Falcon News

MAY

Friday 1 | Kindergarten Registration Due*

Monday 11 | Class Placement Input Due*

Thursday 14 (tentative) | Pick Up for Student Personal Items and Library Book Drop Off

Friday 15 | Quarantalent Show Submissions Due*

Monday 25 | Memorial Day / Distance Learning Tuesday - Friday

Tuesday 26 @ 7:00 to 9:00 PM | Districtwide SAC Meeting on Google Hangouts

Friday 29 | FH Auction, Raffle Drawing*

Friday 29 - Sunday 31 | Limited Online FH Auction*

JUNE

Friday 5 | Last Day of Distance Learning

*More information below

If you have an incoming Kindergarten Student, please click here to register as soon as possible - the registration deadline is May 1. On May 1st, any school that has more age-eligible registered kindergarten students than capacity will conduct a lottery.

Chris Hesselbein, Innovation Coach, and Ashley Speer, Oak Creeks Innovation Facilitator and Forest Hills parent, put together a VIDEO to share a few tips and common troubleshooting based on the most common questions received from families about Seesaw.

Video: Seesaw Tips and Troubleshooting for Families

Slides: Seesaw Tips and Troubleshooting for Families

Site with lots of family and student resources.

Hi Falcons! We want to see what you have been working on at home! So we are having the Inaugural Forest Hills QuaranTalent Show!

Have you made an epic fortress in your living room or Minecraft? Have you knitted a sweater for your dog, felted a beret for your cat, or made pants for your snake (a pant)? Have you made a tower of all the books you’ve read or a tower of all the books you’ve written? Have you taught your dog to sit or your baby brother to roll over?

We want to see it (as long as it’s safe and appropriate)! We want you to share all of the fun and funny things you have been working on to stay happy and sane at home! So get your camcorders out (whatever those are) and share your videos or photos with your Falcon Family!

Hi Falcon Parents! Please click on the link below and check out Padlet and make sure this is something you are comfortable participating in. The submissions will be compiled and presented via SeeSaw on the Specialists Class tab. So once your child has perfected their sourdough or their sonata (or in our house pompadour growing and pet accumulating), please upload it to the QuaranTalent show link. Let’s keep the videos under 2 minutes please and make your submissions by FRIDAY, MAY15! The Padlet has columns for each grade, so click on the (+) under your child’s grade to add your video or photo:

https://padlet.com/ninokfiorentino/mp30wj6u5idwt8yg

If you have any questions please email me!

Nino Fiorentino

ninokfiorentino@gmail.com

Each spring, placement teams begin the process of developing the next year's class rosters. Placement teams take great care to consider a number of factors that contribute to the success of each child, including social, emotional, and academic factors. Teams also consider factors that lead to balanced classrooms that benefit all students, such as balancing class size, academic strengths and needs, and behavioral and work habits. Placement teams include your child's teacher, other grade level teachers, specialists, counselor, principal, and other staff knowledgeable of your child and your child's grade level peers.

If you would like to provide input to the placement team, please fill out the form by May 11th. Requests for specific teachers are not considered as a part of the placement process.

Class Placement Input for Parents / Guardians

Input may include:

• Academic, social, and/or emotional strengths and/or needs
• Instructional methods or aspects of the learning environment that benefit your child
• Goals you would like to see next year's teacher work towards with your child

It can be hard to motivate our children to learn at home. LOSD behavior specialists have created a video about what parents can do to structure things differently at home to increase student's expectations to learn. Doing schoolwork with home rules and expectations may work for some students, but not all. When it's time for school at home, setting expectations differently from typical home life may help.

Click here to watch the video and click here to read the tip sheet.

Having trouble with your device? Please submit a help request ticket here or go onto losdschools.org if you run into any technology concerns. Your help request ticket will get routed to the best person to assist you with your needs.

Having trouble with student user names and/or passwords? Your school library tech can help -- please click here for their emails.

Limited Online Auction - Weekend of May 30th

The cancellation of all LOSD events includes the Forest Hills Caddyshack Auction 2020. Alternatively, in May the PTO will be hosting a limited online auction for a selection of items including the class art projects, baskets, and the always popular reserved parking spaces. We will all miss the social aspect of the live auction, but we are looking forward to some fun with the bidding online - and everyone can participate! Stay tuned for more details! The online auction will run through the entire weekend of May 30th! The auction team will share a video of the drawing of the raffle winner of the scooter to kick off the event on Friday, May 29.

Auction Ticket Refunds

Did you buy tickets to the auction? Ticket refunds will be automatically processed by the end of April. Alternatively, if you’d like your ticket price paid to be converted to a donation to the Forest Hills PTO just let us know and we will make a note of it - ForestHills.PTO.Treasurer@gmail.com. Raffle tickets will not be refunded - the drawing will be on May 29th.

If you're already thinking of ways to be involved next year, we'd love to hear from you! Stay tuned for info about open committee chair positions - it's a fun way to be involved with the school, get to know other parents, and enrich the school experience for our Falcons!

Help spread the word! Online registration is opening January 22 for all students who will be new to LOSD in the 2020-2021 school year. If you know anyone who is new to the area or has incoming Kindergarten students, please be sure to tell them.

Prior to registration, verify your resident school: LOSD School Boundaries Map. Lake Oswego School District welcomes Kindergarteners who will be five years old by September 1. Questions can be directed to the Forest Hills front office: 503-534-2350.

Hunger Fighters Oregon has now launched its delivery program for homebound, immunocompromised and at-risk individuals and families in Lake Oswego.

Requests must be submitted by Thursday to receive a delivery of non-perishable groceries on Saturday. Visit the website and click the link to submit a request. www.hungerfightersoregon.org/delivery.html

Hunger Fighters will still continue to provide curbside pickup service on Wednesdays from 4-6 p.m. and Saturdays from 1-4 p.m. Clients who pickup groceries will receive perishable items as well such as produce, bread, dairy or eggs. Hunger Fighters cannot currently provide such items to delivery clients, but it is working towards that goal.

Hunger Fighters is live on the Nike's "Give Your Best" platform! Nike employees who have already made a donation to Hunger Fighters can request a match by attaching their receipt, and employees who wish to make a new donation can find the organization on the Nike Give Your Best platform.

Forest Hills Elementary PTO is on social media, and is a great way to stay up to date on PTO events. Find us on Facebook and Instagram by clicking the icons below.

Past Falcon News Editions

• Falcon News April 25, 2020
• Falcon News April 17, 2020
• Falcon News April 10, 2020
• Falcon News April 4, 2020
• Falcon News March 31, 2020

Other Helpful Links

• Forest Hills Homepage
• Forest Hills Calendar
• PTO Homepage
• PTO Facebook Page
• PTO Instagram | foresthills.pto
• PTO Registration
• 2019-2020 School Year District Calendar
• Transportation Registration Form, 6-digit student ID required
• Meal Prices and Payment Options
• Free and Reduced Price Meals Information or call 503-534-2361
  
• Extended Day Program (before and after school child care)
• LOSD District Kindergarten Page
• Talented and Gifted

Email: patrick.shuckerow@loswego.k12.or.us
Website: https://www.losdschools.org/fh
Location: 1133 Andrews Rd, Lake Oswego, OR, USA
Phone: 503-534-2350