THE SIUSLAW NEWS SCHOOL NEWSLETTER ❚ November 2017 ❚ 3
SIUSLAW
ARTIST OF THE MONTH
Cassidy Moore
— Advanced Art
B Y A UDREY L OWDER
Siuslaw High School
Student
C
assidy Moore was selected
by Mrs. Kim Pickell as the
December Artist of the Month.
She is the daughter of Dustin
and Jeniffer Moore and is cur-
rently a senior at Siuslaw High
School. Cassidy has Mrs. Pick-
ell for two periods of the day:
third period as a teacher’s as-
sistant and sixth period for Ad-
vanced Placement Art.
PHOTO BY CAROL JOLLEY
The last painting she did for
A.P. Art was “a purple, red and me tips and helps me form my
blue watercolor around this girl own art.”
Her favorite things to do in
that I drew with a rose” and is
addition to painting are read-
currently her favorite work.
Cassidy is currently the only ing and writing.
After high school, Cassidy
student in A.P. Art but hopes
there “will be at least two or plans to “start out in commu-
nity college and maybe go to a
three people next year.”
She describes the atmo- liberal arts college.”
She plans to be “an artist,
sphere of her class as “a nice
whether that be writing, paint-
place to just relax and draw.”
The class has helped increase ing or drawing,” after college.
Cassidy said she especially
her creativity by allowing her to
not be restricted by guidelines. enjoys painting landscapes and
Cassidy says her “favorite thing drawing people, so make sure
about [Mrs. Pickell] is that she you keep your eye out for her
lets me do what I want and gives work.
“Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk,
but no fl owers grow on it.” —Vincent Van Gogh
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7th-graders C
explore trail,
woods
indi Ramsey teaches Siuslaw Middle School seventh-grade Science
and Stream Team, and combined Lego Robotics for sixth- through
eighth-grades.
Th e Stream Team took a fi eld trip on Oct. 30, to the PAWN Trail.
“We learned about old growth forests and their unique habitat,” said.
Ramsey.
On Nov. 1, the Stream Team visited the Rankin Woodlands, owned
by Dave and Dianne Rankin. Both of them are retired Siuslaw School
District teachers — and both taught Ramsey when she attended school
there.
“Our class learned about many diff erent types of forests, the riparian
zone and habitats for both plants/trees and animals,” Ramsey said.
Thankful third-graders
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M
rs. Greene’s third-grade class wrote Thanksgiving poems to share with their families. The project had students
using the fi ve senses to express their ideas. Together, as a class, they also composed a collaborative poem and
created artwork to illustrate their knowledge of healthy foods. This project corresponds with the new elementary
school emphasis on healthy eating habits and physical exercise through the CATCH program.
Sixth-Grade Stream Team visits Siltcoos
I
n October, the Siuslaw Middle School Sixth-
Grade Stream Team went on the fi rst fi eld-
based research trip to Siltcoos Outlet. Th ey were
in groups, decided on their interests and collected
data to answer a question they had developed in
class in the days leading up to the fi eld trip.
Th ere were groups focusing on Forests, with
volunteers Jim Grano and Matt Smith with the
U.S. Forest Service, Water Quality with Siuslaw
Watershed Council’s Kyle Terry, Mammals with
local hunter Rick Mumpower, Marine Debris with
expert Mary Goff , Birds with retired sixth-grade
teacher Ty Perry, and Macroinvertebrates with the
Stream Team teacher, Mrs. Perry.
Hello Community Members,
Are you interested in working
with students? Do you have a back-
ground in science? Are you pas-
sionate about the outdoors? I am
looking to get in touch with commu-
nity members willing to volunteer
occasionally with my sixth-grade
Stream Team (an elective course fo-
cusing on watershed stewardship)
classes on fi eld trips.
On these fi eld trips, students will
be conducting fi eld based research
based on their own questions, re-
search and fi ndings.
What I need is a variety of people
with different expertise to come
along on fi eld trips to assist students
Look
for
A huge thank you to all the volunteers who
joined us.
Each group spent fi ve hours exploring the envi-
ronment and collecting data and preparing for the
presentation they would give back in class.
Th e day was beautiful. Th e mammal group took
trail camera pictures of six diff erent mammals
native to the area, the macroinvertebrate group
gathered 15 diff erent species between the out-
let and the lagoon and the marine debris group
collected garbage on the beach while also collect-
ing data, leaving the area better than they found
it. — Photos and story submitted by McKenzie
Perry
in small groups of about fi ve to de-
fi ne questions that can be answered
with data they will collect, and or-
ganize that data so that it can be
reported back to their peers in a gal-
lery walk format.
In order to join us in this venture,
I need your contact information,
your areas of expertise or passion
and, last but not least, I need you to
be cleared with a background check
in order to volunteer in the schools
Our fi eld trips take place once
per quarter (4 times each school
year) at the Siltcoos Outlet/Lake
trail area. Students will be guided to
ask questions that can be answered
with data or observations from that
area specifi cally, so I am looking
for people interested in teaching
about forests, water quality, dunes,
beaches, rivers, native and invasive
species, as well as our watershed as
a whole.
Students will also need help tak-
ing and organizing their data in a
way that communicates their ques-
tion and fi ndings.
If you are interested, please email
me at mperry@siuslaw.k12.or.us
with your information, and/or any
questions you may have. Thank
you so much for your time.
Respectfully,
McKenzie Perry, Sixth-Grade
Science & Stream Team
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