4411 Oakridge Drive

Dayton OH 45417

542-3600

January 2013

Volume XIV Number 3

“Education…..means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of

man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.”

Frederick Douglass

Dads and Donuts

Tuesday, December 18, 2012 was a special day at our school. There were dads, uncles,

grandfathers, big brothers, and Godfathers galore! You could feel the excitement in the air as

each student sat in the breakfast room with his or her

favorite male role model. Laughter filled the room

many times from the students and adults.

Donuts and Dads

Holiday Program – Friday, December 14, 2012

Mr. Johnson and the WOW Music Department held their

Holiday Music Program on December 14, 2012 at 12:30 PM.

Parents, student s and WOW Staff members jammed the

cafeteria in anticipation of presentations to be made by the

WOW Concert Band, The Vessels of Honor, and The WOW

Fourth Grade Choir as

well as selected

singers from grades 1-

3.

The WOW Concert Band, consisting of 35

beginning and intermediate students from the 5th

through 8th

grades, started the program. They played

several holiday selections including, “A Mozart

Melody”, “Ode to Joy” and “Jolly Old St. Nick,”

among others. The band did a fine job and the crowd

loved it. Mr. Johnson, the new WOW Band Director,

was very pleased with his students’ performance. He said that the students did well and that he

looks forward to next musical performance at WOW!

When the band finished playing, the curtains closed and the band exited the stage. Then, the

wonderful Vessels of Honor performed and thrilled the audience with two very worshipful

selections.

Following VOH, the WOW Fourth Grade Choir took the stage and presented a classic holiday

selection entitled, “Do You Hear What I Hear.” After that, 32, selected 1st and 2nd

grade

students performed “Jingle Bells” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” with great skill. The

4th

grade choir returned to the stage and blessed us with two more selections. They sang a piece

from the Broadway Musical, The Sound of Music, entitled “My Favorite Things,” and finished

their part of the show with a beautiful gospel version of “Away in a Manger.”

The final group to perform consisted of two 3rd

grade general

music classes and they rocked the house! The musical selection,

“Go, Tell it on the Mountain,” featured three soloists; Isis Rucker,

Shanea Tennie and Zoue Eke. The girls sang up a storm and

brought the crowd to their feet. Due to time constraints, we had to

conclude the show to end our school day.

What a great show of support and enthusiasm shown by the

students and parents for our great school, World of Wonder!

Science Fair 2013

Third Grade

Awards

Ceremony

Third graders were celebrated for their success on the October

OAA test. Congratulations

OAA TRAIN AND CI CI PIZZA Students who are currently in the fourth grade that

passed their 3rd

grade OAA test went to the game

train and Ci Ci Pizza. Jaden Byrd said “I had fun at

the game train and the pizza was wonderful, I was

full!”

Something Worth Writing Home About

The WOW Way Rules

1. We treat others the way we want to be treated.

2. We respect and value all people.

3. We are responsible for what we say and do.

4. When it is time to work, we work.

5. Together, we can!

Does your child know THE WOW WAY? Does your child understand THE WOW WAY?

Please take time to discuss the WOW Way Rules with your child and how to put the rules into

action not only in school but at home too.

Think

Words can make or break a person. Before speaking - THINK.

T Is it TRUE

H Is it HELPFUL

I

Is it

INSPIRING

N

Is it

NECESSARY

K Is it KIND

Home Phone Calls

If you are NOT receiving the “important

recorded messages” we are sending – it is because we do not have your correct

home phone number. Please call 542-3600 to give the office your correct number.

Looking Ahead Spring Break Monday, March 25, 2013 through Monday, April 1, 2013. Students and staff

RETURN on Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Christmas on Campus

On December 7, forty-three first and second grade students returned to school at 4 pm. They

were greeted by students from the University of Dayton and given a wristband with their name

and school. Students boarded busses at 4:45 headed to a winter wonderland at the University

where they were met by their UD buddy for the evening. WOW students were treated to snacks

and refreshments, participated in games and face painting, watched the lighting of the huge tree

on campus and greeted the arrival of Santa. Each child also received a nice gift from their UD

buddy. Forty-three very tired children returned to WOW at 9 pm to be greeted by their family

members and escorted home for the night. We are grateful to the University and their students

who sponsor this event annually for our children.

From the Media Center

Enjoy listening to books on the computer. We have a web site available to our students from any

internet ready computer. The web address is www.MyCapstoneLibrary.com Students will put

in a user name: residence and a password: books This will open a set of books, most of

which are AR leveled books that support the school reading program. Students can listen to

these books at home, write down the title, and take the quiz at school.

Kindergarten Disaster Averted. Gingerbread Boy Found

The Kindergarten classes have been studying the

Gingerbread Boy. They learned all his tricks and

can sing his song, yet when he came to visit their

class, they couldn’t catch him when he ran away.

