Riverside Middle School STEM Academy Registration Deadline is Feb. 7!
Attention parents and guardians of Watertown area fifth-graders – Riverside Middle School STEM Academy registration closes next Friday, Feb. 7 for the 2025-26 school year. If your child will be a sixth-grader at RMS this fall, please be sure to check out this unique program focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education. To register, visit: https://sites.google.com/mywusd.org/rms-course-registration?usp=sharing.
🐝 Douglas Elementary School hosted its annual schoolwide spelling bee on Tuesday. Following grade-level qualifying rounds held earlier this month, 17 students in grades 3-5 advanced to the school-level spelling bee. The school-level champion, 3rd grader Amelia Manchester, is now eligible to participate in the regional competition to be held in February through the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The students bravely competed in front of a gymnasium full of their classmates and relatives in attendance.
Bowling Your Blues Away Returns Tuesday - Public is Invited!
A special mental wellness event – Bowling Your Blues Away – will take place at Watertown Bowl 18, 102 W. Cady St., on Tuesday, Jan. 28 from 5-7 p.m. All members of the community are invited to attend this fun, family-friendly activity where they can bowl for just $2 per game and network with local mental healthcare providers. The event is organized by Watertown Unified School District Mental Health Coordinator Kenda Roman.
“This event isn’t just about bowling – it’s about boosting your mental wellness, too!” Ms. Roman said. “Local mental healthcare providers will be onsite with resources, information, and giveaways designed to support families and students. It’s the perfect chance to connect with experts, learn something new, and discover tools for a healthier mindset.”
For more information, contact Ms. Roman at romank@mywusd.org.
If you happen to be in Johnson Creek on Monday between 4-9 p.m., order a sub from Jersey Mike's using promo code HOSA50 and 50% of your order will be donated to the Watertown High School HOSA chapter. HOSA stands for Health Occupation Students of America and our teens who participate in this program at WHS receive hands-on training in healthcare roles all across our community.
Webster Elementary School held its Cool, Awesome and Terrific Students (CATS) lunch on Friday, January 17. Each month, Principal Brad Clark eats lunch with a group of Cool, Awesome and Terrific students. These students are selected by teachers in grades 5K-5 for making great gains in an academic area or by working super hard.
Picture 1 - Grades K, 1, & 2
Top Row (left to right): Jude Ortega, Shea Magyar, Ilirida Limani
Middle Row (left to right): Thea Maass, Michael Makovec
Bottom Row (left to right): Sunny Salinas, Katalina Butler, Easton Schumacher
Picture 2 - Grades 3, 4, & 5
Top Row (left to right): Zerenity Rosek, Amanda Leete, Aliya Pippenger
Middle Row (left to right): Cheyenne Monosso, Daymian Pippenger
Bottom Row (left to right): Avery Rintelman, Rawson Schweickhardt, Markus Marzette
Students at Riverside Middle School have been busy learning about woodworking through their technical education classes. Sixth-graders in Tech Ed Survey recently learned how to use the bandsaw, scroll saw, disc sander, and Dremel for their Animal Door Stop project. They also practiced hand sanding and staining.
Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Design and Modeling students learned 3D modeling by designing their own puzzle - learning tolerances between shapes and how they all fit together, and students in the 8th grade Advanced Woods class designed and built their own unique projects. It's great to see this hands-on learning happening everyday.
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Several Watertown Unified School District 5th-8th graders participated in a Math Meet earlier this month at UW-Whitewater sponsored by the Southern Lakes Advanced Learners Network. Our students competed in five different math events, and then enjoyed a delicious lunch compliments of Pizza Ranch of Watertown.
We hope everyone is staying warm today! A message has been emailed to WUSD families regarding an update to the dining menus due to today's school closure. Please read below:
Today’s cold weather school closure has necessitated modifications to portions of this week’s menus as a result of food preparation and production activities that had taken place in advance of the school closure announcement on Monday. The online menus have been updated to reflect these planned menu changes.
Please visit our online menu platform to review the updated menus here: https://myschoolmenus.com/organizations/2346.
Thank you for your flexibility and understanding.
WUSD CLASSES CANCELLED TOMORROW - NO AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES TODAY!
Due to the extreme cold temperatures and wind chill, the Watertown Unified School District is cancelling school tomorrow, Tuesday, January 21, 2025. In addition, all after school activities are cancelled today, Monday, January, 20, 2025.
