Weekly PWA Family Email
Week 10
October 26th, 2018
The Fall Festival was so much fun! We made the best of being indoors, and the kids all enjoyed the bouncy house, our makeshift pumpkin patch, face painting and pumpkin decorating, silly games and more. Huge thanks to all the parents who volunteered to help, brought supplies, and came to enjoy the day. And big thanks to our wonderful staff, especially Ms. Donia, Ms. Amanda, and Ms. Veronica for all their hard work organizing this event.
We hope you all enjoy a beautiful weekend!
We offer after school tutoring sessions in Math, Language Arts, and Foreign Languages. Please contact the office for details! And please recommend our tutors to a friend–students from other schools are welcome!
Raffle tickets are now on sale! $2.00 each, or three for $5.00. You can purchase yours at the front desk.
Our basket is growing, and we’ll continue accepting donations. So far, the basket contains gift cards from Starbucks and Taste of Tandoor, as well as a few lovely candles. Second prize will be a $50.00 gift certificate to Taste of Tandoor, and third prize will be a candle package.
Enter to win, and support the PTC’s efforts to raise money to enhance technology at PWA!
School Picture Day is scheduled this Monday, October 29th! Students and staff members will have their pictures taken that day. Students Jr K and up should wear their school uniforms.
Makeups, retakes, class photos, sibling photos, and our school photo will be Tuesday, November 13th. Students do not need to wear uniforms in sibling photos, but should have them to change into afterwards.
We have hired a photographer to take pictures of the school and students for our new website, set to be rolled out this school year. The photographer will be here on Monday.
The PTC is sponsoring a Yankee Candle Fundraiser this year, and order forms and catalogs will go home shortly in backpacks. All proceeds go towards our technology fundraiser. Candles make great holiday gifts!
In PE this week, our students worked on coordination and agility by jumping rope. They had a jump rope contests.
In art (welcome, Stephanie Cox, our new art teacher!), our students did get-to-know you portraits, photos, silhouettes, and collages of their favorite things.
In Music JK learned the lyrics and motion of ‘ I’m a little Acorn’, and ‘Knock, Knock.” Kindergarten worked on “Do-Re-Mi,” and “Edelweiss” from The Sound of Music. The also learned the letter notes for “Jingle Bells” on the xylophone. Our 1st-4th worked on “Make a Difference,” and played G,A, B with fingering for Recorder (1st and 2nd for Sop. Recorder, and 3rd and 4th for Alto Recorder), while 5th-8th also worked on “Make a Difference” and worked on the concept of reading music.
