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Volume 29   |   Issue 37   |   June 6, 2025

School Hours

8:55 am -

3:55 pm

 

Do not drop

off before

8:35 am

 

Pick up no later

than 4:05 pm

June 6 - Last Half Day of School - Dismissal at 12:10

 

~ SUMMER ~

 

August 21 - Kindergarten Open House 4:30-6:30

August 21 - First-Fourth Grade Open House 5:30-7:00

August 26 - First Day of School - Dismissal one hour early (first day only)

August 29 & September 1 - No School - Labor Day Weekend

The Principal's Pen

As I referenced last week, students who earned a HERO of the Month Award throughout this year were candidates for Slip 'N Slide Kickball. The winners and I had a blast with this.  Here were the lucky winners:

 

BK/K - Henry Bielawski, Penelope Smith, Grace McConnon, Kinsley Sweet, Theo Sommerlot, Autumn Elenbaas, Silas Nykamp, Avery Wilkins, Sanay Watts, Bryce Decker

 

First Grade - Rose Herman, Hudson Lyons, Peyton Hughes, Lennyx Lee, Ruth Sims, Cruz Mazuca, Julian Kildee, Emma Rizzo

 

Second Grade - Lily Browning, Madelyn Sowash, Fela Garza, Fischer Lichtenberg, Callie Henn, Avery Onan, Winter Waters, Liam Richardson

 

Third Grade - James Lyons, Emerson O'Keefe, Chelsea Xiong, Arria Christman, Luke Flammer, Violet Fredericks, Tyson Chemacki, Norah Batten

 

Fourth Grade - Quinn Leiby, Paige Janetzke, Victor Kingery, Larissa Ibrahim, Ananya Gokhale, Hannah York, Hayden Nichols, Eddie Bourgeois, Hannah Burns, Laylonie Caraballo-Pioquinto, Jaymeson Hansbarger, Brody Miller, Miles Sinko, Raegan Bort, Reid Deters, Bryson Hensley, Emily Jacobsen, Cali Kimmey, Claire Ptaszynski, Baylee Brown, Paige Kildee, Landyn Lee

I sincerely wish everyone a wonderful summer!  The construction is on schedule and that should be all completed and all of us will be moved into our new spaces by the fall.  There will be significant changes coming to parent drop off/pick up next year due to the added road behind Hayes and the reworking of our existing parking lots.  More details will come out in the fall, but expect the process to be different next year.

Thank you to all of our Willow Ridge HEROs for a great year in the library.  We ended this school year with very few library books still checked out or considered “lost.”  Books can still be returned next school year, so if you come across any this summer, give them another read and then bring them with you in the fall! 

 

I wish you all a safe, fun and relaxing summer.  Remember to visit your local public library for a variety of fun summer activities and to check out books!  See the images below for a wrap up of our 2024-2025 library adventures!  

 

Our number one checked out book for 2024-2025 was The Pigeon Needs a Bath by Mo Willems.  

 

“Reading is a passport to countless adventures” - Mary Pope Osborne, author of the Magic Tree House series

 

-Mrs Garnaat