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IMPORTANT DATES
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Friday, April 26 -
VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION LUNCH, 11:00-12:30 (by reservation only)
Monday, April 29 - Family Fitness Fun Night, MHS, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 2 - Last Day to check out books
Friday, May 3 - Professional Dev. Day - NO SCHOOL
Monday, May 6 -
All district 5th grade band concert, MMS, 7:00 p.m.
Last Day for SRC Quizzes
Thursday, May 9 - Mother's Day Tea for Wiechman & Scribner, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Friday, May 10 - Maize Way Day - Perseverance;
Weis & Schweikert sleepover, 7 p.m.; PTO All Star Sports Night, Grades 5-8, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, May 14 - Battle of the Books Prelims - Band Room, 3rd grade 9:00 a.m.
Wednesday, May 15 - Battle of the Books Prelims - Band Room, 4th & 5th grade 9:45 a.m.
Thursday, May 16 - Field Day - 2nd Grade 9:00-11:00; 5thGrade 12:45-2:45
Spring Parties for 2nd & 5th Grades, 2:45 p.m.
Friday, May 17 - 3rd Grade Spelling Bee - Band Room, 9:00 a.m.
Friday, May 17 - Field Day - 4th Grade 9:00-11:00; 3rd Grade 12:45-2:45; Spring Parties for 4th & 3rd Grades, 2:45 p.m.;
Orchestra All 5th Grade Program, 7:00 p.m., MSHS
Monday, May 20 - 5th Grade Celebration 1:00 p.m.
Tuesday, May 21 - Battle of the Books Finals - Cafeteria, 9:00 a.m. 2nd & 3rd grade; 9:45 a.m. 4th & 5th grade.
PWS Talent Show, MHS auditorium 1:15 p.m.
Wednesday, May 22 - Third Grade Animal Expo, 12:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 23 -
3rd Grade Multiplication Baseball Tournament, 9:00 a.m.
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Mission :
The mission of Maize USD 266 is to inspire students to discover their potential through connecting, learning and leading.
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The Pray-Woodman Way
April 25, 2013
Volume 19, Issue 8
Pray-Woodman Elementary 
605 W. Central
Maize, KS 67101
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A Note from Nils...
It's hard to believe that the school year is almost over! We look forward to seeing you at Field Day and Spring Parties as well as many of the other events that will occur at the end of the school year.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support through our fundraisers (Entertainment Book, Discount Cards, Book Fairs, and Winter Blast).
Because of your generous support we have been able to:
- Add four shorter basketball goals to the playground.
- Provide bus transportation for field trips.
- Put in a new slide (coming soon).
- Purchase new books for the library.
- Purchase math manipulatives and games.
- Acquire classroom sets of books.
- Provide money for each teacher for classroom supplies including books, art materials, behavior incentives, learning games, and resource books.
- Install large bulletin boards for the hallways to display behavior posters.
If you would like to be involved in fundraising as well as other volunteer opportunities at PWS, we would like to invite you to come to a PWS PTO meeting on Thursday, May 9 at 4 p.m. in the Band Room. We will discuss fundraising ideas for next year, look at some possi ble shirt designs, and talk about other volunteer opportunities that will help our students and staff.
PWS will have three sections of all day kindergarten and one section each of morning and afternoon kindergarten next year. The kindergarten rooms will be in the 300 Hall. First grade will be coming to PWS for the 2014-2015 school year and will also be in the 300 Hall. The second grade classrooms will be moving to the 400 Hall.
Thank you for your support! Together we can make great things happen for our students!!!!!
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Maize Middle School and Maize South Middle School will host a 6th grade orientation night for
the district's 5th graders on
 Monday, May 13, 2013 at 6:00 pm.
Fifth grade students and their families should attend the orientation at their assigned middle school. The evening will consist of information sharing from the administrators and counselors and a tour of the building.
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3RD & 4TH GRADE MUSIC PROGRAM DVD
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 Click here for the order form for the April 15 & 16th music program. |
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4TH GRADE TEACHER RECEIVED AWARD
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 Congratulations to Marney Hay, PWS 4th grade teacher who will be our district's nominee for the 2014 Kansas Teacher of the Year Award! Nominee's will find out in September who is selected as Kansas Teacher of the Year.
Marney will do an awesome job representing our students and staff!
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Mark your calendar for:
Family Fitness
Fun Night
 April 29, 2013 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Free Admission
MAIZE HIGH SCHOOL
FOOTBALL FIELD
11600 W.45th St. N
Maize, KS
Fitness Challenges with
Maize Student Athletes
Nutritional Snacks and Recipes
Healthy dinner options from Wild Thyme Catering
will be available for purchase at 5:00 p.m.
No Rain Date
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PWS RECEIVES AWARD FOR CHARACTER ED
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The Kansas State Department of Education, in partnership with the Character Education Partnership, recognized PWS with a Spotlight Award for exhibiting current strengths in a strand of the newly adopted SECD Standards and another award for Promising Practices in Character Education.
