Summer Office Hours
June 4th - 7th - 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
June 11th - 14th - 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (office closed until 12:00 pm on June 13th)
June 18th -19th - 7:30 am-4:00 pm
August 6th - 8th - 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
August 9th - 12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Registration Day)
August 13th -17th- Resume Normal Hours 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
* Class assignments will be posted late afternoon on Monday, August 6
- We had an extra special intergalactic menu today at lunch to celebrate Star Wars Day! May The 4th Be With You!
- Math review with Sphero- practicing angles!
- Presenting a few of this year’s graduating kindergarten students!
- Dreaming of summer fun in the days to come!
- Student Council getting a head start on Teacher Appreciation Week!
- Finding a lucky four leaf clover must have brought this amazing temperature change!!
- Deep discussions about courage and perseverance amongst our Waterville Ambassadors!
- Exploring information in a whole new way, one student said, “It is like it comes to life!” We are loving the Merge Cube!
- First grade does a fantastic job performing “Goldie and the Bears!”
- Our students had some of our local police stop by to visit with them during recess!
- Thank you to the Dohrmanns for sharing about your life as a military family!
- Grateful to wear purple today!
- We’re “glowing” to ace our Math assessment!
- Thanks WPA for a great Friday evening!
- With a little extra encouragement from some famous friends, our fourth graders are ready for the challenge!
- Simple math: 45 degrees + four square + friends = a perfect day at recess!
- Celebrating kindness with our Bucket Fillers!
- Genius Hour today shared interests in football, learning Spanish, and sign language.
- Felt so perfect with no jacket at recess on this day!
- Our respectful, responsible, and safe Bucket Fillers!
- Exploring fractions in second grade!
- Planting her tree!
- Creating landmark models before we 3D print!
- Starting our morning right by building and coding our Spy Robots to help plan a friend’s surprise party!
- Genius Hour is bobsledding in the classroom, learning about endangered snow leopards, and taking apart machines!
- Playing “Ad Exec” to practice and encourage enthusiasm and planning our PBIS service project!
- Our Ambassadors practice the leadership skill of enthusiasm!
- Principal for the Day!
- Researching, writing, mapping, creating a model, and 3-D printing famous landmarks in second grade.
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. #Einstein
- American Sign Language and an author and poet from the 1600s were part of our Genius Hour presentations today.
- Genius Hour presentations today had students playing a student created video game, learning French, and learning several types of braids and hairstyles.
- Working on reviewing area and perimeter with Amazing Mazes then had to problem solve using measurement to get our Spheros to safety!
- Our kindergartners did an amazing job designing their very own instruments!
- Great job to today's Genius Hour presenters. Today's passions and interests included video games, learning Spanish, cats and germs!
- Rotating through stations to practice solving area!
- Genius Hour is self-taught piano, entrepreneurs baking/selling cat treats, and teaching others Chinese!
- Danger: Surgery in Progress Intensive Contraction Unit
- Real world math- a broken bushing from an ellipitcal is no match for fourth graders! They were able to reverse engineer a new one on the 3D printer!
- Kindergarten students practice leadership skills with fourth grade student council!
- This artist made an apron & handmade timer. Sculpture and Fibers center. First grade!!
- Congratulations Mrs. Gottschalk! She has been selected as Teacher of the Month through 101.5 The River! Tofts ice cream party for everyone!
- Creating new roller coasters using our knowledge of the design process and STEAM!
- First graders distinguish between fiction and non-fiction by categorizing questions.
- Student Council members providing leadership training stations to kindergarten. They went through teamwork, learning, and self help stations!
- Modeling the organization of a multi paragraph essay!
- May we always love hearing stories read aloud by incredible teachers!
- Art Works in progress...
- Super Star readers in third grade!
- Our little leprechauns sample green foods for an opinion piece of writing.
- Wonderful performance by our second graders taking us through the genres of music!
- Our first graders enjoyed publishing their amazing writing!
- Having fun with STEAM!
- Fun celebrating the infinite possibilities of Pi!
- Second graders are given a tower building challenge using various materials and measurements.
- Pizza party with our bucket fillers!
- Check out the snazzy spectacles these young ladies made in our maker lab
- Busy morning with the hustle and bustle of Bucket Fillers shopping at our store!
- Second grader receives a letter and swag from Nintendo thanking him for his character artwork and game suggestions!
- First grade STEAM challenges with Legos and Qubits!
- Fossils, fish, and fireflies!
- What a great group of campers!
- Making our own campfires!
- Thank you BGSU for helping with our literacy stations!
- We read a story about lightning bugs and then made our own!
- Happy Campers!
- Investigating the three states of matter!
- Emoji Movie time!
- Teaching each other about the Winter Olympic events!
- Second graders had a BLAST coding the Spheros to practice characteristics of shapes!
- Thank you for supporting our readers!
- Our youngest ambassadors reflect on their attitudes towards school and set goals for the remainder of the school year!
- Working on computer coding and design to create original video games, then making changes and challenges for our friends!
