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Oak Trace Weekly
Update
March 19, 2021
A note from Mrs. Lynch
Happy Friday! I know everyone is excited to hear that our students at WHS and WMS will be
able to return to school in April. Although Covid cases are certainly trending in the right
direction and people are getting vaccinated, we still will be and need to be diligent. I am so
appreciative of Mr. Baldwin, our interim superintendent, for his leadership during this di cult
time!
Please continue to be diligent about Covid and the health and safety of our students, parents,
and staff. Please remember that if you, as the parent, are having symptoms and awaiting Covid
results, your children should stay at home with you until you are symptom free and receive a
negative result. Please be sure to review the Covid information and self monitor all members
of your family regularly. If your child is exposed to another child who tests positive in
activities outside of school, please quarantine your child. Do not send children to school who
have any symptoms.
Kindergarten registration and new student registration is open for the 2021-2022 school year.
You may register your child for kindergarten if he/she turns 5 by August 1st. There is also
information about Oak Trace Kindergarten on our website.
With spring, comes testing season. This week our third-graders participated in the state IREAD
assessment. April 19-29th will be the ILEARN assessment. Please try to avoid appointments
during this time frame.
Special thanks to our PTO for the amazing baskets they created and sold this week even
though we weren't able to have our Winter Festival! The families were so excited to pick up
their baskets this past week! You can check out more here on the winners of the baskets.
https://fb.watch/4be5FWsO9e/
Have a great weekend! Boiler Up!
Mrs. Lynch
lynchr@wws.k12.in.us
317 867-6410
Pictures from St. Patrick's Day
visits from our bagpiper friend,
Ian!
SPRING BREAK TRAVEL
AFTER YOU TRAVEL-
The West eld Washington school district will follow the CDC recommendations for “AFTER
YOU TRAVEL'' to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in schools. Check the CDC COVID-19
TRAVEL NOTICES speci c for the travel destination. Be aware this information may change
and have the traveler, recheck the notices when they return home for the most up to date
information.
If traveling outside of the United States including major US territories (American Samoa,
Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) the current
recommendation for AFTER YOU TRAVEL is to get tested 3–5 days after travel AND stay
home and self-quarantine for 7 days after travel. If you don't get tested, it's safest to stay
home and self-quarantine for 10 days.
For Parents: Please let your child’s school know if they will be traveling outside the United
States during spring break and will need to stay home for 7 days following the travel so that
the school can make the necessary educational arrangements for virtual learning.
ILearn mandatory testing
The 3rd and 4th graders will be taking the ILearn mandatory
state testing April 19th-April 29th. Please try to avoid making
appointments during those days.
CLOSED We just want to remind everyone that the drinking fountains at all schools haven't been open all year. Please send your children in with their own water bottles. Thank you!
Substitute teaching
Help keep kids in school as a substitute teacher
With the added impact of COVID-19, sta ng substitute teachers has become a crucial factor
in our ability to keep our kids in the classroom. If you would like to help us continue in-person
instruction, sign up to be a substitute teacher in WWS and help make an impact on our
community. We offer competitive pay, exible schedules, bonuses and employee discounts
based on time worked. You don’t need teaching experience, just a desire to help our Rocks get
a great education!
Click here to apply or get more information
What's happening
April 2-9 SPRING BREAK
Math Challenge
The following students have passed the Math Challenge:
K: Liam C., Stella G., Colten L., Alexander (AJ) M., Ellie N.,
Emily P., Henry S., and McKenna S.
1st: Declan C., Emme E., and Charlie E.
2nd:
3rd: Lucas A. and Salmaan R.
4th: Norah L.
Attendance line
Attendance line phone # is 317-867-6401. For all absences and late arrivals, press 1 to leave
a message. Please call by 8:30 A.M. For all transportation changes, press 2 to leave a
message and please call by 1:00 P.M.
If calling after 1:00 P.M., please call the o ce directly at #317-867-6411
Lunch times All Aboard/TOTS 11-11:30 Kindergarten 10:45-11:15 1st 11:20-11:50 2nd 12:30-1:00 3rd 11:40-12:10 4th 12-12:30 Nurse's clinic contact information Amber Wilson is our M & T nurse and her email is wilsona@wws.k12.in.us Katie Kurth is our W & Th nurse and here email is kurthk@wws.k12.in.us Clinic phone number is 317-867-6405
What's happening What's happening Nurse's clinic
in Stem in Media We need your help to keep our
schools as safe and healthy
This week we started a new We've been busy in the library!