The students looked all over the school and found

clues of his travels. There were gingerbread

crumbs on window sills, and bags of gingerbread

babies left in rooms. Finally, Mr. Moreland

checked the security cameras and found him in the

preschool room. Mrs. Berro creped in and was able

to grab him before he ran out. The students were so

happy to see him. Mrs. Carey put him in a box and taped it shut to keep the Gingerbread Boy

safe until Monday, but he is sneaky and escaped again. He was not found in the school but he

did leave cookies for the children. All’s well that ends well.

Something Worth Writing Home About

Holiday Fun

For the second year in a row, all our first graders are enjoying new hats, gloves and scarves.

The hats and scarves are lovingly made by a group of South Dayton women. This year Mrs.

Deanna Kissell, Mrs. Linda Mannarino and Ms. Karen Gump presented the gifts to our students

at a party they hosted with Mrs. Ireland and her daughter Olivia. The children enjoyed holiday

Bingo, made crepe paper wreaths and feasted on yummy cupcakes. Thank you to these generous

women for making the holidays so special for our young students.

Something Worth Writing Home About

Math Olympics Math-O-Lympians take the gold

Student teams emerge victorious from annual math competition

The annual Dayton Public Schools Math-O-Lympics competition was held Dec. 8 at

Thurgood Marshall High School, with students in grades four through eight vying to win in a

number of exciting numerical and structural competitions. Twenty-one schools competed in this

year’s contests, and the following teams were victorious:

Fourth- through sixth-grade group:

First Place World of Wonder PreK-8 School

(Keith Tracy and Audrey Cleveland, coaches)

Fourth-grade students: Gordon and Azuria

Fifth-grade students: Levester and Khori

Sixth-grade students: DeFranco and Kayla

Second place Westwood PreK-8 School (Anna Wright and Leslie Cunningham, coaches)

Third place Eastmont PreK-8 School (Michael VanTine and Sylvia Ervin, coaches)

Fourth place Charity Adams Earley Girls Academy (Karen Jeffries, Kelli Vukovic,

Megan Christy, Chiara Brown, and Shannon Chester, coaches)

Fifth place Edison PreK-8 School (Robert Hundley, coach)

Sixth place Valerie PreK-8 School (Marcella Barrett and Dana Darling, coaches)

Seventh- and eighth-grade group

First place Stivers (Jane Abourezk, coach)

Seventh-grade students: Jonathan and Noah

Eighth-grade students: Omari and Shanna Second place Valerie PK-8 School (Marcella Barrett and Dana Darling, coaches)

Third place Meadowdale PreK-8 School (Megan Miracle-Lovett, coach)

Fourth place Rosa Parks PreK-8 School (Dustin Wilker, coach)

Fifth place Horace Mann PreK-8 School (Tyler Gilcher, coach)

Sixth place World of Wonder PreK-8 School

(Keith Tracy and Audrey Cleveland, coaches)

Classroom News – Green Hallway

January Issue Mrs. Cleveland’s News

Salutations from 5th

Grade Science and

Math!

This quarter will be extremely busy as we

begin learning and reviewing for the Ohio

Achievement Assessment. Skill packets for

math and science will go home each Mon-

day and will be required to be returned that

Friday. Please make sure that your child

completes their assignments and if they

have any questions please write them down

to ask when we go over them on Friday.

NOTE: There are several spots available

for after school Wednesday, and Saturday

tutoring. Please make an effort to secure a

spot for your child, by this coming

Wednesday. Contact me, Mrs. Cleveland @

542-3652 or Ms. Lyons @ 542-3658.

Ms. Lyons’ News

Greetings from the 5th Grade ELA/ SS class! This

quarter will be busy, busy, busy as we are beginning

our intense review for the spring Ohio Achievement

Assessment. Every week, your student will be

responsible for completing an OAA inspired

homework packet that reviews the concepts and skills

that appear frequently on the test. We ask that you are

working with your students on those skills. Attached

to each homework packet, will be a list of all the skills

that the students will be focusing on in that weeks

homework. Also, we have 10 available spots

remaining for FREE TUTORING on Wednesdays and

Saturdays. If you're interested in your child receiving

the free additional help, please contact Ms. Lyons at

937. 586.3658.

Together We Can,

Ms. Lyons

Ms. Andrews’ News

We are off to a great start for our third

quarter! Our students took their STAR

reading test for Accelerated Reading and

almost all of the students in my class saw

their reading levels go up! Great job 4th

graders…keep reading! We will be taking

our NWEA Reading and Math tests during

the 2nd

and 3rd

weeks of January. Our focus

for this quarter is to get ready for the Ohio

Achievement Assessment that the students

will take in April. Please make sure your

child does their homework packet each week

as these assignments are great practice for the

test!

Mrs. Koth’s News

Happy New Year! As we begin the

second semester we will be taking

the NWEA reading and math test.

these test will show how much pro-

gress we have made this year. The

information will also help us focus

on skills that we still need to work on.

Congratulations to Qu’ran Richardson

and Serina Grove, these two students

made the most gains on their NWEA

test. Qu’ran increased his score by 15

points and Serina increased her score

by 13 points. Please make sure your

child is doing their homework and

practicing their multiplication facts.

