DOLPHIN DIGEST 11/14/2024

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We’re so glad to have you as part of our school community!

This weekly newsletter is developed and sent in partnership between school administration and the PTA. If you have information you'd like shared in the newsletter, please email it to ArletaSchoolPTA@gmail.com. Keep scrolling for the latest.

We acknowledge Portland rests on traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla and many other Tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River. #HonorNativeLand https://youtu.be/ETOhNzBsiKA

• Nov 14: Litter Pick-up 2:30-3pm, meet at picnic tables

• Nov 14: Neurodivergent Family Gathering, 5:30-7pm

• Nov 15: Due date to submit pre-orders for spirit gear

• Nov 15: Free Food Market 3-5pm (at Kellogg Middle School but open to the community at- large, enter through the front door).

• Nov 15: Family Movie Night, doors open 5:30pm, movie at 6pm in the cafeteria

• Nov 15-Dec 2: BottleDrop matching funds campaign

• Nov 18: PTA General Meeting 6pm-7pm (Dinner and childcare provided.)

• Nov 20: Early Release at 11:50am

• Nov 23: Community Care Day 9am-12pm on the Arleta grounds

• Nov 25 & 26: Parent/Teacher Conferences - sign up here

• Nov 25-29: NO SCHOOL

• Dec 2-7: Book fair, Arleta Library

• Dec 7: Winter Bazaar 11am-2pm

Arleta School Calendar

Updated PPS District Calendars:

English language PPS District Calendar 2024-25

Spanish language PPS District Calendar 2024-25

Vietnamese language PPS District Calendar 2024-25

Back in early September I announced Ms. Hannah Grossi as our long term guest teacher for Physical Education/Wellness. As you may know from the newsletter she sent families last week Ms. Hannah is now our official PE/Wellness Teacher. Ms. Hannah has been a wonderful PE teacher for our students all year, quickly establishing rapport with classes, learning student’s interests and strengths, and supporting individual student needs calmly and with kindness and warmth. She creatively utilizes our PPS Open Court Curriculum, modifying for developmental levels while providing coherence, consistency and safety. She plans ways to ensure all students feel invited and welcome to participate and brings a wealth of previous teaching experience evident in strengths such as keeping lesson introductions short, meaningful, clear and relevant so children know what they’re going to learn and play, why it’s important, and so they can get right to it. Here is an introduction Ms. Hannah wrote for our community:

My name is Ms. Hannah, and I’m thrilled to be a part of your child's journey in Physical Education this year! I have a deep passion for living an active and healthy lifestyle, and I believe in the power of movement to build strong bodies, minds, and relationships. I’m eager to get to know each child and create a positive, supportive environment where they can thrive. I look forward to partnering with you to encourage healthy habits both in and out of the gym!

You can meet with Ms. Hannah or any of our other Specials Teachers, in addition to a conference with your child’s teacher. Conferences are coming up on November 25 and 26: please sign up here if you haven’t already.

During conferences you’ll find copies of our newly created Arleta School-Parent-Student Compact (used to promote a common agenda) as you come in the main entry and outside classrooms including the gym, library, and music and art rooms. This compact is one part of our school’s parent and family engagement policy. It’s been developed jointly through school teams including parents via Site Council this fall and identifies ways you as parents and caregivers, and our school staff can share the responsibility for supporting your child’s learning. A requirement of Arleta’s new status as a Title 1A school is that every student, parent/caregiver and staff member sign this compact, which PPS Title 1 schools do during fall conferences. Our compact is being translated into our PPS supported languages in time for conferences and we’ll send it out next week so you can preview it. If you think of suggestions for the compact in general, or specific language you want to add to your child’s compact, please write it in on your child’s document. Teachers will place compacts with suggestions at the top of their stack of signed copies, and we’ll incorporate suggestions for the compact overall into next year’s compact. Thank you!

Sincerely,

Lisa

Each year, intrepid Arleta readers devour books and compete to answer questions about them with other teams around the city and region! It's an exciting way to explore books and get better at "close" reading!

Oregon Battle of the Books (OBOB) is open to grades 3-5 and kids will join teams of 2-5 players. Click here to see this year's booklist! Click here to go to Arleta's OBOB page. And click here to see the booklist on Multnomah County Library's site (both audiobooks and physical copies available)!

For more information or to join a team, email arletaobob@gmail.com.

There's still time to pick your Parent/Teacher Conference slot! Go to MyConFerenceTime.com/dolphin to pick your time slot.

