Attention families: This morning a fender bender occurred involving a WLCSD school bus near Nichols. The bus driver and the 15 students on the bus were ok, there were no injuries. Another bus was disbursed to bring the students safely to school. As always the safety of our students and staff comes first, and we are thankful that no one was injured in this incident.
To celebrate Earth day, the district is planting 72 trees, 10 of which will be at the ELC and Elementary. There will be 18 high schoolers going around to different locations to dig and plant the trees for us :)
A HUGE shoutout to Melia Larson and our PTO for helping make this happen. Kindergarten is helping plant three of the trees as they have a Tree Unit that they teach each year.
As our third meeting with AIM, third grade students learned about immigration and citizenship with Rosa Mendoza from The Diversity Service Center of Iowa. She taught the students about why and how people immigrate from other countries, what the citizenship process looks like, and showed the students gifts given to the DSC from people who have immigrated to Muscatine County from countries all over the world.
Last week we had our 2nd year teachers graduate from our Mentoring Program!
We had a few who could not be present but this year's graduates are:
Jack Simpson, Kennedy Amos, Thomas Theiling, Rebecca Swanson, Megan Rex and Kelsi Lynch
Not in picture: Elise Charles, Jonas Otto, Emma Melick and Ana Blanes
Congratulations to Ms Boone's 2nd grade class for winning the Fastest Class in the School for the second time!! They ran the most average laps per student in 5 minutes in a school-wide quarterly challenge for K - 4th grade!
The fastest class from each grade were:
K- Daufeldt
1st- Tharp
2nd- Boone (Fastest Overall)
3rd- Zuniga
4th- Evans
Kimberly Park is looking so much better! Thanks to the City of West Liberty, Second-Grade Comets, and Middle School Comets! #wlcomets #communityservice #earthdayeveryday
Second-grade and Middle School students are getting ready to help the @City of West Liberty clean up Kimberly Park! #wlcomets #communityservice #earthdayeveryday
The third grade welcomed Muscatine County Conservation as part of our Aligned Impact of Muscatine County partnership. Students got to meet and pet a couple of amphibious friends and learn about our local wildlife.
Congratulations to West Liberty Elementary ESL Teacher, Sheila Polman - KCRG A+ For Education award winner! #wlcometpride #wlcomets #KCRG #Teacherawards
Congratulations to this week's Main Event winners! Thank you for being caring Comets!
Remember to save the date for our Preschool Graduation!
Congratulations to our Main Event winners this week!
Thank you for demonstrating caring comet behavior.
Our third graders are excited to work with Aligned Impact Muscatine County (AIM) again this year! Today we hosted Ann Green from ISU Extension and Outreach. She taught a STEM lesson and helped students build tracks to race Hex Bugs. Everyone had a great time!
Save the date for our Kindergarten Graduation on May 29th at 6:00 pm!
2nd grade learned all about string instruments and how they make sound in a very special performance from Maestro Tim and Orchestra Iowa's String Quartet. We loved learning and listening to their music, thanks Orchestra Iowa!
First grade's trip to the public library for celebrity story time!
They learned about the street sweeper, garbage truck and got to see inside a fire engine.
4th graders were visited by Myron McReynolds from Orchestra Iowa for a special STEAM activity! They were given parts to build their own Tone Generator. When they finished they got to take it home with them! Thanks, Orchestra Iowa!
Students were able to safely observe the solar eclipse today!
3rd and 4th graders were visited by Grammy award winning cellist, Zuill Bailey while he was in Iowa performing with Orchestra Iowa. We loved getting to speak with him, hear him play, and listen to him talk about music!
4th graders took a trip to the University of Iowa campus yesterday and got to meet their pen pals that they wrote to throughout this past year!
