WAUNAKEE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL * 6273 WOODLAND DR * WAUNAKEE, WI 53597

VALUES

Respectfulness

Resourcefulness

Responsibility

MISSION

STATEMENT

Empower students to be

committed to learning,

community

and excellence.

WAUNAKEE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

~ Keeping PARENTS—KIDS—TEACHERS connected ~

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TOUCHSTONE

At Waunakee Intermediate School, we pursue

excellence in academics and character.

We honor and appreciate ourselves and each other by

being respectful, responsible, resourceful,

honest, kind and fair.

This is who we are, even when no one is watching.

Phone: 608/849-2176—Attendance Press 1 or call 608/849-2178—Fax: 608/849-2198

E-Mail:lorriejensen@waunakee.k12.wi.us — http://www.waunakee.k12.wi.us/intermediate

Attendance email: intermediate_attendance@waunakee.k12.wi.us

Children express and experience love in different ways. Some children

prefer physical touch, whereas other children need words of affirmation.

The purpose of learning to speak your child’s love language is for you to

connect more deeply with your child. This can build their self-worth,

which is key for lifelong self-love and confidence and applies to all ages

and stages of development, too.

2nd Trimester Citizenship Award Recipients

(Additional information on the Student Page)

PRINCIPAL’S CORNER … Growth Mindset, Your Child’s

Love Language

April

2019

One Session June 17 — July 25 ~ 8:10 am – 11:20 am

Current 4th and 5th graders will attend classes at the Intermediate School.

Current 6th graders will attend classes at the Middle School.

Current 4th & 5th graders will have the opportunity to take up to three one-hour classes each day.

Classes will be held from Monday through Thursday for the entire six week period.

The exception to this is 6th grade summer science and weight training. Both of these classes will run for Monday through Friday.

No classes will be held on July 4-5.

Some great classes are being offered this summer, such as:

Avalanches 2 Rover; Coding, Design, & Robotics; Crafty Creations; Creativity Flowing; Gaming; Get in the Game; Get Ready to Babysit; Improv Comedy Theater; Keyboarding; Mad

Scientist’s Workshop; Math; Photoshop; Summer Fitness; and The Artist is You! Students taking band or orchestra in the fall should sign up for lessons during summer school.

Intermediate School on-line registration will open April 16 at 6:00 pm. Go to the

district web site to see descriptions of classes offered.

https://www.waunakee.k12.wi.us/district/ss_catalog.cfm

~Join us for summer school and learn while you have fun!~

All Service Club members who have turned in their log sheet detailing their 20 hours of service performed this school year will be able to attend the Noah’s Ark Service Club trip in June. Please encourage your child to take advantage of the service club opportunities we have at school OR volun-teer in the community.

Service Club Trip —June 5, 2019

THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT WAUNAKEE INTERMEDIATE

April 2-4 — ELA Forward Exam

April 16-17 — Math Forward Exam

April 18 — Look A Like Day / Progress Reports Home

April 19 — No School

April 22-26 — Human Growth & Development

April 29-May 2 — ELA STAR Test

May 6-9 — Math STAR Test

May 8 — 6th gr. Field Trip to Miller Park

May 10 — 5th gr. Biography Museum

May 16 — PTO Ice Cream Social @ Prairie

May 17 — 6th gr. Middle School Tour

May 17 — 5th gr. Civil War Field Trip

May 20 — Normal School Day (Weather Make Up Day)

May 21 — Art Show/Basket Raffle

May 29 — 6th grade End of Year Celebration

June 5 — Service Club Trip to Noah’s Ark

June 7 — Last Day of School (Students dismissed at 1:00

Speak Your Child’s Love Language For children who have physical touch as their primary love language, physical touch communicates love to them more deeply than giving them praise by:

Adding a pat on the back, holding hands, a high-five, or an arm around their shoulder.

Occasionally yelling “group hug” for your entire family, and for more fun, include your pets!

Gently squeezing their hands to say “I love you!”

