Upcoming Events
Thursday, October 31st - Friday, November 1st, NO SCHOOL (Conferences)
Tuesday, November 5th, 6th Grade Mushroom Foray
Wednesday, November 6th, 5:30pm, Día de los Muertos Celebration
Thursday, November 7th, 3rd Grade Field Trip
Monday, November 11th, Veterans Day, NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, November 12th, Picture Retake Day
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Administrator's Message
Greetings Village 👻 Schoooooooooooooooooool 👻 Community!
What a fun, crazy week we’ve been having! Today we completed our pre Dia warm-up, the Halloween Hike. Thirteen staff members carved pumpkins for the staff pumpkin carving contest and we placed them around the school. Sixth grade students (and a couple parents) helped decorate the path between the pumpkins with spiders and skeletons and scarecrows and a haunted dollhouse and eerie lights. Each class took a hike around the campus and took a look at all the decorations and voted for their favorite pumpkins.
Here are photos of the winning pumpkins:
Humans have been celebrating on October 31st for over 2,000 years. Long before it evolved into Halloween, Celtic people celebrated Samhain as a final harvest festival and as a marker for a new year ahead. By the night of October 31st, the harvest was complete, the energy and light of the summer was done, and darkness began to fall over the land as the days grew shorter. Priests lit bonfires and held rituals to ward off spirits and people offered food to ancestors who had passed into the beyond. Samhain has evolved over hundreds of years, but one thing remains true: now is the time to stay nearer to home, because this is the point in the year when the divide between the supernatural and the physical worlds is thin, allowing spirits to walk among the living. Draw your people close because now is when people need community to make it through the cold and wet winter before us.
But wait, there’s MORE! Far across the globe in Mesoamerica, another tradition began when Aztek and Spanish customs and traditions mingled to create what would become known as Dia de los Muertos. Modern day Dia is celebrated primarily in Mexico, where families decorate an ofrenda with photos and mementos of relatives who have passed away. They also include food and drink for those who passed, to honor their lives and to ensure they are not forgotten.
Our Village School Dia de los Muertos Festival will be held on Wednesday, November 6th at 5:30pm. We will have a potluck, face painting, crafts, and a performance by Raices de Oregon-Baile Folklorico. It’s going to be an awesome party, be sure to mark your calendars.
Stay cozy!!
Roz, Shannon, and Andy
We are truly impressed at our school's Walk-a-Thon fundraising efforts. So far we have reached $21,000! The class that takes the 1st prize for the most funds raised is the 4th grade. We will have prizes for the 2nd and 3rd grades which closely followed. Regardless of how you look at it, all of the classes did a fabulous job in their fundraising.
We are still collecting pledges from our online venue VillageWalkathon.org and from the pledge packets. Please stop by the office if you need more materials.
Thank you very much for your participation - and thanks to all of our volunteers who helped make this such a successful, enjoyable event!
Volunteer Needs
Día de los Muertos is next week! We are getting excited! This is a whole family event that is free to attend, and filled with an array of crafts, face painting, and student and community performances. Please see the sign up sheets for volunteering and potluck contributions below. We have a few more spots that need to be filled!
We ask families to contribute 40 hours of volunteer hours per year, and single parent households to contribute 20 hours. This event is a great way to build on your volunteer hours!
*Please make sure to always sign in, grab a volunteer badge, and sign out at the office when you volunteer!
You're welcome to reach out to chrissy@eugenevillageschool.org with any questions about volunteering!
541-345-7285
Día de los Muertos
See details below for this wonderful event, as well as ways to contribute! There are still a few volunteer spots, as well as Potluck contributions to fill. Get your name down for a shift that looks good to you!
November Birthdays
Mushroom Presentation
The 5th and 6th graders were treated to a presentation on local mushrooms by experts Lee Yamada and Joe Spivak from the Cascade Mycological Society.
Halloween Hike (click picture to start slideshow)
We had our Halloween celebration yesterday, and it was a day of parties, pumpkin contests, and fantastic costume fun! Take a look at the slideshow for a window into the festivities!
Family Directory
Copies of the Family Directory are now available in the office. You are welcome to stop by and pick one up!
Handwork Happenings
Take a look at some finished Handwork projects by our students.
2nd graders Evie, Annabel, and Joshua finished their cats, and 3rd grader Oriah finished her hat!
Village Kitchen
Thank you parent volunteers, John and Samantha, for serving up a spooky Halloween lunch and for 8th grade helpers, Caroline and Piper, for creating an artistic menu board for the day!
With gratitude,
Toña Aguilar
November Menus
Student Art
A couple of beautiful landscapes from 8th Grader, Enala
Sports Bras Giveaway
Last Friday, we were able to give away brand new sports bras to 3rd - 8th graders thanks to the organization, Bras for Girls. Thank you to all who participated!
Kindergarten Field Trip to A&M Farms
The kindergarteners went on their field trip to A&M Farms, where they got to pick pumpkins, and feed chickens and cows! Thank you to all the parent volunteers who drove and chaperoned!
Title I Reading/Math Services, 2024-2025
Every fall, winter and spring, our Title staff and classroom teachers administer reading and math assessments to each of our students. If a student in grades 1-5 scores below the 30th percentile, she/he may be recommended by our team to receive instructional interventions in reading and/or math with their progress monitored. At The Village School, all students receive up to 90 minutes of language arts and 60 minutes of math instruction each day. If your child will be receiving additional reading or math instruction, his or her classroom teacher or the Title I coordinator will notify you. Please see the links below for additional information.
English
Spanish
Job Openings at the Village School
Garden Coordinator
(2) Spanish Teaching Positions
8th Grade Fundraiser - Wreath Sales
The 8th graders are selling beautiful wreaths to support their graduation trip. Please consider supporting them, and getting a start on seasonal decorating!
Community Bulletin Board
House for rent with possibility to buy. 3 bedroom / 1 bath. Less than 1 mile from The Village School. Hardwood floors, lots of light, large yard. $2100/mo.
Available November 1st. Call/text Cindy 541-895-4218
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