按此浏览我们的 五月家庭通讯快乐的春天!

As we head into Spring Break we wanted to take a moment to share some 信息 you might find useful. Here are links to some of the upcoming events/信息, as well as our April school calendar. Thanks for all you do for your children and in support of our program!

• 幼儿园的过渡 信息
• 幼儿园早期过渡 项目- - - - - -现已开放报名!
• 暑期活动创意

亲爱的家人,

这是多么难熬的一个月啊! We know that many families have been impacted by the recent ice storm, and we are no different. Our Creston Annex location had a broken pipe in the parking lot that caused a one day closure; children are now back in the building as of today. Our Kelly Center school has significant water damage and is currently closed for repairs.  在过去的几天, our 头开始 team has been working closely with district leadership and principals from nearby schools to find classroom space for our students and teachers. 我们很激动地告诉你，凯利, 惠特曼, and Woodmere elementary schools have the space available to accommodate our community while Kelly Center undergoes necessary repairs. 

附加信息:

• Students will be moving with their class and teachers to one of the three above-named sites 从1月30日星期二开始.

• We will be following a modified schedule for these specific classrooms during this time. 早上八点半送人.m. 接机时间是下午12:30.m. Both breakfast and lunch will be provided each day.

• 1月29日星期一下午4点到5点.m., we will hold a virtual 信息 session to answer any questions impacted families might have. 我们还将记录这次会议.

• As of Friday all families have received 信息 about their student’s assigned school.

• Kelly Center is scheduled to reopen to students and staff as early as mid-February. We will share a transition plan for re-entry at a later date.

Staff continue to prepare for children and families to return next Tuesday. 我们感谢凯利, 惠特曼, and Woodmere communities for opening their doors to us, and we appreciate your grace and patience 更多的 than we can say. 我们会很快再联系的.

热烈,

Dana Stiles, 头开始的主管 

Mary Pearson, Kelly Center Building Supervisor

When Beckham Weatherby picks up his tuba, the rest of the world falls away. 

“I don’t get that nervous and I don’t get stage fright at all,” he said. “I guess I got lucky with how my body reacts to performing in front of crowds.”

Which is something the McDaniel High School junior has done quite a bit of lately. Not only is he a member of the prestigious Portland Youth Philharmonic (PYP) and the PYP conservatory orchestra, but he recently earned first prize in the tuba solo performance category at the Oregon State Solo Music Championships.

The first things you notice when you walk into Ellie 詹森’s classroom at Boise-Eliot/Humboldt 小学 are peace and warmth. Then you hear the laughter of children. Then you just might see two posters hanging on the walls that tell you a great deal about the kind of teacher she has been for the past 50 years. The posters simply say, “Leave a little sparkle wherever you go” and “Be a friend.”

詹森, known as “Miss Ellie” to the hundreds of students she has taught in her half a century as a 线上博彩平台 educator, 忍不住要点亮房间. 她是所有孩子的朋友. 

We dare you to drive by the Mainspring Food Pantry on the corner of 82nd Avenue and Fremont and not do a double take. 或者三拍. 

Students from McDaniel High School’s art-focused Career Technical Education (CTE) class have spent the last four weeks turning the exterior walls of the pantry into one, 巨大的, joyful mural as part of the course’s exploration of climate justice and community engagement.

A little over 30 years ago, a Madison High School student named Joseph Janson had a simple wish. 他想去参加舞会. 但对约瑟来说，没有什么是简单的, who was born with Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy and was confined to a wheelchair. 

他向托尼·尼兹吐露了他的愿望, who at that time was an educational assistant at Madison (now Leodis V. 麦克丹尼尔高中). Tony had been working one-on-one with Joseph for months and he immediately went about making the young man’s dream come true.

“The truth is, I would have done anything for Joseph,” Nitz said. “He was a unique person, and we had a very special bond.”