In support of RISD's 2020 Vision, Wallace began Enrichment Clusters last week. It was amazing the way it all came together, with help of the Schoolwide Enrichment Team, PTA, and the superb staff at Wallace Elementary!
In December, teachers choose 3 topics they would be willing to teach a six weeks course about for 1.5 hours each Friday afternoon. The SEM team got together and chose 36 topics, ranging from "Ooey, Gooey Science," "Tool Time," "Step Up and Sing" to "Healthy Snacks for Hunger Attacks." A catalog was published and students in grades 1-6 were able to choose 5 titles based on their personal interests. Classes were formed and students were notified via assignment slip Friday morning. The PTA donated many of the supplies that helped make Enrichment Clusters a reality at Wallace. After many hours of planning and anticipation, Friday afternoon finally arrived! I was welcomed into each and every cluster classroom with smiles and echoes of excitement. Students brought me samples to taste from "Sabroso y Delicioso", greeted me with cheers from "We've Got Spirit, Can You Hear It?" and researched native birds in Dallas area before planning birdhouses to build. The students thoroughly enjoyed the experience and parents who volunteered as "helping hands" that afternoon said they had never heard the entire school so quiet.
I don't know about the students and teachers, but I can't wait until Friday afternoon for Day 2 of Enrichment Clusters!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Wedding Bells
Exciting news from the Evans' household in the month of December! Not only was it a marvelous month at Wallace with all of the engaging holiday activities and spending time with my family during the holiday break but I got married!
My husband is Chris Yarger, a retired Army master sergeant, who I have known as a friend for 37 years. He and I enjoy doing the same things...spending time with our families, cooking, traveling. We had a small, intimate ceremony overlooking White Rock Lake on December 29, 2010. I will continue to be "Ms. Evans" at school this year but will change my name next school year to "Mrs. Yarger."
What a blessed way to begin the new year!
My husband is Chris Yarger, a retired Army master sergeant, who I have known as a friend for 37 years. He and I enjoy doing the same things...spending time with our families, cooking, traveling. We had a small, intimate ceremony overlooking White Rock Lake on December 29, 2010. I will continue to be "Ms. Evans" at school this year but will change my name next school year to "Mrs. Yarger."
What a blessed way to begin the new year!
Turkey Trot
The annual Wallace Turkey Trot was the best we have ever had! The Beta Club did a fabulous job of organizing the annual event by keeping a daily tally of each homeroom's collection, boxing the non-perishable goods, and leading the neighborhood parade. Each homeroom has a friendly competition with the classroom collecting the most cans getting to lead the parade. The students also had the challenge of gathering the goal of 2,500 cans so that I would fulfill their wish by wearing a turkey suit in the Turkey Trot parade! Many families in the Wallace neighborhood set cans on their doorstep so Beta Club members could collect them during the parade route and add to the school's collection. The grand total at the end of the day was over 5,200 cans! All food was donated to The Network of Community Ministries...how wonderful that we more than doubled our goal!
I believe it is such an important life lesson for children to participate in a spirit of giving back to their community. Again, one of the many reasons I love my job at Wallace, neighborhood school in Lake Highlands...the perfect place to be!
The annual Wallace Turkey Trot was the best we have ever had! The Beta Club did a fabulous job of organizing the annual event by keeping a daily tally of each homeroom's collection, boxing the non-perishable goods, and leading the neighborhood parade. Each homeroom has a friendly competition with the classroom collecting the most cans getting to lead the parade. The students also had the challenge of gathering the goal of 2,500 cans so that I would fulfill their wish by wearing a turkey suit in the Turkey Trot parade! Many families in the Wallace neighborhood set cans on their doorstep so Beta Club members could collect them during the parade route and add to the school's collection. The grand total at the end of the day was over 5,200 cans! All food was donated to The Network of Community Ministries...how wonderful that we more than doubled our goal!
I believe it is such an important life lesson for children to participate in a spirit of giving back to their community. Again, one of the many reasons I love my job at Wallace, neighborhood school in Lake Highlands...the perfect place to be!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
