So many things have happened this busy third quarter! I would say we are most proud of how students helped in our community with community groups. They come to an end this week and it is bittersweet. The 5th grade students and I will certainly miss Mr. Jim and all of the people at the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank. The students loved helping out. I’m sure the 4th and 6th grade students will miss the people and connections they have made at the Soldotna Senior Center and Riverside House.

On a positive note, our school made 700+ “Bean Soup Mix” kits for the Food Bank yesterday. It was a real team effort; students, families, teachers, staff, the Food Bank and Peterkin Distributors. We couldn’t have done it without the efforts of our staff- THANK YOU! A special thanks to Ms. Sanders, Bob Shirley, Dallas Hansen, and Cody Quelland. Shall we shoot for 1,000 next year??????

We are going to go ice-fishing next week. Probably our last field trip until Peterson Bay as Alyeska skiing looks more and more Unlikely. We also have our Read-A-Thon next Thursday: a great way for students to raise money for field trips. Spring Break comes the week of March 9th, and students are ready for a break. Fourth quarter will be upon us and busy with state testing (Alaska Measures of Progress) or AMP testing. It will all be computer based- a first for Alaska. We’ll have some research writing going on, some marine biology prep, and of course end of the year activities.