Wisconsin School for the Deaf - The Wisconsin Times Vol. 133 No. 3 Spring 2012 | Page 4

Will You Be My Valentine?

The new King and Queen, Darius
Payne and Madison Bongard.

On Tuesday, February 14th at our annual Valentine’s
Dance, elementary students, Lawson Vollmar and
Jalila Martens were selected as prince and princess
while Darius Payne and Madison Bongard were
crowned King and Queen in the annual drawing of the
Valentine’s Court. Students began this year’s Valentine
Day’s activities by opening Valentines from their
classmates. Next the boys escorted the girls into the
Round Room where students danced the Two-Step,
the Hokey Pokey, the Macarena, the Twist, and the
Monkey. After students played the limbo, the party
concluded with students making their own ice cream
sundaes. Yum!

Lucero enjoys reading
her Valentines.

Lily opens her Valentines.
Paige and TJ dance.
TJ shows off his limber Limbo moves!

100 Days of School
Since the first day of school, in an effort to learn the concept
of ‘one hundred,’ classrooms counted the days of school.
On Tuesday, February 7th elementary students gathered in
the round room to celebrate the 100th day of school. WSD’s
ASL Specialists, Kathryn Harbison and Joel Mankowski
storysigned books about 100. Students broke into groups to
count 100 cereal loops and strung them into a necklace. They
made headbands with 100 on the band; they jumped 10 times
in 10 different ways, and they made a 100 booklet. Then, the
countdown to Spring Break began!

Cayden counted 100
pieces of spiral pasta.

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Zachary Needs counting cereal on a 100 chart.

The lower elementary students celebrating 100 Days of School
by showing off their colorful 100th Day head bands.