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Wekiva Elementary School 1450 East Wekiva Trail Longwood, Florida 32779 Phone: 746-3150 Fax: 746-3163 February 2012 Principal: Marjorie Adamczyk Assistant Principal: Michelle Baker Principals Message Mid-year assessments have been completed and teachers are analyzing the data to check on students needs. Many teachers will be adjusting their instruction or intervention classes to help students be more successful on weak skill areas. In the intermediate grades, they will be looking at skills that will be tested on the FCAT. Our teachers are making efforts to contact parents to share their concerns with weak skill areas. During my conversations with the students, I stress every day to read 20 minutes every night. Wekiva has a motivation reading program called Accelerated Reader, AR Program. Students take a test to find their independent reading level. Books in the media center are leveled and teachers help students check out a book at their reading level. Teachers also have classroom incentives. In an effort to get more students excited about AR reading, I am going to announce on the Koala News Network top point winners. Parents can assist me with this initiative by making sure students have their library books in their backpacks and setting aside reading time every night. The more a student reads, the higher their vocabulary. Students with high level of vocabulary can easily take the Reading FCAT or any reading assessment with success. Speaking of FCAT, here are the dates. ________________________ FCAT Writes 2/28-29 FCAT Reading and Math 4/16-20 FCAT Science 4/24-25_______ Dividends, Lake Brantley Peer Counselors, and Tutorial Teachers are all assisting students to Beat the FCAT! Regarding school closings PLEASE read flyer from PTA. Until next time, Ms. Adamczyk BREAKING NEWS!!!! FLORIDA SCHOOL RANKING WAS JUST RELEASE AND WEKIVA SCORED A 103 OUT OF 1795 SCHOOLS IN THE STATE!! GREAT JOB KOALAS!!!!!!!!!!! MORE BREAKING NEWS!!!! Ms. Kavaliauskas is one of the Top Ten Finalist for Teacher of the Year!! Chick-fil-A Essay Contest In an effort to support our goal for writing achievement school-wide, our business partner Chick-fil-A is sponsoring an essay contest titled "Why My Parents Deserve Dinner Out." Every student who participates will receive a prize. Class winners will receive another prize, and Chick-fil-A employees will choose the overall school winner, whose parents will receive an exciting gift basket! Flyers explaining the contest went home Monday, January 30, and the essays are due back on Wednesday, February 8. Happy Writing, and Good Luck! PTA News (Please read the flyer and visit PTA @ www.savewekivaelementary.com and Facebook page Wekiva Elementary PTA) Below are informational events: Saturday, 2/4 8:00 10:00 a.m. Save Wekiva Rally @ PE pavilion ************ Tuesday, 2/7 - 5:00-6:30 p.m. Dr. Vogel, Superintendent of SCPS visits Wekiva Media Center. At 6:45 there will be a PTA General Meeting, just before Science Expo. ************ Wednesday, 2/15 6:00 p.m. Lake Brantley High School Town Hall Meeting in LBHS Auditorium ************ Tuesday, 2/28 5:30 p.m. SCPS School Board Meeting at Educational Support Center. Decision to close two schools. ************* PTA is selling Gold and Blue t-shirts to wear at the Town Hall Meeting. They can be purchased at school or at the Wekiva Rally on Saturday. The cost is $10.00. Cash or check/Check to: Wekiva Elementary PTA

FCAT WRITING
Attention 4th Grade Parents... We are in the final stages of preparing for our FCAT Writing test. During the next few weeks your student will be conferencing with their teacher in special sessions designed to highlight those items which will further increase their writing achievement. Please take time to talk with our student about these conferences and have them show you in an actual writing sample! Testing Timeline: Tuesday, February 28, 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 29 - MAKEUP DAY Thursday, March 1 - MAKE-UP DAY Please make every attempt to have your student at school on Tuesday; on time, well-rested, and having eaten a good breakfast! SORRY, BUT NO DIVIDENDS or VISITORS ON CAMPUS ON FEBRUARY 28TH DUE TO TESTING AREAS. Florida School Volunteer Week Wekiva has one of the strongest volunteer programs in the county. January 6th, marked the 100th day of school and at this time we have logged 5,575.53 volunteers hours. From the school store to helping in classroom, thank you for being a part of the Wekiva Team. Seminole County Public Schools www.scps.k12.fl.us or www.wekivaelementary.com

