{"id":6540,"date":"2026-05-08T20:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/?p=6540"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:08:31","slug":"may-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/2026\/05\/08\/may-8-2\/","title":{"rendered":"May 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Happenings Next Week at Lava Ridge: \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Monday: Staff Meeting @ 2:30 (Media Center); Admin PLC @ 3:30 (Media Center)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tuesday: American Fidelity @ 1:00-4:00 (Staff Room)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wednesday: \u00a0Lava Care Team Meeting @ 8:00 (C5); Lion Pride Drawings @ Lunches; EA Meeting @ 1:00 (C5); SIW: Teacher Discretion Time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thursday: \u00a01<sup>st<\/sup> MTSS (C5) &amp; Staff @ Lava Teams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re planning to announce the Lion Dash <strong>classroom fundraising totals<\/strong> on Monday, really!   PTO is computing the average amount raised by student per class, to eliminate the impact class sizes can have on the amount of money classes are able to raise, and asked if we could wait until Monday to announce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heads up&#8230;<strong>Spring DIBELS<\/strong> is <strong>Thursday, May 21st. <\/strong> We&#8217;ll have a schedule to you by Tuesday of that week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Got <strong>hidden treasures from your classroom or work area<\/strong> that you are ready to gift to others? Consider taking a picture of the treasures, emailing it to those you think might be interested, and inviting them to your classroom or area.  Also, if you&#8217;re planning a <strong>year-end purge of paper items,<\/strong> consider beginning this early, as recycling container space tends to be more limited the last weeks of school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Todd Wells <\/strong>from <strong>American Fidelity <\/strong>will be @ Lava Ridge ES Tuesday, May 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm and again on Monday, June 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Employees who would like to review their current elections, consider making changes, or learn more about the benefits available through Section 125 can may schedule an appointment here:  <a href=\"https:\/\/enroll.americanfidelity.com\/557CDF8A?utm_source=pre-enrollment&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pre-enrollment&amp;utm_content=header\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/enroll.americanfidelity.com\/557CDF8A?utm_source=pre-enrollment&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pre-enrollment&amp;utm_content=header\">American Fidelity Appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Staff Room Tidy Team: <strong>3rd Grade Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next Week is <strong>a 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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happenings Next Week at Lava Ridge: \u00a0 We&#8217;re planning to announce the Lion Dash classroom fundraising totals on Monday, really! PTO is computing the average amount raised by student per class, to eliminate the impact class sizes can have on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/2026\/05\/08\/may-8-2\/\">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-6540","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\/6540","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=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6548,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions\/6548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/gary.defrang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}