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March 3, 2016 Oregon School for the Deaf Bi-Weekly Newsletter Volume 4, Edition 07

The Oregon School for the Deaf is a community that fosters lifelong learning, encouraging individuals to become self-fulfilled, productive citizens.

Oregon School for the Deaf

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Oregon School for the Deaf Newsletter

Table of Contents

Academics .......................................................... 1

Elementary News ........................................... 1

Helen Keller National Center Expert Visits

OSD................................................................. 2

Communication Corner .................................. 2

SBC Valentines ............................................... 3

Interning at Capitol Auto! .............................. 3

Poetry Out Loud 2016 .................................... 4

Community ......................................................... 5

The Diary of Anne Frank................................. 5

National Theatre of the Deaf ......................... 5

Tchoukball ...................................................... 6

FOSD Benefit at the Pentacle Theatre ........... 7

Academics

Elementary News

By Robyn Brown

The Elementary Department has had a delightful

week celebrating Read Across America and

honoring Dr. Seuss! Many thanks to Ms. Kayla

Meese, Ms. MaryEllen Graham, Mrs. Michelle

Hardey, and Mrs. Laine Fisher-Gayle for their

hard work in bringing so much fun to our

students!

On Monday, our staff and students participated

in an interactive retelling of Go, Dog, Go! Get a

copy of the book and ask your student to show

you in which pages they were actors! Dog party

hats are coming home today!

Tuesday was pajama day! Robert Rich, our

Director of Instruction, read The Lorax to the

students in the morning. In the afternoon we

watched the movie, The Lorax and Laine (our

dual language specialist) led us in identifying the

similarities and differences between the book

and the movie. Thanks to the MANY PARENTS

and STAFF who came and read with our students

at the end of the day. Watch for more

opportunities to come!

On Wednesday, Dr. Sharla Jones, our school

Director, read The Cat in the Hat! Parents, you

might want to read this one with your student

and ask them about what happens in YOUR

house when you are gone! As you saw, Thing #1-

19 came home to you all! Thanks to Dr. Patrick

Graham who share The Cat in the Hat Comes

Back! with us in the afternoon. Then, guess who

stopped by?

On Thursday, we watched an ASL presentation

of Would you Rather be a Bullfrog? Check it

out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX4Z





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U-TmYGA The story was followed up with

several graphs where children made their

opinion known! Ask them (and tell them your

preference!)

Would you rather be a cat or a dog?

Would you rather be a bat or a ball?

Would you rather live in a tent or an

igloo?

Keep reading! Let YOUR kids catch YOU reading

too! Do not forget to check out the Panther

News… you might recognize some familiar little

people!

Helen Keller National Center

Expert Visits OSD

By Sharla Jones

Two of our students, CF and DD, met with

Dorothy Walt, a DeafBlind person from Seattle

who works for HKNC – Helen Keller National

Center. Dorothy is an expert on resources for

people who are DeafBlind and was able to help

educate our transition counselor Anne

Harrington and our Director Sharla Jones. She

brought a lot of great information on several

programs available in Washington as well as the

HKNC headquarters in New York. She also

explained two new means of communication for

DB people: Haptics and Protactile. This is the

concept of providing visual information to a

person on their back, mapping out locations in a

room and letting DB people know who is signing

in a group, tapping signals to convey agreement

and to continue. We just scratched the surface

on what is available for DB people these days!

Student CF & DD meets with Dorothy Walt

Thank you for your visit Dorothy!

We are also grateful for our volunteer mentor in

ATP – Lorie Rich, who is working with students

on extra life-skills building.

Sharla Jones, PhD

Director

Communication Corner

By Laine Fisher-Gayle

Hello to all parents and family:

Thank you to all of the parents who have

downloaded and signed up for the program

SeeSaw. I hope you have enjoyed seeing your

elementary students hard at work in their

Language Lessons and Spoken Language time.

High school and middle school students with

communication time will begin using this app

too; parents, feel free to download the

app. Here is the information:

It is a free app that, when accessed, will give you

insight on what your child is doing in their





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Language Lesson or Spoken Language times with

me! Here is what you do:

1. Email me at laine.fisher-

[email protected] to tell me you are

interested!

2. Download the FREE app: SeeSaw Parent

Access

3. Once I hear from you, I will add you to our

class list. You will then get an email on

instructions to view our activities!

Again, this is FREE (did I say that already?) and

will provide you instant access to what we are

doing!

Let me know if you have questions! And thanks

for investing in your student’s learning!

SBC Valentines

By Cherie Ulmer

On Friday, February 12, the Middle School

Student Body Council delivered flowers and

valentine cookies to various staff and students

here at OSD. Some ODE employees purchased

cookies and flowers to have delivered to co-

workers.

SBC delivering Valentines at ODE

The SBC travelled to ODE and delivered the

sweet smelling and delicious valentines. We met

our former OSD Employee Monique Murphy

there and she helped us find the people who

were the recipients of the flowers and cookies.

We are looking forward to next year when we

can again spread the heart of OSD all around!

Interning at Capitol Auto!

By OSD

Congratulations to Cristian on interning at

Capitol Auto! He makes us proud!





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Poetry Out Loud 2016

By Gayle Robertson

Our seventh Poetry Out Loud competition at

OSD provided some hot competition this year.

Seventeen young people competed in the first

round. That means seventeen out of # Oregon

School for the Deaf high school students stood

on a stage all alone, in front of their friends,

family and educators and recited a poem.

Seventeen individuals now have a poem inside of

them that will stay with them for life. This is why

I love Poetry Out Loud.

