Hi Everyone! 

Please return library books: Students' last day to check out was this week.  Please return any library books you find at home to school! :) 

Summer Reading:  Students will get their summer reading game boards next week. Summer Reading is fun! It runs June 16 thru August 31, 2024 

Here are some details: 

• Mark one space on the gameboard for each day you read or listen to a book.
• Each time you mark at least 15 days (they don’t have to be in a row), come to your closest local library to receive a prize.

Sora Sweet Summer Reads: All ebooks and audiobooks in the red links are available unlimited May 13th - August 26th SIGN IN TO SORA with your kiddo's pps username and password 

K-3 titles 3-5 titles      

Install the Sora app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store  or open Sora through my.PPS or in a web browser: http://soraapp.com/library/ppsor 

Email Alicia with any questions. ahazen@heparrest.net

K-3 Sora Sweet

3-5 Elementery Sora Sweet

June 14 - Last day of school for all students

ENJOY THE BREAK!!

August 27 - first day of school for 1-5

Garden News

Please follow this link YMCA  for camps information

Here is the link to spring/summer camps

When Beckham Weatherby picks up his tuba, the rest of the world falls away. 

“I don’t get that nervous and I don’t get stage fright at all,” he said. “I guess I got lucky with how my body reacts to performing in front of crowds.”

Which is something the McDaniel High School junior has done quite a bit of lately. Not only is he a member of the prestigious Portland Youth Philharmonic (PYP) and the PYP conservatory orchestra, but he recently earned first prize in the tuba solo performance category at the Oregon State Solo Music Championships.

The first things you notice when you walk into Ellie Jensen’s classroom at Boise-Eliot/Humboldt Elementary School are peace and warmth. Then you hear the laughter of children. Then you just might see two posters hanging on the walls that tell you a great deal about the kind of teacher she has been for the past 50 years. The posters simply say, “Leave a little sparkle wherever you go” and “Be a friend.”

Jensen, known as “Miss Ellie” to the hundreds of students she has taught in her half a century as a Portland Public Schools educator, can’t help but light up a room. And she is a friend to all children. 

We dare you to drive by the Mainspring Food Pantry on the corner of 82nd Avenue and Fremont and not do a double take. Or a triple take. 

Students from McDaniel High School’s art-focused Career Technical Education (CTE) class have spent the last four weeks turning the exterior walls of the pantry into one, huge, joyful mural as part of the course’s exploration of climate justice and community engagement.

A little over 30 years ago, a Madison High School student named Joseph Janson had a simple wish. He wanted to go to a dance. But nothing was simple for Joseph, who was born with Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy and was confined to a wheelchair. 

He confided his wish to Tony Nitz, who at that time was an educational assistant at Madison (now Leodis V. McDaniel High School). Tony had been working one-on-one with Joseph for months and he immediately went about making the young man’s dream come true.

“The truth is, I would have done anything for Joseph,” Nitz said. “He was a unique person, and we had a very special bond.”