Wattsburg Area Elementary Center

Inside this issue:

Kindergarten Registration 3

Spring Pictures 3

YMCA Summer Program 3

Lost and Found 3

Family Fitness Night 4

From the Nurse’s room 5

From the Music room 6

From the Library 7

Grade Level News 8

Early Learning Expo 9

Math in Focus 10

READ

ACROSS

AMERICA

at WAEC

Dates to Remember:

March 4 PTO Romolo’s Fundraiser pick-up 3:30—6 pm

PTO Movie Night 7 pm

March 5 PTO Romolo’s Fundraiser pick-up 8 am—1 pm

March 11 No School—Snow make up day if needed

March 13 Daylight Savings Time Begins—set clocks ahead 1 hour

March 17 ST. Patrick’s Day

PTO Meeting 6:30 pm

March 18 PTO Movie Night 7 pm

March 20 Spring Begins

March 22 Spring Celebration 2:30—3:15 pm

Room Parents attend Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade parties

March 23-29 Spring Break

March 29 Math in Focus Parent University 4-5 pm

March 31 Spring School Pictures

Page 3 Wattsburg Area Elementary Center

Our Lost and Found table is overflowing with hats, coats, sweatshirts, and other items. Please have your child check the table if they are missing any clothing. We will be donating any items left on the tables.

LOST AND FOUND Kindergarten Screening

and Registration

April 27, 28, and 29

at

Wattsburg Area Elementary Center

Children must be 5 years old

On or before August 31, 2016 to register

Please call the WAEC office

for more details.

824-4152

A survey form is located on the WASD website www.wattsburg.org

Summer Camp 2016

Wattsburg YMCA

* Located in the Wattsburg Elementary Center

Winter Blues have you thinking about summer? Summer is right around the corner and your children

would enjoy heading off to summer camp at the Wattsburg YMCA. The teachers at the Wattsburg YMCA are

very excited for another fun summer!

We go on weekly field trips to places such as Pymatuning Deer Park, the Children’s Museum, Lakettes, and

more! We also take weekly trips to Camp Sherwin where we participate in Swim Lessons, Art activities and Sci-

ence adventures!

If you are interested and need more information please contact Miss Stacy

at the Wattsburg YMCA at 825-2706 or stacy.dambaugh@wattsburg.org

Who: All WAEC students

What: Lifetouch Spring Pictures

When: Thursday, March 31

All WAEC students will be photographed and later will receive

a picture package. You may send in payment for any portion of

the package you would like to keep or simply return the entire

package if you do not want to purchase anything.

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The first annual Fuel Up to Play 60 Family Fitness Night was so much fun! Students and their families enjoyed cross country skiing, yoga, and hip hop for the fitness por-tion of the event and created MY PLATES to take home to fill up their plates with whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and protein. The FUTP60 program will start planning another event for May that will include family fun with a summer Olympics theme, more details coming next month!

1st Annual

Fuel Up to Play 60 Family Fitness Night

Kindergarten Kindergarten First Grade First Grade

CLOTHING AND SNEAKER DONATIONS

If you have clothing and sneakers that your children have outgrown, we can always use

them in the nurse’s office. We especially could use pants in smaller sizes (size 6 or 8

jeans or sweatpants) and smaller size shoes (sizes 12 to 3).

Thanks for your help!

Mrs. Rea, School Nurse

Physical Exam

Reminders

We are preparing to have the Kindergarten Physical exams for those

students who have not had these state-mandated exams completed by

their family doctor.

Please return the physical paperwork if you have not already done so.

From the Music Room…………………………………………

“Summer Camp”, Third and Fourth grade Musical Play

Our third and fourth grade students have begun learning the songs

for their musical play called, “Summer Camp”. Welcome to Camp Runamok and a whacky

camp experience, complete with Bugs on Parade and a bear!

The third graders will be performing at 7 p.m. on May 9th and

The fourth graders will be performing at 7 p.m. on May 11th.

