Friday, March 13, 2015

Book Fair and Eating Greens at Wawaloam





Dear Families,

Did your children come home and tell you about the smoothies we made with spinach this week?? Mrs. Larkin noticed that our food service provider, Aramark, was hosting a Be Healthy, Eat Green theme for Wednesday of this week! She was inspired and approached me about doing something special for the students to get them thinking about trying some green vegetables or other produce that they may have not wanted to try before. We worked together during our presentation and showed the students how they could "eat a rainbow". The recipe we gave them included spinach, pineapple juice and bananas but we encouraged them to be creative with recipes and to feel free to add different fruits or vegetables if they would like. We added strawberries, blueberries, mango, carrots, and blueberries!





We are so excited about the FEEDBACK we received about this because of the potential for children eating their vegetables! ! We saw some pictures of friends making smoothies at home using their new recipe! We also loved the notes from families saying "It's wonderful to see her excited by a green vegetable!!





This week, grade 2 had a very special presentation by the energetic Materials Lab students at U.R.I.! We were all very impressed with their cool experiments they did with mixing solvents, showing us how the colors are created when fireworks are made and a grand finale of making ice cream right before our eyes by using liquid nitrogen!! I simply love when I can step back and witness the excitement on the faces of students! We were very lucky to have this crew troop all the way to Exeter to put on this complimentary, inspiring presentation!!

Here is a link if you want to see them preparing this for the students, listen to that excitement!!!

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We also had our Spring Book Fair this week during all Reading classes in the library! A big thank you to all of the volunteers who made this possible. We LOVE having the book fair in the library!!!
The students were all so thrilled to share their purchases!!! Don't forget the FAMILY NIGHT that is tonight at Metcalf with Biomes and the touch tanks!!!


                     



Hopefully, you noticed the reminder notice regarding drop off procedures. Please help us keep our students as safe as possible. We have to stick with this plan, it is the safest way to get our students into the school. We really appreciate your help making this so successful for students!

WE HAVE DECIDED TO POSTPONE THE USED SPORTS EQUIPMENT SALE UNTIL A LATER DATE AND WILL CONTINUE COLLECTING ITEMS THROUGHOUT THE SPRING- KEEP SENDING IN YOUR ITEMS! 


FAMILY MATH NIGHT THURSDAY 5:30-7:30 PM COME HAVE FUN WITH MATH AT WAWALOAM SCHOOL.

APRIL 7  PROUD PAINTER FOR ADULTS - WOOD RIVER INN

APRIL 12 BOYS CHOICE BOWLING EVENT


LOOK AT OUR KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS GETTING AN EARLY START FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!



Have a fantastic weekend!
Melissa Marino

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