Etna Elementary School

Where we Think, Learn, Achieve, & Care

http://etna.lcsd2.org

March 2010

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PAWSitive Vibes
First of all, thank you for your recent attendance and support of our Parent-Teacher
Conferences. The EES Staff is thankful for and inspired by the support of our parents!
Starting on March 8th, the testing window for the PAWS (Proficiency Assessment
for Wyoming Students) will begin. During the last three weeks of March, the entire
student body at EES will be taking different subtests of the PAWS to show their skills
in the areas of reading, writing, and math (4th grade will be doing science assessments
as well). We feel confident that our students will excel in these tests; they have been
working hard all year and the PAWS will reflect those efforts.
We ask that you have your child at school every day with a good breakfast and plenty
of rest. Most of our testing will take place during the morning and we need students
here and ready to go!
If a student misses days during the testing window, he or she is required to make up
all missed testing, so please let us know in advance of planned absences. Also, please
prepare your child with the fact that he or she will need to make up any testing missed.
We are very appreciative of your efforts and support of our school. Thank you for all
you do!

Calendar
3/8-4/8 PAWS Window - Need students at school daily
3/9,10,16,17,23,24 After School Enrichment Classes: 2:37 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.
3/14 Daylight Savings Begins - Spring Forward!
3/22 Mastery Camp Activity - Wilderness Survival Skills Presentation
at Etna Elementary School
3/29-4/2 Spring Break - Hooray!
4/12-13 Be Wise Beware
4/13,14,20,21,27,28 After School Enrichment Classes: 2:37 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.
4/26 Mastery Camp Activity: Sketching Nature and GPS Scavenger Hunt
5/11 4th Grade Rendezvous
5/5,12 After School Enrichment Classes: 2:37 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.
5/17 Mastery Camp Activity: Parent/Student Cookout
5/27 Last Day of School
 2nd AR Period Celebration Awards
Top Percent Top Points

4th Grade: 3rd Makayla Dana, 1st Jessica Medina, 4th Grade: 3rd Tiffanie White, 1st Samuel Lechner,
2nd Martin Park 2nd Hannah Tallerico

5th Grade: 3rd Jeff Plummer, 1st Isabella Currie, 5th Grade: 3rd Dylan Brog, 1st Cassidy Post,
3rd Kamiah Astle 3rd Carissa Post

6th Grade: 3rd Conner Crook, 1st Jacob Newman, 6th Grade: 3rd Korey Jackson, 1st Aaron Lechner,
3rd David Hovivian 2nd Jaden Clark
 Most Improved Readers

Shania Warren
has earned the

Top Row (L-R): Iris Quezada, Ashley Barnard, Natasha Beard, Sage Stevens
Indian
Middle Row: Kendra Jorgensen, Darren Allred, Parker Asher, Karrah Hartley Paintbrush
Front Row: Gabe Snively, Riley Shapiro, Hayden Hart, Kaylee Sanchez Award
by reading all fifteen titles
nominated for Indian
Paintbrush, a Wyoming
Children’s Book Award.

IMPORTANT NOTE!
Love and Logic classes
will also be offered in the
Lower Valley later this Would you like FREE Dinner and
spring at a date to be
determined. Babysitting with Great Classes?
WHEN: Love and Logic parenting classes begin on Thursday
nights 2/25, 3/4, 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/8, 4/15

TIME: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Dinner is from 6:00-6:30, class starts at 6:30

WHERE: Dinner and Babysitting: Afton Elementary Gym, Class: AE Media Center
Parking and entrance is on the east side of the building

COST: FREE! Space is limited, so sign up to reserve a spot.

INSTRUCTOR: Diana Whitney, School Psychologist

REGISTER: Call Diana at 885-8002 ext. 7420 with the following information:
Number of adults and children for dinner & ages of children for babysitting

“Becoming a Love and Logic Parent” is a parent-training program that teaches an easy, low-
stress way to communicate with your children and discipline using love and logic techniques.
For questions or additional information call Diana at 885-8002.
These classes are sponsored by Lincoln County School District #2 Title One Reading program.
 Doc Hudson’s Corner
Children’s friendships are an important part of their experience at school. As children become
more aware of their peers, they begin to place more importance on friendships. Friendships can
be a positive support for children, even if a child only identifies one other child as their friend. Research has documented
that having close friendships can help alleviate the effects of stress, increase self-esteem and confidence, make children
more resilient against hardship, and be a protective factor against mental health difficulties such as depression (Howard
& Landau, 2004). Despite these benefits, children’s friendships can sometimes be a source of frustration. Talking with
children and a child’s teacher can provide a lot of information on how the child approaches making and keeping friends.
When children need help with establishing or choosing friendships, parents can help by being aware of their child’s current
friendships – Who is your child choosing for friends and why? – as well as modeling good friendship skills. Children can
be taught specific skills to be friendly, such as giving compliments, being interested in others, communicating, and problem
solving. If your child is having difficulty with friendships, you can ask his/her teacher for more information on what’s
happening at school. We have friendship groups at Etna for students to make new friends and practice proactive friendship
skills, and I can also work with individual students or small groups on specific friendship issues.

CHECK

Etna Elementary: Where We Think. Learn, Achieve, and Care!

Congratulations to the these Etna Elementary School students whose actions reflect the Care aspect of our mission
statement through CHECK (Character, Helpful, Empathy, Community, and Kindness).

