Waterville Primary Friday Flyer!

Monday, September 7th: Labor Day: No School

Wednesday, September 9th: Walk to School Morning

Monday, September 14th: Board of Education Meeting at Central Administrative Office 6:00pm

Wednesday, September 23rd: Walk to School Morning

Thursday, September 24th: Bike to School Morning (rain date of October 7th)

Thursday, October 1st: Generals March Fundraiser

Kindergarten-AM and 1st Grade Walk/Run Time – 9am

3rd Grade and 4th Grade Walk/Run Time – 10:05am

Kindergarten-PM and 2nd Grade Walk/Run Time – 2:15pm

Monday, October 5th: Waterville Parents' Association Meeting in Media Center 6:30pm

Thursday, October 8th: Donuts at Dawn and Book Fair (more information to be shared)

Friday, October 9th: Donuts at Dawn and Book Fair (more information to be shared)

Monday, October 12th: Board of Education Meeting at Central Administrative Office 6:00pm

Friday, October 16th: End of First Quarter

Monday, October 19th: No School: Professional Development Day for Staff

Monday, November 9th: Board of Education Meeting at Central Administrative Office 6:00pm

Monday, December 7th: Board of Education Meeting at Central Administrative Office 8:00am

Good afternoon, Waterville Primary Families!

As we get ready for the big game tonight, we are excited to see our students cheering on the Generals and enjoying the energy of the evening! We also want to remind everyone of a few important expectations to help ensure that the football game is a safe, positive, and enjoyable experience for all.

A few important reminders for our Primary students:

• Students must be accompanied by an adult to enter the stadium. Primary students should remain with their supervising adult throughout the evening.
• Please leave all footballs and sports equipment at home. For safety reasons, footballs and other sports equipment will not be permitted inside the stadium. If a football is brought to the stadium gate, it will not be allowed inside.
• No running, playing, or roughhousing inside the stadium. The stadium is a busy environment with many people moving around, so students are expected to remain safely with their families and use appropriate walking feet while inside.

Thank you for helping us make sure our students can enjoy cheering on the Generals while keeping themselves and others safe. We appreciate your partnership in reinforcing these expectations with your children before heading to the game.

Go Generals! 💙🤍

We are kicking off the year with Military Appreciation Night this Friday, September 4, at the Anthony Wayne High School Football Game. Below are the critical details for the evening. Please also see the attachment to learn more about local events, discounts, contacts and other information for military-connected students and families.

Stadium Admission

• Current Service Members & Veterans: Free admission for the service member only (with military ID).




• Purple Star Generals Students: Free admission only if they check in at the practice field for the tunnel run.




• Families & Guests: Must purchase tickets and enter through the main gate.




• Policy Reminder: No stadium re-entry is permitted.

Tunnel Run Timeline & Logistics

• 6:30 PM – Check-In: Students must meet on the football practice field for attendance. Building liaisons will escort them into the stadium.




• Pre-Game – Tunnel Formation: Varsity cheerleaders will guide the children to the northwest corner of the field (past the end zone) to form a human tunnel for the football team.




• National Anthem: Students will stand in the end zone for the anthem.




• Kickoff – Sideline Transition: After the football team runs through, students will move to the grassy sideline area near the student section to watch the start of the game.




• Post-Run – Parent Pick-Up: Parents must immediately pick up their children at the fence where the visitor team enters the field.

Thank you for your continued service and support of our military youth and families.

Our next Walk to School Day will be Wednesday, September 9!

Walk to School Days are a great chance to meet up with friends and AW Teachers and Staff to get out those morning jitters and move our bodies. Please walk your child to or drop your child off at one of the intersections listed below by the allotted time. There is a map below of meet up locations. Our volunteers will then walk with them to the school where they will wait out front until the school doors are opened. You are welcome to walk with your child if you or they would prefer that.

