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IN THIS ISSUE:
talent show/ summer camp news / wy'east adventure at marmot cabin / best of clark county 2024 / hagelslag day in tumtum / campus snapshots / upcoming events
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Talent Show Auditions - Last Chance!
Our Talent Show is looking great, with a lot of fun acts and courageous students ready to perform. While auditions officially closed last Friday, we have room to sneak in a couple more acts, if your student missed the deadline and now wants to participate! Please email Music Teacher Devon at dscofield@gardnerschool.org, and fill out the Audition Form by Tuesday evening!
Our all-school Talent Show will be Thursday, May 2nd, at 2:30pm. We hope to see you all there supporting our amazingly talented students!
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Summer Camp News
Summer Camp Expo at OMSI!
As we expand our Summer Camp offerings, this year we are going to be one of the local summer camps at the NW Kids Summer Camp Expo at OMSI, this coming Saturday, April 20th. Gardner will have a booth alongside other Portland-based Summer Camp providers. At this Expo, we are giving away a free week of camp to one lucky winner, so if you happen to be in Portland on Saturday, drop by the Expo, say hi, and sign up to win a free week of camp!
Summer Camp Expo at OMSI - 10am to 5pm, April 20th, 2024.
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Summer Camp Spotlight
How It's Made
This summer, Kalama teacher Joyce will be running a series of camps called How It's Made! She will be covering a variety of objects, from ceramics, playdoh, and fabric objects to food and other items made with molds. These camps are all stand-alone, which means your campers can choose to take one or more camps without missing out on any information if they miss an earlier session.
Like our other camps, these run from Monday - Friday, 9am to 3pm. Cost is $365 per camp.
If you are interested in signing up your child for summer camps this year, visit our Summer Camp webpage soon!
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Wy'East Adventures at Portland Bird Alliance Marmot Cabin Outdoor School
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Our Third and Fourth graders in Wy'East had a grand adventure in the outdoors last week, spending three days and two nights at the beautiful Marmot Cabin near Sandy, OR. Marmot Cabin is owned by the Portland Bird Alliance (formerly Portland Audubon), and is a beautiful newer facility with staff dedicated to teaching ecology and science to students from the Greater Portland Area. Wy'East got to stay together in one big yurt with their chaperones, Teacher Bebe and Teacher Jared. With the way Marmot has their outdoor school structured, our school was the only one there for those three days, and so our kids got a lot of individualized attention and instruction!
Students showed a great deal of courage, as for some of them it was their first big trip away from home. They worked through big feelings of homesickness, and got to bond as a classroom through their experiences. And they demonstrated lively curiosity about their classes and the field studies, as they examined animal pelts and discussed the local ecology!
Our overnight outdoor school adventures for our Wy'East and Klickitat students are a key part of Gardner's experiential education model. We rotate through at least four partner programs, so over the course of four years, students have the opportunity to attend several different outdoor schools run by organizations such as Portland Bird Alliance and OMSI, in a variety of locations. In addition to offering students a broad variety of experiences, another benefit of this rotation is that older students were able to answer questions for the younger ones as they prepared for their time at Marmot Cabin, as our 6th graders went when they were 4th graders!
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Best of Clark County 2024
Nominate Gardner for Best of Clark County 2024!
The Columbian's Best of Clark County awards are a wonderful way for our school to get noticed in the Clark County area. Last year, we were the runner-up for Best Childcare and a finalist for Best School and Best Preschool. Let's make this the year we take the top spot!
Gardner School is a unique and needed school in Clark County, and we hope you will support us in making it to the voting round by nominating us today. You can nominate us in the following categories:
- Best Preschool
- Best School
- Best Childcare
- Best Summer Camp
We hope you will take a moment to nominate us in all categories, and share with your friends and family to vote, too. We'll share posts on social media, also, for easy sharing. Nominations close April 30th.
Thank you for your continued support of our mission to cultivate authentic learning through integrated experiences in a supportive community.
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Tumtum Gets a Taste of the Netherlands - Hagelslag!
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As part of their World Studies thematic, Tumtum does a deep dive into the culture of the Netherlands. Friday, April 19th, they will be visiting the Holland America Tulip Farm, and last week they indulged in what is often referred to as a highlight of the Tumtum year: Hagelslag Day!
Hagelslag is buttered toast covered in sprinkles, and is a very popular breakfast food or snack in the Netherlands. Tumtum got to make their own to try. The treat is so named because in Dutch, the word “hagel” means “hail” and the sprinkles reminded the creator of hail when he shook them onto his bread! Tumtum only tasted the fruit flavor, but if you want to try your own at home there are many varieties available, including different chocolates and licorice! These sprinkles can easily be ordered on Amazon, and they are also sometimes available at World Market.
Tumtum also talked about tulips, which are very popular in the Netherlands, in preparation for their field trip to the tulip farm this coming Friday. They learned a bit about how the tulips grow from bulbs and how bulbs are different from seeds. They also learned that tulips were imported to the Netherlands over 500 years ago, in the 1500’s. After they first arrived, someone wrote a book about
them and they became so popular that everyone wanted them. Many people even started trading tulips to other people so they could get new kinds of tulips.
If you want to visit a Tulip Farm with your family, Holland America's farm is not open to the public, but the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in Woodburn is open to the public until April 28th!
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Campus snapshots
What's happening on campus
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Upcoming Events
Friday, April 19th
Tumtum at Holland America Tulip Farm
Tumtum students and their parents will be taking a tour of the Holland America cut flower farm, then picnicking at Horseshoe Lake!
Thursday, April 25th
Wy'East and Kalama at the Oregon Zoo
Wy'East and Kalama are going on a Reading Buddy trip to the Oregon Zoo. If your student is in one of these classes and you're interested in driving and chaperoning, contact your student's homeroom teacher!
Friday, April 26th, 8:15am - 10:00am
Hike with the Head
Join us at drop off and take a walk down to WSU with our Head of School, Emily Davis. See the route the kids take when they explore the WSU trails, get some exercise, and enjoy a walk and talk with the head of school and other parents.
Thursday, May 2nd, 2:30pm
Gardner Talent Show
Auditions opened right after Spring Break, and students are hard at work. Join us in the Great Room to cheer on our unique, impressive Gardner Talents!
Friday, May 3rd
In Service Day - No School
Monday, May 6th - Friday, May 10th
Teacher Appreciation Week!
Tuesday, May 7th - Friday, May 10th
Parent Conference Days
Please watch your student's homeroom newsletters for information about scheduling a parent conference for one of these days! Conferences will be held in the afternoons.
To see and subscribe to our calendar of events, click below!
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