Webster Elementary Newsletter

We are excited to be holding our holiday music program again this year for grades 3,4,5 and 4/5 chorus! Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade classes will be holding a spring concert during our school carnival in May. We are having a special holiday lunch on December 21st. The students all dress so nice and look so GREAT for the holiday concert that we think it will be great for them to dress in their holiday best for school on that day. We will be decorating the tables and playing some holiday music to make the lunch special for the students.

Pottery Night: It was GREAT to see so many families at Webster making beautiful pottery projects! A special THANK YOU to Miss Babino and PTO for making this event possible again. I would also like to thank the many other volunteers who helped.

Parent/Teacher Conferences: Thank you to all the families that came to P/T conferences in November. We will be holding our next parent/teacher conferences on February 8th.

Assessments: Our teachers will be assessing all our students in reading and math again in January. They will use this information to help them adjust and guide instruction for each student. Each student will be reading one-on-one with their teacher as they calculate their reading levels. We do this assessment 3 times a year with every student. We use this information to make sure every student is being taught reading at their specific instructional level. Students in grades 2-5 will also be taking the STAR reading and math assessment. This assessment is done on their computers and you should be receiving their results with report cards or during parent/teacher conferences.

Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade and the Fourth and Fifth Grade Choir will delight you with their singing to bring in the holiday season. The schedule is as follows:

Program Times:

6:00 p.m. – Third Grade Program

6:30 p.m. – Fourth Grade Program

7:00 p.m. – Fifth Grade Program

7:30 p.m. - Fourth and Fifth Grade Choir

***The building doors will open at 5:40 p.m. To lessen the congestion in the hallway we ask that you enter the building by the office or through the doors on Tenth Street. Students should report to their assigned location 15 minutes before the start of their program. Please take your child’s jacket with you to the gym after you drop them off in their classrooms/media center. We are going to dismiss all of the students from the gym after their program. They will not be able to return to their classrooms/media center after their program. Families should line up in the hallway by the cafeteria and down the first grade hallway while you are waiting to enter the gym.***

Wildcat Leaders will work at setting up school wide activities and will assist in making Webster a place in which we can all be proud! The following students are our 2nd quarter Wildcat Leaders:

Macy Moulton 1C

Ellie Drinwater 1C

Brooklyn Alba 1G

Savannah Trapp 1K/S

Rowan Schimmel 1K/S

Mason Ferry 2R

Raelyn Nienow 2R

Emery Bishop 2M

Parker Kopecky 2M

Samaya Gonzalez-Hernandez 2W

William Martin 2W

Kynslee Milton 3G

Sawyer Winkelman 3G

Hazel Mechelke 3L

Daeshawn Holmes 3L

Alex Schuett 3R

Sophia Helser 3R

Silas Odegaard-Henry 4J

Ashlynn Ready 4J

Kyle Joslyn 4M

Shaquille Robbins 4M

Izabella Soto 4S

Kendyl Bauer 4S

Madelyn West 5B

Easton Nagel 5B

Mya Phillips 5H

James Garland 5H

Braelyn LaDew 5T

Damian Silva 5T

Meeting Dates: December 5, January 16, February 6

Students need to be picked up at 4:00 at the 12th Street main entrance (Front of Webster)

Inclement weather may result in closing schools, delayed openings or early dismissal. The District maintains close contact with the bus company, the highway department and the weather bureau regarding weather conditions. Closing decisions are made as early as possible. Rather than calling the school or the district office, please listen to the radio, watch the TV, check the district web page or the district Facebook page. You may also receive a phone call from the district. Announcements will be made over the following radio and television stations:

WBEV (AM 1430)

WKCH (FM 106.5)

WTMJ (AM 620)

WFAW (AM 940)

WXRO (FM 95.3)

WKTI (FM 94.5)

WMIL (FM 106.1)

WSJY (FM 107.3)

WTMJ (TV Channel 4-Milw)

WISN (TV Channel 12-Milw)

WMTV (TV Channel 15-Madison)

WISC (TV Channel 3-Madison)

WKOW (TV Channel 27-Madison)

WITI FOX 6 (Milw)

Please notify your child’s teacher if any of the departure information on the Student Arrival and Pick-Up Plans form has changed. Remember it is important to keep the office updated on any home, cell, emergency or work phone numbers.

We need your help! Reading instruction at school is only one part of your child’s learning to become a better reader. Reading at home, on their own or with a parent, is equally as important. Please encourage your children to enjoy a book for at least 20 minutes a day. You will enjoy seeing their growth!

20 VERY IMPORTANT MINUTES:

Webster School would like each of our students to read or be read to every night for at least 20 minutes at home. The following example will give you an idea of how important those 20 minutes can be.

Child A reads 20 minutes each night for 5 nights a week.

Child B reads only 4 minutes each night for 5 nights a week.

Child A will read for 100 minutes a week while Child B only reads 20 minutes.

Child A will read 400 minutes per month and Child B reads only 80 minutes per month.

During the 9 months of school Child A will get 3,600 minutes of reading while Child B only gets 720 minutes.

Child A practices reading the equivalent of 10 whole school days a year. Child B reads the equivalent of only 2 whole school days.

If this pattern where to continue from grades 1-6, by the end of sixth grade, Child A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole days of school while Child B has only read the equivalent of 12 schools days over the six years.

Some questions for Parents to ponder:

Which student would you expect to read better?

Which student would you expect to know more?

Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?

Which student would you expect to do better in school?

Shouldn’t your child read or be read to for 20 minutes each night?

Webster Elementary School helped set a New World Record for the World Sport Stacking Association by participating in STACK UP on November 14, 15 and 16 for Most People Sport Stacking at Multiple Locations!

746,698 stackers is the new STACK UP! World Record

A huge thank you to each of the 746,698 stackers and 2,242 schools / organizations who took part on November 14th, 15th and/or 16th to help set a new WSSA World Record for the "Most People Sport Stacking at Multiple Locations". Our school came through to help push us past the previous record of 737,863!

Webster Elementary School helped set a New World Record: thewssa.com/stackup/2023/the_sport/?rid=40608