Wish Stockings

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas will soon be there!

The Teacher Wish Stockings have been hung in the main entrance of the school.  If you are looking for that perfect gift for your child's teacher, be sure to stop by and grab a "wish" (or two) for their classroom!  All stockings will be filled with teacher wishes by December 2. 

We hope this helps with your holiday shopping!

PTA Updates and Reminders

Congratulations to the Wilson Lego Crew for qualifying for the State competition! We are all very proud of you. The State competition will be held Sunday, December 8 in Appleton at Appleton East High School. Opening ceremonies/robot matches begin 12 p.m., closing ceremonies and awards at 4:30 p.m. Good luck to the Lego Crew at State!

 

Mr. Kelly has coordinated his first parent information night where he can address various technology topics with our Wilson families. Information about the first night is below:

Thursday, November 21^st 5:30 – 6:30pm
Wilson Web-Based Programs:
Come and learn how to use our different web programs to encourage your child's learning outside of school and to setup an effective at home learning routine. We will cover the basics(Where to go, how to login, what you child should be doing, how this is benefiting them, strategies for helping at home) for the following web programs: Raz-Kids, Achieve3000, TumbleBooks, Dreambox and if there is time Discovery Education.

Our next Out-n-About restaurant fundraiser is Monday, November 25 at Oscar’s Frozen Custard, 2362 S. 108^th Street. Watch your student’s folder for the Oscar’s flyer, and bring that in on November 25 to help Wilson! Oscar’s will donate a portion of all sales with our flyer back to our school. The flyer is attached. Share the flyer with friends and family!

Did you order your new Wilson Spirit Wear? No fear, another order will be opening this Friday, November 22 and run through December 6. Visit www.dunnssportinggoods.net to order. All items will be delivered before the holiday break. These make fantastic presents!

The Wilson PTA is having a movie ticket and gift card fundraiser! Choose from:

· Marcus Gift Certificates in $5, $10 and $25 denominations

· Marcus Gift Cards in $10 or $25 denominations

· Discounted movie tickets – which include free “snack cash”

An order form was sent home in your child’s folder. Orders will be collected on December 3, 2013 with delivery of all tickets and gift cards before the holiday break.

Congratulations to Kim Adamek, who was our Facebook contest winner when we hit 100 likes! Our next Spirit Wear giveaway will be at 150 likes. Wilson families and friends, like us on Facebook and win prizes!

The ‘Tis the Season Celebration with Santa will be Friday, December 13 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Watch for information about this festive event to go home this week. Response forms are due by December 6.

To help make your holiday shopping a bit easier, PTA has put together “Wish Stockings” for all the teachers at Wilson!  The “Wish Stockings” will be hung in the main entrance of the school beginning December 2. Each teacher will have their own “Wish Stocking” filled with ideas of items they need and/or want for their classroom! If you find something from that stocking that you would like to purchase for your child’s teacher this holiday season, simply take that “wish” out of the stocking and you are ready to shop! Feel free to take as many “wishes” as you would like. And don’t forget Wilson’s specialist teachers, they do a lot for our kids too!  We hope this will take some of the stress out of your holiday shopping this season!

Thank you and we hope you have a fantastic Thanksgiving!

Wilson Lego Crew

Congratulations to the Wilson Lego Crew for qualifying for the STATE COMPETITION! We are so proud of you!  

 Let's support our 1st Wilson Lego Crew on Sunday, December 8th in Appleton at Appleton East High School for the STATE COMPETITION!  Opening ceremonies/robot matches begin 12:00 pm, closing ceremonies/awards at 4:30 pm.  GOOD LUCK LEGO CREW!

Pictures from the Costume Party

 

Teachers hard at work!
Thank you!




 

 So much fun was had by all at the Costume Party! 

Here are a few pictures to prove it!

 

Thank you to everyone who attended and a HUGE thank you to the teachers and all volunteers who helped make this party a success! 

 

 

 



Pumpkin Bowling

Pumpkin Decorating

 

There was a Zombie in the hallway!

 

 

Look at all the great costumes!

 

 

 

Even the PTA Board dressed up! 

Thank you for coming to the party!

Updates & Reminders

Thank you to everyone who came to the Wilson Costume Party on Friday, it was a HUGE success!  And a special thank you to everyone who volunteered at the dance.  We cannot do these events without the support of all our volunteers!  We had a large donation of canned goods that were donated to a local food pantry...THANK YOU to all who donated!  Pictures from the dance will be posted soon!