- Family Literacy Night
- Coding, cat treats, bobsleds, and Mandarin Chinese research during third grade Genius Hour!
- Check out our sinkhole simulations!
- We are so excited to “Camp out with a Good Book”
- Thank you to WPA, volunteers, and for the donations! Our Winter’s Ball was a wonderful time!
- Winter's Ball
- Mystery Guest: Mr. Hannigan, an engineer for GM, talked to our class about his job and read Mrs. Siravo's class "The Sneetches."
- Check out our published authors and illustrators in first grade! Taking after their teacher!
- Using "magic books" to share research from Ohio's Historic Indian tribes.
- Fourth grade is coding and curling with @Sphero !
- Using Twizzlers to help find factor pairs!
- Bringing coding and the Olympics together by curling Sphero style!!
- Mystery Guest Mrs. Richey, taught Mrs. Siravo's class a mini spanish lesson about the sombrero
- Combining our anticipatory skills and Quaver to learn themes in music!
- Congratulations to our newest members of student council! Thank you Mr. Rozic and Mr. Bruno!
- Thank you so much party volunteers for making today so much fun! The ice cream sundaes and activities were awesome! We love our parent helpers!
- Some Makers showing off their creativity and humor with decorated Valentine boxes! ❤️
- Investigating the properties of forms of energy.
- Candy Heart Math with these second grade sweeties!
- Meteorologist Ryan Wichman, spent Valentine's Day teaching us about weather.
- Happy Valentines Day to all of our families!
- Heart Health with GoNoodle
- Second graders LOVED their introduction to @Ozobot! Writing their names, telling a story, and creating mazes!
- Diagramming similarities and differences of the winter games in 1924 and 2018.
- Finishing up fractions in math today with a Fruit and Vegetable I Spy!
- Creating fraction examples with groups of fruits and vegetables!
- We cannot wait for Valentines Day!
- Great start to our Monday with the Bucket Filling Store!
- Fractions with food. Making sure the fractions are equal is so much more important when you're sharing cookies.
- Thank you to Mrs. K from Lucas County Soil Dept! Third graders become Pedologists....Studying the soil using food!
- Our new group of student council representatives are doing a great job of leading our bucket filling store
- Task cards are even more fun and interesting when Sphero is involved!
- Our kindergartners have perfectly portrayed this week’s weather pattern in our Art Studio!
- Using the Spheros to practice our 3-digit addition and subtraction!
- Celebrating the 100th Day of School with a bowl of 100 pieces of cereal
- Mystery Guest: Mr. Nagel, Project Director for Promedica, talked to our class about his latest project, The Generations of Care Tower.
- Operating with root words, prefixes, and suffixes!
- Happy School Counseling Week to the incredible Mrs. Cowell! Students are celebrating all week by completing kindness bingo!
- Operating on patients to practice roots and affixes!
- Student council’s last meeting complete with ice cream!
- Mini Sara from the Makers lab after working on similes!
- Our Sphero scavenger hunt for long division continues into the community room!
- Using sphero to help find our next long division problems!
- Leaning about transferring energy with Makey Makey!
- We had fun with planks and climbing in PE!
- Investigating remainders- look at their concentration!!
- Even more proof of how amazing our drivers are, starting each day with a high five!
- Modeling our TAB studio pieces!
- Sara shares a story with a wonderful friend!
- Sara shares a story with a wonderful friend!
- Great night spent with friends watching Captain Underpants!
- Mr. Kleman was our Mystery Guest. He taught us about computers.
- Our cricket superstar and future architect designed his future stadium!
- Waterville Ambassadors practice communication skills with LEGOs and charades!
- Earmuffs during lunch ✔️ Same lunch ✔️
- Proud students showing off their Quadrilateral Robots they designed and 3D printed!
- So excited for our pizza winning lunch for the most Box Tops! Thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Sutter for helping with the party! Thanks WPA!
- Bucket Fillers!!!
- Incredible watching young minds think, design, and create!
- Kindness counts in a bucket filling school!
- Sara is such a good helper by teaching us how to use our whole body to be respectful!
- Lunchtime with our friends is such a wonderful part of our day!
- Collage, painting, and architecture as a few of our TAB choices today in second grade.
- Back in action working on Mammal Research Projects
- It is so wonderful to be back and to be able to play outside at recess with our friends!
- Bagel Snowman after a few snow days!
- Dividing decimals review is more fun when calculating how fast each of our monkeys could climb in millimeters per second!
- Mrs. Siravo's class is EXCITED to begin reading our first chapter book with our Literature Circle Groups
- Our kindergarten classrooms are having a wonderful time celebrating for the holidays!
- Holiday activities, hot chocolate, and our buddies!
- Comparing and contrasting 3 different versions of Cinderella. Students added their own stage directions, costumes, and props!
- On Tacky! On Ruffled! on Loud and Gawdy! Come Sequined! Come Glittered! Come Fringed and Shoddy!
- Preparing our costumes and props for our different Cinderella plays!
