The Watertown Unified School District is hosting its first ever Multilingual Family Night! Please come for food, community resources, and children’s activities!
El Distrito Escolar Unificado de Watertown está organizando su primera Noche de familias multilingües. ¡Venga a disfrutar de comida, recursos comunitarios y actividades para los niños!
This week we celebrate National School Social Worker Week! School social workers are professionals within the social work field that support staff, students and parents/guardians. School social workers help students cope with challenges, provide academic and classroom support, and serve as a connection for families in accessing state and local resources and support. We cannot thank our WUSD social workers enough for their dedication and services to our students, staff, families and community!
Schurz 5th grade students engaged the new Bridges math curriculum work places! Learning both math skills and social skills that go with game play and cooperation!
Douglas AM/PM 4K recently held a Teddy Bear Day. We sorted our bears by color, size and kind. We also counted which color had more and which color had less. What a fun day!! 🐻
Watertown High School's National Honor Society members put together goodie bags to show their appreciation for the building's cleaning, maintenance and custodial staff. Students surprised these employees with a thank you banner and special snacks. We are thankful for the staff members who keep our building looking great every day!
Here are the certificate winners for the HOSA Regional Competitions
We had many student receive a bronze certificate.
6 students received a silver certificate.
Kylei Braatz was our lone gold certificate winner.
Many of these competitions earned the ability to move on to the state competition which is held in Wisconsin Dells in April.
Good job everyone!
WHS HOSA (Health Occupation Students of America) created some Valentine’s Day cards to be delivered to many of the residents at Heritage Homes.
Let's give a huge shoutout to our Overwatch 2 Esports team and Coach Lockstein! Our amazing Overwatch 2 team battled their way to the Division 2 State Championship this weekend! They started off strong, defeating New Holstein in the semifinals, which secured their spot in the final match. Facing off against Edgewood in a nail-biting championship game, the team fought hard but ultimately came in second place, earning the well-deserved title of State Runner-Up! A huge congratulations to the players who represented our school at the championship!
Webster Elementary School held Cool, Awesome and Terrific Students (CATS) lunch on Friday, February 23. Each month Brad Clark, Webster principal, eats lunch with a group of Cool, Awesome and Terrific Students. These students are picked by teachers in grades 5K-5 for making great gains in an academic area or working super hard.
Picture 1-
Top Row L-R: Marley Weber, Aleyah Andruss, Jasmine Neave-Ullrich
Next Row L-R: Olivia Oquendo, Amy Torres Mercado, Marcy Lewandowski
Bottom Row L-R: Max Ready, Audrey Welch, Khloey Chentis
Picture 2
Top Row L-R: Myles Magyar, Amelia Ready,
Next Row L-R: Angel Makovec, Mya Phillips
Bottom Row L-R: Amanda Leete, Victorian Bauer, Gavin Stukenberg
RMS students in Mrs. Degrandt's 8th grade ELA class created representations of the experience of love between couples in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in the likeness of one of two paintings that were examined.
Get your tickets for The Musical "Catch Me If You Can" presented by WHS!
March 8 & 9 @ 7:30 PM & March 10 @ 3:00
WHS Auditorium
Adults — $15.00
Students/Seniors — $12.00
Tickets — www.goslingmusic.org
These Douglas Kindergarteners know how to keep themselves busy on their bus ride home at the end of the day!😊
Schurz Elementary 5th Graders recently studied all about the American Revolution in writing and social studies. On Tuesday, they presented their projects in a Wax Museum!
CONGRATULATIONS to the WHS Visual Arts Classic Art Competition Team! They are Regional Overall Champions AND Regional Quiz Bowl Champions!!
The team attended the UW Whitewater Regional and competed against 9 teams in two team categories (Quiz bowl and Critical Thinking) and two individual categories (Long Term Art Project and On-Site Art Project)
The following students are State bound at UW Madison in March:
Rae Heier
Evan Rodriguez
Charlie Pliska
Lyle VanGundy
Onyx Elkins
Danielle Krahn
Ava Lueck
Brynlee Simon
Livvy Sorensen
Ryley Wolfe
Payton West
Isaac VanBuren
Alternates are Annaleyna Van der Linden and Kaylee Roberts
WHS ACADEC recently placed second in the UW-Whitewater Regional and will be advancing to the State Championships in March. Congratulations!
Lincoln Pandabots got all dressed up as their future 100 year old selves to celebrate the 100th day of school. Lookin' good!
WHS 4th year German students recently read a German epic and conducted a Socratic Seminar discussing various types of literary and real-life heroes.
They are currently learning about important points in German history and gave presentations on the development and importance of the Hanseatic League.
Let's give a huge #WatertownWay shout out to our WUSD school bus drivers who get our students to and from school safely every day! Be sure to thank your bus driver for their dedication to the safety our students.🚌
To wrap up their cooking unit, WHS Spanish 6 students completed recipes in Spanish and walked into class on Friday to find that they were actually making (and eating!) 5 different dishes from the Spanish-speaking world. A great way to wrap up the week!
