Portland Public Schools
Portland, Oregon

Eagle LogoGrout Elementary School

AN EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
AWARD-WINNING SCHOOL

3119 SE Holgate Blvd. | Portland, OR 97202
Phone: (503) 916-6209 | Fax: (503) 916-2632

Jonathon Fischer

Here we are, hard at work, at the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year.
Welcome!

We are 28 third-grade students and a 10-year teacher in a classroom with a view of the misty West Hills. We are curious about things, we laugh alot, and we work hard. We are proud of what we can do.

Several students in our class speak a language in addition to English: Burmese, Karen, and Maay-Maay. We are also learning to speak the languages of mathematics, science, and art.

This year we are reading a variety of literature and producing a body of writing of our own that we share together. We adore reading and writing stories. We have been studying Rocks and Minerals and connecting ideas from  Earth science. This year we hope to learn about matter; about bridges and the choices engineers make; about plants; about the history and geography of Portland and our local area. We love to create art, and have a wonderful partnership with the Cooley Art Gallery on the campus of Reed College, which is a stone's throw (okay, a long throw) from our classroom.

This site is young. Come back again...perhaps we'll have photographs of ourselves and our work to look at.

Note to our parents: Take a look at Lisa Van Clock's page.  She teaches the OTHER third grade at Grout, and has compiled  information that may interest you. Our homework choices and policies are (deliberately) very similar. She also has links to sites for math practice, science study, and our own Grout portaportal.