Harborview Elementary School
February 13, 2017
HARBORVIEWS Express A weekly newsletter WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Principal Tom McKenna Dates to Remember February: 2/13 Girls on the Run Begins 2:30-3:45 m 2/13 Site Council 4:30 2/14 Boy Run Begins 2:30-3:45 pm 2/17 Friday Fun Night 6:30 pm 2/20 Elizabeth Peratrovich Day No School 2/21-22 Teacher Inservice NO SCHOOL 2/24 Harborview Spirit Gear Orders Due 2/27 Movie Club Ends
MARCH: 3/2 Parent Teach Conference 3/13 Site Council 4:30 3/14 PTA Meeting 5:30 HBV Library 3/20-24 Spring Break NO SCHOOL 3/27 READ-A-Thon -Begins
LOOKING AHEAD: Carson and his Alaska inspired Valentine box, made with love.
From Principal Tom McKenna: In the days leading up to Valentine’s Day, you can feel our students’ energy rising. Innovative (and loving) Harborview teachers are tapping that energy to design engineering challenges--planning and building creative containers to collect Valentine cards--and to encourage heart to heart communication in many forms of literacy. I recently came across this quotation on a website for an organization called ―The Center for Courage and Renewal.‖ Our work is grounded in love, by which we mean the capacity to extend ourselves for the sake of another person’s growth. Our work in community stretches us to understand, respect, and support each other, teaching us why learning to love is one of the most demanding disciplines we can choose. -E. Tucker
Spring Book Fair Feb. 28th -March 3rd
Coding Club-Dates and time TBA
Read Across America Sat., March 4th Valley Library 10:00 am-Noon
Order your school spirit gear by February 24th. Orders can be made online or payment and order form can be dropped off at the Harborview Office. Order forms have been sent home. To order online please shop here. Working together to make a special teddy bear. Thank you to all the volunteers who work with our students!!!
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Harborview Elementary School SUCCESSFUL SCIENCE NIGHT!
February 13, 2017 WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? As I work to support what we’re Cont. from pg. 1 good at here at Harborview, and to address areas where we can improve, I can honestly celebrate the fact that this kind of love is truly at the center of our work here—a core value of who we are as Harborview.
Thank you to those who were able to attend our Harborview Science Night! It was a tremendous success and I saw smiling faces and heard laughter and great questions! Pre-K – 5th grade students had opportunities to learn about marine creatures, reptiles, Alaska animals and insects (Life Science), act on earth materials and water (Earth Science) and mess about with rockets, liquids and solids, energy and robots (Physical Science)! We will continue to explore science investigations in our classroom – this is engaging for young children and helps them make sense of the world around us!
―Extending ourselves for the sake of another’s growth‖ requires empathy. As we move through February, I invite you to join us in helping our young people at Harborview to develop, deepen, and extend their empathy. While we certainly do this work in our Morning Meetings, in our class discussions, in our counseling classes, and in our thousands of interactions each day, we also promote love and empathy through supporting the habit of reading. Through independent reading, students learn to expand their consciousness of other lives, and to build their emotional vocabulary. At the end of this month, and into March, we’ll be celebrating reading through the Harborview Reada-Thon, through reading about Elizabeth Peratrovitch, and through the Read Across America celebration. Please support our young readers in learning to love reading, and in the process learning to love, and respect one another. -Tom McKenna Bob Olsen, retired middle school teacher, is a member of the Juneau Symphony, Fairbanks Symphony, and a few others in Alaska. Visited the school and played his bass for our student’s this week. Thank you for sharing your talent!!! Random Act of Kindness: Students helped clean-up the playground
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