Roosevelt Elementary

Roosevelt Elementary hosted "Careers on Wheels" today at school. Students rotated through stations learning about different jobs in our community along with the work vehicles that they have. Thank you to all of the volunteers who shared your vehicles and your time with our students!

Thank you to the LATC students who took time out of their day to come meet and greet kids this morning for Friendly Friday! The kids had a blast and loved the stickers that they got to keep.

Congratulations to Laini Greenfield for being selected as our recipient of the Roosevelt scholarship. Laini will be going to LATC for nursing. Her sister, Raylie, was able to present her the certificate and check today in Mrs. Wientjes' class!

The Rough Riders of the Month walked to Hot Mamma Mack's today and had an ice cream treat!

Roosevelt 4th-grade parents/guardians; do you have questions about your 4th-grader starting at the Intermediate School next year? If so, you are invited to the parent information night at 6:00 on Mon., May 1st at WIS.

Roosevelt Families: A reminder that tomorrow is a full day of school for students and we also have our PTO Bingo event at 6:30 p.m.

A reminder to Watertown School District families that Friday, April 21st is a full day of school. The final day of school for students is Friday, May 26th with a 12:30 dismissal.

Kindergarten Round Up for all day, every day Kindergarten is for children who will be five years of age on or before September 1, 2023. Screenings will take place on Wednesday, April 12 and Friday, April 14, 2023 at the Garfield Education Center. Appointments are required, so please call 605-882-6398 today!

Roosevelt Families; a reminder that there is no school tomorrow, Friday, April 7th, and Monday, April 10th for Easter Break. Have a great 4-day weekend!

The Watertown School District will start 2 hours late (10:15 AM) on Wednesday, April 5th. All morning activities and practices will also be 2 hours late. No breakfast served or AM preschool/JK. Conditions will be evaluated again in the morning.

There will be no school in Watertown on Friday, March 31. All activities are either postponed or cancelled.

Please consider signing up for this FREE virtual webinar about keeping your child safe with social media. There will be great information for parents to learn from this webinar.

The Watertown School Board is holding a special meeting on Monday, March 20th for the purpose of discussing our elementary schools. The meeting will take place at 5:30 PM in the Watertown High School Commons.

The plan for makeup snow days was approved at last night's Watertown School Board Meeting. That means school will start at 8:15 AM on Monday, March 20th and continue through the end of the school year on Friday, May 26th. School will dismiss 15 minutes later for the remainder of the year, so 3:35 for grades K-4 and 3:45 PM for grades 5-12. The rest of the information can be found at: https://5il.co/1qhjf.

The Watertown School District will be 2 hours late on Monday, March 13th. All morning practices and activities will also be 2 hours late. No breakfast, morning preschool or Junior Kindergarten.

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The Codington County Sheriff's Department visited Roosevelt today for our Friendly Friday! They even stayed a bit longer and started the school day with Jr. Kindergarten! Thank you for visiting!

Due to rural road conditions, the Watertown School District will be dismissing on Thursday, March 9th at 1:15 PM. All afterschool and evening activities will either be postponed or canceled. The Girls State BB Tournaments will still be going, as those are SDHSAA events.

The Watertown School District will be two hours late on Monday, March 6th. No breakfast will be served, and there is no AM preschool. All morning activities will also start two hours late.

Rough Riders of the Month had fun snow painting in Friday afternoon!