Wreath and Poinsettia Sale

This sale has been completed. Thanks to those who participated.

Hello 4-8 grade Students, Parents and Teachers!

The Wreath and Poinsettia Sale has begun! Flyers were send home last week and this is a wonderful opportunity for students to earn money to "BANK" toward their end of year - overnight trips.

REMEMBER!!
* Students can bank up to the full amount of their trip.

* Middle School: Any revenue beyond what is needed for their trip can be banked for the following year.

Bankable Amount Per Item:
Small Poinsettia (any color) = You Earn $4
Med Poinsettia (any color) = You Earn $8
Large Poinsettia (any color) = You Earn $10

Mixed Wreath = You Earn $8
Deluxe Wreath = You Earn $10
Garland = You Earn $11
Albert Spruce Tree= You Earn $9

*Gift Shippers: Mixed and Deluxe Wreaths = You Earn $7

As you can see, this is a wonderful opportunity for your child to raise money this year. Flyers are available in the office, and on the bulletin board in the SES hallway. Payment via PayPal will be available on the Sunnyside Website, www.sesptsa.com, for your convenience (COMING SOON). Encourage friends, family members, business owners, and co-workers to participate.

I am also requesting volunteer support for the sale/pick-up day on December 2.

Please email me with any questions you may have, or if you are able to volunteer.

Thank you!

Petria Black
Fundraising Coordinator
petria.b@live.com

*Don't forget to recycle your tree or wreath at the Tree recycling event at SES on January 3, 2009!

International Opportunity

The Consulate-General of Japan in Portland is pleased to announce its 20th Annual Origami Workshop and hopes that this will be a good opportunity for the public to become more familiar with Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. Volunteers from the local community will teach participants Origami, including how to fold cranes.

The Origami Workshop will be held on Sunday, December 7, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Mezzanine Level of Two World Trade Center in Portland. ADMISSION is FREE and NO RESERVATIONS are necessary. All origami materials will be provided. Everyone is welcome to participate in the workshop.

Please see a flyer at: http://www.portland.us.emb-japan.go.jp/tips/2008_Origami_Workshop.pdf

For any further information, please contact the Consulate-General of Japan in Portland at (503) 221-1811 ext. 15 or send e-mail to nalipio@cgjpdx.org.

Volcano Write-Up

Mt St Helens was a successful trip. We were fortunate to have fabulous weather so that we could see the north face of the mountain and the destruction that took place during the 1980 eruption. Since then, we have discussed geologic features, created murals and are in the process of creating the Cascade Range. Wow, lots of scientific understanding is being displayed in the classroom. Let’s stop and write to Benson what we know.

To do:

1. Describe the trip to Benson. We want him to know what you got out of the trip to Mt St Helens. The summary of the trip in your field study book is a great place to get this information.

2. Reinforce your ideas of why it important to go outside to learn. Use specific examples from how you learned on the trip.

3. Let Benson know what you learned:

a. Describe how Ape Caves was formed (illustration with captions or written)

b. Describe how the tree molds in the Trail of Two Forests were formed (illustration with captions)

c. Describe the events that led up to the 1980 Mt St Helens eruption.

d. Describe volcanic hazards (lahar, pyroclastic flow, ash cloud, lava flow)

4. Inform Benson about the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Draw him a diagram that shows the Juan de Fuca plate, the North American Plate, converging plates (the subduction zone), the Oregon/Washington coast line, Portland and the Mt St Helens and Mt Hood. Include arrows that shows where the plate movement.

5. Write a 4-5 sentence description of the process taking place at the Cascadia Subduction Zone and how it is related to the volcanoes in the Cascades.

Important: Please include color in your illustrations/diagrams.

Current Events

Woohoo! Current Events are back in Frank's class. Each week, seven students will present a current event from a different part of the world. The hope is to generate discussion about happenings around us, look at a map from a geographical point-of-view (where is Bangladesh?) and work on public speaking skills.

There is a BBC news feed at the bottom of this blog that can be a source to find Current Events.

Service Learning

Today I went over the yearly service learning requirements with students. Each student was given a folder containing details and I spent time with each grade level discussing requirements and projects. Please let me know at any time if you or your student has any questions.

If you have not yet visited the SES web page, please do so as it contains a lot of useful information. The entire service learning portfolio can be found on the "Documents" page:

http://www.sesptsa.com/documents/documents.php

Scroll down to Service Learning.

Columbia River Gorge (9/30/08)

Our first stop was the Lewis & Clark State Park, there we collected rocks and sorted them into group. Once our groups had finished sorting rocks we got to tell everyone how we sorted them.After that we got to talk about how we tought the rocks got there. One of my favorite rocks was green, smooth, and had spots.

Our next stop was the Women's Forum on the Columbia River Highway, there we drew a picture of what we saw. Then Dave the scientist talked with us about how there were big cracks in the earth in eastern Oregon and Idaho, and lava was just flowing out and that is were all of the basalt in the Columbia River Gorge came from. Then we drove up near the Vista house.

Then we went to LatourellFalls, there we took a hike and got to see the falls. Then we walked a bit further and took a rest and ate lunch. It was amazing to see how long the waterfall was,and how slippery the rocks were. I also was amazed to see how hard the water hit the bottom.

Then our last stop was Rocky Butte and looked around for landmarks, then we got to lay down in the grass and look up at the sky. Then after that we went back to school and talked about what a great time we had!


I feel that this trip was very inspiring, I collect rocks and it was very exciting to see some different rocks. As we were walking back to the bus from the Sandy River I found a real arrow head! How exciting!

Madeleine