- Mystery Guest Mrs. Edwards brought in Olivia's Guinea Pig, Rebel, and read a chapter from Humphrey
- Third and fourth grade Bucket Fillers cashing in on their amazingness!
- A festive evening with Santa and our Waterville families!
- Waterville’s first ever Holiday Sing Along!
- Making "Elf Traps" to catch those mischievous elves!
- Thanks to WPA, our fall fundraiser top sellers are riding in style!
- Enjoying edible dirt while learning about the different layers of soil in third grade!
- Our fourth graders can code, problem solve, design, and persevere!
- Sewing, weaving,architecture, collage,painting, drawing in our Art Studio!
- Lylabelle's grandparents were our Mystery Guests today. They talked about being semi-retired truck drivers and brought lots of yummy treats!
- Miss Hawley taught Mrs. Siravo's class about Hanukkah this week.
- Latkes, applesauce and dreidel
- Dry ice soap bubbles!
- Students loved making their Amazing Mazes to challenge each other’s coding skills with Sphero!
- Our first graders are LOVING computer programming!
- Finding the perfect present for loved ones and even had a chance to talk to Santa! Thanks WPA!
- Our Waterville Ambassadors write letters to Santa for Make a Wish and compliments to each other!
- Total engagement with these young coders!
- Kicking off Computer Sciences Week with Star Wars Hour of Code!!
- Mrs. Smith is up next reading at Barnes & Noble with some of her favorite sidekicks!
- Ms. Siravo is reading for the Waterville Primary's STEM bookfair
- Preparing for "Winter Weather" by making snow!
- Mystery Guest: Mrs. Kleinfelter, who works for Northwestern Water and Sewer District, showed us the importance of keeping our sewers clean!
- 3D printing, prepping cardboard for Makedo holiday trees, and building a fireplace for our upcoming holiday program!
- A morning in fourth grade filled with a book tasting event!
- Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
- Second graders are spending the morning Toledo Museum of Art!
- Learning and experimenting with potential and kinetic energy by designing coasters!
- Sara loves storytime with her friends!
- Lunch with our Bucket Fillers!
- So proud of our Girls on the Run, our coaches, and buddy runners! You did it!
- Waterville’s GOTR achieving their goals this morning!
- Happy Birthday Sara! We love you! #11
- Unlocking multiplication today in fourth grade!
- Enjoying a Thanksgiving feast early! We are so thankful for our students!
- Thank you to the Toledo Zoo for visiting our classroom. We loved meeting Olaf!
- Reading about the first Thanksgiving feast!
- Waterville Ambassadors creating ornaments to send to our friends at Heritage Village! Helping them decorate for the holidays!
- Working on building our listening skills and connecting relevant comments and questions over pizza!
- We are thankful for our Bucket Fillers who make our school AWesome every day!
- Learning about animal classifications! Thank you Toledo Zoo!
- Happy National Support Professionals Day! We are so thankful for all you do for our AWesome students!
- Thank you WPA for allowing the Toledo Zoo to come in. We enjoyed Somali the Leopard Gecko, Neo the Ball Python, and Dina the house cat.
- Check out these AMAZING second grade published authors!!!
- Animal habitats- We had fun learning about the guinea pig, spotted turtle, and a gecko!
- Making igneous rocks in Science class!
- Wow! The students at teamed up to collect nearly 500 books for NW Ohio
- Perfect ending to an amazing week-movie with friends!
- Waterville students and staff show the community our deep commitment to this nation’s heroes.
- Our fourth graders performing at UT Savage Hall this morning to honor our local Veterans.
- Our kindergarten students are tying past and present into the design process by building boats to float our pilgrims to the new world!
- Making our Scholastic Wish List. Every purchase helps earn new books and wobble stools for our classroom.
- Great time today talking about Italy and Italian culture.
- Dr. Burnell giving Bella a checkup-or is it the other way around?!
- Meet our Mystery Guest, Mrs. Swavel , who read Rainbow Fish and have us our very own rainbow fish!
- Fire safety with Mr. Siravo, our mystery guest!
- So grateful to have the assistance of our guests in helping to teach our students about career options! We even made commercials!
- Our students are learning about so many career options!
- Career Day is going great thanks to all of our volunteers!
- Loved learning about being a pediatrician with Dr. Ruiz!
- Students got to practice engineering with Mr. Jayaraman during Career Day!
- Dr. Herner-Patnode sharing her career of being a professor with our third graders!
- Students looked great this morning as they dressed for their future careers!
- Check out our second grade pocket pets! Designed in TinkerCAD and 3-D printed!
- Second Graders Dressed for Success as young authors and working together to create a story!
- Our friend, Finn the Mime, teaches us how to creatively write for the stage!
- These students are celebrating Red Ribbon Week by being "Dressed For Success "!
- Reading our global read aloud about Fenway the dog with Sara our therapy dog!
- Learning so much about Waterville’s history on our field trip! Thank you to Waterville Historical Society!
- Learning chess on Teach Tuesday!
- Enjoying some reading on the stage for Right to Read Week
- Second Grade STEAM week Making a Spider Web Bridge
- Thank you Challenger Learning Center for our trip to the International Space Station!