Don't forget Tuesday is our next PTA restaurant fundraiser at Qdoba on Hwy 100 in West Allis.  Qdoba will donate 10% of your total order to Wilson PTA with the Qdoba flyer that was handed out in your child's folder.  Additional flyers are located in the office.

Attention all 5th graders/parents...if your 5th grade student would like to participate in designing the 5th grade t-shirt please be sure they turn in their drawing to their teacher by Wednesday October 23.  We will not accept any drawings after Wednesday!

Thank you!  

PTA Meeting

Thank you to all who attended Monday's PTA meeting! IIt was one of our most heavily attended. Thank you for your interest and time!

If you have any additional questions about NxGL please contact Mrs. Gottinger, who welcomes your questions! If there's anything we can answer/comment or elaborate on about anything PTA related, please let us know!

We look forward to seeing you all at the Costume dance on Friday and at the bookfair!

Book Fair

The PTA Scholastic book fair begins with a GRAND EVENT on Saturday October 19th at 8:30 am - 11:30 am continuing October 21, 22 & 23.  Be sure to check out Wilson's Scholastic Book Fair webpage at http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/publish/wilsonwestallis

The penny war started today!  Send in your loose change to school with your child so their class has an opportunity to win free books at the book fair.  Also, be sure to return your child's completed PTA reading sheets.  If we reach our goal of 460 reading sheets, Mrs. Gottinger will get wrapped like a mummy!

Happy reading!

PTA Updates/Reminders

Wilson PTA has a few reminders for you as we head into this beautiful fall weekend!

 

Have you ordered your Wilson spirit wear yet? Our order closes on September 30 at 5 a.m. so be sure to get your orders in over the weekend! Visit http://www.dunnssportinggoods.net  to order your spirit wear now!

Wilson also earns funds through Market Day sales. You can order via the flyer that gets sent home with your child, or online at http://www.marketday.com/. Just set up an account and have your sales go to Wilson. Your order will be delivered and available for pickup with all other orders. Our next pickup day is October 8, so get your order in soon.

Keep watching your child's folder for information on our Scholastic Book Fair and Penny Wars! The Book Fair will kickoff with the "Grand Event" on Saturday, October 19 and continue October 21-23. Ensure the kids get to "mummify" Mrs. Gottinger by getting their PTA reading sheets turned in. More reading sheets are available either from your child's teacher or in the office.

Box Top collection is coming up soon! Please keep turning in those Box Tops! Each Box Top is worth 10 cents to Wilson, so please help us reach our goal of $2,500! You can turn in Box Tops to your child's teacher or to the collection bin in the office. Also, if you are interested in helping to cut/sort Box Tops for mailing, please send us a reply email and we'll get you set up!

The Costume party is Friday, October 18. Of course, the event will only be successful with your help! Please contact us if you would like to volunteer helping with a game, crafts, kitchen, sales or more!

We hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Weekly PTA Update/Reminders

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Wilson PTA pizza and flower bulb fundraiser!  All money raised will go right back to the school to benefit your child.  We will announce our top seller for the pizza sale on Monday.  Pick up for your orders will be Monday, October 7 from 3:00-6:00 pm.

Don't forget...the Wilson PTA spirit wear sale is still going on! Get your cool new spirit wear before time runs out. Deadline to order is September 30th!  You can place your orders directly online at www.dunnssportinggoods.net. 

Wilson will be hosting parent informational nights beginning Tuesday, September 24.  You should have received a special invitation from your child indicating which night you should attend.  The sessions are Tuesday September 24 (third floor) 5:30-6:00 or 6:00-6:30, Wednesday September 25 (second floor) 5:30-6:00 or 6:00-6:30, and Thursday September 26 (1st floor) 5:30-6:00 or 6:00-6:30.  We hope to see you there!

Have a great week!

 

Wilson PTA Updates

Two weeks in...how is everyone doing? Are your children enjoying the new school year? The traffic situation will start to get better in early October, until then, thank you to everyone for making changes to their pickup/drop off routines to accommodate the construction!

Our Spirit Wear is still available online until September 30. Visit https://www.dunnssportinggoods.net/home.php?cat=265 to order any of our new items. After September 30, this order will be closed and items sent to school for pickup (date TBD). We will have two more ordering windows during the school year, and a limited amount of items available at our Family Events. Questions/comments, please let us know!

Our Palermo's Pizza and Growing Green fundraisers are due Thursday, September 19 (order forms and payment). Pickup for these items will be on Monday, October 7 between 3-6 p.m. Thank you to everyone who is participating!

