Volunteer Opportunity at SCRAP

Lend a Hand – Get Involved – We need you!


Join fellow teens from 1:30 to 4pm, on Monday, January 17th at SCRAP to learn about creative reuse and sustainability.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Teen Volunteer Day
Teen Volunteers Unite! Join fellow teens from 1:30 to 4pm, on Monday, January 17th at SCRAP to learn about creative reuse and sustainability, plus engage actively in SCRAP’s day-to-day work. You will work on projects like organizing art and craft donations, putting together creative to go kits, or sorting collage materials.
Free and open to all teens! Want to sign up? E-mail SCRAP’s Volunteer Coordinator or stop by SCRAP to sign up. (A parent or guardian will need to sign a form for minors).
Reuse and Recovery Intern Spring/Fall 2010 – see internships below.

Why Volunteer with SCRAP?


SCRAP is a fun, energetic and creative place to be
Directly contribute to the spread of creativity and environmental responsibility
Gain skills and experience for your resume
Meet new people and get connected to a creatively thriving community
Each volunteer hour earns you store credit


Volunteer Groups



SCRAP hosts community, school and corporate volunteer groups 3-4 times each month. Groups work on specific projects that include sorting materials, folding and pricing fabric, and creating fun To Go Kits. Please contact our Volunteer Coordinator for more information. You can also sign up to join a group through Hands On Greater Portland.

Math for Girls

Some of you have asked after resources for math. Although I have not read the above book I have skimmed it and heard the author speak. I like the idea of seeing math through a new perspective.

Also, the pizza fraction page is still up. It is a random smattering. Let me know if you find any others that might be useful: http://trillium678.wikispaces.com/mathtutorial

White Elephant Gift

Remember, gift does not need to be worth money. It's about the game.



White Elephant Rules

1. If you don't bring a gift you don't get to play
2. The gift that you bring could be something that you have frm home or you can buy one.
3. All gifts that you buy HAS to be under $5 and wrapped
4. All gifts have to be school appropriate
5. Have fun! (It's about the game)

Game play rules..
The objective is to open, exchange, and "steal/exchange" valuable or invaluable gifts from your classmates see this for more info

St. Francis Service Day

Fantastic Serving Crew: NINAS ADVISING

Contributions worth mentioning:

MOST AMAZING SANDWICH MAKERS EVER!!!
Fantastic 5: Andy, Cameron, Dakota, Truman, and the SimoneAlisaJackie team.
MOST AMAZING SANDWICH MAKERS EVER!!!

MOST FORKS AND NAPKINS PACKED EVER!!!
Atticus, Sky, Ree, Clay and their amazing team


MOST GREATEST AWESOMEST LUNCH SACK PACKERS:
Maysia, Stella, and E

MOST AMAZING TABLE, SURFACE, CHAIR CLEANERS EVER!
The entire advising group especially Robin, Bella, Ty,


Thanks so much for all of you who sent your student with strong messages of service. We went to St. Francis. We wiped down tables and chairs and packed sack lunches. We did a great job of being respectful despite the often disconcerting actions and words of the mentally ill.

We had some students who were a little alarmed or a little put off by some of the phrases or muttering of the homeless. I've called some organizations and asked to get a guest speaker or some suggestions of books to read to the kids around homelessness. Please let me know if you have any ideas or connections to folks who serve the mentally ill, have a degree to do so, or who work helping the homeless. I'd like the students to be able to ask some hard questions.

The next service day is the 21st of January. The students suggested we get a couple drivers to get us there. If you can help us out in the morning it would just be driving from the school at 9:30 (get there at 10), hang out with us, possibly help me coordinate, and drive back. We'd be back at school at noon.

Please let me know if you can help! January is a cold month for our students and the homeless. It would be nice to be able to help out AND be warm. (Just to clarify I was fine but some of the students were feeling cold).

Not Getting Emails? Here is one with quite a bit of information.

A few notes to keep you date about the goings on around school. First, NO SCHOOL NOVEMBER 10, 11, or the 22nd to the 26th.

