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Wildcats represent at the Network STEM Exhibition!

1/21/2020

Congratulations to our Regional STEM Exhibition participants! Middle school students, Sylvia Foster-Rice, Elias Vlamis, Noah Bjurstrom and Malaina Rangel represented Waters School at the Truman College Regional STEM Exhibition on January 17th. They did a wonderful job and received many compliments from the judges! A special shout-out to Sylvia Foster-Rice and Noah Bjurstrom, who will move on to represent Waters (and the Network) at the City STEM Exhibition at Illinois Institute of Technology later this spring. Way to go Waters Wildcats!

New to Public School? Attend the next LSC Meeting!

1/15/2020

LSC stands for Local School Council, and the council includes Ms. Kipp, teachers, members of staff, parents and community members. Happening on the 3rd Tuesday of every month, LSC meetings are very informative and a great way to stay informed. Click here to learn more about what the LSC does for Waters, and consider attending the next meeting!

Volunteer to help put on the Art Show

1/15/2020

Volunteers are needed to help with the art show and there's something for everyone: hanging artwork, putting together one of the art stations, grabbing materials, or help run the event - all we're asking for is a couple hours of your time at home or at school! Join the fun and become be a part of this fabulous event!

Click here to sign up.

Email Mrs. Vecchioni or volunteer@waterstoday.org to see how you can help!

Network Science Fair Judges Needed!

1/13/2020

Friday, January 17th 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Truman College, Main Building - Cafeteria
1145 W. Wilson Ave.

Our Network Science Fair is seeking judges to help judge our network fair. We had a good number of judges come out and help us at our fair and it would be great if we could help our Network experience the same. The fair is scheduled for Friday, January 17th at Truman College with judging taking place during the morning. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity by visiting this link for more information and to sign up. Please email Ms. Ballasch if you have any questions.

Recycle Clean Plastic Bags

1/9/2020

Dear Waters families,

Our parent Art/ESL class is beginning a project which seeks to protect our environment. The project is called N.L.F.O.B. which means New Life for Old bags. Parents will crochet the recycled bags into mats for our kindergarten students to sit on during story time. Many bags are needed and we are asking you to please help by donating clean, plastic grocery bags (or plastic bags of similar size). You may drop off the donated bags in our school main office from now through Friday, February 14th.

If you would like to help us crochet (we'll be happy to show you how) please join us anytime on Thursday mornings, 8:30 am - 10:00 in the teachers lounge. We welcome your participation!

Sincerely,
Noelle Garcia, Victoria Mendoza and Rachel Stemple
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Queridas familias de Waters:
Nuestra clase de padres de Arte / ESL está comenzando un proyecto que busca proteger nuestro medio ambiente. El proyecto se llama N.L.F.O.B. lo que significa "New Life for Old Bags" (Nueva Vida Para Bolsas Viejas). Los padres tejerán las bolsas recicladas en esteras para que nuestros alumnos en el jardín de infancia se sienten durante la hora del cuento. Se necesitanmuchas bolsas y le pedimos que nos ayude con donando bolsas de plástico limpias (o bolsas de plástico de tamaño similar). Puede dejar las bolsas donadas en la oficina principal de nuestra escuela empezando desde ahora hasta el viernes 14 de febrero.
Si desea ayudarnos a tejer (estaremos encantados de mostrarle cómo), únase a nosotros en cualquier momento los jueves por la mañana, de 8:30 a.m. a 10:00 en la sala de maestros. ¡Agradecemos su participación!

Sinceramente,

Noelle Garcia, Victoria Mendoza and Rachel Stemple

New Addition Update: Exterior Design

1/8/2020

Here are some images of the exterior design for our new addition, which presented at the Waters LSC Facilities and Ground Committee Meeting on January, 7th.

View from Campbell Avenue.

View from Wilson Avenue.

January 2020 Menus

1/7/2020

Construction Update

1/3/2020

Tuesday, January 7, 2020, 6 p.m.

Please join Administration and LSC Facilities and Grounds Committee for a special presentation of the new Annex design by representatives from CPS Planning and Design. They will present renderings of both the exterior and interior design, including color scheme and floor plans.

This is a great chance to see what lies on the other side of our big construction project.

Local School Council (LSC) Summit 2020

12/19/2019

Saturday, January 25, 2020, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Chicago Teachers Union
1901 W Carroll Ave

Let's start LSC election season on the right foot!

The LSC.4.ALL coalition's LSC summit is for current and potentially interested in running LSC members. We will have a panel session and 4 workshops for how to make more engaged and effective LSCs.
The objective of the panel is to provide historical background and national perspective on school governance and to address the limitations of advisory LSCs.

The 4 workshops include:
1) "LSC On Track: A Deep Dive on Budget, CIWP Monitoring, and Principal Evaluation”,
2) "Winning Your Race: LSC Elections",
3) "Fighting for Systemic Change: Organizing for the LSC Empowerment Bill", and
4) “What is an LSC exactly? LSC 101".

Our goal is to provide access to information, training and strategy while building unity and collaboration around ways to improve a systemic vehicle for voice.

Click here to register.

Andy & Pop Américas! Visual Art Exhibit & Celebration

12/16/2019

In the art room we have been inspired by Andy Warhol---
A-B and Back Again at the Art Institute of Chicago
AND
Pop América at The Block Museum (Northwestern University)
in our all-school 2019-2020 visual art exhibit!
We love Pop Art in the art room* and can’t wait to share.
We have learned so much about the world, kindness, empathy, and artistic ownership
in each of our 3 featured STEAM projects in this exhibit!
Please Join Us!

Andy & Pop Américas!
January 30, 2020!
3:15-4:30 PM
Waters Elementary, Main Lobby & Gymnasium
4:30-5:30 PM Studio 54 Dance Party
Art Show & Scavenger Hunt for fun art prizes, POP art-making, art activities
and Andy Warhol’s Studio 54 Dance Party!

If you would like to volunteer for our visual arts celebration, please email Mrs. Vecchioni at alvecchioni@cps.edu .
Thank YOU!

*This is a culminating exhibit of a two-year visual art study
(remember last year’s study of Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami) of Pop Art!

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