The Kansas Schools of Character Award recipients are schools and/or districts that have demonstrated education principles that include creating a caring school community, engaging families and community members as partners in character-building efforts, fostering self-motivation, and implementing meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops character, and helps students succeed.
We are so proud of our counselor, Joey Buresh, and the behavior committee who applied for these awards and have worked hard to implement our new behavior program over the last two years!
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LIBRARY NEWS... by Sheryl Connell
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Students may still receive a vegetable or flower plant for every 25 boxtop labels brought to school. Students may bring as many boxtops as they like until April 30. They'll be making the earth a more beautiful place and helping our school library make money to buy books and SRC prizes. We want to thank all the parents who sent boxtop labels and helped with this project!
Battle of the Books Information:
Preliminaries on 5/14 - 3rd grade, 9:00 a.m. in band room 
Preliminaries on 5/15 - 4th & 5th grades, 9:00 a.m. in band room
FINALS on 5/21 - 3rd grade 9:00; 4th & 5th 9:45 in cafeteria
SRC AWARD ASSEMBLY:
Wednesday, May 22 - 2nd & 3rd 9:00 a.m.; 4th & 5th 9:45 a.m. in the cafeteria.
ALL BOOKS ARE DUE BACK ON THURSDAY, MAY 2ND! May 6th is the last day to take SRC quizzes.
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FIELD DAYS...by Coach Buchanan and Coach Schauer
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FIELD DAYS
THURSDAY, MAY 16
2nd Grade - 9:00-11:00
5th Grade - 12:45-2:45
Spring Parties - 2:45-3:45
FRIDAY, MAY 17
4th Grade - 9:00-11:00
3rd Grade - 12:45-2:45
Spring Parties - 2:45-3:45All Field Day s will be held on the day they are scheduled. There is a rain contingency plan. All activities will be held inside in the gym if there is rain. Due to lack of space, parents will NOT be able to attend if field day is inside.
We do need cookies donated for this event. If you would like to donate, please send the cookies by Tuesday, May 14th. Thanks for your help!
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POP TABS GO TO RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
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Last Friday two tea chers and some lucky students made the delivery of 544,058 pop tabs to the Ronald McDonald house. They weighed them in at 413.7 pounds. They will turn them in to be recycled and the money will be used to give families a place to stay near their sick children who are in the hospital. We  were also able to tour the house while we were there. It looks just like the inside of a regular house with extra rooms upstairs.
We would like to thank everyone for collecting the pop tabs all year long. A special thanks to the students of Ms.Weis, Mrs. Schweikert, Mrs. Whitson and Mrs. May for counting out all those tabs and keeping a running total.
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5TH GRADE CLASSES RAISE MONEY FOR AUTISM
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The 5th grade students raised $600 for Team Dennis. Team Dennis participated in the Care Walk for Autism Awareness. Mrs. Morrow's class won a free pizza party for raising the most money. Way to go 5th grade and Team Dennis!!
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PWS "WE ARE ALL STARS" TALENT SHOW
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Our 7th Annual Talent Show is scheduled for Tuesday, M  ay 21st at 1:15 p.m. in the MHS auditorium. Auditions will be before and after school on May 8th and May 9th. More information and audition forms will be coming in an email soon. |
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COUNSELOR'S CORNER...by Dr. B.J. Wells and Joey Buresh
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Human Growth and Development videos will be shown during regularly scheduled physical education classes for all fourth and fifth graders on May 1 and May 2. The boys will view their video with Coach Buchanan or Coach Schauer. The girls will watch their videos with counselors Ms. Joey Buresh or Dr. B. J. Wells. Parents who do not want their child watching the video must send an opt out form to the office. If you have any questions, please call the counselors at 721-0902.
Second and third graders will work on the Are you a Survivor? checklists to see how their behavior contributes to the classroom climate.
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STUDENTS OF THE MONTH:
March
2nd Grade:
Wyatt & Cooper (Andrus)
Reagan & Brady (Hinson)
Paige & Hunter (Hobbs)
3rd Grade:
Jack & Kaitlyn (Charles)
Lillian & Israel (Doern)
Caitlyn & Landon (Ewert)
Jordan & Sophia (Peters)
Tyler & Allison (Schweikert)
Weston & Katie (Weis)
Kaylee & Izzy (Wiltse)
4th Grade:
Melanie & Aiden (Carter)
Zoey & DeAndre (Hay)
Kadyn & Jasmine (Hunsaker)
Wesley & Amber (May)
Lexie & Shawn (Palmer)
Alajiah & Presley (Ramey)
Alan & Azzy (Runck)
Emma & Chase (Whitson)
5th Grade:
Marcus & Sydney (Christian)
Jaden & Star (Harding)
Daisy & Camden (Morrow)
McKenna & Jordan (Pfaff)
Kelsey & Brandon (Scott)
Banr & Jadin (Scribner)
Ashlyn & Tom (Tice)
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