Dedicated Westlawn parent volunteers arrive on cold, frigid mornings to serve hot chocolate to safety patrols! We are thankful for our wonderful parent volunteers and responsible safety patrols.
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Snowglobes and writing!
Proud Westlawn students create snowglobes and write about their winter experiences!
Winter Strings, Band and Chorus Concert
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We’re so proud! Westlawn students showed off their angelic voices and musical instruments during the Winter Concert. Congratulations for a wonderful performance! Thank you to our inspiring directors, Ms. Emery (strings), Mr. Utell (band), Ms. Davenport (Chorus) and Ms. Frank (Chorus) for coaching, teaching, and bringing out our students’ talents. Thank you also to all of our supportive parents!
Kindergartners paint snowmen!
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Kindergartners, inspired by their creative teachers, paint snowmen. They read such books as Snowmen at Night and Snowballs. These books sparked their imaginations. In addition to the basic snowman parts, students add hats, scarves, ear muffs, and ice skates with snowflakes to make sure the snowmen don’t melt. 🙂 This lesson is part of their science, art, and language art curriculum. In science, students learn about weather, water cycle, mass and volume.
Dessert with the Principal
Sixth graders enjoy lunch and ice cream sundaes with Ms. Ferguson! Ms.Ferguson looks forward to these weekly lunch groups and getting to know the “seniors” of Westlawn.
Westlawn’s PTA Rocks!
Westlawn’s PTA is awesome! It support our students, families and teachers in so many ways. Our wonderful PTA sponsors such events as cultural arts assemblies, holiday events like Ginger Bread House making, restaurant and Bingo nights, walk to school day, Fall Fesitival, Book Exchange, and the biggest event at Westlawn, International Night! At tonight’s meeting our PTA served healthy snacks which supports Westlawn’s quest for this year’s GOLDEN Wellness Award!
Congratulations to our Physical Education Team, Mary Tillett and Pete Howe, who received the Giving Others Lifelong Desire for Exercise and Nutrition (Golden) Wellness Award for Westlawn for 2012-2013. Westlawn received the highest version of the award: GOLD! Mrs. Tillett represented the team in November at a special School Board Recognition Ceremony.
Happy New Year … School Through Students’ Eyes!
Westlawn students worked with George Mason University (GMU) graduate students to create a multi-media story about their experiences and expectations of daily student life at Westlawn. Thank you to Mrs. Jones who coordinated this event with GMU professors, Kristien Zenkov and Paul Gorski.
