Let's map some words. We'll break the words into sounds (phonemes) so I will know the sounds that make up words (each sound gets a box -- not each letter).
Third graders build distinctive shapes and designs for their gingerbread houses. They describe their creations so that when the first graders visit the next day they will be able to find one unique home from among 24 others.
Second graders were shocked when we let them write on the table. Whoops!
Flip a card with a word on it. Read it correctly, and you get to pop the fidget.
Nobody takes family game night seriously anymore.
Online registration is open for Kindergarten and Grade 1 for the 2025-2026 school year. https://sites.google.com/westfieldnjk12.org/student-registration/home . Please share with Westfield friends and neighbors.
First Grade 2025-2026! We would love to learn about our incoming first graders for 2025-2026! If you have a youngster coming to Washington School in September of 2025, please let us know by completing this form (https://forms.gle/vZQGkAawzoQyFue49) so we can save you a seat. If you have a neighbor or know of other families with incoming first graders, please encourage them to contact us or forward the form.
Washington parent Kyle Kostesich has designed this year's T-shirt for the School Show. Please feel free to place an order before Friday, December 20 (http://bit.ly/3ZG4TTP).
Zoom in anywhere on the graphic and be amazed! Get them while they last! (Dr. Perry bought the first 500, so good luck finding one)
A great story shared by a great reader showing great pictures with great stage presence. So great to see!
Have you noticed our new picket fence? Now you know who to thank for it. Good fences make good neighbors.
Each year at Thanksgiving, middle school teacher Marrisa Conneely does a project with her eighth graders: They write a note to one of their elementary teachers that begins with “I am thankful for ….” There are always astonishing revelations – what was important to them, what they remember most, that they loved being in your class and you never knew it. To know that the effort and caring you gave to your students when you were not quite sure anyone was listening, that those actions really did grow and blossom in the universe, makes our hearts melt.
Did you know that in addition to being a wonderful custodian, Greg is also a champion cornhole player?
This is what our first Friendsgiving Staff Lunch looked like. And this is what it looks like when your teacher invites you to Friendsgiving Lunch.
Our students participated in a Thanksgiving Food Drive. Each class brought in one item to contribute to a food basket for local families. Our fifth graders packed the boxes and loaded them up for delivery to the Westfield Neighborhood Council.
Our first graders read the book Balloons Over Broadway, which tells the story of Tony Sarg, the man behind the giant balloons in The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. They decided to make their own illustration of balloons over Broadway, including some new and interesting ones.
Who is more proud of their first published writings: The teacher or her first graders?
It was a fun day at the PTO Crafts Fair. Students and their younger siblings got to make various crafts, and Washington alumni helped at the tables, along with parents and grandparents. Did I mention some of the delicious treats that the fifth graders sold to raise funds for our annual scholarship awarded to a graduating Washington student from high school?
Teachers, secretaries, custodians, principals - what do you do? Each year, as part of their study of community helpers, the first graders have an opportunity to interview the adults in our school and the roles we play. Some questions are not so easy to answer -- What do you do at our school? What is your favorite thing about your job? Some questions - not so hard: What is your favorite food? (Can you spell lasagne?)
Why is he so happy? Maybe it's because he just found out how much reading progress he has made this year!
Our second and fourth graders helped with this month's St. Joe's extra lunch collection.