Here are the meeting places and times:

Dana Rae/Saratoga @ 8:10 – Mrs. Bradfield and Mrs. Carroll

Prairie Trail Park Picnic Pavilion @ 8:10 - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Wellsbury/Meadowview @ 8:10 - Mrs. McIntyre and Ms. Knoll

Rutledge/Farmview @ 8:15 - Mrs. Snyder and Mrs. Persinger

Cherry/Sycamore @ 8:15 - Mrs. Boyle and Ms. Ryan

Village Pkwy/Independence @ 8:15 - Mrs. Stansfield and Ms. Echler

Hickory/Cherry @ 8:10 - Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Rosebrook

Royal Hampton/Buckeye @ 8:15 - Dr. Hollinger, Mrs. Cowell and Teila

Wilkshire/Heritage @ 8:10 - Mrs. Aller & Miss Gast

*If it rains, Walk to School will be canceled.

*Please contact Elena Boyle at eboyle@anthonywayneschools.org with any questions or if you are interested in volunteering.

We hope to see you there!

Walk to School Map

We’d love to see you at our next WPA meeting on Monday, October 5th at 6:30 p.m. in the Waterville Primary Media Center. It’s a great way to meet other parents and guardians, share ideas, and learn about upcoming events.

If you ever have any questions about the WPA or want to learn how to get involved, please reach out to:

• Dawn Bentley – dmpetersen3@gmail.com; (419) 410-5723

• Heidi Borucki – heidi.borucki@gmail.com; (517) 388-5774

We look forward to connecting with you and continuing to make this an AWesome year at Waterville Primary!

Warmest regards,

The Waterville Parents’ Association (WPA)

Dear Families,

Our students have officially raised $7,120! Thank you so much for your incredible support as we march toward our goal.

To celebrate this milestone, we are hosting a PJ Reward Day on Tuesday, September 8th. All students are encouraged to wear their favorite (school-appropriate) pajamas to school!

What’s next?
Our next school-wide goal is $12,000. If we reach it, everyone wins a popsicle party!

Thank you for keeping the momentum going, Generals!

Subject: Generals March: Event Schedule, New Milestones, and Online Setup! 🏃‍♂️💨

Dear Generals Families,

The Generals March is coming up on Thursday, October 1st! Here is the schedule for our marchers:

• 9:00 AM: KAM & 1st Grade
• 10:05 AM: 3rd & 4th Grade
• 2:15 PM: KPM & 2nd Grade

Where the Money Goes
100% of all funds raised go directly back to our students to fund AWesome activities and initiatives like STEAM events, field trips, and new classroom technologies!

Online Donations Made Easy 💻
Please use our unique 99pledges to create your online donation account. You can create just one account for your entire family if you prefer—I will personally ensure that all students in your family receive credit toward their incentives and individual classrooms!

School-Wide Goals & Rewards 🎯
This year's ultimate school-wide goal is $24,000! Look at what we can unlock together:

• $6,000 (UNLOCKED!): PJ Day is coming up on Tuesday, September 8th!
• $12,000: Popsicle parties for all students!
• $18,000: A Teacher Surprise (teachers get to pick something extra fun to do with their classes)!
• $24,000: The 24K Recess! An extra-special recess packed with fun activities and unique games.

Individual & Family Incentives 🎁

• Every $25 Raised: Students receive a small incentive prize.
• NEW! $100 Raised: Students/families unlock a special Bingo & Treat event during the school day!
• $200 Raised: Students earn an 8-inch Squishmallow!

Thank you to all of our families for working so hard to provide these incredible opportunities for our students. Let's keep up the amazing momentum!

Primary Schools Lunch Menu:

September Menu

Pay online for school meals with MySchoolBucks for fast, easy, and secure digital deposits to your child's cafeteria account. You can make payments using a credit or debit card, set up recurring payments, see your child's purchases and more via the MySchoolBucks website or mobile app. Start using MySchoolBucks.

If your family meets certain income eligibility and other specific guidelines, your children may qualify for free meals or for reduced-price meals at school. Information about the Free and Reduced-Price Meal Program is available on the Anthony Wayne Local Schools Website.

We will only be offering free breakfast to students who qualify for free or reduced price meals this school year.

We are very eager to partner with you for another successful school year. We cannot wait to have our students back here at school with us! Don't hesitate to reach out with any questions! See you all soon!

MySchoolBucks Flyer

Anthony Wayne Kindergarten-4th Grade school fees are $50.00 per student. You can pay your child’s fees online at MySchoolBucks. Electronic payment of school fees is our preferred method of payment. If electronic payment is not possible, you can pay by check or cash (checks payable to Anthony Wayne Local Schools). Thank you!!

