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K-Kids passed out wellness packages to the teachers today! They created these packages for our teachers to keep our students healthy during the cold/flu season. Thank you to everyone who donated!
Last night, the Peoria Zoo brought a few of their animals to visit the pre-K and taught us about their habitats, characteristics, and behaviors.
Last night, the junior high Gray Matters Collective went to Moline to listen to former NFL player Patrick Angerer speak about athletes' mental health and having grit. He shared some insightful experiences and advice for student athletes.
Congratulations to our BookBlast Medal winners: Weston Schmidt, Alayna Grier (absent), Mateo Gustaitis, Griffyn Rogers, Jay Crabtree, and Presleigh Currier. Each medal signifies a different level of book fundraising.
Thank you to all the students and families who participated in the WES Literacy Night on Monday. We are looking forward to hosting this event again next year! "Reading is a passport to countless adventures!" ~ Mary Pope Osborne
Our Kewanee Rotary Club Student of the Month for March is Elle Eastman. Congratulations!
BOOKBLAST! A shipment of 977 pounds was dropped off this morning at Wethersfield Elementary as part of the BookBlast Fundraiser Event by Books are Fun! A total of 1,045 books were distributed to students in Pre-K through 6th grades. Pictured are some photos of students receiving their new books. Thank you students, staff, and community members for your support!
3/8 Freeze Dried Friday!
WES Literacy Night will be taking place this evening from 6pm-7pm at the elementary school. Students in grades 4 through 6 will experience a "book tasting" in the Jr. High Gym while students in grades Pre-K through 3 will get to hear read alouds from teachers in up to 4 different classrooms. Participants must be with an adult to enter. See you tonight!
Wethersfield band and choir students at IHSA contest. All 9 events received a division 1 superior rating. Great job everyone!
Students in Mrs. Newman's 8-1 ELA class worked with partners on turning boring sentences into more descriptive sentences by adding adverbs, adjectives, figurative language, etc. Students had to roll the dice and use the grammar key to determine what they needed to add to the sentence to make it more detailed and interesting.
To celebrate Leap Day, Ms. Woller's second-graders wrote letters to the class that will be in second grade for the next Leap Day! They included all of their current interests from Crocs, Stanley’s, PS5s, Messi, Taylor/Travis, Wish, nearly 70° in February, a land on the moon, and so, so much more!
Congratulations to our Outstanding Goose winners from this week and last: Jalie Nichols, Landon Juarez, Carter Gerleman, and Bella Shipley!
Today, students in 8-2 attended the John Deere Works plant in Davenport for a tour. Students learned about opportunities in manufacturing and trades. They enjoyed lunch at the Iowa Machine Shed.
Egg drop experiment... Chemistry classes created their own air bags using gas stoichiometry. They needed to determine the volume of the bags and then determine how much gas would fill the bags 90%. They used baking soda and vinegar to make carbon dioxide. Out of 7 groups, only one egg did not break (several broke as they fell off the bags or hit the sides).
Noah Feltner created a pencil holder made out of walnut in Mr. Trill's class. Great job Noah!
Students in Mrs. Kegebein's class learned the process of Reductive Linocut. Students carved into a piece of linoleum to create a stamp. With each color printed, they removed more linoleum to allow the colors that were previously printed to show through. Check out their amazing work!
English 2 students completed an activity creating masks focusing on identity. This correlates to their novel Lord of the Flies. Students were given three choices and had to submit writing explaining the identity and their design choices. Students also used color theory to validate their decisions.
13 Wethersfield Band members are performing at the LTC concert tonight.
