The Franklin Academy
The Franklin Academy Weekly Update Newsletter June 14-18
Monday, June 14th
- All School Free Dress - Wash & Donate Used Uniforms
Tuesday, June 15th
- All School Free Dress
- Progress reports come home- check your child's backpack!
- PALS Weekly Zoom - 8:30 a.m. - https://palsinfo.com/pals-virtual-coffee-and-check-in-tuesday-october-13/
- Board Meeting 4:00
Wednesday, June 16th LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!
Last Day of School Pick Up Times:
11:35 AM Release all Pre-k 4's and 3rd Grade
11:40 AM Release all K and 4th Grade
11:45 AM Release all 1st and 5th -8th Grade
Thursday, June 17th
- Robin Hall Summer Camp Begins - For kids who are pre-registered.
Friday, June 18th
- Robin Hall Summer Camp Begins - For kids who are pre-registered.
Summer Math Program - Grades 5-8
After a summer without a summer math program the math teachers are pleased to have a program this summer. The program will help students who need individual help catching up to grade level as well as students who want to increase their skills. At the beginning of the school year students will be assessed to determine their math grade level and will then be placed in the correct grade level class. All students who have registered for next year may attend at no cost.
We will be meeting on the following Saturdays: June 26, July 10, 17, 24, and August 7, 14. Times will be from 10:00 to 1:00. Breaks will be from 10:45 to 11:00 and 11:45 to 12:00 in which students can play in the gym. Students can attend any number of sessions that they are available.
Also, students can be dropped off or picked up during the break times. Questions? Email Ole Hedahl: ohedahl@thefrankln.academy
PALS Officer and Operating Committee Elections
Last chance to vote for the 2021-2022 PALS leadership team. Parents, please take 5 minutes to fill out the ONLINE BALLOT now to elect our incoming leaders. Voting will close on Saturday, June 12. Thank you to all who have already voted!
Click the link below to vote!
Markell Hall & Holly Hall - Lost and Found
It is time for the end of school clean up! Is your student missing a water bottle, a fleece jacket or any other items?
The Holly Hall Lost and Found is located in the foyer. Please look through the items and collect anything that belongs to your family by Wednesday, June 16th.
The Markell Hall Lost and Found will be located outside of the front of the school on the last day of school, Wednesday, June 16th. Please park your car in the parking lot or on the street (do not block the pick-up line traffic) and then stop by to look through the collection and take home any items that belong to your family.
All unclaimed items remaining at either Lost and Found on Wednesday afternoon will be given to the PALS Uniform Sales or donated. Thank you and enjoy your summer!
Franklin Academy parent Barbara Overson is showcasing her artwork at Old World Deli!
Barbara shared this:
Barbara Overson creates linoleum cut images inspired by local landscapes and current culture. In linoleum printmaking, the artist carves an image into the linoleum "canvas" and then uses a hand pressing process to stamp the image into paper. Barbara's exhibit features work she created during the COVID crisis.
"I returned to printmaking as a form of self care, processing and meditation during the start of quarantine. As the months have passed, I've found linoleum carving to be a vital source for replenishing myself so that I am better able to be present for my family and my psychotherapy clients. The process of carving the image is meditative for me. Once the image is complete, I hand print a limited number of originals. Each original has slight differences due to its unique acrylic ink and pressing process."
Used Uniform Collection
We will be happy to collect them at drop off. They will be organized, and we will have a used uniform sale toward the beginning of next year. Thank you!
WE HAVE OVER 300 STUDENTS ENROLLED FOR NEXT YEAR!
Our school's growth has a lot to do with our families' positive promotion. Please keep encouraging your friends to join for the 2021-2022 School Year. Several of our sections are filling up quickly. If you know someone interested in learning more about our program or interested in a customized, virtual tour, please encourage them to reach out to:
Admissions Director, Natalie Bennett:
nbennett@thefranklin.academy
360.733.1750.ext 1509
What Our Parents Have to Say
Nneka London-Browne & Deran Browne
Students in Pre-K and 2nd Grade
Our family relocated to Bellingham in 2016, we discovered The Franklin Academy, shortly after that. Franklin has helped both of our kids come out of their shells. Being from Trinidad and Tobago, education is very important to our family and the school has allowed the kids to grow socially and academically while constantly pushing them forward.
We appreciate the small class sizes, the caring teachers, and the diversity at The Franklin Academy. This last year has challenged everyone, but the teachers and staff at the school provided a bit of stability with our children and they have loved being able to see their friends, teachers, and the staff!
We’re looking forward to what the next year will bring for our children and the wider Franklin family!
