The Woodstock Weekly

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This is our last newsletter for the school year? Wow!

We want to end the school year with a huge THANK YOU to our Woodstock Elementary Community!💙🦁

Thank you for showing up to events, helping to build our community, creating fun experiences, and giving our students the opportunity to create fun memories of their time at Woodstock. This year was full of events to remember:

• Harvest Carnival

• Lunar New Year

• Dine Outs

• Movie nights

• Pokemon Bingo

• Bike Busses

• Garden Work Days

• Mini-Makers Market

• STEAM Festival

• Spring Festival

Thank you for contributing your time through volunteering! These events could not have happened without our Woodstock Community showing up to plan, decorate, get behind the tables, bake treats for our bake sales, pop popcorn for movie nights and Popcorn Fridays, pull weeds from the garden and around the school, plant seeds, hand out stickers at Walk and Roll, and so many more things. We know there are a lot of activities and a lot of requests for volunteers, and we appreciate you choosing to spend your time with us. For every volunteer who shows up, there’s a memory made with our family and friends, and we thank you for enriching the Woodstock experience this year.

Lastly, thank you for donating money to give our students so many opportunities to learn and have fun. We’re on track to meet our fundraising goals this year, allowing us to provide those funds directly to the teachers and the school. Thank you for giving even as the price of everything is on the rise this year. Thank you for going the extra mile and encouraging your employers to donate matching funds. Thank you for reaching out to businesses you know. Here are just some of the things we were able to provide with your help this year:

• Field trip funding for every grade

• Proposal funding to purchase a gaga ball pit, put on the STEAM Festival, host a magic show assembly and evening presentation, obtain additional Woodstock Story Walks, and provide new paint for the playground!

• Oregon Battle of the Books

• School resources for teachers, music, art, counseling, the library, and PE.

• Teacher and Staff Appreciation

We hope you enjoy the last week of school! See below for information about this week's events and find ways to help the garden and trees thrive over the summer.

Thank you for building a strong community this year and showing your Woodstock Pride. We hope you and your family have a summer full of just the right amount of adventure and relaxation. 🌞

See you in the fall!

—Your friendly Woodstock PTA

• 📌 Thursday, June 4, Field Day
• 📌 Friday, June 5, Last Donut Bike Bus of the Year!
• 📌 Friday, June 5, All School Lunch Picnic and 5th Grade Clap Out
• 📌 Friday, June 5, Last Day of School

Coach C needs help to make Field Day happen. If you can, please sign up to help with one of the events and have some fun in the sun with your kid and their friends on Thursday, June 4th!

The Woodstock School Garden and its trees continue to thrive thanks to community support and volunteers. Please consider signing up for a week to water our school garden. Volunteers will be able to take home produce from the garden and any excess can be donated to a local food pantry. Of course, the amount of care that the garden will require during any particular week will also greatly depend on the weather. It could be as often as every couple of days if it is really hot or every 3 days if it is relatively cool.

We particularly need more people to help with watering trees! We have watering bags that will be placed around the trunks and they will mainly just need a good watering once or twice a month. It may be that the volunteers who care for the trees could be separate or there could be overlap. Let me know if you are interested in that role as well.

Here are the links to sign up:

Woodstock School Garden Watering 2026 Sign-up

Woodstock School Tree Watering 2026 Sign-up

We will be hosting Donut Bike Buses every Friday until the end of the school year! Thank you to Bike Loud! for your donut mini grant! This is a great time to get biking!

Bike Summer (aka Pedalpalooza) is a festival of bikey fun. Hundreds of different events are organized by people like you. Most rides are free and all are open to the public to join. There are dozens of rides that are family-friendly including the Ice Cream Bike Bus ride on Wednesday, June 3rd.

Click here for the full Bike Summer calendar!

Let’s celebrate the Bike Bus kiddos, kids that rode to school, and those who joined us for one of our group rides with an end-of-year Skate Party at Mt. Scott Community Center. This free skate party will take place on Saturday, June 6th at Mt. Scott Community Center's Roller Skating Rink. The Woodstock Bike Bus will meet at the SE Reedway Bike racks at Woodstock School at 1 pm to ride together to Mt. Scott Community Center for the skate party. If you're not able to join the bike bus there, you are welcome to drop in between 12:30 - 4:30 pm. Bike Parking is available on the east and west sides of Mt. Scott Community Center and near the playground area. This is not a drop off event. Siblings welcome. Questions? Email walkandroll@woodstockpta.org

The Woodstock Neighborhood Yard Sale will be on July 25th & 26th! Sign up to get your yard sale listed on the digital map or save the date to go shopping at all the yard sales around the neighborhood. Visit woodstockpdx.org/yard-sale to learn more! This event is hosted by the Woodstock Neighborhood Association.

Join the fun at a Concert in the Park at Woodstock Park on Saturday, August 29th at 6 pm, hosted by Portland Parks and Recreation and sponsored by the Woodstock Neighborhood Association. The Concert will showcase Bridgetown Get Down as they perform high-energy pop, yacht rock, R&B, and soul covers. Here is the full schedule of the Summer Free For All events.