Etna Enrichment Express!

Our next session of Etna Enrichment Express will be
March 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, and 24. We will be offering
another introductory archery class for those who have been
anxiously waiting to take this class. There are three classes
that will be continuing; Become a Published Writer, Fly
Tying, and Etna Mustang Dancers. If you took any of these
classes in February, please submit your registration forms
with that class marked and your contribution for March.
Many students were excited about our Fossils class so that
will be offered again in March for a new group of students.
We are excited to have a GIANT map of Asia in our
school and will be offering a class with hands-on activities
exploring Asia in a BIG way. We have some other exciting
classes in the works so there will be something to interest
everyone. Watch for the registration forms to be coming
home on March 1 and get them turned in as soon as you
can.
We are pleased to be offering a new kind of After School
Enrichment that can be done at home. In the near future,
we will begin to send home “Brain Bags” with students.
Each teacher will nominate a student to be eligible to
choose a backpack full of enrichment activities. To be
able to take a Brain Bag home, students will be required
to return a permission slip signed by their parents or
guardians. Bag are checked out on Thursdays and returned
to the school on the following Tuesdays. Every week a
new group of students will have a turn to take home a
Brain Bag and explore its unique contents. We hope you
will take advantage of this great new opportunity when
you are given the chance. Thanks for your support of Etna
Enrichment Express
 R
andom
Acts of
Kindness
Math Awards CHECK

These students have been honored with Etna’s newest

recognition, the Huckleberry Mountain Math Award. We’d
like to thank Mr. & Mrs. Karl Yost of Huckleberry Mountain for
sponsoring this celebration of our student’s achievements.

Ruth Stevens, Bailey Hodges, Faith

Highest Achieving
Top Row, 6th Grade (L-R): Ethan Rasmussen, Aaron Lechner,
Brittany Phillips, SharaLee Warren
Middle Row, 5th Grade: Cassidy Post, Jason Walker, Shania
Warren, Seth Deapen, Mr. Yost
Front Row, 4th Grade: Rio LeFevre, Chase Walther, Jared Bianco,
Noah Hutchinson (not pictured)
Robbins, Camry Clark, William Barnett,
Marisa Clark, and Zack Austin from
Mrs. Moore’s 5th grade class performed
“random acts of kindness” over the
Valentine weekend. These acts included
shoveling walkways, helping babysit,
caring for pets, and helping a friend
when they’re down in the dumps.
What great role models these students
are for exhibiting CHECK behavior!
Congratulations!

Taia Tully
is Etna’s newest

Most Improved Honors

Top Row, 6th Grade (L-R): Maddisen Izatt, Jason Bird, Reader.
Emily Grayson, Rosa Garcia
Middle Row, 5th Grade: Ashlyn Lloyd, Jessica Heppler, She earned 100 Accelerated
Daniel Eastwood, Alexa Linford, Mr. Yost Reader points from reading and
Front Row, 4th Grade: Hailey Tindall, Chloe Bassett, testing on books from a specific
Dexan Dance, Jesus Bocardo list of quality literature.
 Music to Our Ears!
“The study of music supports
wonderment, imagination,
appreciation, and sensitivity. Music
allows us to experience creativity as
an inventive thinking style.”
- Dr. Tim Lautzenheise
Music is also great fun to listen to
when it’s played by our awesome
Etna music students! Thank you
for supporting them at their recent
concerts.

Spring Break
in Star Valley

Student Council News

The Etna Elementary Student Council has been very busy the past few months working on a variety of projects. First,
three student council members worked with members of the State Forestry Division to write a grant that was sponsored
and supported by the Star Valley Conservation District. The grant, which will provide funding and support for planting
the berm in front of the school this spring, took many hours and a lot of outside time for the students to complete and was
supported by all student council members. We’ll find out soon if the grant was funded.
Second, the sixth grade representatives have been working with lunch room staff to identify expected behaviors that
follow the CHECK guidelines.
Finally, the schoolmall.com fundraiser has just begun and will be completed at the beginning of March.
Great job, Student Council!

is coming Soon! Please

watch for more information
and be getting your “Arts”
entries ready!
Who Let the Dogs Out?!!!
In February, Etna 4th graders were caught up in the excitement of watching mushers from all over the world take part in
the International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race (IPSSSDR) in Alpine. Thanks to Wendy Bell and Joe and Becky
Lovelace, the students also got some closeup time with the sled dogs and mushers right here at Etna Elementary.

Elementary School. We Snowmobiles Are The Best

learned many useful tips Thing That Ever Happened
about avalanches and being To Me by Braxten Byington
safe in the back country. We I had a tremendous time at the
also learned how to take care after school snowmobile class.
of our snowmobiles and to The most exciting part of the
always ride safely. Thank class was that I learned how to
cut snow to see how soft it is, that
you for helping make our
is part of how you find people
class a success. who get buried in an avalanche.
I really liked the movie because
it taught us how to watch for
avalanches that are cased from
Thanks for Helping temperatures
Us Stay Safe! of 30-45
A special thanks to the Star degrees. I
think that I
Valley Search and Rescue
learned how
Rob Hoff, Dave Daniels, to be safer
Star Valley Skidoo, and Mr. on a snow
Pierantoni for sharing their machine
knowledge and expertise when I’m
during our snowmobile in the
enrichment class at Etna mountains.