2015-2016 May Newsletter Woodlan Elementary—East Allen County Schools
Important Dates:
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6th-4th Grade Marengo
Cave
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11th– 4th Grade Wax
Museum
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12th-Fine Arts Day
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13th-School Carnival
5:30 pm
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17th-Field Day
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18th-5th Grade State
Fair
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19th-PTO Meeting 3pm
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20th– Field Day Rain
Date
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25th– Last Day of
School for Students
Woodlan
Elementary
Parents/Guardians:
This will be our last newsletter of the year. I would like to thank everyone for your
support through another great year at Woodlan Elementary.
Our annual PTO carnival will on May 13th. Volunteers are needed to make the carnival successful. Please see any PTO board member if you wish to help out with the
carnival. We thank you in advance.
Registration for next school year will be on Monday, August 1, 2016 from noon- 7:00
p.m. or on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. – noon. All families will be required to attend registration to fill out forms and to pick up important information.
There will also be an online portion of the registration that must be completed. This
portion can be completed at home, but we will also have a computer lab open during
registration for those families that will need it.
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The first day of school for students will be on Tuesday, August 9, 2016. We will have
a Back-to-School night. More information about that will be available during registration.
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Below are the tentative classroom teacher assignments for next year:
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Parents,
Just a reminder, Drop off time
is 7:30 a.m. unless your
student is in band or choir.
How to reach us!
Phone number is: 260-446-0280
Fax number is 260-446-0283
Address: 17117 Woodburn Rd,
Woodburn IN 46797
Kindergarten: Mrs. Schnelker, Mrs. Boicey, Mrs. Palmer
1st grade: Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Preston, Mrs. Moore
2nd grade: Miss Kowatch, Mrs. Mohr
3rd grade: Mrs. Parisot, Mrs. Mull
2nd/3rd grades: Mrs. Strautman
4th grade: Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Kimmel, Mrs. Salzbrenner
5th grade: Mrs. Price, Mr. Cook
6th grade: Mrs. Hixson, Mr. Potter, Mrs. Gibson
Parents and students will find out their teacher during registration.
Did you know that Woodlan Elementary and the Woodlan PTO have Facebook pages? Please feel free to “Like” both of these pages so you can get important information and see many of the great things going on at Woodlan Elementary.
—G. Michael Chen, Woodlan Elementary Principal
2016
August 2016
Dr. Kenneth H. Folks
Superintendent of Schools
www.eacs.k12.in.us 1240 State Road 930 East New Haven , IN 46774 ph. 260 446 0100 fx. 260 446 0107 October 2016
September 2016
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Teacher’s Day ‐ No School.………………..……..…………..August 8
Students’ First Day.……………………………………...……….August 9
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System‐wide In‐service ‐ No School……………..September 13
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Thanksgiving Break ‐ No School…..………...November 24 ‐ 25
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Mar n Luther King, Jr. Day ‐ No School………………….......January 16
President’s Day ‐ No School ………………………….…………..February 20*
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Good Friday ‐ No School ……………………………….…..…..………April 14
Last Day for Students …………..…...…………………...………….….May 24
Gradua on Dates………………………………………………………………...TBD
Grading Periods All buildings are on nine‐week grading periods. August 9 ‐ October 10 (43 days) October 11 ‐ December 20 (47 days) January 5 ‐ March 10 (45 days) March 13 ‐ May 24 (45 days) Student Days: 180 days Teacher Days: 185 days *NOTE: Presidents’ Day will be used as a make‐up day if there are
school cancella ons prior to that date. If needed , addi onal days will be added beginning May 25, 2017. Gradua on Schools Closed (No Student A endance)
Cedarville Elementary School (446‐0110) Early Childhood Program (446‐0120) East Allen Alterna ve School (446‐0260) East Allen University (446‐0240) Heritage Elementary (446‐0160) Heritage Jr./Sr. High School (446‐0140) Teacher Collabora on (30 min. Early Release) Leo Elementary School (446‐0170) Leo Jr./Sr. High School (446‐0180) New Haven High School (446‐0220) New Haven Intermediate School (446‐0190) New Haven Middle School (446‐0230) New Haven Primary School (446‐0150) In‐Service Days Paul Harding Jr. High School (446‐0240) Prince Chapman Academy (446‐0270) Southwick Elementary School (446‐0250) Woodlan Elementary School (446‐0130) Woodlan Jr./Sr. High School (446‐0290) Approved 2/17/15, updated 2/3/16
Last Saturday, April 23rd,
fifteen Woodlan Elementary
students attended the 2016
Young Author Conference. This year's conference, held at Wayne High
School, celebrated students in grades kindergarten through
second grade. Our authors included: Jeremiah Bryan (K),
Joey Davis (K), Dafne Nadi Kyaw (K), Tyler Friend (K),
Gracelyn Snyder (K), Layla Hodson (1), Elizabeth Preston
(1), Sophia Mull (1), Aaron Beckman (1), Adrienne Etzler
(1), Dani Hoeppner (2), Grace Martin (2), Katy Niles (2),
Mariah Thullner (2), and Evie Tibbetts (2). Greeting students at the conference were Mr. Chen, Mrs. Brames, Mrs.
