🎪 Hey Wanamaker Families! 🎉

Just a reminder that Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week is next week (May 4–8)! This year’s theme is
✨ “This Place Would Be a Circus Without You!” ✨

We’re so excited to celebrate the incredible teachers and staff who make such a difference in our students’ lives every day. Be sure to check the flyer that came home for fun, simple ways your student can participate each day!

🎨 Sidewalks of Appreciation!
Help us kick off the week with a special surprise! Join us on Sunday, May 3rd from 5:00–6:30 PM to decorate the school sidewalks with colorful chalk messages of appreciation. Chalk will be provided—just bring your creativity and kind words!

💌 Send a message of appreciation:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSef000qfEjtNk_HNnjgDO4nUtDrXzUeifQoyo5poZMYIMxJZQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor

🎁 Check out teacher & staff favorite things:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XcL3PmJH8TY1at5cks98RH4CKxEsfci_CcmibPQfaUY/edit?usp=sharing

Let’s make this a fun, encouraging, and meaningful week for our amazing Wanamaker staff—they truly deserve it! 💙

From mustaches to the buzz about bees, check out the WE Library's May newsletter!

Come one, come all to the PTA Spring Dance! Tomorrow night, May 1st. Tickets are $7 at the door.

2026 WR Summer Youth Football Camp. June 1st-3rd (Fall 2026). 2pm-4pm. Grades 3rd-6th. Registration Deadline May 30th. Register through this link.

Here is a great video from WIBW featuring the Wanamaker Art Show. What an amazing job Mrs. Decker and the students did this year with their Under The Big Top theme!

Reminder, Wanamaker families! 🎉

VIP ticket forms and payment were due today, but we will still accept them through tomorrow—so there’s still time to turn yours in!

Don’t forget, the Spring Dance is this Friday from 6:00–8:00 PM! 💃🕺 It’s going to be a fun night filled with food, dancing, and great memories.

🙌 Volunteers Needed!- https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4AA9A622AAFBC61-63398346-spring#/

Sign up to help and receive 5 free raffle tickets as a thank-you!

We can’t wait to see everyone there!

The 5th graders ended their week with a culminating activity to their bee unit. Mrs. Becky Tipton, President of the Kansas Honey Producers Association, gave a presentation about her role as a beekeeper. She and her husband, Steve, have been beekeepers for nearly 40 years.

With Earth Day on April 22, this was the perfect month for students to learn all about bees and how valuable they are to the environment in their library classes and science classes. What a fascinating study a bee colony is with every bee doing its part! As Mrs. Tipton informed us, "Beyond their role as honey producers, bees are essential pollinators for one out of every three bites we eat." Her enthusiasm and knowledge about bees was inspiring!

Students were given the opportunity to look at the bees in a bee box, touch and smell a piece of the hive's honeycomb, watch one of their classmates put on the beekeeper's uniform, and try to spot the queen bee in the bee box. The cherry on the sundae was getting to taste a spoonful of raw, natural honey that came from Mrs. Tipton's bees!

THANK YOU to Mrs. Tipton for taking time out of her extremely busy schedule to give us the buzz about bees!

Per request, the art show shirt is available again for purchase through the rest of this year for those that missed the purchase window! Follow this link to purchase.

We are still planning on holding the art show tonight 4:30-6:30pm. Fingers crossed that the weather misses us, but you might want to come at the earlier start time to avoid the weather just in case.

See the attached flyer for dates and times for boys and girls grades 2-8

You can register at http://www.wusports.com/camps