Hi all, Off to a spectacularly rainy December. Lets hope for snow soon. We have a couple of big events coming up this month leading into our Winter Break: Friday, Dec 7 Gratitude Dinner – see attachment for more info Wed, Dec 12 Minimum Day Friday, Dec 14: last day to grab any remaining items [...]
Crew Update 11/27/2012 I hope everyone had a nice relaxing Thanksgiving break. As amazing as it may seem, we are only four weeks away from winter break! Here is what the Williams crew will be doing between now and winter break. “Who am I?” Expedition: Today I returned the students’ mentor essays. In this essay, [...]
Hi all, Hope everyone's break went well and all are relaxed and rested. The McMains Crew has partnered with the Humane Society of Truckee Tahoe for their MathDogs expedition. They want to assemble gift baskets to be given to families who adopt dogs, as well as for the volunteers to use with the dogs who [...]
Hello Bell-Bannon Crew! In the past few weeks we have been working hard on literacy skills-- using the "read-on" and "look for useful parts" strategies, as well as finding and creating words with the consonant digraphs: ch, th, and sh. We have also been working to identify and write word families: -at, -all, and -ing. We have [...]
Hi all, Everything going along smoothly these days. Students are engaged in their learning and continually impressing staff with their respectful behaviors. Thanks for all your support in both academics and character building. Amazing performances from SELS students at Dia de los Meurtos on Friday. Great job and congratulations to Rubi Sanchez in preparing them [...]
A common misconception of public schools is that they are free when in fact providing excellent education comes at quite a high cost. When most of us were children, property taxes and other federal funding were more than adequate to provide the required resources to fund schools. In 1978, Proposition 13 overhauled the way California [...]
Language Arts Language Arts continues to be centered around reading and discussing good books, reading and writing letters, knowing letter sounds, reading and writing sight words and writing sentences about our pictures. The letters we’ve focused on are b, e, g, h, l, n, r, and our newest sight words are go, we, to. Please [...]
Special thanks to all our Parent Crew for the love, treats, and encouragement during Bearwalk - we love you! “What’s on Our Plate” Expedition Crew have been exploring and applying their knowledge of California’s varied ecosystems. Using the Coastal Ecology Tour fieldwork trip to the coast’s tidepools, fens and redwood forests, they have been challenged [...]
What a wonderful turn to the weather! I hope you are thoroughly enjoying fall and the changing colors with the promise of snow. With so many exciting eventing on the horizon for the SELS community, the energy of our school and Crew is buzzing. Design Principle: Service and Compassion This month our design [...]
Expedition News Service learning- Fire Escape Plan: This month’s design principle is Service and Compassion. As a crew service-learning project, all students are expected to design and create a family fire escape plan for their home. An informational checklist is located in this week’s yellow folder. You are not expected to do all of [...]
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