Month: May 2025

Hey Team,
It’s June, let’s have a great last few weeks! A big Happy Birthday to Brad this Tuesday–he’ll be joining us that day so you can wish him a happy birthday in person.

A few notes to get you going:
1) Ian will be joining us for Community Time on Monday to tdo a little singing.

2) Camp Amity on Monday and Tuesday. Pizza parties after camp!

3) Staff Meeting on Tuesday at 2:30. Brian’s room.

4) Cafe Amity on Wednesday, Grade 3 hosts.

5) SIW this week is a Teacher Work Day.

6) Fire Drill (we gotta do it!) on Thursday at 10:35am.

7) Family BBQ on Thursday, 5-7pm. As always we will need help prepping around 4:30pm–if you can come early, please do!

8) Sunriver Nature Dome is coming on Friday. I sent you all the tentative schedule last week. So far I haven’t received requests to change the schedule…

9) iPad roll in for Grades 2-4 on Friday. Teresa sent info last week. If you need help, please reach out!

10) Here’s the latest version of our last 2 weeks–please add any events that you have planned. Last 2 weeks

11) Looking towards next week, here is the link for the Invitations rotations on June 10: Inv Rotation

Here’s to a great week ahead!

June

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
2 Camp Amity Pizza K/2	3 Camp Amity Pizza 3/4/5 Brad bday	4 Cafe Amity, Gr 3	5 Family BBQ, 5-7pm	6 Nature Dome
9 Grade 5 Bike trip	10 Invitations rotation (afternoon)	11 Grade 5 celebration in AM Grade 5 Grad, 5pm	12 Last Day, 12:45 dismissal Staff Gathering	13
Summer Fun	Summer Fun	Summer Fun	Summer Fun	Summer Fun
Summer Fun	Summer Fun	Summer Fun	Summer Fun	Summer Fun

Hey Team,
I hope you enjoyed the much needed 3 day weekend. We are officially in the home stretch! Let’s enjoy these last 3 weeks!

A few notes to get you rolling:
1) Tom’s birthday is Thursday–happy birthday Tom!

2) On Tuesday there is a virtual meeting with Dr. Cook at 3:05pm (optional). I’ll be at an admin meeting at that time but it would be good if those of you who are interested were all able to watch together in Brian’s room. Look for a link in your email.

3) Eval meeting on Wednesday: Haley at 1:20, Lindsey at 1:40.

4) Grade 5 heads to the coast Wednesday-Friday.

5) Grades 2 and 4 are having a Memory Book Night on Wednesday, 5-7pm

6) DIBELS make ups on Wednesday–they will likely arrive at 11:30am. We have quite 17 kiddos that need to be assessed.
K: Ryder, Boden, Sage
1: Finn, Arlo
2: Ana
3: Simon, Lawson, Blake, Dax
4: Ginny, Nisse, Snow
5: Veda, Sawyer, Crawford, Barrett

7) SIW on Wednesday will be an opportunity to reflect on the year-2pm in Brian’s room. Here are a few questions that we will focus on–it would be great if you took a few minutes ahead of time to consider the following questions:
*What has worked well for us this year that we should continue?
*What has not worked well and may need more of our attention?
*What ideas do you have for next year?
*What else is on your mind that we should consider moving forward?
~For me, one thing that did not work well this year was lunch–the noise level has been off the charts! I am committed to figuring out a better way to do lunch! I have some ideas, and would love your input.

8) Here’s the latest version of our last 2 weeks–please add any events that you have planned. Last 2 weeks

9) I will out on Thursday and Friday–I’m headed to LA to help my mom move. Brad will be here to help out.