Third Grade Look What We’re Studying

As we get closer to the OAA, one of our main goals to expose the students to the format of

what the test will look like. In Literacy Block and in Math Block we are focusing on

answering short answer questions (which are worth 2pts) and extended response questions

(4pts). We have found that a lot of the students get these types of questions wrong. So our

goal is to give the students strategies as to how to answer these questions. In math please

continue to review multiplication and division skills with your students. The students are

taking weekly timed multiplication. In math, we are getting reading to work on Fractions.

The students will work on understanding fractions as whole number, they are going to

compare fractions, they are going to look at fractions on the number line, they are also

going to work on equivalent fractions. Please make sure you review these skills daily with

your child. If your child is not fluent with their addition facts please continue to review

those facts as well on a daily basis.

Superstars

These superstars have shown progress with turning in assignments, being responsible, and

displaying WOW WAY! Behavior!

Noah

Surene

Carol

Kejuan

CONGRATULATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS Every year Mrs. Vogel submits five works of art to the Ohio Art Education

Association student art show. These works will be judged and displayed

at one of three venues: Columbus at the State Teachers Retirement

Building, Columbus at the Statehouse, and at the University of Dayton this

summer. Some of the work is displayed at the OAEA conference in

November and will be returned to the families after it tours the state for a

year. Last year one of the artworks was chosen as a grand prize winner and

won an all expense paid trip to New York City with a parent and Mrs.

Vogel. Congratulations to the following students for having their art work selected: Toni (5th

grade), Jamyra (8th

grade), Zoue (3rd

grade), Lee (5th

grade), and Jaila (2nd

grade).

Congratulations to Jamyra (8) and Jaila (2) for

having their work selected for the Youth Art Month

exhibit in Columbus for the Month of March

Classroom News

Mrs. Coulter’s Resource Room News:

Family Reading Ideas…

Give the Gift of Time

When kids are reading, we often jump in to make corrections very quickly. Try just waiting to

see if they correct themselves. You will be surprised at the number of times that they make

changes without your help, and it will give them more confidence in their ability as a reader.

When reading together, it is fun to discuss the story and

ask questions about your child’s response to the book.

Remember to give kids plenty of time to respond to

questions. As adults, we process questions more quickly

than children do. You will discover that the answers you

get will be worth the wait. This tip was found on The

Children’s Reading Foundation website.

Family Math Ideas…

Grocery Store Math

Ask for help weighing the produce. Ask your child to

estimate how much each item weighs, then check these

estimations.

Have your child keep a tally as you pick up items, and see

how well they've added prices and estimated total cost

when you get to the checkout. This exercise is for children

who have already grasped the concept of addition. Start

with a small amount of purchases, then gradually work

your way up to larger-sized shopping trips.

Black History Program

Thursday, March 28th

Thurgood Marshall 6:00-7:30 pm

Classroom News

Mrs. Wilson’s Sixth Grade

Mrs. Wilson’s 6th

grade students were challenged this

quarter in Social Studies to select a country, research

information pertaining to their specific country in order to

write a report and create a power point presentation. The

information required included: basic country information,

their country’s government, climate/weather and culture.

One very interesting aspect that many students and their

families enjoyed was the creation of their country’s flag

in a non-traditional way! This picture is DeFranko’s

portrayal of his flag for the country of South Africa. He

and his mother Theonita Steward (school secretary at

Kemp pre-k-8) created the most delicious cake that was

not only creative but also yummy! There were several other students who also contributed tasty

treats and they were: Ashley, Quenea, and Shelly! Lest we forget Delvin who created his flag of

Italy using pasta sauce, spaghetti and green peppers (not edible, but WOW!) Ultimately, the goal

of learning more about different countries of the world’s geographic locations, political

divisions, government, climate, and culture was ACHIEVED! Way to go sixth graders who put

in the work to make this pretty arduous process successful and educational!

Natural Disaster Kits

Students from Mrs. Johnigan's and Mrs. Coulter's classroom were

creating their natural disaster kits for

their families. They spent the month of

December studying natural disasters and

the impact they have. Students ended the

unit with creating a disaster kit that

contained "symbols" of the important

items that every disaster kit should have.

Students also listened to guest speaker from Montgomery

County who discussed how students can be prepared for a disaster in our Dayton area!

World of Wonder School @Residence Park

March 2013 Planning Ahead:

Spring Break: Monday, March 25, 2013 through Monday, April 1, 2013.

Staff and students return on Tuesday, April 2, 2013.

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Parent Symposium

Kroc Center

9:00 am – 1:00 pm

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Good News

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Grade 3 to

Masonic Center

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POW Meeting

6:00 p.m.

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PACE 9:00 – 3:00

at Sinclair

National History

10:00 – 3:00

At Thurgood

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Good News

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Good News

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2 Hour Early

Dismissal

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B 26

R 27

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A 29

K 30

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April 1

BREAK

April 2 April 3 April 4

POW Meeting

6:00 p.m.

April 5 April 6