 

Box Tops! Box Tops are available through General Mills products and can also be accumulated through online shopping on the http://www.boxtops4education.com/ website. Each Box Tops submitted earns Wilson a donation that goes towards field trip transportation, classroom items like technology updates and supplies, physical education equipment and more. Please send in all of your Box Tops for our first big collection day by October 7!

Are you on Facebook? So are we! Please find us at West Allis Wilson PTA. Here we post regularly about upcoming events, deadlines, fun facts, etc. It's a great place to stay connected to Wilson! ***NEW*** Facebook contest! When we hit 100 likes, we will pick one random follower and give away some new Wilson Spirit Wear! We will do the same at 150 likes. So find us on Facebook and share our page with other Wilson families!

Do you like Target? Target is continuing their 'GiveWith' promotion. This program asks for likes through a separate website and then awards schools gift cards based on the number of votes received. Currently Wilson is at 81 votes. You can find the link for this contest (it is a Facebook contest) on our PTA page, or visit givewith.target.com and vote for Wilson. Feel free to share this with your friends and family as well!

Wilson will host an Information Nights on September 24 (third floor), September 25 (second floor), and September 26 (first floor). Please watch your student's folder for more information.

The Wilson school directory information form was sent home in your child's folder during the first week of school,. Please send that in as soon as possible so we may get the directory out to you. 

 

Have a great week! 

 

PTA News

Thank you for attending Monday night's PTA meeting! I know it was hot in the Fieldhouse, but we appreciate your commitment to the school and to our mission!

Any questions about items from the meeting, or anything else, please don't hesitate to ask. 

 

Don't forget to use your Orange Leaf flyer and cool off TODAY!  It's going to be a hot one! The program runs until 11 p.m. tonight! 20% of the proceeds from our sales will come back to our school.  We hope to see some familiar faces at Orange Leaf tonight!

PTA News

We hope you and children have had a smooth start to the school year!  Our first PTA meeting of the 2013-2014 school year is scheduled for Monday September 9th at 6:00 pm in the Wilson field house.  The discussion topic this month will be "what to expect this school year"!  If you don't have child care, no worries...bring your kids along.  They can play in the gym while we meet.

Tuesday September 10th is our Orange Leaf FUNdrasier!  Bring the flyer that you received in your child's folder to Orange Leaf in West Allis on Tuesday and PTA will receive 20% of all sales!  Remember...this money gets put right back to Wilson to benefit your child.

Tuesday September 10th is also Market Day pick up.  If you ordered any Market Day items please pick those items up in the Wilson gym on Tuesday between 3:00-4:30 pm.

Wilson PTA has spirit, how about you?  Don't forget PTA is selling some really awesome spirit wear this year.  Log on to www.dunnssportinggoods.net to place your online order!

Have a great weekend!

Back to School

Welcome to the 2013-2014 school year!  We hope your child is eager to begin the year, it's going to be a great year! 

School starts Tuesday, September 3rd.  The first bell rings at 8:25 am.  There is a lot of construction happening around the school and not many places to park so please be sure you allow enough time to get your child to their classroom line. 

Be sure to check our PTA Facebook page (West Allis Wilson PTA) and our blog for many updates throughout the school year on events, fundraisers, and many other exciting things happening at Wilson.  If you have any questions about PTA or want to become involved please don't hesitate to contact us at wawilsonpta@yahoo.com.

Happy "Back to School"!

WOW Night

WOW, it's already WOW Night!  Looking forward to seeing all of our families at Wilson. Please be sure to stop by the PTA table inside the gym. We will be debuting our new Spirit Wear! Limited sizes/items will be available for purchase at WOW night. You can then purchase Spirit Wear online until the end of September. 



See you all at WOW Night!

Summer PTA Meeting

Don't forget our PTA summer kick off meeting is Monday, August 19th at Filippo's Italian Restaurant at 6915 W. Lincoln Avenue beginning at 6:00 pm.  At this meeting we'll talk about the upcoming school year, programs and events, ideas for fundraisers and more! We will also be looking to fill out slate of committee chairs and volunteers! 

We hope to see you there!

Summer Reminders!

We hope you are having a wonderful summer. Below please find information about some upcoming events and meeting notices!

Folder Stuffing

Each year the Wilson PTA sorts and stuffs the folders our families take home on WOW night. We will be completing this on Tuesday, August 6 starting at 8 a.m. at Wilson. This can be done quickly with a lot of volunteers. If you would like to help, please email us! We will have light refreshments for our early risers!  Please let us know if you will be able to help!