Conferences will be held on Monday, November 25 and Tuesday, November 26, between 8:00am and 7:30pm. Conferences will be in person and scheduled for 25 minutes.

The PTA provides food for the teachers to help fuel the Parent/Teacher conferences. The main protein and dishes will be from Pepino's but we need parents' help filling out the meal. Click the button to sign up to bring something tasty for our Arleta teachers' super long days! Let's thank them for Thanksgiving week!

Cho giáo viên ăn

Đăng ký để đóng góp cho sự lan rộng của quán bar taco/sa mạc trong những ngày hội nghị dài của họ!

Alimentar a los profesores!

¡Regístrese para contribuir a la barra de tacos/desierto durante sus largos días de conferencia!

The Season of Giving is upon us! Once again our Arleta Counselors, SUN Program and PTA Inclusion Committee is teaming up to rally our community to raise funds in support of Arleta families. Gift cards will be purchased to directly support families for holiday meals, gifts or fulfill whatever their needs are. Our fundraising goal is $2,700 ! That will ensure each family receives $150.

Please consider making a donation via venmo to @Audrienne-Manansala (school counselor), or bring cash, check or unused gift cards to the office for Ms. Aud by Friday, December 13th at 3pm. Please give generously!

Additionally, the Lane Food Pantry and the Francis Center are providing Thanksgiving Holiday food boxes to the families working directly with our counselors.

Please consider staying afterschool for a little bit and helping us pick up litter, from 2:30-3pm. The PTA will provide gloves, litter picker-uppers, and trashbags! We'll be meeting at the picnic tables. This is a great, simple, fast way to keep our grounds safe and welcoming for everyone!

Our Neurodivergent Family Gatherings welcome students, parents, and guardians in a safe space to talk, connect, and play. Join the next gathering on Thursday, November 14th from 5:30-7pm in the Arleta cafeteria, dinner provided. Please email ArletaSchoolPTA@gmail.com if you would like a translator.

Translated flyers here.

Our first Family Movie Night of the year is coming up on Friday, November 15th, featuring Willy Wonka!

• Doors to the cafeteria will open at 5:30 and the movie will start promptly at 6pm (run time 1h 40min).
• Bring camp chairs or blankets for seating, and reusable water bottle.
• Concessions will be available for purchase, supporting future movie nights.
• Students must be accompanied and supervised by their adult.
• School rules apply, such as no wandering the halls or student cell phone use.

Come meet other Arleta community members as we go over PTA updates on November 18, from 6-7pm, in the Arleta Library. Topics will include fundraising updates, PTA projects in the works, and a review of the PTA budget & standing rules.

Dinner & childcare will be provided. We hope to see you there!

Get ready to welcome our first author of the year! Dion Leonard and Gobi!!! Their story has inspired thousands of people around the world since 2016. They will be here on Wednesday, November 20th. If you'd like an autographed, and "paw-tographed" copy of one of Gobi's books, send your student's order form back to school. Here is a link to the Finding Gobi website where you can learn more, and the order form if you'd like to print and return it to your classroom teacher.

Help us clean up and winterize the Arleta grounds on Saturday, November 23rd from 9am to noon.

• Bring the whole family!
• Tools will be available, but extras are appreciated and folks are encouraged to bring their own gloves if possible.
• Fresh Stumptown coffee will be available to keep us energized!

Is your kid creative? Have they been begging for an opportunity to earn some pocket-money?

Each year, Arleta School hosts our Winter Bazaar. Kids sell crafts, the PTA has a bake sale and sells wreaths, paperwhites, and pointsettias, the library hosts a book sale, and we all get to hang out in community, doing a little winter shopping and enjoying each other's creativity and skills! This year, the Winter Bazaar is December 7th, from 11am-2pm (set-up at 10:30am) in the cafeteria.

The sign-up to sell at the bazaar is now open! Consider sharing your child's maker skills with the whole school and click the button below to fill out the Google Form.

Each week the Dolphin Digest highlights different topics of interest and provide different resources for you to celebrate Native American Heritage Month. Last week's newsletter explored stories and books. This week, we're celebrating people!

Nonprofits and Nonprofit Leaders in our Community

NAYA Family Center

Northwest Native Chamber.

PSU's Native American Student and Community Center

Future Generations Collaborative

Elderberry Wisdom Farm

Portland Indigenous Marketplace

NARA

Read about the work of one of Skidmore Prize's 2024 winners, Anna-Liza Victory.

Mercatus's Buy Native Guide.

