Direct Give – Now Accepting Monthly Payments!!!

We now have another option for you to make affordable donations. You can schedule monthly recurring payments through PayPal. Enter the details below and click the “Donate” button: When would you like this to Recur? Monthly How many times would …

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Direct Give Fundraiser Kick-Off

We are kicking off our biggest fundraising effort of the year and our goal is to raise $60,000. All proceeds go to the PTA and directly benefit your child, so every dollar counts. Your contribution will allow the PTA to: Supplement funds …

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Help Start the K-5 STEM Community Garden!

Ms. Cook and Mr. Rankin are building a community garden for our school. They need donations of garden tools and plant starts to get the garden going as soon as possible. Donations can be dropped off at the PTA …

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Items Needed Update

Ms. Hare would love donations of “BOB Books” (particularly sets 1 and 2), for the phonics tutoring program. Have any spare instruments? Our music instructor, Ms. Chutich, is always looking for extras. Whether you have some extra percussion instruments in …

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Wear Your Owl With Pride

Exciting news from the Uniform Committee! You can now order uniform shirts with our owl mascot from French Toast and Land’s End. They’re available in adult sizes too! Plus, both French Toast and Lands End are fundraisers for K-5 STEM PTA – so any purchase kicks …

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Book Summer Camps, Earn $ for School

We wanted to let you know about a fantastic resource for parents to save time and discover great activities & camps for your kids. Sigby.com is a one-stop site to find and book thousands of classes, camps, and activities for …

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Direct Give – Now Accepting Monthly Payments!!! Direct Give Fundraiser Kick-Off Help Start the K-5 STEM Community Garden! Items Needed Update Wear Your Owl With Pride Book Summer Camps, Earn $ for School

May
20
2013

Scholastic Book Fair – Online Fair Open NOW!

May 20, 2013

Dear Parents and Families:

Reading is the most important skill you can teach a child. Of all the skills children learn, it is the one you can influence the most.

We invite you to visit our Scholastic Book Fair and experience a celebration of reading that provides families the opportunity to get involved in a universal mission: encouraging kids to read every day so they can lead better lives.

Our Scholastic Book Fair theme – Story Laboratory: Reading Gives You Super Power! – is part of an incredible energy source for reading that brings to school a wonderful selection of fun, engaging, and affordable books kids want to read. Giving kids access to good books and the opportunity to choose their own books will motivate them to read more. And like most acquired skills, the more kids practice reading, the better they’ll get.

Reading is vital to every child’s success, and raising kids as readers means getting involved while they’re young. Now is the time. Since there will never be a substitute for a parent’s direct involvement in his/her child’s education, please make plans to visit our Book Fair in the School Library, and check out our online fair!

Family Event

Thursday, June 6th

5pm to 8pm

Open for Shopping

Friday, June 7th

8:30am to Noon

If you’re all booked up during Book Fair week (or just want to keep shopping), be sure to visit the Book Fair online. The online Book Fair is available for an extended time from May 20th to June 5th.

Find an expanded selection of books for the whole family—preschool to adults
Share your Book Fair with family and friends by sending wish lists or eCards
All orders ship to school for FREE and each purchase benefits K-5 STEM

Sincerely,

Debora Hare

K-5 STEM Librarian

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May
16
2013

Jump Rope for Heart

May 16, 2013

Dear Parents/Guardians-
Red Shirt Day in P.E!

In honor of Jump-rope for Heart, and being Heart Heroes, I am asking students to bring or wear a red shirt to P.E. class either this Friday (5/17) or Monday (5/20) depending when they have P.E. We will be taking a class picture at the end of the class with he/she’s shirt and jump-rope. The shirt needs to have no graphics on it, but it can be turn inside out for it to be a plain red shirt. No worries if you don’t have a red shirt because I have red pennies he/she can wear. Here are the days I have your son/daughter in P.E.:

Friday – May 17

Gruber

Lee

Nur

Duke

Cook

Toney

Monday – May 20

Gluck

Des

Bilanko

Salinas

Takahashi

Not Parsley (they wore shirts on 5/15

ALSO, the Jump-rope for Heart fundraiser packets is due this Friday, May 17, 2013. My goal for the school is to raise $2500. This averages out to be $10 per student.

