Westwood Intermediate/Middle School
Hello Westwood Schools families,
This week is a short week for students, there is no school on Thursday and Friday. Our staff is preparing for conferences and engaging in professional learning. We’ll be focusing on literacy and creating individualized plans based on fall data, what we have learned from students, and upcoming unit planning. Based on this work over the next few days:
- You may see individual schedule shifts for students who need support in reading and math. We will be adjusting schedules in the upcoming weeks. Your child’s teacher or counselor will reach out to you with any changes that impact your child.
- In the classroom, students will experience word study of root words, prefixes, suffixes, and words that are used across content areas to help students comprehend and analyze the texts they are reading. The reading we ask kids to do in grades 5-8 becomes more complex. We will focus literacy instruction on supporting students in reading multisyllabic words and developing vocabulary.
Conferences are next week on Tuesday evening, 4-7 p.m. and Wednesday, 8-11 a.m. and 12-3 p.m. Grades 5 and 6 please sign up for a conference time with your child’s homeroom teacher. Conferences from grades 7-8 are not scheduled; Feel welcome to drop in any time.
We’ll see students back in school next Monday and Tuesday, and then it’s fall break and no school for students next Wednesday, October 14 through Friday, October 16. There won’t be a school newsletter next Wednesday. We’ll look forward to seeing you for conferences.
Enjoy the long weekend,
Tom Larson
Principal
763-600-5300
Winter athletics registration is open for grades 7-8
Registration for Minnesota State High School League winter athletics is now open. Visit the registration page to register. Registration will remain open for the first few weeks of the season.
Here's what is available for grades 7-12:
- Adapted Floor Hockey
- Boys Swim & Dive
- Girls Basketball
- Girls Hockey
- Gymnastics
- Nordic Ski
- Winter Dance Team - Co-Ed
- Wrestling
There are also a wide variety of after-school activities available for grades 5-8. See the list of available Westwood activities.
Powering Schools with the Sun
A year ago, Centerview Elementary and Westwood Intermediate and Middle School began generating electricity from the sun. State and federal grants covered 90 percent of the cost, and one year later, the results are solar-iously encouraging.
Centerview and Westwood are not the only district schools benefiting from solar energy. Read more about how we're Powering Schools with the Sun.
Winter Market (and Thrift Shop)
Community Education will be hosting the Winter Market for our students/families again on Saturday, December 5. This is an opportunity for students to shop for inexpensive items to give as gifts to loved ones for upcoming holidays and gift-giving events. There are two ways you can participate and help make this a great event:
- Donate Panther gear for the Thrift Shop: Donate your gently used Panther gear with current SLP branding and get a coupon to use in the Panther Store for a future purchase. Gear will be re-sold at thrifty prices to students, staff, and families at the Winter Market. Plan to drop items at the DSC to get your coupon; email your questions to PantherStore@district16.org.
- Donate gift items for the Winter Market Gift Shop: Donate gently used, almost new, or new items to the Winter Market. Bring items to the District Services Center to the attention of Community Education. Items appropriate for the Gift Shop include: small household items, household decor, puzzles, board games, jewelry, figurines, décor, kitchen gadgets, children’s books, cookbooks, etc. Think about items a child would be excited to pick out for an adult in their life, and what an adult might be happy to receive and use in their daily life. We are especially looking for items that could be gifted to men. Questions, please contact us at SLPComEd@district16.org.
