The Fall City Elementary School library was packed with people, students and adults, and a nervous tension is in the air. Students sitting on the floor held construction paper pennants and poster boards with team names on them. “In which book does a character eat a delicious shelled fruit called a rambutan?” librarian Meg Handy…
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Students draw close to friends through Anime
An old Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck and Pluto was called “The Eyes Have It.” No word on how prescient ol’ Walt was back in 1945, but he might have well been talking about a different brand of cartooning hailing from Asia: Anime. Anime’s young acolytes in the Snoqualmie Valley all agree that expressive peepers…
Newsletter plans to begin honoring a Teacher of the Month
For Diana Reul-Shapiro, it was time. Her newsletter, Macaroni Kid, has become part of the Snoqualmie and Issaquah communities. After two and a half years of news about children and teachers, it’s time for her and her newsletter’s co-editor and publisher, Dana Verhoff, to give something back: the Teacher of the Month award. “Dana is…
Professor calls on teachers to engage students
Daniel W. Rasmus, a former Microsoft executive and now a consultant and visiting liberal arts fellow at Bellevue College, told Valley educators to lose their fear of saying “I don’t know.” “Let’s just say we don’t know something and co-learn with students,” he said during the annual Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation fundraiser. The event raised…
Library program gives student free tutoring help, allows adults to mentor
County libraries want children and adults in a zone. The Study Zone. The tutoring program offers online help to students in grades kindergarten through 12. Children can now meet virtually with their tutors, using library computers. The yearlong program of in-person tutoring will continue at all King County Library System branches, including Fall City, North…
Cascade View students learn life lessons in black and white
So far as we know, Bobby Fischer never broke from his 1972 chess match with Boris Spassky to ask his coach to tie his shoelaces. And he never captured Spassky’s bishop while whistling like a falling missile. Yet, that’s the kind of thing that goes on at Chess4Life, an after-school program available every Wednesday afternoon…
Mount Si High School to get geothermal system
Captain Planet would likely approve of the Snoqualmie Valley School District’s updated light bulbs, not to mention its new geothermal system at Mount Si High School. Using funds from a $27.5 million school bond, construction crews are changing all of the district’s inefficient light bulbs, as well as installing improved heating, ventilation and air conditioning…
Students happily return to boomerang lessons
Ian Raley-Silva noted the direction of the wind before bending his right arm behind his head and flicking his boomerang into the sky. It took an impressive loop, spinning back to earth and into Raley-Silva’s waiting hands. Raley-Silva is one of 12 seventh- and eighth-grade students attending Two Rivers School. Like many of his classmates,…