Thanks again for all your support,
Ms. Gray
ghgray@seattleschools.org

Permanent link to this article: http://k5stempta.org/2013/05/16/jump-rope-for-heart/

May
15
2013

Direct Give – Now Accepting Monthly Payments!!!

May 15, 2013

We now have another option for you to make affordable donations. You can schedule monthly recurring payments through PayPal. Enter the details below and click the “Donate” button:

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May
15
2013

Auction Blues

May 15, 2013

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May
14
2013

Book Fair Volunteers Needed!

May 14, 2013

Seeking Volunteers for our Story Laboratory

Dear Parents and Families,

The Scholastic Book Fair will be at our school June 6th-7th. A special family event is scheduled for the evening of June 6th.

The exciting theme for your spring 2013 Book Fair is Story Laboratory: Reading Gives You Super Power! Your Book Fair is an incredible energy source for reading, and volunteers are the catalyst for a successful Book Fair. We hope you will share your talents and join us as we help students discover the power of reading.

If you have some time to help us conduct the Book Fair, please email Wendy Warborg with the date and time you would like to help out (see details below). There will also be a volunteer form going out in Kid Mail soon.

Sincerely,

Wendy Warborg

Book Fair Chairperson

Sign me up to help at the Book Fair!

Available times:

• Thursday 6/6 5:00pm-6:30pm

• Thursday 6/6 6:30-8:00pm

• Friday 6/7- 8:30am-10:00am

• Friday 6/7 10:00am-12:00pm

• Friday 6/7 Clean up crew 12:00pm-2:00pm

ALL VOLUNTEERS must attend cashier training 6/6 from 3:45-5pm

Permanent link to this article: http://k5stempta.org/2013/05/14/book-fair-volunteers-needed/

May
13
2013

Watch Me!

May 13, 2013

Permanent link to this article: http://k5stempta.org/2013/05/13/did-you-know/

May
07
2013

Family Symposium – Building Bridges for Summer Learning

May 7, 2013

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May
02
2013

Save the Date – Scholastic Book Fair!

May 2, 2013

Thursday June 6th, 5pm – 8pm

Friday June 7th, 8:30am – Noon

School Library

Details to come later this month

Permanent link to this article: http://k5stempta.org/2013/05/02/save-the-date-scholastic-book-fair/

Apr
28
2013

Direct Give Fundraiser Kick-Off

April 28, 2013

We are kicking off our biggest fundraising effort of the year and our goal is to raise $60,000.

All proceeds go to the PTA and directly benefit your child, so every dollar counts.

Your contribution will allow the PTA to:

Supplement funds for Singapore Math curriculum
Support the implementation of arts in our curriculum
Allocate funds for teachers to use throughout the year in support of their classroom
Assist families through the uniform closet, scholarships for before & after school programs and more
Aid teacher development to ensure that our talented staff stay on the cutting edge as they develop and deliver project-based STEM curricula
Continue to grow our STEM community within and outside the walls of our school by hosting fun, community-building STEM events. Read the rest of this entry »

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Apr
27
2013

SCATS Performance Thrills!

April 27, 2013

On Thursday, our students enjoyed a performance by SCATS (Seattle Cirque & Acrobat TeamS) – Seattle Public Schools’ demonstration team. This acrobatic group travels around the Greater Seattle area performing for schools, colleges, sports teams (including the Storm and Seahawks), festivals and parades.

Their performances include tumbling, juggling, unicycling, jump rope, handwalking, ballwalking and world class Double-Dutch. The student ages range from Kindergarten through High School.

K-5 STEM PE teacher Gretchen Gray says SCATS is a wonderful PE program, and she would love to teach these skills as part of the PE curriculum at our school. Ms. Gray says that about $10,000 worth of equipment is needed to do the whole program successfully … something to think about for the future!

Thanks to STEM parent Kari Scheff for these photos of the SCATS performance. Kari says,

Words cannot describe what an incredibly amazing job the kids from SCATS did in their assembly performance!! It was such a treat and our kids had an awesome time.