Dear families,

To celebrate the end of testing let’s take a big breath and take a break from homework.  Your child may bring home some independent projects but I will not expect anything turned in this week.

Our field trip to the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center was fantastic.  The weather was perfect, the buses were on time and our energy never flagged.  A special thanks to all of the family members who were able to come.  The first part of the tour was in the actual museum where students worked like actual historians choosing an artifact from the displays and then thinking about how that object helps tell the history of Japanese Americans in Oregon.  The second part of the tour was the Waterfront Park and Historical Plaza.  We explored the memorial and saw the bridges going up and down as working boats passed through.  We finished up with a nice lunch and run around at the Saturday Market pavilion.