Wanuna Rakin reciting The Ocean by Nathaniel

Hawthorne

It seems a bit strange to have competition

around poetry. But when I see students walking

down the hall reciting beautiful poetic works;

when I see them develop inside jokes that

include lines of famous poetry; when I see them

stand on that stage with brave hearts glowing, I

am dazzled. I am inspired and I am humbled.

The five top-scoring contestants, according to

our wonderful panel of judges, advanced to the

second round. There they have to learn an

additional poem in a short amount of time and

perform that and their first poem. The first- and

second-place performers become the School

Champion and Runner-up. This year, for the first

time in seven, we had a tie! Lupita Nava-Pena

and Austin Robertson had to recite the poem of

their choice for a tiebreaker.

I am pleased to announce our 2016 Poetry Out

Loud Champion is… Lupita Nava-Pena!

Congratulations to her and our runner-up, Austin

Robertson. They were so close! Both of them

performed beautifully in all three rounds and

both deserve our congratulations and support.

Lupita Nava-Pena and Austin Robertson

Lupita is advancing to Poetry Out Loud, Regionals

here in Salem this Saturday. She will bring three

poems selected from the official Poetry Out Loud

website. She will be competing against all of the

School Champions in Central Oregon. She will

likely be the only Deaf performer at the

competition. This is bravery beyond bravery. If

she advances from Regionals, she will go to

State, and then the State Champion will go to

Nationals in Washington DC. Go Lupita!





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Community

The Diary of Anne Frank

By Cherie Ulmer

The Friends of OSD (FOSD) is sponsoring a

benefit performance of Pentacle Theatre’s THE

DIARY OF ANNE FRANK on Wednesday, March 9.

Two excellent ASL Theater Interpreters will

provide interpreting for the play. Tickets are

$25.00 each.

WHY YOU SHOULD GO: THE DIARY OF ANNE

FRANK is a very important play that provides a

human element to the horrors of the Holocaust.

The play is based on the actual diary of Anne,

who lived in hiding with her family and others for

over two years during WWII. We learn so much

more when we can identify with real characters

who lived through these events in history. As we

read the news and see what is happening

currently, we are reminded that the idea of

discrimination and violence based on race or

religion is still a very real problem in our world.

There will be an exhibit in the lobby from the

Anne Frank Center in New York which gives an

in-depth visual history of the time Anne Frank

lived.

WHY YOU SHOULD PAY $25.00 TO SEE A PLAY:

The Friends of OSD is sponsoring the event as a

benefit for their excellent work. FOSD’s mission

is to provide funding to OSD staff to support

enrichment and learning for OSD students. Your

$25.00 gives you an evening of profound theater

with ASL interpreters. It also provides FOSD

funds to help OSD students. The money you

spend on the play has a double benefit!

HOW YOU CAN BUY TICKETS: Char Iliff will be in

our library on Monday March 7 from 2:30 to 3:30

or, before March 7 contact Cherie Ulmer,

[email protected].

HOPE TO SEE YOU AT THE FOSD BENEFIT

PERFORMANCE OF THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK!

National Theatre of the Deaf

By Betty Beekman

This summer the National Theatre of the Deaf is

offering our second annual Theatre Immersion

Program (TIP) to high school students, grades 10

through 12. TIP is an all-encompassing, ten-day

summer program for young theatre enthusiasts.

It offers deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing

students theatre training opportunities

specializing in NTD’s ‘theatricalized’ American





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Sign Language. The program engages students in

classes, workshops, script development,

rehearsals, and performances with the actors

from NTD and special guest lecturers, ultimately

resulting in a sample tour to venues in the state

of Connecticut. Participants greatly benefit from

this hands-on, annual opportunity to eat, sleep,

and breathe theatre!

We will be utilizing our own script “It’s in the

Bag!” as the basis of the performance.

Participants will have a hand in developing what

the final performance product will be. Students

will lodge at the American School for the Deaf

campus in West Hartford, Connecticut, and

perform a small tour at several different venues

in the state.

From the arrival day on August 8th, to the final

show on the 18th, students will be immersed in

theatre. With help from our hearing and deaf

actors, they will experience the steps in creating,

performing, and perfecting a theatrical piece.

The National Theatre of the Deaf is the longest

continually-touring theatre company in the

United States, with a history of prestige and

inclusion that spans nearly fifty years. It is our

honor to provide this program for the second

year in a row, and we are excited to see what the

summer brings.

If you have questions, please contact us

at [email protected] or [email protected].

Sincerely,

Betty Beekman

Tchoukball

By OSD

What is a good way for staff to unwind after an

arduous week? TCHOUKBALL! Many of our staff

members enjoyed the team building activity.

Thanks to Scott Pfaff, our fearless PE teacher, for

putting together this fun event!

Mike McDaniel attacks!





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FOSD Benefit at the Pentacle

Theatre

By Friends of OSD

An ASL interpreted performance of "The Diary of

Anne Frank" will be held to benefit Friends of

OSD on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 7:30

PM at the Pentacle Theatre. The Pentacle is

located at 324 52nd Avenue NW, Salem, OR (just

off Highway 22 between Salem and

Dallas).

All tickets are $25, and are all general admission.

Tickets are available for purchase on the

Pentacle Theatre web site:

https://tickets.pentacletheatre.org/TheatreMan

ager/1/tmEvent/tmEvent261.html

Tickets are also available for purchase from the

Board Members of Friends of OSD. Please

contact me for more information

([email protected]). You can also buy tickets

by going to the Pentacle Box Office (145 Liberty

St. NE, Salem), Monday through Friday, 10:00

AM-4:30 PM.

Proceeds from this event will help provide

innovative educational opportunities for

students at the Oregon School for the Deaf.

Please feel free to share this with your friends.

Thank you!





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