Kindergarten Jump Start is off to a great start…

We are excited to welcome our new Kindergarten students to Jump Start which begins on Tuesday, August 22, 2023.

On Sunday, we sent an email to all of our Jump Start families with information about the first day of Jump Start.

If you are a Kinderg

Happy Birthdays for the Week of August 20, 2023

Gage - Aug 21
Austin - Aug 21
Amelia - Aug 21
Scott - Aug 22
Parker - Aug 23
Duncan - Aug 23
Francis - Aug 23
Angeles - Aug 24
Madalynn - Aug 25
Braeson - Aug 26

Repost from @yamhillcap -Do you know of a youth who needs school supplies or a back-to-school haircut? If so, please let them know about Youth Outreach's event on Monday, August 21st from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. at YO Berg, 719 NE 1st St. in Newberg!

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Our roofers are making great progress. We anticipate that all the classrooms will be finished by the start of school. A huge thank you to the team from @carlsonroofingpdx for their outstanding work getting our roof ready for the new school year.

Our custodial crew busy today preparing our building for school. Kindergarten Jump Start begins Tuesday. The first day of school is September 5, 2023.

We are sharing the news that our long-time Kitchen Manager, Rhoda Powlison, has retired. We will miss her kindness, friendly nature, and the service she provided the students and staff of Mabel Rush. We congratulate her on her retirement and thank he

At the top of that ladder you will find one of the painting crew members who have been working to prepare our building for the new school year.

The roofers, the painters, the electricians, the carpenters, the HVAC engineers, and the construction man

Our school office is now open. Families looking to register for school can do so by visiting the school office Monday-Friday, 8:00 am - 3:30 pm.

Please note our temporary location at the north end of the school. Please look for the sign to direct yo

As we approach the start of the 2023 - 2024 school year, We are sharing some dates of interest and also some information that is commonly requested at this time of the year.

- School Office Reopens – August 16

- Kindergarten Jump Start &ndash

The Big Picture - Boston.com

June 23, 2008 in Asides

The Big Picture is a photo blog by Alan Taylor published by the Boston Globe/Boston.com. Roughly three times a week he posts a photograph that illustrates a news story.

Twitter Adds GMail Contacts Import

August 26, 2007 in Asides

Twitter Adds GMail Contacts Import Via Mashable

TwitDir - a Twitter directory

August 05, 2007 in Asides

TwitDir is a searchable directory of Twitter users. TwitDir lets you search by keyword and user name.

XRAY - for web developers

August 01, 2007 in Asides

XRAY is a bookmarklet for Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla. Use it to see the box model for any element. For a screencast demonstration, follow this link: XRAY Demo... By way of Simple Bits...

SketchUp Buildings

July 23, 2007 in Asides, google

SketchUp Buildings - This weblog highlights the newest buildings that have been uploaded to the Google 3D warehouse.

LeaderTalk Post

July 22, 2007 in Asides

LeaderTalk: Looking at Data... With Google Earth: Latest post on Leadertalk.

JotForm Form Builder

July 21, 2007 in Asides

JotForm JotForm is a web based WYSIWYG AJAXy form builder. Its drag and drop user interface makes form building easy. Using JotForm, you can create forms, integrate them to your site and collect submissions from your visitors. Examples include...

Contact Form
Blog Contact/Survey
Event Calendar
Document Uploader
Satisfaction Survey
Time Sheet
Job Application Form
RSVP for a Party or Wedding
Bug Tracker
Reservation Form

Readability Scores in Google Docs

July 19, 2007 in Asides

The word count feature in Google Docs displays not only word, character, paragraph, and sentence counts, but now also readability estimates.

Google Apps to Offer Version of YouTube

July 18, 2007 in Asides

Business Week has an article about Google Apps and reports that Google is preparing a Google Apps version of YouTube to create videos for training and employee communications. I hope this comes to the Apps version for education. We could post our student video projects and such without fear of being blocked by the district filter. by way of Mashable...

Display your KML on a Google Map

July 17, 2007 in Asides, google

Chris O'Sullivan has created a Rails application (Display KML on a Map) that let's you quickly test KML code directly in Google Maps. While Google Maps will display KML files, the KML file first has to be saved someplace. This method allows you to copy and paste the KML code into a text field and then display the KML information within Google Maps. You then need to zoom the map in manually to display the KML information. This is nice for testing and saves time since you don't have to first upload the KML file in order to see how it looks in Google Maps... By way of OgleEarth

BookTour: Where Authors and Audiences Meet

July 16, 2007 in Asides

BookTour is a service that connects authors and potential audiences. Authors can create a page and folks looking for an author to speak to a group or gathering can contact the author and facilitate the connection. You can also search for scheduled book tour events and see when your favorite author will be visiting your city.

Intel Joins One Laptop Per Child

July 15, 2007 in Asides

Intel Joins One Laptop Per Child"Intel and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) today announced they have agreed to work together to bring the benefits of technology to the developing world through synergy of their respective programs. Under the agreement, Intel and OLPC will explore collaborations involving technology and educational content. Intel will also join the board of OLPC."

Video Aggregators Reviewed

July 12, 2007 in Asides

Today Alan Levine pointed to VodPod, a video aggreation tool. A bit later I ran across this post from Mashable, 7 Online Video Aggregators Reviewed . It takes a look at 6 tools similar to and in addition to vodpod. They all allow you to organize video content from various sources in one place. All also have social components to them. I signed up for VodPod and think this will be a good tool for organizing video content I find on the web.

Quicksilver for Beginners

July 07, 2007 in Asides

The Apple Blog has a posted a screencast: Quicksilver for Beginners. This is a good introduction for folks new to using the Mac OS X launcher/Swiss Army Knife application. I use Quicksilver quite a bit and find it to be a great tool for doing all kinds of tasks including launching applications, posting pictures to Flickr, making blog posts and a ton of other things.

BlogTalkRadio to send TwitterGrams

July 03, 2007 in Asides

Dave Winer is utilizing a site called BlogTalkRadio for sending TwitterGrams (voice messages via Twitter). You sign up and associate your phone number with your Twitter ID and by calling the BlogTalkRadio phone number, you record a message which is then sent as a post via Twitter. The Twitter post has link to the recording on BlogTalkRadio...

Google Earth and Skype Mashup

July 02, 2007 in Asides

Unype is a Google Earth and Skype mashup that allows you to have a shared Google Earth experience with Skype users. Windows only.

All the News That’s Fit to Print Out - New York Times

July 01, 2007 in Asides

The New York Times Magazine has an article ( All the News That’s Fit to Print Out - )about the journalistic nature of Wikipedia and a look at some of the admins who keep things going. All in all, a pretty positive piece.