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THE SIUSLAW NEWS SCHOOL NEWSLETTER ❚ April 2017 ❚ 3 Siuslaw Connections A RT I S T O F T H E M O N T H Lupita Figueroa — Creative Arts B Y A UDREY L OWDER & B ENJAMIN C AHOON Siuslaw High School Students “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” — Picasso L COURTESY PHOTO T he Siuslaw School Connect class spent 45 minutes a week cleaning up outside around the school and community. They cleaned up April 18 and 21 for a total of 1 hour and 25 minutes. Names from left to right and front to back are: Sam Testa, Jennifer Hanna, Chris Smith, Brodie Riesenhuber, Madisyn Miller, Jaide Carter, Alex Kellerman, Skyler Winters and Joanna Gomez. — Submitted by Stephanie Rogers upita Figueroa was selected as this month’s Artist of the Month by Mrs. Kim Pickell and is currently a sopho- more attending Siuslaw High School. She was chosen for her talent in line drawings, but enjoys painting with watercolors more. Lupita explains, “You can combine colors together and it’s faster to do.” She has learned a lot in fifth-period Creative Arts II, including how to incorporate balance, shapes and the color wheel. “(This class is) calm, everyone gets along there. So it’s really fun,” says Lupita. She enjoys Mrs. Pickell’s teaching because she class covers not only subjects Mrs. Pickell likes, but also subjects that students are interested in. Lupita is the daughter of proud parents Jorge and PHOTO BY CAROL JOLLEY Belen Figueroa. Seeing as this is only her second year in high school, she is not yet sure what she wants to do after, but hopes to continue with art as a hobby. If you wish to see Lupita’s and other talented student artists’ work, make sure to visit the Florence Events Center, 715 Quince St., for the Fresh Impressions art show this May. Bio students construct a web of interactions Spring service COURTESY PHOTOS S iuslaw sixth-graders who are members of the Knowles Creek Crew will be helping U.S. Forest Service fish biolo- gists count and record data on native coho and chinook smolt and fry at the Knowles Creek Smolt Trap this spring. They will go once a week through early May. Students selected for the crew are Faith Lumadue, Bailey Myrick, Ian Sissel, Ava Glowacki, Kyle Hughes, Hunter Cole and Alize Castellanos. — Submitted by McKenzie Perry In April, Biology students started with community interactions. Food webs were a part of the lesson where students learned how each plant and animal interacts. The students picked a plant and animal to place on all of the desks and tables/stools around the room and connected them to- gether with yarn. White yarn was for land interactions, colored yarn was for aquatic interactions, and twine for mix between the two, such as bears eating salmon. A second lab covered Biogeochemical cycles that are found on earth and includ- ed water, O2, CO2, microbial, plant, res- piration for both plant (photosynthesis) & animal, rock and nutrient cycles. The lab was to take the cycles students learned about and have them interact with each other in a logical way. The students put the product of their COURTESY PHOTOS This biology class goes over food webs and biogeochemical interaction webs. labs on a chalk board and a painted black space on the wall. The students then ex- plained their drawings to their peers with an informal presentation. — Submitted by Stephanie Rogers Florence Community PTA PTA keeps up the momentum with letters, challenge Look for KID SCOOP Kid Scoop runs every Wednesday during the school year in the Siuslaw News and fea- tures educational stories and fun activities for families. The activity page is part of the Siuslaw News’ Newspapers In Education program, in which teachers from Siuslaw and Mapleton school districts may request copies of the local paper to use as cur- riculum in their class- room. Call 541-997-3441 for more info. The school year is in the final If the kids hit their 25,000 Box stretch and Florence Communi- Top goal, Siuslaw Principal Mr. ty PTA continues to stay active H will find himself duct taped to with more than a few fun activi- the wall by the “special forces!” ties. Box Tops for Education can be turned in anytime throughout the B OX T OP C HALLENGE : The year, so be sure to share yours week of April 24 to 28 saw a with your favorite Siuslaw stu- flood of Box Tops for Education dent or send them into the PTA come into Siuslaw Elementary at P.O. Box 1140 Florence, OR School as Sarah Nunez, Flor- 97439. ence Community PTA Secretary, led the charge to collect 25,000 T EACHER A PPRECIATION Box Tops as part of a “special W EEK : Florence Community ops” mission for the kids. PTA sincerely appreciates our The goal of “Mission ImBOX- teacher members and all educa- able” is to encourage students tors in our area — and we know and parents to clip Box Tops for that the community does as well! Education in a push to raise ad- During Teacher Appreciation ditional funds. $1,000 of “Mis- Week, coming up May 8 to 12, sion ImBOXable” funds are PTA invites the local community slated to be donated to ongoing to help us “thank a teacher.” disaster preparedness efforts at Since 1984, National PTA has Siuslaw Schools. designated one week in May as The best part, though? a special time to honor the men and women who lend their pas- sion and skills to educating our children. This year, help us show our educators how important they are by writing a note, sending a letter, drawing a picture and dropping it in the mail to FCPTA Thank A Teacher, P.O. Box 1140, Florence, OR 97439 or dropping your letter in the drop box of any Siuslaw School office starting May 1. “Teachers are the foundation that our schools are built on, and in celebration of Teacher Ap- preciation Week, we’d like to shower them with tangible thank you notes,” said Tiffany Hold- ahl, Florence Community PTA president. “Whether you are a student, parent, alum or simply someone who recognizes the value of our local educators and all that they do for our commu- nity, we hope to see a note from you!” General thank you letters are welcome, or if you’d like to spe- cifically address your note to a certain teacher or school, please note the intended recipient on the envelope. Help us show our thanks and start writing your thank you’s soon! M ARK YOUR CALENDARS : Tuesday, May 16, at 4 p.m. is the next Florence Community PTA meeting in the Siuslaw Elemen- tary School Library. Community members will hear from PTA convention delegates, celebrate the awards and honors PTA received — including the Oregon PTA Unit of Excellence — and elect next year’s officers. For more information on Flor- ence Community PTA, visit www.florencepta.org.
