In this Edition
The
Doctor Is In – Message From Dr Berg: Below
New
Volunteer/Visitor System: Below
Notes
From Scrip Corner: Below
NEW!
The Green Routine: Below & Attached
TAG
Nominations Due 11/26: Below
PPS After School Child Care Survey: Below
2020-21 Eighth Grade High School Info Nights: Below
TAG
Workshop with Dr Ruby Dawn Lyman: Attached
Oregon
Food Bank Thanksgiving Fundraiser at Local Restaurant Verde Cocina: Attached
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Upcoming Events
TAG Nominations Due:
Tuesday, November 26
LGBTQ+
Alliance Luncheons: Every Thursday in the Library
Equity Parent
Meeting with Dr Berg: Thursday, December 5, 6 – 7:30pm
Principal’s/Odyssey
PTA-Parent Coffee: Friday December 6, am
Restaurant
Night at City Thai: Wednesday December 11
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The
Doctor Is In: Message From Dr Berg
Hello
Odyssey Families,
Due
to the break next week I am sending my newsletter out this week. We hope
that next week brings some joy and relaxation to your lives and you are
spending some time with loved ones.
I
wanted to send some reminders before the break. Please join us in our Joy
of Giving and fill out either an online SCRIP form to donate to an Odyssey,
Hayhurst, or Pioneer Family. Forms are available at school and we are
asking that families donate SCRIP cards this year rather than gifts so that
families in need this season can pick out their own gifts. Thank you in
advance for your generosity and if you have a need, please let Dr. Berg
know. See the bulletin across from the Odyssey Office for details.
Our
first parent equity team meeting with be Wednesday December 4th. Note:
Revised time is 5:30-6:30. We will also be holding a
principal’s/Odyssey PTA-Parent coffee on Friday December 6th. Parents are
welcome to come and have coffee and then join Dr. Berg in the library around
8:15 to be part of our equity discussion.
Our
transition meeting for current 5th grade families is Thursday December 5th from
6:00-7:30. Please join us to find out more about what your child’s experience
will be be in our middle school program here at Odyssey. We are looking
forward to seeing you all here!
Please
stop by our Lost and Found located in the front hallway when you join us for
your child’s conference. All items will be donated before the break, so
please come and claim any lost or left jackets etc.,
I
cannot believe that we are coming up on so quickly to our winter break.
Time has flown here and I have so enjoyed getting to know families and
students. I had a principal sub here yesterday to attend district
meetings and she championed the collaborative work our students and teachers
are doing. Great to hear!
Thank
you for all you do to contribute here at Odyssey. The community has been
so supportive and I am grateful.
Dr.
Berg
Principal,
Odyssey K-8
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The
New Volunteer/Visitor System is Here!
Please
bring your driver’s license/state ID in with you the next time you want to
check in. I’ll get you all set up! You’ll then be able to sign in
and out using the self-service kiosk.
Thank
you,
Angela
Hoffart
Principal’s
Secretary
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Notes
From Scrip Corner
The
holiday season is upon us! Please consider the Scrip program for
your holiday shopping this year. Great Lakes is offering $5 and $10 gift
cards for many popular retailers like Starbucks, Amazon, Barnes & Noble,
and Chipotle. These make great little thank you gifts. To sign up
for scrip, go here and enter the Odyssey Enrollment Code 768EL71F53LL6.
Fred
Meyer cards are back, in denominations of $25, $50, $75, and $100!
For now I'll only be offering Fred Meyer cards in December. We
purchase these cards directly from Kroger, and don't make a reward for the
school until our order totals $2,000 or more. I'm hoping the holidays
will boost participation. Let me know if you're interested in Fred Meyer
gift cards in the longer term and I'll try to make it work. These cards
take a little longer to get, so your Monday order will be delivered to you the
following Monday or Tuesday.
Upcoming
scrip order dates are December 2nd and 16th! On-line orders
are due by midnight. Paper holiday giving forms and checks are due by the end
of the school day.
Genevieve
gfu@aya.yale.edu
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The Green Routine
We
had Master Recycler, Sally Oakes, give an all-school presentation on Friday.
Ask your student what they learned about “refusing, reducing, and reusing” before
recycling and how the things we buy and the trash we generate contributes to
climate change. Don’t be surprised if your student knows more about what can go
in your blue curbside recycling bin than you do!
