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THE EYRIE
WHAT’S HAPPENING
LETTER FROM THE PRINCIPAL Season Greetings from Joseph Charter School,
1ST | MRS. BLANKENSHIP First Grade studied the branches of the military in honor of Veterans Day. Students learned the specialties of each branch as well as the similarities and differences. During show and tell students brought in photos, metals, uniforms, and stories of family members who are Veterans. 2ND | MRS. LYMAN Second graders have been learning coding in a fun and interactive way by programming and experimenting with robots during STEAM. This month, we’ll investigate earth changes over time due to earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides. We are adding two digit numbers and regroupoing, and and we’ll be learning about Holidays form around the globe. We’re excited to build gingerbread houses and go caroling at the Alpine House. 3RD | MRS. OLSON During the month of November third graders have been working on mastering multiplication facts, focusing on building our fluency with a positive math mindset. Throughout the week, we use dice, decks of cards, and games to practice our automaticity. Building math fluency is important so our class is successful in our math understanding. We are also focused on our vocabulary understanding by creating gestures, pictures and synonyms, and a fun vocabulary word of the day necklace! 4TH | MRS. GROVER November flew by in a flurry of multiplication facts, number patterns, word problems and the elements of personal narratives in both reading and writing. Students developed ideas to write their own personal narratives and continue to refine their skills as authors in their journals. We also move forward in our study of Native American culture and the distinct land formations of Oregon. To top it off, Mrs. Koehn took us to Imnaha to study the rock formations of canyons. 5TH | MISS. ROBYN The 5th grade classroom was full of water and fractions this month. The weather allowed us to learn so much outside about water turbidity, pH, oxygen saturation levels, and temperature. Wallowa Resources also taught us all about watersheds and we made our own in class. Besides studying water and the water cycle we have managed to work daily on decimals and now fractions. . 6TH | MRS. HITE We have been busy with many different activities as well as our studies. We recently began a novel study on the White Giraffe by Lauren St. John. Through this novel we will focus on vocabulary, similes, metaphors, character traits, foreshadowing and inference. For social studies we are wrapping up our country presentations in the next few weeks and from there move into a review of the US history. Our writing focus will be summaries in the beginning, middle and end of stories.
We want to wish all of our students, staff, families, and commu- nity a happy holiday season! It feels like the year is flying by, but lots of great things are happening in the Joseph School District. Mrs. Koehn is starting a Lego Robotics team. Our CTE teachers just received training on our new CNC Router Machine and our new CNC Plasma Machine. Our teachers just had a terrific writ- ing training with Yolanda Westerberg this past Friday. We are excited to let you know that our Strategic Plan is complete and we will be sending it out this week. On December 18th we will go over our strategic plan, showcase school clubs and courses, and serve dinner for anyone interested. The event will start at 6 PM. Winter sports have started. The Jo-Hi Wrestling Tournament is January 3rd/4th and if you are around the gym will be packed and full of energy. If you would like to volunteer at the wrestling tournament, please reach out to Tim Kiesecker. You can email him at tim.kiesecker@josephcharter.org or just call the school at 541-432-7311.
Again, the Joseph School District would like to wish you all a happy holiday season!
Lance Homan
IMNAHA | MRS. WARNOCK We have spent the last month feeling extra “thankful” at the Imnaha Bridge School! We wrote letters to our local veterans expressing our gratitude, getting a tour of our local post office in the process. We traveled to JCS for their delicious Thanksgiving feast, and spent some time with the amazing Ms. Jen in the library. We cooked Thanksgiving soup for our families, and built a gratitude tree where we all expressed what we were thankful for! PRE K | MRS. MCWATERS All 16 kids are well on their way to knowing the names and sounds for 10 letters! We had a full day of Halloween costumes, party, and fun that concluded with a hay pyramid and tunnel, thank you to Mandy James for the straw and Fire Science for the delivery! Nov kicked off with conferences and flew by with Harvest Feast and Thankful Turkeys, and be on the lookout for our elves, Elvie and Elvis! K | MRS. SHETLER This month we have been learning bunches in Kinderland! We are learning to blend sounds into words and build our fluency with speed reading. We are learning measurement and comparing objects by greater than or less than. We were able to take our first field trip to Building Healthy Families and meet the other kindergarteners from around Wallowa County! We read books, made a craft, and of course enjoyed some ice cream! We would like to thank Building Healthy Families for a great event.
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