Author: old_ljyys4
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Let’s Talk About Trees!
Today we had a visitor in class from Talk About Trees! Through forest artifacts, displays and hands-on activities, we learned all about forestry and the Oregon forest. We explored the school grounds discovering interesting leaves, unique seeds, and our school’s magnificent trees. Our Talk About Trees facilitator, Catherine, even shared in our adventure with a…
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Space Camp at PKS
Space: the final frontier. These are the adventures of the Portland Kinderschule Space Explorers Week. Its five-day mission: to explore our solar system, to seek out new life and prepare for the eclipse, to boldly go where no kid has gone before. Last week it was all about space at Portland Kinderschule. It was Space…
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Abschlussfeier/Graduation
On June 16th the school year at Portland Kinderschule ended with a big Abschlussfeier. For that the PKS Circus came to town. There were monkeys, horses and elephants in the arena. Acrobats were showing breathtaking stunts. A magician performed his tricks, musicians played and the clowns told funny jokes. All in front of an audience…
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Three Fieldtrips with Bullseye Glass
In the last month Portland Kinderschule went on three different field trips all organized by Laura from Bullseye Glass. On May 5th we visited Zena Forest Products, a sustainable tree farm run by a family with German roots a few miles northwest of Salem. After braving some downpours on the freeway and navigating a bumpy…
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Field Trip to the Tulip Farm
On Wednesday, April 19th, there was no school as Portland Kinderschule headed out to Woodburn to visit the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm. We were greeted by Carol who told the children about the life cycle of a tulip. Then everybody climbed abord the hayride out to the tulip fields. Apart from a lot of tulips…
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Spring Camp
During spring break there is no school at PKS, but this year there was a Spring Camp offered for the first time. The daily schedule followed the usual PKS day but there was a science focus in the activities. The first day the ten children attending the camp learned about the bridges in Portland, found…
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Fasching
Traditionally lent are the last 40 days before Easter starting on Ash Wednesday during which you’re supposed to fast and give-up on luxuries. So you better enjoy the last days before all this fasting starts. This is what people all over the world do, whether it’s the famous Carnivals in Rio or Venice, Mardi Gras…
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Video of Nikolausfeier and PKS in 2016
A video of the Nikolausfeier and pictures looking back to the year 2016 at PKS:
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Nikolausfeier
Do you know where Santa Claus got his name from? From the Dutch. Their name for the legendary bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra is Sinterklaas which turned into Santa Claus. And the Germans call the same person Nikolaus. There are a few differences between Santa Claus and Nikolaus. Santa Claus wears a white trimmed red…