Walkathon for Human Rights! – June 1
The theme for our 6th annual Walkathon is Human Rights. This year’s social justice work has focused on many issues and movements including Black Lives Matter, support for refugees, and support for Standing Rock. 2017 Walkathon t-shirts will reflect these causes. We ask that K-8 students bring a white or black t-shirt to school by Thursday, May 18. Students will screen print their own shirt. Those who have a Black Lives Matter shirt may also wear that on Walkathon day, Thursday, June 1. Stay tuned for volunteer opportunities for families in next week’s Newsnotes. We also hope you will join us along the parade route in support of Human Rights on June 1 as K-8 students walk from the UAC to the ECC and have a field day in Ohlone Park. With you in social justice and action!
Please Donate – Toiletries Drive
Here is a message from 8th Graders Xiomara and Frances about their WE Day campaign, Give A Little. WE Day is a middle school club where kids create projects to make the world a better place. Our project focuses on helping people currently living in homelessness. We have been working with BOSS (Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency) a local organization that supports people currently living in homelessness get back on their feet. We will be having a whole school toiletries drive to donate to BOSS. We are collecting now throughFriday, June 1. On Monday, June 5, we will organize care packages and write notes to personally deliver to people currently living in homelessness. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this announcement and thank you even more if you are planning to donate. (All items need to be unused, preferably unscented and travel-sized.) A collection bin is located right outside of Temescal Creek!
The Spring Sing was an entertaining and moving evening of song, movement, and story. The theme was Movement of the People and each performance by K-5 invited us to imagine how and why people move. The third graders told a story about the local native Ohlone who once occupied this area that explained how the hummingbird got fire and its red throat. The evening ended with everyone joining in to sing Imagine, by John Lennon.
Math in third grade has been focused on geometry. We have been identifying, comparing, and contrasting 2-dimensional shapes. We listened to Grandfather Tang’s Story: A Tale Told with Tangrams, by Amy Tompert, and then cut our own Tangrams. Ask your child about some of the geometry vocabulary we have been learning like quadrilateral, equilateral, parallel, vertex/vertices, angles, rhombus, and trapezoid.
We are moving into the final publishing stages of our local plant/animal research books: designing covers and title pages, adding a glossary and table of contents, and putting our new typing skills to good use! Please mark your calendar’s to come in for our publishing party and celebration of learning on Monday, June 5, starting at 8:45. As a part of Super Science and Art we used our expertise to make food chain cut-paper pieces that show what our plant/animal eats and what eats it. These are currently on display in the classroom.
At the last all-school assembly, it was announced that a Temescalian’s design was chosen as the new signage for our new gender neutral bathrooms. Congrats! We also learned more about the We Day service learning projects happening in the middle school and ways we can get involved.
Another birthday celebration! Another chance to celebrate a Temescalians and learn about his/her life and family . . .
More snapshots from in and around Temescal Creek . . .
