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Happy Monday! We are flying into the week like these fun #WatertownWay teammates!
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Our #WatertownWay 4K students at Gingerbread had so much fun learning about dinosaurs last week! Those dinosaur hats are just "RAWR"some! ๐ฆ
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Do you know any children from ages birth through age 5 who live in the Watertown Unified School District? Through generous support of the Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation, these children can be signed up for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. Children will receive a free, high quality book each month, mailed directly to their home! This exciting program promotes early childhood literacy and fosters parent/caregiver-child interaction, which helps children learn the skills they will need for kindergarten, including larger vocabularies and healthy social and emotional development.
For more information and to enroll, follow this link:
https://talkreadplaywi.com/imagination-library/
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Students from Eric Kleine's Spanish Texts and Composition class at Watertown High School traveled to Schurz Elementary School on Thursday to read to Gayle Ebert's Dual Language Kindergarten class. The WHS students wrote their own children's stories as a final project for their Children's Literacy Unit in which they learned about the importance of reading to young children, the effects reading has on the brain development of a child, elements and structure of children's stories, and a study of the famous book "The Little Prince" (El Principito).
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๐จ โพ Outstanding WUSD Coach Alert โพ ๐จ
Congratulations to our very own #WatertownWay Coach Rusty Tiedemann on his induction into the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame!
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Who doesn't love Gosling Gear?! Check out ๐ this online sale to get yours now!
http://sideline.bsnsports.com/.../watertown-high-school
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Well these Webster Wildcats weren't going to let the snow and ice day on "Twos"day ruin their 2-22-22 fun, so they rolled the celebration right into Wednesday! It's the #WatertownWay!
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The WUSD is hiring! Check out the posting below ๐ and apply online at https://wecan.waspa.org/.
Interested in learning more about the positions we have available? Please contact Human Resources Administrative Assistant Sarah Miller at millers@watertown.k12.wi.us.
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These #WatertownWay 8th grade Panthers practiced important life-saving skills by learning to use clothing to create floatation devices.
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Can we get a shout out for these #WatertownWay Douglas Tiger Kindness Ninjas? Congratulations and way to go on going above and beyond showing kindness to others! ๐ฅฐ
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The #WatertownWay REACH 18-21 Transition program participants would like to thank our Director of Human Services Margaret Brady for being a guest speaker in their program the other week. Ms. Brady provided these young adults with great information on the job search process, gave them tips on how to interview, and discussed what employers look for in good employees.
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These #WatertownWay Olympians were proud to show off their medals that they made as they learned more about the Olympic games.
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Spending a day at the beach sure sounds like a great idea right about now! Students in Mrs. Schwager's #WatertownWay first grade classroom decided to brighten up these winter days with an indoor beach day celebration. ๐๏ธ
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We can think of 100 reasons why we love Schurz School! At the top of the list is Reading Buddies! Our #WatertownWay 4th and 5th multiage students partnered with their 4K dual language buddies to celebrate the 100th day of school.
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Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 22nd, we are anticipating freezing rain, ice, sleet and snow throughout the early morning hours and throughout the day. During the times of expected travel for our students, staff, families, and our WUSD bus transportation, the National Weather Service is predicting unsafe driving conditions. As a result, we will be closing school on Tuesday, February 22nd. All evening activities for Tuesday, February 22nd will also be canceled.
Please stay safe and stay warm out there.
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Check out this creative #WatertownWay STEM band! These STEMbots sure know how to make their imaginations come to life! ๐ถ
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Our #WatertownWay 4K students learned about dental health ๐ฆท last week with a fun activity showing what soda does to our teeth and how good brushing helps!
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Introducing Miss Getlinโs Best Book Award Winners!
These #WatertownWay LEAP Leopards just wrapped up their opinion writing unit. Their final piece was to write about the best book ever and convince our judge (Mrs. Parys) that it really is the best book ever. It was a TOUGH choice because all students wrote very convincing pieces with strong reasoning.
Our runners up were Asher and Marcel and our first place winner was Teagan. Their final pieces are hanging up proudly in the hallway for all to see.
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Our amazing #WatertownWay Webster Elementary Principal Brad Clark guided these little ones down the hall at the end of their day. It's captured moments like these that remind us how lucky we are to have incredible leaders like Mr. Clark in the WUSD!
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Here is a picture of one of our #WatertownWay safety patrol members, Jaydah, in action helping Leeliah get prepared for the school day! Way to be a great role model, Jaydah! #tigershelpingtigers
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