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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 27, 2025
We were so happy to honor some of our amazing volunteers at the Pflugerville ISD Volunteer Ceremony!
Thank you to the wonderful CJ Burrell (award accepted by her son) for spending time in our classrooms and cafeteria throughout the year. We appreciate you and all of your hard work!
Thank you to Brenda Crawford and Sue Kozak and all the wonderful volunteers from Parkway Church who help us set up our classrooms every August and who come to read with our second graders through the entire school year! We appreciate you all!
Thank you for your support of Wieland and our students! 
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!
April 3, 2025
Ms. Bost hosted another great Character of the Month Breakfast! We love honoring our students who are working hard to show great character at school. The Character of the Month was Kindness and we had lots of great examples from each classroom represented! Way to go, students- keep showing kindness everywhere you go!
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 27, 2025
Congratulations to Mr. Stevenson on being selected as the 2025 Region 13 TEPSAN of the Year by the Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association! We already knew you were an amazing principal- glad more people are noticing! Thank you for all you do for our students, staff, and families!
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.
March 6, 2025
We had another great Family Night here at school- Math Night! Students and their families enjoyed math games in all hallways of the school, as well as Math themed Bingo in the cafeteria. Students were able to build healthy plates with fractional parts with our PfISD Child Nutrition Department, as well as try out some new math games with the volunteers from Math Happens. Families can always check out Math Happens at the Austin Nature & Science Center on Saturdays from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm and on Sundays from 12:00 pm until 2:00 pm. Check out their website for more information!
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 28, 2025
We had another AMAZING Black History Program this year! Our teachers worked so hard with their performing groups, getting them ready for the big show. Our PreK and Kindergarten students sang songs, our First Grade students read poems by Langston Hughes, our Second Grade students sand a song by Ella Fitzgerald, our Third Grade students choreographed a dance, our Fourth Grade students performed a skit about Martin Luther King Jr., and our Fifth Grade students choreographed a step routine, as well as performed Lift Every Voice and Sign under the direction of Mr. Saunders. We were also thrilled to have the Dessau Middle School Step Team back again to perform on our stage! Three former Wildcats are a part of the team and they all did a wonderful job. We value every culture represented at Wieland and are proud to continue to host a Black History Program and learn about Black History and influential Black Americans all year long! (Be sure to visit our social media sites to see more photos and videos from the performance! @wielandpfisd on Instagram and Wieland Elementary PFISD on Facebook.)
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 10, 2025
Our garden is blossoming and made it through the January freezes! Our classes were excited to find three heads of cauliflower growing. It's wonderful for them to be able to go through the whole process, from seed to veggie! Mrs. Kammeyer was lucky enough to take one of the heads of cauliflower home to cook with! We love seeing science in action.
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 31, 2025
Every year, our teachers and students work hard to put together a Tết Celebration. Tết, short for Tết Nguyên Đán is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the Vietnamese calendar and celebrates the Lunar New Year. Our students perform for the school in the afternoon and then for families and the community in the evening. We are lucky to also have Texas Dragon/Lion Dance Team come out for a performance of their own! Our teachers spend a lot of time choreographing and organizing the dances as well as decorating the cafeteria and foyer. Thank you to Ms. K. Nguyen, Mrs. Pham, Mrs, Aguilar, Ms. J. Nguyen, Mrs. Tenczar, Mr. Lerner, and Ms. Tran for all of your hard work- we appreciate you!
Science Night
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!
Science Fair
January 16, 2025
On Thursday, January 16th, Wieland hosted its annual Science Fair. Students in 4th and 5th grade created science projects and had the opportunity to share them to be judged. The judges were students from Pflugerville High School who participate in the PALS program. Wieland students did a great job of describing their procedures and materials, as well as explaining their graphs, results, and conclusions. Thank you to Ms. Takahashi for organizing the Science Fair and for providing this great opportunity for our students!
Tree Day!
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!!
Attendance Trophy
December 9, 2024
Our Campus Climate and Culture Team meets regularly to make school wide decisions about social emotional learning, restorative practices, positive behavior, and attendance. The team started a new incentive to have monthly Wieland Attendance Awards. Each month, we review each grade level's student attendance percentage and the winning grade level gets to carry the trophy proudly! The winning grade level for November was THIRD GRADE! Each class has a trophy to show off their accomplishment. We are keeping track of December attendance to see who will get the trophy next! Thank you to all families for getting your students to school every day and on time! Daily attendance is so important and we want to see everyone's smiling faces every day!
Character of the Month Breakfast
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!
Bluebonnet Books
December 2, 2024
Each year, the Texas Libraries Association releases their annual Bluebonnet Book List. This is a list of fiction and nonfiction books that all students in 3rd-6th grades are encouraged to read. The committee evaluates hundreds of books each year and picks the 20 best to be included on their list! At Wieland, we encourage all 3rd-5th grade students to read at least 5 of the Bluebonnet Books. Mr. Stevenson, Ms. Maria, and Mrs. Prentice try to read as many of the books as they can and love talking to the students about them! Students are encouraged to track their reading through Beanstack, which can be found in their ClassLink profile. Please click here to view this year's book choices. Which one do you want to read first?
Board Game Fun!
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.
Our Garden
November 19, 2024
Through the diligent work of fourth grade teacher Ms. McGarity, our garden is blossoming again! Our teachers and students go out regularly to take care of the various plants growing there. Many students have even tasted broccoli and kale taken right off the plant! We currently have kale, Swiss chard, broccoli, cauliflower, beans, pumpkins, green onions, tomatoes, arugula, and cabbage! It is such a wonderful thing for our students to experience the full life cycle from seed to vegetable. Thank you for your hard work, Ms. McGarity!
Camp Read-A-Thon
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!!
Literacy Night
November 7, 2024
Wieland celebrated recently with an after school Literacy Night. Families were invited to come up to the school and enjoy different activities with their students. Each hallway had a variety of activities, from Boggle with the 2nd grade team, Sentence Expanders with the 4th grade team, and Dictionary Discovery with the 3rd grade team! There was also a raffle for 6 different literacy themed baskets that were filled with great books and reading materials.
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