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FERNWOOD FAMILY NEWSLETTER #18, 1/7/25

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

SCHOOL AND CAMP CLOSURES for 1/20 and 1/24

Popcorn on 1/10!

Student Well-Being Survey

PTO Upper El Escape Room Event

Upper El Escape Room Registration

Fernwood Soup & Chili Supper social event is back!!!

Learn to Speed Skate at the Pettit

Arts Fest Planning Meeting

Boy Scout Book Drive

OUR SCHOOL IS COOL!

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

~Tuesday, January 7th, 2025, 6:00pm, PTO Meeting, Fernwood Library and virtual https://meet.google.com/xyc-wwnz-czu

~Thursday, January 9th, 2025, 6:30pm, Music Parents Meeting,virtual https://meet.google.com/fpf-rvca-uuk

~Friday, January 10th, 2025, 5:30pm, PTO Upper El Escape Room Night, Fernwood Cafeteria

~Monday, January 20th, 2025, NO SCHOOL

~Tuesday, January 21st, 2025, 6:30pm, Fernwood Fund Meeting, Fernwood library and virtual, email brett.mytys@gmail.com for link

~Friday, January 24th, 2025, NO SCHOOL

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SCHOOL AND CAMP CLOSURES for 1/20 and 1/24

There is no school on 1/20 and 1/24.  Fernwood Camp will be closed on 1/20.

Fernwood Camp will be open on 1/24 from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm.  Interested families should sign up at the Camp desk.  Spots are first come, first serve.  

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Popcorn on 1/10!

Remember when Giannis scored 50 points in one game and then went to Chick-fil-A with all his trophies and ordered 50 chicken minis (see below)?  In honor of that memory, the Fernwood adolescent program is offering a free bag of popcorn for anyone that orders 50 bags this Friday, 1/10.  That’s 51 bags of popcorn for the price of 50!  Popcorn is $1 and will be for sale at the Falling Heath doors after school.

https://youtube.com/shorts/EbMRujdqw7M?feature=shared

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PTO Upper El Escape Room Event

Reminder – the Upper EL Escape Room event is this Friday, January 10 from 5:30-7:30 pm.

The registration deadline has been extended to Thursday 1/9 at noon! 

Upper El Escape Room Registration

We strongly encourage pre-registering as this is a timed event and will assist us with team coordination. Remember that if your child is interested in attending but does not have a group, you can register them and we will find one for them. 

We are also still looking for volunteers to help make our event a success! Please sign up here.

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OH NO! The Fernwood class pets are in trouble! An evil imposter has snuck into school and released all the pets…

CALLING ALL 4-6TH GRADERS and their families!  YOUR MISSION: Solve puzzles & break codes to guide our pets back to their classroom homes. Will they make it back to safety in time?

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED:  Register in teams of 4-5. One parent captain per team is required to attend. You will be assigned a time for your code breaking challenge — check your email so you don’t miss it!

Additional games, music, and photo station provided. Pizza available for purchase with cash.

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Student Well-Being Survey

Student well-being is an important part of social-emotional health. Student education improves when we pay attention to well-being. Milwaukee Public Schools wants to improve student well-being. MPS listens to student feedback to enhance our students’ learning experience.  

The Student Well-Being Survey is new this year. Students in third through twelfth grade will give feedback using this survey. The survey asks students to rate their feelings and experiences at school.  

This survey will be taken three times per year: October 7–18, 2024; January 6–17, 2025; and May 5–16, 2025. The survey will take about 15 minutes. The results will not identify your child. Your child’s individual responses will not be viewed by school staff. Student responses will be grouped to help staff choose schoolwide supports and services. 

If you do not want your child to share their feedback, please call your child’s school to inform them of your request.

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Fernwood Soup & Chili Supper social event is back!!!

Mark your calendars for Friday February 7th, as it is the return of our annual soup and chili supper and social event!  The Fernwood Café will be turned into an all you can eat soup buffet with dozens of soups prepared by your fellow Fernwood families.  Soups will be served from 5:30pm until 7:15pm and will cost $2 for students and $5 for adults (children 3 & under are free).  If you would like to contribute by cooking and serving a soup please visit this link:  https://www.mealtrain.com/potlucks/ldg1n4

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Learn to Speed Skate at the Pettit

Did you know The Pettit is one of only two indoor long-track speed skating facilities in the country? And The Petitt is only 13-minutes from Fernwood? Registration is now open for Youth Skating and Learn To Speed Skate lessons. The Learn to Speed Skate program teaches students progressively more difficult moves through six levels of skating for short-track or long-track skating. The first class is used to gauge their skill/ability and place them with the best class for the remainder of the lessons. Classes are open to all ages 3+ to adult. Speed skate rental is available, or participants can bring their own hockey or figure skates. All lessons take place on the 400m Oval which is home to an official Olympic Training Facility.

Age: 3 to Adult. 3+ Tot ‘N Me. 4+ for other programs. 6+ for Learn To Speed Skate. Coordinator: Carolyn Spiewak, Director of Speed Skating, cspiewak@thepettit.com Fernwood Parent: Ryan Lent, rlentgroup@gmail.com

Instructor: Pettit National Ice Center Staff

Cost: $99 per session

Session #3 Dates: January 7 – February 18, 2025 (Tuesdays or Thursdays at 6:15pm)

*No classes January 28 – February 2, 2025

Session #4 Dates: February 15 – March 26, 2025 (Tuesdays or Thursdays at 6:15pm)

Location: Pettit National Ice Center, 500 S. 84th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53214

Pettit Learn to Speed Skate.pdf

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Arts Fest Planning Meeting

ArtsFest is an annual event held in May of each year at Fernwood!  It features vendors selling arts and crafts, food sales, student art for sale, music performances, and more!  The first planning meeting is happening on January 8th at 5:30pm at Anodyne Coffee Roasters on KK.  This is a super fun day which raises tons of money for the Fernwood PTO and the Music Parent group.  If you are a planner, a doer, an idea generator, or a helper, we want you!  

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Boy Scout Book Drive

Fernwood’s Lion Cub Scouts are holding a book drive for the Next Door Foundation, a non profit organization that helps Milwaukee families build their home libraries.  There is a drop box placed in the atrium by Falling Heath.  Please consider donating new or gently used children’s books that will be donated to families in need.  The book drive will be held through the month of December.  Check out this flyer for a link to their book wishlist!

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OUR SCHOOL IS COOL!

There’s always something COOL going on at Fernwood!  Remember when it was warm out?  Some Fernwood parents who won the Historian John Gurda Tour at Fernwood Flights had a fantastic time on the historic walking tour of Bay View a couple months ago!  Temperate memories! These folks wore short sleeves, they helped raise money to support educational programming for our kids, AND they had an unforgettable neighborhood experience. Donating to the Fernwood Fund is COOL!  

Winner, tour participant, and child-free for the afternoon mother, Malinda Eskra said, “We had an amazing time with John Gurda, who has a wealth of fascinating historical knowledge about Bay View.  Big thanks to the Fernwood Fund for making this experience possible!”