Last Blog of the Year

Our school year has come to a close and we can not thank YOU, the families of our students enough, for your constant and unwavering support! The children have grown and learned so much through our collaborative efforts! We love your children as though they were our own and appreciate that you have shared them all with us this year!

Please carve out time for summer reading! The special book marks came home this week and Miss Diane and  Miss Shannon are waiting for all of you to come and visit!! This is so important! You will notice a big difference in their success in the classroom in the fall if reading and math practice are maintained throughout the rest of June, July and August.

Enjoy some pictures from this week and a short video of the Kindergarten Celebration!

Mrs. Millard's Class

 

Tug of War

Obstacle Course

All Hands Drumming

Silly Kindergarten Boys!!

Del's Break Time

Grade 1 had a FANTASTIC TIME AT MYSTIC AQUARIUM!! I heard our students were respectful, responsible and safe and that we even received compliments!! Nicely done friends!

Will and Allie at Mystic

Kindergarten Friends!

One of our happy Bike Raffle Winners!!

You should have received your child's report card and the bookmark for the library and also a ticket to a Pawsox Game. We have a few extra  tickets in the office if you plan to go with other children so let us know if the dates on the ticket work for you (these games are in the next week or so...) You can stop by to pick them up next week if you need more. 

Enjoy every minute of your summer vacation! Read, read, read!!! Keep a book with you at all times, maintain all of the hard work and learning from this school year. 

We also want to make sure you take time to play outside, get lots of fresh air and exercise! We will be back before you know it so make every minute count. Put down the phones and the electronics and enjoy the time together with your family :)

Check  your email from the school throughout the summer for news and updates and I will also pass along any fun activities/ideas that I come across! 

We will miss you so much Mrs. Civic! Thank you for always having kind words and a smile on your face. You are a role model to so many people for all of the countless examples of positive words and spreading joy and happiness. We love you!!

Bee happy!!!

Melissa Marino XOXOXO

Summer Reading, Kettle Pond and Events Scheduled for Monday

ONE MORE WEEK TO GO!


IT WAS A PLEASURE TO COLLABORATE WITH THE EXETER AND WEST GREENWICH LIBRARY TO MOTIVATE STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SUMMER READING PROGRAM!  HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SUMMER READING FOR WAWALOAM STUDENTS: 

Together, with the local libraries, we have created an incentive for summer reading for students. Next week a very important book mark will come home for you to bring with you when you visit the library. If you visit 3 times, students will receive a special SUPERHERO pencil to go along with the Superhero theme! If you visit 6 times KIKI's ICECREAM is donating a free kiddie cone of ice cream to all children who meet this criteria! Every time you go, they will give your card a hole punch! By the way, the activities they have arranged for summer reading are outstanding! Check out their web sites and make sure you add the library to your summer "to do" list!! 

                             http://www.exeterpubliclibrary.org/     http://louttitlibrary.org


FIELD DAY HATS AND SUNBLOCK 

Monday is a SUPER EXCITING day at Wawaloam School! We are having Field Day. Please make sure your children wear sneakers and a hat is a great idea. Applying sunscreen at home is highly recommended but should not come to school with your child for health and safety reasons. We really appreciate Mrs. Breene and Mrs. Guglielmo making all of these arrangements for us!!


PICTURES FROM KETTLE POND THIS WEEK

Grade 2 had a wonderful time at Kettle Pond exploring and learning together! 

CONGRATULATIONS TO ELIJAH B. 
He was our Grade 2 Bookmark Contest winner!! This competition was organized by the Washington County Coalition for Children and he received his bookmark mounted on a plaque and a copy of the book Feeling Groovy! His design was turned into a bookmark for all of our friends in Grade 2! Way to go Elijah!!

KINDERGARTEN JOURNAL REFLECTIONS:

These kindergarten writing samples tell you how important friendships are to our students! Thank you Mrs. Petrarca and Mrs. Civic for sharing these with me!! 

GRADE 2 FRIENDS DURING MORNING ANNOUNCEMENTS

I have to say thank you to all of our friends in Grade 2 for helping me EVERY DAY with announcements! We loved all of the joy and happiness you spread in our school as we listened each day. 

Are you missing anything at home? Let us know and we would be happy to check lost and found, we still have quite a few items collected and we would be so happy if they ended up in the hands of all of the owners.

Next week we will be having our end of the year bike raffle! We will be picking 2 names from ALL of the PBIS Bee Bucks tickets that we have given our during the entire school year! The excitement has arrived!!

