Athens Elementary School

Last day of fifth grade for these awesome AES Bluejays!

The Athens Elementary first graders took a trip to NTC and The Wausau Imaginarium. At NTC they saw and did many interesting things such as video production, E sports, planting seeds, and using spheroid robots controlled by a tablet. The Imaginarium was a terrific place to learn by exploring! Students explored water features, wind tunnels and tubes, and various real-life experiences with a sugar shack, market, and food truck. It was a great day!

As if pancakes weren't enough the AES Fourth graders had a cheese tasting party. We tasted several cheeses from Wisconsin! Found a few new favorites!

The fourth graders at AES enjoyed a Lumberjack breakfast. They had pancakes, sausage, apple juice, doughnut holes, hash browns and of course homemade maple syrup! Yum!Yum!

Today is the big day- Graduation Day has arrived. Our sincere apologies for not being able to livestream our commencement ceremony tonight, due to technical difficulties. Congratulations to the Athens High School Class of 2024!

Our third graders enjoyed a day at the park for our field trip. Thanks to the volunteers who joined us and made the day a success.

4th graders from AES traveled to Madison last Friday. They toured the capitol and the WI Veterans Museum. A great day of learning and memory making for our students and parents.

I love showing off these 2nd grade Theibaud Donuts. They are so fun and kids LOVE to make them!

Students in Ms. Kalepp's math class have enjoyed the sunshine this week. They had to draw different types of quadrilaterals and triangles with chalk. Then their partner had to identify and classify them based on their sides and angles. Students even used some of the quadrilaterals already painted on the blacktop.

4th graders from AES celebrated Earth Day and Arbor Day by helping plant trees in Erbach Park. The Athens trail association, under the direction of Steve Brewster and Glen Luetswager, along with Village president, Randy Decker and parent volunteer, Tim Bingham helped prepare and teach student about planting trees. Students then got to go home and plant their own tree to help our environment.

Comedy night leftover gummy candy teeth sure make it more difficult to read but...aren't these kids super cute? Can anyone recommend a good dentist?

First graders have been learning about insects. Our speech teacher, Mrs. Mann, brought in her husband's insect collection as well as 2 live praying mantis! She taught us about the praying mantis, and students were even able to hold one!

25 families participated in the April comedy night at AES.  Students practiced fluency and perseverance by reciting jokes and two silly stories were read modeling effective reading strategies.  Did you know that students who read 20 minutes per day are exposed to 1.8 million words in a year? Even reading just 5 minutes per day provides 282,000 words per year! What's the moral of this story?  PLEASE READ every day!  

Preschoolers in Mrs. Hartwig's class got a chance to be teachers during their farm unit. The students taught their classmates about the jobs they do on their family's farm and the animals they help take care of. The students learned that having farm animals is hard work, but it is also fun and rewarding.

The 4th graders at AES enjoyed a day at the Little Red School House in Wausau's Marathon Park. They stepped back into 1904 and learned many things. They used fountain pens for handwriting, participated in a spelling Bee, learned 1904 geography and history. At recess they played turn of the century games. The students enjoyed their Pioneer Day.

What do you call a can opener that doesn't work? A can't opener! Hah! You simply CAN'T miss Blue Jay and Fox Family Night tonight from 6-7pm in the AES Gym. Students reciting jokes, free take-home comedy items to keep the fun rolling into summer, families learning interactive reading tips and a Scholastic Buy One, Get One Free book fair?!? Let's pack the gym this evening!

The School District of Athens is looking for the following postions: Elementary Teacher - Athens Elementary School School Counselor - Athens High School Executive Assistant to the Superintendent and Special Education Administrative Assistant - School District of Athens Payroll Specialist - School District of Athens Custodian & Maintenance Position - Maple Grove Charter School If you have an interest in applying for any of these position, please complete the application which can be located on the WECAN website: https://wecan.waspa.org.

Mrs. Hartwigs preschoolers enjoyed some hands on learning activities during our outer space and dinosaur thematic units. Students created their own planets and described their planets by answering questions. Students got to be paleontologists and learned about dinosaurs, explored dinosaurs through our dig site with dinosaur skeletons, built letters out of bones, and searched for letters in dinosaur eggs.

The School District of Athens is seeking employment of a Payroll Specialist. If you have an interest in applying for this position, please complete the application which can be located on the WECAN website: https://wecan.waspa.org. The School District of Athens is seeking employment of a Maple Grove Charter School Custodian & Maintenance position. If you have an interest in applying for this position, please complete the application which can be located on the WECAN website: https://wecan.waspa.org. The School District of Athens is seeking employment of an Executive Assistant to the Superintendent & Special Education Administrative Assistant. If you have an interest in applying for this position, please complete the application which can be located on the WECAN website: https://wecan.waspa.org.

What does a cloud wear under its raincoat? Thunderwear! Get ready to hear many more jokes like that told by AES Blue Jays and Maple Grove Foxes on Monday, 4-22-24, at 6pm in the AES Gym. Check out some of the free giveaway items being shown by these silly students.