Happy sunny afternoon families!
This week all
Social Studies classes completed final drafts of their choice research
papers. I have to commend our students, they really demonstrated their
growth and skill in writing and researching with this project--the final
products are quite impressive! In fact, I must share a quick proud
moment I had yesterday evening regarding this project: I was grading
some of the papers at a coffee shop and ran into a colleague who teaches
Freshman Language Arts at a Portland area high school. After reading
over a few of the papers he complimented the strong writing of our
students and said that the papers he read were on-par or above the
writing that his freshman produce--so cool! (I'll put some excerpts from
a few papers up on the blog this weekend for all to see!).
On Monday, 6th graders in Gardens and Woodshop helped
celebrate Earth Day by volunteering in shifts to help Ms. Fisher's 4th
grade class prepare and install a new gravel path for their native
species habitat area. It was great for the students to have an
opportunity to interact with the 4th graders and assist in making our
school look great! As a class, we also broke into small groups and
picked up litter from the school grounds as well as near the grange and
in the forest. (See pictures of these Earth Day projects on the blog: teachermr.blogspot.com).
Big thanks to Ms. Force for organizing our 6th-8th grade viewing of the film Bully
at Scappoose High School on Tuesday. The film was very powerful and our
students showed great maturity both during the viewing and in our
post-screening reflection writing back at school. I strongly encourage
you to talk to your student about their experience viewing this poignant
film.
Mark Your Calendars: Upcoming Events and Volunteer/Chaperone Opportunities
It's
going to be a busy last few months of school! Here are some events to
keep in mind and opportunities that we'd love chaperones for:
Chaperone Requests:
-April 30th 12:45 to 3:00, May 1st 8:30 to 11:00, and May 2nd 8:30 to 11:00: volunteers requested for 7th grade auction project (building pallet furniture). There is already a project manager, but we'd love extra supervision!
-April 30th 12:45 to 3:00, May 1st 8:30 to 11:00, and May 2nd 8:30 to 11:00: volunteers requested for 7th grade auction project (building pallet furniture). There is already a project manager, but we'd love extra supervision!
-May 9th: Chaperones requested for 6th/7th/8th out-and-about
to Forest Park for service learning and Powell's Books. This is an
all-day trip and we are hoping to take cars. Please contact Ms. Ferris
if interested.
-May 16th: Last Middle Grades Dance-- 3:15 to 5:15 -- chaperones requested. Please contact Ms. Brittany if interested.
-May
23rd: 7th Grade trip to Oregon Food Bank as student-helpers for the 2nd
grade class. Please email me if interested. This will be a morning trip
and we'll back at school by lunch.
Other Events:
April 30th through May 2nd -- OAKS retakes for Math
May 7th/8th - OAKS retakes for Reading
May 15th -- Washington DC Middle School Trip Info Night through Scappoose Middle School, 6:30 PM at Grant Watts
May 23rd -- Celebration of Learning evening at SIA 5:30 - 7:00 (more info to come!)
May 30th -- Talent Show, 5:30 in the SIA gym. Contact Ms. Fisher with questions.
June 7th -- Spring Music Program at Scappoose High School 7PM
Thanks for all you do and have a fantastic weekend!
Mr. Radich
