March 2013

Principal’s Corner As we end another fantastic year at Woodland, I want to thank you for the privilege of serving in partnership with teachers, parents, students, and community members to help achieve success for all students on their way to becoming lifelong learners. Don’t forget to still spend some time reading and practicing math facts while at home, and have a wonderful summer break!

Nancy West

Farewell

Newsletter

2015

Many thanks to our 2014-2015 Woodland PTO Board!

Amy O’Brien– President Angela Smith – Vice President

Patti Cates – Secretary Jessica Steed – Treasurer

Your service and dedication has made a HUGE difference!

The Woodland Press

Woodland Elementary

Nancy West

Principal

168 Manhattan Avenue ~ (ph) 865-425-9501 ~ (Fax) 865-425-9432

Celebrate our PTO

Turn off the

screen and...

..play outside

...play a game

...write a story

...walk the dog

...listen to music

...create

...take pictures

...go on an

adventure

...take a

scavenger hunt

..spend time with

a friend/make a

new friend

...cook together

...READ

...READ

...READ

Love, celebrate,

and spend time

with your kids!!!

Celebrate our 2014-2015

Safety Patrol!!!

Ms. Israel, Sponsor

Mr. Martin and Ms. Donald,

Co-sponsors

As warmer weather and the end of the year

approaches, please keep the dress code in mind

when sending your child to school!!!

Many thanks!

Saying thank you doesn’t cost a thing...

but it is priceless!

Many thanks to you for a wonderful year!

daVinci Arts and Science Fair WES had 13 science fair participants in the daVinci Arts and Science Fair. 4th grade participants are Abbey Ellis, Grace Han, Jeremiah Holman, Darbey Marczak, Kiri Nelson, Nirvikta Osti, Iliana Spence, and Blake Steed. 3rd grade participants are Zoie Cox, Alex Franklin, Max McWashington, Isaac Robinson, and Daniel Vogt. We are very proud of these students for the time and effort they have put into their projects. In third grade-Alex Franklin won 1st place in the Physical Science division, Isaac Robinson placed 2nd in Earth Science and Daniel Vogt placed 3rd in Earth Science. In fourth grade Earth Science, Darbey Marczak placed 3rd, Nirvikta Osti and Abbey Ellis placed 1st and 2nd respectively in Life Science, and Kiri Nelson placed 1st in Physical Science. All 13 WES participants demonstrated hard work and perseverance in their projects. I am so proud of them! Sandy Bradshaw

Taken by Linda Andress

Our school website is www.woodland.ortn.edu

Also, visit Oak Ridge Schools website at www.ortn.edu

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone

monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

Pericles

Kindergarten The year is quickly coming to a close! It has been a great year in kindergarten with lots of learning. Over the summer, please read with your child every day! It would also be great to work on math fluency facts to 5 or higher. Have a great summer! Kindergarten Teachers

First Grade First Grade has been working hard and learning so much! Students have been learning how to write opinion pieces with supporting reasons and now are working on writing informational reports on animals. We are excited to have the Zoomobile visit and continue our study on animal groups. Students have been practicing adding with groups of ten and double digit addition and subtraction problems. Please continue to work with your child with math facts and reading throughout the summer. We’ve had a great year full of wonderful memories and learning accomplishments!

Second Grade Second grade has had a wonderful year! We have especially enjoyed our latest study about animals, plants, economics and the visit from the Farmer's Market! Please be sure to encourage your child to read on a daily basis this summer and to continue to practice math fact fluency. Summer slide is no fun in August! Have a wonderful and safe summer. Second Grade Team

Third Grade As third grade wraps up the school year, it’s been very productive and the students have learned a lot. The students in Mrs. Scudder's class will get a new teacher for the last nine days as Mrs. Scudder will be out due to a surgery. Mrs. Becky Hughes will cover the class. She has been a guest teacher through this year so all the students know who she is and are very pleased. The third grade will have a field day on the last week of school and looking for any parents that would like to come out and help and enjoy the fun. We will have a few guest visitors for the third grade students to look forward to. All are ready for a great summer! Remember to encourage students to read over the summer break!!!

Fourth Grade The 4th grade teachers want to express to their families and students what a wonderful year this has been. We are looking forward to our special day on May 28th where we celebrate this year with our graduation ceremony. The students have worked very hard and will only have continued success as they move on to middle school. Continue to praise them, support them, and inspire them to achieve their goals. We would like to give a special shout out to our first year of Safety Patrollers. They have done such a wonderful job this year starting this program and we are very proud of them. Please enjoy your break this summer and know we will be thinking of you as your new adventures start next year in middle school.

Music Many thanks to our Woodland students and parents for a wonderful year in music. May you have a safe, happy, and fun summer! Ms. Carden

Art What a fantastic and smART year we’ve had in Art class! I’m so proud to watch our Woodland students grow into such creative and colorful learners! In Art, our students experiment with everything from clay to crayons, from ink to fingerprints! Every class time is filled with color and personality! This is my favorite time of year, not just because summer approaches, but because my students finally get to take home a portfolio of projects, some of which have taken months to complete! Art is a study in perseverance and patience since we spend so many weeks developing ideas, experiencing materials, and sometimes waiting for paint to dry! In the little time we’ve had together (only 40 weeks! That’s just 40 hours for the whole year!) we have done so much! Two of our students, Olivia Land and Christopher Matthews had artwork entered in the Dogwood Arts Festival! This is a huge show for all Art students in East TN! Also, 15 of our students exhibited their work at the Oak Ridge Schools Student Art Exhibition at the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge! I have so many fabulous artists here! I’m so proud to show off their art! I can’t wait for you to see their beautiful portfolios of all their art from this year!

ESL Wow! What a busy few weeks we’ve had as our first, second, third, and fourth graders embarked on A Titanic Voyage! We talked about the importance of history and made personal timelines using past, present, and future verb tenses. We learned about life in the early 1900s, immigration, the building of the Titanic, the parts of the ship, and the three classes of passengers and their different accommodations onboard the ship. After learning that icebergs float, we performed experiments to see what other objects sink or float, and we made predictions, recorded data, and analyzed the results. Fourth graders also made water molecules out of gumdrops, marshmallows, and toothpicks to see what happens to water as it freezes—it expands, unlike all other liquids, which shrink. We read the historical fiction account of a ten-year-old boy who survived the sinking of the Titanic. When we visited the Titanic Museum this week, we were able to shovel coal in the boiler rooms, touch a real iceberg, put our hands into 28º water, try to walk the steeply sloping deck, and sit in a lifeboat as we rowed away to be rescued. Thankfully, we all survived! Now we are writing thank-you notes to Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation for the grant that funded our study, and to our PTO for providing our T-shirts for the field trip. It has been a fantastic voyage!