Extracurriculars

This club is for 4th and 5th grade students.

Cook with Books Club mixes early literacy with a sprinkle of baking skills and a dash of arts and crafts! Open to kindergartners, we meet each Wednesday where students practice simple baking skills, learn about ingredients, and how to follow a recipe. By the end of the session, each child takes home their very own recipe book full of the crafts and recipes made to share with their families at home! 

Fall Session: Oct - Dec

Spring Session: Feb - April

The Wernli Garden Club is a great opportunity for students to work with nature and learn about plants, the life cycle, and responsibility. Green thumbs are not a requirement to join however hopefully will be a result of participating in the club. We aim to have a Fall and Spring garden, and as many opportunities for students to engage with nature and have hands-on learning experiences. This club is for 2nd -5th grade students only.

This is for 3, 4, & 5th grade girls.  Celebration will be on May 7th.

LEGO Robotics is a fun and great way to learn problem solving skills, demonstrate creativity, and work on teambuilding. Students participate in a competition each spring where they have the opportunity to work as a team to complete predefined "missions" as well as share their club's experience with the building and design process. Each team also has the opportunity to create their own Innovation Project, showing off their creativity and imagination, as they work to come up with a solution to make the world a better place, using technology.  This is for 4th and 5th graders.

Little Dribblers is a basketball program for Kindergarten & 1st grade students to work on ball handling skills, passing, & shooting.  We currently have 8 groups of 15-20 students in each group, that work on the skills beginning at 7:10 am.

Wernli's Military Kids Club is designed to ensure inclusive, quality educational opportunities for all military-connected children affected by mobility, transition, deployments and family separation. As a campus-based military liaison, Mrs. Barrett is responsible for serving as the point of contact and working collaboratively between military-connected students and their families and the campus. The counseling team attends training each year to learn and understand topics related to the transition of military-connected students and their families. All counselors assist with campus-based supports such as small group counseling and provide services  to military-connected students based on their unique needs, including their high mobility and deployment rate. At Wernli Elementary School, whenever a new military family is identified by our office staff, our military students step into action. Our Military Kids Club students responsibilities include: * Giving new students a tour of the school. * Explaining the school rules to a new student. * Sitting with the new student at lunch and helping them feel welcome at our campus. * Introducing the new student to other friends they may have on campus. 

Our Military Kids Club gathers monthly after school to play games and have conversation with other Military Kids. They also help plan our Veterans Day celebration, Month of the Military Family, Month of the Military Child, and Purple UP! Day. Here are more resources for our Military Families: https://www.nisd.net/district/guidance-counseling/military-families

Our Safety Patrols help provide a safe school environment for our students while on campus. The School Safety Patrol’s job is to remind students of the school safety rules and to guide them in safe arrival, and movement through the building, as well as properly putting up and taking down the flags each morning and afternoon. They have various responsibilities that allow them to learn leadership skills that will help them throughout life. A Safety Patrol member should be responsible, respectful, cooperative, and helpful.

As part of the NISD Strings program, 5th graders learn to play the Violin, Viola, Cello, or Bass. Taught by Mrs. Gonzalez, the Orchestra Director of Bernal Middle School, students meet Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:15 - 4:00 in the music room at Wernli Elementary. Performance opportunities at Wernli Elem and Bernal MS.

Start Date: Sept 20th

End Date: Mid-May

Our Wernli Wildcat News Crew reports our school daily news on our morning announcements. Students are assigned a weekly job including news anchors, script, or director. 

The WWN TV crew is made up of five 5th grade students. Students help for up to 8 weeks throughout the school year. Applications are given to 4th grade students in May for the next school year and again in December to current 5th grade students.

Young Astronauts is an after-school science enrichment program for fourth and fifth grade students. The topic changes each year, and all lessons and activities focus on building student interest and understanding in the area of space science. The 2023-2024 topic for Young Astronauts is the Astronauts at Work. The program culminates in February with NISD's annual Stargazing event for fifth grade Young Astronauts.