"As the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) and ODE announced earlier this month, the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) is a new grocery benefits program that starts this summer. It helps families buy food for their school-aged children during the summer when school is out. Families will get $120 for each eligible child. They will receive the benefits in one payment on an Oregon EBT card.
Families that have SNAP, TANF or OHP don’t need to apply. Summer EBT food benefits will be added to their Oregon EBT card automatically. Families will get a letter for each eligible child by mail or email when their benefits have been sent.
Families that do not have SNAP, TANF or OHP and may be eligible will need to apply. Children are likely to qualify if they go to schools with free or reduced-price meal programs and live in households that meet income requirements for those programs. Families can go to sebt.oregon.gov to check if their child may be eligible. They can also sign up to get a notification by text or email when it’s time to fill out and submit the application."
Don't forget to order your 2023/2024 high school yearbook! See the attached flyer for directions.
Thank you to all who came to the school plant sale and supported the Dufur Greenhouse students. We sold nearly all of the various plants that the students planted and grew, rocks they painted and even a few bags of seeds they harvested. We had face painting, rock painting, seed planting and even a petting zoo!
There are some amazing artists in the Dufur middle school! The following students recently won these art contests with their superior artwork:
6th Grader Miranda Schreiber - her rooster poster was only 1 of 13 winners (out of over 1,400 entries!) selected to be in the Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom's 2024-25 Calendar, AND she won a $50 cash prize!
6th Grader Daisy Proctor and 8th Grader Alma Compo - 1st Place winners in the Wasco Co. Soil & Water Conservation District Stewardship Poster Contest (both won in their age category). The theme was "May the Forest Be With You Always". They each won a $25 cash prize and their posters will continue on to the State poster contest, to be awarded in the fall. Stay tuned!
Mrs. Miller’s 2nd grade wrapped up the year with their annual week long classroom camp out! They read camp stories, learned about animal tracks, made solar ovens, melted s'mores and even went on a nature hike to release their frogs that they had raised from tadpoles
To wrap up the year, the 3rd Grade and a couple HS Health Science students visited Oregon Veterans Home! We joined the residents for many rounds of BINGO before heading to Sorosis Park. Thank you to OVH residents and staff for allowing our students to have such a fun visit!
Beginning in October, Mrs. Gratiot's 4th grade class and Mrs. Mead's 5th grade class participated in a "Food Truck Challenge" in Health class. The challenge was to create a viable food truck business with a nutritionally sound menu. We studied "My Plate" to learn about eating balanced and nutritious meals and studied food truck businesses; from creating a business plan to picking a truck design and a menu. All the kids did such a great job and got really creative with their ideas! What a great way to end the year!
Happy last day of school from the Blue Bus!
Mrs. Mead, Mrs. Gratiot, Mrs. Huffman, and Mrs. Welk would like to warmly thank the Wasco Lodge Masonic Funds at Adventist Health Columbia Gorge Foundation for awarding them each with the Wasco Lodge Masons Grant. They are excited to use these funds to further support their students and enhance their educational experience
Congratulations to the newest Dufur alumni, the Class of 2024!
Mrs. Welk and Mrs. Huffman's class spent their last Friday of the school year splashing around at the Boardman Aquatic Center.
The Ranger TECH Construction class hammered out a trailer re-decking project for a local contractor this week. The existing wood deck was nasty. These young men demonstrated exemplary work ethic, problem solving skills and attention to detail while on this project. As their construction teacher, I could not be more proud. - Leona Egeland
Here is the link for our June Newsletter: https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/726/Dufur_School_District/4407270/24_June_news.pdf
Tis the season! Preschool had their Big Sprouts graduation on Tuesday evening. The 8th graders will be having their promotion ceremony on June 5th at 6:00 p.m., and the high school seniors will be graduating on Saturday, June 1st on Henderson Field at 11:00 a.m. Congratulations to all!
Mrs. Gratiot's 4th grade class is ending the year focusing on integrating information from two texts on the same topic. They read two articles about space and then completed a graphic organizer about the similarities and differences between the texts. Next, we wrote about the similarities using a cooperative strip paragraph in a pocket chart as a class. Finally, students are collaborating to write a paragraph in their own small pocket charts about the differences between the two articles. What a great amount of collaboration at the end of the school year!
The seniors arrived for their last day of school in style with a parade through town in anything but a car. Congratulations to the Class of 2024!
Stand along the traditional parade route in Dufur and cheer on the seniors as they arrive for their last day of school!
The Dufur School Little Free Library is in need of books!
They started out as pen pals and left as friends! Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Huffman's 2nd graders have had pen pals from Maupin all year. Today they got to walk to the park to meet them! They ate lunch, played in the park and even had a great game of kickball with their new friends!
Mrs.Welk’s kindergarten had their awards celebration yesterday! Thank you to all the families who came and supported! ❤️
