WPSD Homeschool Enrichment Academy & Online Education Department: 2014

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

FUN'd RUN!

We are deep in decorating our white T-shirts! Thank you to all parents that donated packages of T-shirts, what a tremendous help!

This is our only fundraiser of the year!

FUN'd RUN INFORMATION:
Friday, September 26, 2014
8:00-3:00PM, but COTTAGE 1 & 2 walk together from 10:00-11:00AM

Dear families,
Gateway's fun'd run/walk is our lap running/walking fundraiser where ALL proceeds go to student field trips and programs. Signing up for pledges or donations is easy!

You may pledge a certain amount per lap, or a flat donation for participating. Don't forget to ask friends and family to pledge too! After the Fun'd Run, students will bring home a certificate with the number of laps he/she ran or walked. Please send in your cash or checks in the envelope that was sent home with students.
Make checks payable to WPSD FOUNDATION, Fun'd Run in the memo line.

You can make a tax-deductible donation right now for the Gateway Fun'd Run. You can turn in cash or checks written to the WPSD FOUNDATION/Fun'r Run written in the memo line. Students can turn this in to their teachers or the front office.
You can mail check to Gateway Elementary School, 100 Panther Way, Woodland Park, CO 80863.
Or make an online donation by going to our website: www.wpsdfoundation.org & click on the DONATIONS left-hand menu option. Click the PAYPAL button option and designate your donation to the Gateway Fun'd Run.

MATCHING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EMPLOYERS/BUSINESSES:
Be sure to let your employer know how much you're pledging or donating to Gateway's Fun'd Run so they can match your contribution if they desire. Tell employers to make checks to WPSD FOUNDATION for the Gateway Fun'd Run so it will be tax deductible.

Thank you so much for your kindness & generosity.

Cottage School Schedule

7:45 Pledge, Song, News

8:00 Library/Computer -alternate weeks.

8:30 Tuesdays-Group Reports/8:45 Wednesdays-Group Reports

9:00 Recess

9:15 Snack

9:40 Spanish (7/or Finish Group Reports)

9:55 Music/PE/Art

10:40 Science

11:25 Lunch

11:50 Recess

12:10 Sign Language

12:30 Science

1:05 Recess

1:20 Science (Every other week Mr. Davis Lessons)

1:40 Science

1:55 Art/Music/PE

2:40 Clean-up/Read

2:55 Dismiss

Thursday, September 4, 2014

News: Hello Cottage and Online families!

Just a few notes as we get this school year started! Welcome to Gateway Elementary Cottage School and Online School Programs! We love having you join us!

~ Shoes! Please do not wear open toed shoes to school. Please keep P.E. safe running shoes in backpack as you never know when we have P.E.

~Due to special allergy situations in this years cottage class, we are going through disinfectant wipes at lightening speeds! If anyone would be willing to donate a container of disinfectant wipes for the classroom, we would be very grateful.

All students and guests to our classroom should wash their hands when entering the room and after every time they touch food

~One of our handouts explains this years FUN'd RUN! ALL STUDENTS will need a white T-shirt to decorate in Art class. Please be sure to bring these the next time you have class: Cottage 1, Tuesday, Cottage 2, Wednesday.

~ DOGS

Please volunteer to be a part of Gateway Watch DOGS (Dads of Great Students) Info. pkt available at office for dads, grandpa's, etc.

~ LEARN Academy (like student council only MORE!) Student leadership opportunities. Let me know if you can bring your student to 7am meetings on Friday mornings

~Group sharing time; every morning, part of our routine is a group sharing time. We really encourage written reports (even just a couple of sentences for the littler kiddos is appropriate). Some of our online students bring work that they have completed at home to share, other students have shown homeschool items like lapbooks, etc. Other kids bring interesting items and tell about them. This is great too! We have had students perform on their musical instruments, sing songs, bring in lego projects, etc. Anything that is exciting to them, except live animals and weapons are not allowed in school. However, written reports will receive a prize that the student selects from the "ducky-bag".

{*Ducky-bag item donations, such as small toys, special notebooks, books, games, etc. are always accepted. These may be second hand items!}

~Please check your students backpacks, as we often send home handouts which may contain important information.

