Each day this week Kindergarten is traveling to a different habitat... Ocean, Desert, Grasslands, & Rainforest! Mrs. Hackney is SO artistic and super helpful not only to the teachers, but we see the joy on the kids' faces when they see her beautiful creations!!! :)
Our K-4 academy ended our career week with Career Day. We had volunteer presenters come in and speak about their careers. The presenters created presentations to talk with our students about what they love about their job, what path they took to get there, and tied in character development. We had a variety of careers on campus Friday. It is never too early to start thinking about careers! A special thank you to our donations from Wegmans and Starbucks and our volunteers to make this day possible!
4th grade students recently learned about the importance of bees and other pollinators in our environments. Inspired to protect these vital insects, we planned a Save the Bees Day event for Earth Day. This included hosting local beekeeper and town commissioner, Shannon Baxter for a presentation, honey tasting, and a pollinator garden. Special thanks to Cynthia Evans and Joe Bone for prepping the garden areas; as well as the many parent volunteers for donations and hard work!
Mrs. Pace’s class is decoding unknown words using Open and Closed Syllable Strategies.
We are looking for substitutes! If you are interested, please email Belinda Lloyd blloyd@eastwakeacademy.org
Third grade been studying entrepreneurs in Social Studies. Ms. Blairs class planned and created a business with products to sell. Mrs. Brown's class were the consumers and purchased the products.
National Honor Society Blood Drive at EWA
Last night EWA hosted Zebulon Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours. Thank you to everyone that came out. We are proud to be a part of the Chamber and are excited about all the things going on in our town. Even if you don't live in Zebulon, please try and support our great local business!
The National Honors Society is hosting a blood drive at the EWA high school parking lot on April 15 from 10 am - 3 pm. . We would love your participation to raise money for the EWA Dance Program and EWA National Art Society. * *Must be 16 or older to donate blood, if you are 16 years old you must provide written parental consent. You must be at least 110 pounds.* *
https://donate.thebloodconnection.org/donor/ schedules/drive_schedule/208378
Thanks to the Carolina Mudcats for a great day! This was our first ever K-12 field trip and it was awesome to have all of the staff, students and families together.
Nurse Christy visited the Honors Anatomy and Physiology class to share her journey in the medical field and teach students and Mrs. Broadwell how to take blood pressure.
Happy National Pet Day from some EWA Staff & their pets!
A message from Mrs. Barnhill:
The Scholastic Book Fair is coming up It will be open from Friday, April 21st through Friday, April 28th. The fair will be open to the middle school from 7:45-8:15. Elementary students will be able to shop during specials. The flyer below explains how to create an eWallet for your child. https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/content/fairs/ewallet.html
Taxes will be charged this year(7.25%) I am encouraging parents to use eWallet. If students bring cash they need to have exact change or the coin change will be a donation to the media center to buy more books.
We are also looking for volunteers to help with the book fair - you can sign up at https://bit.ly/3FUBOd3
Students in Ms. Firmin's 1st grade class created Easter baskets using only paper and tape! We also had our egg hunt.
Thank you PAL and EWA parents for "stocking the fridge"!
EWA Middle and High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) attended the NCFBLA State Conference and Competition on March 23-25 at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro! Congratulations to our winners!!!
Today we celebrated staff with March birthdays with lunch for everyone from Yummy Hibachi & Wings in Knightdale. So happy to support this local business.
Spring Picture proofs will be sent home this week. Ordering will be done all online through www.strawbridge.net using your child's specific code. If you have any questions, please contact blloyd@eastwakeacademy.org
The EWA High School First Priority Club hosted a free car wash for all EWA staff as a way to give back! The National Honor Society joined in to help wash 40 cars this Monday, a Teacher Workday! What a wonderful service project!
While students are on track out our Maintenance staff has been working hard! One project has been working in the weight room which meant everything had to be removed from the room! I took this picture today and smiled when I saw the bucket with "Clapp" on it. Tammy Clapp was one of the first K/1 teachers at EWA and I (Mrs. Lloyd) was her Assistant. Hard to believe that this bucket has been around this long! #EWA25
