www.antioch34.com W.C. Petty Bobcat Pause March 2020 D34 Kindergarten Registration Event Hillcrest: Tuesday, March 10th 5:00-7:00 pm Oakland: Wednesday, March 11th 5:00-7:00 pm WCPetty: Thursday, March 12th 5:00-7:00 pm To save time at the Registration Event, you may go to www.antioch34.com to complete the online portion of registration. Online registration is antici- pated to open on March 3rd. Please make sure to complete registration for the 2020-2021 school year. Note the following important registration requirements and information: Child must be 5 years old on or before September 1st, 2019 A certified copy of the child’s birth certificate Proof of Residency MUST be provided for all new students Computers and staff to answer questions are available at the event to help you complete your registration Kindergarten teachers are in attendance to answer questions Nurse is available to answer questions and provide medical forms Kindergarten information folders are provided
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www.antioch34.com W.C. Petty Bobcat Pause March 2020
D34 Kindergarten Registration Event
Hillcrest: Tuesday, March 10th 5:00-7:00 pm
Oakland: Wednesday, March 11th 5:00-7:00 pm
WCPetty: Thursday, March 12th 5:00-7:00 pm
To save time at the Registration Event, you may go to www.antioch34.com to complete the online portion of registration. Online registration is antici-
pated to open on March 3rd. Please make sure to complete
registration for the 2020-2021 school year.
Note the following important registration requirements and information:
Child must be 5 years old on or before September 1st, 2019
A certified copy of the child’s birth certificate
Proof of Residency MUST be provided for all new students
Computers and staff to answer questions are available at the event to help you complete your registration
Kindergarten teachers are in attendance to answer questions
Nurse is available to answer questions and provide medical forms
What flies at night? A bat. Did you know that a platypus is a swimming mammal that has webbed feet? Or that 1st graders in Dr. Walshire's class published a book about Amazing Animals? These young authors spent a tremendous amount of time learning the publishing process as they increased their skills in writ-ing with punctuation, spelling, researching, and more! They even had a recognition ceremony to honor and celebrate their efforts and finished product complete with families in attendance and a book reading. W.C. Petty is proud of their 1st publication and look forward to the talents that will continue to blossom, and who knows, maybe even a few future authors!
STEM News:
Report Card Info:
Trimester 2 Report Cards have now been
shared with families.
Underneath the “Science” section of the
report cards, the second standard (PLTW) is
the your child’s STEM grade for the trimester.
Some general info about what the report card
score means is on the right ->
Kindergarten: Structure & Function: Human Body: Kindergarteners are working on a project to create a model “X Ray” of their hands. Students will arrange and glue puzzle pieces (bones) to the correct spot on their hand prints.Next, we will work on our engineering design problem: design and create a model of an ef-fective and comfortable arm cast. 1st Grade- Animal Adaptations: First grade finished creating their engineering design project: traveling hat. First graders brought (or will soon bring) home a hat they created with its own “adaptations” to survive an extreme environment. Up next, we will begin our unit exploring the moon, sun, and stars. 2nd Grade- Properties of Matter: Second grade students completed building and testing their engineering design project: ice pop cover. Using heat lamps, a frozen water ice pop, and their creation, students tested an ice pop cover that will keep an ice pop from melting without a freezer. 3rd Grade- Programming Patterns: Computers/Coding: Third grade students finished their computer sci-ence/coding unit. Their final project was to create and code a game with an interactive character (using iPad ’s balance), moving obstacles, and a score tracker. 4th Grade- Robotics: Fourth grade students are learning how to code Sphero robots. Their first challenge was to code the robot to travel a perfect square. Up next, we will be integrating some creativity by coding the Sphero robots to create a piece of art. Students will apply the skills they picked up in STEM in art class—a great example of STEAM! 5th grade- Robotics and Automation: Fifth graders have completed building a robot vehicle, using VEX Kits with robotics. Their most recent project challenged them to create a maze, measure the path, and create a coding project to get the robot to autonomously travel from start to finish!
Mrs. Jerik’s Art News Parents and Guardians, We are creating a collaborative project and are in need of any color and size plastic bottle caps, like from milk containers, juice containers, water bottles, Snapple bottles, soda bottles, etc. We are also in need of buttons in various sizes and colors. Please continue to send these to school with your children. Boxes are located outside the art room for your convenience. Thank you for your help! Cheryl Jerik and Amy PG Mrs. Faily’s kindergarten class is working to complete Mazurkas from Dr. Seuss’ If I ran the Zoo as we pre-pare to celebrate his birthday. They will move into creating Poppies inspired by artist Georgia O’Keeffe Mrs. Cronbaugh’s first grade class is working on creating implied textures and they draw and paint their own “Wild Thing” inspired by the book Where the Wild Things Are. Mrs. Niemi and Ms. Chayer’s second grade classes are working to create Bridge over Water lilies in Sketches. Mrs. Earl’s third grade classroom is beginning a Keith Haring video project using iMovie. They will also work to create music for the video with Mrs. Schiably in music class. Mrs. Zajac's class is working on a Picasso inspired portrait on the iPads, while Ms. Rieb’s class chose to paint the Picasso Portrait.
Dr. PG’s Art News This month has FLOWN by quickly! Kinders have been exploring with Creation Stations both individually and collaboratively. 1st grade has been working on how to create organic shapes 2nd grade is working on a collage with positive and negative space 3rd grade just finished tape resist watercolor paintings 4th grade just finished scratch art and designing a shield for a personal hero. 5th grade is almost finished with POP art paintings In the upcoming weeks, we are planning the collaborative projects for each grade level for each grade level for Art Crawl. Save the date! Art Crawl is the first week of May! We hope to see eneryone!
P.E. NEWS 4th & 5th Grade
Healthy Heart Test
2 Square Tennis
Iceless Hockey
2nd & 3rd Grade
Healthy Heart Test
Tennis Bounce Hit
Iceless Hockey
K – 1st Grade
Virus & Vitamin “C” Tag Game
Station Training
Pillow Pollo Activities
Music News from Mrs. Schaibly
During the month of March fifth grade will continue to work on the basics of recorder and move up belts in recorder karate. Fourth grade will be working on what a composer is and research a composer. Third grade has begun the process of playing the recorder. Second grade will continue to work on their concert which is March 12th. First Grade will continue to work on their concert. Final-ly kindergarten will be working on playing and saying quarter notes, eighth notes, and quar-ter rests.
Information from the Nurse
Kindergarten and 2nd grade:
Please turn in your students dental forms as soon as possible if you have not already done so. A dental examination completed within 18 months prior to May 15th of the current school year is acceptable. Only statewide dental examination forms will
be accepted. Please do not turn in dental forms for other grades as they are not required.
All Grades:
It is encouraged to pack a seasonal change of clothes in a plastic bag for your student to exchange clothes in case of a spill, mud, nosebleed etc.
