Miss Rohleder’s 4th grade class has been feeling very festive. They can be seen here wearing Christmas attire. On the 20th, Miss Rohleder’s son, Mason, a freshman at EHS, helped the kids make Christmas ornaments. Happy holidays to all!
The fourth graders at WGS want to say thank you to the PTO for purchasing each student a book. Thank you so much!
Yesterday the Kindergarten took part in the Gingerbread Man run! They had so much fun looking for their cookies! Huge Thank you to all the teachers and students that helped!
Mrs. Burd’s class got creative with snowball writing! They were given a holiday prompt to start a story. Next, they crumpled their papers into a snowball and threw it. Each student grabbed a random paper and added to their friend’s story. Finally, we shared our stories aloud!
We are so proud of our 3rd thru 6th grade spelling bee participants! Spellers going to the county bee are: 1st place- Lux Bell, 2nd place- Faythe Rummel, 3rd place- Henry Brull, and 4th place- Hailey McMillan. Great job students!!
You can watch last night's BOE meeting as well as previous BOE meetings now on the USD388 Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/USD388
Information about touring Ellis to see the Christmas Lights
The link below is for WGS weekly announcements.
https://5il.co/1lte2
2nd grade works on counting by tens through creating their own handshakes!!! 🧡🖤🤍🚂
Thank you Miss Hansen and Mrs. Russell for being good sports allowing great readers to silly string you
Congratulations to these students who were nominated as students of the month for their hard work and kindness in the classroom: Teddy Meagher, Calder Keimig, Lily Still (not pictured) Lane Dickson, Daxton Burd, Kraytyn Blide, Myles Vine, Atreyu Espino, Brenna Honas, and Evelynn Stropes (not pictured). We are so proud of you! Keep up the great work!
Third graders experimented with balanced and unbalanced forces while trying to drop an egg into a cup without touching it. We even got Mr. Befort in on the action!
Kick off the holiday season by joining us for the WGS Christmas Concert Monday, November 28th in the Grade School Gym. Grades K-3 @ 6:30, grades 4-6 @ 7:30.
Happy Thanksgiving USD 388 Families,
As Thanksgiving break approaches, I am thankful for the opportunities staff has had to work with your children. We are so proud of their personal and academic growth and successes so far this school year. Your children are fun, focused, and dedicated to meeting their educational challenges.
In this season of reflection and gratitude, I sincerely say “Thank You!” for everything you have done, are doing, and will continue to do to help and support our students, our staff, and our wonderful school community.
Finally, may you and your family experience a most restful break.
Janice Wilson
Ellis USD 388 Superintendent
Thanks to the Ellis Police Department for coming out and spending time with our grade school students. Cocoa with Cops was a hit!!! ❤️☕️👮🏻🚔
The link to the updated Weekly Announcements is below:
I forgot to add the Concert date and times Friday. The concerts are Monday November 28th, K-3 @ 6:30, 4-6 @ 7:30.
https://5il.co/1l208
Junior high boys’ basketball coach, Bryant Eichman, has been spending his Friday mornings doing his internship is Miss Rohleder’s math classes. Today, he got in on some coloring action with a student during indoor recess.
WGS weekly announcements link is below.
https://5il.co/1l0uf
The sixth graders learned about genetic and environmental factors that affect animal survival. In groups, they created games about a specific animal and factors it may face. They worked very hard, so today they get to play each game! 🎲
WGS PTO Bingo night November 18th 6:30-8:00 in the gym.
