{"id":5889,"date":"2025-09-01T18:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/?p=5889"},"modified":"2025-09-01T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:02:17","slug":"august-29-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/2025\/09\/01\/august-29-2\/","title":{"rendered":"August 29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Happenings Next Week at Lava Ridge:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tuesday:&nbsp; Optional Work in Classroom Day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wednesday:&nbsp; First day of school! Tuesday Specials Schedule; Half of our kindergarteners will be in attendance;<strong> <em>Let&#8217;s wear staff shirts! <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thursday: Half of Kindergarteners attend<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Friday: All Kindergarteners attend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_image008-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_image008-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_image008-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_image008-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_image008-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_image008-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_image008.jpg 1870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are planning that students will <strong>eat lunch outside<\/strong> the first week of school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We need you!<\/strong>&nbsp; Staff who are not teaching or supporting students @ 7:30 on Wednesday-Friday, September 3rd-5th are needed to help walk students to class on the first days of school.&nbsp; Thank you! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are continuing to use <strong>Seesaw<\/strong> and <strong>Synergy email<\/strong> this year for home communication.  Mid-year (January) the district is planning to launch a new communication tool, Parent Square, that can also be used to share classroom and whole school information.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are planning for the <strong>regular library schedule<\/strong> to begin on <strong>Monday, September 15<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-09-01-at-10.43.27-AM-1024x380.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-09-01-at-10.43.27-AM-1024x380.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-09-01-at-10.43.27-AM-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-09-01-at-10.43.27-AM-768x285.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-09-01-at-10.43.27-AM-1536x571.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-09-01-at-10.43.27-AM-2048x761.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happenings Next Week at Lava Ridge: We are planning that students will eat lunch outside the first week of school. We need you!&nbsp; Staff who are not teaching or supporting students @ 7:30 on Wednesday-Friday, September 3rd-5th are needed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/2025\/09\/01\/august-29-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5889"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5889\/revisions\/5905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}