Believe me, we feel SO appreciated! Thank you Lewis community for making us feel very special during our week of treats. Our luncheon was so lovely. It was fun just getting to sit and chat and have a leisurely time without racing to duty! Thank you, too, to my own classroom families for the...
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What a night! Our annual Art Night, “Suitable for Framing,” was another smashing success. Thank you so much to the Lewis community for always “turning out” for our special events. Our class was very proud of their five displays, all different types of portraits. We worked in the style of Modigliani and Picasso, plus...
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Our folk dancing experience was amazing! The children were joy filled as we pranced and stumbled our way through each song. We had an entire hour and a half to learn the following dances: Grand March (an American Folkdance medley), 2. Pata Pata                         (an African-American dance), 3.Hashual (“The Fox” from Israel), 4. River Song “Can’t Jump Josie” (French...
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The Folk Dancers are coming! On this Friday at 1:00, our class will be meeting with two talented folk dancers. They are an older couple who are well versed in the art of dance. I have had them visit my class for a few years now. They will teach our students dances from all...
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“Let’s Mother Earth! Keep Our Oceans Clean! Save Our Animals!” Those are just a few of the passionate pleas from your children as they created their paper Earth Day t-shirts. They are hanging outside our classroom door for your perusal. We aesthetically scanned an art work by Picasso a few days ago. When scanning,...
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In Math, we are still working on story problems which are always a bit of a challenge. We are interpreting visual information and exploring the processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division . The children then record their strategies with diagrams, numbers and words. We had an amazing time on our field trip to...
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Many thanks to all of our amazing parent helpers who joined us on our OMSI field trip just before Spring Break: Alicia (Henry), Julie (Maile), Ken (Charlie), Laura (Abbey), Lisa (Annie), Maile (Sylvie), Melinda (Lily), Scott (Delia) and Zac (Tristan.) You are the greatest and I am so very grateful for your time and...
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We had some excitement in our classroom this last week. Apparently, a naughty little leprechaun would sneak into our room each night and create havoc, then leave us a note. One night he dumped over some classroom materials and another time he tipped every chair over. each. The children would leave him lots of...
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Leaping Leprechauns! We were having some fun today creating some mischievous friends. Look for them to come home on Friday. In the meantime, you can look at our photos on lewisroom10.wordpress.com. While there, be sure to check out the photos of our students and their Weather challenge projects. They are all displayed in the...
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Thank you so much for all your generous contributions to our Project Second Wind food drive! This class filled boxes and boxes with donated food. Thanks to you for making such a difference for the Oregon Food Bank. Grandparents and Special Friends Day was a huge success! It was wonderful to have so many...
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What an amazing time we had at the ballet last Thursday! I asked the class to challenge themselves before we left because often when a bus driver or adult riders see a group of 32 children waiting to get on, they groan and grimace. As we boarded the Tri-Met for our longest part of...
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We are all so excited about our big adventure to travel to see “Swan Lake” at the Keller Auditorium on Thursday, 2/21. The Oregon Ballet Theater has always done such a marvelous job in the past putting on this program for students. Many thanks in advance to our parent helpers Gina, Debra, Courtney, Zack,...
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Our first visit with artist in residence, Jan Abramovitz (“Mr. A”) was a huge hit. The children really enjoyed our time with him. We did movement exercises and had some songs. Our favorite one was from Ghana, Africa. We are beginning to learn things we can do with our bodies to be alert and...
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A couple weeks ago, a former Lewis parent came to see me. Her daughter was in my first, second grade class here at Lewis. The woman recently retired from teaching. She said that she is really missing getting to read to children and wondered if she could somehow be involved in our classroom. She...
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Your children did an amazing job today during our practice lockdown. (Mr. Lauer has been writing about it for several weeks in his newsletter.) We had a long talk about what to do before we had the actual drill, answering all questions, but keeping it “light.” I just told the children that we need...
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Brrr. Please keep sending those mittens, scarves, hats and warm coats. We really need them! My classroom rule is that coats must stay on at recess (especially during winter.) You’d be startled to see how many children are dashing about in t-shirts. Yikes! Our interactive read aloud this week is “A Weed Is A...
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Manigong Bagong Taon (Filipino) Bonne Année (French) Buon anno (Italian) Mutlu y?llar (Turkish) Szcz??liwego Nowego Roku (Polish) Whatever language you say it in, it all means the same…Happy New Year! I hope all your holiday celebrations were just as you’d imagined. I spent a lot of time entertaining family and friends, working at school,...
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By now, you have probably heard the fabulous news about our student, Mickey. ALL the money was raised to purchase a service dog for him that will help with his serious medical conditions. The dog will be born in December and trained for eight months, then will accompany Mickey to school and be with...
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Thank you to all of you for your generous donations to our Mercy Corps efforts. As of Monday afternoon, we’ve gathered $79.68! Can you believe it? That is so wonderful. We are considering buying a donkey AND an acre of rice!!! We’ll let you know how it all turns out. Many thanks to gardening...
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I appreciate so very much your taking the time out of your busy lives to discuss your wonderful children with me. It is always so helpful and enlightening to hear about your child from the viewpoint of home and family life. I’m pleased we had the opportunity to...
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Hope you’ve had a chance to see our large red, white and blue bulletin board at the end of the Primary hall. It’s drawing a lot of positive attention. If you haven’t seen it as yet, during your conference visit would be a good time. Speaking of which, I’m looking forward to meeting with...
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