WoodyWoody ReviewReview Woodview School News 340 Alleghany Road, Grayslake, IL 60030 847-223-3668 “An Environment Where We Can All Grow Together” A Letter from our principal.. Principal: Cathy Santelle November 16, 2012 Dear Parents and Guardians, The first trimester will be ending today, November 16th. Teachers will be busy working on report cards to be sent home on Wednesday December 5 th . We hope that you will find the district report card very informative. It shows you how your child is progressing towards standards in each subject area, as well as providing you with behavioral information and comments. In addition, the Specials areas (Art, Music and P.E.) will also be providing assessment information on the report card. Please utilize all of this information as a tool to indicate areas of success and areas that might need more attention as we continue to work together during the school year. A reminder that Thanksgiving week is as follows: Monday 11/19 is a full day of school. Tuesday 11/20 is an early dismissal at 11:00a.m. (PM kindergarten students attend in the morning; no school for AM kindergarten students). Wednesday 11/21, Thursday 11/22 and Friday 11/23 there will be no school. We wish you a safe and happy holiday from all of us here at Woodview School! Sincerely, Cathy Santelle Principal Woodview School WOODVIEW SCHOOL CALENDAR CALENDAR Woodview School Date Place Event 340 Alleghany Road November 16 CCSD 46 End of Trimester 1 Grayslake, IL. 60030 Kindergarten Thanksgiving November 19 Woodview Feast 847.223.3668 www.d46.k12.il.us 9:45 a.m. & 1:15 p.m. Early Dismissal @ 11:00 November 20 Woodview PM Kindergarten Attends School Closed November 21-23 CCSD 46 Thanksgiving Break WOODVIEW PTO November Birthday November 27 Woodview [email protected] Breakfast PRESIDET: TREASURERS: Krista Bean Sandy Hornung [email protected] [email protected] 847-543-0805 847-223-1925 Sandy Pogue [email protected] VICE PRESIDET: Elizabeth Corripio [email protected] STAY CONNECTED & INFORMED! WAYS AD MEAS: Don’t miss a thing going on at Woodview Brandi Kornit School. Visit our website [email protected] www.woodviewpto.com for the latest in- 312-330-0197 SECRETARIES: formation about school events, fundrais- Traci Parker ers and much more. [email protected] Tony Primack 847-752-2061 [email protected] 847-204-4487 If you’re on Facebook, look for Margaret Blada “Woodview School PTO” and “LIKE” us to- [email protected] Cheryl Wilgen day! [email protected] 630-291-4509 If you haven’t signed up for our e-news yet, send an email to woodview- Chris George [email protected] and we will add you to our [email protected] 847-778-6733 electronic mailing list. STAFF LIAISO: Gerry Sousa [email protected] NEWS FROM THE PTO Just in time for the holidays.. Innisbrook orders are in and will be available for pickup: Monday, November 19, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. in the Conference Room at Woodview (located next to the office) Orders remaining past 4:30 will be available until 11:15 am Tuesday, in the office, and again after the long holiday weekend. If you need to make other arrangements for pickup, please contact: Cheryl Wilgen at [email protected] or 630-291-4509. Thanks! DIE & SHARE With the holidays around the corner, and all those little details to take care of, take a night off from cooking and enjoy a fresh baked pizza from Domino’s! The Domino’s Dine & Share will take place on Tuesday, December 4th and Wednesday, December 5th—all day, both days on carry outs or deliveries! A voucher is required for this Dine & Share—watch for those to come home soon! NEWS FROM THE PTO Coming Soon: Penguin Patch Holiday Shoppe! Woodview's Penguin Patch Holiday Shoppe will, once again, be set up during lunchtime in the Multipurpose Room, December 11-13 . This event provides an opportunity for kids to purchase inexpensive gifts for family members and/ or friends, with the help of parent volunteers. Items usually range in cost from $0.50 to $10.00, with many choices in the $2-$4 range. Purchases will be bagged and tagged, ready for gift-giving. More information will be coming home soon. This is a fun volunteer opportunity too. A signup link for parents wishing to help holiday shoppers will be coming out soon. The Mitten Tree is up in the Media Center! The mitten tree is an annual effort to help woodview families in need. If you were hoping to spread Holiday Cheer to a family in need, please stop by and grab a mitten! You can also send a note with your child as to how many mittens they should bring home and we will assist