From the Director

Dear Families,

It was a pleasure to watch your children sprint around the track at our Jog-a-thon. They were really focused on beating their laps from last year, and setting goals with their friends. We greatly appreciate your support with this amazing fundraiser!

THE MODULAR IS ON THE WAY!!

Our modular classroom is due to be delivered in the next couple of weeks, and may briefly interfere with afternoon pick up on the delivery date. I will give you more information as I finalize the logistics. We are almost there!!

SUBSTITUTES NEEDED

We are well into the flu season and our excellent staff are feeling the full impact! We are in constant need of both teacher and classroom assistant coverage. The requirements for a classroom assistant substitute is a simple background check. To be a teacher substitute, you will need an Oregon Teaching License, Charter School Registry, or a Restricted Substitute License. The Restricted Substitute Teaching License is issued to qualified individuals who hold a minimum of a bachelor’s degree, but have not completed a teacher preparation program. It requires district sponsorship, which would involve me writing a simple letter to the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC). The Restricted Substitute Teaching License permits a qualified individual to substitute teach in a prekindergarten through grade 12 Oregon public school district, education service districts, and charter school assignments. If you are interested, please reach out to our new office manager, Ms. Taurie. taurie.michele@madronetrail.org

Have a wonderful weekend,

~Kendall Roberts

Director

kendall.roberts@madronetrail.org

Stewardship Day--POSTPONED

Due to the forecasted weather, we will be postponing our Stewardship Day. Look out for updates for when it gets rescheduled.

Jog-a-thon Update

We had another successful Jog-a-thon today! We had perfect weather and the students ran so many laps! Thank you to all the parents who came out to volunteer to mark laps, fill water cups, and cheer on the students.

Our top 3 runners this year were:

Maddy Bevers, 7th grade: 34 laps

Braden Johnsen, 8th grade: 30 laps

Lucas Zeigler, 8th grade: 29 laps

We also had some amazing lap totals for 1st-3rd, who run for less time. Every year it's so impressive how many laps the students can run. Many students set their personal best record this year.

We received lots of pledge sheets today that will be processed and turned back to students next week. If you haven't turned your pledge sheet in it's not too late! Get it to Ms. Cori or your child's class teacher next week. We have extra blank copies in the office and on our website if you need a new one.

8th grade Soup Fundraiser

As a reminder, soup is available to order every day. The 8th grade class will be taking orders for soup in the courtyard every morning with the support of Chef Evan and parents. Cost is $5 and you are more than welcome to pay in advance for multiple days. Every 16 oz. soup comes with a slice of multigrain bread and a cube of butter. Cash only please!

Our soups next week have not been decided on yet, so look for the choices Monday morning. As usual both soups will be gluten-free and one choice will be vegan.

Lost and Found

With the cold weather in the mornings and hot weather in the afternoons we are collecting quite a bit of Lost & Found. Please see if anything looks familiar. We will be donating it at the end of next week.

Registration Packets

Registration packets were sent home earlier this month. Please return the completed forms as soon as possible, as well as payment for the supply fee and field trip fee. If you have any questions, please contact the office at 541-842-3657 or sherrie.gasper@madronetrail.org. The supply fee for all grades is $150, but if you get it in before October 28, there will be a 20% discount, making it $120. This is the last week to get it in for the discount!  The field trip fee this year is $50 for 1st and 2nd grade, $75 for 3rd grade, and $100 for 4th-8th grade.

From the Athletic Director

Hey everyone, we are wrapping up 2 sports this week here at Madrone. Volleyball and Cross Country both had great seasons with our Madrone kids working hard and showing great improvement during their respective seasons. Way to go Dragons!

Cross Country

On Tuesday our runners competed in the middle school JV level district championships at the Jackson County Expo center.

There were 96 male runners and female runners in the JV division.

Canyon Livdahl   13:30.43    (21st)

Nova Star            15:13.72   (56th)

Lucas Zeigler       15:26.64    (60th)

Maddy Bevers     13:30.57    (5th)

Sidra Price           15:40.66    (55th)

Notes:

• Maddy Bevers is the fastest female runner in school history with a personal best of 13:25.1.
• Canyon Livdahl's season best of 13:08 is the 3rd fastest boy’s time in school history.
• Nova Star’s time of 13:48.4 is the 6th fastest boy’s time in school history. 

Way to go Dragon Runners!!!

Volleyball

Our Girl's Volleyball team played Fleming to a 2-2 tie earlier this week. Today is the last game of the season at Saint Mary’s. Go Dragons volleyball players!

Basketball

School basketball is fast approaching. We have updated the first practice to be November 2nd. This will allow both Sacred Heart and Madrone Trail to finalize registrations. Please have all forms turned in to the office no later than October 28th.

Boy’s basketball: 6th-8th grade.          

Cost: $75 (Some scholarship funds available)

If you know your student is going to play and will need a sport physical, we are having an option at Madrone Trail on Saturday, October 22nd. Matthew Goodrich of Complete Integrative Care will be at our school from 10:00am-12pm. Cost is $20 for the Physical. Click on the links below to register your student for a time. Page 1 of the form will need to be filled out prior to the time slot. Link provided below to print. Copies will be available the day of as well. Parents are invited to attend the time slot.

Register by 9pm tonight please.

Note: 6th-8th Girls basketball season will be right after the winter break.

Guitar Club is coming!

Our music teacher, Mr. Zeller, is starting up a guitar club on Thursdays after school from 3:30-4:15 beginning November 3rd and going through mid-February.

This will be for 6th graders through adults. That’s right! Parents are welcome to join. Cost is $50 for each participant

The focus is on classical guitar and will take place in our gym. Participation forms will go out next week to interested students.

Thanks everyone,

Jeff Roberson

jeff.roberson@madronetrail.org

The Seven Core Principles of Waldorf Education

Founded in the early 20th century, Waldorf education is based on the insights and teachings of Rudolf Steiner. Guided by these insights, the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education has adopted Seven Core Principles for Waldorf Schools. These principles articulate the most important values that inform the policies and practices of Waldorf schools in North America and are held as a central tenet of our school.

As part of our school’s membership process to the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education, the faculty is currently participating in an extensive "self study" process, looking deeply at the Seven Core Principles of Waldorf Education and how each of those principles is living in our school. We spent our in-service last week going over two of these principles. We shared these last year as well, but thought since we are starting up our self-study again to include them again this year. We will share one Core Principle each week in the Friday Update for you to ponder. 

Principle 2: Child Development

An understanding of child development guides all aspects of the educational program, to the greatest extent possible within established legal mandates.

Human development proceeds in approximate 7-year phases. Each phase has characteristic physical, emotional, and cognitive dimensions and a primary learning orientation.

The Public Waldorf educational program, including the curriculum, teaching methodologies, and assessment methods, work with this understanding of human development to address the needs of the individual and the class in order to support comprehensive learning and healthy, balanced development.

Our developmental perspective informs how state and federal mandates, including curriculum sequence, standardized testing, and college and career readiness, are met.

Link to all seven principles: https://www.publicwaldorf.org/core-principles

Handlettered by Ms. Cori