E is for extra recess and we all enjoyed extra time in the sun on this beautiful day !
Johnson, Courtney
2:42 PM (8 minutes ago)
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"Places, please!" Kindergarten and first grade are in position, ready to sing and play for you on Monday, April 28!
K-3 students report to their classrooms at 5:45 p.m. that night. 4th-6th grade students meet at 6:45 p.m.
See you soon!
Is there a special teacher here at North Elementary that you would like to thank? We are lucky to have the best teaching staff around, so let's let them know it! Teacher Appreciation week is May 5-9, and we are giving our families and community the opportunity to send a note of thanks to our teachers. Use the link below to submit your kind remarks; you can reuse the same link for multiple submissions. Please submit all notes by Sunday, May 4 - notes will be delivered to teachers Tues-Thurs of Teacher Appreciation week. Thank you to our community for helping our staff feel recognized! https://forms.gle/iiCKsiA9xUngVRpN7
Do you know a kindergarten student for next year? Round up is today after school until 5:30. It is an open house style drop in.
5th graders have a lot going on for the Fine Arts Night on April 28: found percussion instruments, recorders, & shakers. They'll perform at 7 PM. 2nd graders have been choreographing, singing, and playing percussion, too. They'll perform at 6 PM. We're looking forward to next week!
Our math and science night is happening as scheduled. We are looking forward to a fun night with pizza, science and math! Our kids have worked hard on their projects and we look forward to sharing them with the community. Please join us at 5:30 for a free will donation pizza supper and lots of fun math and science activities.
Please help us celebrate Administrative Professionals Day at WPNE where we call it Miss Nancy Day! She loves are school so much. And, this is the day we all need to show her how much we love all she does for us all.
Bus Driver Appreciation
Back by popular demand, it is the ABC countdown of the WPNE school year! Tomorrow, April 17 we will have 26 days of school left. It is a bittersweet time to cherish. We start our first learning days with the ABCs and we want to come full circle and end our time here at WPNE right where we first started. Please see the picture that has a day for each letter. This list was created with input from students and staff. Let's keep motivated and learning right to the end with a little ABC fun!
Look at all these boys reading so much all the time! Becoming an effective reader takes practice. They have made it all way around the world. Every 15 minutes of reading is 250 miles. And one has made it around twice and is now on his third trip. Toby Lewis has read more than any other student here at WPNE. Way to read Toby! Thank to all the parents and caregivers who are reading with their students and filling out their reading logs so we can become the best readers possible.
Happy Birthday Mrs. Johnson
Students are working hard to prepare for their Spring Fine Arts night. Monday, April 28th we will share our music and art with our families and community. PreK - 2nd grades will perform at 6:00 and 4th - 6th grades will perform at 7:00
Happy Birthday Mrs. Shipman!
Happy Birthday to Mrs. Ryner
Thank you so much to all our families that helped us fundraise for our playground. We were able to bank $5822 from our Pastry Sales. 38% of students and their families participated in this fund raising project. We want to recognize a few special people who made it so successful. Diedre Lewis, along with her boys Toby and Liam, volunteered to pass out the products on delivery day. Mrs. Lewis also helped during our skating unit! Mrs. Butler jumped right in to help parents pick up what they sold too. Our top sales went to Shyann 3rd, Graham 2nd & Lane 1st. Hopefully, everyone enjoys what they purchased. We are excited to have some playground improvements happen!
Happy Birthday Mrs. Moore!
Our frozen pastries will be delivered tomorrow. If your student sold any please make plans to pick up between 2:00 and 5:30. Thank you to everyone who helped to raise money for our playground.
We gave 9 more kids filled in passports for going all the way around the world. They take a series of trips to make this happen, stopping in all the world's most traveled cities. They have to a total of 56,344 minutes of logged reading to accomplish this. Thank to all the parents who are helping by reading and logging at home. And, Mrs. Dean has almost all of her 2nd grade students all the way around - Good Job Mrs. Dean! 2 students are not pictured.
WPNE is so very appreciative to MTC and Rachel Kerns for providing positive recognition and funds for so many things. It truly takes a village to make our school successful. Our 3rd quarter MTC winner was Tainsley Durham. She got pizza from Gelsosamos, Ice Cream from Full Scoop and tickets to WIU athletics. Thank you MTC for providing this fun drawing for our students. Her name was drawn from the hat of all the students who received HATS OFF awards during 3rd quarter. HATS OFF slips are given anytime a student reaches a really tough goal or surprises a teacher with their level of responsibility, respect and kindness. We are now collecting the HATS OFF slips for the last 4th quarter drawing.
While the big kids are taking tests, the Pre-K students are enjoying the chilly but sunny weather.
