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STONEWALL INSIDER FEBRUARY 2018 EDITION #6

LOVE IS IN THE AIR AT STONEWALL!

“LOVE THE ARTS”

NIGHT!

The Stonewall PTA will

present a fun-filled “Love

for the Arts” event next

Thursday evening,

2/15th/6-8 p.m.!

This year’s variety of art

fields is tremendous!

• Student art show

• Painters

• Singer/guitar player

• Irish & Contemporary

dance groups

• A cartoonist

• Sumo origami

• Computer art

• A fashion designer’s

show and tell presenta-

tion

• SCAPA & Woodford The-

ater theatrical groups

• 2nd annual “Dance &

Draw” mural creation

• Stonewall Orchestra

Individual pizza meals $1!

What a wonderful way to

celebrate the arts!

ARTS NIGHT STUDENT

ART GALLERY!

One of the most unique

aspects of “Love the Arts”

night is the student art

show! EVERY student will

have his/her own framed

masterpiece on display!

You may purchase your

child’s framed original art

for $25 with a percentage

of the sale going directly

to the art department!

Color reproductions may

also be purchased for

friends or other family

members.

This is a fantastic way to

enjoy your child’s art

while also supporting the

art department!

If you are cannot attend

the show you may prepay

by sending your payment

to your child’s art teacher

(include student name/

homeroom teacher).

Checks are payable to

Stonewall PTA.

THERE’S SO MUCH TO

LOVE AT STONEWALL

THIS FEBRUARY!

CHICK-FIL-A SPIRIT NIGHT!

THURSDAY NIGHT, FEBRUARY 8!!

5-8 pm—Fayette Mall location

IMPORTANT REMINDER!

NO SCHOOL Monday, 2/19!!

Happy President’s Day!

CLASS VALENTINE’S DAY PARTIES

WEDNESDAY, 2/14!!

*Teachers to provide individual class times!*

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

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FEBRUARY 2018 STONEWALL INSIDER EDITION #6

DISTRICT SCIENCE FAIR WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

The Fayette County Public Schools Science Fair was held this past Saturday, 2/3rd! The event is

sponsored by Kentucky American Water. 709 students competed in this district level competi-

tion. As reported in last month’s newsletter, 12 Stonewall students advanced to this district

event! All participants were interviewed by a panel of judges and the winners from each group

continue on to the Central Kentucky Regional Science and Engineering Fair—to be held on

March 3rd at Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School.

Stonewall students received the following awards:

Fourth Grade Winners

Sydney Hurst and Holly Marshall—2nd place/Behavioral and Social Science

Fifth Grade Winners

Nishad Joshi—1st place/Plant Science

Husain Ghuneim/KAW Water Awardl

Congratulations to all participating Stonewall students!

Good luck to those students who advanced to Regional competion!

STONEWALL STUDENT NEWS

Ms. Erwin’s First Grade Class has

added an eclectic art display to

the front school lobby!

Each penguin’s body is made of a

soda bottle covered by a sock!

Then the fun began! Every pen-

guin developed its own creative

personality by adding buttons,

bows, feathers, hats and more!

Be sure to check out this colorful

display of creative art!

PENGUINS INVADE STONEWALL!!

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TEACHER FEATURE MONTHLY PROFILES OF STONEWALL’S FINEST


DEDICATED KINDERGARTEN TEACHER McKENNA WALLS

Teaching History: First year teaching/first year at Stonewall! Welcome McKenna!

Favorite Hobby: Listening to live music with friends!

One of Your Favorite Musical Artists: Kenny Chesney!

Favorite Restaurant: Rafferty’s!

FABULOUS FIFTH GRADE TEACHER WHITNEY THARP

Teaching History: 7 years teaching/1st year at Stonewall!! Welcome Whitney!

Favorite Hobby: “Reading and taking my girls to the movies!”

One of Your Favorite Musical Artists: “I have always been a huge Eagles fans!”

Favorite Restaurant: “My absolute favorite restaurants is J. Alexander’s!”

SENSATIONAL READING INTERVENTION TEACHER SARAH SPENCER

Teaching History: 17 years teaching/13 years at Stonewall!

Favorite Hobby: Gardening!

One of Your Favorite Musical Artists:“I listen to all types of music –no one favorite!”

Favorite Restaurant: Asian Wind!

AWESOME ORCHESTRA TEACHER KATY VANFLEET


Favorite Hobby: Jigsaw puzzles, reading, spending time with family!

One of Your Favorite Musical Artists: Eva Cassidy!

Favorite Restaurant: Panera, Chipotle, or Carrabbas!

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AMAZING JAPANESE TEACHER HIROKO HUNTER


Favorite Hobby: Swimming, jogging and playing piano!

One of Your Favorite Musical Artists: Bruno Mars!

Favorite Restaurant: Red Bang Bang Sushi, Panera Bread!

INCREDIBLE STAFF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST JONI JORDAN

Teaching History: Occupational Therapist for 22 years/12 years at Stonewall!