- The Waterville Ambassadors spend time at Heritage Village this morning!
- Waterville’s own, Becky Johnson, and daughter Ashley share their newly published book with our students!
- Having a galactic time at the Challenger Learning Center creating our own Pop Rockets!
- A day filled with imagination and fun!
- Thank you Parents and volunteers for such a great day!
- Our halls are full of characters today- Mario and Princess Peach!
- Mrs. Saums , Mystery Guest, read Teacher's Night Before Halloween!
- A little Oscar the Grouch and Berenstein Bears Trick or Treat from our mystery guest, Aiden's mom, Mrs. Soellner.
- Kindergarten Costume Parade!
- STEAM....with fourth grade buddies! Creating a new piece of playground equipment!
- Architecture center opens to second grade!
- So excited to be researching Waterville’s history in preparation for our field trip!
- Finishing up our 2-d shape unit with Popsicle stick math
- Teach Tuesday! Sophie is teaching us the Starblock Kata and telling us how she broke a board in karate!
- Thank you WPA for inviting our third grade teachers to share student STEAM projects!
- Welcome Mrs. Burnell, our Mystery Guest! She shared her hobby of refinishing furniture with us!
- Packed house for Donuts for Dads and Book Fair!
- Book Fair Preview!
- “Teach Tuesday”! Learning from each other is so fun!
- Enjoying lunch with these bucketfillers!
- Thank you Parents for spending lunch with us!
- Mystery guests from Virginia! Michael's grandparents!
- Way to go Bucket Fillers!
- We love buddy time! 1st & 4th grade buddies compare and contrast themselves and create a document in Google Drive!
- Using google classroom to add examples to our cause and effect table.
- The design process and all the creations!
- Makerspace Monday - creating a new animal species in its habitat.
- Our students are creating and learning!
- Waterville Primary hosts NWOESC Maker Monday!
- Thanks for the Scooby snacks WPA!
- Scooby Doo where are you? Everyone enjoys movie night!
- Day of Design connecting us across the building and globe!
- Day of Design: Building the tallest structure using spaghetti, marshmallows, tape & yarn. Winning group - 23 inches.
- Mystery Guests: Mitchell's Grandparents taught a nature lesson about seeds
- Second graders beginning the design process on tinkercad
- Whoever You Are makes a great read aloud!!
- Global Day of Design: building the tallest free standing structure-marshmallows, spaghetti, tape, string. Winning group built 25 1/2 in!
- Kindergarteners tackling Global Day of Design by building spaghetti towers!
- Celebrating differences on the hands and sharing similarities from the book in the ❤️ heart.
- Thank you Rotary for spending time with us and providing us with new dictionaries!
- 2017 Global Read Aloud Day
- Array city! Putting our learning into action with projects!
- Global Read Aloud: Enjoying Whoever You Are, by Mem Fox
- First grade field trip in a canal boat in Grand Rapids.
- The Collage Center in the art studio!
- A little fun with kahoot!
- No matter the age, there is just something special when stories are read aloud to us!
- Creative building in kindergarten!
- Learning to fail forward and not fail apart!
- Creating our own repeated addition array scoot.
- Sara and Mrs. Cowell enjoyed their time discussing the four types of bullying and how to prevent them!
- Testing out our new parachute designs!
- Third graders had fun creating communities and now are working to program their Ozobots to take a tour!
- Second Grade Monster-plication
- Thank you Parents for enjoying lunch at school with your first graders!
- Rain or shine! Thank you Safety Patrol!
- First Waterville Ambassadors meeting!
- Teamwork skills through the Paper Chain STEAM activity.
- Thank you to the Waterville Fire Department for giving our kindergarteners a tour!
- Summer reading earns our students free books from scholastic!
- Today is going to be AWesome!
- Mystery Guest Mrs. McGilvery read a GRIT book then challenged us to move a tire around the whole class while holding hands
- Congratulations to our new fourth grade student council members!
- Starting early on learning to read!!!
- Second graders loved learning computer programming by creating Lego robots!
- Thanks for joining us on our Walk to School!
- Using our maker supplies to construct examples of different communities during Social Studies.
- All smiles as this 9 year old-future engineer-shares his most recent design!
- Thinking through a solution to a problem was a sticky situation n third grade LEAP!
- We read about dream catchers, created our own, and then wrote about the magic they catch!
- Students are gearing up for a great year digitally with Google Classroom!
- We even figured out how to program our Milos to work together to pull a heavy load of flowers!
- A picnic with some special bucket fillers!
- Kindergarten celebrates constitution day!
- Leonardo and Michelangelo are pumped for some time at recess!
- Students had a blast engineering Milo and even programmed him to take a space walk!
- Using the Q & R scanner to practice addition facts!
- It's the third day of third grade fun!
- Mathematicians use GRIT and like numbers
- Second graders making "Getting to Know You" Bracelets.
- Beginnings are always the best! Welcome to our newest AW learners!
- We're off to great places!