10) Bread and Jam on Friday

**Looking ahead, we talked about having the Pizza Parties on Monday and Tuesday after Camp Amity. If we are still wanting to do this I’d like to keep it simple by having K/1/2 on Monday and 3/4/5 on Tuesday. We’d have the pizzas delivered in time for your arrival back to school. If you are wanting to go rogue and do a different day, please communicate that to me early this week.**

Here’s to a great, short(er) week ahead!
Andy

May/June

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
26 No School	27 Dr Cook virtual, 3:05pm	28 Grade 5 Coast Trip Memory Book Night Grades 2/4 (3)	29 Grade 5 Coast Trip	30 Grade 5 Coast Trip
2 Camp Amity Pizza K/1/2	3 Camp Amity Pizza 3/4/5	4 Cafe Amity, Gr 3	5 Family BBQ, 5-7pm	6 Nature Dome
9 Grade 5 Bike trip	10 Invitations rotation (afternoon)	11 Grade 5 celebration in AM Grade 5 Grad, 5pm	12 Last Day, 12:45 dismissal	13
Summer Fun	Summer Fun	Summer Fun	Summer Fun	Summer Fun
Summer Fun	Summer Fun	Summer Fun	Summer Fun	Summer Fun

Hey Team!
I hope the weekend treated you right. I had the great pleasure of having Teo and Raya for the weekend so their mama could celebrate her birthday in style. It was an adventure! it’s Teacher Appreciation at Amity this week! Soak up all the love, you deserve it!

A few notes to get you rolling on this very busy week:
1) TODAY (Monday) we host the Children’s Museum! Schedule:
8-9:00am: Grades 4 and 5
9-9:45am: Kinder and Grade 1 (Choice time from 8:45-9)
10-10:45am: Grades 2 and 3

We’ll host Community Time outside, which will consist of celebrations and birthdays followed by outside recess until 8am(ish).

2) Lunch on Wednesday courtesy of FOA. We’ll get the food from Active Culture and have it waiting for you at lunch time.

3) Breakfast hosted by the support staff on Thursday–enjoy!

4) SIW this week is all yours–please use the time to get what you need done! Meetings for the rest of the year:
*SIW on May 28-we’ll use this time for reflection on the year
*Staff Meeting on June 3
*SIW June 4-Teacher work day

5) Cafe Amity on Wednesday, hosted by Grade 4.

6) Volunteer Tea on Thursday after Community Time. Like last year I’d really love for y’all to be there to say thanks. Let’s plan to settle your kiddos in to something they can do fairly independently by 8:15am. We’ll have the EAs floating around while we’re all in the gym. It should only be about 10 minutes. It would be great if you each shared a few words of thanks.

7) Skyliner Jazz Choir will be here on Friday at 11:45am to share some singing with us. It should be about 30 minutes. (Lindsey/Gina, we’ll have to move Enrichment back to 12:15-12:45)

8) We’ll do make up DIBELS testing on May 28th–I’ll keep you posted

9) Memory Book Night for Grades 2 and 4 (and possibly 3) on May 28 from 5-7pm.

10) At Community Time on June 2 (Monday) Ian would like to show case the signing he is doing with K/1/2/4.

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

May

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
			May 1 Summit Theater @ Amity-8:30am (1 hr) Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus	2 Bread and Jam
5	6	7 Cafe Amity, Gr 5	8	9 10-Auction!
12 DIBELS	13	14	15 K/3 Alice in Wonderland @Summit	16 G4 Alice in Wonderland @Summit G1 to Benham Falls Bread and Jam
19 Children’s Museum @ Amity 8-11	20	21 Cafe Amity, Gr 4	22 Volunteer Tea, 8:15am	23 Jazz Choir @Amity 11:45am
26 No School	27	28 Grade 5 Coast Trip Memory Book Night Grades 2/4 (3)	29 Grade 5 Coast Trip	30 Grade 5 Coast Trip

Greetings All,
I hope you enjoyed the beautiful weekend, and for all the amazing mama’s, I hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day!

The auction was another great evening of connecting, celebrating, and fundraising! A big thanks to those of you who were able to make it, and a special big thanks to those of you who were able to volunteer a bit (and a very special thank you to Haley 😳)! Though the attendance was a bit low this year, we still did quite well!

A few notes to get you going:
1) DIBELS on Monday starting at 10am and will continue after lunch. As always, it’s great to have your kiddos warm up by reading a bit beforehand! If you have a special request in terms of timing please let me know. (Lauren, we’ll need to run PE classes outside on Monday–thanks!)

