- Winter Break: December 20-31
- MLK Day - No Instruction: January 17
- PTC Meeting: January 19
- Celebration of Learning: January 20
- Middle School Minimum Days: January 20 & 21
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Season's Greetings from the SELS PTC!
We Need Your Input!
At our January 19 PTC meeting at Raley's Lounge we'll be brainstorming ideas on where to spend our funds next year. If you have ideas or input, please come to the meeting and share them with us! The meeting starts at 5:30 PM. If you are unable to make it, but would still like to contribute, please email us at ptc@truckeecharterschool.org and we'll make sure your ideas get put on the drawing board.
This year, for the first time ever, we are happy to announce that all school yearbooks will be paid for by the PTC and will be complimentary for each student!
There is nothing you need to do, yearbooks will be distributed the last day of school—enjoy!
Our last meeting's minutes can be found here.
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We are still looking for parents who want to help plan The Great Skate scheduled for this next June!
The Great Skate is SELS' main community-building and fundraising event, held yearly at the end of the school year. It's a super fun, costumed roller skating party held at the Northstar Resort skating rink with a DJ, raffle, silent auction, and lots of wild times!
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The 2022 Great Skate will be our 6th annual end of school party. Mark your calendars! This year it's scheduled for Friday, June 3.
We'll begin planning the event early next year and will need lots of help! Please let us know if you can be part of the planning committee or if you have any ideas to help make this year's event another memorable one.
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Together We Are Crew, Not Passengers
-The SELS PTC
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The Bell Crew has made good progress on their handmade alphabet projects! Sewers, wood-workers, papier-mâché artists, and clay creators alike have been hard at work using the SIERRA norm of strength to push through challenges and produce high quality pieces of art.
Former Bell Crew members, River Anselmi and Nash Hickey, shared their expertise and experience with the design process in order to encourage the kindergartners’ efforts. The main message from the older students was: You just have to keep going... and making it better, even when you don’t want to. You end up feeling really proud!
Now home on quarantine and navigating Zoom Crew Meetings, the kindergartners are using that same strength and positive attitudes. Hats off to SELS’ youngest students for truly bringing the SIERRA norms to life!
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The Telfer Crew is finishing many projects and wrapping up 2021. After working hard on personal narratives, students selected a piece to publish, and selected math pieces they were proud of for their portfolios.
We started working with Ms. Lobo on our final poetry project. Students have been writing their poems using different mediums. They started work on the poetry banners just before the winter break. We hope to have their beautiful final products done for Celebration of Learning in January.
The Telfer Crew wishes everyone a happy and fun winter break!
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The second graders have welcomed winter with open arms! This month’s author-of-the-month was Jan Brett, and the winter weather was a great opportunity to have daily winter read alouds. Students explored many of the themes in Jan's familiar story structure and complex illustrations. She also inspired us to perform short readers’ theater skits and tomake some wintry crafts to give to families this holiday season. |
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This month, the Welch Crew was able to get in local fieldwork at the KidZone Museum in Truckee to experience their Truckee History installation. Students were able to go back in time to the mid 1800s and sell train tickets, dress up as pioneer school children, visit the Chinese Herb Shop, and play with train sets to learn more about the Transcontinental Railroad and Truckee's rich history. We look forward to more hands-on learning experiences in the spring to enrich our curriculum. |
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The 4th graders are enjoying Writer’s Workshop! They have been working on narrative stories and getting very creative. They've learned all the steps to Writer’s Workshop—planning, editing, and revising, revising, and more revising! Then they sewed a book together, became the illustrator, and shared their stories with our crew. It is a favorite every year, and the books are treasured by all. |
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The Brisbin Crew completed a River Trail Poster Project where they indicated markers on a 30 kilometer River Trail. Markers included picnic areas, campgrounds, and restrooms. Students were required to show both kilometer markers and fractional equivalents along the trail. Students demonstrated strong craftsmanship and mastery of content.
We are at our halfway point in our Reading Challenge, in which students are required to read 40 books total this year. Students track their progress and place stickers on their chart when complete. There's lots of celebration right now, as they are well on their way! On Wednesdays, students participate in a brief Book Talk during Morning Meeting, highlighting one of their favorite books.
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The Worster Crew is hard at work researching and writing arguments for our final product for Celebration of Learning: The Ancient World Summit! Students become delegates attending the Ancient World Summit, where they argue that their civilization had the most impact on today's civilizations. They will debate on the following characteristics: art and architecture, science and technology, mathematics, government and politics, philosophy, and literature. |
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The Santos Crew investigated Medieval groups from around the world and created art, artifacts and poetry to represent them. We had a creative frenzy going on while each student produced drafts and evaluated their work to improve for the next time. We ended with quite a variety of techniques and mediums being used. We can't wait for Celebration of Learning! |
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Busy! That was the vibe in Ravenwood as our crew prepared and led ceremonies in each grade to help students reconnect to their stones as another act of leadership.
Music video production was happening on campus to help solidify deep learning about the geologic time scale. The first annual Ravenwood Grammy Awards will take place after judging is complete. Crew is also creating gorgeous artwork to accompany final projects for Celebration of Learning—we love the art studio mess.
ELA work was centered around a 3-Minute Story Slam with crew writing narratives on a visual prompts and performing them on the microphone in the classroom—very entertaining. And we'll all enjoy a well-deserved rest over the break.
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Consider a donation if you are able! |
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Sierra Expeditionary Learning School
Phone: (530) 582-3701
Fax: (530) 582-3703
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