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I want to say THANK YOU to the PTA for their great job on the SPRING CARNIVAL!!! We had a terrific turnout; the weather helped with that! I hope everyone enjoyed themselves. The baskets that were created by each classroom turned out amazing. We had so many awesome donations from staff, students and their families. We appreciate everyone's time and effort to make the carnival a success. I thought it was so nice to have everyone be a part of the basket raffle. It brings a sense of community and the students feel like they are contributing to the carnival. We will keep doing this next year and have more amazing things to raffle off to our families. There is ONE MORE PTA meeting on May 9th at 6:00. Please come and join us and give us some feedback on things going on at the school. We need more families to participate and help to put on great events in our building!
Wayne-Westland Community Schools is hosting a 3v3 basketball tournament for grades 4-12 on May 11 at John Glenn High School!
- $25 per player
- Coed teams
- 4 players per team
- Half-court game format
- 3 game minimum
- Must be enrolled in Wayne-Westland Community Schools
Happy Friday!
I cannot believe we are at less than 30 days of school left!!! Time is flying by!!! We will be starting our NWEA testing soon. All students in K-5 will take at least two of these tests. We are working on an incentive for them to do their very best on these last tests of the year!!!
Happy Friday!
We are almost done with our MSTEP testing. Our students have done a great job of being here every day and putting forth their best effort! I am very proud of them.
NEWSLETTER: Husky Happenings - April 19, 2024
Happy Friday!
MSTEP testing is in full swing. We will continue next week as well. I am so proud of our students and the effort that they are giving! Thank you to our families that have been making sure the students are on time every morning. It makes a huge difference when students test with their class.
We extended our March Madness attendance competition into April. The students are really getting into it and on Friday afternoons I announce the winner for the week. It is so fun to hear the screams erupt from that grade level at the end of the day. Attendance at school each day is very important. If you are struggling to get your child to school each day, or they are giving you a hard time about coming to school, please reach out to me or our social worker Ms. Salazar so we can sit down with your child and help them. We need our students here every day!
Happy Friday and Opening Day!
Hopefully our Detroit Tigers will have a great season this year!!! They did great today so that's awesome!!
We will be starting our MSTEP testing for our 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders next week beginning on Tuesday. It is very important that students arrive to school ON TIME each day so that they can test with their class. Research shows that students who test with their class, perform much better than when they have to take the test at a later date. We also like to make sure that they have a good night sleep the night before. Monitoring phone use, social media, and tablet usage in the evening is important so that they can get a good nights sleep. I know our students are ready to ROCK that test this year!!
I hope everyone was able to enjoy their Spring Break! We are in our final stretch of the school year now. That seems crazy to say. On Monday, we are going to go back to lining up OUTSIDE again at our classroom doors. There will however be a few classes that are going to have to continue to line up in the gym. Those classes are: Held, Taylor, Williams, Sokolowski, Nordeen, Burroughs, and Kubus. We are going to be packing up our building to get ready for construction that will be happening all summer at Graham. We are going to try and keep things as normal as possible, but please be patient while we are going to make some adjustments to things in the next couple of months.
Message from Mrs. Sheppard
Dear Graham Families,
We have been having a fun time with Reading Month! Next week on Wednesday, we are doing a Dress for the Academy Awards day! I can't wait to see everyone's fancy outfits. On Friday next week, we will have a PJ day so we can watch the movie that correlates with our grade level book that we are reading. Dress in your PJs or your favorite comfy clothes.
Spring Break will begin on March 25th-29th. School will resume on April 1st.
Happy Friday everyone!
Reading month has begun and we are doing lots of fun things in the building to celebrate. I put a section in this newsletter so you would be able to find the reading logs and the calendar so you are aware of what is going on.
Don't forget that on Sunday, we SPRING FORWARD one hour! Even though it takes a few days to adjust to losing an hour of sleep, that means longer days are coming and so is SPRINGTIME!!!! I love this time of year where we can be outside more often and later in the evening!!
Just a friendly reminder that we do not release students after 3:40 pm since we get out of school at 4:00. If you need to pick up your child early, please do so before 3:40 pm. The office gets very busy at the end of the day.
We have had a great week at Graham! Reading month has begun and we are so excited! Our theme is LIGHTS, CAMERA, READ!!! Your child should be bringing home notes about all of the activities that will be going on this month. Please check out the section in the newsletter for all of the materials. There have been lots of changes with recess due to the construction and the staff and students have been so flexible with all of the changes. It is so hard to make a change but we are up for the challenge!