A reminder that we will have an all staff School Improvement Wednesday activity at 10:00 on Wednesday. This meeting will be in the Media Center and can also be accessed via my Webex room.
This week we were able to hire an additional kindergarten teacher to help alleviate the class sizes that have been growing in kindergarten since the announcement of the return to in-person instruction. Hannah Johnson has been selected for this position and started today. Welcome back Hannah!
If you were in the building Friday you heard the bells ringing again! Here’s what you can anticipate next week: First Morning Bell: 8:25am; Second Morning Bell: 8:30am; Dismissal Bell at 3:00 (M, T, Th, F); Dismissal Bell at 1:30 on Wednesday. Note: K-2 teachers: There will not be a bell to dismiss your students 5 minutes early.
As part of the Bend-La Pine Schools Excellence in Equity work all families are being invited to complete a survey provided by the non-profit, Youth Truth. Lava Ridge families will receive a link to this survey late today and have until January 22nd to complete. Here is information about the survey.
Below are details for Specials next week:
K-3 – Jan. 19 -22 *Special orientation schedule for students coming to the building.
*Students only get that one PE/Music in person that week *No WebEx or asynchronous music/PE lessons for the students at home *Transition to the K-3 all in K-3 schedule on Jan. 25
4-5 – Jan. 19-22 *WebEx at normal 9:00 time 4-5 – Jan. 25-29 *Students in the building for their orientation day will come to PE/Music at their assigned time, all students at home will have asynchronous music/PE lessons posted on Google Classroom because we will be teaching K-3 all day.
Welcome to Sara Blanchard! Sara will be learning all about teaching and learning with Amanda Gylling for the remainder of the school year.