Have a super weekend!

Mrs. Marino

Hello June! Lots of information and reminders-

BLOG WEEK OF JUNE 5, 2015

NEWS

Grade 2 friends visited Metcalf this week, did you get any feedback from your children? What did they think? I popped into Mrs. Millar's class and asked them how it went and heard lots of positive comments and excitement! They are so ready for this transition!

FAMILY RESOURCE

This is a great resource for supporting an increase in physical fitness for your family or individually. I love that they are asking for a "healthy selfie" picture! Check it out!

https://www.presidentschallenge.org/

THANK YOU PTA

A special thank you to our PTA for all of the amazing support this year, we really appreciate how much you do for our students. Welcome to Cathie Cool Rumsey in her hew role on the PTA board!

PRACTICE EVACUATION TODAY

We are winding down and preparing for our end to this fantastic year. Today we practiced our building evacuation to make sure we know what to do in the event of an emergency. Doing these always provides us with ideas for improvement. This was by far our quickest evacuation but we know we can do even better if we move 2X2. We always appreciate that Peter Pertraca, our school resource officer comes to help us at the crosswalk. Tell your children you know they did an awesome job today!

SUMMER READING

Next week on June 11 I am teaming up with the Exeter and West Greenwich Libraries to kick off the summer reading program. With the Superhero theme, it should be even more fun than usual!! Miss Shannon and Miss Diane are planning a skit of some sort and they were glad to learn that I have a bee costume available......so we will see what that means!! I do know that if your children save the bookmarks they will receive and visit the library 6 times that Kiki's Ice Cream is providing a coupon for a Free Cone to celebrate!! We are thrilled to have these community partnerships!

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCMENTS

Coventry/West Greenwich Elks will be hosting a FREE Children's Awareness Day event on Saturday, June 20-aturday, June 20, 2015. Please visit the EWG website - Community Announcements page for details.

Have a great weekend as we prepare for our last 10 days!!

Melissa Marino
@MelissaMarino9

Week Ending May 29

Good Afternoon, 

I am in disbelief that there are 15 more days left to this extraordinary school year! I had the opportunity to observe 2nd Grade friends helping out in Mrs. Civic's Kindergarten class this week and it made me feel a little bittersweet because it seemed like they were just in Kindergarten themselves and now they are heading to Metcalf as Grade 3 students!  This week in general has had a slight impact on my sense of time as my son got his driver's license! Where does the time go??

Grade 2 students helping in Mrs. Civic's class



GRADE 2 having a great day at the zoo!!

 

                      

This week, in my grade level meetings with the students they had the opportunity to share what they love and think should stay the same at Wawaloam and what they think would be a good idea to change.  I am sure you can imagine the insightful ideas that they shared! I thought I would pass along some of these delightful ideas for your entertainment! 

"We need a bigger office". 

"We need a bubbler that is faster and colder".

"We should have school on the weekends!"

"We need strawberry milk". 

We need pictures of bees on the wall" :)

"I wish the slide on the playground was longer". 

"We need higher monkey bars."

How could you not smile at these suggestions!!! 

Have an amazing weekend, lots of choices out there to keep busy and active! I am hoping for my first beach day of the season! 

Respectfully, 

Melissa Marino

Visit the Community Announcements page of our District website for information regarding Free Summer Meals! For teens and kids, 18 and under . . .

http://s3.amazonaws.com/EWGRSDweb/contentweb/CommunityAnnouncements/Hlthy%20Kids%20Flyer.pdf

Week Ending May 22

Families, 

Enjoy the time with your family over this long weekend while remembering those who gave......... 

Thank you Mrs. Ray, Mrs. Scheff and Mrs. Beaulieu for a wonderful Night of the Arts! What an AMAZING turnout!! 

Hope that students came home on Wednesday sharing the excitement of The Ned Show this week! I know many families opted to purchase yo-yo's even though we made sure to say that this was optional. The reason we bring this show back every couple of years is because of that OUTSTANDING message: did your children tell you what NED stands for? 
N-Never Give Up
E-Encourage Others
D-Do your Best! 
The message is aligned to our continued reminders of the importance of the Growth Mindset!! One student actually said, "Thank you for the best assembly ever!"

Today I had the good fortune of participating as part of a panel of judges for the Senior Projects at the High School. It made me think about how quickly the time goes by and how significant these projects actually are. I have to say, I was impressed with each of the presentations today and loved the reminders about how important it is to foster perseverance in our children (together). It has been an absolute pleasure to celebrate the learning that has taken place this year at Wawaloam School! 

