The Wisconsin Heights FFA fruit sale is here!
The #VanguardPride FFA is selling everything from apples and oranges to mixed boxes and beef sticks. Don't forget about the cheese 🧀 spread!
Please use Fruit Order link to place your order - the orders are due by November 16th and will come in around December 14th.
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The Wisconsin Heights elementary school had our Halloween parade on Monday afternoon. The kids had a blast as their friends and families watched and cheered them on! #VanguardPride #halloween2022
Ms. Bernien's kindergarten class worked hard on learning centers last week!
Kindergartners make learning look like a lot of fun! #VangaurdPride
Our PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) program is underway at #VanguardPride Elementary! Students can earn “Gotcha” tickets when they are being respectful, responsible, or safe in areas around the school.
The entire school is working towards celebration days once certain milestones are met:
* 5000 Gotcha Tickets - hat day
* 10000 Gotcha Tickets - PJ day
* 15000 Gotcha Tickets - sports day dress-up
* 20000 Gotcha Tickets - extra recess
* 25000 Gotcha Tickets - pie Mr. Moore in the face
We have a bulletin board display to track our progress and after we reach a milestone a piece of our pie will be removed until there is nothing left but the pie tin!
6th and 7th grade students did a question trail in math to review expanding expressions. Questions were posted around the room, and as students answered them, their choice led them to a new question. Students got immediate feedback if they were expanding expressions correctly because if they were led back to a question they had already seen, they knew they were off the trail and had to retrace their steps to find their mistake. If students made a full circuit and saw every question once, they knew they were expanding expressions correctly.
It was a great way to review for their upcoming quiz!
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This month's District Newsletter is now ready to view!
Click on the link below. https://bit.ly/WHSDNewsletter
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Ms. Moran's 2nd grade art class worked on a printing installation and experimented with building up layers.
Looks like a fun time!
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Students were able to get first hand knowledge of how to design a garden from Nick Kramer of Kramer Family Tree Care.
Students in Computer-Aided Drafting, who are designing the High School Courtyard Renovation, learned about elements of design, sight lines, as well as the unique diversity of plants, grasses, and rocks in our area. Also on hand for his visit were the Officers of #VanguardPride Wisconsin Height's Green Team.
This next week, October 24 - 28, is national Red Ribbon Week. The 2022 theme is Celebrate Life. Live Drug Free.
Wisconsin Heights Elementary School is focused on celebrating all aspects of our lives! We are celebrating our community, our teams, our futures, our dreams, and our healthy choices. Students may be participating in classroom discussions around making healthy choices and decisions, learning how to withstand peer pressure, and how to make goals for a healthy future.
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Check out these MOOvelous 🐮dairy cows!
#VanguardPride 4th graders are learning all about ❤🤍Wisconsin🤍❤ agriculture and agribusiness. Students researched and drew a breed of dairy cow.
The AP Biology students were busy preparing samples for their osmosis and water potential experiment.
Sounds interesting!
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Personal Finance students practiced budgeting skills by planning a vacation to a randomly chosen state in the United States for a family of 4 for 8 days. They each had $2,000 to spend. Many were surprised by the cost of lodging, transportation, & attractions!
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NHS INDUCTS NEW MEMBERS
The #VanguardPride Wisconsin Heights Chapter of the National Honor Society welcomed a new class of inductees at a ceremony held on Monday night.
22-23 inductees:
Zoe A.
Cara B.
Violet B.
Felicity C.
Mckindsey C.
Alexis E.
Cora S.
Makayla W.
Every Friday, Ms. Bilskemper's #VanguardPride Child Development class visits Ms. Updike's 4K class in the elementary school and spends their class period with them. 💚
Currently, they follow the 4K schedule but eventually, the high schoolers will create and teach lessons 👩🏫👨🏫 to the 4Kers.
What a great experience for all involved!
Reminder - No school on October 19, 20, 21.
Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on October 19th.
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#VanguardPride Wisconsin Heights Athletics Week of October 17 - October 22 https://bit.ly/WisHeightsAthletics
It's postseason for Volleyball, Soccer, & Cross Country. Football has their last game in Neenah. If you can't make it, send the students good vibes & good luck!
Fire Prevention Week brought a fire truck from Mazomanie and the Green Machine from Black Earth to our elementary school.
The #VanguardPride students loved seeing the trucks and asking important questions of the fire personnel.
Thank you Mazomanie and Black Earth Fire Departments for sharing the trucks and answering all the fire related questions!
Key messages behind this year’s “Fire Won’t Wait. Plan Your Escape” theme:
-Make sure your home escape plan meets the needs of all your family members, including those with sensory or physical disabilities.
-Smoke alarms should be installed inside every sleeping room, outside each separate sleeping area, and on every level of your home. Smoke alarms should be interconnected so when one sounds, they all sound.
-Know at least two ways out of every room, if possible. Make sure all doors and windows open easily.
-Have an outside meeting place a safe distance from your home where everyone should meet.
-Practice your home fire drill at least twice a year with everyone in the household, including guests. Practice at least once during the day and at night.
Thank you to Wisconsin Heights #VanguardPride community members for purchasing a mattress on October 2nd at the high school! 💚
Custom Fundraising Solutions presented a check to high school band students in the amount of $4,285.00 on October 12!! These funds will be used towards the high school trip to Florida🌴 in February, where band, choir, and drama students will attend performing arts workshops at Walt Disney World.
Construction classes recently participated in Madison Area Builders Association’s Fall 2022 Career Day in Fitchburg. #VanguardPride students were able to tour residential homes in several different phases of construction. Many contractors were on hand to talk about careers in the construction trades and students enjoyed the hands-on activities that were available.
Students began at a completed home and discussed the building process with a new home specialist and realtor, then moved from land surveying through rough framing to finish carpentry. In total, students toured eight homes and saw demonstrations including concrete foundations, framing and exterior siding, plumbing, drywalling, and trim carpentry.
5th grade artists are doing a wonderful job in art class 🎨!
They are working hard and becoming printmaking wizards! 🧙🏼 Just look at these amazing prints! Way to go!
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