A Very Happy Last Monday!
Well, we made it. What a (another!) crazy year it’s been! Let’s fully enjoy the kids and each other this week, it is definitely a week to celebrate!
Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Noah
Noah who?
Noah more school – it’s summer vacation!
A few notes to get you going:
1) Schedule for the week
| Monday | |
| Tuesday | *Community Grade 5 Celebration, 9:00-10:30 *3rd grade Garden celebration- 11:15-1 *1st Grade in the gym (1:30) *4th Grade Water Balloons on the field (1:20-2:20) |
| Wednesday | Full School Day, out at 2:30pm *All School Invitations, 3 rotations: 9:00-9:30/10:00-10:30/12:00-12:30 *4th Grade Field Trip to Miller’s Landing (Brian + Brad) 1:20-2:20 *Help Ray hang art, 2:45pm *Grade 5 Family Grad, 5pm (arrive by 4:45) |
| Thursday | Last Day, out at 1pm *Staff v Grade 5 Kickball, 9am (followed by recess) *Memory Books, 10:30am *Staff Gathering, 3pm (location TBD) |
| Friday | Staff work day *Let’s have lunch together at 11:30 (outside or in staff room)-BYOF (food) |
2) Grade 5 Community Graduation plans:
*Tuesday-We’ll start at 9am and break for recess after some abbreviated speeches and class gifts (K-2). After recess K-2 students do not need to rejoin the festivities, but they are welcome to (including if just a few students want to return). Grades 3 and 4 will return to gym for the duration (around 10:30).
Please have class gifts ready to go. Usually the teacher (or you could have students) says a little about the gift before presenting it to the class.
3) Family Graduation is Wednesday at 5pm, please arrive by 4:45. Ray will need help right after school hanging art work around the gym–thanks in advance for helping out! It usually only takes a few minutes if everyone is helping.
4) Invitation rotations on Wednesday. You’ll sign up to do one invitation and students will get to rotate to 3 different invitations. We’ll do 9:00-9:30, recess, 10:00-10:30, and then after lunch from 12:00-12:30. Be sure to sign up: Last Invitations
5) Memory Books and signing on Thursday. We’ll do a school wide Memory book signing from 10:30-11am on Thursday. With this in mind I suggest handing out the books earlier so that your students have time to sign each others books before the school wide time, during which time students can roam the hallways and visit classrooms. I recommend doing some hand stretches ahead of time, because you’ll have lots of signing to do! We’ll flow right into lunch after the signing but please make sure students don’t take their books out to lunch.
IMPORTANT signing guidelines: Please have a chat with your classes before they begin signing books and remind them about the sacredness of these books. Encourage them to write nice things to each other (or just sing their name) and to be considerate by not writing their name really big or in a place that the book owner doesn’t want them to (especially not on pictures). This generally is not a big issue but I have seen it enough that I’m writing this note!
6) Bend Brewing Company at 3pm on Thursday to celebrate!
7) Refrigerator alert! At the end of the day Friday the fridge will be emptied and cleaned so be sure you have all your stuff out of there.
8) Lastly, please make sure all counter space in your room is left completely free, and that you have put away as much stuff in your room as possible (in cabinets) so the cleaning crew can easily do their work. The easier the room is to clean, the deeper they will clean. Also, please make sure the kids help with the cleaning up, I think it’s an important part of the closure of the school year (and supports taking care of this place).
Signing off for the last time this year–let’s make this a fantastic week!
Andy