Snuggling close on the couch and reading together.

Words are powerful in communicating love. Words of affection and endearment, words of praise and encouragement, and words that give positive guidance all say, “I care about you.” The phrases and actions below say “I love you” many times a day:

Saying “I love to watch you…” (play, draw, sing, help, etc.)

Affirming both their efforts and achievement.

Nurturing a child’s inner sense of worth and security.

PARENT PAGE

Quality Time with Your Child Quality time means focusing your attention on your child.

It is the gift of being present and tells a child, “you are

important, and I like spending time with you.” The child feels

loved because the parent or care giver is choosing to spend

time alone with them. Here are ideas of ways to spend quality

time with your child:

Allocating a special time for your child to just be there and listen to their stories and feelings.

Stopping what you are doing and making eye contact with your child when they tell you something.

Finding silly things to laugh about together.

From the District Office:

Do you have a child (or a friend or a neighbor) who will be four-years-old on or before September 1, 2019? The Waunakee Four-Year-Old Kindergarten (4K) program is currently enrolling students for the 2019-20 school year. Please visit the enrollment page of the Waunakee 4K website at: http://www.waunakee.k12.wi.us/waunakee4k/4kenrollment.cfm or contact Diane Pursell at (608) 849-2000, extension 8020 for more information.

Thank you to our PTO:

*For the meals during Parent Teacher Conferences

*Serving refreshments at the 5th Grade Music Shows

*A FUN Splash Dance

Dane County Yahara River Writers

Leela Krudop’s and Madelina Priest’s entries took top honors.

Future Problem Solvers State Bowl Good luck to the team of Daniela Heggestad, Tyler Leuch,

Isabel Hernandez-Mazza, and Claire Moeller.

Their topic is “Coping with Stress” and they will be competing in the junior division of Global Issues Problem Solving.

2nd Trimester Citizenship Award Recipients

(pictured on page 1)

5th grade: Madilyn Anderson, Luke Andrekus, Payten Apland, Elizabeth Baio, Katherine Becker, Logan Byrnes, Abigail Chambers, Nicholas Cor-

bett, Emerson Dominie, Kayla Ferris, Connor Giorgetti, Luke Hansen, Cooper Johanns, Oksana Kleven, Ruby Marx, Violet Marx, MaKenna

Newquist, Caden Olson, Owen Porter, Chase Sparby, Lillian Strayer, Addison Thomas, Aydenn Vinueza, Paige Wilcox, Art Zajmi, Charlie Zimbric.

6th grade: Isabella Baker, Matthew Comins, Presley Cupp, Casen Everson, Payten Foster, Paul Henninger, Luke Hurlebaus, Molly Jensema, Ava

Kalscheur, Addison Kidd, Campbell Komar, Sophia Lowery, Isabella Mack, Vivian McCollough, Aiden Meinholz, Madalyn Pence, Samantha

Pokorny, Hudson Ralph, Danica Ripp, Jackson Rosenstock, Chloe Sanoy, Sofia Schroeder, Lauryn Swenson, Lauren Wiitanen, Liam Ziegler,

Cooper Zwettler.

STUDENT PAGE

GRADE 5 GRADE 6

Jack Blitz

Xavier Gousman

Aden Waugh

Trey Murray

Mayreli Salto

Paul Schwarz

Austin Anderson

Taavi Backus

Lucy Beason

Elijah Carpino-Stevens

Sara Dull

Brandon Wood

Zachary Becker

Eli Endres

Ethan Evans

Emaline Lajter

Isabel Toro-Perez

Ren Wilson

Soren Streckenbach

Addy Swenson

Paige Wilcox

Mylee Hyatt

Simon Marx

Cale Olsen

Amanda Sharpe

Nathan Topoll

Kaitlin Van Wie

Faith Andrew

Caroline Lee

Christian Meier

Students “In the Spotlight” We congratulate these students for being chosen to be “In the Spotlight” in

March.

Keep up the great work!