Favorite Hobby: Photography and gardening!

One of Your Favorite Musical Artists: Zac Brown and Chris Stapleton!

Favorite Restaurant: The Bluebird!

PHENOMENAL PHYSICAL THERAPIST DEBBIE CULLER

Teaching History: Physical Therapist for 37 years/19 years at Stonewall!

Favorite Hobby: “Gardening..especially orchids! I have 21 orchids right now! I

love decorating my home...especially for Christmas!”

Favorite Musical Artists: Elton John, Luke Bryan, Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga!

Favorite Restaurants: J. Alexanders and Grimaldi Pizza!

GREAT GIFTED AND TALENTED RESOURCE INSTRUCTOR JULIE LIPPERT


Favorite Hobby: Family, cooking and beach vacations!

One of Your Favorite Musical Artists: “I can’t pick one! I love all genres!”

Favorite Restaurant: Rafferty’s!

STELLAR SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST RHONDA DIVERT

Teaching History: School psychologist 18 years/13 years at Stonewall!

Favorite Hobby: Tennis, reading, and photography!

Favorite Musical Artist: Mercy Me, Casting Crowns and Maroon 5!

Favorite Restaurant: Malone’s, Ramseys and Outback Steakhouse!

*Teacher Features are now appearing in random order now that all grade level teachers have been featured*

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CLASSROOM INSIDER WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE CLASSROOM!

KINDERGARTEN

Working on the same academic standards from

January/ February Kindness Campaign

FIRST GRADE

Reading/writing: Comparing & contrasting stories/

confirming predictions/learning about life long ago

Math: Number sense to 40/double digit addition

and subtraction/place value...explaining how they

determine answers

SECOND GRADE

Reading/writing: Main idea & key details/compare

& contrast texts/narrative writing/r-controlled

vowels

Math: Multiplication

THIRD GRADE

Learning about reading, writing, social studies, sci-

ence & math concepts as they follow the 1,100 mile

dog sled race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska!

Gearing up to learn about the Iditarod!

FOURTH GRADE

Reading/writing: Figurative language & theme/

poetry

Math: Fraction content—a huge standard in 4th gr!

Science: Energy transfer & forces in motion —

always a class favorite to study!

FIFTH GRADE

Reading/writing: fictional narratives/poems/

learning how to comprehend q’s w/diverse media

Math: Converting measurements & calculating vol-

ume of regular & irregular objects

Social Studies: Levels & branches of gov’t followed

by Westward expansion unit

SPECIAL EDUCATION

Writing: Composing and writing sentences using

color, feelings & touch

Math: Adding numbers up to 3 digits w/out re-

grouping

Reading: Sight words & cvc words in a sentence

*Levels of study according to grade*

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CHECK OUT THE FUN AT RECENT PTA SPONSORED EVENTS!!

A NOTE FROM OUR PTA PRESIDENT

Wow, is it February already? We hope everyone has stayed warm and well during January. The Stonewall PTA has another jam-packed month ahead, as we are very busy planning the annual Love for the Arts Night on Thursday, February 15th from 6- 8 pm. Local artists, musicians, and dancers will be located throughout the school, to perform, instruct and provide hands-on expe-riences for our Stonewall families. PTA will be providing $1 pizza meals and families will be able to view and purchase framed student art in the library. To provide these exciting programs, we need as many volunteers as possible. Please contact us at [email protected]. It is a great way to get involved with our school community! Remember – if school is cancelled, due to inclement weather, any PTA evening activity is also cancelled. This follows FCPS policy on after- school activities on days that school has been called off.

Looking forward, we wanted to extend an invitation to all our Stonewall parents/guardians, to consider becoming a PTA officer for the 2018-19 school year. We NEED lots of new faces, new ideas and new energy to keep our organization representative of our school and moving in inno-vative directions. If you’d like to see what we’re all about, please join us for our next monthly on Monday, February 12th @6:30 in the library. Children are always welcome, snacks will be provided and we limit the meetings to one hour. This is a great way to see the many things PTA does for our school!

As always, please let me know if you have questions or concerns. We love all our Stonewall fam-ilies!

Amy Recktenwald, PTA President

JANUARY 19th –”DESPICABLE ME” MOVIE NIGHT

Volunteers are needed for “Love the Arts” night!

To let us know you’d like to volunteer please contact

Amy R. at [email protected]!

The PTA would LOVE to get to know your family!!

JANUARY 26TH

CUT & PASTE

CRAFT STUDIO

mailto:[email protected]

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IT’S ALMOST TIME FOR THE JOSEPH BETH BOOK FAIR!!

The Stonewall Library is hosting the annual Joseph Beth Book Fair Monday March 5 –

March 9!! It will be open every day from 7:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m during the week. On

Thursday evening of that week the fair will be open 6:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.

Several great activities are planned for the week:

Monday– 3/5-”Hats Off for Book Fair!”—wear your favorite hat!

