Canned Food Drive Week!
Happenings Next Week at Lava Ridge:
- Monday: ICCL Meeting @ 2:30 in C5
- Wednesday: Care Team Meeting @ 8:00 (C5); SIW: Amplify Desmos Math Focus @ 1:45 (Media Center)
- Thursday: Career and College Dress-up Day; Karen Rush Site Visit @ 9:30; Lion Pride Drawing @ Lunches; Kinder MTSS (C5), 1st – 5th PLC Meetings
NeighborImpact is partnering with us again for the Canned Food Drive. Donation barrels will be in the north/south hallways and at the main entrance. Watch for student flyers for home in your mailbox early Monday.
We will be announcing Character Trait Awards for Belonging on the announcements beginning Tuesday.
On Tuesday, Superintendent Cook and Assistant Superintendent Birk will provide an all-staff 30-minute virtual update at the times below:
- Session 1 – 3:05 – 3:35 p.m. (LINK to join Session 1)
- Session 2 – 3:50 – 4:20 p.m. (LINK to join Session 2)
Save the dates! Holiday Celebrations coming soon!
- Friday, December 12th @ 3:16 (Craft Brewing)
- Thursday, December 18th @ 2:30 in the Media Center
2025-26 Counseling Curriculum Update:
- In the coming weeks, Sally will begin teaching the Kelso’s Choice Conflict Management curriculum to 2nd students. This year, elementary counselors will deliver the three lesson Kelso’s Choice curriculum to students in grades K–2.
- Later in the year, students in grades 3–5 will continue learning the Sources of Strength curriculum.
Here is the link to the Bend-La Pine Policy for showing motion pictures. G films/videos can be used in grades K-12 if they are directly linked to curriculum and PG films/videos may be used in grades four and five with permission of the principal and of the parent or guardian. Please let me know if you have any questions.
In the event the need arises to show a motion picture, Brad has developed some information for how we can responsibly and effectively show movies and videos in our classrooms, while staying true to our district’s policy and making use of our new streaming resources:
-To support classroom streaming, we now have access to the streaming service called Swank K-12 Streaming. As highlighted in the Educational Technology blog post, Swank gives us a legal, simple way to show feature films that support learning — it’s available for certified teachers, administrators, and media managers for instructional use, school community events, and classroom contexts. You can access Swank via the district short link: https://bls.fyi/swank (Be sure to open Swank in Safari and use AirPlay to project to your Apple TV)
-If you need to use other streaming services such as Netflix or Disney+, Brad made a helpful tutorial on how to stream from those services.
Staff Room Tidy Team: 1st Grade Team
Next Week is B week