- One of the best parts of the first day is seeing all of our friends again!
- School is going great today!
- Loving those special notes in our lunch boxes! Thanks mom and dad!
- We have a lot of very excited students ready to have a remarkable year!
- Welcome back!
- It is wonderful to see students in the hallways again! Thank you for visiting during open house!
- Sara is everyone's favorite station during registration!
- Our garden keeps producing incredible vegetables for the food pantry!
We had an extra special intergalactic menu today at lunch to celebrate Star Wars Day! May The 4th Be With You!
Math review with Sphero- practicing angles!
Presenting a few of this year’s graduating kindergarten students!
Dreaming of summer fun in the days to come!
Student Council getting a head start on Teacher Appreciation Week!
Finding a lucky four leaf clover must have brought this amazing temperature change!!
Deep discussions about courage and perseverance amongst our Waterville Ambassadors!
Exploring information in a whole new way, one student said, “It is like it comes to life!” We are loving the Merge Cube!
First grade does a fantastic job performing “Goldie and the Bears!”
Our students had some of our local police stop by to visit with them during recess!
Thank you to the Dohrmanns for sharing about your life as a military family!
Grateful to wear purple today!
We’re “glowing” to ace our Math assessment!
Thanks WPA for a great Friday evening!
With a little extra encouragement from some famous friends, our fourth graders are ready for the challenge!
Simple math: 45 degrees + four square + friends = a perfect day at recess!
Celebrating kindness with our Bucket Fillers!
Genius Hour today shared interests in football, learning Spanish, and sign language.
Felt so perfect with no jacket at recess on this day!
Our respectful, responsible, and safe Bucket Fillers!
Exploring fractions in second grade!
Planting her tree!
Creating landmark models before we 3D print!
Starting our morning right by building and coding our Spy Robots to help plan a friend’s surprise party!
Genius Hour is bobsledding in the classroom, learning about endangered snow leopards, and taking apart machines!
Playing “Ad Exec” to practice and encourage enthusiasm and planning our PBIS service project!
Our Ambassadors practice the leadership skill of enthusiasm!
Principal for the Day!
Researching, writing, mapping, creating a model, and 3-D printing famous landmarks in second grade.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. #Einstein
American Sign Language and an author and poet from the 1600s were part of our Genius Hour presentations today.
Genius Hour presentations today had students playing a student created video game, learning French, and learning several types of braids and hairstyles.
Working on reviewing area and perimeter with Amazing Mazes then had to problem solve using measurement to get our Spheros to safety!
Our kindergartners did an amazing job designing their very own instruments!
Great job to today's Genius Hour presenters. Today's passions and interests included video games, learning Spanish, cats and germs!
Rotating through stations to practice solving area!
Genius Hour is self-taught piano, entrepreneurs baking/selling cat treats, and teaching others Chinese!
Danger: Surgery in Progress Intensive Contraction Unit
Real world math- a broken bushing from an ellipitcal is no match for fourth graders! They were able to reverse engineer a new one on the 3D printer!
Kindergarten students practice leadership skills with fourth grade student council!
This artist made an apron & handmade timer. Sculpture and Fibers center. First grade!!
Congratulations Mrs. Gottschalk! She has been selected as Teacher of the Month through 101.5 The River! Tofts ice cream party for everyone!
Creating new roller coasters using our knowledge of the design process and STEAM!
First graders distinguish between fiction and non-fiction by categorizing questions.
Student Council members providing leadership training stations to kindergarten. They went through teamwork, learning, and self help stations!
Modeling the organization of a multi paragraph essay!
May we always love hearing stories read aloud by incredible teachers!
Art Works in progress...
Super Star readers in third grade!
Our little leprechauns sample green foods for an opinion piece of writing.
Wonderful performance by our second graders taking us through the genres of music!
Our first graders enjoyed publishing their amazing writing!
Having fun with STEAM!
Fun celebrating the infinite possibilities of Pi!
Second graders are given a tower building challenge using various materials and measurements.
Pizza party with our bucket fillers!
Check out the snazzy spectacles these young ladies made in our maker lab
Busy morning with the hustle and bustle of Bucket Fillers shopping at our store!
Second grader receives a letter and swag from Nintendo thanking him for his character artwork and game suggestions!
First grade STEAM challenges with Legos and Qubits!
Fossils, fish, and fireflies!
What a great group of campers!
Making our own campfires!
Thank you BGSU for helping with our literacy stations!
We read a story about lightning bugs and then made our own!
Happy Campers!
Investigating the three states of matter!
Emoji Movie time!
Teaching each other about the Winter Olympic events!
Second graders had a BLAST coding the Spheros to practice characteristics of shapes!
Thank you for supporting our readers!
Our youngest ambassadors reflect on their attitudes towards school and set goals for the remainder of the school year!
Working on computer coding and design to create original video games, then making changes and challenges for our friends!
Family Literacy Night
Coding, cat treats, bobsleds, and Mandarin Chinese research during third grade Genius Hour!
Check out our sinkhole simulations!
