Month: February 2025

Greetings all!
I hope you enjoyed the plentiful rain this weekend, always a good time to hunker down and get stuff done around the house! It’s a big week ahead–it’s show time!

A few notes to get you going:
1) Dress rehearsal Monday starting at 8:15am, and hoping to be done by lunch time. Please have kiddos bring chairs to sit in, we’ll break for Choice Time. A few other notes related to the Variety Show:
-On Tuesday we’ll meet with any groups or individuals that may need a little extra practice
-We’ll drop off props at Caldera at 3pm on Wednesday, use the rest of Wednesday as you see fit
-Call time for us on Wednesday is 5pm, doors open at 5:30pm, show at 6pm sharp
-On Thursday AM we’ll do our annual Wheel of Talent after Community Time

2) Collaboration will be our new theme for March/April. I’ve purchased some new books that I’ll put on the tables in the staff room.

3) Save the date–March 13 at 3:05pm, virtual meeting with superintendent Steve Cook. Here are the details: Superintendent Steven Cook will address issues related to K-12 funding in Oregon and what’s going on at the federal level, and answer your questions during two back-to-back virtual meetings with District staff on Thursday, March 13. Everyone is invited to join us for one of these 30-minute virtual meetings: The first will be 3:05 to 3:35 p.m., accommodating staff in our elementary schools. The second will be 3:50 to 4:20 p.m. to align with secondary schedules. The intent is to provide you a quick update on state and federal actions pertinent to our work, and how we can remain focused on teaching students in our communities and serving their needs. The second half of each meeting will be set aside for staff to ask Dr. Cook questions. We will solicit written questions during the meeting and answer as many as time permits.

Here’s to an amazing week ahead!
Andy

February

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
3	4	5 DIBELS	6 Camp Amity, Variety Show launch	7 Bread and Jam
10	11 ICCL Dist-cancelled	12 Cafe Amity, Grade 4 Student Success Mtg SIW/Staff Mtg	13 Gr4/5 to BSS	14 Kinder to BSS
17 No School	18 Gr 3 to BSS	19 SIW-Teacher Work Day	20 Gr 1/2 to BSS	21 Bread and Jam
24 Dress Rehearsal 8:15am	25	26 Variety Show! Drop props at 3pm	27 Wheel of Talent in AM	28

Upcoming
March 3-7: Classified Employee Week
March 4: Staff Appreciation Breakfast, 7am
March 5: Cafe Amity, Grade 3 hosts
March 5: Lottery Info Night
March 6: Matilda at Mountain View, Kinder and Grades 1 and 4
March 7: Matilda at Mountain View, Grdes 2, 3, and 5
March 13: Virtual meeting with Steve Cook, 3:05pm
March 19: Cafe Amity, Grade 2 hosts
March 24-28: Spring Break
May 10: Auction

School-Wide Theme: Kindness

Hello All,
I hope you enjoyed the long weekend, it seems to have arrived at just the right moment! I got out for a night ski on Friday and it was incredible–the night sky was brilliant and I could see Mars, Venus, and Jupiter. I love being out on the trails at night! After the ski I went to Winterfest to see a Tom Petty tribute band–over the top fun! I hope you did something fun over the weekend, too.

A few notes to get you rolling:
1) New Buddies start this week: K/2, 1/5, 3/4. This round of Buddies goes until Spring Break.

2) SIW this week is a Teacher Work Day-enjoy the time! I’ll leave that day at 2:30pm to get to an admin meeting.

3) Bend Science Station this week: Grade 3 on Tuesday, Grades 1 and 2 on Thursday.

4) Variety Show rehearsals this week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Let’s have rehearsal on Wednesday at 12 like we did last Wednesday–it worked very nicely.

5) Bread and Jam on Friday

6) Lastly, I’ll be doing some mini observations in the next 2 weeks and meeting up with you individually after school to do the follow up. Business as usual, I just need to document visits. If there is something in particular you’d like for me to observe, please let me know!

Here’s to a great week ahead!
Andy

February (see future March dates below)

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
3	4	5 DIBELS	6 Camp Amity, Variety Show launch	7 Bread and Jam
10	11 ICCL Dist-cancelled	12 Cafe Amity, Grade 4 Student Success Mtg SIW/Staff Mtg	13 Gr4/5 to BSS	14 Kinder to BSS
17 No School	18 Gr 3 to BSS	19 SIW-Teacher Work Day	20 Gr 1/2 to BSS	21 Bread and Jam
24 Dress Rehearsal	25	26 Variety Show!	27	28

Upcoming
March 3-7: Classified Employee Week
March 4: Staff Appreciation Breakfast, 7am
March 5: Cafe Amity, Grade 3 hosts
March 5: Lottery Info Night
March 6: Matilda at Mountain View, Kinder and Grades 1 and 4
March 7: Matilda at Mountain View, Grdes 2, 3, and 5
March 19: Cafe Amity, Grade 2 hosts
March 24-28: Spring Break
May 10: Auction

Greetings All!
I hope you had a great weekend! For those that had any investment in the actual game of the Super Bowl I hope that your team was victorious. For the rest of you I hope the snacks and commercials were awesome!

