Ross Woodward -

Spreading holiday cheer for all to hear! Our third graders study all about community in their second quarter magnet curriculum and as such they do lots of projects surrounding the community. This month they go caroling! For weeks they've been studying holiday songs, and prepping for the big moment! This year we got to carol for the A wing classes - kindergarten, first and pre-K! Our students and staff sounded amazing! Thank you so much for spreading some cheer this holiday season!

Our pre-K friends have been studying all month about Holidays Around the World and their unit culminated in an awesome event where they got to play games, do crafts and celebrate! Thank you to our family and student volunteers for helping our littlest students learn so much in these stations!

Huge shoutout to Mr. Mazzacane for getting our students into the Stock Market Game over the past few months. We are proud to share that Ross Woodward's team came in 4th out of 277 teams state-wide! Special shout out to Mikayla DeMatteo, Olivia Pickett, Tai’John Taylor, and Tyler Walker for being a part of that winning team! Thank you Mr. Mazz for giving our kids such a valuable, fun, and real-world experience with math!

The PTO is sponsoring a Holiday Luncheon for teachers on Monday 12/22. We will be doing a baked potato bar. We are looking for donations of specific food items as well as monetary donations. See below and attached for more details!

Food items needed for teacher luncheon:

https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10C0545ACAE2FA6F9C07-60975457-ptoholiday
Monetary donations for teacher luncheon can be sent via Venmo or Cash App

Venmo: @elizabethfinn91

Cash App:$meaganjohnson12

We appreciate all of your help and support!

Holiday Spirit Days at Ross Woodward
Monday December 22nd - Holiday Hat Day - Wear your best holiday hat, headband or decor on your head!
Tuesday December 23rd - PJ Day - Wear school appropriate comfy pajamas!
Send pictures to Mrs. Finn at elizabeth.finn@new-haven.k12.ct.us
Any questions, please reach out - 475-220-3100

Hello RW Community! We are postponing the Winter Concert for tomorrow Thursday December 18th. There will be no concert or bake sale. Please look for more information to come of a rescheduled date. Any questions please call the Main Offie at 475-220-3100. We hope you have a happy healthy holiday season!

Holiday Concert - Grades 5 and 6 Chorus - and 6--8 Band - Thursday December 18th 2025

10 AM in Cafeteria at Ross Woodward

PTO Bake Sale to benefit the Music Department

Pj day in Pre-K 3 for winning this second week of The Gift of Reading!

2nd graders got to go the Shubert Theater for the Nutcracker show and back stage tour! We had the best time. Thank you to all our families for attending to be able to make this experience happen for all our students!

Movie and Popcorn for Grade 6-8 PBIS

Students who have earned 50 points can attend the Movie and Popcorn event!

Flashlight Friday last week for our Gift of Reading competition! We have one final week to get those book tickets in! Happy Holidays everyone!

Say cheese! Congrats to our Heart Heroes, Book ticket peeps and Perfect Attendance winners!

Our first and fourth graders took advantage of the Stuffie Friday reading day during the Gift of Reading competition! We had sooo much fun while reading!

Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate!

Shout out to some of our third grade readers who completed Mrs. Finnegan's library Thanksgiving reading challenge! You are Tur-riffic!

This week our entire Pre-K program got to go to the Shoreline Trolley Museum in East Haven to ride the rails and meet SANTA! We had a blast learning all about the history of the trolley, hearing a winter story and getting to tell Santa all our wishes!

Happy 67th day of school! Shout out to the PTO for sponsoring our dress up day and the Math Committee at school for putting together all sorts of fun activities for our students to do!

The Gift of Reading Competition continues! We are having so much fun reading and filling in our book tickets. Congrats to our winners this past week with their extra recess! This week we're reading to win an extra PJ day! Check out the graph for how many books our classes have read, and peep our stuffie reading!

Congrats to all our very talented singers in graded K-3 and our 5th grade band! We loved hearing all your talents at the Winter concert yesterday. Thank you to Mrs. Brown and Mr. Fasano for helping to teach our young people all about their musical gifts! Special shoutout to the PTO for running the bake sale for the music department! Happy Holidays everyone! Next concert is Thursday December 18th at 10 AM for grades 5-6 chorus, 6-8 Band and strings and drum line! See you all there!

Last day for Penguin Shoppe! Cash only! Any student who would like to buy gifts at the holiday shoppe must make purchases today by end of day! Happy Holidays!