SO MUCH SNOW!!
I
hope everyone had wonderful and safe snow days.
It will be nice to finally get back to some routine after winter
break. It was great seeing the kids on
the first day back! We have all had to
readjust to being in school all day long, but so far it’s going GREAT. I knew
it would take a bit of time to really get back in the swing of things…but I‘m
not wasting anytime.
This
month, we will do an intro unit for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We began last week, but with so much snow, we
are starting from the beginning and will continue for the rest of January.
Have
a wonderful month:)
SUN
School - Winter
Winter
term SUN session has already started!
DIBELS
In January, Faubion students will have DIBELS
testing. This is an assessment that
covers many aspects of reading. In first grade, the students show their skills
in fluency, phoneme segmentation and nonsense word fluency. We will do a bit of review for the next two
weeks. PLEASE feel free to get in touch
with me if you have any questions. I
will share results with families later this month.
Thank You!
Thank you SO much for those of you who
were able to volunteer for our SCRAP field trip in December! It was a HUGE success! A special thanks to Bianca Karjalainen for organizing the trip! Don’t forget, we have another field trip
coming January 31st to see Fly Guy: The Musical with the Oregon
Children’s Theatre.
Auction
Project
The 3rd annual Faubion Be Mine
Auction will happen Saturday, February 25th from 5:00-9:00 at the
North Star Ballroom at 635 N Killingsworth Court,
Portland, Oregon 97217
We invite you to our
auction to raise funds for Faubion School. Find more information at
Our class will be
donating a special class project to the auction as well! If you are interested in helping to plan or
volunteer for this project, please let me know:)
Calendar
Adjustments Update
Thank you for your continued support during this unusual winter
weather. We understand and share your frustration with the number of school
closures and wanted to give you an update about how we believe we can make up
some of the lost instruction over the next five months of the school year.
The Board voted on December 13, 2016 to add two days at the end
of the school year to make up for two days lost in December. Since that vote
additional school closures have occurred due to weather.
This Tuesday, January 17, 2017, district staff will present the
following proposal for the Board’s consideration to account for the other closures:
1
Add another day to the calendar- extending
the last day of school by three days to June 14, 2017.
2
Eliminate the rest of late starts for
elementary and middle schools and early releases for high schools, which will
restore approximately ten hours of additional instruction for elementary
schools and four hours for high schools.
Please note
that if approved, the elimination of late starts begins this Wednesday, January
18, 2017.
Birthdays
Don’t forget, if you would
like to celebrate a birthday in class, please make sure it is a healthy
treat. Fruit or granola make for great
options. Also, if organizing a birthday
party outside of school, please do your best to handout initiation outside of
the school day.
Thanks!:)
Donors
Choose
Our request for a nonfiction leveled library was
fully funded last week! We should get
our new reading materials soon!
Rainbow Words
Rainbow Words went home last week! Please take the time to practice these
words. When your child is fluent in
reading each word, I will test them on reading and spelling. Every Tuesday, I will check to see if they
are ready to move onto the next set of words.
Thank you for supporting this our leaning at home.
Field Trip
Volunteers
Our
class has a fieldtrip coming up on January 31st. Many of you signed the permission slip for
this trip at the same time as our trip to SCRAP. If I do not have a slip returned from your
family, I will send home an additional form.
If you are interested in
volunteering, and you have not yet volunteered for a trip this school year,
please let me know if you are interested by the end of the week, Jan 20.
Make sure you have filed out the PPS background check. After this date, I will open up the volunteer
sign-up to all families who might be interested. There are only 3 volunteers
spots available for this trip:)
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