Dear Parents and Guardians,
Please click the link to see the upcoming dates for PSSAs and Keystones. Please note which test(s) your child will be taking based on their grade level and current course load. https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2985/WCSD/3540991/Overview_of_Assessment_Calendar_2024.2025.pdf
Weekly Math Fun: Math + Art = Creativity at Home! 🎨➕📐
This week, combine math and creativity with fun, low-prep art activities!
Exploring math through art helps kids develop spatial awareness, pattern recognition, and measurement skills while expressing themselves creatively.
Math Concepts in Art:
🖼 Symmetry & Reflections – Folding, painting, and cutting help children recognize mirror images and balance.
🔺 Geometric Shapes & Patterns – Drawing, cutting, and arranging shapes reinforce patterning, tessellations, and sequencing.
📏 Measurement & Fractions – Comparing lengths and dividing paper into equal parts strengthens real-world math understanding.
📦 3D Geometry – Creating cubes, cones, and pyramids introduces concepts of volume and spatial reasoning.
Encourage kids to explore math through hands-on creativity and discover how numbers and patterns appear in art.
Stay tuned for next week’s activity, where we’ll bring more math into everyday fun! 🎭📊✨
🌧️ April Showers Bring Extra JiJi Hours! 🐧
Rainy days are perfect for cozy learning time at home! This April, take advantage of the extra indoor time by spending just 30 extra minutes a week with JiJi and ST Math.
That small investment of time can make a big impact on your child’s math growth and confidence!
✔ Strengthens problem-solving skills ✔ Builds perseverance ✔ Supports classroom learning
So, while the rain falls outside, help the learning bloom inside—with JiJi by your side! ☔📈
Congratulations to all the Warren County School District students who participated in the Regional K'nex STEM Design Competition on Tuesday and Wednesday this week at the Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit #5!
In the 4th/5th grade division, a team from Warren Area Elementary team earned the Most Creative Design award, a team from Eisenhower Elementary team took 3rd place, a team from Warren Area Elementary School took 2nd place, and a team from Sheffield Area Elementary School took 1st place and will also be competing at the State level in Harrisburg in May! The winning team designed a filtration system that could float on a city's water treatment system and remove microplastics so that the drinking water wasn't contaminated. Congratulations to Madilynn Leitchenberger, Jaxon Wotorson, Elliot Blymiller and Kaydi Markey!
Competing in the 6th-8th grade division, a team from Beaty-Warren Middle School earned the Most Creative Design award, a team from Youngsville Middle/High School took 3rd place, a team from Eisenhower Middle/High School took 2nd place, and a team from Beaty-Warren Middle School took 1st place and will also be competing at the State level in Harrisburg! The winning team designed a machine that starts the cleaning process by pulling air via the fan. The molecules in the air then go into the machine that causes the molecules to spin and shake rapidly. The molecules then break apart leaving the separate atoms allowing them to go through a series of filters and then into the heating room. Since water is formed rapidly with heat, the Hydrogen and Oxygen molecules bond together instantly creating water. Congratulations Delaney Moore, Carly Olsen, Lillian Wellner and Nina Woldt!
Weekly Math Fun: Skip Counting in Motion! 🚀🎶
This week, make math active and engaging with a skip counting workout! Movement-based math helps kids recognize patterns, strengthen mental math skills, and improve number fluency—perfect for all ages!
How This Builds Math Skills:
🔥 Reinforces Multiplication & Division – Helps kids see number relationships in an interactive way. ⏩ Improves Fluency – Faster recall of number sequences makes problem-solving easier. 🏦 Applies to Everyday Math – Skip counting is useful for counting money, telling time, and measuring distances.
Ways to Adapt for Older Students (Up to Grade 5):
🔢 Multiplication & Division Prep – Skip counting lays the groundwork for multiplication facts and division strategies. Challenge kids to count backward to reinforce division concepts. 🎯 Higher Number Patterns – Instead of 2s, 5s, or 10s, try counting by 12s, 25s, or even 50s for an extra challenge. ⏳ Timed Challenges – Have students race against a timer to see how quickly they can count to 100 by a given number.
Fun Ways to Move & Count:
🎵 Rhythmic Counting – Clap, stomp, or jump to the beat while skip counting. 🏃 Active Challenges – Try counting by 3s while doing jumping jacks or hopscotch. 🕺 Dance & Count – Create movements that match the number patterns for a fun twist!
