Green Tree Elementary School Family Updates

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! ...