 17th in the early evening.
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School Lunch Menus and Info
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Menus are posted at:
http://www.mononagrove.org/district/menus.cfm
Making Payments
Payments to a Food Service account can be made from within Infinite Campus by clicking on the payment link (on the left). You may also pay with a check or cash in the school office. Please place the payment in an envelope clearly marked food service with your student's name.
Account Balances
Clicking on the Food Service tab in Infinite Campus will allow you to access account information including current account balances, transactions, and account history.
Additional Info:
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Futura Spanish Class Registration
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Early bird discount for Futura Spanish next year - take $25 off tuition if registering by 6/1/17.
Day/Time: Tuesdays 2:40 - 3:40pm
Dates: 16 weeks starting 10/10/2017
Tuition: $225 / 16 weeks
Register online at: www.futuraadventures.com
Please register by June 1st, 2017 to receive discounted tuition rate.
Questions? Call 262-719-9932 or email sandyo@futuraadventures.com
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