Anthony Wayne Local School uses Bright Arrow's InstantConnect for its mass notification system for sharing information via email, phone and text. While most communications from the District will be sent via email, emergency notifications and school delays and closings will continue to be sent via phone call and text message.

Text Messages

Federal law requires users to opt-in to receive text messages. You may change your preferences at any time.

Subscribe to receive text messages from Anthony Wayne Local Schools by texting YES to 79041.

You may unsubscribe from receiving text messages by texting STOP to 79041. NOTE: If you unsubscribe, you will NOT receive any emergency or school closing/delay text messages from AWLS.

Text messages are only sent to parents/guardians and staff members of Anthony Wayne Local Schools. The texting feature is not available to community members.

If your student will be riding a bus (including CDC, Something Special, and Hope), you should have seen/completed forms during online registration through Final Forms. If you did not, or are unsure, please use the links below to request busing through our Transportation department.

Transportation Forms & Links

Transportation to location other than home address

Restarting School Transportation

We are inviting you to join us in celebrating the Anthony Wayne High School's Homecoming Game by participating in the Homecoming Parade with us on Friday, September 25th! Please see the information below:

Welcome to the eighth year of Purple Star Generals, our age-appropriate peer support group for military-connected students. This group connects students with shared experiences and allows them to teach their peers and community about the United States Military through service-oriented projects.

If your child is military-connected and wants to join this leadership group, please complete the Purple Star Generals Membership Google Form.

It is important that we have accurate contact information for parents/guardians and emergency contacts. If email addresses or phone numbers change during the school year, please update your child’s FinalForms account. This will help ensure we can reach you.

The importance of helping a child learn to commit to something long term, persevering when faced with obstacles, and the willingness to keep trying- even when a task or goal is challenging, is our continued focus at Waterville Primary. Grit and growth mindset is not an “edu-fad” but dispositions we will encourage and intentionally teach all of our students, through different classroom activities, assignments, literature, role models, real world examples, and conversations about the topic.

We really need your help again this year with continuing to provide examples of our very own students and ways that they have shown commitment to an activity or goal. You all did a great job recognizing our gritty students and staff last school year and we need to continue to recognize some new students as the school year begins.

Our “Waterville’s Great Wall of Grit” bulletin board remains hanging in the hallway across from the kitchen. This display showcases our gritty students and staff that have been nominated by other individuals as examples of strivers-students who have an enduring passion and take action to achieve a goal. We will continue to spotlight our students and staff who have both determination and direction.

At the end of this Friday Flyer you will find a nomination form to complete if you would like to nominate a student or staff member here at Waterville Primary that you feel exemplifies Grit. Please turn them into the school office once completed and make sure to check out the “Great Wall of Grit” next time you are here in the school.

ABSENCE, LATE ARRIVAL, AND EARLY DISMISSAL REPORTING

All absences, anticipated late arrivals, and early dismissals are reported by emailing WAattendance@anthonywayneschools.org before the school day begins at 8:45am.

Email is encouraged, as it is the most efficient way to track absences and communicate without disruption. In the event that you're unable to email, a phone call to 419-878-2436 can be made at any time and left as a voicemail. If you notify the school of an early dismissal after 8:45, you should anticipate a delay in the pick-up process and plan accordingly.

DISMISSAL/TRANSPORTATION REPORTING INFORMATION

Student transportation is expected to be as consistent as possible. ANY change to your student’s regular end-of-day transportation plan must be reported at the start of the day by sending a note with your student or by emailing ashiffert@anthonywayneschools.org as well as your student's teacher.

We understand that last-minute changes may occur due to unforeseen circumstances, but ask that you use discretion before requesting a change, and communicate in advance whenever possible. No matter how small of a change you perceive the late notification to be (biker instead of car rider, front door instead of back door, going home with a friend, etc) - it is a disruption to the classroom to communicate this with the teacher. For student safety, non-emergency changes may not be permitted after 3pm.

Did you know that Waterville Primary is one of very few STEAM-designated elementary schools in Ohio?! We are always looking to increase opportunities for lessons centered around STEAM. We are always interested in developing professional growth opportunities with community leaders, employers, and resources to enhance student learning.