We are so excited to “Camp out with a Good Book”
Thank you to WPA, volunteers, and for the donations! Our Winter’s Ball was a wonderful time!
Winter's Ball
Mystery Guest: Mr. Hannigan, an engineer for GM, talked to our class about his job and read Mrs. Siravo's class "The Sneetches."
Check out our published authors and illustrators in first grade! Taking after their teacher!
Using "magic books" to share research from Ohio's Historic Indian tribes.
Fourth grade is coding and curling with @Sphero !
Using Twizzlers to help find factor pairs!
Bringing coding and the Olympics together by curling Sphero style!!
Mystery Guest Mrs. Richey, taught Mrs. Siravo's class a mini spanish lesson about the sombrero
Combining our anticipatory skills and Quaver to learn themes in music!
Congratulations to our newest members of student council! Thank you Mr. Rozic and Mr. Bruno!
Thank you so much party volunteers for making today so much fun! The ice cream sundaes and activities were awesome! We love our parent helpers!
Some Makers showing off their creativity and humor with decorated Valentine boxes! ❤️
Investigating the properties of forms of energy.
Candy Heart Math with these second grade sweeties!
Meteorologist Ryan Wichman, spent Valentine's Day teaching us about weather.
Happy Valentines Day to all of our families!
Heart Health with GoNoodle
Second graders LOVED their introduction to @Ozobot! Writing their names, telling a story, and creating mazes!
Diagramming similarities and differences of the winter games in 1924 and 2018.
Finishing up fractions in math today with a Fruit and Vegetable I Spy!
Creating fraction examples with groups of fruits and vegetables!
We cannot wait for Valentines Day!
Great start to our Monday with the Bucket Filling Store!
Fractions with food. Making sure the fractions are equal is so much more important when you're sharing cookies.
Thank you to Mrs. K from Lucas County Soil Dept! Third graders become Pedologists....Studying the soil using food!
Our new group of student council representatives are doing a great job of leading our bucket filling store
Task cards are even more fun and interesting when Sphero is involved!
Our kindergartners have perfectly portrayed this week’s weather pattern in our Art Studio!
Using the Spheros to practice our 3-digit addition and subtraction!
Celebrating the 100th Day of School with a bowl of 100 pieces of cereal
Mystery Guest: Mr. Nagel, Project Director for Promedica, talked to our class about his latest project, The Generations of Care Tower.
Operating with root words, prefixes, and suffixes!
Happy School Counseling Week to the incredible Mrs. Cowell! Students are celebrating all week by completing kindness bingo!
Operating on patients to practice roots and affixes!
Student council’s last meeting complete with ice cream!
Mini Sara from the Makers lab after working on similes!
Our Sphero scavenger hunt for long division continues into the community room!
Using sphero to help find our next long division problems!
Leaning about transferring energy with Makey Makey!
We had fun with planks and climbing in PE!
Investigating remainders- look at their concentration!!
Even more proof of how amazing our drivers are, starting each day with a high five!
Modeling our TAB studio pieces!
Sara shares a story with a wonderful friend!
Sara shares a story with a wonderful friend!
Great night spent with friends watching Captain Underpants!
Mr. Kleman was our Mystery Guest. He taught us about computers.
Our cricket superstar and future architect designed his future stadium!
Waterville Ambassadors practice communication skills with LEGOs and charades!
Earmuffs during lunch ✔️ Same lunch ✔️
Proud students showing off their Quadrilateral Robots they designed and 3D printed!
So excited for our pizza winning lunch for the most Box Tops! Thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Sutter for helping with the party! Thanks WPA!
Bucket Fillers!!!
Incredible watching young minds think, design, and create!
Kindness counts in a bucket filling school!
Sara is such a good helper by teaching us how to use our whole body to be respectful!
Lunchtime with our friends is such a wonderful part of our day!
Collage, painting, and architecture as a few of our TAB choices today in second grade.
Back in action working on Mammal Research Projects
It is so wonderful to be back and to be able to play outside at recess with our friends!
Bagel Snowman after a few snow days!
Dividing decimals review is more fun when calculating how fast each of our monkeys could climb in millimeters per second!
Mrs. Siravo's class is EXCITED to begin reading our first chapter book with our Literature Circle Groups
Our kindergarten classrooms are having a wonderful time celebrating for the holidays!
Holiday activities, hot chocolate, and our buddies!
Comparing and contrasting 3 different versions of Cinderella. Students added their own stage directions, costumes, and props!
On Tacky! On Ruffled! on Loud and Gawdy! Come Sequined! Come Glittered! Come Fringed and Shoddy!
Preparing our costumes and props for our different Cinderella plays!
Mystery Guest Mrs. Edwards brought in Olivia's Guinea Pig, Rebel, and read a chapter from Humphrey
Third and fourth grade Bucket Fillers cashing in on their amazingness!
A festive evening with Santa and our Waterville families!
Waterville’s first ever Holiday Sing Along!
Making "Elf Traps" to catch those mischievous elves!
Thanks to WPA, our fall fundraiser top sellers are riding in style!