them! Any questions, please contact Megan Wright: [email protected] or (847)757-7842, or Pam Marks at [email protected] NEWS FROM THE PTO SAVE THE DATE… Lip Sync Show and Spaghetti Dinner: February 1, 2013 Though this event seems like it's far in the future, we're calling on Woodview's rock stars to start planning for the event now! Sign-up forms will be sent home next week, and are due back to school by Friday, ovember 30 , with three song choices. Parents, if you would like to join the Song Selection Committee, please contact Krista Bean at [email protected] . The initial committee meeting will be held: Wednesday, December 5, at 11:00 am. Thank you! Thank you to the many, many parents who volunteered their time and resources to help make the annual Harvest Moon Festival a success! Together, we raised over $3000 for Woodview School! Our 2 nd Box Tops collection contest is underway! Please keep bringing in your trimmed Box Tops and try to help your homeroom win. Prizes for 1 st and 2 nd place homeroom winners will be awarded! Students, keep your eyes on WBC for the Box Tops Lady to give contest updates and prize information! The contest will end on Monday, December 17 th . The final collection will happen after school on that Monday, and winners will be announced shortly afterwards. Thanksgiving meals often come with Box Tops galore, so please tell Gramma, Auntie, Cousin Carl, Grampa Gus, neighbor Ned and all the rest that you will gladly take their Box Tops during the Holiday gatherings. Good luck to all! Any questions please contact Virginia Fitzgerald at [email protected] Hello Woodview families! We are singing and playing in music class! Full Day Kindergarten is exploring their voices. We are learning the proper way to use our voice, and sing correct pitches. To get students singing, we are playing games, and instruments to accompany songs. Towards the end of the unit, students are expected to sing by themselves for the class! These will be simple songs, and fun for the students, so please don’t be nervous! First grade is starting to sing with “solfege” (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do). This helps them develop a musical ear. Right now we are working on “Sol and Mi.” It’s surprising how many children’s songs are developed around these two notes! Second Grade is starting to sing, and play in “ostinatos,” which are basically two different things happening at once. They are also continuing their work with “solfege” syllables (de, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do). These skills will help them sing in a choir, as they get older! Third grade is starting recorder! I am teaching them the proper way to play, as well as how to fix any issues they are having while practicing. The number one issue is the holes on the recorder are not covered properly. The number two issue is blowing too hard. Fourth Grade is playing recorder for the second year! We are reviewing songs from last year, and learning a few new songs. This year, I will also start splitting students into parts while we play recorder, to get students used to the idea of playing in a band or orchestra. Please read the third grade message above if your students are still struggling with recorder! Mark your calendars: The 3 rd and 4 th grade concert this year is Thursday February 28 at 6:30 pm The 1 st and 2 nd grade concert this year is Thursday March 14 at 6:30 pm Please e-mail if you have any questions! Sincerely, Tyler Smith [email protected] Art News I am always looking for more parent volunteers to help out in the art room at various times throughout the year. If you are interested in helping please contact me at [email protected] . There are different supplies that the art room is always looking for: Baby wipes, yarn, fake flowers, buttons, beads, pipe cleaners, pencils, glitter, fun erasers for prizes, masking tape, large zip lock bags, washable markers. Kindergarten The students are learning one element of art, LINE. There are many different types of lines: wavy, zigzag, spirals, curly, straight, thin, thick, and dotted lines. The students will be drawing a big bedtime quilt where each quilted patch has a different type of line design in them. Then they will draw themselves sleeping under the quilt of lines. First Grade The students will be traveling in Art class to Ancient Greece, which is located in Europe. There they will take a look at the culture of ancient Greece and artwork. In Greece they would make many different types of vases: dinosa, amphora, oinochoe, krater, stamnos, hydria, kantharos.