Sep 10th, 2012
LAKE WALES – There’s always something happening in the Kindergarten Wing at Janie Howard Wilson Elementary, and Monday was no exception.
Jackie Conroy, 6, (left) shows off the poem and handprint she made as part of Grandparents Day activities in her classroom. (President Jimmy Carter proclaimed the first National Grandparents Day in 1978. Each year the day is recognized on the first Sunday after Labor Day. This year, it was Sept. 9.)
Kindergarten student Denari Gatlin (below) wears a birthday crown provided by the school and a special blue ribbon provided by his mother because today – September 10 – is his sixth birthday.
LAKE WALES –– Hillcrest Elementary kindergarten students are celebrating the end of school by reading their own copies of “Change The World Before Bedtime” by Mark Kimball Moulton, Josh Chalmers and Karen Good.
LAKE WALES – Age and experience triumphed over youth and energy when Janie Howard Wilson staff faced fifth graders in the elementary school’s annual spring softball game last week. The adults won the game 22-8.
LAKE WALES – Reading consultant Dr. Richard Culyer poses with five students who were recognized Friday (May 17) at the Lake Wales Charter Schools’ Culyer Celebration.