during this pandemic. Please
rotation for STEM. During this In 4th Grade, we have been
do not come to school if you
rotation 4th grade students are reading Linnie Mae's New
have ANY of the following:
continuing their work with Friends, which is a book from
potential and kinetic energy by this year's visiting author,
COVID symptom(s) such
testing their VEX vehicles on a Aaron M. Brown. After reading
as fever or chills, cough,
ramp and looking at what it, the students came up with
fatigue, headache,
happens to energy during a lots of ways we can help those
muscle or body aches,
collision. Third graders are in need in our community. I
congestion or runny nose,
completing an engineering was impressed to hear ways
sore throat, nausea or
project that uses their they are already helping!
vomiting, diarrhea,
knowledge of simple machines
shortness of breath or
to rescue a tiger from a moat at 3rd Grade has been reading
loss of taste or smell.
the zoo. 2nd grade students books off of the "Young
These can be mild to
continued their work with Hoosier" book lists. At the end
severe.
animal and plant adaptations by of the year, when we've had a
If you call in sick, please
researching the plants and chance to read them all, they
leave a message stating
animals of a speci c biome, will vote on their favorite book.
your symptoms you are
and using what they have Ask them which one they like
experiencing. If you have
learned to out t an explorer the best so far!
any of the COVID
who is traveling to that biome.
symptoms, one of the
First graders are doing a 1st and 2nd Grades have been
WWS COVID team
breakout EDU game called Sam learning what it means to have
members may contact
the Shape Stealer, and doing a good digital citizenship. They
you to discuss steps to
science experiment called are learning what their digital
take to return to school
Dancing Cranberries. footprint is, what is and is not
safely according to the
Kindergarteners are doing the okay to share online, and who
state guidelines.
Dancing Cranberries they might be allowed to talk to
If you get a message
experiment, building toothpick (with parent permission of
from the WWS COVID
shapes with toothpicks and course!).
team, please return the
playdough, and building pattern
call or call the COVID
blocks shapes. I hope you have In Kindergarten, we are
hotline at 317-867-8056
a great weekend, and as discussing settings and
before returning to
always, please email me with characters in the books we
school. Due to the number
any questions, read. Students are using their
of calls it may take 24 hrs
gibbsj@wws.k12.in.us. creativity to draw their own
to return calls.
settings this week. Soon, we
If someone in your house
will add characters to our
is sick or waiting for test
picture.
results, do not come to
school until the results
Have a great weekend!
are known Please leave
a message if someone in your home is positive for COVID. The COVID team will call you back to help determine the return to school date. If you are quarantined due to being exposed (close contact), please do not return before the determined date with the WWS COVID team or the school nurse. WWS maintains the 14 day quarantine period. Please turn in any MD notes or negative test results to the o ce before returning to school.
What's happening What's happening What's happening
in music in art in PE
Everything is bright and PE
Kindergarten- We nished beautiful in the art room. We We continue to work on our
adding instruments on the are wrapping up our Mary Blair juggling skills in P.E class. The
onamonapias in the book unit and the kid's projects are upper grades are practicing
Roadwork, and we are onto amazing. The kindergarteners two and three small juggling
playing short-short and one collaborated and built a Mary balls. Kindergarten and 1st are
long sound using the Blair castle in the hallway with using one and two juggling
Boomwhackers to play Twinkle pieces from everyone's bean bags. Students can
Twinkle Little Star. individual projects. It looks practice juggling at home by
awesome!! Third grade will be rolling up socks into a ball. It
1st Grade is listening to Peter nishing a similar project soon. works great!
and the Wolf and getting an We did a little ip op and If you want to practice more
introduction to instrument second grade are now working juggling at home, click on the
families. on the Mary Blair portraits. link below.
They were a little more than
2nd Grade is listening to what our rsties were ready http://www.viewpure.com/96y
Carnival of the Animals and for. The rst graders instead Ymizfqiw?start=0&end=0
reviewing instrument families focused on the geometric
as well as learning about designs that Mary Blair did in
tempo. designing the castle and clock
tower for It's A Small World and
3rd Grade is playing a song worked on creating tints of
about Penguins on the barred color by adding white to an
instruments and being existing color. Then they cut
introduced to sixteenth notes. their letters out and we made
inspirational posters with the
4th Grade is wrapping up their letters to put in the hallways.
Jazz Unit and sharing the Some rsties designed a clock
information they found about face for the letter O in our
the artist they chose. words that looked like the
design that Mary Blair used.
Have a "Harmonious" They turned out so cute! I can't
Weekend! wait to hang them up! Below
Mrs. Paul you can see pictures of
Kindergarten's Mary Blair
castle, Mrs. Hiatt's CD Weaving
projects that they transformed
into snowy owls and Mr. Van
Den Berg's class's cardinal
sewing projects.They are so proud of them!!
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