Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Closing Out the Month


This past Friday was our annual Halloween Spooktacular and it was AMAZING! We had a record-breaking night with over 400 students (that's a lot of kids!!) participating. A majority of students dressed in their Halloween costumes and had a blast dancing, singing, playing BINGO, running around the gym, talking to one another (face to face without their phones) and generally just having fun. The kids were outstanding. The parent volunteers were incredible. A lot of our staff showed up to take part in the evening’s activities and connect with students. Our custodians were unbelievable in their efforts to clean up after such a huge event and have our building clean and shining as it always does to start the week on Monday morning.

A HUGE thank you to everyone who was involved in the planning and execution of this kid-centered event. The time and enthusiasm that our WGMS PTA puts into our students and staff is greatly appreciated. We couldn’t pull off events like this without an amazing team. Thank you!


The Monster Mash
Only took me 3 minutes to solve this cube


Positivity Project
This week our focus at WGMS is on the character trait CREATIVITY. As a building we have been discussing what CREATIVITY is all about:

“CREATIVITY is experimenting, growing, taking risks, making mistakes and having fun. CREATIVITY exists in all of us! There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. The key is that you have to not be afraid to fail. When it comes down to it, CREATIVITY is the POWER TO ACT and the power to
THINK BIG!" 

At home, think about different opportunities where you could have a conversation with your child about CREATIVITY to help reinforce what we are talking about here at school.  To help you make connections here is the link to the Positivity Project Character Card For CREATIVITY.

Thank you for your continued support of our students and staff. As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Happy Halloween!

Continued Success,

Steve Dunham
Twitter: @Sdunhamwgms
Email: sdunham@westgenesee.org