Mohr, and Miss Kowatch. Mrs. Mohr and Miss Kowatch
were also conference session leaders.
Congratulations to all our young authors!
Fine Arts
Day
Fine Arts Day is May 12th.
Students will be experiencing eight different
fine arts activities including Taiko drumming,
ballet, and two artists from the community. The high school students will do a presentation about art and music. We're looking forward to the students being able to experience
artistic activities that they wouldn't normally
get to experience!
-Miss Augsburger and Mr. Buchler
Nurses Notes:
Woodlan PTO
Hello Woodlan Families,
The Woodlan PTO would like to take a moment to thank the Woodlan Elementary staff in
honor of Staff Appreciation week. They are here every day before school, after school, and some weekends
helping our little Woodlan Warriors. Thank for all your hard work and dedication!
Our biggest event this spring is here. It is time for the Spring Carnival. This is one of our
larger events and requires many people to make it a success. Part of that help this year is the Harlan Christian Youth Center and GLOW as they have volunteered to help the day of the Carnival. With their help, we
will have more and better bounce houses, a photo button booth, and new games. Another help was the
Woodlan High School shop class. They built us three new games this year. We now have Piggy Racing,
Frog Flinger, and a new Plink-O. This year though the biggest change to the Spring Carnival is the addition
of food trucks. We will be having Aunt Anne’s Pretzel, Kona Ice, and more. So please come out to enjoy the
festivities.
Over the next few week the PTO will be sending home many flyers. Please keep an eye out
for them. They have information about early ticket sales for carnival, volunteer opportunities, food truck prices, and more.
With the school year coming to an end, it is time once again for the PTO to discuss officers
for the 2016-2017 year. At our next meeting, on May 19th, we will be discussing who is coming back next
year and who would like to step down. Several have children headed to high school or schedule changes.
So, if you are interested in joining the PTO or want to know more about what we do please come. We meet
at 3:00, in the conference room, in the elementary office.
Upcoming Events for May:
May 13- Spring Carnival
May 19- PTO Meeting 3:00
2015-2016 Woodlan PTO Officers:
Jessica Reifenberg, President: [email protected]
Sarah Rossi, Vice President: [email protected]
Tessie & James Sherwood, Co-Secretaries: [email protected]
Cindy Bemus, Treasurer: [email protected]
Jen Gilford, Volunteer Coordinator: [email protected]
Nikki Minarik, Media Relations: [email protected]
Student Council News
Woodlan Elementary Student Council sponsored our first Earth Day –
Student Day of Caring Campus Clean-up on Friday, April 22, 2016. Student Council organized the clean-up zones around Woodlan Campus.
Each class, 3rd through 6th grade, then worked to pick up trash, sticks,
and debris. Great Job Woodlan Elementary!
Happy Arbor Day from Student
Council – Remember to plant a
tree on April 29th to help keep
our Earth healthy!
Red Maple seeds were sent home
to every student complements of student council.
We hope you enjoy your new tree for years to come
What are Body Systems?
