Hi SELS community, I want to update you all on events for the next couple of weeks. Oct 24-28 is Minimum Day week; elementary students are released at 1 pm and 6th graders at 11:45. There will be no Kinder After-School Care as all will have access to busing. Oct 24-28 is also Goal-setting Conferences [...]
Thanks to everyone who participated - and to Tahoe Donner for hosting this great event! SELS FAMILY Please come join our 4/5th CREW as we enjoy a spectacularly fun family day at Tahoe Donner Golf Course to raise funds for our "Sierra Scientists" Geology Expedition to Yosemite. Event: Pitch N'Putt Golf Games; Golf [...]
We have the most extraordinary line-up of opportunities and experts this month. We have to be the luckiest expeditionary crew in the country thanks to our phenomenal parents! Kevin Bumen made it possible for our crew to film the Sierra Nevada Mountains and volcanoes from the air! With cinematographer Doug McMains aboard, Cole [...]
Language Arts Students have started new groups and books for their Literature Circle study. The different groups are reading Bandit's Moon, by Sid Fleishman, The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, by Karen Cushman, Striking it Rich, by Steven Krensky, and The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung: A Chinese Miner, CA 1852, by Lawerence Yep. All of these [...]
Expedition Express The Welch Crew had another successful fieldwork experience on Friday, October 7th. We headed east to Carson City, NV and visited the Nevada State Railroad Museum and then out to Virginia City, NV and took a spin on the Virginia & Truckee Railroad to Gold Hill. It was a great time for [...]
SELS Board Development Workshop AGENDA Sunday, October 9, 2011 9:00-5:00pm SELS, Rm M-4 Facilitated by Alfredo Vergara-Lobo, Nonprofit Trainer and Consultant Part 1: ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Roles - Guidelines for Improving Board Effectiveness Board Goals Part 2: MAKING THE PARTNERSHIP WORK When to lead and when to follow -- Who makes what decisions? The [...]
Hello Kindergarten Families! Happy October to you all! It has been wonderful to start out the month with classroom volunteers. The kindergarteners so enjoy your presence in our room, and we greatly appreciate your assistance at Choice Time. We look forward to seeing more of you in the days to come. Please be sure to [...]
Hi all, I hope everyone is enjoying our pleasant weather. I want to relay some recent changes in our school program: As of Monday, Oct 10, we will be receiving hot lunches for our students. The cost remains the same ($3.25, or $0 for Free/Reduced students) and are available to all. We will, however, need [...]
Classroom News The past few weeks we have been very busy in class! We continue to learn about each other and how to act in school. I introduced the Mystery Person, and we have almost wrapped up our daily student interviews. We are discussing the SIERRA norms for behavior, focusing on respect and [...]
Language Arts Students continue to work on their Literature Circle study of Sid Fleishman's, By the Great Horn Spoon. We are also working on reading comprehension with Reader's Workshop mini-lessons using the novel, Samurai of Gold Hill, by Yoshiko Uchida. Research shows that one of the best ways to improve your child's reading is for [...]
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