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Arbor Day at WRSD
The Willie Ross class
out at Mountain View Elementary participated in the Arbor Day ceremony
on Friday May 7th. They performed a poem that Morgan wrote called
"It's Amazing".
They color coordinated themselves to go along with the poem.
Bryan wore yellow for the sun, Jordan wore green (and spray painted his
hair green too!) for the grass, Justin wore blue for the sky, and
Morgan & Velinda wore brown for the trees. There were many
people in attendance. The whole school was there as well as the
Co-Superintendent of Schools, State Representative Angelo Puppolo, Jr.,
and other leaders of the community. We were very proud of our
students' performance!
   
March 2010
The Partnership Elementary students went on a trip to Norcross Wildlife
Sanctuary in Wales, MA. They had a special presentation about finding
animal tracks. They each made a plaster cast of a bobcat track. They
also saw a slideshow and a movie about animal tracks. The children
enjoyed playing the game, Tick, Track, Toe.
March
2010 WRSD Helps Haiti
In
Environmental Science class, the students did not just read from a book
about the various aspects of our environment, they researched a variety
of environmental issues and possible steps to improve the
situation. They also kept up with weekly environmental events,
such as hurricanes, fires, plagues, comets, and wildlife. When
the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti occurred, the students wanted
to do more than just read about what happened. They wanted to
help!
The Environmental Science class composed a letter asking the staff at
WRSD for their spare change, made donation canisters, sent them to each
site and decided to use UNICEF as the charity of choice. The
students collected and counted the donations, mostly composed of spare
change. After several counts and tables covered with coins, they
collected over $300.
The Environmental Science class hopes we all continue to give what we
can when we can. Every little bit makes a difference.
Willie
Ross Basketball
WRSD won the final five games of the season. Elvin Maldonado scored 40
points to lead upset of Austine
School for the Deaf in the final
game. The team was led by the steady play of senior Mike Reno who
scored in double figures in eight games, plus the rebounding and
defense of Jason Kane and Trevor Bynum.
Basketball Scores:
Won:
6 Lost:
4
WRSD
60
Valleyview 22
Hartsbrook
49
WRSD 40
Eagle
Hill
50
WRSD
47
Austine
61
WRSD
52
Eagle
Hill
30
WRSD
24
WRSD
67
Valleyview 62
WRSD
69
White Oak 40
WRSD
53
White Oak 15
WRSD
42
Hartsbrook 40
WRSD
70
Austine 46
March 2010
- The
High School participating in Lisa W’s Nutrition Class
March
2010 - Staff member Tom C. working with the students on the Video Relay
system
On September 29, students
from all over the world celebrated School Milk Day. This
international, annual event helps promote the importance of calcium and
vitamin D in our children's diet.
Deaf Awareness
Week is the last full week in September. One of the ways we
celebrated was to give our aging and beloved "Flora" a helping hand.
Mr. Bill
Putnam, father of Trustee Erica Broman, drove his 1910 Stevens Duryea
Model Y car to Willie Ross on September 25th. The car was made for his
great uncle Roger Putnam, former Mayor of Springfield, and for whom
Putnam High School was named. The car was shipped east for the
Springfield History Museum’s grand opening in October. The student’s
came out to see the car and enjoyed not only the visit, but getting to
sit in the car. It was quite a treat for WRSD to have Mr. Putnam stop
by before heading on to the museum.
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