SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — Starting this week, Two Rivers-Dos Rios Elementary school students get to play in the school’s brand new gym. A second-grade class got to break the gym in Wednesday during P.E. Last year, a support beam in the roof of the gymnasium snapped. It happened while crews were renovating the school, so no … Continue reading »
School Mural Entered in Contest
EUGENE, Ore. — A local elementary school is working around the 4J’s budget woes in a very creative way. First, second and third graders at Adams Elementary hope to win a $10,000 prize from a national American Girl contest for the mural. The organizing teacher says creating it took more than art. Students had to … Continue reading »
Student Inventors Hold Convention
EUGENE, Ore. — More than 100 students in first through fifth grade at Corridor Elementary showed off their creations at the school’s annual Invention Convention. The students have been learning about local and global issues. Thursday night they created solutions to some of the problems with their own prototypes. A few of the many inventions … Continue reading »
4J Parents Protest Common Schedule
EUGENE, Ore. — Parents are taking on the 4J School District. They want it to reconsider the high school common schedule. While schools have spent the last year prepping for the big change come next fall, the group of parents is hoping to get the district to change its mind now. In some schools students … Continue reading »
Ridgeline School Celebrates Teachers
EUGENE, Ore. — Schools around the country celebrated Teacher Appreciation Day Tuesday. Many of them spread the celebration into a whole week of teacher pampering, like at Ridgeline Elementary in Eugene. Students and their families are bringing in different gifts each day of the week. On Tuesday, teachers received potted plants and a free massage … Continue reading »
High-Cost Preschool Limits Enrollment
EUGENE, Ore. — Oregon ranks as the second most expensive state for public preschools in the country. The high cost of preschool is forcing the state to limit the number of three and four-year-old children enrolled in preschool programs, like Head Start. Preschool is important for childhood development; but as the cost of educating children … Continue reading »
4J Prepares for More Staff Cuts
EUGENE, Ore — Informal negotiations between 4J administrators and the Eugene Education Association came to a standstill Thursday; unless they come to an agreement soon, the district could be seeing nearly double the cuts in staff. While 4J’s budget struggles aren’t news to anyone, it didn’t lessen the sting of the announcement about potentially bigger … Continue reading »
Ridgeline School Settles into New Home
EUGENE, Ore. — It wasn’t a rise from the ashes but a move from them, over and over again, that allowed Ridgeline Montessori School to finally find a new permanent space. The school’s been moving around Eugene since a fire ruined its old campus four years ago. The school has now spent its first full … Continue reading »
Willagillespie Celebrates New Garden
EUGENE, Ore. — What better day than Earth Day to open a garden? That’s what some local elementary school students did. The garden at Willagillespie Elementary includes raspberries, lettuce, peas, garlic and much more. Students celebrated its completion by running through a balloon arch and singing. School administrators say volunteers and more than four years … Continue reading »
Springfield Students Create eBooks
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — Reading, writing, and arithmetic–it’s what you expect second graders to learn. But at one Springfield elementary school, students are doing more than writing. Some second graders at Page Elementary have accomplished something most adults haven’t. They’re authors of eBooks. Sixty second graders can proudly say they’ve written, illustrated and self published an … Continue reading »