We are excited to share a wonderful learning opportunity that your child will be participating in this school year through Project Prairie, a continuing education partnership with The Toledo Zoo!

Thanks to the incredible generosity of DEWESoft LLC, a Whitehouse business and community partner, this hands-on programming will be expanded upon and provided to all Waterville Primary students throughout the school year. We are incredibly grateful for their investment in our students and their commitment to supporting our Anthony Wayne community.

🌿 What is Project Prairie?

Project Prairie is a four-part educational experience designed to connect students with nature through hands-on, immersive learning experiences throughout the school year. The programming is aligned with grade-level life science standards and gives students the opportunity to explore the prairie ecosystem through inquiry, observation, and real-world investigation.

Throughout the school year, participating classrooms will experience:

• 🍂 Two on-site prairie visits in the fall — Students will explore the prairie through hands-on investigations and activities.
• ❄️ A live virtual learning experience in the winter — Students will continue building their knowledge and understanding of prairie ecosystems.
• 🌱 A final prairie visit in the spring — Students will return to the prairie to deepen their learning and make connections to what they have experienced throughout the year.

Each experience will focus on a different aspect of the prairie ecosystem, allowing students to build their understanding and curiosity over time rather than experiencing the prairie as a single field trip.

We are especially excited about this partnership because it provides our students with authentic opportunities to ask questions, investigate, observe, and learn from the natural world while connecting directly to the science they are learning in their classrooms.

We are incredibly thankful to DEWESoft LLC and The Toledo Zoo for making this experience possible for our students. Partnerships like this allow us to provide meaningful learning experiences that extend far beyond the walls of our classrooms.

We look forward to sharing pictures and highlights from our Project Prairie experiences with you throughout the school year—and sharing a special thank-you from our students with DEWESoft later this fall!

Our students loved the inquiry based exploration that they all participated in last week with the Toledo Zoo educators! 🌿🦋🌻

Our team is always looking to extend learning standards into the professional workforce. Ensuring our students are college and career-ready is fueled by our connections and collaborations with local businesses and professionals in STEAM-related fields. If you work in a field where STEAM principles are a critical part of your team's success, we would love to hear from you and how our students can learn more!

As a STEAM-designated school, our staff is committed to putting the newest technology trends in the hands of our students. Coding and programming are also a part of modern literacy and it's important to help students understand how it can be positively used to shape their world. All STEAM lessons foster critical thinking skills and characteristics featured by our Portrait of General competencies. In addition, all students use a universal design process to help align our project-based learning with our district's core values and the steps necessary for successful problem-based navigation. Our mission is to allow students to explore STEAM-related areas while building healthy peer relationships through collaboration and teamwork.

Waterville Primary STEAM Programming Highlights:

• 3D Printers & Doodle Pens
• Tinkercad and Coding Opportunities
• Sphero Bolt Kits
• Career Exploration
• Ozobots
• Snap Circuits
• Project Prairie & Toledo Zoo Partnership
• Land Lab & Community Partnerships
• Composting / Recycling Efforts
• Air Monitoring and Data Collection with GLOBE and Purple Air
• TAB - Art Instructional Practices
• Lego Club
• Lego Spike Kits (Prime and Essential)
• Operation Chick Quest
• Equitable Access to 21st Century Technology
• Fully Equipped Makerspace Lab

Waterville Primary will be continuing our presence on Twitter with the handle @AWLSWA. This medium is used for both sharing daily activities and any potential alerts for our building. If you do not have a Twitter account you can still get updates via a Fast Follow feature that sends tweets to phones via SMS text messages. Here is all it takes to sign up to receive SMS text messages from the Waterville Twitter account when a tweet is posted:

On the phone to receive the messages, simply create a new text message to phone number 40404. Next, the message to be sent should read: follow @awlswa

That’s all there is to it! Any student or parent that follows this procedure will receive any Waterville school Twitter messages to their phone as an SMS text message.

To turn off text messages, you would send a message to 40404 that reads: off @awlswa

Flyer Central

Visit Flyer Central for camps, activities, and events for kids and families:

www.AnthonyWayneSchools.org/FlyerCentral