001my uh wire okay where you did it you did it i did it oh my gosh we are live here at wildwood welcome welcome welcome to the open house everybody welcome wild woodians how does that sound this is our chance to experience our family together we're all going to be able to learn more about school learn more about each other this evening i'm so excited for tonight nick me too me too so good to be here welcome out there in wildwoodland in the way let's just pause and celebrate just the fact that we are all together that even though we are doing this in a different way virtually that we have celebrated six you know it's six weeks plus a few days of school in person our entire community so i think it's important to
002pause and recognize all of the effort that our staff has made all our families allison and especially the children oh my goodness their resiliency their ability to wear masks most of the day they do a great job of following the rules we've been able to keep each other safe in this very strange time and um i'm just so proud of everyone and the joy that they bring to us every day so we're just going to talk about a few things right allison and then set people on their way so one of the things that we've been talking a lot about really after the in the middle of the pandemic excuse me and in this coming back together is how we're reimagining school and we've had this conversation with our staff even with our some of
003our students and with all of you what have we learned what do we want to keep from the way we've been doing school and what new ideas do we want to try out and allison's cat is there and one of them is really thinking about you know the human connection and how important that is and how important that was when we were remote and so we're looking for ways in schools for us to just strengthen that connection between our staff and our students our students and with each other and also we're enjoying nature and being outside and how can we reimagine recess and finally how can we promote deeper learning with real-world connections through project-based learning yes all of those things are part of what we are working on right now in this school year
004and when we think about reimagining schools i don't want you to ever think that the social emotional aspects of how we support each other and help you each other be together in a supportive way that is all integrated we are training and continuing to dedicate time to circles within our school community so that we can ensure that our social emotional health is integrated with all these efforts for deeper learning and for our recess to be improved and we don't see as that being separate from learning because academic learning works best when people feel happy when they feel a sense of belonging but it's not separate so you're going to hear about this when you go into your classrooms as well and you'll hear about some of the learning that's taking place in your child child's
005classroom and then have an opportunity to set up a parent conference to hear more about the individual child and express your goals and your hopes for your own children i think we might have some visitors here nick who need to share a message with our school community so one of the ways we partner with parents is with our dynamic parent guardian group the pgo and they are really eager to support us and all the ideas that we have for wildwood so without further ado allison let's have a little drumroll let's welcome brother wow nina welcome welcome welcome welcome these are our co-heads of the pgo nina and christine and they're going to talk to you for a couple minutes and about some of the work the pgo is doing so take it away we're going
006to remove ourselves from the stream so you get your wow wow well thank you um and then allison i uh i hope that you're taking this time to queue up the video um we um have several speakers um my name is chris lindstrom and i'm one of the co-chairs of the pgo and um thanks for uh all the support every parent and guardian affiliated with a child at wildwood is a part of the wildwood pgo and we have had our ups and downs over the past 18 months as school has gone up and down but the community has been steadfast and it's been fabulous um so without further ado i'm going to um uh allison hopefully will cue up a video from our outgoing treasurer laura hunter and um nino will uh close us out
007for the for the evening but um thanks so much and please get involved go ahead hi wildwood family my name is laura i am a parent of a current sixth grader and i've been a wildwood parent for seven years now i have also been a class parent which i'm going to talk about really briefly for six years and i am the treasurer of the wildwood pgo which is the parent guardian organization for wildwood and that's why i'm here to quickly tell you about the pgo so the wildwood pgo is made out of everyone who is a parent or guardian at wildwood so that means you you are a member of the wildwood pgo and our mission is to support equity and curriculum enrichment and in general support the educators so that the students at wildwood
008can all have the best possible experience that we can help make them we fund all kinds of programs and activities we fund visiting artists we fund field trips some of you may remember the library project that ms wells developed during the covid last year where she stuffed thousands of books into thousands of backpacks and pgo volunteers helped deliver those backpacks to children in their homes and also funded the project we also provide funding for teachers educators of all and staff um so that they don't have to spend their own money on things that the district just isn't able or doesn't pay for so we need your help we are a all-volunteer organization we need volunteers for all kinds of different things big small doesn't matter we would love to have you participate and join us
009and we also are going to be running a fundraiser in the fall and the spring as we do every year so please just go to this website and thank you so much for your time and listening oh last plug we need class parents we still need class parents so a class parent their job is just to work with the teacher and make sure the teacher has everything they need to be successful so i'm going to make one last plug for being a class parent um it involves creating community at this time when it's hard to do that and we can do it in really fun connected ways and we chris and i and the other pgo members are there to help support you and having ideas and doing things just go to that website here
010it is again wildwoodpgo.com and you'll find a volunteer link there and we would love to work with you so thank you guys and thank you nick and alison for doing such a beautiful job and enjoy the rest and here's my kid walking in bye that's us signing off oh there he is there we go oh that's not my kid come here i love it that was perfect so uh nick is going to get added to the stream right now hi nick hey thank you thank you all right so allison i noticed that we're running a little late so it's i think it's time to send people on their way we need to get people on their way so nick are you going to put it into the chat the document that you had i'm going
011to put as a link i think is that the way you want to do it or the whole thing it's in the chat you can put it in however you want and then i know that you sent it in an email as well trying to make sure there's multiple ways to find this information right so what we try to do is divide it up into times when you can be with your teachers and also times when you can watch videos from all our staff our creative staff so this is the this is a link for the schedule and you can click on that that will take you to seeing where you're supposed to be so right now it's k one and two families going to their classrooms and that's between now and then 6 30
012i think it is and so you click on that link you'll get to join through a google me and that's a live session with your child's teachers and then you also have your video links that will be available also in that document to the different teachers who work with children through intervention through special education through uh arts team you know it's just everybody who's having a chance to get a chance to interact with you this evening and then you have the older kids who come up and then yeah then it goes to grades three and four and then another recorded session and last but not least grades five and six and feel free to watch the videos with your children i'm sure they have things to say about the teachers that they see every day
013and last but not least allison people can take a selfie a family portrait and then send it to joyce goodin at goodinejrps.com we'd love to see your selfies so i think we should let people go especially k1 and 2 families so okay you'll be able to find the link on what we sent out i'll put it into the chat again there you go and that will have links to go to the google meets again the google meets are live so awesome have a great evening bye bye everyone don't forget to sign up for a parent conference wwe strong yes that's us wildwood have a great night everyone we'll see you later all right enjoy take care