Also:
NOVEMBER 5th and ASSESSMENT DAYS
NEXT SERVICE DAY, NOVEMBER 19th
PG / PG13 MOVIES
CAMPOUT
NEXT CAMPOUT
MIDTERM AND MIDTERM CONFERENCES
TRILLIUM CLEAN UP

November 5th, Assessment Days: (Hopefully your students gave you the "Friday Experience" calendar I sent home)
Middle School Assessment Fridays will be the first Friday of every month. We will be focusing on two grade levels at a time to help improve test readiness, reduce frustration for testing students, and provide the most peaceful constructive testing and work sample environment. Students will be tutored, tested, or participating in work sample opportunities.

Whichever grade level that is not being focused upon will have an "option" day. They will have the option of staying home or coming to school and being engaged in some out of the school experience. The High School is using both of the first Friday's for Testing and Work Samples. We will be using all of the first Friday and some if not all of the second Friday. This will happen in rotation.

November 5th will be optional for the 6th graders to attend. If they do come they should be ready for a hike.
December 3rd will be an optional day for 7th graders.
December 10th will be the day for middle schoolers will be doing speech work samples and then going on a field trip.
January 7th is an optional day for 8th graders.

We should have more data after midterm. We will use that information to go forward.

PG / PG13 Movies
Among the many things we did today (Friday) we did watch a movie. I had suggested a scavenger hunt at Penninsula Park, a photo contest, a scary halloween drawing contest, but the movie idea was the one they went with. The students suggested and voted to watch Karate Kid. The students told me it was PG. I got to Videorama and it turns out the movie is rated PG13. I have not spoken to you all about movie rating preferences for you and your student. Therefore I found a PG movie which the kids were appalled by. Regardless, they made it through. We also conducted RPGs, folded origami, wrote poems, worked on creating internet games, or whatever other activities we could fit in to our busy day.

I'll be hoping to have conversations with you all about it soon. Meanwhile I will hope to sell the students to he idea of a scavenger hunt next week.

CAMPOUT
Thanks for all the help. That was the best campout EVER! We had amazing chaperones. Much thanks for all the cooks, the chaperones, the drivers, and the weather. I enjoyed getting to know the students more. Watching them have fun, playing kickball, and

NEXT CAMPOUT
May 25, 26, and 27. Please save the date. We'll need drivers, chaperones, and s'more makers!

MIDTERM AND MIDTERM CONFERENCES
Midterm is November 10th. Soon to follow there will be progress reports mailed to you soon after. Conferences will be soon after that.

Service Friday on November the 19th
Our next Service Friday will be November 19th. The middle school will need several drivers. Our service Fridays include such services as Ivy pulls, Native plant restoration in Oaks Bottom, trips to shelters, services to help the needy.

Trillium Clean Up:
I apologize if you have already received this information. The Trillium Family would like to invite anyone and everyone to help make our outside space a little more clean and tidy before the torrential rains of winter are steadily upon us. We've picked Sunday, November 7 from 9-1 to be that day. We will have lunch and celebrate our days hard work at 12:30. Here's our list of items to accomplish:

* Remove all debris left over from the past Village Building Convergence.
* Move the extra dirt (in the humungo white bags) to the East side of the school, as they'll be used for planter boxes in the Spring.
* Remove the green strips from the green fence (the whole darn thing will be taken down eventually...this is just to tide us over.)
* Install the bike racks/parking on the Maryland side of the school.
* Finishing plastering The Wall.

Our advising has created a wonderful community for each other. I am truly honored to be witness to the group.

Thank you for all your support, Nina

Service Friday, Helping the Homeless

Helping the homeless on Friday. Important to know who might be there and why:
http://www.walkforthehomeless.net/Why_Do_%20People_Become_Homeless.htm

Community Building

We've had a great time building community in our advising. In addition to campout we've gone to Peninsula Park, and played games. We have had several riveting games of scrabble, charades, zombie tag, and checkers.

To those of you new to our school, know that the rest of the year may look more structured. Campout, Fun Fridays, and bowling have been great opportunities for our students to build strong friendships and camaraderie in our advising.

Thank you to all the volunteers who made campout happen. Drivers, chaperones, cooks, and superheros.