Wharton Wildcat Newsletter

It seems as though winter has fully arrived. The snow and frigid temperatures have placed us squarely in a deep freeze. It appears the groundhog was right in his prediction about six more weeks of winter! Stay safe and warm over the coming days.

Currently, we are asking parents to complete multiple surveys. The information gathered from these surveys will help the district in many ways. Please take a few moments to complete the address update and hybrid learning election survey, if you have not already done so. We appreciate your feedback.

Please feel free to contact the main office with any questions or concerns you may have.

Educationally yours,

Dr. Shestine Gesbocker, Principal

Mrs. Sara Leone, Associate Principal

2/14: Valentine's Day

2/15: Presidents' Day No School (no meal service)

2/16: Remote classes resume at 7:50

2/16-2/26: Erin's Law Presentations with Social Worker

2/16-2/19 (8:30-1:00): Dental Bus in HMS parking lot

2/17: Wharton Town Hall Meeting at 6:00 PM

3/1: Board of Education Meeting at 6:00 PM

3/2: End of Second Trimester

3/25: Parent Teacher Conferences

Do you still need to complete your hyrbrid learning election form? Do you still have additional questions? Join administration at 6:00 PM on Wednesday, February 17 to get those questions answered.

Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine

A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry "Box" Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday, his first day of freedom.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Enter the world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Momma and Dad decide it's time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home with the amazing Ultra-Glide, and the Watsons head South to Birmingham, Alabama...toward one of the darkest moments in America's history. A hilarious, touching, and tragic novel about civil rights and the impact of violence on one African American family.

Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges

On November 14, 1960, a tiny six-year-old black child, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. From where she sat in the office, Ruby Bridges could see parents marching through the halls and taking their children out of classrooms. The next day, Ruby walked through the angry mob once again and into a school where she saw no other students. The white children did not go to school that day, and they wouldn't go to school for many days to come. Surrounded by racial turmoil, Ruby, the only student in a classroom with one wonderful teacher, learned to read and add. This is the story of a pivotal event in history as Ruby Bridges saw it unfold around her. Ruby's poignant words, quotations from writers and from other adults who observed her, and dramatic photographs recreate an amazing story of innocence, courage, and forgiveness. Ruby Bridges' story is an inspiration to us all.