Kickoff PTA Meeting

Our kickoff meeting is Monday, August 19 at Filippo's Italian Restaurant at 6915 W. Lincoln starting at 6 p.m. At this meeting we'll talk about the upcoming school year, programs and events, ideas for fundraisers and more! We will also be looking to fill out slate of committee chairs and volunteers!

Please remember to keep collecting your Box Tops, soup labels and milk caps! Last year these programs brought Wilson nearly $2,500. Who knows how much we can raise this year!

 

We look forward to seeing you August 19 at the kickoff meeting!

School Picnic

It's almost here...the Wilson PTA Family Picnic!

Friday June 7th from 4:00-7:00pm

 

If you haven't done so already, please return your pre-order food slip

to the office as soon as possible so we can prepare enough food for everyone!

 

We are in need of LOTS of volunteers to make this picnic a success.

If you are interested in volunteering at the picnic please email us at wawilsonpta@yahoo.com

 

If you would like to donate a cake and/or cupcakes to the Cake Walk

which will take place at the picnic, please bring those on Friday to room 105.

 

We will be selling basket raffle tickets from 4:00-5:45pm at the picnic. 

The basket raffle drawing will be held at 6:00pm, you won't want to miss that.

 

We hope to see all of our Wilson families at the picnic on Friday!

Basket Raffle & Principal for a Day Ticket Sales

We have extended the ticket sales for the basket raffle & Principal for a Day tickets! We will continue to sell tickets through Friday May 31! Tickets are $1.00 each for both basket raffle and Principal for a Day!

The drawing for Principal for a Day will be on Friday May 31, and the special day will be held on Tuesday June 4th.

The basket raffle drawing will held at the school picnic on Friday June 7 at 6:00 pm.

Good luck everyone!

PTA Reminders

• Don't forget to turn in your ballot for our inaugural Wilson Wildcat awards! Please complete the ballot and return via email or to the PTA mailbox in the office by Friday, May 17.  If you need a copy of the ballot, please email us at wawilsonpta@yahoo.com.  The Wilson Wildcat awards banquet combined with the Volunteer Appreciation dinner will be held on Monday, June 10th at 6:00 pm in the Wilson field house.

• Basket raffle pre-sale forms will be going home shortly and tickets will be available after school from May 22-May 30. Remember to turn in your picnic registration by May 31!

So much going on at the end of the school year - hard to keep track! Keep watching the PTA blog and our Facebook page (West Allis Wilson PTA) for updates and reminders!

 

 

Walk-A-Thon

Don't forget to turn in your Walk-a-Thon pledge sheets by Friday May 10th. If your student collects $25 or more in pledges they will receive a 2013 Walk-a-Thon t-shirt. If the school raises a total of $4,000 or more, Mr. Kelly will shave his head! The top fundraising student will have the privilege of shaving Mr. Kelly's head on Tuesday May 28th!

It's not to late too START COLLECTING!

High Interest Day

Thank you to all the wonderful presenters and volunteers that helped make High Interest Day 2013 a HUGE success!  Thank you to all the teachers and staff at Wilson for accommodating this special event for the kids, we couldn't have done it without you.  And last but certainly not least, a special thank you to Jolene Smith who coordinated this entire event...way to go Jolene, a job WELL DONE!  We hope your students enjoyed this special day!

A few pictures from one of the MANY fabulous classes offered at High Interest Day...Hair Extentions with Nikki Wahl.

Burger King Fundraising Night

Looking for a way to help out Wilson School....come to Burger King on Thursday March 28th from 5:00-8:00 pm for that yummy Whopper you've been craving and Burger King will donate 20% of your purchase to Wilson School!  All you need is the flyer that was sent home with your child this week, if you need more copies please email us at wawilsonpta@yahoo.com.

 

Burger King

2626 South 108th Street, West Allis

5:00-8:00 pm

 

We hope to see you there!

EGG-citing Egg Drop!

Thank you to everyone that participated in the Egg Drop!  It was such an egg-citing day! 

The students raised $696 for Wilson PTA.  Kendyl Torres was our top fundraiser who raised $100.  Kendyl won a $50 Target gift card!  Thurston Dawson won the raffle for raising $15 or more.  Thurston won a $25 Target gift card!  Congratulations to those students!

We had a total of 54 egg containers to drop and 21 of those containers made it to the finals.  Those containers were dropped in front of the entire school!  We ended up with 17 winners...WOW!  Those students won a pizza lunch...how egg-citing!  Congratulations!

