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Parents and kids (5th grade and up) are invited to the second in a two-part series, a viewing of the documentary Screenagers Next Chapter:Addressing Mental Health in the Digital Age. This film will be shown one time only, so mark your calendars! Light dinner will be provided! RSVP TODAY!
Screenagers Next Chapter: March 19th-PTA mtg 6-6:30pm, dinner and movie 6:30-8pm, with discussion to follow
Our first showing of the original Screenagers film had a great turnout and prompted some meaningful discussion. We are hoping for an even better turnout this time, as the topic of screens and mental health is one that impacts many of us. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with other families on such relevant issues in our lives.
Our partners at MESD performed their annual vision screening for our Kinder, 1st, and 3rd grade students, and hearing screening for our Kinder and 1st graders. If you would like your 2nd through 8th grade student to be screened for hearing, please contact Kelly Fischer (kfischer@mesd.k12.or.us ), our School Health Assistant, and she will get your student signed up for a slot.
Registration for Kindergarten for the 2024-25 school year is now open! Please register your student at: pps.net/enroll (paper registration available in the main office) and attend one of our Connect to Kindergarten information sessions on either Wednesday April 17th or May 15th from 9:30 - 10:30am. Details for Connect to Kindergarten events are on the Laurelhurst School website: https://www.pps.net/domain/
Parents and kids (10 years +) are invited to the second in a two-part series, a viewing of the documentary Screenagers Next Chapter:Addressing Mental Health in the Digital Age. This film will be shown one time only, so mark your calendars! Light dinner will be provided! RSVP TODAY!
Screenagers Next Chapter: March 19th-PTA mtg 6-6:30pm, dinner and movie 6:30-8pm, with discussion to follow
Our first showing of the original Screenagers film had a great turnout and prompted some meaningful discussion. We are hoping for an even better turnout this time, as the topic of screens and mental health is one that impacts many of us. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with other families on such relevant issues in our lives.
March 10, 2024
What a beautiful weekend to get outside, ride bikes, go for a hike, garden or read a book. I hope you enjoyed our beautiful weekend weather! What a treat to get a little break from the rain and feel the sunshine these past couple of days. Our daffodils are blooming and there is real excitement in the air as Spring Break approaches.
We’ll spend this last week prior to the break focused on learning and wrapping up key units, as the 3rd quarter ends the week we get back from Spring Break. We’ll end this week with a fun Choir Concert and PRIDE Assembly for our K-5 students and an afternoon Choir Concert and Bonanza for our middle schoolers on Friday.
On Thursday I was able to do a neighborhood walk with the City of Portland's Bureau of Transportation, PPS's PBOT liaison, and Laurelhurst parent and engineer Dave Brokaw. The team reviewed our school's concerns with major pedestrian crossings on our walk-to-school routes as well as visibility and traffic flow in the immediate school vicinity. We'll continue this dialogue and hope to work on some long and short term solutions to keep our students as safe as possible on their way to and from school!
Thursday, 3/14, was Pi Day!
Special thanks to our wonderful staff/parent bakers who made this fun day extra delicious by baking little individual pies for all of our middle school math classes. We appreciate you, Rena Ferrick, Kirsten Healey, Jessica Maeder, and Brandie Roberts.
With Gratitude,
Alyson
When students from Cleveland High School’s Advanced Commercial Foods and Baking class visited Hosford Middle School last month to try out a new recipe they called Baked Pears Goat Cheese Sunflower Seed Delight, the results of an informal sticker poll were very much on the positive side: 26 kids liked it and 30 loved it. Twenty-two were on the fence.
Sixth grader Isaac Huynh was in the latter category. “I’ve had goat cheese before, but this goat cheese tastes different,” he said. “I think the whole thing might have been better with whipped cream.”
Ever wondered if dogs might be able to sniff out cancer? Or how Magic the Gathering is connected to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s? Or if your running watch might be gaslighting you?
Seniors in the Cleveland High School International Baccalaureate (IB) program answered these questions – and many more – at the 15th annual Extended Essay Senior Showcase on February 21. The showcase gives IB students the opportunity to present the results of two years’ worth of research into academic topics of their choosing. The topics begin as inquiry questions, which students then investigate and eventually answer in the form of a 4000-word essay.
At first glance, the annual Portland Public Schools district calendar might seem to fulfill one crucial function: to alert students, staff, and families to the days when school is in session and when it is not.
If that were the case, crafting the calendar would be the work of days, if not hours. In fact, the calendar is a multipurpose living document that involves meticulous planning and careful forethought to ensure the best possible outcomes for students and staff. It also reflects the needs and observances of the many diverse communities the district serves.
Ethan Kramer, Beaumont Middle School’s assistant principal, sees middle school math as so much more than 2x + 3y = 5.
“It’s helping to build the logic center – the prefrontal cortex – in analysis and processing,” he said. Given this, Kramer and others believe that middle grades instruction must lay a strong foundation to support more challenging math concepts in the future – first high school, then beyond.
But what are the components of that foundation? And how is it best established?
The district’s middle grades core academics team and its grades 6-8 math committee have spent the last year weighing these questions in tandem with educators and community stakeholders. Their goal: a comprehensive math curriculum that challenges students without rushing or skipping over key concepts.
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM School Board- Budget Work Session with vote on a consent agenda
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM School Board - Facilities and Operations Committee meeting
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM School Board- Regular Meeting
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM School Board - Student Success Committee
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Middle School Play - The Enchanted Bookshop
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Middle School Play - The Enchanted Bookshop
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Kindergarten Connect
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM School Board - Facilities and Operations Committee meeting
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM World Festival
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM School Board- Study Session with vote on a consent agenda
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM School Board - Student Success Committee
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM School Board - Tax Supervising & Conservation Commission (TSCC) Hearing
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Spring Choir Concert
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Kindergarten Connect