She and Principal Place are excited to be able to meet kids' specific needs on site. Those therapists who work with students often have to cart around their equipment and make due with space in closets and corners of gymnasiums, Stenz said. There's a classroom to accommodate students who are deaf and hard of hearing and a dedicated space for occupational and physical therapy. RELATED: 2016 big year for Wausau school construction Riverview Elementary SchoolĮarly childhood teacher Stacy Stenz is excited about the addition to Riverview, in part because of the spaces that will serve kids with special needs. OPINION: Superintendent: Wausau school renovations are coming along
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She used it for music and a calendar, and the kids loved it.Ĭhildren in Thomas Jefferson's 4K academies will go on to the district's other northwestern elementary schools: Stettin Elementary, Maine Elementary, Grant Elementary or stay on at Thomas Jefferson depending on where they live. "We like the new things, like the TV."Ĭlassrooms have interactive televisions to help teachers incorporate more technology into their lessons. The classrooms are a little smaller there than teachers expected, said May Xiong, who's been teaching 4K for a decade. Thomas Jefferson's addition has the same cream-colored cinder-block walls and tiled hallway floors, the same squishy courtyard with a primary-colored play set as some of the other 4K academies. The school had the largest budget for its renovations - $7.4 million - which included a new cafeteria and several classrooms.
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The academy will serve the pre-kindergarten students in the district's south west corner, many will eventually attend Rib Mountain, South Mountain or Lincoln elementary schools. This addition was budgeted to cost $6.5 million. It includes a dedicated room for the occupational and physical therapy some students need. Like some of the other academies there's a family resource room equipped with tables for meetings and inside toys for play when the weather is bad outside. It holds four 4K classrooms and an early-childhood classroom. The addition is shaped like a horseshoe, and a new primary-colored playground with a squishy-red surface on the ground fills a courtyard meant for the school's littlest students. Jones extends two stories high with fourth and fifth grade classrooms on the second floor and the younger kids on the main level. Lloyd and Riverview Elementary Principal Andy Place both greeted parents with bags of tissues and children with over-sized backpacks at the front door of their schools Tuesday during open houses.
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"It'll be nice that we'll get to know them before they come for a full day," Lloyd said. Pre-kindergarteners attend school for half days.
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Having the younger students in the school will help smooth the transition into kindergarten for some of the students and teachers, said Hawthorn Hills Elementary School Principal Angie Lloyd. Kiefer Educational Center, now they'll start at one of the four 4K academies. The 4K students used to have classes at the A.C. Teachers have mostly moved in to the new spaces, and students will start breaking them in Thursday, the first day of school. The Wausau School District built four additions on its elementary schools to make room for pre-kindergarten students with funding from a $30 million referendum, approved by voters in April 2015. WAUSAU - Four Wausau elementary schools will have more than new students this fall - they'll have new classrooms, new playgrounds and younger kids coming in to fill the recently-completed 4K learning academies.
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