Enjoying edible dirt while learning about the different layers of soil in third grade!
Our fourth graders can code, problem solve, design, and persevere!
Sewing, weaving,architecture, collage,painting, drawing in our Art Studio!
Lylabelle's grandparents were our Mystery Guests today. They talked about being semi-retired truck drivers and brought lots of yummy treats!
Miss Hawley taught Mrs. Siravo's class about Hanukkah this week.
Latkes, applesauce and dreidel
Dry ice soap bubbles!
Students loved making their Amazing Mazes to challenge each other’s coding skills with Sphero!
Our first graders are LOVING computer programming!
Finding the perfect present for loved ones and even had a chance to talk to Santa! Thanks WPA!
Our Waterville Ambassadors write letters to Santa for Make a Wish and compliments to each other!
Total engagement with these young coders!
Kicking off Computer Sciences Week with Star Wars Hour of Code!!
Mrs. Smith is up next reading at Barnes & Noble with some of her favorite sidekicks!
Ms. Siravo is reading for the Waterville Primary's STEM bookfair
Preparing for "Winter Weather" by making snow!
Mystery Guest: Mrs. Kleinfelter, who works for Northwestern Water and Sewer District, showed us the importance of keeping our sewers clean!
3D printing, prepping cardboard for Makedo holiday trees, and building a fireplace for our upcoming holiday program!
A morning in fourth grade filled with a book tasting event!
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Second graders are spending the morning Toledo Museum of Art!
Learning and experimenting with potential and kinetic energy by designing coasters!
Sara loves storytime with her friends!
Lunch with our Bucket Fillers!
So proud of our Girls on the Run, our coaches, and buddy runners! You did it!
Waterville’s GOTR achieving their goals this morning!
Happy Birthday Sara! We love you! #11
Unlocking multiplication today in fourth grade!
Enjoying a Thanksgiving feast early! We are so thankful for our students!
Thank you to the Toledo Zoo for visiting our classroom. We loved meeting Olaf!
Reading about the first Thanksgiving feast!
Waterville Ambassadors creating ornaments to send to our friends at Heritage Village! Helping them decorate for the holidays!
Working on building our listening skills and connecting relevant comments and questions over pizza!
We are thankful for our Bucket Fillers who make our school AWesome every day!
Learning about animal classifications! Thank you Toledo Zoo!
Happy National Support Professionals Day! We are so thankful for all you do for our AWesome students!
Thank you WPA for allowing the Toledo Zoo to come in. We enjoyed Somali the Leopard Gecko, Neo the Ball Python, and Dina the house cat.
Check out these AMAZING second grade published authors!!!
Animal habitats- We had fun learning about the guinea pig, spotted turtle, and a gecko!
Making igneous rocks in Science class!
Wow! The students at teamed up to collect nearly 500 books for NW Ohio
Perfect ending to an amazing week-movie with friends!
Waterville students and staff show the community our deep commitment to this nation’s heroes.
Our fourth graders performing at UT Savage Hall this morning to honor our local Veterans.
Our kindergarten students are tying past and present into the design process by building boats to float our pilgrims to the new world!
Making our Scholastic Wish List. Every purchase helps earn new books and wobble stools for our classroom.
Great time today talking about Italy and Italian culture.
Dr. Burnell giving Bella a checkup-or is it the other way around?!
Meet our Mystery Guest, Mrs. Swavel , who read Rainbow Fish and have us our very own rainbow fish!
Fire safety with Mr. Siravo, our mystery guest!
So grateful to have the assistance of our guests in helping to teach our students about career options! We even made commercials!
Our students are learning about so many career options!
Career Day is going great thanks to all of our volunteers!
Loved learning about being a pediatrician with Dr. Ruiz!
Students got to practice engineering with Mr. Jayaraman during Career Day!
Dr. Herner-Patnode sharing her career of being a professor with our third graders!
Students looked great this morning as they dressed for their future careers!
Check out our second grade pocket pets! Designed in TinkerCAD and 3-D printed!
Second Graders Dressed for Success as young authors and working together to create a story!
Our friend, Finn the Mime, teaches us how to creatively write for the stage!
These students are celebrating Red Ribbon Week by being "Dressed For Success "!
Reading our global read aloud about Fenway the dog with Sara our therapy dog!
Learning so much about Waterville’s history on our field trip! Thank you to Waterville Historical Society!
Learning chess on Teach Tuesday!
Enjoying some reading on the stage for Right to Read Week
Second Grade STEAM week Making a Spider Web Bridge
Thank you Challenger Learning Center for our trip to the International Space Station!
The Waterville Ambassadors spend time at Heritage Village this morning!
Waterville’s own, Becky Johnson, and daughter Ashley share their newly published book with our students!
Having a galactic time at the Challenger Learning Center creating our own Pop Rockets!
A day filled with imagination and fun!
Thank you Parents and volunteers for such a great day!
Our halls are full of characters today- Mario and Princess Peach!
Mrs. Saums , Mystery Guest, read Teacher's Night Before Halloween!
