Wisconsin Heights School District

Thank you to all of the athletes and guardians who attended the Fall Sports Meeting last night. It was so great to see the enthusiasm!! If you missed it, and are interested in a fall sport, please check out the slides, and use the embedded QR codes to start the registration process, if you haven’t done that yet this year. https://5il.co/2oln7 Go Vanguards! #VanguardPride

Here's a message from Bridging Brighter Smiles, the organization we work with to help students receive preventative dental services during the school day. "#Bridgingbrightersmiles wishes all of our students a wonderful summer! Don't forget to enroll for the 2024-2025 school year! https://enrollment.bbsmiles.org/" For more information, check out their website and enroll your student! #VanguardPride

On the last day of school last week, 7th and 8th graders had water balloon toss competitions, played some kickball, and enjoyed popsicles! Fun way to end the year! #VanguardPride

Summer School starts next week! We are excited to have students join us for enrichment courses. The schedule for Summer School is: Week 1 | Monday-Thursday, June 17 - 20 @ 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Week 2 | Monday-Thursday, June 24- 27 @ 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Week 3 | Monday-Thursday, July 8 - 11 @ 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Week 4 | Monday-Thursday, July 15 - 18 @ 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Check out this link on our website for all the information you'll need to get your child ready and to view their schedule https://5il.co/2oii6 See you then!

A few 7th grade students did a special end of year math project to leave their mark on the 7th grade classroom. These four students painted tessellations on ceiling tiles to hang in the classroom. They painted Sponge Bob, Dory, fall leaves, and a cyclops. This project took several weeks and took a lot of team effort to finish in time before the last day of school. Special thanks to Ms. Goebel for letting the students use the art room every day and to the maintenance crew for hanging them! Mrs. Meinholz is so grateful and proud to hang these in her math classroom forever! #VanguardPride

7th grade math ended the year with a team challenge called Mint Mobile. Using 4 mint lifesavers, 1 straw, 10 index cards, scissors, and a foot of tape, they had to design and build a car that could travel the furthest on one push! Teams had 20 minutes to build and then we tested the cars! A Ford F-250 and a car called Wisconsin Cheese went the furthest! #VanguardPride

The annual #VanguardPride 4K Car Show took place on Wednesday, June 5th at Wisconsin Heights Elementary!💚💚💚 Spectators 👀 watched from the track as the 4K classes "drove" their one-of-a-kind cars for all to see! Great job everyone!

Hey #VanguardPride community! We're looking for donations of recyclable and new/unused items for some Summer School courses. Items include: - Plastic sport-type electrolyte drink containers (caps removed). 12, 16, or 20 oz sizes are preferable. - 32 oz plastic mayo/Miracle Whip type containers with lids - Balloons - Rubber bands - Quart resealable bags - Gallon resealable bags -Binder clips - Paper clips - Flexible drinking straws - Smoothie straws - Variety of colored yarn If you have donations to make, please drop them off at the district office between 7:30 am and 4 pm Monday-Thursday. Thank you for anything you can provide!

Last Friday, the #VanguardPride 2nd graders had their annual egg drop project to see who could keep their egg from breaking when dropped off the roof. Mr. Green had the honor of going up to the roof to drop them! The kids have so much fun with this project and they are always very creative 😁

5th grade celebrated collecting 3,000 Gotcha Tickets and the end of the year with a water balloon fight. Thank you to #VanguardPride parents for bringing in donations of water balloons! We sure had a blast!

There were some very annoying flies buzzing all over the Smartboard in Mrs. Meinholz’s 7th grade math, so the students played a round of fly-swatter bingo! They took turns swatting the flies, and each time they got a fly, an equation would pop up for them to solve. After solving the equation, they checked their bingo cards to see if the answer was on their bingo card! The room was buzzing with activity! #VanguardPride

At the beginning of the year, Mrs. Stadler's class read the book The World's Best Class Plant. They started with one spider plant and throughout the year, the plant produced over 20 spiderettes (or cute little babies as the class called them.) Each student was able to take home a new plant! 🌱🪴♥️ We have some #VanguardPride green thumbs!

They are off to Spain! Good luck and have fun travelers! We'll see you back here on June 14th! #VanguardPride

#VanguardPride Shark Tank! 7th Grade Vanguard Entrepreneurs from Mrs. Schmitt's class presented their business pitches to 'Celebrity Sharks' including School Board President Barb Statz, Superintendent Gerlach, NFL Frequency Coordinator Mr. Hubbard, and Lake Ridge Banker Ms. Francis. Student teams were required to design a prototype, website, logo, slogan, commercial, and business plan for marketing a new consumer product. They prepared fictional backstories to decide how long they have been selling, what marketing campaigns they plan to do, and determined profits. Sharks asked questions of the teams, so they could practice responding to an audience as part of the public speaking and presenting standards. The ideas were pretty cool!

Field Ecology did a unit on Driftless geology. They took a field trip and spent a day seeing the heart of it by going down the Kickapoo River! #VanguardPride

This quarter's District Newsletter is now ready to view! Click on the link below. https://bit.ly/WHSDNewsletter #VanguardPride

Congratulations! Alyssa S, Amelia P, Taylor Z, Brenna S, Maya L, Anya G, Greyden S, Travis D, RJ K, Izzy S, and Tucker A were inducted into the NHS Vanguard Chapter in a candlelight ceremony. The students were inducted into NHS by Nola F, Felicity C, Nick R, Cody B, Mya B, Emma A, and Brie P. Large group photo: back row: RJ K, Nola F, Felicity C, Amelia P, Greyden S, Tucker A, Nick R, Cody B, Travis D front row: Taylor Z, Maya L, Mya B, Emma A, Anya G, Brenna S, Izzy S, Alyssa S, and Brie P. #VanguardPride

Every 5 years the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) requires the District to perform a Pupil Nondiscrimination Self-Evaluation. You can view the evaluation here: https://5il.co/2n6eg If you have any questions, contact Kelly Santell, Director of Student Services and Special Education at ksantell@wisheights.k12.wi.us or 608-767-2595 extension 3005.

Friday, May 24, was an early release day for the students and district staff spent the afternoon focusing on their wellness. Staff could choose from multiple activities such as spending time with therapy dogs, doing puzzles, reading, getting a 10-minute massage, gratitude journaling, working out, and going for a walk. Some members of the special education team did flower arranging as part of the wellness afternoon and another group of staff members put an entire puzzle together in a few hours! The staff works hard through the year and it's great to have them focus a few hours on their wellness! It was a pleasant and rewarding afternoon! #VanguardPride

Mr. Marx took his Field Ecology class to Devil's Lake and Parfreys Glen and explored the outdoors for data collection. It was a beautiful day and so much fun and learning was had by all! #VanguardPride