Peregrine Falcons - Forest Grove Community School

Peregrine Press

May 18-22

Schedule

Monday: High School Student Presentation

Tuesday: Out and About to Lincoln Park, includes Running Club (getting ready for the Fun Run)

Wednesday: ELC Buddies; PE

Thursday: Art

Friday: Homework Due; Literacy Projects Due (they have been working on these at school)

Book Fair is happening all week long. It is buy one get one free.

Last Week

It was great to have a full week of school for a change. We had a different type of Running Club where we ran for less time, but then did some circuit training. The "Game of Life" aka "Math Life" was introduced with a very warm welcome. The students drew jobs out of a hat that ranged from a Les Schwab tech to a Maggie's Bun Barista. The students created their "characters" and then also drew the aerial view and front view of their place of employment. They used google maps to do the mapping part and then we turned one whole wall in the classroom into the city of Forest Grove. Students glued their buildings and people onto the map of Forest Grove. It looks great! The class then had a great discussion about how to decide what kind of place to live and where that place would be. We discussed the different types of transportation that would make most sense depending on where you chose to live relative to your job. They searched online for different rental properties and started to look at how to budget money accordingly. It has been really fun to connect the math life components like gross and net income, hourly wage and rental budget with mapping.

For Out and About the students went on a great photography scavenger hunt. They worked in groups and walked through town taking photos of different things like: something fluffy, something that represents anger, diagonal lines, friendship etc. It was very impressive to see such artistic pictures.

Next Week

This coming week we will continue our two major projects: Math Life and the Forest Grove Grid Project. The students will head back into town to take more photographs and then upload them to share. Becky is working hard on trying to find a different avenue for sharing photos. For Math Life students will focus on expense budgeting and begin to look at groceries and health in preparation for an activity at Safeway the following week. They will review gross and net income and start working on calculating percentages by figuring out the distribution of their income on the different expenses.

We will combine Running Club with the Out and About because we need to measure the distance around Lincoln Park in preparation for the Fun Run. We will also figure out where to put signs, refreshments and cones.

Upcoming Events:

June 4^th: Fun Run (I still need a couple more parent volunteers to help with this event. Your job would be to simply stand en-route and help mark student laps, or help pass out refreshments.)

June 6^th: Overnight Camping Trip (Thanks to everyone that has volunteered to help. I feel so lucky to have such great, supportive families! I will be sending another letter probably in a week that will confirm what I need people to bring. I am still waiting to get those yellow forms back from everyone so I can figure out what items I will still need to get. I know many people have offered to bring certain things, but I want to look through everything that I get, and then send out updated information. I will also include a map at that point. I hope this makes senseJ)

I have decided to include a calendar for this last month of school. If things change I will try and highlight those changes.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Book Fair

Out and About to Lincoln Park

& Running Club

Book Fair