Celebrate the Holidays with Us!

Family Ornament Tree

On our campus, we like to use this time of year to celebrate each family's uniquenesses, and learn about each other's different Holiday traditions.

To help with this, we are asking you to send in an ornament that represents your family. It can be homemade or store-bought. It can be a traditional ornament, or an item you turn into an ornament. All we ask is that it is school-appropriate, and would be ok if it did not get returned.

Have your learner bring the ornament to school and hang it on the tree in the front lobby anytime during the month of December.

Blessings in a Backpack

Blessings in a Backpack is an organization that helps to fill the weekend “gap”. This is a time when many children go hungry in our communities. They started bridging the gap by serving 25 students at Hadfield Elementary School in Waukesha, and now serve 3,300 children at 38 schools. They help bridge the gap for these children every week during the school year by filling their backpacks with food for the weekend. 

Your child may be eligible to be a recipient of the Blessings in a Backpack program. If you would like to receive a bag of food, and need the food, then you don’t need to do anything. Food will be dispensed in a discreet and caring manner into your child’s backpack. There is no cost associated with this program.

There are many hungry kids throughout our area, and we are trying to make sure that those kids who need the food receive it from our organization. If you wish for your child to participate in the program you do not need to do anything.

If you choose to opt out of this program, you can either: sign the form that will be available at great start conferences and return it school or fill out this Google Form 

Amazon Wish List

If you are looking for a way to show your teachers how thankful you are for them, click on this wish list and purchase something they really want for their classroom. They are sure to feel loved and appreciated!

School Store

The WE Campus PTO School Store will be open again this year every Tuesday morning from 8:10-8:35!

Students can purchase a variety of little trinkets between $.50 and $3. Any student is welcome to bring money to school and make a purchase. All proceeds go towards the WE Campus PTO. 

PTO Email!

In an effort to maintain two schools in one building while also cultivating a building-wide community, we have change our PTO email to reflect the fact that we are now 1 PTO serving both Wales and Explore. If you need to get a hold of PTO, please email WEcampusPTO@gmail.com

Join the PTO Facebook Group for Updates and Promotions!

Navigator and Scout December Celebration -

Monday, December 19th from 9am - 11am

The KM Explore Navigators and Scouts are getting together this year to celebrate! The purpose is three-fold: 

1) To celebrate and showcase our learning so far

2) To spend some time with family and friends decorating a gingerbread house

3) To have our grown ups visit our generative arts and crafts pop-up store which will raise money for our new playground equipment. 

We are asking that every learner brings a bag of their favorite candy to share and decorate the gingerbread houses with. In addition, please sign up here to donate/volunteer to help make this a successful event!

Please have all donated items brought to school by Thursday, December 15th.

Pioneer Seminars

By Nate Gingrass 

We started new seminars in the Pioneer room. One seminar is called “The Scratch Project,” and the other is called “Being Santa Takes a lot of Energy.” In the “Scratch Project,” we are working on using broadcast and receive blocks, and we will be using these blocks to code a game. In the “Being Santa Takes a lot of Energy” seminar, we are working on learning about types of energy. Last week we designed a maze using straws. The maze had to take an ornament from Santa’s workshop to your house. We used the maze to learn about kinetic and potential energy.

5 Grade Wales Science Projects

Have you heard of the Dust Bowl? 5th grade learners at Wales are discovering the causes of the Dust Bowl and how the land, water, air and living things interact and impact each other. In this lesson, students created a model ocean in a baggy to estimate how much salt water there is in the ocean, why we cannot see the salt in the ocean when we swim in it, what happens to the salt when it "disappears" and why having so little fresh water on Earth can affect life on Earth. These engaging, hands-on experiences and science mysteries help us learn more about the world we live in. 

WETV

Don't miss our morning announcements, starring our very own learners!! You can find them here every day- 

https://vimeo.com/channels/kmsdwetv

KM Community Education provides recreational and educational opportunities for families. Please be sure to visit the website often for updates and new programs. For program information and registration forms, visit www.kmsd.edu/communityed.

KM Wrestling Club

Wrestling club will meet on Mondays/Wednesdays from 5:15-6pm for students in grades K-3 at the KM High School Wrestling Room.  Students in grades 4-8 will meet from  6-8pm.  Practices begin December 5.  

COMMUNITY EVENTS & FLYERS

Events/opportunities listed on our Community Flyers page are not endorsed by the Kettle Moraine School District. They have been approved for electronic sharing. Visit www.kmsd.edu/communityflyers to see the full list of current flyers.