Warren/Forest Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees Lauretta Woodson Award:
Each year PASR supports our employees in the schools by recognizing a certificated and support staff member with the Lauretta Woodson Award. This can be completed by students, peers, parents, supervisors, etc. One award in each category is given each year between the two districts.
If you would like to nominate an outstanding educator or support professional, please send the attached form to the address indicated on the form by April 16, 2025.
Nomination Form: https://5il.co/3ba5f
Weekly Math Fun: Roll the Dice for Math Practice! 🎲✨
This week, turn a simple pair of dice into a fun, hands-on way to build math skills! Dice games strengthen number sense, fact fluency, and mental math while keeping learning exciting.
Math Skills in Action:
🔢 Addition & Subtraction – Race to reach or subtract from 50 by rolling and calculating sums or differences. ✖️ Multiplication Practice – Roll two dice and multiply to reinforce math facts. Try setting a timer for speed challenges! 📊 Comparisons & Number Sense – Compare sums or products to determine greater or lesser values. 🧠 Mental Math Challenges – Find missing numbers to make 10 or sort sums as odd or even.
For Older Students:
🎲 Try games like Yahtzee! Rolling five dice helps kids practice strategic thinking, probability, and multi-step addition. They’ll sharpen their math skills while having competitive fun!
Extend the learning by tracking scores, creating custom challenges, or using different-sided dice for a variety of number ranges.
Stay tuned for next week's post, where we’ll introduce another exciting way to practice math at home! 🎲📏✨
Congratualions to Taylor Tuttle, YMHS senior, for her nomination as C.L.A.S.S. Act Emerging Leader for Warren County School District for the month of March 2025. Taylor Tuttle is a Senior at Youngsville Middle High School who demonstrates the qualities of being an emerging leader. Taylor is a kind and intelligent young lady who is also very academically inclined.
At Youngsville Middle High School, Taylor has challenged herself with College Preparatory, Honors, and Advanced Placement courses, while making exemplary grades in each of them. She has also taken various CHS courses through Pitt-Bradford at her home school. Taylor currently sits at the top of her class with a class rank of 2/43 and GPA of 95.05 and maintained this designation during both her freshman and sophomore years.
In school Taylor involved herself in activities including the National Honor Society, Student Council, Yearbook, Varsity Cheerleading where she lettered, and several Class Offices including President, Vice-President, and Treasurer. Taylor has also displayed her creative and artistic side helping with banners and bulletin boards throughout the halls of YMHS and her written expression being the recipient of the Annual Legion Essay Contest.
In the community Taylor has helped with the local Haunted Hayride and the Veteran's Honor Flight Ceremony. She also maintains employment at the Galley in Youngsville. Upon graduation Taylor has been accepted to Penn State Main Campus for Information Sciences and Technology with a minor in Artificial Intelligence. She hopes to one day be a part of the Intelligence Community in the military.
She also plans to join the Air Force ROTC while at Penn State and is in the application process to be enlisted. It is with great honor that Youngsville Middle Senior High School is proud to nominate Taylor Tuttle as the Northwest PA C.L.A.S.S. Act Emerging Leader for the month of March 2025.
Learn about Online Gaming and discover expert answers to the questions that matter most to parents. Read https://wcsdpa.onlinesafetyhub.io/parent/articles/online-gaming-faqs and learn how to: Address your concerns about excessive gaming
Navigate and control in-game spending
Implement practical strategies to help protect your child's online safety
Notice to Community – School Closure Administrative Transfers:
Following the January 13, 2025 approval of the closure of the high school portion (grades 9 through 12) of the Youngsville Middle/High School (YMHS), the district offered resident students of the western attendance area that are enrolled at the school during the 2024/25 school year AND will enroll in grade 9, 10, 11, or 12 in the 2025/26 school year with the opportunity to apply for a transfer – 2025 school reconfiguration to attend Warren Area High School. The application period will remain open until March 31, 2025.
The district has received inquiries from families that are residents of the eastern attendance area (Sheffield) to attend the northern attendance area (Eisenhower). The district is extending an opportunity for resident students of the eastern attendance area that are enrolled at the school during the 2024/25 school year AND will enroll in grades 9, 10, 11, or 12 in the 2025/26 school year with the opportunity to apply for an administrative transfer in accordance with established procedures. The application period will remain open until March 31, 2025.