Please stay safe and warm!
WUSD Parents & Guardians:
Please watch for an email and/or text message this afternoon regarding signing on to Rooms - a new two-way secure messaging tool that will enable parents, teachers, coaches and students to stay better connected. Please note - upon registering, you will enter a virtual "waiting room" at your student's school. This is where all families will gather until Rooms opens district-wide later this spring. Rooms will go live at the start of the Third Trimester or Fourth Quarter depending on where your student(s) attend school.
🎳 Happening Tonight! 🎳
Come "Bowl the Blues Away" this evening at Watertown Bowl 18! The public is invited to attend this special bowling event from 6-7 p.m. where they will not only have fun bowling at a discounted rate of $2 per game, but they will also have the opportunity to learn more about mental health services in Watertown.
For more information, contact Kenda Roman, WUSD mental health coordinator, at romank@mywusd.org.
The cafeteria at Douglas Elementary School is bustling for breakfast! Check out these breakfast helpers and safety patrollers hard at work helping students and keeping others safe!
Watertown High School students studying German as a foreign language recently learned about German holiday traditions, traditional German food, and had the fantastic opportunity to attend the Christkindlmarkt in Chicago! As part of these learning experiences, the students presented their research and wrote skits where they made plans to eat at a restaurant, order food, enjoy a friendly conversation, and pay the bill - all in German!
While at the Christkindlmarkt, the students sampled German food and purchased small handcrafted gifts. Enjoy these photos of the German student at the Christkindlmarkt, acting out their skits, and showcasing their traditional gingerbread cookies.
Endeavor Charter School is now accepting new students for the 2025-26 school year! Endeavor Charter School is located within Watertown High School and provides a unique alternative to traditional learning environments. Current high school students and incoming freshmen interested in attending Endeavor are invited to apply today at endeavorcharterschool.org.
Current Watertown 8th graders and their families will have an opportunity to tour the Endeavor classrooms during Freshman Preview Night next Thursday, Jan. 16.
📣 Attention parents and guardians of current Watertown area 5th graders! Riverside Middle School will host two Parent Information Meetings for incoming 6th graders - one on Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 6 p.m. and another on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 8:15 a.m., both in the Large Group Instruction (LGI) room at the middle school. There is no need to pre-register, please attend when it is most convenient for you.
WUSD Nutrition Services moves to new hot lunch menu platform and app through My School Menus.
Download the My School Menus app or access the new menu link for all WUSD schools on the district's homepage (https://myschoolmenus.com/organizations/2346) or on each individual WUSD school building website.
Features of this new platform include:
• Complete list of all food choices available to students
• Nutrient data for menu items
• Ability to Build-A-Meal and create customized meals
• Ingredient information for certain menu items
• Allergen identification by filtering menu items
• Dietary preference identification showing symbols identifying foods
• Translation to 180 languages using Google Translate
Please contact the Nutrition Services office at (920) 262-7536 with any questions.
Our students and staff had so much fun during the month of December spreading holiday cheer for all to see and hear - Happy Holidays from the Watertown Unified School District! 🎄🎅⭐
Students attending Endeavor Charter School celebrated the holiday season by ringing bells for the Salvation Army, making cookies both to give away and to enjoy at their class party, and by planning a week of dress up days. The Endeavor Charter School is located inside Watertown High School. To learn more about this unique charter school and its different learning pathways, visit: www.watertown.k12.wi.us/o/endeavor.
Our HOSA students have been busy! Students from Mr. Gibson's Health Observations class recently started their first day of observation rotations. These students (and others not pictured) have the unique opportunity to job shadow medical professionals both at Watertown Regional Medical Center and at local private practices four days a week for nine of the 12 weeks in the trimester. In addition, Health Observations students organized and ran a successful blood drive at Watertown High School, collecting 55 units of blood from both students and members of the community.
Did you know that Douglas Elementary School has a therapy dog program? New this school year, Bailey the golden retriever is present each day to provide love and support to Douglas students. A special fundraising concert sponsored by the Watertown-Beaver Dam Elks Lodge 666 is taking place on Saturday, Jan. 4 to help offset costs associated with Bailey's ongoing training and care.
Purchase tickets using the QR code, at the door the night of the concert, or by visiting: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/douglas-elementary-therapy-dog-fundraiser-tickets-1114902145329?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios.
