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JUNE 2017 HOWARD C. REICHE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Reiche Report

Here are some of our Reiche cPort U Scholarship winners! The coming of summer marks the closing of the 2016-2017 school year. As the days get longer the classrooms are completing final assessments and beginning to wrap up projects. In May and June many Reiche traditions such as the Reiche Road Race, Step-up-Day to King Middle, the Maine Breakfast, 5th grade Farewell, Kindergarten Step-up, as well as the Reiche School Awards Ceremony take place. On May 23rd Reiche School hosted the cPort University Scholarship Award Ceremony. Each year cPort Credit Union challenges our 4th and 5th grade students to plan and dream about attending college! Participants write a persuasive essay highlighting their college aspirations and future careers. This is the 6th year Reiche School has participated in the cPort University Program. This year 12 students were awarded scholarships. Their aspirations included the medical field both in practice and research, biology, architecture, zoology, engineering, singing, video game design and animation. In addition, winners of this year’s award will get the opportunity to tour a college campus next year. Though only 12 students’ essays were selected as receiving an award each of our 4th and 5th grade students pondered, planned and wrote about their college aspirations. This exercise plants the idea that college can be a reality for each of our students and it helps them to start thinking about their future ambitions. Way to go Reiche 4th and 5th graders! As we move into the summer we will reflect upon the year, think of our challenges and successes ,and recharge for another wonderful and exciting school year in 2017-2018. Have and great summer and remember to read and read and read!

A MESSAGE FROM OUR TEACHING STAFF

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A collaborative newsletter by teachers, teacher leaders and the PTO.

End of school year dates

June 2 Reiche Road Race

June 6 All-City Concert

June 7 Gelato Fiasco Fundraiser

June 13 Arts Night

June 20 Awards Ceremony, 2:15

Jun 21 5th Grade Farewell, 11am-12pm

June 22 Last day of school (noon dismissal)

June 23 Last day for teachers THANK YOU!

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Reiche Auction Success!

The Auction Committee Thanks YOU!!

We had a great time at Salvage BBQ on Tuesday, March 28th and raised $13,000 for the Reiche School. We received so many generous donations from our local businesses, teachers, parents, and students. The teacher time & gifts are especially sought after - thank you Reiche Teachers & Staff!!

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TEACHER LEADERS

Lori Bobinsky

Chris Keegan

Ted Hummel

COMMITTEE CHAIRS:

INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP

Sarah Barnes

Lynn Provencher

ENRICHMENT COMMITTEE

Alyson Ciechomski

Mary Anne Foley

CLIMATE COMMITTEE

Annetta Weatherhead

Deb Lora

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Joan Murray

Fiona Hopper

PTO LEADERSHIP

Leah Whalen, President

Anna Fincke, Treasurer

Joanna Frankel, Secretary

Barbara Mascarenas, Communications

Elise Devon, Trustee

Melissa Knolland Emily Figdor,

Fundrasing




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Green Team Abuzz with Activity

