{"id":6428,"date":"2026-03-19T22:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:00:37","slug":"march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/2026\/03\/19\/march-20\/","title":{"rendered":"March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Happenings Next Week at Lava Ridge: &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wednesday: &nbsp;Care Team Meeting @ 8:00 (Den); SIW: K-2<sup>nd<\/sup> Literacy &nbsp;Focus and Team Time; 3<sup>rd<\/sup> \u2013 5<sup>th<\/sup> State Testing Training @ 1:45 (Media Center)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thursday: PTO Meeting-1 team member per grade K-4<sup>th<\/sup> to attend. Thank you! @ 2:30 (Media Center); 5<sup>th<\/sup> MTSS @ 2:30 (C5)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will be announcing <strong>Character Trait Awards for Safety<\/strong> on the announcements beginning Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ariah Waller <\/strong>will be substituting for <strong>Liz Johnson<\/strong> for the remainder of the school year while Liz Johnson is on leave. As many of you know, Ariah interned with Jen Hamilton during 2024-25 and has been substituting this school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Tami Pike, Director of Student Services:  In your mailbox are some new <em><strong>High Speed Hand Washing<\/strong> <\/em>signs for the sinks in your classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lava Ridge staff were asked, &#8220;<strong>If you could switch lives with someone for a day, who would you choose?&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Can&#8217;t think of a person, but I&#8217;d switch with my cat \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oprah<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>National Geographic Photographer in the Arctic!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Someone that is very musically talented<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My fluffy cat<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A hummingbird<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yungblud<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lainey Wilson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Someone whose on a relaxing vacation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tommy Emmanuel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trump. I would do so many things in a day, and then resign.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Someone filthy rich<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My cat<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anyone in Heaven, so I could visit people I miss and question people and get answers to unsolved mysteries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Staff Room Tidy Team:&nbsp;<strong> EA Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next Week is a <strong>B week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-05-at-10.21.33-AM-1024x364.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-05-at-10.21.33-AM-1024x364.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-05-at-10.21.33-AM-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-05-at-10.21.33-AM-768x273.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/files\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-05-at-10.21.33-AM.png 1316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happenings Next Week at Lava Ridge: &nbsp; We will be announcing Character Trait Awards for Safety on the announcements beginning Tuesday. Ariah Waller will be substituting for Liz Johnson for the remainder of the school year while Liz Johnson is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/2026\/03\/19\/march-20\/\">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-6428","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\/6428","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=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions\/6442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}