24-25: Week 10 Classroom News

Hello Families,

This is a busy time of year! Please read carefully through all the reminders and updates.

Whole School:

Winter Gear: Please make sure students are sent to school EVERY day with weather appropriate jackets & shoes (and hats, gloves, etc). They are outside every day for a minimum of one hour and oftentimes more with PE and Field Studies.
*Fri Nov 22: Stone Soup – See details from Ms. Kassie below.
Tues Nov 19:PTO Meeting 3:15pm
**Wed Nov 20 Afternoon Field Trip: Sisters Fire Station – Fire Busters Pizza Party / Transportation change – see details below.
Thurs Nov 21: Costumes are due at school
Thurs Nov 21: Lines need to be memorized
Ski & Ride Handbook is going out this week. Please take a look at the gear list and take note of what your student needs. BBS has extra helmets & goggles and snow clothes – contact Delaney if you need items.
***Tues Dec 3: Field Trip for 3rd-7th grade / NO PM BUS for K-2. See details below.

*Stone Soup: Next Friday we are doing a special lunch, Stone Soup. Students will work together to make soup and we will all enjoy it together for lunch. The story of Stone Soup is based around the magic of people coming together to share the little they have to make a delicious meal. In the tradition, we invite you to send something to contribute to the soup for next Friday. We would love to start receiving contributions to soup on Monday the 18th.

Items for stone soup:
Veggies (carrots, onions, celery, potatoes, garlic…)
Can of crushed tomatoes
Can of coconut cream

We will be having apples with cinnamon for a sweet treat after, so feel free to contribute to either of those if you wish.

**Fire Busters Field Trip: As part of the Fire Busters program BBS has been invited to a pizza lunch at Sisters Fire Station on 11/20 from 11:30am-1pm. Students can pack a lighter lunch and snack that day if they plan to eat pizza with the fire fighters. Sisters families can pick up their child at the fire station by 1pm to avoid having their child ride on the bus back to Camp Sherman and then to Sisters again. Please communicate with us what your transportation plan is.

***Field Trip for 3rd-7th: On December 3 students in grades 3-7 are invited to attend a OSU women’s basketball game in Corvallis free of charge. We plan to leave on the bus first thing in the morning (8:15am) to go to the game and won’t be back to school until around 4pm. This means we will not provide bus service in the afternoon to students in grades K-2; please make an alternative PM transportation plan. We will run the afternoon bus route for grades 3-7 but it will be at least an hour delayed. We will confirm a time for bus drop off when we get on the road from Corvallis that afternoon. Please let Mr. Sharp know if you would like to chaperone the trip or have questions.

From Ms. Steele: ssteele@blackbutte.k12.or.us

Administrators (5th-7th): Hello Families,
⇒ What we have been currently working on!
- Integers, 7th grade
- Multiplying Decimals, 6th grade
- Dividing Decimals, 6th grade (HARD)
- The Distant Past, Anthropology, Archeology
- Reading Multiple Retellings of a Fairy Tale
⇒ What we will be working on next week!
- Math Tests and Quizzes for all
- Vocabulary Quizzes for World History Textbook
- Everyone writes their own version of a fairy tale
- Baking a sweet treat for the construction crew
⇒ I will be gone from 11/19 through 11/22. Ms. Liz will be taking my place. Her email is liz.thaete@gmail.com if you need to reach her during that time.

From Ms. Kassie: kdemarsh@blackbutte.k12.or.us

It was so wonderful to see you all and connect last week. Thank you for making the time to check in! Please let me know if you have any follow up questions about what we talked about or other work that came home. It is a lot of information to digest!

K-1 Literacy & Math: Kindergarten students are wrapping up learning the last of their sound animals. 1st grade students are learning the digraph th in reading and writing. We have started a new author study, reading books by Arnold Lobel. In kindergarten math students are starting to build addition number sentences. First grade students are working on understanding teen numbers with a focus on understanding the concept of tens and ones.
K-2 Science: We are wrapping up our plant unit. Ask students about giant and tiny lily pads. There is some work in their purple folders they brought home on Wed. Please take a look and ask your child what is something new they learned about plants.
⇒ Work & Play to try at home
- Have first grade students try segmenting or blending words with 4 sounds- happy, grab, plate, glide. So either breaking a part each out or you giving them the sounds and they blend them together to tell you the word.
- Have kindergarten students work on telling you the ending sounds of words- boot, sad, love, cage
- 1st grade students work on understanding numbers as 10 and 1s. 28 is 2 tens and 8 ones. Put things into group of ten and then see how many more for a teen number
- Kinder students work on addition problems around you and see if your students can write the equations.

From Mr. B: ebarrons@blackbutte.k12.or.us

Bebop (2nd-4th) Math: Bebop mathematicians are using weather temperature data for predictions, building fluency around coin counting (and coin rubbings!), expanding their understanding of prime numbers, seeing connections within fractions and writing their own story problems.
Bebop (2nd-4th) Literacy: In literacy, Bebop is starting a compare and contrast essay, working on trigraphs and 3-sound blends, reading Patricia Polacco books and practicing cursive letters m, y, k, and tow-truck letters o, w, b, and v.

From Mr. Sharp: dsharp@blackbutte.k12.or.us

It was great to see so many of you last week for conferences. Our next scheduled round isn’t until March but please reach out between now and then if topics come up that you want to discuss with the teaching staff. Good communication and partnership between school and home will benefit our students and is a priority for the BBS staff.

Field Studies: We have been learning more about the trees of the basin. Next week we will begin a forestry project where students are measuring the density of trees in several stands near the school. This project requires lots of measuring and math which provides a chance to apply their academic skills to a real world situation. We will even be going out in the field with some of the local Forest Service tree experts to learn about their work. My class is planning to be out in the forest on Friday and Monday afternoons this coming week.
PE: Students have been trail running, playing soccer, and making the most of our temperate fall days.
- ⇒ Make sure students are dressed to go exploring in the cold, rain, and snow for upcoming field study afternoons.

From Ms. Sharp: jsharp@blackbutte.k12.or.us

Performing Arts: On Tuesday, Ms Hollie Foster joined us for our first song rehearsal. Thank you to Chapel in the Pines for letting us use their space for our song rehearsals. It’s so much easier than moving a Piano into a classroom, and a nice cozy space! Hollie will also be joining us at school during our play rehearsals from now on. We are working on blocking our play on a taped out stage in the Green Ridge Room. It’s a bit difficult to find the space in our phase 1 school, but we’re all working through it with a flexible attitude. Thanks to Mr. B and Mr. Sharp, who are helping to move desks and chairs for our classes!
- ⇒ Important due date: Friday 11/22! Students need to have their lines memorized and costumes are due at school. Find all the info you need at these links:
- ⇒ Winter Performance 2024 Information for Families
- ⇒ Costume Information