Ms. Smith’s 4th grade class taught Mrs.
Snyder’s and Mrs. Preston’s first graders all about our body systems including the skeleton system, the muscular system, the respiratory system, the
nervous system, the digestive system, and the circulatory system. Each
group researched a specific system, becoming an expert. They discovered
what the system does, how it works, where it is located, what to do to keep
it healthy. After researching their system, each group shared what they
learned with our 1st grade students on March 18th.
Woodlan Elementary
4th Grade
Famous Hoosier
Wax Museum
The Famous Hoosier Wax Museum will be held on Wednesday, May
11, 2016 from 8:30 to 10:30 AM. Each student selected a famous
Hoosier that he or she was interested in researching.
With the assistance of Mrs. Miller’s 9th Grade English class to help
us with the initial research for this project, students took research
notes, wrote a research report, created a display board, and wrote a
short speech. Then during the Wax Museum, our “famous Hoosiers”
will come to life by dressing in character and interacting with our museum visitors. We hope that you can join us!
Woodlan Elementary
Fourth Grade Teachers
Woodlan Cafeteria/Lunchroom Reminders:
 If you ever have any questions or concerns about your child’s account, please call Darlene Hamilton, cafeteria manager, 446-0290, ext. 7411. You
may also view your child’s lunch activity via Parent Access on the EACS website .
 Parents and other visitors of students—we welcome you to eat breakfast or lunch with your child at anytime, but we need to know if you are coming ahead of time to plan accordingly. Please do so by calling in before 9:00 a.m. or send a note with your child. We also ask that you sign in and
wear a Visitor’s badge. Adult lunches are $2.40. As we are cashless system, we ask that you bring correct change for your lunch. You may use
your child’s lunch account to purchase your lunch. If you do not have correct change, we can deposit the rest of your money into your child’s lunch
account .
 Minimum deposits are $10.00 for each full pay student, $2.00 for a reduced student. If your child would like to purchase extras you need to deposit
money for that also. If your child doesn’t have enough money in their account we can drop the amount in the minus figure. The system only allows
us to drop the child’s account down to (-$5.00) After that we have to give them a Peanut Butter Jelly lunch. We appreciate your help in keeping
your child’s account up to date. You can view their account online.
 If your child is in K-3 please work with them at home to learn their student ID number to put into the system so our lines can run smoother.
 If you are having issues with your child’s lunch account being depleted too quickly, please check your Parent Access for what your child is choosing. You may opt to limit their purchases of ala cart items, please just send in a note with your preference or call.
 NO breakfast will be served on 2 or 3 hour delay days.
Lunch Schedule
2nd grade
10:35-11:05
3rd grade
10:40-11:10
1st grade
10:45-11:15
Kindergarten
4th grade
5th grade
6th grade
10:50-11:20
11:00-11:30
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11:15-11:45
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Haney, Collin
Thullner, Mariah
Sanchez, Vincent
Maus, Alex
Brock, Haylie
Fry, Brooke
Basting, Haylee
Howard, Karter
Eager, Zoe
Palmer, Gavin
Smith, Olivia
Ocampo, Julianna
Cowan, Braden
Neireiter, Colten
Waikel, Autumn
Whitaker, Nevaeh
Klepper, Ethan
Granados, Gabriela
Richard, Payton
Duesel, Elijah
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Waldfogel, Brittyn 5/15
Mazock, Isaia
5/16
Johnson, Griffin
5/16
Moehring, Dylan
5/17
Snyder, Jacob
5/18
Jones, Mya
5/18
Yontz, Ilana
5/18
Hoeppner, Kathryn 5/20
Smith, Jerra
5/22
Hissong, Adrianna 5/23
Molina, Adanery
5/24
Elkins, Keagan
5/24
Hickman, Deven
5/25
Crosby, Kaitlyn
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Huckeriede, Lauren 5/26
Lengacher, Christian 5/27
Duval, Lauryn
5/28
Hatton, Cole
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Pinkston, Draven
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Yeiter, Cassidy
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May
Birthdays
Staff...
Michelle Gibson
5/15
Lisa Handschy
5/28