2) Children’s museum will be here on Tuesday. Below is the schedule.
8-9:00am: Grades 4 and 5
9-9:45am: Kinder and Grade 1 (Choice time from 8:45-9)
10-10:45am: Grades 2 and 3

*The folks coming to set this up need the gym starting at 7:30am so we will be having Community Time outside that day.

3) UKG-Recently I asked that you check UKG and check your to do list–you can find it by looking for the little black bell that likely has a red dot and a number on the top right of it:

A big thanks to those of you who got in there and took care of your list! Since that time I’ve initiated a Self Evaluation that you’ll need to complete and soon we’ll need to meet to do end of year Summative Evaluations. To do the Summatives we’ll need to make a time to meet in the coming weeks-check your email today for the link.

4) Staff Meeting on Tuesday, 2:30pm in Brian’s room.

5) SIW this week is a Teacher Work Day–enjoy the time!

6) On Thursday, Kinder and Grade 3 are headed to see Alice in Wonderland at Summit, and Grade 4 will be going on Friday.

7) Grade 1 is headed to Benham Falls on Friday.

8) Bread and Jam on Friday!

Here’s to a great and busy week ahead!
Andy

May

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
			May 1 Summit Theater @ Amity-8:30am (1 hr) Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus	2 Bread and Jam
5	6	7 Cafe Amity, Gr 5	8	9 10-Auction!
12 DIBELS	13 Children’s Museum @ Amity 8-11	14	15 K/3 Alice in Wonderland @Summit	16 G4 Alice in Wonderland @Summit G1 to Benham Falls Bread and Jam
19	20	21 Cafe Amity, Gr 4	22	23 Jazz Choir @Amity 11:45am
26 No School	27	28 Grade 5 Coast Trip	29 Grade 5 Coast Trip	30 Grade 5 Coast Trip

New School-wide Theme: Perseverance! Good timing, yes?

Hey Team!
I hope you had a fantastic weekend! We are definitely in the final stretch of the year and everyone is feeling it! Michelle and I got away this weekend and ended up on the one of the Wikiup fingerlings. Below is a shot from Sunday morning sunrise–that’s the back of Bachelor in the distance.

A few notes to get you going:
1) Feliz Cinco de Mayo! For the REAL meaning of Cinco de Mayo, have a look: Cinco de May

2) It’s AUCTION WEEK, and auction time on Saturday! Lots of people have been working hard to make it happen once again. As always, you are not required to be there but I sure do love seeing you there and having few laughs. This year’s theme is Under the Palms-think Hawaiian/Florida cringe/tropical leisure.

3) Cafe Amity on Wednesday, Grade 5 is hosting.

4) School Nurses Appreciation Day is May 7. Thank you to Cynthia for all she does for Amity!!

5) Ian will be here singing with K/1/2 (and Grade 4 during Enrichment) for the next few weeks. As a reminder, here is the schedule on Thursdays:
*8:45-9:15 Kinder
*9:40-10:10 Grade 1
*10:15-10:45 Grade 2

6) Lori will be joining us for about 30 minutes this week at SIW to introduce us to EL language dives.

7) We’re doing our annual Volunteer Appreciation Tea on May 22 after Community Time. Patti will be sending you a link to the volunteer document–please take a moment to add any and all volunteers to the list so we don’t miss anyone. Thanks in advance!

Here’s to a great week!
Andy

May

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
			May 1 Summit Theater @ Amity-8:30am (1 hr) Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus	2 Bread and Jam
5	6	7 Cafe Amity, Gr 5	8	9 10-Auction!
12 DIBELS	13 Children’s Museum @ Amity 8-11	14	15 K/3 Alice in Wonderland @Summit	16 G4 Alice in Wonderland @Summit G1 to Benham Falls Bread and Jam
19	20	21 Cafe Amity, Gr 4	22	23 Jazz Choir @Amity 11:45am
26 No School	27	28 Grade 5 Coast Trip	29 Grade 5 Coast Trip	30 Grade 5 Coast Trip