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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Highlighted Events This Week And Next Week In Wicomico Schools

March 28-31 Registration Fair for Kindergarten/Prekindergarten

A Registration Fair to enroll students in kindergarten and prekindergarten for the 2011-12 school year will take place this week, March 28-31, in the lobby of the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center. A flier is posted at http://www.wcboe.org/resources/documents/PreK_2011.pdf.

The Registration Fair is for families of children who will start prekindergarten or kindergarten next year, and children not in public kindergarten now who will be enrolled in the first grade for the 2011-2012 school year. The Registration Fair will be open in the Civic Center lobby from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on the following schedule:

Monday, March 28: Willards Elementary, Charles H. Chipman Elementary, West Salisbury Elementary and Prince Street Elementary

Tuesday, March 29: Beaver Run Elementary, Pemberton Elementary, Fruitland Primary

Wednesday, March 30: Delmar Elementary, Westside Primary, Pinehurst Elementary, Northwestern Elementary

Thursday, March 31: For any family that has not been able to register on the assigned day

Forms are available online at www.wcboe.org. Individual schools will not handle enrollment for prekindergarten and kindergarten students. Any parent or guardian with questions should contact the Centralized Enrollment Office at 410-677-4448 or 410-677-4476. The Centralized Enrollment Office is located in Annex 2 of the Board of Education Office.

Friday, April 1 and Friday, April 8
TAD Students Explore Genetics
Salisbury University

Students in the grade 3-5 TAD (Thinking and Doing) Program from throughout Wicomico County Public Schools will visit Salisbury University either April 1 or 8 for hands-on experiments and study on genetics, the students’ focus of learning for the past few months. Students and their teachers will be at the Henson Science Building from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on each of those days to observe plants, animals and bacteria expressing the green fluorescent protein; participate in the isolation and preservation of their own DNA from cheek cells; conducting DNA gel electrophoresis loading and running; and touring the Henson Building’s second-floor environmental growth rooms and chambers and greenhouse.

Friday, April 1
Secret Keeper Girl LIVE - The Pajama Party Tour
Cross Pointe Church of the Nazarene, Salisbury

The Secret Keeper Girl LIVE – The Pajama Party Tour will stop in Salisbury Friday, April 1 with an exciting show for tween girls (typically ages 8-12) and their mothers about modesty, peer, pressure, fashion and true beauty. The show is the creation of author Dannah Gresh, who wrote the Secret Keeper Girl book series. This national show, which will be hosted locally by Cross Pointe Church of the Nazarene, will feature dramatized stories about meaningful friendships, fun fashion shows that demonstrate modesty, incredible balloon sculptures, mother/daughter conversation time and colorful confetti cannons. A few girls from the area have been pre-selected to serve as models for the tour’s hallmark, a seasonal tween fashion show featuring Gresh’s Truth or Bare Modesty Tests. Tickets for the Secret Keeper Girl LIVE – The Pajama Party Tour show are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Tickets are on sale now at Cross Pointe Church of the Nazarene (Nanticoke Road, Salisbury) and The Gospel Shop, and online at http://www.itickets.com/events/255402/Salisbury_MD/Secret_Keeper_Girl_LIVE!_Pajama_Party_Tour.html.

Saturday, April 2
Maryland Destination ImagiNation State Tournament
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville

Thirteen teams from Wicomico County Public Schools will compete in the Maryland Destination ImagiNation State Tournament on Saturday, April 2 at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Catonsville. The event is open to spectators to watch the central challenge of all teams. You will see many clever solutions to this year’s challenges. Teams that finish on top at states can then earn the right to advance to represent the state of Maryland at Global Finals in May at the University of Tennessee. Destination ImagiNation (DI) is a student centered, technology friendly, international organization for kindergarten through college students. It teaches life skills and expands imaginations through team-based creative problem solving. Destination ImagiNation emphasizes creativity, teamwork and problem solving.

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