From the desk of Mr. Armbrister:

April 3rd, 2017

Andover Public Schools

www.usd385.org

PTO Family Fun Night The PTO Family Fun Night is right around the corner. The night begins at 5:30 with concessions and games beginning at 6:00. The evening will wrap up with basket drawings. You can go to the PTO link on the school website to find details, but please plan on attending and having a GREAT time! It is focused around food, games and good times. A special thank you to all those in-volved in organizing it. It is a big undertaking and any help you can give is very much appreciated.

Recognitions

Last month we had a terrific

assembly that included staff and student recognitions. AAF joined us to share the recipients of grants. Con-gratulations to the following for receiving grants: Julie Lee, Laura Travis, Tobe Wallace, Heather Rainey, Todd Flory, Nick Beckman, Kyle Hesterman, Sara Sander, Kristie Atkins, Jes-sica Pignataro, and Sarah Rogers. Several students were rec-ognized for a variety of achievements including: Spelling Bee: Bridget Bleakly, Winner, and Aurora Tan, Runner-Up. Partici-pants: Joaquin Banuelos, Brecken Kasel, Ryan Kice,

Morgan White, JW Witt, Ethan Ellis, Ella Friederich, Erin Liu, Joe Luginbill, Lan-Chi Nguyen, Thomas Par-ker, Gabrielle Walker, John Draper, Chloe Gantz, Makenzie Kieffer, Sean Mansoor, Leyla Thomas, and Eric Witt. Butler County Art Show: Davis Akidiva, Nyomi Arm-brister, Natalie Brotherton, Elise Brown, Zoe Chan, Peyton Gantz, Sequoia Grantham, Georga Harp, Evan Hartman, Elliott Holt, Jennifer Huela, Amelia Hughes, Anna McDavitt, Tori Paul, Grace Ring, Joslyn Shinkle, Carson Sommerfeld, Sharon Sun, Farren Thomas, and Mor-

In my update, you will find information

on the following:

PTO Family Fun Night

Recognitions

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Andover USD #385

Wheatland Elementary

15200 E 21st St

Wichita, KS 67230

316-218-4820

Mr. Elton Armbrister, Principal

gan White. Andover Art Show: Marybeth Akidiva, Elise Brown, Katelyn Burdette, Jordyn Cleary, Allison de la Garza, Riley Haws, Alex Hobson, Alisa Lin, Barrett Loftin, Bode McConnaughhay, Annie Nguyen, Brooke Rowe, Al-bert Saliba, Giorgi Smith, Amanda Stumpe, Grace Swindler, Aurora Tan, Sky-lar Trible, Kaia Woolfe, and Haley Ziser.

Last but not least, we rec-ognized our lead custodian Chris. There were several comments on the climate survey that caused us to make sure and take a few moments to recognize a very special person to all of us. Chris has been our lead custodian for several years and takes great pride in how the building looks. We very much appreciate all he does and the positive attitude he approaches each day with. Many of you see him at car drop off

in the mornings. Please take a moment to tell him you heard that we recog-nized him at the assembly. He is a quality person! We also recognized all of the students who received the “Warrior of the Week” award from their teachers in January and February. Keep an eye out on our Fa-cebook page to see our Warriors of the Week!

4/3– Site Council at Dairy Queen, 4-5pm

4/5– All-Day Kindergarten Applications due

4/7– PTO Family Fun Night, 6-8pm

4/17– No School—Teacher Professional Learning Day

4/18– 6th Grade Orientation for 5th graders at AMS, 7pm

4/19– StuCo, 3:35-4:30pm

4/20– Kindergarten Science Fair

4/21– 4th Grade Bug Lady Presentation, 1:15pm

4/25– PTO Meeting, 7pm in the library

4/26– Kindergarten Zoo Field Trip

4/27– 4th Grade Skype Around the World

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Tuesday, April 18th at 7pm

April Platzer, Librarian

From the Library

We had a lot of fun creating, exploring and problem-solving in our makerspace

stations in library! A few times a year, students are encouraged to explore new

tools while using critical thinking, problem-solving and cooperative learning skills.

Some of our stations are high tech while some are no tech. Thank you to the

Wheatland PTO for donating some of the items to the library. A few of the stations

this last week included coding with the Dash robots, exploring electronic circuits

with our snap-circuit sets, creating different items from duct tape, and construct-

ing with Legos and our new Zoob Builderz. These items are also available for

check-out by classroom teachers as well.

April, 2017

Volume 1, Issue 1

Counselor’s Corner

Special points of

interest:

Testing

Classroom Guidance

Students and parents,

Last week WES started state assessments. 5th grade was up first with

science. The testing sessions went nice and smooth. 4th grade will

test next in English language arts and math. A reminder to make

sure your child gets plenty of sleep before the test and eats a good

breakfast the morning of. Good luck to all those testing, and a

special thank you to all the WES students and staff for the

be ready at the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year.

support shown throughout the testing sessions. Results should

Every year during state assessments, the elementary counselors of

Andover pause guidance classes to ensure we are giving state assessments

their due diligence. When state assessments are over, classes will resume. We

will pick back up talking about careers. It is very important

that students are exposed to different kinds of careers because of the

varying interests children have. I look forward to spending time helping

the students at WES explore careers and learn about how to turn their passion

into a job.