Famous Native Americans To Share With Your Kids

Scientists:

• Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree.
• Anpetu Wastéwin (Ella Cara Deloria), anthropologist whose work became an important foundation for the study of Sioux dialects and culture.
• NASA physicist, Fred Begay.
• Archeologist Bertha "Birdie" Yewas Parker
• Mary Golda Ross, the first Native American aerospace engineer (or watch this segment on her on PBS Newshour).
• Surgeon Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord (and check out her book, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear at Multnomah County Library).
• Astronaut John Herrington.
• Astronaut and veteran Nicole Aunapu Mann.
• NASA Engineer Aaron Yazzie.
• Inventor and engineer Thomas David Petite.
• NASA physicist Jerry C. Elliot who worked on the Apollo 11 mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work on Apollo 13.

Artists:

• Storyteller and performer Te Ata.
• Former National Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo.
• Pulitzer Prize Winner Louise Erdrich.
• Pulitzer Prize Winner N. Scott Momaday.
• Author Tommy Orange.
• Poet Alexander Posey.
• Physician and author Charles Eastman, who was the reservation doctor at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
• Painter Kent Monkman.
• Painter Kay Walkingstick.
• Actor Wes Studi.
• Actor Grahame Greene.
• Actress Lily Gladstone.
• Actor Jason Momoa.
• 1950s rocker Link Wray.
• Designer Lauren Good Day.
• Writer, musician, and librettist Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird), or watch a segment on her work on PBS American Masters.
• Ballerina and artistic director, Moscelyne Larkin.
• Ballerina Yvonne Chouteau (link includes Chouteau dancing).
• Prima ballerina Maria Tallchief.
• Prima ballerina Rosella Hightower.

Leaders:

• Sioux Chief Sitting Bull.
• Nez Perce Chief Joseph.
• Shawnee Chief Tecumseh.
• Wovoka, the founder of the Ghost Dance.
• Queen Lili'uokalani, Hawaii's Last Queen.
• Duwamish/Suquamish Chief Seattle.
• Hiawatha, who united the Five Nations into the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederation in the 1400s.
• The first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller.
• Ottawa Chief Pontiac.
• Former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.
• Congresswoman Sharice Davids.
• Activist Winona LaDuke.
• Child activist Autumn Peltier.

For a different approach, read about photographer Matika Wilbur's work photographing members of every fedrally recognized tribe in the US or wFMT's list of Native American musicians you should know. To learn more about a specific tribe of Native Americans, check out this thorough database!

Perhaps you find yourself drinking more sparkling water this time of year? Or maybe you are planning on hosting for Thanksgiving? This holiday season BottleDrop is contributing up to $70,000 to our Blue Bag Fundraisers through our 8th Annual Holiday Give. Arleta will receive up to a 20% match from BottleDrop Give on funds raised from November 15th – December 2nd.

Blue Bags for Bottle Drop donations are available in the office or you can email arletabottledrop@gmail.com to have some delivered to your door!

Full bags can be dropped at any bottle drop location or local grocery store including the Safeway on Woodstock.

Email arletabottledrop@gmail.com with questions.

The Successful Schools Survey is an opportunity for students, staff, and families to provide important feedback on their school environments, learning experiences, and sense of well-being and safety at school.

The survey is conducted once every school year to provide timely information to schools, district leadership, and the community, allowing us to make informed decisions about school climate and culture. This year, the survey window is open November 1 to December 6.

You can complete the Successful Schools Survey online using the link provided below. Please complete one survey per household. If you have more than one student at PPS, we ask that you complete the survey considering the experiences of your eldest child. The survey will take approximately 15-30 minutes to complete and is available in English, Spanish, Russian, Somali, Vietnamese and Chinese.

https://surveys.panoramaed.com/portlandor/fall24family

For more information about the Successful Schools Survey, please go to pps.net/sss2024."

Click here for translated flyers.

The lost and found rack is bursting with clothes! Are you missing something? Check out the Lost and Found rack while you're at school and retrieve your missing thing!

The Lottery School Application window has opened and will close December 16th! If you are interested in learning more about different lottery options, please find out about each school's Information Night.

Please reach out to Ms. Aud if you have any questions about PPS lottery middle schools.

One hour a month makes a huge difference. On 2nd Thursdays of each month from 8-8:30, and 4th Thursdays from 2:30-3pm, Arleta parents and students pick up litter to help keep our grounds clean and welcoming. But we need a leader to muster our group, pass out and collect litter grabbers and trashbags, and see to it that it all gets done.

