2014-2015 March Newsletter Woodlan Elementary—East Allen County Schools

Important Dates:

March 2 Gold Canyon Fund-

raiser order and money due.

With one check for entire or-

der made payable to:

Lisa Geier

March 9—10 Marco’s Pizza

Nights (Leo)

March 11 Yearbook order and

money due. Check made pay-

able to Woodlan Elementary

March 12 Kindergarten round-

up

March 12 PTO Meeting,

5:30pm

March 13 Popcorn Day

March 19 Bell’s Skating Party

(St. Patrick’s), 6—8pm

March 24 Talent Show

March 25 Spring Pictures

Woodlan

Elementary

Parents/Guardians:

On March 3rd – March 6th, our 3rd-6th graders will participate in the Applied Skills por-

tion of the ISTEP+ assessment. We will be operating under a modified schedule during

this time. Testing will begin promptly at 8:15 a.m. It is very important that students are

here on time for this. Please make sure that your child is well rested and has a good

breakfast. And please tell them just to make sure that they do their very best.

I would like to thank all the families that participated in our Gold Canyon candle fund-

raiser. Packets are due March 2nd. Candles should be delivered on March 25th. We will

send home more detailed information later.

Students in K-6 have just recently completed their middle of the year reading compre-

hension assessments. The results are in the chart below. There were many improve-

ments from the beginning of the year.

Our Tin Caps game for attendance will be different this year due to the availability of

games and the rough flu season that we have experienced. The Woodlan Elementary

game will NOT take place during the school day. The game is scheduled for Sunday,

April 26th at 3:05 p.m. Each student that has 5 or fewer absences during the first three

quarters of the year will receive a ticket order form. Students MUST be accompanied

by a paying adult. School staff members that attend the game will not be monitoring

students. The students’ tickets will be free, but each additional person going to the

game will have to pay for a ticket. If you are unable to make it to the April 26th game,

then there are optional games that families may attend. All tickets orders will need to

be turned in by a certain date in order to attend the Woodlan Elementary game and sit

together as a school. More info will come home with the order forms for those students

that earn it.

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.

—Michael Chen, Woodlan Elementary Principal

Far Below Below Proficient Above

Kindergar-

ten 16% 20% 30% 34%

1st grade 26% 12% 19% 43%

2nd grade 11% 3% 23% 63%

3rd grade 17% 26% 15% 41%

4th grade 9% 15% 4% 73%

5th grade 8% 9% 3% 80%

6th grade 5% 13% 41% 41%

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How to reach us!

Phone number is: 260-446-0280

Address: 17117 Woodburn Rd,

Woodburn IN 46797

HOOPS FOR HEART

Starting February 23, all students will be receiving information

and a collection envelope for Hoops for Heart. This is a charity

fundraiser for the American Heart Association. You may remem-

ber having done Jump Rope for Heart yourself as a student! This

is the same thing, only our focus is with basketball. Students are

NOT required to turn in any money. The event itself will take

place during PE class starting March 9. Because it is during

the school day, and a part of our regular PE curriculum, stu-

dents do not need to turn in a permission slip. Please look over

this information with your student and consider allowing them

to donate, do chores for donation, or ask family members to donate. All do-

nations need to be turned in by March 13. If you have any questions or com-

ments, please contact Mrs. Klug at jeklug@eacs.k12.in.us

All you can eat- Pancake

Breakfast!!!!

$5.00

Tickets presale or at the door. See any HS or Middle

School wrestler for tickets.

Sunday, March 1, 2015

10:30 am - 1:30 pm

Woodburn Community Center Pancakes, Sausage, Hashbrowns

Coffee, juice, milk

Woodlan Wrestlers Thank You For Your

Support!

The Woodlan Elementary Talent Show is on Tuesday, March 24th. It will begin at 6:00, and there will be ice cream treats after-ward. You are all invited to join us in celebrating Woodlan's talent!

March

Birthdays

Staff...

Students...

Sherwood, Tanessa 03/01

Brown, Colin 03/02

Klinski, Blaire 03/02

Brock-Zobrosky, Abigail 03/03

Hogge, Bailey 03/04

Hoeppner, Danielle 03/04

Badders, Brynna 03/05

Beckman, Aaron 03/05

Rosier, Clayton 03/06

Thompson, Kilib 03/07

McAlexander, Ava 03/07

Schurg, Brady 03/07

Holloway, Emma 03/09

Miller, Braedon 03/09

Evans, Dillon 03/10

Burton, Laynah 03/10

Roemke, Dominic 03/11

Hubbart, Ryan 03/12

Marker, Bradley 03/12

Etzler, Adrienne 03/12

Roemer, Samantha 03/13

Campbell, Jesse 03/14

Gerig, Paige 03/14

Edwards, Samuel 03/14

Anderson, Aubrey 03/14

Moehring, Alexis 03/14

Moehring, Brittney 03/14

Sisson, Alaina G 03/15

Kurtz, Angelina 03/16

Butler, Charles 03/17

Moore, Maxwell 03/18

Moore, Morgan 03/18

Freeland, Zachary 03/19

Miller, Jackson 03/20

Wylie, Reese 03/21

Swymeler, Ava 03/22

Coulter, Chelsey 03/24

Schmucker, Malinda 03/25

Lawson, Caleb 03/26

Kerzman, Bailey 03/28

Koos, Elliana 03/29

Bargo, Connor 03/29

Elkins, Dominick 03/30

Eicher, Diane 03/30

Bemus, Michael 03/31

Albertson, Chloe 03/31

Matt Lortie 3/2

Pat Boicey 3/22

Carla Helmke 3/29

Mary Palmer 3/31

Woodlan Elementary—East Allen County Schools

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 com-ing 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 choos-ing. 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 10:50-11:20

4th grade 11:00-11:30

5th grade 11:05-11:35

6th grade 11:15-11:45

The Woodlan cafeteria staff is helping another food service group in NE In-diana collect plastic caps. Their goal is to collect 8,000 pounds of caps and lids to recycle into 8 benches and 4 picnic tables for their school's play-ground. The Woodlan cafeteria staff would like to give a big THANK YOU to the K-6 staff and students for their support in collecting plastic lids. This is going to a great cause. When these kids get their new playground equip-ment, you'll know that you helped put a smile on so many faces. And per-haps some day they can return the favor! THANK YOU again!!

The Cafeteria Staff

Nurses

Notes...

March is National Nutrition Month!