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What a terrific year this has been. Great support from families, students who made building community easy, and wonderful teachers on staff both in and out of the classroom. Thank you to all for your hard work and support. Please join us in the cafeteria on the last day for our class Talent Share...
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This is a bittersweet week, for sure! We are wrapping up all our final projects. With each completion, we pack up our supplies. The room is slowly emptying out. By Friday, everyone will have all their treasures ready to come home. I hope you will take time to go through each piece and choose...
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Well it’s hard to believe that this is really the last week of school. As we work on our Memories project for Writing and Art, we are recalling many great experiences we’ve had this past school year. Some students have mentioned big events like the Zoo trip and OMSI trip, making our own comic...
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I cannot believe that I am currently sitting in my living room writing my last classroom notes about Room Twenty-Two. A year ago I was a recent graduate from the Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education, jobless, and unsure about what my future held. When I was offered the position at Lewis and...
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June 10, 2013 Dear families: Please remind your children that we are still testing and working and learning, so they need to be on-task and focused all week. Many students are missing assignments. Please check if your child has late and missing assignments. Plus, I am still giving homework this week! Here’s our final...
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Boy, has this year gone by  fast!  It seems like just yesterday I was shaking hands with the 24 students of Room 24 for the first time and here they are getting ready to become 5th graders next year. What a great group of students this has been. I am hoping to get real...
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What a delightful week we are having! It is hard to believe that we are drawing near the end of our year together. We still have so many loose ends to tie up and more learning to do. I have to admit, I wish we had a little more time together. We had a...
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We had a lovely field trip to Phillip Foster Farm on Tuesday.  Students not only got to see and hear about what life was like for the pioneers, they got to experience it with some wonderful hands-on activities.  Students ground their own cornmeal, pulled a hay bale, organized the contents of a wagon, partner...
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The year is quickly wrapping up. Students are having a blast with our last unit, Balance and Motion. We ended our week last week making our own mobiles.  After learning about balance and stability last week, we move onto getting objects to spin and rotate.  First, we made our own tops using drinking straws...
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We’ve had another fruitful week of activity in Room 17. There have been final math assessments in multiplication, division, time, attributes of 3-D geometric shapes, perimeter & area, estimation, and of course, fractions. Fortunately, IXL Math will be available all summer long. I am strongly encouraging every child to practice a minimum of one...
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It is hard to believe the year is coming to an end. We are wrapping several projects this week. The students finished reading their Book Club Novels. Now, they are working diligently on a poster that will include the important elements of the story. They will have their last Book Talk on Friday. They...
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Last week students finished the “Water, Water Everywhere” unit by playing Powerpoint “Water Cycle Jeopardy”. This week students are sharing their writing passages about their favorite water activities. We are also working on a project for Writing and Art that is a review of memories of the past year. Students are brainstorming ideas under...
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I hope you saw the schedule that I posted on my webpage sjen1.blogspot.com last week. I also sent home a hard copy of the schedule last Friday. The students have projects, tests, and assignments due almost every day for the next 2 weeks. Please help your child meet these deadlines. Since school is ending...
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Is it June already? Where did the year go? We have two very action-packed weeks of school left, so buckle your seat belts and here we go! First up are the back-to-back field trips on Monday and Tuesday of this week. I sent out a separate email to all parents with details By the...
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We had such a blast with Oregon Trail last week! All sorts of exciting things happened- some wagon trains found abandoned oxen, some wagon trains befriended Native American tribes, and a few students slipped when signing their names on Chimney Rock and “broke their arms.” These unlucky students spent all day Thursday wearing a...
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This week we began our Balance and Motion science theme. Students began the first unit, Balance, by learning what tricks their cardboard crayfish could do. First, they  tried to balance the crayfish on their fingers.  Students experimented with the center of gravity as they adjusted the placement of their fingers on the belly of...
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I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend and were able to enjoy some time together. We are down to our final 3 weeks together and I already am feeling nostalgic about ending our time together. This is such a terrific group of kids! It is a testament to you all how thoughtful,...
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Please join us on Thursday, June 13th from 11:30-1:30 at Berkeley Park to celebrate the end of the year with our Kindergarten Buddies. We will eat lunch and enjoy the day with our buddies. Let me know if you would like to join us. Today the students presented their final Book Reports and Projects....
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So we are wrapping up our Unique Learning System unit on “Water, Water Everywhere”. Last week we used a projectable Reading A-Z book to play “Sink or Float”. We prepared a clear water tub and various materials suggested in the book, like a rock, crumpled paper, apple, watermelon, golf ball, cork, pencil, scissors, and...
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The trip to Brookside Wetlands was a huge success, even in this soggy weather. Due to all the weekend rain, it turned into a ‘muddier than usual’ adventure. The tree branches and brush were hanging down from the heavy rains and even blocking the trails in places, so new avenues had to be forged....
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Congratulations to all of our performers in last week’s Spring Music Concert. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: We are so lucky to have Mr. Jamesbarry as our music teacher. Students leave Lewis School knowing that they can jump into any middle school band program and hold their own. We have...
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