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November 21, 2025

As a part of our after school enrichment program, Mrs. Runkel started a leadership group.  She met with five students each week and discussed what makes a good leader.  They started a Morning Greeting time where the group of students would greet other students and pose a daily question.  They concluded their group with a visit to Springs of Austin Assisted Living Facility.  They met with the residents there and talked with them about their lives.  They also played bingo and made crafts together.  The residents definitely appreciated the visit and hope more Wildcats will come back!

November 17, 2025

Our primary students have been having so much fun in the Library with Ms. Maria!  She read them How To Catch a Turkey by Andy Elkerton and they discussed how they could make their own turkey trap!  Ms. Maria gave them a variety of supplies and they had to work together as a team to collaborate and build the traps!

November 12, 2025

Ms. Tran’s fifth grade class had another Writing Celebration this week!  Each student worked hard to research and compose a biography on a living person.  At the celebration, students and teachers went around and read each biography and gave compliments on their writing!    Great work!

October 27, 2025

Our PTO hosted a Movie Night last Friday!  Thanks to everyone who came out.  Families brought blankets, stuffies, and chairs and all enjoyed watching the movie together in the cafeteria.  We loved getting to spend some fun time together as a Wieland community.

October 3, 2025

We love celebrating our students for all the wonderful things they do!  We held our monthly Character of the Month breakfast to honor students for working hard to show examples of great traits at school.  Every classroom teacher nominated one student who showed Respect.  At the CoM Breakfast, Ms. Bost read out the names and the kind words each teacher shared about the students.  Way to go, Wildcats!

Wieland Character Traits for each month:

September- Respect

October- Integrity

November- Responsibility

December- Empathy

January- Honesty

February- Kindness

March- Perseverance

April- Courage

May- Gratitude

September 22, 2025

Our first grade classes celebrated their learning by hosting a CVC Cafe! Each student cooked up lots of CVC words, while teachers and parent volunteers cooked up lots of delicious pancakes! Thank you to all the families who came out to help- we appreciate all of our amazing Wieland families!

CVC words, an acronym for Consonant-Vowel-Consonant, are simple three-letter words that are essential for early reading and phonics development, such as "cat," "dog," and "sun". They are easy for beginning readers to decode because the letters represent their most common, short sounds, allowing students to practice segmenting and blending sounds to form words.  

CVC words help students develop the ability to recognize and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) within words, which is a critical skill for reading. 

Practicing CVC words helps beginners build confidence and decode words smoothly, bridging the gap between recognizing letter sounds and reading words. 

Examples of CVC words

cat: (/k/ /a/ /t/)

bed: (/b/ /e/ /d/)

pig: (/p/ /i/ /g/)

log: (/l/ /o/ /g/)

sun: (/s/ /u/ /n/)

September 15, 2025

We enjoyed celebrating International Dot Day!  Ms. Maria had so many fun activities in the Library throughout the whole week. 

From the Dot Day website: Dot Day is a global celebration of creativity, courage, and collaboration.  It began in 2009 when teacher Terry Shay introduced his classroom to Peter H. Reynolds’ book The Dot.

The Dot is the story of a caring teacher who dares a doubting student to trust in her own abilities by being brave enough to “make her mark”. What begins with a small dot on a piece of paper becomes a breakthrough in confidence and courage, igniting a journey of self-discovery and sharing, which has gone on to inspire countless children and adults around the globe.

Each year on International Dot Day the inspiration continues. What started as a story in the pages of a book is transforming teaching and learning around the world as people of all ages re-discover the power and potential of creativity in all they do.

September 8, 2025

We had a great turn out for Grand People's Day!  Over 100 visitors signed in to join their students at lunch and we loved seeing everyone.  Thank you to all the Grand People who came out and thanks for sharing your grandbabies with us every day!

August 28, 2025

Congrats to Wieland 5th grader, Murphy, for completing the Summer Beanstack Reading Challenge and winning a prize drawing from PfISD Libraries! He read 2,044 minutes this summer!  

We have a Fall Into Reading challenge going on for the month of September and our students are getting excited about Beanstack with Ms. Maria!  Students log in through Classlink and can log their minutes from reading during the school day and at home!  We encourage all students to read (or to be read to) every day!

May 5, 2025

Congratulations to Mr. Saunders and his 4th grade Music Memory team!! They were awarded 2nd place at the district Music Memory competition at Hendrickson High School over the weekend!! Mr. Saunders treated them to lunch after all their hard work! Music Memory involves learning 16 songs; not only identifying them from short 15 second clips, but also memorizing how to spell the names of each of the composers! Go team!!

April 7, 2025

First Grade is incubating eggs!!  Everyone is so excited to check on the progress of the embryos each morning!  Ms. Medlock wrote a grant to get incubators for all three classrooms and our students are so lucky to have this experience.  Thank you, Ms. Medlock!  Students were watching the candling of each egg, checking on the embryo on the inside.  They also made observations and drawings in their science journal, labeling the veins and albumen inside the egg.  We love seeing science in action!