A little Oscar the Grouch and Berenstein Bears Trick or Treat from our mystery guest, Aiden's mom, Mrs. Soellner.
Kindergarten Costume Parade!
STEAM....with fourth grade buddies! Creating a new piece of playground equipment!
Architecture center opens to second grade!
So excited to be researching Waterville’s history in preparation for our field trip!
Finishing up our 2-d shape unit with Popsicle stick math
Teach Tuesday! Sophie is teaching us the Starblock Kata and telling us how she broke a board in karate!
Thank you WPA for inviting our third grade teachers to share student STEAM projects!
Welcome Mrs. Burnell, our Mystery Guest! She shared her hobby of refinishing furniture with us!
Packed house for Donuts for Dads and Book Fair!
Book Fair Preview!
“Teach Tuesday”! Learning from each other is so fun!
Enjoying lunch with these bucketfillers!
Thank you Parents for spending lunch with us!
Mystery guests from Virginia! Michael's grandparents!
Way to go Bucket Fillers!
We love buddy time! 1st & 4th grade buddies compare and contrast themselves and create a document in Google Drive!
Using google classroom to add examples to our cause and effect table.
The design process and all the creations!
Makerspace Monday - creating a new animal species in its habitat.
Our students are creating and learning!
Waterville Primary hosts NWOESC Maker Monday!
Thanks for the Scooby snacks WPA!
Scooby Doo where are you? Everyone enjoys movie night!
Day of Design connecting us across the building and globe!
Day of Design: Building the tallest structure using spaghetti, marshmallows, tape & yarn. Winning group - 23 inches.
Mystery Guests: Mitchell's Grandparents taught a nature lesson about seeds
Second graders beginning the design process on tinkercad
Whoever You Are makes a great read aloud!!
Global Day of Design: building the tallest free standing structure-marshmallows, spaghetti, tape, string. Winning group built 25 1/2 in!
Kindergarteners tackling Global Day of Design by building spaghetti towers!
Celebrating differences on the hands and sharing similarities from the book in the ❤️ heart.
Thank you Rotary for spending time with us and providing us with new dictionaries!
2017 Global Read Aloud Day
Array city! Putting our learning into action with projects!
Global Read Aloud: Enjoying Whoever You Are, by Mem Fox
First grade field trip in a canal boat in Grand Rapids.
The Collage Center in the art studio!
A little fun with kahoot!
No matter the age, there is just something special when stories are read aloud to us!
Creative building in kindergarten!
Learning to fail forward and not fail apart!
Creating our own repeated addition array scoot.
Sara and Mrs. Cowell enjoyed their time discussing the four types of bullying and how to prevent them!
Testing out our new parachute designs!
Third graders had fun creating communities and now are working to program their Ozobots to take a tour!
Second Grade Monster-plication
Thank you Parents for enjoying lunch at school with your first graders!
Rain or shine! Thank you Safety Patrol!
First Waterville Ambassadors meeting!
Teamwork skills through the Paper Chain STEAM activity.
Thank you to the Waterville Fire Department for giving our kindergarteners a tour!
Summer reading earns our students free books from scholastic!
Today is going to be AWesome!
Mystery Guest Mrs. McGilvery read a GRIT book then challenged us to move a tire around the whole class while holding hands
Congratulations to our new fourth grade student council members!
Starting early on learning to read!!!
Second graders loved learning computer programming by creating Lego robots!
Thanks for joining us on our Walk to School!
Using our maker supplies to construct examples of different communities during Social Studies.
All smiles as this 9 year old-future engineer-shares his most recent design!
Thinking through a solution to a problem was a sticky situation n third grade LEAP!
We read about dream catchers, created our own, and then wrote about the magic they catch!
Students are gearing up for a great year digitally with Google Classroom!
We even figured out how to program our Milos to work together to pull a heavy load of flowers!
A picnic with some special bucket fillers!
Kindergarten celebrates constitution day!
Leonardo and Michelangelo are pumped for some time at recess!
Students had a blast engineering Milo and even programmed him to take a space walk!
Using the Q & R scanner to practice addition facts!
It's the third day of third grade fun!
Mathematicians use GRIT and like numbers
Second graders making "Getting to Know You" Bracelets.
Beginnings are always the best! Welcome to our newest AW learners!
We're off to great places!
One of the best parts of the first day is seeing all of our friends again!
School is going great today!
Loving those special notes in our lunch boxes! Thanks mom and dad!
We have a lot of very excited students ready to have a remarkable year!
Welcome back!
It is wonderful to see students in the hallways again! Thank you for visiting during open house!
Sara is everyone's favorite station during registration!
Our garden keeps producing incredible vegetables for the food pantry!
The Waterville School Community will promote a stimulating, safe, and nurturing environment. A strong partnership between home and school will empower each student to acquire a solid academic foundation, develop a love of learning, experience positive emotional growth, and support responsible citizenship. We strive to maximize student potential for: learning, positive social and physical development, high self-esteem, and efficient, effective problem solving. We will prepare every child for meaningful participation in our global society.