We’ve got a super busy week ahead–all good stuff, just very busy! The good news is that you get rewarded with a 3 day weekend!

A few notes to get you rolling:
1) There will be sign up sheets for the Variety Show up in the gym at Community Time on Monday. Kiddos can sign up then or at lunch, and we’ll have our first rehearsal Monday afternoon. Here’s the schedule: Variety Show 2025 Schedule (Lindsey, I’m thinking Kinder does sign ups with you?)

2) Cafe Amity on Wednesday, hosted by Grade 4

3) Student Success Meetings are on Wednesday. Brad will be covering your class while you are at your meeting. Here’s the schedule (unable to have afternoon meetings due to Variety Show rehearsals):
8:15-8:45-Grade 2
8:45-9:25-Grade 1
9:45-10:15-Grade 5
10:15-10:45-Grade 3
*Lindsey and Brian I will touch base with you

4) SIW this week will be a short Staff Meeting and then you will have some much needed planning time.

5) We have our School-Wide performance on Thursday at Community Time. I anticipate this will run until 8:20ish. I’m hoping the majority of our kiddos arrive close to on time for school that day! I know, wishful thinking…

6) Grade 4 and 5 are headed to Bend Science Station on Thursday. Kinder goes on Friday.

7) Please be sure to have your iPad charged for Monday afternoon. You’ll either need to remove your password for the time being or tape your password to the iPad so we can all have access. Not the greatest option, but it’s the only one we have at this point!

Here’s to a great, but very busy, week ahead!
Andy

February

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
3	4	5 DIBELS	6 Camp Amity, Variety Show launch	7 Bread and Jam
10	11 ICCL Dist-cancelled	12 Cafe Amity, Grade 4 Student Success Mtg SIW/Staff Mtg	13 Gr4/5 to BSS	14 Kinder to BSS
17 No School	18 Gr 3 to BSS	19 SIW-Teacher Work Day	20 Gr 1/2 to BSS	21 Bread and Jam
24	25	26 Variety Show!	27	28

Upcoming (for Feb and March)
February 12: Cafe Amity, Grade 4 hosts
February 12: Student Success Meetings
February 13: School Wide performance
February 13: Grade 4 and 5 to Bend Science Station
February 14: Kinder to Bend Science Station
February 17: No School, President’s Day
February 18: Grade 3 to Bend Science Station
February 20: Grade 1 and 2 to Bend Science Station
February 26: Variety Show
March 5: Lottery Info Night
March 24-28: Spring Break
May 10: Auction

Believe it or not it’s February! I hope you had a fantastic weekend. Unfortunately, I have been significantly ill since Thursday evening and have barely gotten out of bed all weekend. I will definitely be out on Monday and Brad will be there to support.

A few notes for the week:
1) SIW time this week is set aside as an extension to last Friday’s Conversations with families. If anyone missed their Friday meeting it would be good to reach out to them and see if you could squeeze them in on Wednesday (if you have space).

2) DIBELS on Wednesday morning. We’ll start with Grades 4 and 5.

3) Camp Amity on Thursday! Looks like we could have a little snow! Please remind families about dressing for the weather that day–it’s a high of 32 with a low of 21. We’ll have the fire blazing!

4) Variety Show launch after camp on Thursday. I’m figuring around 1:30pm. I’ll show some videos from the past and we’ll get kiddos excited!

5) Bread and Jam on Friday

6) I need to leave school around 2:30pm on Tuesday to get to an admin meeting.

Here’s to a great week ahead!
Andy

February

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
3	4	5 DIBELS	6 Camp Amity, Variety Show launch	7 Bread and Jam
10	11 ICCL Dist	12 Cafe Amity, Grade 4 Student Success Mtg SIW/Staff Mtg	13 Gr4/5 to BSS	14 Kinder to BSS
17 No School	18 Gr 3 to BSS	19 SIW-Teacher Work Day	20 Gr 1/2 to BSS	21 Bread and Jam
24	25	26 Variety Show!	27	28

Upcoming (for Feb and March)
February 5: DIBELS
February 6: Winter Camp Amity!
February 7: Bread and jam
February 12: Cafe Amity, Grade 4 hosts
February 12: Student Success Meetings
February 13: Grade 4 and 5 to Bend Science Station
February 14: Kinder to Bend Science Station
February 17: No School, President’s Day
February 18: Grade 3 to Bend Science Station
February 20: Grade 1 and 2 to Bend Science Station
February 26: Variety Show
March 5: Lottery Info Night
March 24-28: Spring Break
May 10: Auction