~We have a couple of field trips coming up: ALL PARENTS AND SIBLINGS AND ONLINE STUDENT FAMILIES ARE WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND FIELD TRIPS AND CLASS PARTIES, etc. We have emailed permission slips. Please email and let us know if you need that again.

Our first adventure will be a walking field trip to the Woodland Park Public Library. We will get a personal tour of the library, which includes a few treasures that typical library goers wouldn't know about, as well as really great tips about using their new website and online resources, and the home school resource room. We will bring lunches and eat outside on the Library lawn afterwards (weather permitting).Tuesday Cottage 1 class: September 16Wednesday Cottage 2 class: September 17We will leave the building at 10:40 am (Parents can meet us in the Cottage classroom at 10:30 and walk with us, or meet us at the library)***NEED PERMISSION SLIPS***

Our second adventure will be a walking field trip of the Historical buildings that are managed by the Ute Pass Historical Society. These are the buildings adjacent to the Woodland Park Library. You can learn more: www.utepasshistoricalsociety.org

This field trip will only be on Wednesday, October 1st. If you attend a different day or are online only, you are welcome to join us! We will leave the building again at 10:40. We will eat our lunch at Memorial Park then meet at the Ute Pass Historical buildings at 11:45. ***NEED PERMISSION SLIPS***

A note to parents about attending field trips: The school requires all attending parents to fill in the volunteer form to be approved to attend school events that are off campus. Pick up a volunteer form from us or the front office and turn these into the front office ASAP, if you haven't already.

Questions about anything pertaining to Cottage or Online school? Please email us: Sandy Struble: sstruble@wpsdk12.org

Pippi Howard: phoward@wpsdk12.org

Friday, February 28, 2014

End Of Year Dates

We will add to this as events and info. comes up...

Thursday, April 17 - 1:45-3:30 Walking Field trip to WP Public Library Tour. Parents & siblings welcome to join us at 2:00PM, if you do not join us, please pick your children up at 3:30 at the Library.

Wednesday, April 23 - 12:15-2:15 Walking Field trip to WP High School Auditorium for Sound of Music.

$2 per seat

Parents welcome (let me know if coming, please)

Thursday, April 24th - Day Without Hate

2:00 Assembly in Gym about Kindness & 3rd Grade Music Program

Wednesday, May 7th - 9:00-6:00 Lincoln Interactive Curriculum Open House

WPSDistrict Board Room

Parent/student appointments available or drop-ins welcome to meet with Online Reps. & Cottage and Online School personnel.

Wednesday, May 7th - 6:00-8:00 Night of the S.M.ARTS (Science Math & Art) Activities in Gateway Gym. Community welcome to make art/science projects & Demos./snacks. FREE, all welcome!

Thursday, May 8th - 7:45-2:55 TBA Online/Cottage School Field trip TBA

Friday, May 9th - Attendance for Online due - just submit email with hours studied and days schooled/missed for 4th qtr.

Friday, May 16th - 7:45-2:55 Mayfest Outdoor Games/Chalk art/Talent Show @ the High School presented by Gateway's 4th and 5th graders and Gateway Staff. All students are welcome! Bring a lunch.

Tuesday, May 20th - Online Grades pulled for 4th quarter reports - last chance to submit work for 4th quarter grades

Thursday, May 22nd - 7:45-12:00 Last Day of School - Class Party and Reports given 10:30*

*End of Year Reports this year are to be of Historical Biographies of Famous People - All students study and then give report in character of their chosen Historical Figure. Recommend dressing as the person, being in character (or what you think that person would be like), bring visual aids, poster board presentation, or however you feel would best represent the historical figure. Students will answer questions from the parents/students about their character, in character, as best they can-IMPROVISATION IS OK!

We will need the list of who they choose so we can all study what questions to ask each report presenter. Or better yet, as we get closer, email me the facts you are uncovering and I can forward them to all of us to prepare how to interview each famous person that will be depicted. Also, snacks brought for the party should be related to the character. Their favorite food or a food from their home country or state, etc. (i.e. I heard a famous hockey player ate steak and eggs before every game...not sure if that could be made into a snack, but I was shocked to know that info. was out there, Ewan)