After practicing and giving and receiving feedback all week, students were challenged to craft one perfect “detailed” sentence. Click on “Replies” to see their work.

Congrats to Students-of-the-Month Colten Petersen and Ivy Powers. Colten earned this award by being constantly focused and participatory in class. He is the definition of “Actively Engaged.” Ivy deserved this award because the quality of her work has been exceptional. Her work shows that she values doing things well. Kudos to Colten and Ivy! Keep up the great work!

Families – Thank you for attending Back-to-School Night. If you missed it, take a look at these two pages on the classroom webpage.

Room 15 Handbook | The Daily Platypus (district6.org)

Back-to-School Night | The Daily Platypus (district6.org) 

Our Autumn bicycle trip is next week. We’d like kids to bring their bikes in on Thurs, Oct. 3rd. They can bring them to the playground gate on Bush Street where we’ll load them directly into the trailer. In the meantime, we’ll be using CPE’s collection of “loaner bikes” to practice riding on the playground.

I’ll be in touch individually with those of you who’ve said you’d like to join us.

As noted at BTS Night, you don’t need to be an official volunteer to visit the classroom. I encourage you to drop in and just hang out with us from time to time. I think it’s healthy for families to see what the 5^th grade environment is like.

Thanks for your support!

Students were tasked with writing an error-free standard sentence using the topics pickles, Disney princesses, and blotches.

Below are the tentative field trip dates. This year we’re not allowing cell phone use during any field trips. At Outdoor Ed there will be a specific half-hour when kids can call home.

Valley of the Rogue Bicycle Trip — Thurs., Oct. 4th

Rogue River Preserve — Thurs., Oct. 24th

Sams Valley Mini Marathon — Thurs., Oct. 31st

Lava Beds National Monument — Nov. 8th

Fall Adopt-a-Street Clean-up — TBA

Josephine County Tree Plant — Thurs., Feb. 6th or 7th

Crater Lake snowshoe science and sledding — TBA

Elk Creek bicycle trip — May 2nd

Rogue River Preserve Spring trip — April 3rd

Spring Adopt-a-Street Clean-up — TBA

Table Rock with first grade book buddies — TBA (spring)

Roxy Ann Peak walk/run & picnic — TBA (Spring)

Jacksonville Cemetery, Pre-Outdoor Ed — May 28

Oregon Coast Outdoor Ed — May 29 & 30

Kids built cardboard armor so that it could all be ripped to shreds during a 15 minutes Capture the Flag match. Here are the kids in their armor.

The fifth grade baby picture show and year-end awards assembly is THIS Friday, June 14th, at 8:15 a.m. Family members are welcome to attend.