The city of Portland sponsors a program to teach students about healthy streams and water. Earlier, we had a visit from Lynn Vanderkamp to teach students about the components of habitat in preparation for a visit to Brookside Wetlands. Students learned that water, air, food and shelter are important to the survival of all living...
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Notes From Room 12
Ms. Kennedy’s 3rd Grade
Recently, with the cool rains solidly in place of sunshine, it seems less like the end of the school year. The number of students wearing shorts and sandals has markedly decreased this past week. My son cannot wear his Aloha Friday Hawaiian shirt until the temperatures reach 70 degrees, so here’s hoping the warmer...
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Ms. Sarah’s Classroom Notes
This week we are busy at work on a persuasive work sample. Students are taking all they have learned about persuasive writing and crafting an independent piece to show off their skills. Along with writing, we are busy on the Oregon Trail. We are devoting a lot of our work time to the Oregon...
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Class Notes From Ms. Vasquez
Mrs. Layman needs parent volunteers to help out during Field Day on Thursday, June 6th. If you are interested in helping leave a note in her mailbox or drop by the gym and let her know. In Third grade the students are expected to complete Work Samples in Math, Science, Writing and Speaking. There...
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Mrs. Pechette’s First Grade
Head, thorax, abdomen, eyes, 6 legs, and sometimes wings. It has taken considerable planning, problem solving, and massive amounts of Duct Tape, and after days of hard work, we have each completed a 3-D insect and a few other species. On Monday, June 3rd, our insects will be displayed on the bulletin boards down...
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Ms. Swan’s Second Grade
Congratulations to our two talented additions to Lewis’ Friday Night Show: Henry C. played the piano while his dad played along on the guitar and Enzo played “Homerun Harry” on the piano. I also was privileged to see Maile and Sylvie performing on Saturday. They played the cutest mice ever in the ballet, “The...
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Music Notes – May 20
This week marks the finial performance for most of our music groups. On Thursday May 23 @ 6:30 PM on the Lewis stage Recorder Club, Stings, Band and the Boomin’ Beats will be performing at the annual Spring concert. I encourage you all to come out to support our young musicians as they have...
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News from Mr. Post’s Classroom
Last week for our Unique Learning System unit “Water, Water Everywhere”, we did some fun experiments with water. Two experiments demonstrated how the surface of water is kind of like a layer of skin due to “surface tension”. Students got in small groups and each group filled a cup with water until it was...
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News from 5th Grade – Ms. Jen
We are studying stocks in math and pretending to buy 5 stocks this week. Hopefully, the market will be bullish while we keep them. We are making slides in our microscope unit in Science. We are also looking at a variety of specimens and drawing what we see. We used magnifying glasses to look...
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Week Thirty-Two in Room Twenty-Two
It is hard to believe there are only four weeks left of school! There is still lots of work to be done and lots of fun to be had in Room 22. Last week students were hard at work on their math and writing work samples. These work samples serve as reflections of student...
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