Hello BLMS friends and families and welcome back to the blog. If you saw our post from yesterday, Ms. Jacki and I wanted to continue to reach out and share with you in these strange times. Like most of you, I wonder when this whole thing is going to end, I miss going out and seeing my friends, and I miss going to work and school. Despite all of that, the top priority is following instructions to stay clean and healthy. 

But in these unique times, we are presented with unique opportunities.  For example, we can take a look into some things you don't normally see, my pets. Many of you students have heard me talk about my frogs and you may have even been lucky enough to see a picture of them. But in this shelter in place I have embraced my role as a full time frog dad. 

Meet The Frogs:

Gorf was my first dart frog that I bought. He has a lot of color in him including blue, black, and yellow. I named him Gorf because it is the word frog backwards. And if you say it out loud, it's kind of the perfect frog name. You can normally find him sitting on the ground level in the shade of a big leaf or chilling out big time in his water dish looking easily catching fruit flies and crickets. 

Yug Wen is orange and black. His name is new guy backwards. Sort of a theme I have going. I bought him because I figured Gorf must be getting lonely in the hours I am away at work. Yug Wen loves to climb and jump. You can normally look at the top of plants or high along the rock wall and find him sitting and enjoying the heat lamp. While he is more adventurous than Gorf, he is a timid hunter and struggles to catch flies. Gorf is also not the best at sharing so sometimes I have to wait for Gorf to be asleep so I can feed Yug Wen in peace. 
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Here's a sneak peak at a brand new video and if the frogs are willing, we might try to get them for a sit down interview later this week.  


Mr. Steven

Hello BLMS !MPACT Families!
 
I wanted to stop by and say hello. Mr. Steven and I have been thinking of you all and hope that you are doing well! Remember to live out our one rule at !MPACT while you are at home: “You can do anything as long as it does not cause a problem for yourself or others.”  Hope you are keeping out of trouble, cleaning up after yourselves and keeping your brains occupied! (Pleeeeeaaase, not too many video games, I’m serious!) Also, keep washing your hands: in the sink... with soap... for 20 seconds (just like we talk about before all of our cooking activities, but now do it frequently)!
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As some of you may know, the BASC program has been providing childcare for medical professionals, grocery store workers, law enforcement, first responders, etc., in our community and I have been helping out there with other members of our management team. While I feel very lucky to be able to provide a service to members of our community during this time, I miss our !MPACT community terribly. Mr. Steven and I are brainstorming about ways for us to stay connected to you over the next few weeks, and hope we can come up with something. For now we are going to blog as frequently as we can, so make sure to keep checking in!
If you have any ideas, suggestions for how we can keep in touch these next few weeks or just want to say hello please email us! Mr. Steven: KurtzS@issaquah.wednet.edu and Ms. Jacki: watsonj@issaquah.wednet.edu
 
We look forward to seeing you VERY soon! 
~Ms. Jacki

Happy Friday to all of our BLMS Impact friends and family! This week sure has been hectic in more ways than one! As you may have read in different emails or updates over the past few days a lot of events in our program and the district as a whole have been canceled. This includes our upcoming field trip to the Sprinker Recreation Center and our Impact Oscars that we had planned for next week. We are currently in the process of finding alternative solutions for some of these. 

That being said, and as far as I am aware, Impact will remain open as long as the school is open. While we always clean and wipe down surfaces throughout our room we have stepped up our preparedness and have increased our cleaning frequency. 

Despite all of this we are still looking on the bright side and are trying our best to still have some fun here!

And what could be more fun than watching a documentary on Nova about the search for an Arctic ghost ship? Unfortunately I had to be at a different activity during the documentary, but luckily I have the PBS app and can watch at home.

But the real fun project was making our Fudge Oreo Brownies! Never have I made children wash their hands so many times in one activity but boy oh boy was it worth it!