Thank you to everyone who helped with this event and a special thank you to Walgreens for providing the eggs and baggies for the drop!  You are all EGG-stra special!

Pictures to come soon!

Egg Drop

We hope you are having fun as a family creating the perfect container to hold your egg! 

The egg drop will be held on Thursday, March 21 during the school day.  There is still time to get sponsors for your egg.  Turn in the yellow sponsorship form and envelope to your child's teacher as soon as possible.  There are some great incentives for the top fundraising family!  All egg containers are due to school on Tuesday, March 19. 

 

This is going to be an EGG-citing event!

 

Qdoba Fundraiser

Come dine with us on Tuesday March 12 at Qdoba in West Allis!

10% of all sales will go toward Wilson PTA to help fund the numerous activities and events sponsored by the Wilson PTA.

TUESDAY MARCH 12, 2013

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

West Allis Qdoba

2831 South 108^th Street, West Allis

(414) 321-3650

Dine in, carry out or catering orders.

 

In order for Wilson PTA to receive the 10% donation, you must bring in the Qdoba flyer that was brought home in your child's folder.  If you need another copy, please stop in the office to pick one up or email us at wawilsonpta@yahoo.com.  We hope to see you at Qdoba!

 

 

 

 

4/5 Decade Concert

Congratulations to all the 4/5 classes on an amazing concert! The looked and sounded fantastic!

PTA MEETING

REMINDER:  There is a PTA meeting scheduled for Monday March 4th at 6 PM in the Wilson field house.  This months meeting topic will be WKCE and MAPS test results.  We hope to see you at the meeting!

Snow Day!

We hope you enjoy the SNOW DAY and be careful if you do have to venture out! 

Library Help

Mr. Kelly could use some help taking inventory of all of the school's library books!  He is looking for any parents willing to help at any time that is convenient for you.  If you are interested in lending a helping hand to Mr. Kelly, please email him directly at KellyB@wawm.k12.wi.us or you can email Wilson PTA at wawilsonpta@yahoo.com. 

 

Please consider taking a few minutes of your day to help him out for all he does for our students!

Thank you!



PTA Founder's Day Carnival



Thank you to all the Wilson families that came out to support the PTA Council Founder's Day Carnival!  And a special thank you to all that volunteered at our game! 

Wilson's fish game was a HUGE success! 

 

 

4K & 5K Registration Begins February 6

We would like to remind all parents/guardians that 4-K and 5-K registration begins on Wednesday, February 6, 2013. The School District of West Allis - West Milwaukee offers a four-year-old kindergarten program that is optional and is a half-day program. The morning session meets from 8:25 – 11:10 a.m. and the afternoon session meets from 12:45 – 3:30 p.m. There is no early admission to the 4K program.   For more information, please click on the link below.

http://www.wawm.k12.wi.us/

PTA Council Founder's Day Carnival

The PTA Council Founder's Day Carnival is being held on Sunday, February 10th from 12:00-4:00pm at WA Central Fieldhouse.  There will be games, food, prizes, silent aution, bounce houses and much, much more!  Admission is FREE!  You don't want to miss this exciting event.  For more information, please click on the link below.

http://wawmptacouncil.org/founders-day-carnival.php

Wilson Talent Show

Come watch all of Wilson's talent at the PTA sponsored All School Talent Show on

Friday, February 22 from 6:30-9:00 pm in the Wilson gym.

This will be one show you won't want to miss!

 

 

Movie Night!

Friday, January 25th is the PTA Family Movie Night! We will begin the evening at 6 pm with a pizza dinner following dinner will be the viewing of the movie BRAVE (rated PG). If you have not turned in your purple movie night slip please do so by TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 so we can get an accurate head count for dinner. We hope to see you on Friday!

 

Literacy Night

You're invited to eat dinner and celebrate family literacy Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 6:00 pm in the Wilson gym.  (Be sure to RSVP by turning in the green form your child received in his/her folder.)  Each student will receive their own copy of the book that our entire school will be reading as part of the One School, One Book program.  There will be "EGG-straordinary" activities at school throughout the month to promote and enrich the shared reading experience.  We hope to see you at Literacy Night on Thursday, January 17 for an "EGG-citing" evening!

PTA Meeting

The first PTA meeting of 2013 is scheduled for Monday, January 7th at 6 pm in the Wilson field house.  Please note this is the 1st Monday of the month due to no school on the 2nd Monday.  The topic this month with be Next Generation Learning (NxGL).  We hope to see you at the meeting!