There’s a lot to report from Reiche’s Green Team. Spring always means preparing our schoolyard’s orchard, planting beds and sowing the school’s food garden, but with the continuation of the K-1 garden education program, a composting pilot program in third grade classrooms, the ramps coming down, the design and construction of a new garden shed, compost system, and seating area on the Clark Street side of the school, there’s been even more activity than usual. Thank you to those who participated in May’s Clean-up Day and who signed up for our planting blitz with students on June 9th! Also, thanks to Reiche PTO, Ecomaine, Portland Trails, Donor’s Choose, Charlotte Maloney Landscape Design, and the City of Portland for their donated expertise, generous grant funding, and valuable partnership over the last year. Contact [email protected] if you'd like to work with us on the Green Team, or to sign your family up to be summer garden stewards for a week over the summer. Highlights from a few of the Green Team’s recent activities: Bin There, Done That! Compost Comes (Back) to Reiche The Urban Homesteading 101 class has been learning new skills in the garden. Eight students have nearly completed the compost bins outside the Clark Street entry. The bins will be used for classroom food waste and when the "We Compost It" bins are not in the brickwork. Donor's Choose donations, a grant from EcoMaine, and hard working Reiche kids made it all possible. Landscaping the New Clark St. Entrance and Seating Area: United Way Day of Caring The Reiche Green Team always looks forward to the United Way Day of Caring. Seven or eight adults from businesses around town come to help with garden projects. Together with Green Team members, parent volunteers, and a group from TD Bank, our work party on May 18th was 15 members strong! This year our project was to the initial landscape at the new Clark St. entrance. Despite the 90-degree heat, the crew dug in (pardon the pun), and got everything planted and watered ahead of schedule! There was time left to weed, rake, trim some perennials and prune shrubs. All of the new the plants are Maine natives and endorsed by Heather McCargo of Wild Seed Project and city arborist Jeff Tarling, who is a Green Team member passionate about native plants! The design includes sweet ferns, bayberry bushes, witch hazel and black chokeberries. Over the next week or so, the Green Team will be planting Virginia Creeper, a beautiful vine to climb up the side of our new shed, and another vine, ground nut, for one of the brick walls. To come: a long stone seating wall (with granite blocks from one of the city’s original jails) and a big Oak Tree to shade the Clark Street entrance in the afternoon! --Charlotte Maloney, Landscape Architect The Reiche Fruit Orchard: Year-round Care from Mrs. Graves’ Class Did you know that we have seven fruit trees in the Reiche Orchard? There are six apple trees of different varieties and one peach tree. These were planted by classes from kindergarten through the fifth grade in 2013. The oldest tree is called an “espalier”. It is located at the corner of the school on the Clark Street side next to the playground. It is a single tree that has been grafted with four different apple varieties. It was a gift to the school by the City Arborist, Jeff Tarling. Mrs. Graves’ class has helped care for the trees each year. In the early spring, we prune the trees to keep them growing true and strong. Later in the spring, we weed around each tree; the weeds compete for energy the roots need to thrive. We also paint the tree trunks with diluted white latex paint to prevent sun scald which can prevent growth. The paint also shows us any invasion by “Apple Tree Borer” insects, which can kill trees. We put wood chips around each tree to helps hold moisture for the roots. In the fall, the class works on preparing the trees for the winter season. We do this by making sure all the weeds are removed. Next, we place plastic guards around each of the trees. The guards protect the trees during the winter from mice and voles. Once snow comes, these little critters like to burrow under the snow to the base of the tree. If the trunk is not protected they eat the bark, and this will kill the tree. Bark is so important for the protection and growth of the tree. Thanks to this work done by Mrs. Graves’ class year after year, soon all of our trees will be producing delicious fruit. –Waite Maclin, Reiche neighbor, and retired commercial apple grower Thanks for another great year and see you in the garden! — Reiche Green Team (Joel Ellis, Hazel Holmes, Waite Maclin, Charlotte Maloney, Ali Mediate, and Wynne Wirth)







Español

News from the 3rd grade Spanish class: The students created a story about a hungry teacher. They acted and read the story, and created illustration for each part of the story. Now, the students are creating their own version of the story about character that is hungry. Ask your child about their hungry teacher! We will end the year playing games and listening to songs in Spanish.

News from 4th grade Spanish class: The students have been learning a new vocabulary. They learned to act the words, and to connect them in short sentences. They will watch a video, and they will describe what they see. The man, the cat and the fly (the three characters in the video), will keep the students talking! The will play a Game Show to reinforce the learning of the new vocabulary. On the last week of school, we will play more games, and we will listen to Spanish songs. News from 5th grade Spanish class: The students are writing stories. They learned new words and expressions and how to gesture them. With short and funny videos, the students had opportunities to watch, listen and talk using new and known vocabulary. They can talk in Spanish about a “family’s” opinion towards the use of paper vs ipad, or they can tell you a few things about Messi vs. Kobe Bryant. Now the students are creating funny stories using all the vocabulary they have been learning. We will end the year with games and songs in Spanish

Sra. Anghel






Community Coordinator News

Reiche School continues to be the recipient of numerous donations from our local community. Here are some of the highlights.

