Friday Notes I April 29, 2022 |
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Saturday, April 30 Spring Benefit The online auction is open now! Register here to see the items and bid online.
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May 2 - May 6 Employee Appreciation Week Check your email for a message from your Room Parent about how you can be involved!
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Saturday, May 7 Field Day This event is kid-focused, casual and free! California Cruisin' is the theme for this day of fun in the sun! Plan to bring the family and join us next Saturday. Your child should have received a t-shirt this week to start the celebration. It was designed by 3rd grader Kylie N. Pretty cool, eh?
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Kindergarten Art:
Art, Literacy & Science "Grow Together" at Foothill
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For the past few weeks in art class, kindergarteners have been creating root vegetable garden collages with Ms. Bleecker. Each lesson during this project has begun with a book selected in collaboration with Mrs. Clark in the library. Since kindergarten works in our school garden with science teacher Mrs. DeCoite, they were able to relate what we are doing to their own experiences in science class.
The first week we read Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens. In this story, readers learn about the different kinds of vegetables that can be grown (ex. root vegetables) as a bear is tricked by a family of hares. After reading, they traced around a variety of plush root vegetables and colored them in with crayons.
The next week we read What Will Grow? by Jennifer Ward, which teaches readers how to identify plants by their seeds. Then they experienced creating a texture rubbing with conte crayon and paper for the dirt, gluing that paper onto a blue-sky background.
This week, we read Up in the Garden, Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner. In this story, a child shares her experiences working in the garden with her grandmother, focusing on what insects and other wildlife can be found in the garden itself and under the dirt. Next, kindergarteners started putting it all together by "sharpening" their scissor skills to cut out their vegetables and gluing them onto their dirt/sky backgrounds, and then finishing it all up by using marker to draw things that live under the dirt, on the leaves, or up in the air in a garden.
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The Foothill Golf Tournament (also pictured at the top of this week's Notes) was held at Upland Country Club last Friday and it was a great success despite being a little chilly! Students in grades 2 - 8 participated along with their favorite adults.
Congratulations to the students who topped their divisions:
Jayden K. (6-8 Boys)
Bei Bei C. (6-8 Girls)
Richard Z. (4-5 Boys)
Kailey K. ( 4-5 Girls)
Kami V. (Elementary Division)
The full results can be found HERE.
Thank you to the Chan family (Bei Bei, 6th) and Zhang family (Jacob, 8th)! Their generosity made our tournament possible!
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Field Day is next week!
We can't wait to see your family on campus! Plan on joining us between 8:00a.m. and 1:30p.m. There will be game booths, a classic car show, giant inflatables, field games, prizes and fun! We will have a full schedule and map of the campus in next Friday Notes!
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Math Challenge: Design the Gaga Pit |
The gaga pit in the Upper Field is a popular play place at recess, but this week Mr. Shah's Math Club students were asked to bring it into the classroom by drawing and design it on paper, and on floorplan.com. This architectural drawings session was led by Arian T. (8th) who taught the entire class how to draw 3-D digital designs! |
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It is Employee Appreciation Week!
BWO Plans Gratitude Events
Parents, please check with your Room Parent to learn what your grade is doing to honor your teachers. Below is the schedule, as it was shared by the BWO.
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Wherefore art thou, 7th grade? |
Professional actors from Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum were on campus again today. This time they were working with 7th grade on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. A little sword play, a little romance, a little tragedy. Our students are so fortunate to be exposed to such a unique and professional program, right here on our campus! |
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6th Grade Spanish Honors Selena |
6th graders in Mrs. Lopez's class recently studied Selena Quintanilla, a Mexican-American singer. She was known as the queen of tejano music. The students watched snippets of her life-story and learned about the obstacles this multi-talented young woman faced. During this time, Latinos struggled to break into the US music industry. Selena succeeded despite being a young Latina. She had it rough here because she was not Anglo, and in Mexico, because she was not born there. She learned to sing in Spanish, which helped her learn to speak it and to write Spanish songs. The 6th graders embraced her life and the life of her family who were members of the band. It is awesome to hear them sing her songs while in class. They loved this cultural lesson, so each student wrote something special about Selena and placed it on this bulletin board outside the classroom. |
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BWO Council Nominations Announced |
We have finalized the slate for the 2022-2023 BWO Council, Foothill’s parent leadership group that volunteers countless hours and energy to build and sustain volunteer support for all the wonderful activities that take place throughout the school year. Director of Advancement Urmi Kar has worked closely with members of the Council to ensure an efficient and clear nomination process that seeks to attract parents from all grade levels who are interested in a leadership role within the BWO. It is such a privilege to work closely with the BWO Council to benefit the students.
We look forward to the community’s approval of the slate at Foothill’s Annual Meeting on May 17 in the Randall Lewis Family Auditorium at 8:30am.
Betty Webb Organization Council
Slate of Officers 2022-23
Past President Tina Rodriguez
President Michelle Martinez
Vice Presidents Mallory Koebel
Secretary Meera Kanani and Harkamal Wahla
Room Parent Coordinators June Yoon and Alissa Stedman
Members at Large Grace Lee, Yasmin Gibson, Lindsey Sanders, Lyndsay Petersen
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Kinder Garden Harvest Time! |
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