April School Newsletter
Students Become Teachers!
The fifth grade class recently finished a unit on the regions of the United States. Their teacher, Mrs. Tompkins, had each student make an alphabet book about their chosen state. Included was information about state birds, flowers, capitals and important cities, and featured special tourist attractions.
The 5th grade then visited the first grade where they read their books and explained the pictures to the younger students, becoming teachers for the period and creating a fun time for both classes. Each 1st grader saw five different books.
Mrs. McCall’s first graders enjoyed this time very much. Here is what some of them had to say about the experience:
“The fifth graders read slow enough to understand.” – Weston
“We had to guess how much degrees.” – Isaiah
“I like all those pictures.” – Reece
“They read nicely so I could hear them read.” – Judah
“They showed us pictures.” – Victoria
“They are good artists.” – Udoka
The fifth grade also enjoyed the experience. Here are some of their comments:
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Learning and Fun for 2nd Graders at Franz Bakery!
After all these years, the famous bread production line, right under the giant spinning loaf of Franz Bread that Portlanders grew up with, has achieved the status of a local landmark.
Engelbert Franz and his brother Joseph bought the NE 11th Street bakery location in 1906 and quickly grew the company to one of the largest in Portland. The company has evolved into the largest bakery in Oregon and one of the most modern baking operations in the United States. Today, Franz is the largest independently-owned bakery in the United States.
Tour groups of between ten and sixty people are welcomed daily. The tour consisted of a brief history of the Franz Family Bakeries and a half hour tour of the facility. Students then enjoyed a snack of bread, butter and apple juice and were given gift bags to take home.
For elementary school tours, Franz has an interactive learning center with books to read and mind teaser work sheets.
CCS REGISTRATION 2010/2011
| Registration Dates are as Follows:
Thursday, May 13 The purpose of this meeting is to set up your tuition contract for next school year. Please review the dates and decide which one will be best for you and then call the school office at 503-252-5207 to schedule your 1/2 hour appointment. More detailed information will be sent home with your child in the next few weeks.
Spring Cleaning at CCS! There is a CCS Workday scheduled for Saturday, April 24th, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This will involve cleaning, repairs, painting, and other miscellaneous jobs needing to be done around the campus. Lunch will be provided. If you would like to volunteer to help us out, please contact the school office right away at 503-252-5207 so that we can plan our day accordingly. If you cannot work the whole day, you could sign up to work just in the morning or just in the afternoon. Any time you could donate to this endeavor would be very much appreciated. For those of you needing to complete volunteer hours, this is a great opportunity to get to know other parents as well. Book Fair Diner May 3-7th, 2010 Save the date! Because Your child will be Mark your calendar! The evening of May 7th is Open House, Spring Musical, ArtFair, consessions, and much more. A Walk in the Park Successful Fundraiser For one amazing night our Ivy Hall was transformed to look like a “Walk in the Park”. This transformation took place with the help of Marc Ishibashi and his team of students, Carolina Hogland and her team of decorators along with our very own art teacher Gabe Smith who painted a beautiful floor to ceiling picture and Janice Dorszynski who teamed up with Mrs. Swarner, Mrs. Sinclair, and Mrs. Heard, creating a stunning water feature. We also had very good food provided by Wanda Goulter along with great auction items, beautiful music performed by Chris Pitoyo, Nicole Procopoi, Kathy Tompkins, Grady Daniels, and Charles Canary. There was a balloon pop game, laughter, and fellowship. We were also very blessed to have Blazer Alumni Michael Harper as our auctioneer – he really knew how to get the crowd going. One of the highlights of the night came when Lori Hews won the Disneyland getaway for only $20! All together our school was able to raise over $20,000 for computer software and our technology program. A special thank you to all the school businesses, parents, and teachers that donated to our class baskets. Thank You for taking the time to ask your friends and our local businesses for donations. Thank You to the countless volunteers: including Ron and Kathy Anderson, Carolina Hoglund, Tina Salveta, Allen Snyder, Corey & Sandee Swarner, Chris Walters, Colleen Dehart, Marc Ishibashi, Class Parents, Teachers, Staff and students – it really was all your hands laboring together that made this year’s auction a success. We could not have done it without all of you!!! So…….. since we did such a great job this year – WE WILL BE HAVING AN AUCTION AGAIN NEXT YEAR! BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR MORE A New Era in Computer at CCS It began with a vision for computer at CCS. That vision is now reality as the 5th grade class opened up the very first classroom laptop computers. The CCS auction that was held recently is helping to provide this new tool. Until now, the only Internet connected computers for student use were in the high school computer lab. Since there is a high demand for the lab, elementary students had little access to them or to the library which is also used by the high school. Now, under instruction from their teachers, students can research information for reports and projects. The 31 laptops are wireless and took some time to initially set up, but they are now ready to go and are expected to be in high demand in the elementary, junior high, and high school classrooms. Two periods were spent getting acquainted with the software and hardware. Students will now bring in the computers on their own and set them up. What did the 5th grade think of having laptops in their classroom? Here are some of the comments: “It was so cool to be the first ones to try out the laptops and it was fun!!!!” – Giorgi “It was fun to use the laptops. Thank you school board!!!!!!!!!!!” – Braxton “It was so much fun using the laptops. We could do research and even play a few games. They are great.” – Baine ‘It was very fun being the first class to use the laptop. We did Science and Heritage. We played games and had a lot of fun. Thank you for buying the laptops.” - Josef “The computers were very fun to use and we got to do some research and look things up. “ – Chidinma “We all loved the laptops and the best thing is we made history!” – Madeline “It was fun using the laptop by ourselves and learn about Laptop and Internet.” – Joon “It was very Awesome to use the laptops.” – Grady |
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