5th Grade Farewell Video

 We will miss our 5th grade students, but we know you will have a great time at the middle school!

Weather Projects

Students had the opportunity to show their weather projects at our showcase night on April 24.  We had around 400 people attend to eat spaghetti the 5th grade prepared and to view the projects the K-5 completed.

Discovery World Field Trip

We had a great time on our field trip to Discovery World.  Thanks to parents that shared pictures!

Science Projects

Grades 3-5 have been studying how the Earth, sun, and moon interact with each other.  We started our unit by exploring many different books from our classroom and library that were about the Earth, sun, and moon.  Students took notes on areas of interest to them.  Then, they used their notes and areas of interests to form groups.  After that, the groups spent three weeks researching their topic. Once they had all of their information, they created a slideshow and model to share with the class. Finally, students presented their projects to our classroom and the students in the K-2 room.

Sumdog Winners

The 5th grade class won the Sumdog SE WI math contest recently. Sumdog is an online math resource which makes it fun for students to practice Math and ELA skills. The cohort won a year’s subscription to Sumdog’s premium features, including new tracking and intervention tools and brand new games. The class beat 72 other classes from around the county! Congratulations!

Read Across America Pictures

We had a great time celebrating Dr. Seuss's Birthday.  In addition to our dress up days, we had the older kids partner up with a younger student to read Dr. Seuss books.  We also had Mr. Smasal come in to read to the kids.

Read Across America

Read Across America Week at Wayne Elementary

Next week, March 2 - March 6, is Read Across America Week.

During the week, we will be celebrating Dr. Seuss, the author of 46 children’s books. Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading. March 2nd is the birthday of the beloved children's author. Please help your children participate in our dress-up days!

Monday, March 2

Celebrate the Freedom to Read across America!

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

Wear red, white, and blue today!

We will celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday in our project groups from 2:45 - 3:30.

Tuesday, March 3

Wayne Elementary Rocks with Fox in Socks

Wear your silliest socks and your WES 50th shirt today!

Wednesday, March 4

Today is the day for My Many Colored Days!

Wear as many colors as you can. Today is rainbow day!

Thursday, March 5

Grab Your Hat and Read with The Cat in the Hat!

Wear black & white clothes and any kind of hat today!

We will have a surprise guest reader this day!

Friday, March 6

Oh, the Places You’ll Go

Wear something that shows what you would like to be when you grow up! Would you like to be a nurse, a lawyer, a teacher, an electrician, a computer programmer, a firefighter, or one of the hundreds of other occupations? Dress according to what you choose to be!

Valentine's Party

We had a great time celebrating Valentine's Day.  The class rotated through three stations; voting on 5th grade boxes/Valentine bingo, decorating a bag to hold their valentines, and cookie making/photo booth.  We were excited to see all the boxes the 5th grade students brought in.  You all did such an amazing job.

The winners were:
Most Hearty: Ollie
Most Creative: Maggie
Most Likely to Make Me Say Wow: Brady
Most Sparkle: Bailee
Most Likely to Be Sold Next Year at Hallmark: Brooke

Thanks so much for all the treats and parent volunteers.  We'd never be able to pull off such a great time without all of your help! Here are some pictures of our day.

Our Class Video

Our Class Video

We are very excited to share our video! We wanted to make a video to help answer questions and explain what happens, every day, in our classroom. 


Thanks for watching!

School Picture Slideshow

Mr. Dziedzic put together this slideshow of pictures from throughout the school year.  It is great to see all of their smiles and learning that happens each day.

What does reading look like?

Over the next few weeks we will be working on a video to walk the viewer through a day-in-the-life of a student in our cohort.  In anticipation of that, we thought we would explain how our Reading Workshop looks in our room this year .

To begin our workshop, all students in our cohort participate in a mini lesson taught by both Mrs. Petersen and Mrs. Ebert.  Today, our mini lesson focused on point-of-view.  Students helped create an anchor chart listing keywords to search for when trying to determine if the text is written in 1st, 2nd or 3rd person. 

After our mini lesson, the kids have time for two 25 minute station.  One station is independent reading.  Every day, every student gets at least 25 solid minutes of independent reading.  The other station they participate in is either a teacher station or book club.  If a student meets with their book club for that day, they do not meet with the teacher and visa versa. 

During the book club, students meet and discuss the book they are reading with other kids in their reading club.  They then take what they discuss and write in their reading binder.  The book clubs are held in the computer lab under the supervision of Mrs. K, our fantastic paraprofessional. 

If they aren't scheduled to meet with their book club, the students have a teacher station.  In this station, they work with the teacher and a small number of students (groups are between 3 and 6 kids) and complete an activity that is tied to the mini lesson. 

The workshop model helps to serve two main purposes.  The first, is that students become strong, independent readers in the independent station and book clubs  The second, is that students become stronger readers as they work on the strategies and skills in the teachers teach in their small groups and mini lessons. 

Outdoor Recess! 1/13

We are above zero!  The kids were so excited to get back outside and play!