Woodlawn Principal's Blog 9/15/17

We have just completed our first month of school. Time flies when you are having fun. There are certain days when the students enter the building with a ton of energy and other days when they are a little subdued or tired. Today was a high energy day. We had PTO sponsored Special Lunch today from one of my favorite places, Chic-fil-a.  Now that I think about it, I don’t have many places that aren’t a favorite. Just a few items in the blog today.


MAP Results

Your student was given their Fall MAP results at the end of the day today. Here is a note from D96:

Parents, please be sure to check your KDG – Grd. 8 child’s backpack for Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test results sent home today. These results are for MAP testing administered at the beginning of this school year. For more information, please see the following:


No School

School will not be in session on Thursday, September 21st or Friday, September 22nd of next week.


Hurricane Relief

Hurricane Harvey Disaster Relief FlyerThe Community Service Club and Student Council are teaming up to help victims of Harvey and Irma. Our first  relief effort will include collecting donations of new and unused clothing items, shoes, underwear, socks, school  supplies, as well as canned food and water.  We will also be having an everyone gives something cash rally to  show our support.  That can be a penny to whatever amount the students feel comfortable giving. The cash  donations will be given to the American Red Cross Relief Efforts.

 We will be collecting the items between now and September 29th. Parents, if you would like to bring in items,  you can drop them off in the main office.


PTO

Visit the PTO BLOG!


Daily Announcements

Click here to see the Woodlawn daily announcements. The announcements come out each day at around 10a.m.


KCSD96 Text Message Opt-In Process

District 96 uses the School Messenger system to communicate with our parent community by email and–in some instances–also by text message and/or phone call.

If you would like to receive text messages from School District 96 when the subject and nature of the communication warrant our sending them (to advise you of a late-returning bus, for example), it’s necessary for you first to have sent a text message of Y or YES to this District 96 short code number: 67587. Or, if you prefer, use your mobile phone to scan the QR code in this School Messenger FLYER (English & Spanish) and send your Y or YES reply.

To opt out of our text messages, simply reply STOP to any text message District 96 sends you.

Please be advised that standard message and data rates for text messaging may apply, depending on your mobile carrier and plan.


iPad Update

Tough week. We had 2 broken iPads. Keep reminding your students that they need to care for their items.


Finally, this is totally random, but here we go….sometimes I simply do not understand humans. We seem to be at the top of the food chain, yet all last weekend I was waiting for disaster to strike. Why is it that when the weather is at its absolute worst, we send a person out into the storm to report on it?  As I watched hurricane Irma whip up on Florida, I sat in my family room thinking to myself, “This reporter is going to get killed”. I mean come on, the entire state was told to evacuate, yet a person with a raincoat and a microphone is out there telling me how horribly windy it was. I am pretty sure that the palm tree in the background being bent in half, adequately informed me of the power and fierceness the storm possessed. The same thing happens in a blizzard. When is this madness going to stop? I am just glad that no one was concussed with a coconut. Am I the crazy one here? Is it a reporting badge of honor to have on their resume, stood out in 110mph wind covering a hurricane? As you can tell, I am still bewildered and irritated by this. If the weather turns here this weekend, please go inside.