Tuesday Take-Home Deep Creek-Damascus K-8 School Weekly Newsletter 14151 SE 242nd Avenue, Damascus, Oregon 97089 658-3171 http://dcd.gresham.k12.or.us Lori Walter, Principal December 2, 2014 CANNED FOOD DRIVE AND GIVING TREE GOING ON NOW: The annual Canned Food Drive and Giving Tree will be conducted from December 1st –12th. This drive helps our local Boring Fire Department in supporting nearly 300 needy families in our community. DCD will be holding 2 competitions this year, and each winning class will receive a Fire Department pizza party. One competition will be between our Kindergarten through 5th grade classrooms and the other will be between 6th through 8th grade advisory classrooms. Please start bringing in your canned and boxed food items. Be sure that food donations have not expired and are unopened. Leadership will be counting the donated food and posting daily totals. We will also have a Giving Tree located in our library. The tree will hold tags identifying the age range of a child to buy a gift for. Please place the tag on the UNWRAPPED gift and return it to the tree. BARNES & NOBLE BOOK FAIR: This Friday, December 5th, from 4pm to 8pm we will be having a Book Fair at Barnes & Noble at Clackamas Town Center. There will be a story time and hot chocolate for all. This is a fun time for the whole family. If you buy anything in the store it goes towards our Book Fair. Your child will receive a bookmark with a Deep Creek - Damascus code on it and when you buy you just show them the bookmark. Our library assistant, Mrs. Bender, will be there with a DCD table and have lots of bookmarks in case you forget yours. Come say "Hi" and enjoy the story and hot cocoa. HONOR ROLL ASSEMBLY NEXT WEEK: All students in grades 6-8 who earned a 3.5 or better GPA for first trimester will be honored at an assembly next Tuesday, December 9, at 9:15. Our superintendent, Jim Schlachter, will be our guest speaker. Parents are invited to join us. We hope to see you there when we acknowledge the great academic success and achievement that these students have accomplished. FIRST TRIMESTER HONOR ROLL: 6th Grade 4.00 - Luke Bjugan, Kylie Borchert, Jackson Kane, Alexa Oxenrider, Soulynn Perez, Jacob Reynolds, Dillan Ritmiller, Samantha Stein, Harrison Wright, Gloria Yurkovskiy OUR FIRST BOOK REVIEW! By Emily Herrold in Mrs. Bjugan's Class The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler 7th Grade 4.00 - Krista Dorsing, Jaren Hunter, Gavin Lund, Rachel Maness, Jenessa Teachout You should really read The Tail Of Emily Windsnap. It is all about a 12 year old girl named Emily who thinks she is an ordinary girl but when it come to swimming lessons something goes wrong. A tail forms instead of feet. Then she meets a girl named Shona and they go on an adventure that changes Emily's life. You will have to read the book to find out the rest. 3.50 – 3.99 - Caleb Bjugan, Anthony Brown, I give this book a 4 Star rating. 3.50 – 3.99 - Chance Anderson, Jacob Billard, Alexander Ernst, Abigail Kohler, Joshua Nolting, Olivia O'Halloran, Brianna Paul, Jimmie Proctor, Audrey Thies, John Toy, Laura Wagner Grace Gierer, Joel Katz, Logan Masoumpanah, Allie Riggs, Caitlin Vanderberg 8th Grade 4.00 - Max Campbell, Jade Minzlaff, Kinzey Moller, Ainsley Pate, Rylee Ramsey, Jessica Roner, Abigail Simon, Trinity Teyema, Grace Wells 3.50 – 3.99 - Aidan Armstrong, Allison Billard, Brooke Collins, Grace Davidson, Alaina Hampton, Coleman Kane, Stephen Kerr, Tanner Marquardt, Alexander Pomasl, Joshua Sheller, Kathryn Simon, Sara Sorrell, Samuel Titchenal, Timothy Tkachenko, Jonathan Vinson, Matthew Worthy __________________ .5 GPA Increase from 3rd Trimester 13/14 to 1st Trimester 14/15 7th Grade – Andrea Birdsall, Danica Mangum, Jadon Morgan 8th Grade – Tatyana Castro, Brooke Collins, Grace Davidson, Joel Katz, Christian Maxey, Grace Maxey, Tyler Miner, Abigail Simon, Sara Sorrell, Caitlyn Tscheu PTO CRAFT NIGHT COMING SOON: DCD's annual Holiday Craft Night coming up ... Thursday, December 11th from 6 - 8 p.m. It's a community evening filled with crafts, snacks, music and fun! And ... get your photo with Santa for $2 (from 6 - 7:30 p.m.) and purchase $1 raffle tickets for an amazing quilt. PBIS LESSON OF THE WEEK: (Grades 6-8) This week in advisory the PBIS focus will be on setting goals for the new trimester. Students may be setting personal, academic, and/or social goals. Please ask your child how you can help support them so that they can meet their goals. A HUGE THANK YOU: Thank You, Thank You! Once again our own Ron Welsh (a retired teacher) is supporting our library. Ron has always been a big supporter of our students being great readers. He taught hundreds of his students to love reading because he believed that reading is the cornerstone to learning. Ron has donated two gift cards to Barnes and Noble for our library. This gift is so very appreciated and will be enjoyed by many, many students. Ron was an amazing teacher. He truly cared about his students and even though he has retired he is still encouraging our children to read. A big loving "Thank You" to Ron Welsh. GIFTS CARDS AVAILABLE IN OFFICE: Still have some holiday shopping to do? How about purchasing a gift card? Scrip gift cards are on sale in the office and we have another order next Monday. Just have your order in by next Monday, December 8th, by 11:00! We have several cards on hand and we have many, many more to chose from that you can order. If you have any questions call or text Michelle Chard at 503-781-8885, or email at [email protected]. Please make sure to fill out the order form completely if you have a middle school student to make sure the credit goes to your student. Thank you for supporting our school! Click here to see an order form will all of the businesses that you can purchase gift cards from if we don’t have what you want on-hand in the office. DAMASCUS SKI AND SNOWBOARD CLUB SIGN UP INFORMATION: Come join the fun! All ages and ability levels are welcome. Our club will go to Mt. Hood Meadows on January 11th, 18th, 25th, and February 1st on a deluxe Blue Star bus. For registration and package information go to: www.skihood.com/go, enter the "GO" Code: 1163290. Elementary school students are called "Snowblasters", Middle school students are called "Trailblazers", and I also welcome high school students and adults. The school office will also have informational flyers available with package details and prices. Registration deadline is December 20th. For questions please contact club advisor: Marlene Bergan (Teacher at Deep Creek-Damascus K-8 School) at [email protected] or (503) 7848120. (The Gresham-Barlow School District does not sponsor or endorse this activity) Upcoming Events: December 1-12: Canned food drive/Giving Tree December 2: PTO meeting 6:30pm December 3: Wacky WednesdayKindergarten December 5: Barnes & Noble Book Fair 4:00pm-8:00pm December 9: Honor Roll Assembly 9:15 December 11: Vision Screenings grades K, 1, 3, 5, 7 December 11: Hearing Screenings grades K-1 December 11: PTO Craft Night 6-8 December 16: Student of the Month December 16: PTO meeting 6:30pm December 17: Wacky WednesdayKindergarten December 19: School Sing-a-long 10:45 December 19: 6-8 Social 2:00 December 20-January 4: No school/Winter Break Flyers in the tower: YMCA Youth Basketball Leagues YMCA Winter Sports Metro Parent magazine PTO Newsletter Home & School Connection (GBSD) GBSD Community Report Saturday Academy
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