Geology Rocks!

Our last day of school before spring break included a buddy presentation. The primary classrooms were invited to enjoy the Columbia River Gorge-adapted play Geology Rocks, performed by our buddies. Our class performed three poems from Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up by Lisa Westberg Peters. Together we sang the song "Rock Cycle". Students did a great job!


Student made backdrops!





















Enjoy your Spring Break! See you Tuesday, March 29th.

*apologies for not getting any pictures of our poets! I was too busy "directing".

ECO Project

GORGE ECOLOGY STUDENT PROJECT

• Cool project using our gorge knowledge and giving back to our school community.

• We need your help April 2.

• Email dhanes@corbett.k12.or.us or call 503-695-3645 to sign up for a shift.

• Ask your child what we will be doing behind the baseball field.

• A great student and parent educational together time.

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The kids of Corbett Grade School are about to dig into something exciting! This spring, Corbett students will be creating their very own Outdoor Classroom and Native Habitat in the shady upland behind the baseball diamond. The Outdoor Classroom and Native Habitat will include trails, native plants, and bench seating for an entire class! Corbett students will take the reigns in making this new space but before the kids get started, we'll be hosting a Saturday Work Party in order to get some of the heavy-duty work done. We'll need adults to help dig post holes and install benches, operate a sod-remover, lay weed fabric, and haul - with truck or tractor - piles of barkchips to the project site. The Work Party will be held April 2nd from 10:00 - 2:00. We'll be working in shifts, so if you plan to help, email dhanes@corbett.k12.or.us and sign up for your duties and shift! Hope to see you there!

***Financial funding by Ecology in Classrooms and Outdoors, the Corbett PTA, Lowe's, and Walmart.

Important Mail

Hi families! You'll find your child's progress note tucked into their backpack Monday afternoon.

Looking forward to our last week together before Spring Break (March 21-24). We'll continue our study of rocks and earth material, and even be celebrating with our buddy class as they perform a play for us entitled Geology Rocks. In turn, we'll be performing our geology poems from Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up by Lisa Westberg Peters.

Wednesday marks the 100th day of school. We'll celebrate with math activities and a primary wing parade through the school.

Finally, note your child's sharing day for this week!

Corbett Education Foundation

A flyer went home yesterday with a link to the Corbett School Fund. Here's the link:

Visit www.CorbettSchoolFund.org to find out more!

A Madlib

Students have been studying nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs for the last several weeks. Just this morning we wrote this Madlib together. I wrote the story, and students helped me fill in the funny parts of speech (in all-caps).

We'll begin writing our own Madlibs tomorrow. Enjoy!

No Ordinary Day

One NICE and HOT FEBRUARY morning, our teacher MR. CHARLIE gathered us, his students, around the RUSSIA. He told us about the BLUE day we were about to have and said it would be FUN! Today was no ordinary CATERPILLAR. Today was FLUFFY.

Instead of writing, we'd be going to PIZZA HUT. Instead of math, WE'D PLAY WITH OUR DOGS. For lunch: ICE CREAM. After school we'd get on a plane with ABRAHAM LINCOLN and JUSTIN BIEBER and fly to CANADA. MR. CHARLIE was the most PURPLE teacher ever! We couldn't wait to start our AWESOME BILL GATES together!

Mural Project: Finished Products!

A big "THANK YOU" to Mrs. McCowen for all of her work teaching us how to paint salamanders and snakes. The results are 100% kid work, mentored by a wonderful art teacher.

Our math aid, Matt, took the following pictures of our proud/happy/excited/stoic/goofy artists. If you don't see your child, check back for updates.

Rock Collections

Please encourage your geologist to collect diverse and interesting rocks to add to their collection of 18. We're busy identifying our rocks and diversity in shape, color, hardness and origin is definitely more interesting.