Visit the EWG Community Announcements page for detailed information about Free Admission to Mystic Aquarium and EWG Little League's Pawsox Fundraiser!

http://ewgrsd.org/Community/CommunityAnnouncements/tabid/149/Default.aspx

No School Monday, March 25

Get ready for the home stretch! 

Melissa Marino

Week Ending May 15

Good Afternoon,

Once again,  we have had an amazing week of growing and learning at Wawaloam School. Honestly, there is not a day that goes by when I do not feel fortunate to find myself inside of this school filled with people who genuinely adore and appreciate their students.

I would like to offer you the opportunity to explore a new growing resource that is available for families. Mary Slattery, who is the Principal of the Junior High School spearheaded the effort to organize resources that may be helpful to you.

I am including the link to the site in my blog this week because I feel that knowing this is available will serve as a reminder to check out the tools and resources and will point you in the right direction if needed. I know this is a work in progress so be sure to share other ideas or even resources that you know of that could be added to this link.

https://sites.google.com/a/ewg.k12.ri.us/health-wellness-corner/

Next week, we are bringing back a motivational assembly for students called The N.E.D. Show.  It has been about 3 years since they have come to Wawaloam! This show is full of energy and excitement! You will be getting a flyer telling you about the show and giving you the opportunity to purchase Yo-Yo's as the whole show takes on the theme through Yo-Yo tricks. We just want to stress that making purchases is NOT necessary at all, a requirement of having the show is offering these items to the students. We do not receive any funds as a result of these sales and it is entirely up to you if you opt to purchase anything. If you do, the item will be bagged and labeled and sent home and not allowed to be brought out at school until it goes home. We find that clarifying this is helpful in advance :)


Just a friendly reminder that safety is always first and with the warm weather we want to remind you about safe feet and toes by asking that sandals and open-toed shoes or flip flops be saved for the beach because they can be hazardous here at school.  Please refrain from sending your children to school without their feet being covered.

Hoping you all have a great weekend!

Melissa Marino

Reminders and Upcoming Events:

The NED Show! This Wednesday at 1:45 (Look for an informational flyer coming home soon)

http://www.thenedshow.com/

No School on May 22 for Students

Week Ending May 8

Another busy week at Wawaloam School!

Thank you so much to all of you for making Teacher Appreciation Week so special! PTA- we LOVED the basket of fruit! Families- the pictures of teachers, the letters, the dress like a teacher day and of course all of your homemade treasures will be cherished for years to come! We are so lucky to have such a supportive community! What a great week this was!!

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers and caregivers!

CHESTER AND THE BULLY- Did any of your children talk about this story? It is one of my favorites!!

AWESOME EARTH DAY PROJECTS!! WE LOVE FAMILY INVOLVEMENT!

What a great turnout we had last week for our FIRST EVER FACULTY/STAFF Lip Sync Event! We raised $3000.00 to support families who are battling pediatric cancer. We could not have done this without all of the organizers, performers and of course the attendees!! Thank you! 

Mrs. Millard, Hannah and Mrs. Curry!

Mrs. Cash!

Bill Plumley! 

*All we heard from our friends this week was how much fun the Sweetheart Dance was! Thank you for making these type of events possible for our students!!


Don't forget to check out what is happening at your local library!

exeterpubliclibrary.org

Special Announcement:  8th graders at EWG Junior High, are working on a Girl Scout Silver Award Project. We are giving a presentation at the West Greenwich Community Center on June 2 at 6:00 PM. Our goal is to inform children about animal abuse to help prevent it. If children are taught how to treat their pets well, they will then teach their kids how to be better pet owners and this will continue on for generations. We are making sure children can become better pet owners. "

 Teachers talking with students during our Learning Walk this week:

Thank you parent volunteers for planting marigolds with every student! 

Students writing thank you notes to the farm that donated the marigolds!
A special thank you to Heather Eklof for continuing to think of us 
at this time of year and recruiting volunteers to do this special recess activity!! 

Our Grade 2 Students are studying mealworms :)

Thank you Jenn Spira for sharing this quote!

Please visit the Community Announcements page on the District website for details about the upcoming Boy Scout Pancake Breakfast.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend with beautiful weather predicted! 

Respectfully, 

Melissa Marino

Mark your calendar! Art Show Monday, May 18th 5:45-7:15  
6:30 Chorus performance!