Wayne Hills

As a reminder, there is no school for students this Monday or Tuesday for conferences. Have a fabulous weekend and we can't wait to see you all back on Wednesday!

🍎 🍏 Crunch, crunch, hooray! 🍎 🍏 Our PreK students joined in Virginia's Apple Crunch Day with big smiles and big bites during VA Farm to School Week! We love celebrating local, healthy foods and enjoyed our visit and getting to taste pink lady apples fresh from the farm. Thank you!

Ahoy, mateys! Our PreK pirates set sail for Pirate Day! We CONQUERED any challenges that came our way! We love seeing all the fun learning and growing together. More photos on Facebook.❤️

This week's Theme Thursday is Pirate Day on Thursday, October 9th. The vocabulary word is conquer.

🌱 WPS Education Farm Featured on VPM’s Life in the Heart Land! 🎥

We’re thrilled to share that the Waynesboro Education Farm will be featured in the upcoming Life in the Heart Land series on VPM! Tune in to the “Aquaponics” episode airing Thursday, October 16 at 8:30 PM, to see how our students and staff are growing learning opportunities right here in the Valley.

Episodes also stream on the PBS app — don’t miss this inspiring look at hands-on teaching and learning in action!

🔗 Watch here: https://video.vpm.org/show/life-heart-land/

#WPSStrong #WaynesboroVA #EducationFarm #LifeInTheHeartLand #Aquaponics #CommunityofChampions

Waynesboro Education Farm provides hands-on project-based learning for Valley educators. Click the link to read the full article: http://bit.ly/42OGxZB

Happy Monday! We hope you had a good weekend. Please check out some of these great, local community opportunities, if interested! Have an amazing week!

✨ Happy Custodian Appreciation Day! ✨ This week, we celebrated our amazing custodians who help keep our Pre-K clean, safe, and full of smiles! 💖 Your hard work does not go unnoticed and we appreciate you all!

Today was so much fun learning more about families and relatives! Thanks for participating! You will find more photos on Facebook.

This week, our Theme Thursday on Thursday, October 2nd, will be Dress Like a Family Member Day. The vocabulary word is RELATIVE.

📣 Your School. Your Safety. Your Voice.

StopIt empowers students, parents, and staff to take action. Together, we can create safer schools for everyone.

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🎶 🎉 Join us with a huge thank you to Shenandoah Latin Dance for teaching our students, staff and guardians lively dance moves like merengue, bachata, and how to join a conga line. We had a fantastic time and look forward to Shenandoah Latin Dance return next year! 🎉 🎶

We will begin Theme Thursdays this week, where each week, staff and students are invited to join in on optional dress-up theme days. These days aren't just about dressing up, but are valuable opportunities to learn, express ourselves, create, and practice what we're learning in the classroom! We try connecting learning to real-life experiences in a fun and playful way at Wayne Hills. Participation is always optional, and all students will be included in the fun — dressed up or not! October Theme Days are the following:
Oct. 2nd- Dress like a Family member
Oct. 9th- Dress like a Pirate
Oct 23rd- PJ DAY
Oct. 17th- Career Day (Friday, on community helper day!)
Oct. 31st- Costume Day (Friday) **Please see safety guidance attached**

We are currently in the process of screening our Pre-K students for vision and hearing. The children have been so cooperative and amazing during this process — we are so proud of them! 💛
We apologize for not getting the word out sooner. If you have any questions or concerns about the screenings, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us!

Today was FAVORITE COLOR Day! 🌈 Thank you all so much for your participation and practice of our colors. We hope you've had as much fun as us this month! Staff also made colorful clay creations after school for Wellness Wednesday! 🩷

The color of the day was BLACK Day! 🖤 Tomorrow is FAVORITE COLOR Day! We can't wait to see everyone's favorite colors to conclude our fun color day series. 🌈

🌱 🪴 🪏 Wayne Hills students harvest and try their own mixed salad greens thanks to the Valley Alliance for Education. The Hydroponics Tower Garden is part of a joint project by Katie Ditchen from Wayne Hills and Nichole Barrows from Waynesboro High School. The "Grow-Ability Hydroponics Project" is funded by a grant from the VAE. Horticulture students from the high school collaborate with preschool students to cultivate a variety of crops, utilizing water and nutrients. The preschoolers get a close up view of every stage of plant development, and get to eat the results of their work! Thanks VAE! 🌱 🪴 🪏

As Attendance Awareness Month wraps up, let’s keep the momentum going! Small steps add up to big success when students are in school every day.

Addressing #chronicabsence is key for improving graduation rates, increasing achievement & giving young people a good chance for success at school & beyond. Join the Attendance Awareness Campaign & make a difference for our community! http://bit.ly/1oqfID7

Happy Monday! Today was ORANGE Day, perfect for fall pumpkins, which we saw lots of. 🧡 Tomorrow is BLACK Day! 🖤