NEW! NO School for Students on Monday, November 3 and Tuesday, November 4th. Monday is a Records Day for teachers to prepare our students' first quarter report cards. Tuesday is a Professional Development Day for teachers to engage in learning. We look forward to seeing the students back with us on Wednesday, November 5th.
NEW! 2025 Stuff the Turkey Food Drive: November 10 - 21! The five Elmbrook Elementary Schools are competing to see who can bring in the MOST (the heaviest!) food for the Waukesha Food Pantry! Donation bins will be in the elementary schools November 10th - 21st. Help your school WIN the prized TURKEY TROPHY to display in the school throughout the year! Tonawanda has won this honor for the past three school years, let's keep the trophy again for 2025! See the flyer for the details. The competition is based on the weight of the food so think of heavy items to donate... peanut butter, canned food (tuna, chicken), rice, etc. Thank you, in advance, for our community's generosity!
NEW! PTO Box Tops Program! An easy way to contribute funds to our PTO just through your regular shopping! See the flyer for all the details!
NEW! Spelling Bee and Battle of the Books! Mrs. Briana Sokolowski, our Teaching and Learning Specialist/Reading Specialist, visited our classrooms to introduce two academic enrichment opportunities. Battle of the
Spelling Bee/Battle of the Books presentation (all links can be found in the presentation as well)
For 3rd-5th graders:
Spelling Bee permission slip (due Nov. 14th)
For 4th-5th graders:
Battle of the Books Link to Sign Up (due Nov. 12th)
NEW! Our Annual Veterans' Day Assembly will be held at Tonawanda on Veterans Day, Tuesday afternoon, November 11 at 2:00 PM. We are excited to invite any Veterans or active military personnel with a Tonawanda connection (grandparent, parent, uncle, aunt, neighbor, friend) to attend our assembly tomorrow on Veterans Day, Tuesday, November 11 to be our honored guests. We welcome our honored guests to invite their Tonawanda student(s) to join them as they briefly introduce themselves to our school community. Please plan to arrive at Tonawanda at 1:30 PM or earlier so that there is plenty of time for the Raptor entrance protocols including presenting a driver's license or state identification. We will open the doors to our gym at 1:45 PM for our honored guests. Additionally, our fourth and fifth grade chorus will perform songs at this Veterans' Day assembly! We will have limited seating in the back for our family audience. In order to plan accordingly for seating for our honored guests and our audience for our chorus performance, please RSVP to 262-785-3950 or email Michelle Kiese at kiesem@elmbrookschools.org
NEW! November PTO Meeting on Tuesday, November 11th at 6 PM in our library! Please plan to join us! If you can't make it in person, you are welcome to join us through Google Meet at meet.google.com/bzv-evwm-
NEW! Fall Parent Conferences Our Fall 2025 conference window is mid-November. The conference evenings are scheduled for Thursday, November 13 and Thursday, November 20 from 4:00 - 8:00 PM. Please use this linked document to sign up for your child(ren)'s conferences. We look forward to sharing your child's progress with you at these important conferences.
NEW! Sign up to volunteer in our Tonawanda library! Lots of dates are available! https://signup.com/
2025 PTO Holiday Make & Give Event is scheduled for Wednesday, December 3rd from 5:30 - 7:00 pm in the Tonawanda cafeteria. Each registered student ($15 per student) may make three crafts onsite that can be given as gifts, five tickets to the holiday shop to purchase up to five gifts, and access to a gift wrapping station! Please see the informational flyer for all the details!
Calling all 4th and 5th Graders! We're looking for enthusiastic, responsible students who want to make a difference in our school and community for our Leadership Club. As a member, you'll develop leadership skills, help organize events, and work on fun projects that promote teamwork and positive change. If you're ready to step up and be a leader, we’d love to have you on our team! Please fill out the attached Google Form to register.
Three-Minute Film Festival! See this linked flyer! This year we celebrate our 5th year! Since its inception, we have had participants from EVERY school in the Elmbrook district submit a film for consideration. This festival is a big deal and the award ceremony will be held at the SLWC on January 25th 2026! The details of the Film Festival can be found here: https://sites.google.
Donations of paper grocery bags needed! We use 8 paper bags a day for our cafeteria composting stations. Please send in your paper bags! Thank you!
Due to large ridership on our buses, only routed students will be allowed on the buses again this school year. We cannot have unrouted students ride home with other students on their buses for playdates. Only routed and assigned bus riders may be on our buses. Thank you for your understanding!
Background Check Process for Volunteers! We love our family/parent/grandparent volunteers! In hopes that we will be able to welcome you all back in to help out this upcoming school year, we wanted to share the process for becoming a volunteer in our schools. Please see https://www.