2016-2017 April Newsletter Woodlan Elementary—East Allen County Schools

Important Dates:

April 13– PTO Skating

Party @ Bells

April 14– NO SCHOOL

Good Friday

April 18-25– ISTEP

April 19-Tincaps game

@ 11:15

April 24-28 BOGO

Book Fair

April 27-Kindergarden

Orientation

April 28– K to Hadley

Farms

April 28-K-3 Cookie

and Canvas @ 6pm

Woodlan

Elementary

Parents/Guardians:

I hope everyone was able to have a relaxing Spring Break. We are

coming close to the end of the year.

Students in grades 3-6 will begin taking Part 2 of the ISTEP+ as-

sessment beginning this week. This portion of the test will be done

on iPads. Woodlan Elementary will test first thing in the morning

and in the afternoon on some of the days. It is very important that

your child gets plenty of rest and is at school on time. Please avoid

scheduling any appointments during the ISTEP+ window as there

is very little time to complete make-up tests for those students that

are absent. When talking to your students about ISTEP+, just

please encourage them to do their best. Thank you in advance for

your flexibility.

Our Kindergarent-2nd graders are also in the process of taking their

DIBELS and TRC assessments.

Mark your calendars for May 12th. That is our annual Carnival

sponsored by the Woodlan PTO. It’s always a great night of fun and

games and great food. If you are interested in volunteering in any

way, please contact any of the PTO members.

I would like to remind morning car rider parents to please pull up

when dropping off your student to allow for more cars to drop off

at one time and to avoiding backing up the line. I would also like to

remind parents that sometimes, some of our students may need

some assistance or a little more time when exiting their vehicles.

Please be patient and DO NOT pull out of the line to drive around.

There could potentially be an accident.

We will have Kindergarten Orientation for all of those students that

will be starting Kindergarten next year. Orientation will be on

Thursday, April 27th, from 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. There will be a short

presentation from the Kindergarten teachers and a tour of the build-

ing.

—G. Michael Chen, Woodlan Elementary Principal

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How to reach us!

Phone number is: 260-446-0280

Fax number is 260-446-0283

Address: 17117 Woodburn Rd,

Woodburn IN 46797

Parents,

Just a reminder, Drop off time

is 7:30 a.m. unless your

student is in band or choir.

Students...

Staff...

Myers, Xander 4/04

Cox, Brayden 4/05

Adams, Dane 4/06

Zern, Landin 4/07

Eager, Eve 4/08

Drayer, Lewis 4/08

Butler, Abigale 4/08

Anderson, Alysse 4/10

Thullner, Malachi 4/10

Delagrange, Rosa 4/11

Tripp, Eyrelyn 4/11

Dunderman, Ellis 4/11

Lake, Olivia 4/12

Surface, Kaden 4/12

Romero, Leslie 4/14

Miller, Ellie 4/14

Gillenwater, Max 4/16

Graber, Lisa 4/16

Byanski, Anthony 4/16

Moore, Karson 4/17

Haney, Jaxson 4/17

Chen, Cara Michelle 4/18

Wills, Carsyn 4/18

Snyder, Lauren 4/20

Hayden, Vaughn 4/21

Linsky, Xavier 4/21

Linsky, Nevaeh 4/22

Mull, Alaina 4/23

Hayden, Lillian 4/23

Hopper, Savanah 4/25

Basting, Aidan 4/25

Hetrick, Brooklyn 4/26

Huerta, Jared 4/30

Jungk, Hayla-Marie 4/30

Navarro, Arturo 4/30

Hostetler, Matthew 4/30

Sweeney, Dustin 4/30

Liz Kowatch 4/3

Staci Salzbrenner 4/10

Darlene Miller 4/14

Leonda Stieglitz 4/29

Counselor’s Corner

April 2017

Award Winning Authors named at Woodlan Elementary

The third through fifth grade students at Woodlan Elementary

School have worked very hard publishing picture books in anticipation

of the Young Author Conference. The Indiana Reading Association will

host the 2017 Young Author Conference that will be held at Wayne

High School on Saturday, April 22nd. The conference will feature

award-winning children’s author, Judy Young. 14 student’s books have

been chosen to represent Woodlan Elementary as award winning books

at the conference. Woodlan Elementary would like to congratulate the

following outstanding authors.

3rd grade- TaylorAnn Minarik, Alexandria Beason, Katy Niles,

Kolten Holliday, Cash Coronado, Kira Elwood

4th grade-Alyssa Harvey, Tanner Foust, Emma Waters,

Austin Crozier, Autumn Dager, Dylan Fiedler

5th grade-Aubrey Anderson, Jada Eubank, Ava McAlexander, Ryan

Hubbart

Book Fair

April 24-April 28

9:00am-3:00pm

Buy one get one free

PE NEWS 4/11/17

Jump Rope for Heart/ Hoop for Heart was a big success. Students col-

lected $1,856.00 to donate to the American Heart Association to help

those with heart disease. The students also learned more about how to

keep their own heart healthy, and mastered many more jump rope skills

in PE class. Upper classes also had a day of Basketball to finish up the

unit. Ms. Dawes would like to thank the parents and community for

their generosity and support for our students and those less fortunate.

The top five fundraisers this year were:

Ayden Watson - $260

Alex Dunham - $130

Maryella Sharrar - $108

Drew Fleek - $102

Emeline Bice - $100

Nurses Notes:

Woodlan PTO Newsletter Woodlan PTO Newsletter

Hello Warrior Families,

Time just flies when you’re having fun!

The month of April has just flown. There are several

family fun activities this month. So, keep an eye out for flyers

or check out our Facebook page for all the latest information.

April is also the time of planning for the PTO. We have May’s

Spring Carnival and we need to look into next year.

The PTO would like to thank all the venders that came

out to our Art and Craft Show on March 25th. We could not

have held the event without them. We got a lot of positive

responses from both the venders and people within the

community on how they felt it went. So we are hoping with

some changes, next year will be even better.

The PTO has begun the Spring Carnival planning. A

meeting was held on April 10th to discuss a few changes and

progress. Please consider volunteering some time during our

event. It takes up to 40 volunteers to hold this event. Look for

fliers or contact us at Woodlan.PTO@yahoo.com.

A look ahead:

May 1st-5th is Teacher Appreciation week. We want to

encourage everyone to remember what our Woodlan staff does

for our students. They deliver so much to our students -

inspiration, motivation, and ultimately their futures. So please,

take a minute to celebrate teachers and deliver our thanks and

gratitude to them. *The PTO has several things planned, if you

are available to help write thankyous, cut shapes, or assemble

gifts please contact us on our Facebook page, Woodlan PTO, or

at Woodlan.PTO@yahoo.com.

Help Wanted:

The PTO has several board and support positions open. They

are part time, rewarding, and come with super flexible hour.

Excellent opportunity to meet new friends, be part of a great

team, and have a lot of laughs. No experience required. Contact

us through Facebook or email.

Bell’s Skating April 13th

Cinema Grill Night April 18th

PTO Meeting April 20th To Order go to:

Hhtp://woodlan.dkmlogo.online

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