The National Council of Jewish Women of Southern Maine once again donated backpacks and supplies for all incoming Kindergarten students and extras for our clothes closet. They also provided snacks for classrooms throughout the year and Lynn Goldfarb past president set out last summer to supply our clothes closet. She got Reiche School boots, sneakers and smart wool socks from Lamey Wellehan, Brand new winter jackets, snow pants, hats and mittens from Mardens. Thank you NCJW ladies!!

Bernstein Shur Law Firm donated vacations kits for all K-3rd grade students. The kits included a book, activities, crayons/markers and were handed out prior to December break.

Altrusa, a literacy group, once again visited all Kindergarten classrooms. They read aloud to all students and gave each student a new book. This is the 8th year that they have visited Reiche School.

Rotary Club donated 20 new winter jackets and snow pants for our clothes closet.

12 Consultant Group donated $1000 towards technology.

Portland Provident donated $1500 towards our Food Pantry for next school year.

Sunfinancial and TD Bank donated cases of snacks for classrooms.

Finally, the Storytelling Night "One Community - Many Stories" held on Thursday 4/27 was a huge success and each Reiche student went home with a literacy building bag that included books, pencils, activities, stickers and snacks. Books were acquired through DonorsChoose projects; snacks were provided by the NCJW. The K-2nd grade bags also included a stuffed friend donated by UNE & United Way.

Mark your calendars!! The Reiche International 5K road race will be held on Sunday, October 29th, 2017. Registration is open for business- check out the latest website at www.reicheinternational.com. Any and all costumes are welcome! Sponsor Call Our local businesses contribute so much to make this race a success. Sponsor the race and have your business or name featured on the shirt while supporting the Reiche School. Join the Host Committee! Make a donation to the race and get a few race perks - name listed on the shirt, pre-race party in the fall, and a free registration. Thank you to those who have signed up already!! Contact us at [email protected] or www.reicheinternational.com

School Lunch Recipe Drive Parents, Send Us Your Recipes So We Can Share Them With the PPS Food Director! The Food Director chooses all the distributors who sell Portland Public Schools the ingredients that PPS uses to create breakfasts and lunches every day. As we've spoken with her about ideas for increasing children's nutritional intake, she's said that she would be open to receiving input from parents about what vegetables and proteins their kids eat, and in what form. To that end, we're having a Recipe Drive! Send back a quick, off-the-top-of-your-head email including a few of your kids' favorite veggies and proteins, and/or some simple ways that you prepare them so your kids will eat them!




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Second Grade News What an exciting spring second graders have had! We have been busy learning about sea creatures and working with Side X Side artists! First we were able to see many native sea creatures and touch some! We got to hold a sea star, crabs, limpets, and periwinkles. We saw baby shrimp, a pregnant crab, many types of seaweed, and even a baby lobster! What a great way to begin our unit of study! We began researching our sea creature and the artist Cat came in to teach us how to make line drawings. We can't wait to share our beautiful drawings with you! Next we went to Nance Parker's Art Studio. We learned how to make paper mache sea creatures. We had so much fun working with newspaper, paper mache and paints. Then Meg, an improvisational actor, came in and taught us how to be confident and project our voices when speaking to a group of people. The students will have an opportunity to present their knowledge of their sea creature on video. We would like you all to come to our celebration on Friday, June 9 at 9:00 to 9:45. We hope you can make it! The sea creatures will be on display in the library, if you can't come to the celebration.






Community News

Monday Meals

Monday Night Meals* at Reiche. Free for Kids and Families

Families and children with supervision, please join us for delicious dinners provided by Wayside Food Programs. Available Mondays from 5:15-6:00pm in the Reiche Brickwork.

For more information, please speak to Sarah Colton (Community Policing) or call 780-0495

Please note, if there is no school, there will not be a meal that evening.

*Children without supervision, and who have not received prior permission, will not be able to attend.

Bookmobile

The Bookmobile comes to Reiche every

Friday from 3:45 to 4:15pm. Get a library

card, take out a book and return books using

the Bookmobile!

The West End Neighborhood

Association is committed to

addressing the quality of life in the

West End.

If you live, work or have an interest or

concerns about life in the West End,

consider attending a WENA meeting.

Meetings are held every Wednesday at

6:30pm in the Reiche Community

Room (up the exterior ramps).

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