Again, this is a transfer under normal district policy and procedures but will be included as an administrative transfer until March 31st due to school closure.
If you are interested or need more information about the process, please contact the registrar’s office or the Director of Pupil Services, Dr. Patricia Hawley-Mead at meadp@wcsdpa.org
The district will adhere to established PIAA regulations related to transfers and participation in regular season and eligibility for post-season athletic participation. In the case of administrative transfers as a result of school reconfiguration, the district will request a PIAA waiver for all transfers resulting from the Sheffield Area Middle High School 9-12th grade and Youngsville Middle High School 9-12th grade school closures. The application period closes Monday, March 31, 2025 @ 4p.m.
Registration is now open for Warren County Summer Music School being held at Beaty-Warren Middle School June 9th-June 27th from 8:10-12:10. This is for students who will be entering grade 5 through adults. https://www.wcsms.org/
📢 We Need Your Input! 📢
Title I schools are required to update two important documents each year:
📌 Parent & Family Engagement (PFE) Policy – This outlines how schools and families will work together to support student success.
📌 School-Parent Compact – This defines how parents, schools, and students share responsibility for academic achievement.
Your feedback is essential in shaping these documents for the 2025-2026 school year! Please take a few minutes to complete the surveys and share your thoughts.
🔗 Compact: https://forms.office.com/r/Z9NKcyAmyV
🔗 PFE Policy: https://forms.office.com/r/xQGpEdQTQD
Thank you for partnering with us to support our students!
Thank you for providing additional support with ST Math at home.
Find ST Math by visiting the menu on the district webpage. Under the “For Students” section, select ClassLink and enter your child’s username and password.
Don't miss this amazing show! You have two more chances to see it. Showtimes are today, Saturday, March 15th, at 2 PM and 7 PM.
The WCSD Jr. Musical presents The Addams Family! This spooky, kooky, and fun-filled production is sure to delight audiences of all ages! Come out and support our talented cast and crew for a show you won't want to miss!
Skip the lines and get your tickets online. Click the link for online sales: https://www.msbtickets.com/WarrenCountySchoolDistrictPA/districtevents
Just a reminder: There is No School for students on Monday, March 17th.
Did you miss seeing the WCSD Jr. Musical: The Addams Family last night? Not to worry, you still have three more opportunities to see it.
The WCSD Jr. Musical presents The Addams Family! This spooky, kooky, and fun-filled production is sure to delight audiences of all ages! Showtimes: Friday, March 14 - Saturday, March 15: 7:00 pm and Saturday, March 15: 2:00 pm (Matinee Performance). Come out and support our talented cast and crew for a show you won't want to miss!
Skip the lines and get your tickets online. Click the link for online sales: https://www.msbtickets.com/WarrenCountySchoolDistrictPA/districtevents
Weekly Math Fun: Counting Coins Together! 💰✨
This week, turn everyday moments into math learning opportunities by counting and exploring coins! Handling real money helps children develop number sense, place value understanding, and problem-solving skills.
Math Skills in Action:
💵 Addition & Skip Counting – Sorting and adding coins reinforces counting by 5s, 10s, and 25s.
💡 Money Combinations – Exploring different ways to make the same amount strengthens problem-solving and flexibility with numbers.
🏦 Real-World Applications – Using coins to practice making change builds financial literacy and mental math skills.
🔎 Scavenger Hunt Fun – Searching for coins around the house turns learning into an interactive game.
Try adding a budgeting challenge where kids “buy” items using their counted coins or compare different ways to make $1.
Stay tuned for next week’s activity, where we’ll explore another hands-on way to practice math! 🧠📊
Just a reminder there is No School for students on Monday, March 10th.
Don’t Miss the WCSD Jr. Musical: The Addams Family!
The WCSD Jr. Musical presents The Addams Family! This spooky, kooky, and fun-filled production is sure to delight audiences of all ages!
Showtimes:
Thursday, March 13 - Saturday, March 15: 7:00 pm
Saturday, March 15: 2:00 pm (Matinee Performance)
Come out and support our talented cast and crew for a show you won't want to miss!
Please click the link for online sales: https://www.msbtickets.com/WarrenCountySchoolDistrictPA/districtevents