Dragon Eyes - 2nd-4th:
This is a special feature of our 2nd-4th grade students artwork. We've created some fantastic Dragon Eyes! This sculpture project we used glass beads with acrylic paints for the eyes, air-dry clay, & learned how to use sculpture techniques with coils & clay balls, and used a whole lot of glue to adhere them onto recycled CD's, that were donated to art class. The last step was to put on a gloss top coat to protect the color and make them shine! ~Miss Rachel Simpson #BeKindLetsShine #RachelsWhimsicalArt
We like Spanish and Señor Dominick!
Early-Kindergarten celebrates an Early Father's Day!
Mrs. Owen shared this:
"Although it is not quite Father’s Day, we do not want our wonderful Dads and Grandpas to miss out on all of the fun! From carrying you on his shoulders, checking for monsters under the bed, to teaching you how to ride a bike-Dad does all he can to comfort and bring joy. We were so excited to celebrate our Dads this week, especially because there were donuts involved! Traditionally, we would have hosted a Donuts with Dad party. However, your kiddos have been working hard to bring the festivities to you. Please enjoy and have fun!
Well, get ready. Here is our next cooperative story about Dad!
"One day there was a dad who wanted to fly his drone. He walked to the park and played in the sun all day. Then, he jumped on his cloud and gave the giant sun a high five. His hands were so hot that he said hot, hot, hot, hot, hot!!! He got in his rocket ship and flew home to build dinosaur legos with his son. They got sooo tired that they took a 220 hour long nap. When they woke up they ate ten hundred waffles. They poured so much syrup that a giant syrup wave washed them into a big worm hole. They fell and fell so far that there were now three different tunnels. They picked the middle one and began to dig a really deep hole. When they stopped digging they saw a cage with a kitty in it. They punched open the cage and gave the kitty a haircut. They saved the kitty, found their way back above ground, and went to buy the kitty new kitty toys. Then they all went to the zoo to find a home for the kitty. They said bye bye kitty and went home to swim in the pool. They had a hold your breath contest underwater and when they came up for air everyone yelled HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!" The end This was so much fun!!"
Ms. Yorks' Class Created Underwater Scenes!
"Science videos for today gave us quick glimpses of sea cucumbers in their natural habitat. Home is where the habitat is, so we set to work on making habitats for the seastars we made yesterday. We opened small boxes in our choice of display, and made backgrounds to look like an underwater scene.
Some of us wanted our seastars to be the only 3D piece in our diorama. Some of us created rocks and seaweed of different materials to make a 3D setting for our seastar. And by created, I mean they invented their rocks, sharing methods and ideas along the way! These 3D boxes look like tide pools when viewed from above!"
How about those 5 lines of radial symmetry, happily using their tube feet in the rocky tidal pool!"
The Reading Corner - With Mrs. Samuel and Mrs. Snyder
Happy summer! We did it! We are so proud of everyone—students, families, and staff, for making this a successful, safe, and healthy year.
Thank you for returning your library books! If you have not yet done so, we will keep sending you annoying notices until they are returned or replaced. ;)
Mrs. Snyder asks: Do you have a habit or routine you do every day? Maybe it's watching the same TV show before or after school, playing with the same toys, or listening to the same music over and over. Inspired by the book The Pink Refrigerator by Tim Egan that we read in Kindergarten and First grade this week, I've challenged students to keep exploring over the summer. Break some of those habits and try something new like reading a book from a different genre, or playing a new sport. Go outside and explore nature instead of using electronics. The possibilities are endless and much more fun than doing the same old thing. I have a few of my own habits I'll be working on. Adventure on, Franklin Academy families!
Mrs. Samuel reminds students: We had so much fun reading Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman these final weeks! I hope over the summer you have equally wild adventures with pirates, vampires, aliens, and a stegosaurus in a Floaty Ball Person Carrier! While I was reading the chapter book, many students colored fun pages that encouraged them to read this summer—find a place in your house to hang them up as a reminder to READ!
What a joy and a gift to teach your students this year, thank you!
Happy (Summer) Reading,
Mrs. Samuel and Mrs. Snyder
Mrs. Samuel's Joke of the Week
Joke:
A chicken walks into the library and up to the desk, and says, “Buk, buk, buk, buk.” So, the librarian hands the bird a book, the chicken accepts it and leaves.Ten minutes later, the chicken returns, throws the book on the desk and says, “Buk, buk, buk, buk.” Once again the librarian hands the chicken a book, the chicken accepts it, and then leaves.Ten minutes later, the chicken is back again! It marches up to the librarian, throws the book on the desk, then says, “Buk, buk, buk, buk.”
The librarian hands the chicken a third book, but this time decides to follow the bird. She watches the chicken hurry down the street and stop at a pond, where there is a frog sitting on a lily pad. The chicken shows the book to the frog, but the frog just shakes its head and says, “Reddit, reddit, reddit.”
Annual Fund Update! Only $4,318 to Go!
