Whitesville Central School

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📚 Mark your calendars—the Scholastic Book Fair is arriving Nov 17-24th! Find everything you'll need on the school's Fair homepage, including a sneak peek at the books, e-wallet setup, and Share the Fair options that help more of our students purchase books! Visit: https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/whitesvillecentralschool

The Children's Wellness Center is officially open to our students! "This space was designed to support movement, mindfulness, and fun, complete with youth-sized row machines, stationary bikes, trampolines, tumbling space and even a jungle gym!" -Mrs. Emery 💙🤍💙 Students have been tasked with creating artwork for the walls and voting on a name for the space to make their own! Stay tuned for the official name to be announced next Friday!

WCS is looking to hire a Full-Time Bus Driver! Pay is $19/hour with compensation based on experience. Must have an appropriate license & be 19A qualified, however paid training is available! Position will remain open until filled. Please submit a Letter of Interest to Mrs. Emery and reach out to her with any questions.

Visit https://www.whitesvillesd.org/o/wcsd/page/careers for additional openings and application details.

WCS Nurse's office is completing vision and hearing screenings for students this week and next week. Parents will be getting a letter in a few weeks with vision results, as well as if a student fails the hearing screening. We recommend everyone gets their hearing and vision checked by their doctor every year -- the screenings completed at the school indicate any issues that a healthcare provider should evaluate and follow-up. 💙

Parents of infants and toddlers, do you know about a resource in Wellsville called the First Step Family Resource Center? A program of Ardent Solutions, they are open Monday-Thursday and have open play times in their center, family supports and diaper distribution. To register for diaper distribution go to https://everybottomcovered.wufoo.com/forms/every-bottom-covered-client-application-allegany/
For more information about the center, check out
https://www.ardentnetwork.org/first-step-family-resource-center.html

Outdoor Education got their hands dirty this week making pumpkin bird feeders, another round of apple cider, and live-action scare crows! Then 3rd grade made apple monsters with this week's special guest, Mrs. Laughlin!!

Mrs. Bissett's Enrichment Class finished their book: Vacation Under the Volcano! To celebrate, they made and erupted their own volcanos!

These guys know how to live it up during recess time with Mrs. Bissett and Ms. McCaig!

🌄This week's Morning Clubs were in the zone! Games and Crafts explored several stations while Morning Yoga practiced finding their inner zen.

👻 Don't forget! The Halloween Parade is NEXT Friday, Oct 31st at 1:00pm. Join us for a sneak peak of all the creepy characters! We'll be hosting a contest for "Best" in several categories that you wont want to miss. See you on the lawn!

October is national Pedestrian Safety Month, and the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee (GTSC) highlights New York’s “Operation See! Be Seen!" (https://dmv.ny.gov/news/as-pedestrian-safety-month-begins-governors-traffic-safety-committee-highlights-new-yorks-see) At WCS, we would like to take this special opportunity to give a "shout-out" to our bus drivers who undergo extensive training and undertake the added responsibly of ensuring safety for not only our children but everyone else sharing the roads they travel. We can all do our part to ensure safety!

📸 Picture RETAKE Day is November 13! If you missed the first round or need a retake, another round of order forms will be coming home with all students tomorrow! Or skip the fuss and order online at www.inter-state.com/order using school code: 0160QXD

Mrs. McCaig introduced a percussion unit in Prek ELA, which introduced drums and claves (or rhythm sticks)! They had a fun story to go along with it and then Mrs. Lowe let them explore her other percussion instruments from the music room!

Last week the Ridgewalk was opened up to participating schools for the kids to walk the trail. Our 5th and 6th graders had a beautiful, crisp day to enjoy our beautiful NY landscape!

Yesterday's Breakfast Club with Prek through 2nd grades recapped their theme of having a positive vision. Yesterday they added the importance of having a positive attitude too! Even when things aren't going well or you're just having a bad day, trying to smile despite it all may be the start in turning it all around!

Mr. Trey, our Occupational Therapist, joined the Pre-K today to help with coloring, scissor skills, and fine motor skills when carefully applying their pumpkin faces!

A BIG shootout to our Outdoor Education Guest Speaker, Mrs. Howe who volunteered to come read a story about apples to the kids today! The kids experienced the process of the apple press to make cider and made scarecrows for the courtyard!

Kindergarten is learning about the 5 senses through Bingo! Mrs. Bissett then had them taste testing sweet, sour, salty and bitter to get the full experience of each. For math skill reinforcement, they're practicing counting and recognizing numbers 1-6 by playing a pop-it game!