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Wekiva Elementary School 1450 East Wekiva Trail Longwood, Florida 32779 Phone: 746-3150 Fax: 746-3163 February 2012 Principal: Marjorie Adamczyk Assistant Principal: Michelle Baker ************** If you would like to Get Involved and Take Action contact a PTA member or share online. Seminole County Sheriff Office Carls Safe Crossing Campaign Did You Know Bicycle safety has become a big topic around our offices. Children are taught how to ride a bicycle but never taught safety while riding their bikes. Many times students are involved in near misses because they dont stop and think prior to entering the roadway. Reassuring that the students know these safety tips and making sure they use a bicycle helmet is detrimental in keeping them safe. Besides, its the law that all students up to age 16 wear a bicycle helmet each and every time they get ready to ride. Please help support us on this very important issue. Koala Run Congratulations to the Top 15 places from Bear Lake Fun Run. Girls 6 and Under Kiley Strott - 1st place Boys 6 and Under Mitchell McLain - 4th Arron Visser - 12th 7 year old boys Connor Woods - 1st Dylan Sanabria - 7th Andrew Bubon - 9th William Blades - 14th 8 year old girls Lauren Kraus - 2nd 10 year old boys Clay Ulmer - 2nd Andrew Pickalow - 4th Jonathan DePaolo - 5th 11 year old boys Steven Manso - 6th The next Cross Country meet is at Forest City Elementary on February 11th, at 8:00 a.m. All County Music Festival Students selected for the Music Festival will have four practice sessions at Carillon. The concert will be held on February 18 at 2:00. The talented students participating are: Chorus: Alex Bishop , Bailey Carter, Lexis Kreimeier, Alexa Popiel, Barbara Svec, and Morgan Tyler Recorder: Cara Crawford Orff: Steven Manso Science Expo 2012 Coming Soon! Occupational Therapist, Donna Morand and Physical Therapist, Kathy Carpenter. TREK FOR TECH Wekiva will hold our annual TREK FOR TECH fund-raiser on Friday, February 24. This is the only fundraiser where we keep 100% of the donations. All proceeds from this walk-a-thon will be used to renew our annual online site licenses and to purchase Mimio Interactive Whiteboards for classrooms. The funds we raise this year are even more necessary due to cut-backs in our school funding during these tight economic times. Parents are invited to come out and walk during their childs PE time. More detailed information will be sent home soon. If your business can donate prizes and/or gift certificates for our student prize drawing, please contact Mrs. Cook at 407-746-3151. Thank you forsupporting technology at our school! VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! We need some enthusiastic volunteers to help us out with our Trek for Tech fundraiser. We need people who are available to visit local area businesses to collect prize donations and gift certificates for our Trek for Tech student prize drawing. If youre interested, please contact Mrs. Cook at 407-746-3151 or through email at karyn_cook@scps.k12.fl.us RECYCLING PROGRAM Did you get new electronic gadgets for the holidays? If so, dont forget to bring in those old cell phones, digital cameras, mp3 players, PDAs, video game consoles as well as video games, laptops, DVD movies, GPS devices and of course laser and ink cartridges. We recycle all year long!

February 7th, 7:00pm

This event is planned annually to spark our students interest in science and to get them involved in a beginning science fair project. There will be 240 students working on projects to display. Students will drop them off in the cafeteria. Parents will wait in the media center until the doors open at 7:00. Everyone is welcome to view. Student Services Student Services week is February 6th-10th. We appreciate everything thing they do to assist us during Wekiva Student Study Team meetings. Thank YOU! JoAnn Bria, Guidance Secretary Claire Closson, Guidance Counselor Area ESE Administer, Shirley Geiss Staffing Specialist, Lynn Beech Psychologist, Jennifer Kyrakakis Social Worker, Sheila Neena Nurse, Patti Tarlton

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Wekiva Elementary School 1450 East Wekiva Trail Longwood, Florida 32779 Phone: 746-3150 Fax: 746-3163 February 2012 Principal: Marjorie Adamczyk Assistant Principal: Michelle Baker Kindergarten RoundUp! Monday, April 2nd, 7:30 4:00 Tuesday, April 3rd 7:30 6:00 If you have an incoming Kindergartener, please contact the school and share their name with us. We are trying to project the number of students we will have next year. Kindergarten tours will be set up, at registration. Please share with friends. Welcome Mrs. Curtis and her family are moving and the staff will miss her. Joining us is Ms. Malespin. The first grade teachers are glad she is part of the team. Mr. Castagnetto is our ESOL teacher. He comes to Wekiva with a rich cultural background. He is very excited to help students achieve their very best. 2/7 Important Dates 5:00 Dr. Vogel at Wekiva Sharing Budget Crisis 6:50 PTA General Mtg. 7:00 Science Expo Chick-Fil-A Essay Due 6:00 3rd Grade FCAT Parent Night 6:00 Music Festival Practice @ Carillon Elementary After School ECO Club 6:00 Music Festival Practice Wekiva Cross Country @ Forest City Elementary Sem. State College Field Trip (Lofton/Harrington) 1:30 School Board Budget Meeting 6:00 Town Hall Meeting at Lake Brantley-Closing Schools Criteria 6:00 Music Festival Practice @ Carillon Elementary Sem. State College Field Trip (Powers/Perdomo) Spring Pictures TBA 2/17 2/17 2/17 2/17 218 2/18 2/20 2/23 2/24 2/25 2/28 Sem. State College Field Trip(Soltren/Hull) Spring Pictures TBA Fourth Gifted @ Project Create 6:00 Musical Festival Practice @ Carillon After School ECO Club Wekiva Cross Country @ Lake Mary Elementary All County Musical Festival Concert begins at 2:00 NO SCHOOL Chick-Fil-A Night Parent Recognition Night Trek for Tech during Special Classes ECO CLUB Wekiva Cross Country @ Winter Springs High FCAT WRITES NO DIVIDENDS DUE TO FACT TESTING IN MANY AREAS. NO VISITORS MAY BE ON CAMPUS DUE TO TESTING. 5:30 School Board Work Session 7:00 FCAT Writes FCAT WRITES make ups ECO CLUB Wekiva Cross County @ Hamilton Elementary CELLA Testing Students with second language only Report Cards Go Home 5:00 SAC 6:15 PTA ECO Club Seminole County Public Schools Legislative Delegation 2012 Many Wekiva Community members and our staff members have asked for the mailing addresses and email addresses of our area Representatives. Governor Rick Scott Plaza Level 05, The Capitol 400 South Monroe Street Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001 http://www.flgov.com District 37: Scott Plakon 1855 West State Road 434 Ste 242 Longwood, FL 32750-5071 Scott.plakon@myfloridahouse.gov Tallahassee Office: 402 S. Monroe Street Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300 Legislative Assistant: Luke Givens Luke.givens@myfloridahouse.gov District 33: Jason Brodeur 114 W. First Street, Ste 208 Sanford, FL 32771 Jason.brodeur@myfloridahouse.gov Tallahassee Office: 1003 The Capitol 402 South Monroe Street Tallahassee, FL 32399 District Secretary: Katie Flury Katie.flury@myfloridahouse.gov

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