Weekly PWA Family Email
Week 11
November 2nd, 2018
The fall colors are in full swing, and we have some truly beautiful trees on our campus!
Cuteness was in abundance at school this week, as many of our students dressed up in their Halloween costumes. The staff and teachers really enjoyed seeing them all so excited.
November promises to be a busy month, with progress reports coming soon (available on November 6th) and parent teacher conferences on November 7th. Please check your child’s classroom door to sign up for a conference time.
Our annual Thanksgiving Luncheon is scheduled for November 16th; we’ll have a lunch feast that day, with turkey and all the trimmings. We hope you’ll join us! We’ll also have our raffle drawing at the event. Our raffle basket is growing–check it out at the front desk, and get your tickets! All proceeds go towards enhancing technology at PWA.
Please see the “Good to Know” section for more information on upcoming events this month.
Get your raffle tickets! They’re on sale now at the front desk for $2.00 each, or three for $5.00.
Our basket is growing, and we’ll continue accepting donations. So far, the basket contains gift cards from Starbucks and Taste of Tandoor, a portable bbq utensil set, an insulated Rubbermaid lunchbox, an umbrella in a bottle, and more! 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!
Our annual Thanksgiving Luncheon will be held on November 16th.
Students will get to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal, prepared by the fabulous Ms. Veronica, for lunch that day. There is no additional cost for those who purchase lunch packets; the cost is $5.00 for children who don’t regularly purchase lunch, and $7.00 for adults. All parents are welcome and encouraged to attend. We hope you’ll join us for this special event!
The PTC will also hold its raffle basket drawing at the luncheon!
Invitations with specific times and more details will be sent out soon. We ask that parents who plan to attend RSVP so that we may plan accordingly.
School pictures have been snapped, and the proofs will be available next week. Your child’s proofs will come home in their backpack, and you’ll have the opportunity to choose your favorites and place your order.
Make up, class photos, and sibling photos will be taken on Tuesday, November 13th. If this is not a regularly scheduled day for your child to attend, please bring them in for the class photo. We’ll have a schedule available before the date.
The holidays are coming, and Yankee Candle products make great gifts! Shop our store for hundreds of items, including home decor, wrapping paper, gifts, kitchen tools, candles, and so much more. 40% of all purchases goes directly to PWA’s technology fundraiser.
And if you make your purchases before November 4th, you’ll receive free shipping on orders over $40! Click the button below to visit PWA’s storefront.
Shop our Yankee Candle Store (https://www.yankeecandlefundraising.com/store.htm)
Sending lots of PWA love with the Spence family as they embark on a big move to North Dakota! We wish you safe travels and grand adventures, and look forward to seeing you all again.
Congratulations to October’s recipients of the Principal’s Scholar Award for Compassion:
Audriana Mufarreh
Nuri Gezen
Sualeha Saghir
Howie Spence
Sir-Khalil Allen
Arezo Awsim
London Wellington
Jasmine Roy
Sam Alemzadeh
Elliott Simpson
Sidney Cain
Progress reports will be available on Monday, November 6th from Chalkable. If you don’t have a login for your child’s Chalkable account, please contact the office. You can use the link below to reach the login page on Chalkable.
Parent/Teacher conferences are scheduled for children 3 and up for November 7th. If you haven’t signed up for one with your child’s teacher and would like to, please email the teacher directly.
Chalkable Login (https://121413.stiinformationnow.com/InformationNow/Login.aspx)
This Veterans Day, we’d like to create a collage of photos from our military families, to honor their service. If you are a military family and would like to share your picture, please either email it to apischel@princewilliamacademy.com (mailto:apischel@princewilliamacademy.com?subject=Family%20photo) , or drop a hard copy by Ms. Amanda’s office. Please note, though, that hard copies cannot be returned, as they’ll be used as part of the display.
This week, our Kindergartners learned about water cycles and made their own water cycle system in class.
First grade colored their turkey hats and learned about giving thanks to family and friends. They also welcomed a new friend, AbdulHadi Shahid, to the class! Welcome, AbdulHadi and family!
Our second graders enjoyed a martial arts demonstration from London Wellington, as he’s a candidate for his black belt in Taekwondo.
Our third graders wrote haikus this week, and enjoyed a trip to fantasy playground on Friday.
Our fourth graders earned $5 each for perfect test scores, and a trip to the dollar store to practice with money and fractions. They also visited fantasy park.
Our fifth -eighth graders worked on enrichment packets in Math, reviewed their math vocab and finished up chapter 5 in each of their books. They also had a very productive study session on grammar, and read about democracy and our government.
8th grade welcomed new friend, Tahmid Mirza, this week. Welcome to PWA, Tahmid and family!
Our 2s class welcomed new friends recently, Grayson and Rowin! They also explored musical instruments this week.
This week, our 3s classes talked about farm animals, and enjoyed a visit from Deborah Barker, Cora’s grandma, who read to the students.
Our Jr K talked about manners this week, and practiced taking turns. They also began practice for the winter musical.
Our little ones really enjoyed dressing up for Halloween! They also got lots of outdoor time this week with the nice weather, and did fall artwork.
In Spanish this week:
JK: Colors, and numbers from 20 to 30.
K: The alphabet and consonant phonetics (B, C, CH, D)
Grades 1 and 2: Weather and seasons.
Grades 3 and 4: Vocab: Objects in the home. Grammar: Is it/It is/It’s not (Esto es, Esto no es)
Grades 5-8: The present indicative tense; regular -ar verb conjugation. Vocab: -ar verbs.
Parents: Students in grades 3 and above often have Spanish homework! Please supervise to ensure its completion.
In Arabic this week:
All classes did their regular circle time, which consists of the Arabic alphabet, numbers, colors, days of the week, what is your name, how old are you, how are you and greetings.
Jr.K learned the names of body parts and practiced “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” and “Itsy Bitsy Spider” in Arabic.
Kindergarten, first and second grades learned about body parts, family members, vocab for in my school and my classroom.
Third and fourth grade learned about the first 7 letters of Arabic, and had work sheets and homework .
Fifth – eighth grade learned the first 7 letters of Arabic and tried a conversation. They also had a spelling test, work sheets and homework.
Details on Mandarin to come next week!
In PE this week, our Jr K – 2nd grade students worked on gymnastics rolls: forward rolls, log rolls and more. Our students in grades 3 – 8 learned basketball skills, including dribbling and shooting.
In art this week JK learned about thick and thin lines and made line paintings.
K learned the “Larry the Line” poem and talked about vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines. Then they made line sculptures as Larry’s habitat. (He’s a snake.) This will continue next week as they work on completing their “all about me” projects.
1st and 2nd grade made God’s Eyes this week (in conjunction with their unit on Native Americans)
3rd and 4th grade finished their “all about me” projects.
5th – 8th grade began the portraits for their “all about me” projects, to be completed next week.
In music this week JK began practicing for the Winter Concert. They learned lyrics to “Jingle Bell Rock,””Little Acorn,” and “Lumberjack.”
K memorized the lyrics to “My Favorite Things,” and learned the new song, “I’m So Glad to Be Here” along with motions.
1st – 4th memorized the lyrics to “My Favorite Things,” and “Make a Difference.” They also started to work on playing “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on the recorder.
5th -8th learned some theory to read new song, “Dance With Your Hands,” tried to sing with tune and without tune, using only lyric with rhythm.