Odyssey
Eco-Events:
· Tuesday 12/3:
Green Team members will be assisting K12 and 345 clusters with a waste audit
before introducing new co-mingled recycling bins and containers for
hard-to-recycle waste like plastic films and felt-tip pens. We’ll be taking a
baseline on how much trash Odyssey generates in a day and check back in a few
months to see our progress in waste reduction. Join us at 12:10 and 1:30 and
learn about why avoiding recycling contamination is so important!
· Monday 12/9:
See above, this time for 678!
Odyssey
Goes Green:
· We will be
replacing paper-only recycling with co-mingled recycling in all classrooms
after Thanksgiving break
· We will
participate in the local and national Trex School Challenge to collect plastic
film waste. Save items like plastic bread bags, zip locks, and produce bags at
home. When we get the Challenge boxes, you can bring those items to school for
drop off! [See attached Trex info sheet for what to save]
· After winter break
we will be rolling out the new compost and recyclables collection process in
the cafeteria. Stay tuned!
Weekly
Eco-Tip:
Go cold-turkey on your holiday waste! The holidays are the
trashiest time of year in the US. We throw out 25 percent more waste than
usual. That’s around 1 million tons a week to our landfills of holiday food waste, shopping
bags, bows and ribbons, packaging, and wrapping paper. Here’s our first
installment of tips to reduce your environmental impact this holiday season.
Got (extra) turkey? Food waste is big contributor to our global climate
problem. About 150,000 tons of food is
tossed out in US households each day, not including that big Thanksgiving
spread. The National Resource Defense council estimated “Americans
discarded 6 million turkeys after Thanksgiving in 2016. A worth of $293 million
and equivalent to "more than 100 billion gallons of water—enough to supply
New York City for 100 days. And when it comes to climate pollution, it wastes
emissions equivalent to driving a car across the country 800,000 times."
When food goes to the
landfill and rots, it produces methane—a greenhouse gas even more potent than
carbon dioxide. In the US alone, the production of lost or wasted food
generates the equivalent of 37 million cars’ worth of greenhouse gas emissions
annually. Fortunately, in Portland, we can send that food to city compost. But
that doesn’t save the wasted energy and cost that got that food to your plate
in the first place. Try these tips to cut-down on your food waste this year:
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Consider reducing your holiday spread to just
what you know you can eat and want to eat – if no one wants that canned
cranberry, skip it
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Encourage your guests to bring a reusable to-go
container to take some leftovers home with them
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Use
immediately or freeze scrap veggies and turkey leftovers to make soup broth
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Buy
ugly produce – someone else may not buy it, but if you do, that’s less wasted
at the store level
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It’s
OK not to have Turkey if no one really likes it – a vegetarian Thanksgiving can
substantially cut down on your carbon footprint
Don’t
be trashy: #compostit
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TAG
Nominations Due November 26
Hello,
Just
a reminder to parents that the TAG nomination form is due to your child’s
teacher by November 26th in order to be considered for TAG testing this
year. The forms are available online on the district’s TAG website and in
the front hallway on the TAG Bulletin board.
Dr.
Eryn Berg
Principal,
Odyssey K-8
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PPS Before and
After School Child Care Survey, 2019-20
Please take a moment to
complete this confidential online survey or go to pps.net, departments, child care.
Your input is valuable. Survey results will be used as part of an annual
program evaluation. Please complete the survey by December 13, 2019.
Dr.
Eryn Berg
Principal,
Odyssey K-8
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2020-21 Eighth Grade High School Info Nights
Be sure to check out your neighborhood school.
See Odyssey Counselor Stephanie for more information
or check online at PPS.net
Benson Polytechnic
Oct. 22 6-8 PM
Cleveland
Dec. 12
7-9 PM
Franklin
Dec. 4 6-8:30 PM
Grant
Nov. 14 6:30-8:30 PM
Jefferson
(HS Middle College for Advanced Studies) Oct. 30
6-8 PM & Nov. 19 6-8 PM
Lincoln
Dec. 11 6-8 PM
Madison
(@ Marshall Campus)
Nov. 5 6:15-8 PM
Metropolitan Learning Ctr. Nov. 6
6-7:30 PM & Nov. 14 6-7:30 PM
Roosevelt
Nov. 19
6-8 PM
Wilson
Nov. 6 6-9 PM
