Weekly Blog 4/3

Dear Wines Families,

It is certainly nice to see the sun shining and hints of spring in the air! While things are looking up weather wise, I do want to remind everyone that from now until near the end of the year, our playground is consistently quite muddy. I encourage kids to continue to have boots at school for recess. Here is the news for the week:

Disability Awareness Workshop - We still need MORE volunteers!

Our annual Disability Awareness Workshop is fast approaching!  It will be on Wednesday, April 17. We're in need of more parent volunteers to help out with this wonderful event for our 4th grade students. We especially need assistance from those with a van or truck to pick up and/or return the workshop equipment. You do not have to be a parent of a 4th grader to volunteer!

To volunteer, sign up at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080c48afaf28a31-disability

If you have any questions, please contact Jessi Averill 267-495-6208 or jessi.averill@gmail.com

Parent Surveys

Everyone should have received an email yesterday from Dr. Swift with a link to the annual parent school climate survey. Please take a minute to complete the survey. This gives us great information about the things we are doing well and the areas where we can continue to focus on improvement.

Mural Project

Our mural project in collaboration with Treetown Murals has begun. The fifth graders completed their mural in the Modular building yesterday and the 3^rd and 4^th graders have begun one of the two murals in their hallway today. By the end of the month we’ll have five murals in the hallways at Wines that EVERY student will help paint. Big thanks to our PTO for supporting this project. Below are a couple pictures of the progress.

Wines Auction

The mural project is a perfect example of the types of things we do at Wines because of the support of our community. To that end, one of our most important (and most fun!) fundraisers takes place later this month. Please mark your calendars for the adult only Wines Auction (silent and live) on April 27^th at the Jolly Pumpkin in Dexter. 

Walk/Ride

With the weather beginning to get better, I hope we see more kids walking to school and waiting outside for the bus in the morning. We really want to reduce the amount of unnecessary car traffic in our lot. So let’s take advantage of warmer temperatures and encourage our kids to walk to school if they live within distance or spend the time outdoors waiting for the bus! Thank you.

David