W.C. Petty Elementary School

March 10, 2017 Bobcat Pause

Dear Petty Families, The District 34 Educational Foundation presents the 7th Annual Duck Race on Saturday, May 6, 2017 in conjunction with Antioch Art Crawl. The race will be held at 2:00pm at the Hiram Buttrick Sawmill. Tickets are available NOW and will be sold at various District 34 events, your school office, or Antioch Parks office up un-til race time. The cost is $5 for one ticket (duck) and $20 for five tickets (ducks) with a top prize of $500! Winners do not need to be present to win. All proceeds go toward the District 34 Foun-dation to support mini-grants, and district-wide projects. For more information, contact D34Foundation@gmail.com or check with your school office. The D34 Foundation has supported many of our teachers at Petty for years through the mini-grants they offer to teachers in D34. This year our special education team received a grant to provide our school with sensory tools to include in our new sensory room. Our sensory room will be used as a location for students to use when they need a calming break in order to regulate their behavior or at-tention. For years, we’ve had teachers receive grants for other innovative projects to use with our students. Please consider purchasing tickets for the Duck Race to support our students.

Respectfully, Joanna Gerritsen WC Petty Principal jgerritsen@antioch34.com

DATES TO REMEMBER:

March 14th

Master Facility Plan

Community Form @

Petty School 7:00 pm

ALL ARE WELCOME!

March 15th

Kindergarten Registration @ Hillcrest 3:00-8:00pm

March 17th

3rd Grade Field Trip to

Chicago Public Museum

KIDS NIGHT OUT 6:15-8:15

March 21st

Special Board Mtg.

6:00 pm @ Hillcrest

Board Meeting

7:00 pm @ Hillcrest

SPRING PICTURES

March 27th - March 31st

SPRING BREAK

H.O.T.

A health class on Our Changing Bodies will be presented to all fifth grade

students in April. This is a mandatory class unless the parents sign a release

form. APRIL 6th, 6:30-8:00pm, parents will have an opportunity to attend an

informational meeting at AES, on this class and view the film that will be

shown. It is a great opportunity to ask questions and help prepare your

student. More information and the permission form will follow shortly. Any

questions please call the Health Office at

847-838-8111.

H.O.T Health Office Tidbits

A Message from Project Lead the Way

2nd grade has been working on “Rosie’s Runtime”. This is a

game used as an unplugged activity to learn about computer

programming.

3rd graders are finalizing the games they have been creat-

ing. Next week we will play each other’s games.

4th grade students are working on a solution to use energy

transfer to lift heavy items into a treehouse.

5th grade students are continuing to program robots in hopes

of making autonomous robots that complete tasks.

Fifth grade students are creating monumentalized flowers inspired by the artist Georgia O’Keeffe

Fourth grade students are completing the individual projects for VanGogh, but will continue working on the mural for the art crawl.

Third grade students are finishing The Scream. They will begin working with movement and rythem inspired by artist Keith Haring.

Second grade students are creating chalk cityscapes.

With the successful completion of the 2nd grade music concert, the students will be exploring new mallet techniques

on the xylophones and learning to begin improvising through rhythmic activities and solfege singing. 3rd Grade

students have been review recorder fingerings and learning longer songs. They will have a voluntary performance on

Tuesday, March 14th between 6:30 and 7:00 pm in the WCP gym playing StarBag Café from their recorder

books. Dress is casual for the performance. Along with the 3rd graders, the Bobcat Singers will also perform two

pieces I’d Rather Be Happy and Bright Happy Day at this meeting of the Master Facility Committee during the

Touring section of the evening. All parents are welcome. In the classroom, the 4th graders are finishing up recorder

belt testing and will start working on a piece entitled Zudio in which they will learn about

new movement ideas, the organization of the music and work with sixteenth notes. 5th

grade will be creating recorder rounds using a piece entitled Jeremiah, Blow the Fire and

will expand them into two different parts played at the same time. They will also be

creating sixteenth note/eight note combination compositions to perform for the class.

2nd & 3rd Grade:

Cross Pattern Stations

Track Sprints

Healthy Plate Game

4th & 5th Grade:

2 Square Tennis

Track Sprints

Healthy Plate Game

A Message from Art

Spring Scholastic Book Fair

W.C. Petty held our Spring Scholastic Book Fair

this week. The students were super excited about getting

some new books!

Our Family Night was a HUGE hit! Thank you for joining us

and supporting our students love for reading, as well our W.C.

Petty community!

Students pose for a picture at our

Family Night photo booth.

Library Happenings

Music Happenings

Lego Station is a HUGE

Hit!

Tommy Piehl loves using

our Lego station to create

settings for books.

February Petty POW WOW

“Guest of Honor” seating

Wyatt Kaufman

Samantha Keeler January 25, 2017

Petty Pow Wow

Class Winners for February:

P.E.: Mrs. Marshall’s Class

Art: Mrs. Murray’s Class

Music: Mrs. Popp’s Class

S.T.E.M.: Ms. Harrison’s Class

Custodian: Mrs. Hehn’s Class

Library: Mrs. Flynn’ Class

Spirit: Mrs. Halterman’s Class

Positive Behavior Counts at W.C. Petty!

Our February P.B.I.S. Students-of-the-Month

Congratulations on being Responsible, Respectful and Safe

PBIS at Petty - What’s the PBIS School Store?

PBIS (Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports) is the framework that Petty uses to reinforce our school wide behavioral expectations: be responsible, be respectful, and be safe. To reinforce these ex-pectations, students work hard to earn Bobcat Bucks from staff and each month, they can use their bucks at the School Store (the last Friday of each month). Your child might purchase toys and/or privi-lege coupons at the store. We encourage families to celebrate their child’s success and rewards for con-sistently following our school expectations!

At the Petty Pow Wow (Petty Community Meeting), we will recognize a “student of the month” from each

class. Please encourage your child to work hard to show Petty Pride throughout the rest of the school year

and celebrate the rewards they earn!

P.B. I. S Students of the Month 2nd Grade: 3rd Grade: Mrs. Marshall

Mrs. Watson Mrs. Mackowiak Avin Dastic

Arya Desai Nick Stein

Mrs. Popp Mrs. Palmisano Mrs. Flynn

Janaya Shade Ryan Aitken Ben Sanfilippo

Mrs. Hehn Mrs. Rittierodt

Colby Welsch Jessica Tess

Mrs. Orozco Mr. Vandenbos

Ella Piehl Isabelle Roszkowiak

4th Grade: 5th Grade:

Mrs. Earl Mrs. Bryant

Caleb Kwasiborski Dylan Feldcamp

Mrs. Murray Mrs. Halterman

Brian Kennedy Brennen Bruckner

Mrs. Newman Ms. Harrison

Eleanor Geer Max Schulze

Mrs. Piehl Mrs. Nelson

Caleb Drews Jack Nielsen

Mrs. Rivera Mrs. Sosnowski

Tony Sculuca Quentin Gueffier