Contributed Photo PROM ROYALTY: Wolf River Lutheran High School held its prom May 2 at Boarders Inn. Members of the court were, from left, freshman representatives Ben Schmidt and Olivia Luekpe, sophomore representatives Blaine Andrada and Elizabeth Meisner, junior representatives Taylor Timm and Brooke Rosenlund, and King James Schmidt and Queen Cheyenne Clements.
Contributed Photo St. Paul Lutheran School’s Luv 2 Run participants at the Green Bay Cellcom 5K on May 16 included, from left, front row, Abby Ard, Raina Dworniczak, Abby Stoltenow, Carli Anderson, Ruth Titler, Griffin Uelmen, Grace Titler and Joah Dworniczak; back row, coach Brittany Ingledew, Judah Griesbach, Cooper Uelmen, Reece Stoltenow, Logan Guenterberg, Cole Anderson and coach Deb Guenterberg.
Bonduel Elementary School
The Bonduel Elementary first-graders have been working on Wizard of Oz-themed activities such as characters, setting, vocabulary, math word problems, compare/contrast, fairy tales and graphing. This is in preparation for their production of the mini musical, “The Wizard of Oz.” They have been practicing their songs and parts since the beginning of March and are very excited to show off their hard work. They will perform at 1:30 p.m. May 29 at Bonduel High School in Sousa Hall. The children will make digital pictures of themselves in costume; the pictures are shown at the conclusion when the students are introduced. Mark your calendars and make sure you come early to get a good seat. You won’t want to miss it! Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the presentation.
On May 7, we took 51 fourth-graders to Madison. The coach bus picked us up at 8 a.m. We played games, watched movies and ate on the bus. We toured the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison and saw many amazing animals. Some of the favorites were the monkeys and giraffes. We had a picnic lunch by the playground. Then we headed to the Wisconsin Historical Museum. The guided tour took us to a trading post and logging/lumbering exhibit. We went inside a mine and an Aztalan house. Next stop: our magnificent state Capitol! We toured the rooms of the Senate and Assembly and even climbed up and went out on the observation deck. A beautiful view! We arrived back at BES around 7 p.m. The students made many connections throughout the day to classroom lessons learned about our state and this trip. Happy memories were made by all.
St. Paul Lutheran School
Need your car washed? Students in the fifth and sixth grades will be washing cars for a freewill donation from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the church/school parking lot. Proceeds will go toward their end-of-year field trip to a Milwaukee Brewers game. While you wait, enjoy a brownie or cookie at their bake sale.
Thursday, our final Scholastic Book Fair of this school year begins. This is a great time for grandparents, aunts and uncles to stock up on books as gifts to encourage summer reading. The book fair will be open following each church service this weekend.
About 15 St. Paul students, along with some parents, participated in this year’s Cellcom 5K on Saturday as the culmination of the Prevea Luv 2 Run program. They did very well. Most ran the entire 3.2 miles, impressing their parents. On Sunday, St. Paul was again represented at the half-marathon (13.1 miles) with coach Deb Guenterberg participating. Teacher Kari Williams and teacher aide Bridgett Dingeldein ran the full marathon as a relay team, each running a little over 6 miles. What a great example of healthy leadership and encouragement for the staff and students.
St. James Lutheran School
The 3- and 4-year-old students were unable to walk on the day that had been arranged, and so this week they walked together in the gym for this year’s Race to Education. There was never a more enthusiastic bunch than these young children. Thank you to all those who supported these students. They had a lot of fun and at the same time raised money for our Race for Education.
This past week, our school received an email from the Department of Public Instruction informing us that St. James has been accepted into the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program. More than 1,000 student applications were submitted. Under state law, if more than 1,000 students apply to the program, only the 25 schools with the most applications will be permitted to participate in the random drawing for available voucher slots. However, state law also stipulates that those schools that participated in the WPCP in the 2014-15 school year will retain the same number of voucher slots they received in 2014-15. This brings the total number of schools permitted to participate in the WPCP for the 2015-16 school year to 35, as there are 10 current WPCP schools that are not among the top 25 schools with the most applications.
Because state law requires that schools participating in the voucher program in the 2014-15 school year receive at least the same number of voucher slots for the 2015-16 school year, it is expected that all available voucher slots for 2015-16 will be assigned to schools continuing in the program from the current 2014-15 school year.
There are several proposals affecting the choice program that are included in the state budget, including changes to students eligibility, school participation and a potential change in the enrollment cap. Therefore, DPI will not conduct the random drawing in May, but will instead wait for the state budget process to be completed. DPI believes it would create confusion for parents and schools if the drawing is completed prior to the passage of the state budget because changes in the law could possibly result in the need for a new random drawing.
DPI will share this information with the parents of all 48 eligible applicants from St. James.