Wekiva Whispers Wekiva Elementary School

1450 East Wekiva Trail Longwood, Florida 32779

Phone: 746-3150 Fax: 746-3163 January 2012

Principal: Marjorie Adamczyk Assistant Principal: Michelle Baker

Seminole County Public Schools www.scps.k12.fl.us or www.wekivaelementary.com

Principal’s Message I want to start the New Year by thanking all of our students and their families for the community service this past year. We raised money for Autism Walks with the Puzzle Piece Contest, garage sale, and walking. Sweat not Sweets Collection brought in many warm clothes that were given to a high poverty school in our county. Bags of Hope received well over 75 blankets for the Santa Relief Caravan. They also received books too. Baked goods sales at the Wekiva Fun Run went to Relay for Life. Koala MusicKidz performed for the Florida Living Center. All of these acts of kindness show our children the importance of community service; a great lesson in life. The Winter Concert performed by the MusicKidz and Ms. Kranz gave three fabulous performances here at school. All of the students in the chorus and instrumental ensemble showed off their talents. Practicing and oral presentation are more great lessons in life. Winter Break marks the middle of the school year. It is time to celebrate goals your child has achieved and to evaluate and set new reasonable academic goals for the remainder of the year. There are three reasons to celebrate. One is making the top scores, the next is making the greatest gains, and the last is to reach goals. I will continue to announce on our morning news (KNN) students who have made those goals. Parents, thank you for your support. Making sure your child has time for homework, plenty of sleep, support for when they struggle, and moments to celebrate success. Happy New Year! Until next time, Ms. Adamczyk

Congratulations Top Ten Students from Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) Test Grade 2 – Lily McLain, Jaidan Gelinas, Anna Frabizio, Jolie Hartley, Ryan Antalek, Logan Evans, Renna Duarte, Kai Higgins, Elijah Huyck and Jack Klinger. Jack’s Lexile score is 965! Grade 3- Larabelle Tretter, Sydney Krider, Emma Morgan, Laura Fischer, Emily Pitzer, Charlotte Hartley, Rebecca Flanagan, Brandon Gear, Lia Boling, and Jackson Gunnels. Jackson’s Lexile score is 1089! Grade 4 - Jonathan Alcantara-Ordonez, Carrlee Crocker, Jared Anderson, Molly Kucharski, Joshua Roberts, Steele Norton, Keaton Johnson, Porter Huyck, Ethan Huyck, and Luke Chase. Luke’s Lexile score is 1384! Grade 5 – Connor Sierra, Emily Woods, Amna Khan, Emma Murphy, Cassidy Ceppos, Maya Erwin, Brennan Wayne, Cara Crawford, Arthur Liu, and Jack Mahramus. Jack’s Lexile score is 1321! Top Three Students from SRI with the most reading growth! Grade2 –Gabriel Martins, Ryan Antalek, and Dylan Kabler. Grade 3 – Fiona Natal, Jackson Laudner, and Caroline Heekin. Caroline had a 576 point gain!! Grade 4 – Tyler Pratt, Mario Alcantara, and Luke Bishop. Grade 5 – Matthew Flanagan, Cara Crawford, and Dylan Prusaczyk.

Koala Run The Wekiva Koala Run was Saturday, December 3rd. The following Wekiva runners placed in the Top Fifteen in their divisions: 6 and Under Girls Kiley Strott - 3rd Hope Shenk - 6th

Isabel Barina - 9th Bella Laudner - 15th 7 Year old Girls Lindsey Follese - 13th 7 Year Old Boys Connor Woods - 1st Dylan Sanabria - 5th Andrew Bubon - 8th William Blades - 9th 8 Year Old Girls Lauren Kraus - 2nd 9 Year Old Boys Andrew Pikalow - 3rd 10 Year Old Boys Clay Ulmer - 1st James Sellers - 9th 11 Year Old Boys Steven Manso – 4th The next Cross Country Meet is at Bear Lake Elementary School on January 21. The complete Cross Country schedule is available on the Wekiva website under P.E.

Robotics / First Lego League The Robotics Teams will compete at a regional competition on January 14 at Lawton Elementary. Members are: Team 1 Mindstorms - #6381 Benny Tan, Tommy Dyll, Brandon Collins, George Howe, and William Kealing Team 2 Sonic Booms - #6382 Megan Manlove, Mary Frabizio, Rachel Melendez, Joe Holmstrom, and James Sellers Team 3 Cyborgs - #6383 Tanner Chamness, Derrick Von Eberstein, Matthew Flanagan, and Jacob Fiorentino Good Luck!!!

Science Expo 2012 Coming Soon! February 7th, 7:00pm All students in grades k-5 are invited to participate! This event is planned annually to spark our students’ interest in science and to get them involved in

Wekiva Whispers Wekiva Elementary School

1450 East Wekiva Trail Longwood, Florida 32779

Phone: 746-3150 Fax: 746-3163 January 2012

Principal: Marjorie Adamczyk Assistant Principal: Michelle Baker

Seminole County Public Schools www.scps.k12.fl.us or www.wekivaelementary.com

a beginning science fair project. Student projects will be on display for an evening at school. The intention is for the event to be a showcase and not a competition, so all participants will be presented an award for completing their project. Students may work alone or in partners. Specific project guidelines will be given when your registration form is turned in. They will include steps for using the scientific method, size restrictions, do’s and don’ts, and a list of useful websites. Please contact Mrs. Gabrovic for further information.

Student Council 2011-2012 Student Council was elected by their classmates. Congratulations to all of them. Student Council Officers Lexis Kreimeier – 5 – President Alex Bishop – 5 -Vice President Claire Wisth – 4 – Secretary Serra Sowers – 4 – Photographer Student Council Representatives in Grade 4 Amy Laurie, Russell Tretter, Jack Kurtz, Ben Evelev, Isabella Dady, Ben Orensky, Emma Vick, Cassidy Curtis, and Jourdyn Aguiar Student Council Representatives in Grade 5 Barbara Svec, Gabby Bernardo, Eleri Rogers, Jenna Kabler, Kelly Gomez, Mya Nicholas, Maya Erwin, Autumn Cornell, Matt D’Aquisto, and Karleigh Creekmore. The Student Council Movie Night was so much fun. Thank you to coordinators Ms. Turner, and Ms. Kelly for the organization and planning. Our business partners provided us with food too.

PTA News We had a great turnout for the Scott Humston, "Pro Kids Show”. He had us all laughing. We want to thank the

dads that got up on the stage and made us laugh even more. Also, thank you for an energized Boosterthon Fun Run! Our students have received an active, positive message to Encourage, Play, Invite, and Celebrate Others through an EPIC Adventure! Thank you for helping your school through fun run pledges, and please submit any outstanding pledge dollars to your child's teacher!

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 child’s 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 for supporting 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 you’re 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, don’t 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!

Important Dates 1/13 Reading Logs due 1/16 No School – MLK Jr’s

Birthday Observed. 1/21 Wekiva Cross Country at

Bear Lake Elementary @ 8:00 a.m.

1/23 Literacy Week - Progress Reports go home 1/26 Vision Screening 1/27 Vision Screening 2/1 5:00 – SAC 6:15 – PTA 2/7 7:00 Science Expo PTA General Mtg.

Thank you to our Wekiva Business Partners!

These partnerships have involved student and teacher incentives, classroom speakers, mentors…..etc. As they recognized us, we hope you recognize them.

Starbucks  

School Time Planners, Inc.

Math Monkey of Lake Mary