Each year tuition only covers about 65% of the cost to educate each student. We make up for that shortfall with the Auction and Annual Fund. It helps cover teacher's salaries, supplies, building upkeep and so much more.
This is our final chance to reach the goal and match all the donations. The Franklin Academy is a 501(c)3 non-profit and your donation is tax deductible.
Please consider giving to the Annual Fund Today!
We only have $4,318 left to reach our goal!
That's About:
8 Gifts of $500 or
17 Gifts of $250 or
43 Gifts of $100
Every dollar adds up to make a big difference!
Thank you for your generosity.
Heather Black - Development Director
Camping Week in Ms. Camaya's Class!
Ms. Camaya shared this:
Ms. Dizon's Kindergarten Class Leans About Weight!
Ms. Dizon's shared this:
"We used a balance scale to compare objects by weight. Students weighed a couple of objects of their choice and they compared which was heavier and which was lighter. Today, each child weighed themselves and found how heavy they are.
In Math, the students:
-continued working on their math pages “Comparing Weight”.
-learned that aside from using a balance scale to weigh objects, there are
other types of scales that can be used.
-weighed themselves using a bathroom scale."
Garden Art - K-1st:
Sign Up for Rachel Simpson our Wonderful Art Specialist's Summer Camps!
Enchanted & Magical Art!
Art & Dance Camp – July 5th – 9th, Ages 6-12 years, 11:30-3:30pm, $200.00
Students create their own piece of art in mixed-media to take home. Enchanted & Magical Art includes Forests, Gnomes, Fairies, Wizards, Mermaids, Dragons, Unicorns, & more magical creatures! Artists will make a variety of colorful art using layers of paintings, drawings, clay, & more created in art camp. We’ll experiment with marbling paper, painting, textures, explore drawing such as oil pastels, soft pastels, markers, & printing. Let’s have fun making fairy or gnome doors in clay, do playful art, & use a variety of crafts, felt, & even glue guns!
· Dance Routines
· Dance Games
· Art Projects
· Enchanted & Magical Art with Creatures
· Fairy Doors & Gnomes in Clay
· Painting & Drawing
· Clay & Mixed Media
Teen Artist Camp: Make Paints & En Plein Air Painting
July 14th – 17th, Ages 12-18 years, 11:00am - 1:00pm, $180.00
Join Miss Rachel Simpson in a Teen Artist Camp! Students will learn from an Artist & Art Educator of various ways in which artists create their own brushes, quills, inks, & paints such as: tempera, watercolors, pigments, items found in nature, and things that can be found in the kitchen! We will do art experimentation, drawing/painting both on paper & canvas. Art subjects will be found with observation of still life, landscapes, & looking at nature. This is a 3 day online art class, with the 4th day on the 17th, to have a fun meeting at a local park in Bellingham - Cornwall Park, to paint in the style of en Plein Air with our paints, and art materials in nature together.
Price includes instruction, 3 sessions of online art classes via Zoom, 1-day in-person at a park, & the following art supplies: pigments, essential oils, paint, metallic colors, medium base, wooden dowel, string, paint brush, feather, mixed-media paper, canvas, aluminum tin, half-pans, pallet knife, stir stick, cups with lids, (Optional: Pallet of Watercolors, Bamboo Brush, & various size Paint Brushes). Students need to provide the following supplies: a pencil, erasure, scissors, Elmer’s glue, paper towels, a large glass plate or a glass from a picture frame, a glass cup with a flat bottom, eggs, fork/spoon/small bowl for mixing paints, things found in nature like flowers & leaves, (Optional: items in the kitchen pantry like food coloring and/or spices).
Register: http://www.rachelswhimsicalart.com/art-classes.html
Be Kind, Let's Shine!
Sincerely,
Miss Rachel Simpson
Art Teacher - K-8th
Birds in Art - K-1st:
This was a fun project that our K-1st grade artists created over the last 2 weeks of school. Birds in Art, inspired by nature and the pop-up book, Birds by Maurice Pledger. Students had fun learning how to draw Birds, then color with oil pastels. Then, we made the birds a home with watercolors, for them to live in. Students could choose a tree, a bush, or a bird house. I just loved to see each of their imaginations come to life! ~Miss Rachel Simpson #BeKindLetsShine #RachelsWhimsicalArt
Amazon Smile
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:
- Go to Amazon Smile
- In the “pick your own charitable organization” box type in Franklin Preschool
- Click on the Bellingham Franklin Academy (may still be listed under St. Paul’s Episcopal School through the summer)
- 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.
The Franklin Academy
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
The Franklin Academy Points of Contact
Katie den Hartog, Associate Head of School, kdenhartog@thefranklin.academy
Dawn Regier, Administrative Assistant, dregier@thefranklin.academy
Rachel Lee, Administrative Assistant, rlee@thefranklin.academy
Natalie Bennett, Admissions Director, nbennett@thefranklin.academy