The Fourth grade students are also busy playing their recorders. They are very good at

playing B, A, G and C using quarter notes, half notes, and whole notes. They took their first

playing test on “Merrily We Roll Along” and the students played very nicely. In February,

the fourth graders began playing in 2-part Harmony.

Our Third graders finished a unit of study on Melody in music. They learned about the

musical scale, pitch, and how a melody is created. They are very good at aural recognition of

the highness and lowness of pitch. In March they will be exploring the music of Native

Americans, specifically the Iroquois, as well as continuing to learn the songs for their musi-

cal.

The Second grade students have been exploring pitch and melody. They have learned how

to match pitch by listening to two different pitches and identifying the melodic direction.

They have also explored the musical scale by playing the Boomwhackers, chimes, and xylo-

phones. Our second graders enjoy singing: Land of the Silver Birch, The Old Woman and the Pig, and Do,Re,Mi from “The Sound of Music.” Our First graders are reading, playing and creating rhythms using quarter notes, quarter

rests and double eighth notes. They also composed their own rhythm patterns. In March

they will be studying the percussion family of instruments. The first graders enjoy singing:

Let’s Go Driving, Down by the Bay and Chicken Soup with Rice.

The Kindergarteners have been exploring Form in music. Form is how the composer puts

the music together. The kindergarten students can identify the parts of the composition by

listening, singing, playing instruments and movement. In March they will begin exploring

high, middle and low sounds.

Our kindergarten students enjoy singing “My Farm”, “The Little Spotted Puppy”, and “The

Tugboat.”

LIBRARY UPDATES Kindergarten - 2nd was working on Fly Guy and Tedd Arnold. Students en-tered drawings of what they think Fly Guy's next adventure should be. Kin-dergarten and First grade has a variety of seasonal themed books. Second grade is starting to work on computer skills. The students have ex-plored Pebble Go, EduTyping, NASA websites, and more. Third and fourth grades has been working on Pebble Go, DOGO news, and Microsoft word. Plus we introduced Judy Blume's picture books as a the fea-tured artist.

Library Penny Drive Update In February, the library and PTO held a Penny Drive. In two weeks, $686 was

raised. The funds will be going toward purchase an electronic resource called Pebble Go

as well as new books. The top three classes were 1st place Mrs. Webb, 2nd place Mrs.

Kerr, and 3rd place Ms. Sierota. 3rd and 4th graders explored the website and wrote per-

suasive/argumentative letters about whether to purchase the resource or not. It was a

huge success.

In March, the library will be holding our

Spring Book Fair. The library is using a

company called Reading Warehouse for

this book fair. It features $3 paper

backs, $5 hard back books, and some pre-

mium titles. This is a great resource to

raise money to keep updating the library

books with new modern titles as well as

replace older worn out books in poor con-

dition.

Fourth Grade News

Our fourth graders are busily preparing for the PSSAs. We have been practicing using our test taking strategies daily. Module 5 in Eu-reka Math is all about fractions. Finding equiva-lent fractions, comparing fractions, and order-ing fractions are important skills we are current-ly focusing on. In Science, we have been explor-ing with electricity and magnetism. We will be delving into a unit on Life Science soon! Thank you for your continued support.

Third Grade News

First Grade has held three Positive Paw Morning Meetings so far this year. This is when we meet in the gathering area to greet first grade friends from other class-rooms and to honor those students who have earned a Positive Paw from their classmates’ votes. The character trait for October was Responsibility, for January it was Tolerance, and for February it was Kindness. We look forward to awarding more Positive Paws in the months of March and May.

For Read Across America third

grade read Dr. Seuss stories, in-

cluding "The Lorax." Students pre-

tended they were the Lorax and

wrote about how they could help

save the Earth. Third grade also

completed activities that correlat-

ed to each day of the week that

included wearing hats for "Cat and

the Hat" and wearing wacky socks

for "Wacky Wednesday."

Third grade has been learning about econom-ics in social studies. In this picture students have completed their "five cars" in their as-sembly line and are showing they are done.