Green Tree Elementary School Family Updates

  Happy  May  Gator Families! Can you believe we are in our last full month of the year!?  If there were ever a time to be kind, this is the year for it!  As we dive into our final full month of school, we continue focusing on kindness and revisiting friendship skills.  Our Second Step lessons will complete this month with the continued focus on the bullying unit.  As a reminder, the  unit focuses on bullying prevention by teaching students and staff to recognize and respond effectively to bullying and supports helpful student and staff norms about bullying.   The unit teaches students to recognize, report and refuse bullying whether they witness it or are bullied themselves. As always, if you prefer that your child does not participate in the whole-group instruction for these units or lessons, please communicate that preference to your child’s classroom teacher prior to the lesson.  Thank you for your support as we work to build a safe ...

Hello Gator Families! For another short month, we sure had a jam-packed, fun March!  We held our musical, which was one of the best I have seen yet!  We also ended our month with a beach day ( wishful thinking of weather to come ) and had a great time with the PBIS celebrations and activities.  Students (and staff) seemed to really love hula dancing, tossing leis, and getting low with the limbo!  Featuring... 3rd Grade Each month, we have tried to feature a different grade level and the fun things they are doing at school.  This month, we feature our third grade students ! Our third graders are a really fun group of students who love to learn.  They are sweet, kind, and caring and show really great leadership for the younger students.  These are a few of my favorite photos from activities and learning this past month! WI Forward Students in grades 3 and 4 will begin taking the Wisconsin Forward Exam this week and continue through the month of April. Th...

Time to Spring Forward Gator Families! For such a short month, February was full of some really fun activities! Our staff would like to take a moment to thank you for your continued collaboration with Green Tree this school year. Whether it's in the form of celebrations, feedback or questions, thank you for allowing us to partner with you! We are heading into the final months of the school year, and we look forward to continuing to maximize learning opportunities for all of our students. ______________________________________________________________ Featuring... Second Grade Each month, we have tried to feature a different grade level and the fun things they are doing at school.  This month, we feature our second grade students!  Second graders researched penguins and put their measuring to the test by creating life size penguins that now roam our hallway walls. They also used our MakerSpace to create pictures and fictional stories about being trapped in a snow globe.  _...

 Happy February Gator Families! It's hard to believe we are halfway through this school year! We are looking forward to the learning and fun we will have this month, but before we move forward, let's highlight the good times we had last month!

Dear Green Tree Families, Once again, we are very excited to have our hallways and classrooms filled with children again!  I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season and that your children are as excited to return as we are to have them!  Please see below for a few celebrations, updates and reminders as we return to a new year at Green Tree. Celebrations Reader's Theater Mrs. Heberer's 3rd Grade students performed Reader's Theater for classrooms across the school.  The plays were holiday themed and the students performances were excellent!  It was really fun for classes across the school to come and see the actors and performances! Gator Grin Celebration Students earned a schoolwide game of Bingo in December for meeting our gator grin goal!  Keep encouraging students to earn those gator grins for being safe, respectful, responsible and ready to learn! Updates and Reminders Second Step For the next few weeks, social-emotional learning will focus on teaching stude...

Welcome the holiday season Gator Families! I hope everyone had a great first holiday break as you prepare for the next one! As we know, with the holidays brings the cold weather. It is important that each student have a coat, hat, gloves, etc for this weather and to participate in recess. If your child is in need of a warm coat for winter, please let us know and we can help! We met our November schoolwide Gator Grin Goal with 774 gator grins earned as a school!  As a reward, we will be playing Bingo schoolwide on Friday afternoon. Our December goal is to earn another 600 gator grins as a school and the incentive will be popcorn and a movie the week of December 20th. Please keep encouraging your child to fill up those gator grin cards for following our schoolwide expectations of being safe, respectful, responsible, and ready to learn! Fun in November We had a lot of fun in November! First, our ABC parent group, as well as our whole staff, would like to thank all those participated i...

Hel lo Gator Families! I am really excited about the goals we have set for Green Tree this year! Every fall we look at data to determine an area of focus for the year. This year the data we are using comes from a survey last spring, in which the staff identified that supporting our writers as they respond to reading is an area for growth. In order to achieve this goal, teachers will work together to better understand the writing continuum, analyze student writing, and identify specific teaching points as they confer with writers. We will provide information to families about how to support their writers in future newsletters, so stay tuned! We had a lot of fun in October! Before we move into the November happenings, please take a look at some of the great things we did last month at Green Tree! Imagination Grants Awarded Erica Becker, School Counselor, and Sheela Pudwell, School-Family Liaison, were both awarded grants from the West Bend Public Schools Foundation Imagination Grants! ...

Greetings Gator Families! Before moving into the October happenings, I'd like to recap some of the fun we had in September!  Parent Information Night Our Parent Information Night on September 9th was a really great time!  Thank you to everyone who joined us on this great evening, including Snappy!  A special thank you to the following groups for making this night a success:   ABC Parent Group for arranging the Cousins Sub Truck to be present on-site so families could purchase dinner Green Tree's Family and Culture Team for setting up the community resource information tables so you could view all the fun events and activities for your students   West Girls Dance Team for providing childcare during your informational sessions in the classrooms Gator Grin Cards Gator Grin cards were introduced to students the first full week of school.  Each card has a space for 15 stamps. When students fill up a card, they turn the card into their classroom teacher t...