March 28, 2025

PfISD hosted it's second annual Pfamily Pfitness Pfest!!  Our own Coach Hoard is the district PE lead and worked extremely hard to make this event a success!  Thank you, Coach!!  There were fun stations and activities spread out on the Pfield, and even the rainy weather couldn't keep people away.  It was a great event that got everybody's body moving and blood pumping- especially at the jump rope station!  Special shout out to Ms. McGarity, Mrs. McMahan, Mrs. Rodriguez, and Mrs. Prentice for manning our badminton station!

March 12, 2025

Our 5th grade students got a great visit from Ms. Smyth from the Texas Wildlife Association.  The presentation was titled "Skins and Skulls" and our students continued their learning about animal adaptations.  There was great audience participation when talking about camouflage and other adaptations.  They also got to be CSI investigators (Critter Skull Investigation!) and look for different characteristics in various animal skulls to determine what kind of animal it was!  There was a lot of great discussion about eye placement, nose length, and tooth shapes to help them with their investigation.

February 28, 2025

We love celebrating our hard working Wieland staff and we recently got to celebrate some great ones! Each year, every school in the district votes on their campus Rookie of the Year, Humanitarian of the Year, and Teacher of the Year- congrats to Ms. Gardner, Mrs. Nguyen, and Mrs. Tran for representing Wieland in those respective categories!  A well-deserved honor for these three teachers!!

Congrats to all of our staff who were nominated!

Humanitarian of the Year: Ms. Henry, Mrs. Runkel, Mrs. Nguyen, Mrs. Canela, Mrs. Gabbert, Ms. Zills, and Ms. McGarity

Rookie of the Year: Ms. Krone and Ms. Gardner

Teacher of the Year: Mrs. Tenczar, Ms. Henry, Mrs. Tran, Mrs. Pham, and Ms. McGarity

February 13, 2025

PfISD hosted its 9th annual Fine Arts Showcase and our Wieland artists were prominently featured!  We are so grateful for all of the hard work that Mrs. Peeples does, teaching wonderful and creative lessons to all of our grade levels!  Thank you, Mrs. Peeples, and congrats to our featured artists!

February 3, 2025

We are very lucky to have a campus chapter of Girls Who Code.  Girls Who Code is an international nonprofit organization that aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science.  Our Girls Who Code group meets every Tuesday after school, with leadership from Mrs. Matthews from the PfISD Instructional Technology Department, as well as Mrs. Aguilar and Mrs. Pham from our classrooms.  Girls in 4th and 5th grade are eligible to join and get to do coding activities each week together.  The girls have a lot of fun and learn so much from Mrs. Matthews, Mrs. Aguilar, and Mrs. Pham!

January 17, 2025

Wieland had a great turn out at Science Night!  Families were invited to come see science projects and participate in science activities put on by each grade level.  The PreK and Kinder hall had activities for force and motion, including magnet games and a marble run.  The First Grade team hosted a forensic science activity with fingerprint testing.  The Second and Third Grade teams had a create-a-rocket activity as well as a robo-copter bullseye activity.  Fourth Grade created tasty mixtures and Fifth Grade had stations to try out animal adaptations.  Students also had the chance to win bike helmets in a raffle, as well as take home books with science activities to try at home!

December 11, 2024

Thanks to a great partnership with H-E-B, we now have 60 new trees on campus!!  The H-E-B partners came to Wieland and did a quick welcome and then we got right into planting!!  Our students worked hard to help the volunteers.  Each hole was dug by hand and carefully measured to fit each tree!  3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classes came out to help plant.  We are excited to watch these trees grow alongside our students and can't wait for the shade they'll provide in the years to come!  Thank you, H-E-B!!

December 5, 2024

Every month, each classroom teacher nominates one student from their class who exemplifies that month's character trait.  Students get their picture hung in the hallway, along with a short note from the teacher explaining why they nominated that student.  A new tradition this year is our Character of the Month Breakfast.  Families of the nominated students are invited to a special ceremony to honor their student.  Each student gets recognized by Ms. Bost and their teacher's message is read aloud.  We are so proud of all of our students!

November 22, 2024

Through a recent initiative led by our assistant principal, Mrs. Gabbert, classroom teachers now have access to a full shelf of board and card games for their students.  This was an important project for Mrs. Gabbert because she knows the value of meaningful play.  There are so many important life skills learned while playing board games- taking turns, being a graceful winner and loser, teamwork, strategy, conflict management, partner conversation, and more!  We are so excited to have these games for our students to learn from.

November 11, 2024

We are enjoying our two week campus-wide celebration of Literacy called Camp Read-A-Thon!  Students are engaged in both reading and writing activities in their classrooms.  We enjoyed cuddling up with a good book, where students got to wear their pajamas and spend time just reading for enjoyment.  We also had a great Flashlight Friday where all students got a finger flashlight and were given time to enjoy a book with their flashlight.  Thank you to Mrs. Jenny Runkel, our Reading Interventionist, for all of her hard work to make Camp Read-A-Thon possible!!