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C H A L K TALK
DISTRICT Wednesday, June 18 is the last day of school. All schools have early release. Helen Haller, Sequim Middle School a nd Sequim High School will release at 11 a.m. and Greywolf at 11:15 a.m. We wish all our families a pleasant summer break and will look forward to seeing everyone back for the first day of the 20142015 school year on Sept. 3.
GREYWOLF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A year of growing together comes to an end as the Garden Club met on June 9 in Renee Mullikin’s classroom. The club has been busy learning about soil, seeds, tubers and bulbs as they have developed their home and school gardens. The group also gathers lunch scraps and utilizes a worm composting bin to create organic material for the garden. The final meeting of the year found them creating plant/garden markers as they painted rocks. Some included strawberries, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots and flower markers. They also pulled some weeds and checked the progress of the items that they have planted.
Garden Accessories Greywolf Elementary School student Cassidy Creselius works on a school garden marker. Photo by Patsene Dashiell
Ithas been a fruitful year for these HELEN HALLER young gardeners. A special thanks to volunteers Jolie Wills, Sonja ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Younger and Kari Webb for lending Haller students in Jane Laa hand with these 28 enthusiastic Beaume’s second-grade class had gardeners! a chance to put their Hands on
‘Hands On History’ From left, Katherine Vollenweider stands with Lars Wiker holding a photograph of the Dungeness Schoolhouse; Aiden Albers holds a lunch pail and cow bell; Kaiya McAllister wears a white lace blouse and Taylee Rome wears a long white dress — all articles from the Hands on History Trunk. Students are second-graders from Jane LaBeaume’s class. Submitted photo
History with the Museum & Arts Center’s History Trunk last Friday. The History Trunk follows the story of Catherine Monson who was born in Dungeness in the early 1900s. Monson attended Bellingham Normal School to become a teacher, returning to teach at the Dungeness Schoolhouse. The History Trunk was a project of former museum director, Katherine Vollenweider, assisted by volunteers Barbara Allen and Nyla Hansen. “I had been looking for a subject around which to satellite a history trunk when someone popped into the museum one day with Monson’s scrapbook they purchased at a Seattle yard sale,” Vollenweider said. “The scrapbook provided a tangible link for Sequim School District students to local life 100 years ago. We researched the learning requirements for the target grades and compiled a Teaching Resource, including a short his-
The Student Scene: How has the Gazette helped you?
I want a newspaper because I like to learn I think we should keep having the Sequim about my community and Gazette newspapers in Mr. Boots’ class beI would like to know what cause I believe that it’s useis going on. When I take it ful to know about the events home, I give it to my stepdad in our community and what and he reads the newspaper, the people are doing. I know so therefore I think it’s good it helps you know about the to have the newspaper. I like community because once I to learn about what is going had no idea that the 3 Crabs peterson on in my city. The newspaRestaurant in Dungeness delguzzi per tells you about everything like crimes was closing to be knocked flores and stuff like that. That is why I want the down and be there to tell newspaper. people what Dungeness is like. It also has — Devon Peterson upcoming events that seem really fun. I’m sure it’s helped other people to know about I have learned from the newspaper that Sequim’s community, too. even in a small town like Sequim, big — Lola DelGuzzi Flores things can happen each week. Things about the SeThe newspaper has helped me in many quim School District, the ways. It helps teach me a lot more words library or other facilities in and different ways of writing. It has helped the area that is beneficial me know different things to know. I like the sports that are going on in our section because sometimes country today. I would not I miss a high school soccer know about many of the hibler or basketball game and I things that are going on if it want to know not only who won, but what were not for the newspaper. I happened and who played well. There also think that it is a good way for is the Chalk Talk area, where I hear of us to learn new things that carter accomplishments of my classmates and are going on and things that students and other schools within the are happening. This newspaper has taught Sequim School District. This is why I be- me a lot of things that I will be able to use4 lieve it is important. in the next year or two. — Devin Hibler — Josiah Carter
The newspaper actually has helped me in many ways. It keeps me updated on what is going on in our community which is very important because whatever happens in Sequim affects me and my family. It also keeps me entertained when I don’t have anything to do. It also lets us know if there are going to be upprendergast coming festivals, carnivals, new buildings, restaurants, etc. The newspaper keeps our community well informed and I’m very grateful for that. — Emily Prendergast
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tory of Dungeness and suggested discussion topics corresponding to each artifact. Completed July 2010 before I retired, the History Trunk was scheduled to be launched fall of 2010, however that never occurred.” Here are observations some of the students had: Levi Wall: I didn’t wall know that instead of TV people knitted. I liked looking at the old things. Ben Elmenhurst-Jones: History is good to learn about. The old-fashioned things were interesting. Kaiya McAllister: I was interesting to see what the oldmcallister fashioned dresses were like. Hailey Walrath: People could use curling irons for their hair before they had electricity by putting it on the stove to heat up. Miguel Najer a: The schoolhouse was najera there a long time ago and is still there. “It is fortunate Judy Stipe and I could finally bring it to the classroom — touching the actual artifacts really made the past come alive,” Vollenweider said. “Students were able to hold a Thomas Edison wax cylinder recording and hear the actual sound the cylinder made on a CD player. They also heard about leisure activities before television and electric lights, and the industries that enabled Dungeness to become a prosperous settlement. What is especially exciting is that the Dungeness Schoolhouse and the Groveland Cottage are still visible, and these were part of the story the History Trunk tells. This is a free resource for Sequim School District teachers and it was my way of saying thank you to our local teachers who change lives for the better every day.” Teachers from K-12 may reserve
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From Steve Boots’ eighthgrade U.S. history class
The newspaper has helped us by showing us what is going on in our community. Many adults don’t care to tell us issues in our town because they think we don’t care so it provides a day by day update about what is going on. It also improves our reading and makes us more involved with life. The newspaper andres provides things even about our school and upcoming events such as festivals, etc. It also gets us used to reading it since it is something we should and will read when we need to know those things when we are older. The newspaper has helped me because it — Haelee Andres is all about the community around me and what is going on in the world. It is better to The newspaper has helped me because read the newspaper than I’ve learned more about my community watch the news because the and I’ve become a more innewspaper has more inforvolved and educated citizen. mation and more stories For example, I read a paper about what is going on in the about the “Vote Yes for Our world. It also has widened Schools” thing and I learned my vocabulary and spelling what it was actually about capabilities. It also has told and what they hope to acmyers about future plans in the complish by it. If you don’t hughes community and fundraisers for these plans. know what’s going on in your It also has improved my reading speed and town and you want to be a good citizen, my knowledge about my surrounding in reading the local newspaper is a great way pictures, even more than the news at some to keep up with the comings and goings times. Thank you, Sequim Gazette. of Sequim. — Jacob Myers — Audrey Hughes
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