Miss Rachel Simpson, our Middle School Art Teacher, gave her students a fantastic challenge

"It's been another successful week of sharing, use of expression, keeping connected, and being creative.

All of us, the students, the parents who helped, and myself had so much fun recreating famous classical paintings. We used items found in the home like props, outfits, fabric, backgrounds, use of light, shadows, texture, color, and photography to capture the students' artwork. I put each of them together in collage format, with text for reference to each student, famous artist, and the name of the famous art that they recreated."

Very well done!

Barbara Misday one of our wonderful Fourth Grade Teachers shared this:

"Some of my kids study their spelling words by creating slide shows showing the meaning of the words. Fourth grade spelling words, or "Word Work," centers around the meaning of Greek and Latin Roots."

This is a terrific idea! What creative students we have!

Ms. Tanya Miller assigned this challenge. Here is what she had to say:

"In order to get 7th and 8th grade Design Thinking students out of their chair and OUTSIDE, they were assigned the challenge to assess the materials used in the construction of their homes. Students categorized materials into themes such as "used for aesthetics" or "used for strength" in order to analyze the design decisions made by architects and engineers in the building of their home.

The culmination of this project will the goal of making the strongest adobe brick by working with natural and found materials, and using the scientific process to identify sources of strength in this ancient and still-important building material."

Were you able to guess who was who? Great Job! See if you can guess the new photos this week.

Van Wingerden Greenhouses is excited to offer high quality 12" premium hanging baskets for The Franklin Academy. These locally-famous baskets will bring a smile to Mom's face!

Order Online - https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebLink.aspx?name=E85646&id=29

Pre-Order your basket online and pick up Thursday, May 7th 2 PM - 4 PM at Markell Hall, just in time for Mother's Day! Each basket is $40.00 and a portion of the sale will go to support The Franklin Academy's Annual Fund. The Auction and the Annual Fund raise money for the general budget of the school. Please consider giving a donation above the price of the basket.

Tuition at The Franklin Academy covers approximately 62% of the total cost of educating a student: the balance is made up through contributions from donors like you. Your gift, large or small, matters.

Order your basket today as quantities are limited. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Warm Regards,

Heather Black

If you shop at Amazon.com, this is a great opportunity to raise money for Franklin Academy. Sign up at Amazon Smile and 0.5% of your purchase price will go towards the FA Annual Fund. Here’s how:

1. Go to Amazon Smile
2. In the “pick your own charitable organization” box type in Franklin Preschool
3. Click on the Bellingham Franklin Academy (may still be listed under St. Paul’s Episcopal School through the summer)
4. Very Important! Please make sure whenever you shop on Amazon you go to the Amazon Smile webpage. If you shop on Amazon.com we won’t receive the donation.

Hello Franklin Academy!

The yearbook students are going to put together a yearbook for this year.

Since we don’t have a lot of photos after Christmas break, we would like to ask for parents/students/staff to send photos from home. We are featuring all grades –PS through 8th, as well as teachers and staff. Photos can be studying at home, playing outside, playing with pets, etc. If you have any ideas of what makes a good photo, feel free to suggest it.

Please email photos to yearbook2020@thefranklin.academy, along with name and grade.

Thank you!

Yearbook Staff

Elsa G., Editor

The Franklin Academy wants to help support businesses owned by the parents and grandparents of students here. If you own or work for a business that we can frequent or support, please email, Development Director, Heather Black at hblack@thefranklin.academy

Hello staff, students, and parents of Franklin Academy!

Welcome to a new week! I hope your week will be filled with great connection with those around you and with your teachers and classmates. Below is a link to this week's "Deep Thoughts with Chaplain Aaron." This week we look at the final Core Commitment of the Franklin Academy, to Care.

Our discussion question to ask those around us is, "What is something you do to care for yourself?" And, our Weekly Service Challenge is to take a picture or video of you performing a good deed for someone else. Pass your results onto me, and if you want to (and have permission) feel free to post it on social media with the tag #allgooddeeds2020 . Have a great week!

~Aaron

Our wonderful teachers are sending out classwork to their individual classes and many are sharing their talents over YouTube! Enjoy a story, work on a science experiment with Mrs. Ho, art with Mrs. Richcreek, math lessons from Mr. Hedahl, or hone your recorder skills with Mrs. Snyder!

A supportive community with STEM focused education in a safe, small class environment for all grades.

Website: https://thefranklin.academy/
Location: 1509 East Victor Street, Bellingham, WA, USA
Phone: (360) 733-1750
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FranklinAcademyBellingham/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel&eid=ARBJZqnuWM2fzJSJOXO6X6qVO60w_ijnQdCgtmUFYZCSwnd0NO7wI_Jgq5_odVo2A3bLV76Yg91UH5TB

Gretchen Bucsko, Head of School: gbucsko@thefranklin.academy

Katie den Hartog, Associate Head of School, kdenhartog@thefranklin.academy

Dawn Regier, Administrative Assistant, dregier@thefranklin.academy

Rachel Lee, Administrative Assistant, rlee@thefranklin.academy

Sue Ann Crockett, Administrative Assistant, scrockett@thefranklin.academy

Theresa Wines, Registrar, twines@thefranklin.academy

Natalie Bennett, Admissions Director, nbennett@thefranklin.academy