We love head custodian Mario Saravia! Every day, he finds a way to make our school a better place. On a scale of 1-10, Mario weighs in at 100 pounds.
We learned how to tie our shoes. Doesn't everyone remember that moment in our lives? Who needs Velcro?
Mrs. Larosa helped our third graders learn the importance of working together to achieve a common goal by participating in a cup-stacking challenge. They had to work in groups to build a tower using only pipe cleaners and rubber bands—no hands allowed!
Superior Court Judge Rosalba Comas read to our fourth graders as part of Read Across America week. Judge Comas patiently answered all of our questions about being a judge and even told us about her favorite cases (like Taquito the Dog)!
Author David Biedrzycki spent a great day with us last week. We learned a lot about where to find inspiration for new ideas. We even got to eat lunch with him!
Our fourth graders took the new Westfield School Bus to Roosevelt Intermediate School for a. tour of The African American History in Westfield Museum. We were fortunate to have the MLK Association of Westfield president, Liz Wolf, as our docent. The tour included new video segments highlighting some of this history (available on YouTube channel MLK Westfield).
Poet in Residence Luray Gross spent three days with our third graders this week. Each day, students shared some of the poems they had written. One way was reading loud and proud!
I found these rocks on the playground and discovered that they contain iron, making them magnetic!
Who IS this guy?!
A few of Washington School's entries in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. art contest.
We dissected owl pellets to compare how the skeletons of a rodent and a human are similar. Ask your third grader what an owl pellet is!
It takes courage to audition for the All-City Band!
Viva Valentine!
We learned about the skeletal system by counting our bones and then by putting together Mr. Bones puzzles. Can you wiggle your phalanges?
We love recess!
We flew through the first 100 days! Our capes helped.
We know how to sort words based on vowels and digraphs!
Mr. Sindorf narrated and Mrs. Colabaugh played the flute for the production of Wild Symphony. What a fun collaboration!
"We used our imagination to create toys with pipe cleaners." This lesson is one of many that our enrichment teacher, Julie Cennamo, has been doing with all our students.
Dating back to 1885, George Washington’s birthday was the first federal holiday honoring an individual’s birth date. In 1971, it moved to the third Monday in February, falling between Washington and Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays, inspiring the name Presidents Day. #PresidentsDay
