Woodland Primary School Weekly

10/6-Teacher Institute-no student attendance

10/9-Indigenous Peoples' Day-No Staff or Student Attendance

10/13-EC/WELE Round Up Event

10/13-Dual Language Hispanic Heritage Activity Stations

10/15-Health Forms are Due!

10/15-10/21 America's Safe Schools Week

10/23-10/27 Red Ribbon Week

10/27 Halloween Parade and Parties

The National School Safety Center, state governors, and state school superintendents sponsor America's Safe Schools Week, October 15-21st. This week is an annual event that raises awareness about the importance of school safety and promotes strategies for keeping students and staff safe. At Woodland Primary School, safety protocols and procedures are practiced and reviewed with our staff consistently. In addition, we collaborate with our local agencies to ensure our safety procedures are up to date.

How can parents and caregivers help?

Updated contact information: Please be sure that we have the most current contact information, in the event of an emergency, we want to be able to contact parents/caregivers immediately. If you have numbers that are outdated/not in use, it makes contact difficult. Please reach out to our office to make any changes.

Updated emergency contacts: Please be sure that there are emergency contacts on file for your child. In the event of an emergency when a parent/caregiver can't be reached, we need to have a backup person available.

Parking Lot: We have many small children and families arriving each day. Please be sure to park in a parking spot, slow down, and no cell phone use. This keeps our lot safe for all. Give yourself extra time in the morning so that students can arrive before the doors shut.

Thank you for being partners with us in keeping safety a priority.

The deadline for vaccines and physicals is Oct. 15. If you do not have the proper documentation on file in the Health Office, your student will be excluded from school. Please contact the Health Office at your student’s school if you need assistance in meeting these requirements.

Kindergarten Students/ Students New to District 50:

• Physical Exam (Parents please complete the yes/no Health History questions on the back and sign and date)

• Complete immunization record signed by the medical provider to include

  • DTap (5 doses)

  • Polio (4 doses with one administered on or after 4th birthday)

  • Hib (4 doses)

  • Hep B (3 doses)

  • MMR (2 doses)

  • Varicella (2 doses)

  • Pneumococcal (4 doses)

• Dental Exam on IL form (dated within 18 months)

• Eye Exam on Illinois form dated within one year of the first day of school

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Warren Newport Library and Woodland! On Saturday, October 21st. from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Woodland will participate with Warren Newport Library in the Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration.

The event will be open to the general public, there will be fun activities, traditional music, and the display of artwork made by Woodland District 50 School artists.

Woodland Primary students are working on a special paper mural highlighting artist, Frida Kahlo. We hope to see you at the library!

Click HERE to see all of the amazing activities they have planned for Hispanic Heritage.

Next Friday, October 13, the Kindergarten Dual Language students will be celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by participating in stations. They will be engaging in some of the following activities through a station rotation: petanque, learning dances called aserejé and salsa, coloring a map to identify Spanish-speaking countries, Spanish bingo, playing el juego de las sillas musicales canción infantil game, or creating papel picado.

If your child has any historically traditional clothes that represent their culture that they would like to wear to school that day they are more than welcome to do so. Another option is for students can wear colors from the flag that represent their culture.

Primary Halloween Plans

The Primary students and staff are celebrating Halloween on Friday,

October 27, 2023. Below are the different planned activities. If Halloween isn't an event that your family celebrates, please note that all activities are optional. Reach out to your child’s teacher so that alternate activities can be arranged.

Costumes

Students are invited to wear costumes for Halloween. If students choose to dress up, they need to come to school dressed in their costumes. We also ask that the guidelines below be followed so that the day is enjoyable and safe for all students.

• Costume masks will not be worn inside the school. If they choose to wear a costume mask outdoors, they need to have clear vision when walking.

• All costumes need to be appropriate for this grade level. Blood, toy guns, toy weapons, or anything encouraging violence is prohibited.

• Costumes should allow students to do normal daily activities, this includes recess and PE.

• Your child should be able to use the restroom independently when in costume. Please be sure that your child knows how their costume pieces work so that they are able to do all of their daily routines and bring all of their pieces home.

Parade & Party Information

We will have a Primary parade and party for our students to celebrate Halloween. We will have an AM and a PM time for our EC/WELE students, our kindergarten students will all participate in the PM parade time. (See times below.)

The parade will be held outside and all parents/caregivers are welcome to watch the parade. Parents should park in the parking lot and stand by the edges of the bus lane. Students will come out by class and walk in the bus lane. If there is inclement weather, the parade will be canceled and held indoors for students and staff only. If the parade is canceled, the information will be communicated to parents.

Halloween Party

Students will return to their classroom following the parade for their party time. Four volunteers per classroom are allowed to help with the classroom party. Your classroom’s head parent will be reaching out to schedule volunteers. Food isn’t served during our parties, children will eat their regular snacks sent in during the party. Games and crafts will be the focus of our celebration. Please do not send in food or goody bags. Thank you!

Activity Times:

Kindergarten: Room Parent Arrival Time; 12:05 PM

Parade; 12:15 PM-12:35 PM

Party; 12:45 PM- 1:45 PM

AM EC/WELE: Room Parent Arrival Time: 8:40 AM

Parade: 8:45 AM-9:15 AM

Party; 9:15 AM-10:10 AM

PM EC/WELE: Room Parent Arrival Time; 12:05 PM

Parade; 12:15 PM-12:35 PM

Party; 12:45 PM-1:45 PM

We look forward to a wonderful day together!

Be sure to order your meals in advance for the month of October. The links are below:

October Breakfast Form (Kindergarten)

October Meal Form (WELE & EC)

Second Tuesday's Fundraiser! Tuesday 10/10, MOD Pizza in Gurnee. 25% of orders placed ANY time on 10/10 will be donated back to the PTA. You MUST show FLYER when ordering in person, or use code MODGIVES25 when ordering online.

The fall Signature Chocolate Fundraiser is underway!! Online ordering is also available. For more details and instructions on how to participate, click HERE. Paper order forms and payments are DUE on or before Wednesday, October 11th. Thank you for your support!

October PTA Meeting, Thursday 10/12 at 7 p.m. via Zoom. Registration required.

Dunkfest 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament is returning on Friday 10/20! All 3rd-8th grade students are eligible to participate. REGISTER TODAY! All teams must register by 10/17. Click HERE for details and registration.

-WSRA Trunk-or-Treat, Sunday 10/22, 1-3pm. $3/participant, Registration Required

Principal

Woodland Primary School

Email: standerson@dist50.net
Website: www.dist50.net
Location: 17366 West Gages Lake Road, Gages Lake, IL, USA
Phone: 847-984-8702
Twitter: @StaceyJAnd