Tuesday-3/6-”Sock It To A Good Book!”- wear goofy or mismatched socks to school!

Wednesday– 3/7—”Score Big With Reading!” - wear your favorite UK shirt or UK colors!

Thursday—3/8—”Reading is Grand!” - Students can invite their grandparents or special

person to shop with them at the book fair and then head to the cafeteria to snack on

an assortment of desserts provided by the Stonewall PTA! This event will be from 6:30

p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Friday– 3/9- “Stonewall Reads!” - wear your Stonewall shirt or Stonewall colors!

We hope to see everyone at the book fair!!

YEARBOOK “PICTURE PUSH” IS HERE!!

Attention: Teachers! Parents! Staff! Students!

Please keep sending your GREAT pictures of students and events!!

Pictures may be forwarded to: [email protected]

We need your help to make the yearbook AWESOME!!!

EXCITING YEARBOOK NEWS!!!

Every 5th grade class is going to be featured in a new “then and now” yearbook lay-

out which will show their current school picture next to their baby picture!

Big thanks to Mr. Gatliff, Aseel Gomez, 5th grade students, parents, and teachers for

working so very hard to achieve 100% participation on this project!!! A baby pic-

ture was collected from the ENTIRE 5th grade student body in a week’s time!

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KEEP BRINGING IN THOSE BOX TOPS!!!

Things to know about Box Tops for Education (BTFE) and Stonewall

• We currently rank #2 in our area, #9 in Kentucky, and #293 in the nation, ot of 97,241 schools!! We are so close right now to being back at #1 in our area!! Let’s do it!!!

• We have collected over 23,000 Box Tops since school started in August!!

• The collection contest theme for January was “We Save Box Tops Day and Knights”. • The theme for February will be “Just Like Ninjas, We Find Box Tops”. • Ms. Vollet’s K class was the winner of the Grimaldi’s Pizzeria Party

for January!

• The staff contest for a Complimentary Dinner for Two to the BHG’s restaurants went to Ms. Wor-ley. We had 69 entries – the most ever for our staff contests. That’s 690 Box Tops, or $69 from that one contest!

• Myla Phelps, in Mrs. Brashear’s 3rd grade class, won the stuffed penguin for guessing how many Box Tops were in the container.

• For February, we’ll have another guessing contest for some student to win a big, stuffed, red dog. • Thanks so much for all the “treasures” being donated to the Treasure Boxes! We can always use them.

Thanks for all that you continue to do helping us do so well! Keep sending in your Box Tops and logon to BTFE.com often and enter the contests. -Bruce Moore

BOX TOPS NEWS!!!!!

Thanks to all Stonewall

students and parents

for continued Box Tops

donations!!!

Stonewall students have do-

nated over 23,000 Box Tops

since the school year began

last August! WOW!

Stonewall currently

ranks #2 in area

schools!! Let’s make

it to #1!!

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THE DEADLINE TO ORDER A

STONEWALL YEARBOOK IS

FRIDAY, 2/16!!!

ONLY $30!!!! PURCHASE ONLINE AT WWW.JOSTENSYEARBOOKS.COM

OR

VISIT WWW.STONEWALLPTA.ORG TO DOWNLOAD A FORM

*ORDER FORMS INSIDE FRONT LOBBY OR OFFICE*

**PLEASE MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO STONEWALL PTA**

*NO EXCEPTIONS TO DEADLINE DATE*

*NO EXTRA ORDERS*

DON’T MISS OUT ON THE MEMORIES!!

Got questions? Contact [email protected]


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February 2018

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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100th Day of School

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3 District Sci-ence Fair

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6 Kindergarten and new student registration window begins (9 am – 1pm each weekday)*

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8 Spirit Night Chic-Fil-A (mall) 5-8 pm

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PTA Meeting

6:30 pm

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LOVE THE ARTS night

6-8pm

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Deadline to purchase a memory book

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Presidents Day

No School

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Popcorn Day

New student regis-tration window

ends*

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SBDM Meeting

5 pm

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Upcoming events – Book Fair (3/5 through 3/9)

Volunteers still needed for LOVE THE ARTS night Contact [email protected]

IMPORTANT REMINDERS FROM OUR STONEWALL ADMINISTRATORS

IMMUNIZATION UPDATE

The state of Kentucky is now requiring EVERY student to have two doses of Hepatitis A

vaccine. The doses are given one year apart. Your child probably has already received this

vaccine but it may not be listed on the certificate. Check with your doctor. At least one

vaccine is required by August 15. Each student will be required to bring in a new immun-

ization certificate with Hepatitis A vaccine information. Immunization certificates with

Hepatitis A information will be accepted now.

KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION IS FEBRUARY 6 THRU FEBRUARY 23—9am to 1pm

You must bring the following information to register:

Birth certificate AND Social Security Card or number, deed or lease AND a current bill in

your name at that address, physical exam AND immunization record (including Hepatitus,

eye exam and a dental exam (deadline for last two is 12/31).

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