Could this be you? Please email the PTA if you're interested!

Have you been wanting Arleta Spirit gear but just keep forgetting to order or don’t want to pay for the shipping? Now is the chance to place a pre-order for Arleta clothing and not pay shipping!! Fill out this google form, with all the details before Friday November 15, 2024 and we will order it for you. Items will be available at the Holiday Bazaar on Dec. 7th. Arrangements can be made if you are unable to attend the bazaar, see form for details. See https://arletaschool.threadless.com/ for options. Not all items available, please see notes on the Google form.

Questions? Please email arletaptafundraiserchair@gmail.com

Zenger Farm is a nonprofit urban and organic farm that models, promotes and educates about sustainable food systems, environmental stewardship, community development and access to good food for all.

Every third Saturday of the month from April through November, Zenger hosts an open farm day. The program is designed to be welcoming, fun, and educational to people of all ages. This event is loosely structured and mostly self-guided. Educators are on site to facilitate activities and stewardship projects. We will typically offer guided farm tours at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm. Lunch will be served 12:00-1:00 pm. Participants are welcome to drop in throughout the day. The final check-in is at 2:30 pm.

The final one of the season is November 16th from 11:00 AM-3:00 PM

Zenger Farm, 11741 SE Foster Rd, Portland, OR 97266. The activity will center around making mullein candles! Click here to go to the event page.

OMSI's animation film festival is wrapping up next week.. Tickets for nonmembers are $8 Adult, $7 Senior (63+), & $6.50 Youth (3-13) and for members are $7 Adult, $6 Senior, and $5.50 Youth. The remaining shows include:

Nov. 16 at 1:00pm Shaun the Sheep, at 2:45pm April and the Extraordinary World and at 5:00pm The Time Masters (Sub)

Nov. 17 at 1:00pm Song of the Sea, at 3:00pm Boy and the World, and at 4:30pm The Time Masters (Sub) 6:00pm Inu-Oh (Sub)

Nov. 19 at 6:30pm The Time Masters (Sub), and at 8:00pm The End of Evangelion (Sub)

Nov. 20 at 6:30pm Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time (Sub). For more information, see their event page here.

Arleta has a small food pantry, clothes closet, and a variety of toiletries available for the use of any Arleta family. To set up an appointment to use the pantry or the closet, please email our SUN School Coordinator, Raina Bilbrew at rbilbrew@pps.net or raina.bilbrew@portlandoregon.gov or call or text her at 971-803-8986.

Konstella is the website and app that the PTA is using for events, family communication and volunteer opportunities.

We encourage all Arleta parents and caregivers to download the Konstella app today using invitation code FH3W5B, then tap Join in the email you get. OR, sign up on Konstella.

If you have any troubles or questions, feel free to reach out to our school’s Konstella Admin and parent, Lisa Hugelier, lisa.hugelier@gmail.com

We'd love to invite everyone in the Arleta community to become a PTA member for free! Joining the PTA is a great way to connect with others, support projects and programs that support our students, and amplifies your voice in issues that impact our school.

Signing up only takes a couple minutes - https://arletapta.memberhub.com/store (one free membership per household, additional memberships are $10)

Help turn your BottleDrop dollars into Arleta School PTA grant dollars, staff appreciation, free school events, affinity club support, and so much more. There are two ways to participate (both of which are completely FREE to you!): you can pick up a PTA blue bag from the main office or school events or donate funds from your individual BottleDrop account.

Get your Arleta spirit wear! Shop online 24/7 and have your items shipped to your home anytime! There are t-shirts, hoodies, tanks, mugs, and more. Check out the online store here: https://arletaschool.threadless.com/

Show your LOVE for Arleta and purchase your We ♥ Arleta yard sign now! Order yours today to show off your school spirit and support the Green Team!

https://arletapta.memberhub.com/store/items/625149

Arleta PTA participates in the Fred Meyer Community Rewards

By linking your Fred Meyer Rewards card to the Arleta PTA and scanning your rewards card when you shop, a percentage of your purchase goes to the PTA. Sign up here. (And you'll still get your cash back rewards!)

Email: ArletaSchoolPTA@gmail.com
Website: arletapta.org
Location: 5109 SE 66th Avenue
Phone: 503-916-6330
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PPS District policy prohibits discrimination on the basis of age, color, creed, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation. BP 1.801.020. Not all outside groups comply with the District’s non-discrimination policy. Families are strongly encouraged to review all materials closely.