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Student Council

The Student Council here at Wellington is a great group of strong leaders. They are sponsored by Mrs. Mayo and Mrs. Berg and Miss Heinze. They are the ones who run the safety patrol here at school to make sure that students are safe and respectful of others. They also plan our spirit days like crazy sock day or weird hair day. When we have community food drives to help CCA, it is student council who makes sure that huge task runs smoothly. Student Council officers come from our fourth and fifth grade classes. They make awesome speeches on the school tv in front of everybody to get elected to their jobs. That takes courage!

Way to go student council members.

We will be doing the Reflections again this Fall and the EPA again this Spring. We have not received all the information for the EPAcontest yet.
However, the Reflections is a State Wide Art Contest consisting of 6 catagories:
1) Visual Arts 2) Literature 3) Photography 4) Dance 5) Film/Video 6) Music.
All students can enter any or all catagories.

Spelling Bee
Mrs. Watkins heads up our Spelling Bee each year. Students compete in their classrooms for a spot on the BEE TEAM. Then, it is on to many hours of studying really hard words. These kids can REALLY Spell!

UIL is a program for enriching the students who want to enter content area contests.
Wellington Students compete against other students
whose elementary schoools feed into
Flower Mound High School.
The competition areas are:
Creative Writing and Storytelling for second graders,
Spelling, Ready Writing, Spelling, and Music Memory for third graders,
Ready Writing, Spelling, Music Memory, Oral Reading, Number Sense and Art for fourth graders,
and
Ready Writing, Spelling, Music Memory, Oral Reading, Number Sense, Art, Dictionary Skills, Listening, Maps, Charts, and Graph Skills, and Social Studies for fifth graders.
These are really great contests to help the kids who really want a little extra time to study and learn something new.
This year, UIL will be held at FMHS on Saturday, December 6th.

Geography Bee
The Geography Bee is sponsored by Mr. Hanson, our Social Studies Advocate. The students who enter this contest really must know a lot about reading maps, graphs, and charts, as well as about regions, cultures, rivers, and oceans. The geography bee is very exciting to watch, and the audience never fails to learn something cool from the interesting questions asked at the bee.

Congratulations, guys!

If you would like information about being in the Wellington Choir this year,
please see Mr. Geisler's site.
Mr. Geisler's Schoolweb Page

Lego Robotics Club

Lego Robotics Club is targeted at fifth grade students. There are currently 2 Fall Rotations and 2 Spring Rotations with up to 12 students per rotation.
We have six CRX units. That is the large block that holds the batteries and the computer chip. We put two students per rotation as partners on each robot. Because it is about teamwork and partnership, only those students who are willing to work together should apply for this club. Lego Robotics is about getting a task, building a robot that will accomplish the task, and programming it to make it do what you want it to do. It is a lot of fun, but it is also quite challenging. We do go to some competitions throughout the year, and the students who attend those meets are decided by the performance of their robots on the tasks during the rotations.
Click here for some more pictures of our lego club.

2006-2007 Percussion Ensemble

The Paw Printer Publishing Company is a PTA-sponsored opportunity for Wellington Elementary students. Each student has the option to write their own book, go through the editing process with their parent and teacher, and submit their book for publication to the publishing company. Books can be a work of fiction, an autobiography, a book of short stories, a collection of poems, an art collection, or just about anything your child can imagine! Volunteers with the Paw Printer Publishing Company will work with your child to get their work published in a beautiful, hard-bound book. All this for FREE!* Please contact Meredith Butterfield (mwb@butterfields.net) or Becky Roberts (hachary02@yahoo.com) for additional information.

*Student may submit only one book for publication during school year. First edition is free. Additional copies may be purchased for $10 each

Red Ribbon Week is for drug awarenesss. We strive to give our kids other options than to get involved with the world of drug abuse. One event that encourages them is the arrival of the DEA helicopter every year. The DEA agents speak to the kids about their job and experiences to try to make an impact toward good decisions. This event is sponsored by our PTA.

Science Night at Wellington is always fun! We have guest speakers, scientific demonstrations, robotics demonstrations, science fair projects to explore, and the book fair is also usually open that night too.
Make sure not to miss this fun event.

 

Wellington Appreciates Veterans!

This is our own Mrs. Garrison's Son.	Matt is pictured here with his wife as he arrives home.

This is one of the quilts made by our fifth graders to honor the fallen servicemen from LISD.
This quilt was presented to the parents of Ryan McCauley by students representing our school.
We took it to them on the Friday before Memorial Day.
Mr.and Mrs. McCauley were very touched, and the students were blessed to have a part in honoring a veteran.

 

Stephen, Keane, Houston, Evelyn, GW, and Vince at the Regional Casual Contest hosted by Wellington. Can you believe they WON!
(Spring 2005)