The purpose of our Tags of Honor Celebration is to celebrate our Wise Owls for their accomplishments during the first quarter. We will acknowledge our Wise Owls by providing Brag Tags based on our their succeses and achievements from Outstanding Attendance to a Reading Award, Math Award, Growth, and Honor Roll categories for grades 3-5.
All families are invited to join and celebrate our Wise Owls; however, families of students who will be recognized for earning a Tag will be sent an invitation in Thursday Folders.
We will do Tags of Honor Celebrations quarterly which gives students the opportunity to set goals, see success, celebrate their friends and classmates, and build on previous set goals. For that reason, we will have students keep their Tags at school until the end of the school year.
Friday, November 1st
- Kindergarten: 7:45 - 8:45 a.m.
- 3rd Grade: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
- 2nd Grade: 10:15 - 11:15 a.m.
Monday, November 4th
- 1st Grade: 7:45 - 8:45 a.m.
- 4th Grade: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
- 5th Grade: 10:15 - 11:15 a.m.
WES School Spirit Shirts will be worn during Field Trips
To ensure that our students remain safe while off-campus, we are asking families to purchase a WES School Spirit Shirt. Students will be able to wear their School Spirit Shirt on all of their Field Studies which has our 2024-25 AllforONE! logo and our school's contact information (on the front of the shirt). Also, 100% of the proceeds will go back in our field trip budget to ensure that we can keep costs down for families.
Shirts cost $10
Order your shirt using the link below
*shirts will come white with the blue logo or blue with the white logo
Children who read more often show different development trajectories than those who read less. These differences occur specifically in the part of the brain responsible for reading, and the network of different circuits and signals becomes stronger and more sophisticated as the child improves their reading skills.
Interestingly, there is also a two-way relationship between emotional development and literacy in children. Here are some other ways in which reading influences our brains:
- It helps develop empathy and teaches us how to think in sequence by linking cause and effect through story structure.
- Reading in different languages can help grow the brain, particularly the hippocampus and the cerebral cortex.
- It allows us to feel the same emotions we would if we actually experienced the things we are reading about.
- Listening to audiobooks or hearing someone else read to you (e.g. parents reading to children) is also considered a way to exercise the brain.
