Tuesday Notice
April 30, 2024
Medieval Games
Dear Siskiyou School Parents,
I hope everyone is well and enjoying this beautiful weather, flowers and trees!
Campus is buzzing with many events and activities, and children are growing and actively learning and playing throughout the school days of these last weeks of the year.
We hope to see everyone at May Day on Friday; it’s one of our most beautiful events of the year and a last highlight for the 8th grade class as they will be dancing around and winding the May Pole! This year we will even see the kindergarten children joining the festival.
Medieval Games last week was a highlight once again; please see the beautiful photos of the 6th graders with their hand-crafted shields. Ms. Glatte is the coordinator of the event and she works so very hard to put everything and everyone into place so that the event turns out to be a huge highlight for the children. A big thank you to all the people who helped make this happen.
Next week on Tuesday we will host two people coming from Portland (Cedarwood Waldorf and Portland Waldorf) to visit and see our school. This year, as an associate member of AWSNA (Association of Waldorf Schools of north America), we engaged in a the self-study process and all of the school’s pillars were part of this process. We look forward to showing and sharing everything about our wonderful school with them.
The big 5th grade event – the Olympiad – is next week on Friday, May 10th. Our 5th grade class will be joined by 5th grades from Woodland Charter and Madrone Trail Public Charter Schools. It’s a highlight for the 5th grade year.
Please also join us for our last Main Lesson Tour of the school year on Thursday, May 9th at 8:30.
Our school is a gift for students and I’m deeply grateful for ALL everyone gives and contributes so that we can continue to educate our childrens’ heads, hearts and hands with this incredible curriculum!
Blessings on our school! With warmth, Aurilia
This Week
Mon, April 29: Read-A-Thon fundraising begins!
Mon, April 29: Class 5 parent meeting. 6:00 p.m.
Thurs, May 2: Class 2 to the Farm at SOU, 9:00 a.m.
Fri, May 3: MAY DAY! Join us! Sign up to help HERE! 11:00 a.m. in Clay Street park
Next Weeks
Mon, May 6 through Sat, May 11: 8th Grade Trip
Thurs, May 9: Main Lesson Tour, 8:30 a.m.
Fri, May 10: 5th Grade Olympiad, all day event, for 5th grade parents only, please.
Looking Ahead
Mon, May 13: NO SCHOOL - Report Writing Day
Tues, May 14: Incoming 1st Grade Orientation, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. in Pine Hall
Thurs, May 16: Honeybee Class Alum Celebration, 3:30 p.m.
Thurs, May 16: Class 3 Play - community performance, 6:30 p.m.
Fri, May 17: Class 3 Play - school performance, 8:30 a.m.
Fri, May 17: Incoming 2024 Kindergarten introduction Picnic, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in Clay Street park
Fri, May 17: Read-A-Thon READING commences! 1:00 p.m.
SAVE THE DATE! Dragonfly Class Graduation will be Thursday, June 6th, beginning at 4:00 p.m.
May Day is coming! – Friday, May 3rd, 11:00am
Join us at Clay Street Park for this beautiful spring festival! Feel free to bring a blanket or folding chair for seating on the grass. Family, friends, and Waldorf preschool and kindergartens are welcome to join.
We ask that Siskiyou School students:
- Wear white clothing (tan pants are great) – if you do not have white clothes, we do have some items in our lost and found closet, just contact Phyllis (phyllis.cooley@siskiyouschool.org) or stop by the office if you’d like to borrow something.
- Bring a bouquet of flowers from your garden to share with their class for their May Day crowns.
Please note:
- Wear sunscreen or a hat and bring a water bottle.
- Dismissal will be at regular Friday times (12:20 for 1st, 12:30 for 2 through 4, 12:45 for 5 through 8).
- For the safety of our children, dismissal will be at the front of school as per a normal Friday. If you intend on picnicking in the park, please pick up your child from the front of the school and walk them back. Kindergarten pick up will be AT the Kindergarten house so families may join in the Kindergarten picnic.
If you're interested in volunteering to help construct flower crowns with the children on our festival day, please click the link below to sign up. No experience needed! It's a very fun event to volunteer at! Thank you!
Siskiyou School Dress Code:
As we are headed into the warmer season, here is a reminder for the school’s dress code.
The following items are not allowed during the school day on campus:
- Underwear showing
- Sagging pants below hips
- Very short shorts or skirts – shorts and skirts ok to bottom of knuckles on the front thigh
- Shorts that have pockets “falling” out over the thigh
- Shirts or blouses draping off the shoulders
- Inappropriate large logos, graphics, or writing on shirts including any logos indicating media references
- Graffiti-type writing on pants
- Distractingly ripped jeans or pants – rips can’t go down the whole leg and not above the knuckle line on front thigh
- Bare feet, slippers or flip-flops (pajama pants are now allowed)
- Bare midriffs – shirts not ok that show bare skin when arms are held up
- Long hoodies that cover shorts – hoodie needs to be unzipped to show other clothing underneath
- Excessive make-up, tattooing, piercing, and use of hair dyes (without express permission)
- Clothing that restricts full participation in Games class and movement
- Ok to show bra straps when in conjunction with spaghetti straps or other tank top
If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact Aurilia.
Huzzah! for our Medieval Games! This event is a wonderful example of how we enliven the Waldorf curriculum. After studying the middle ages, the Medieval Games serve as a “rite of passage” for the sixth grade student. Last Thursday evening, a total of 57 sixth graders from three local Waldorf schools converged at The Siskiyou Kingdom for activities, games, and a banquet in The Royal Pine Hall with our King and Queen. Students, called “pages”, are mixed and put into shires where they confront challenges that they overcome together. All day Friday, the event continued in a tournament up at Woodland school where pages are challenged in individual and group initiatives, archery and spear throwing. Pages demonstrate chivalrous conduct and strive to become squires. This initiation is their first step to knighthood.
This year was a fabulous event with drizzly and chilly weather and the best helpers ever! To do an event like this, it definitely takes a kingdom! My heartfelt thanks goes to Bethany Stonewood for cooking, decorating, and organizing the banquet. Bethany was supported by a dream team of Phyllis Cooley, Amy Bull, Claudia Hoppe, her daughter and Siskiyou alum, Ayala, and many of our sixth grade parents. Thank you banquet team!
A special thanks goes to the Seventh grade class and to Miss Benson for the music, entertainment, and for serving at our feast. Your contributions really make the event fun and alive. I also want to thank our King and stave fencer, Javier Alvarez for holding the whole event in a kingly fashion. Thank you to “behind the scenes” help from our sixth grade parents for help with the banquet, registration, field set up and games help, bell ringer, banquet clean up, and help with the laundry. A hearty “Huzzah” to each one of you. Like I said, it takes a kingdom!
Thank you, Lady Margie Glatte
Starfish Class - Third Grade
The Third-Grade children have been working towards their art show since we heard we were receiving the grant, back in mid-November. They have developed so much skill and demonstrated will and perseverance through their weekly painting. I could not be more delighted! It is my hope that they have built a life-long love of watercolor. It's a place to find beauty, peace, satisfaction and pure joy.
Thank you all for showing up in support of the children last Wednesday evening. It was such a nice way to socialize and spend time together.
I am grateful to the Haines Foundation for gifting us $1,100 for brushes, picture frames and paper.
Last but not least, an enormous thank you to Cord, who framed and hung every painting and used his incredible calligraphy skills to write the name plates. Everything looked so cohesive and professional because of his hard work.
In deep gratitude, Ms. Whitridge
The Siskiyou School
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