Oregon Field Guide Form

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Upcoming Art Residency

Dear families,

It was great to connect with everyone who could make it to Art Night.  Our docents were a little shy but still had great conversations with all of the visitors.  The school looked amazing in a way that captured all of the good work going on here.  It is nice, even for me who spends a lot of time here, to see what other classrooms are up to.  Such creativity and joy.  

I am excited that we have arranged for an art residency to wind up our year.  We will have five sessions with Alex Addy from the Obo Addy Legacy project teach us about Ghanaian culture, music and dance with a focus on drumming.  I was lucky enough to work with the Legacy project at another school where I worked and am really excited for our students to experience this residency.  You can find out more about the residency at Obolegacyproject.org

Looking forward to seeing you soon,

Mark

HOMEWORK THIS WEEK:   Due Friday 5/20

• READING: Daily reading and one Reading Journal Response.
• Math challenge

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A lot is going on!

There is a lot going on!  Firstly our pea plants have yielded first fruit.  Cailyn and Sophia M’s bushy little plant soaked up all of the rain and hot sun we’ve had recently and gave us some really pretty little pea pods.  They are also pretty tasty.  Other plants have followed and soon we will have a bumper crop.  It is a good thing that this week we will be able to work in the garden with Ms. Kathleen because our beds need some weeding and watering.

Last week we had a number of special events.  All day Thursday we hosted visitors from Sunnyside Environmental School who gave us some thought-provoking hands on wildlife tours.  Our class joined Mr. Post’s class to learn about all kinds of creatures and play games.  We also had a nice lunch out on the lawn. We also had a visit from a Chinook storyteller and a high school band from British Columbia!

This week we are excited for Art Night.   We need docents for the big show. Docents will be guiding visitors through our artwork in short shifts.  Please see the attached sheet for Docent sign-ups and performance schedules.  Return docent sign-ups by Wednesday.

Looking forward to seeing you soon,

Mark

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.

Work Check-off

Trimet Public Art Exploration

http://trimet.org/publicart/index.htm