Order forms for next year's school supplies went out in last week's payloads packet. You can order with the form or online.
Click here for more information
Check orders will be due Friday, June 11, 2010. Credit card orders due Tuesday, July 15, 2010.
Questions? Contact your School Supplies Chairs Paige Somol at paigesomol@comcast.net or Briana Martin at briana_martin@yahoo.com .
We invite parents of students receiving special education services at McAuliffe to join our new support group! The idea of this group is to collectively educate ourselves on the IEP/ 504 process, share experiences and resources, and find ways to foster friendships among our kids. If you are interested in participating in this group please contact: Stefanie Estes at sestes1047@yahoo.com.
Congratulations Running Club!
As a group you ran over 776 miles which is equivalent to running from Sammamish, Washington to Yellow Stone National Park in Wyoming. What an accomplishment!
Over half of the runners ran over 10 miles during the 7 week program. Thank you to all the wonderful parents who volunteered their time to help with the weekly organization and a special thank you to Paula Smiley and Paul Lee for their extra efforts.
If you are interested in running club T-shirts, please submit your order quickly – we have extended the order deadline date to June 2, 2010
Questions? Contact Laura Bolz at lbolz@rocketmail.com.
We still need volunteers for the Bike Rodeo next Wednesday, May 26. If you can help volunteer, please contact at kristenmathison@yahoo.com.
For more information about the bike rodeo, visit: www.mcauliffeptsa.org/c5/mca/news/2010/5/19/bike-rodeo-wednesday-may-261
This service is provided by EPI and The Christa McAuliffe PTSA. Order forms will come home in THIS week's payload packet. You will be able to either write a check to the McAuliffe PTSA or pay online with a credit card.
Check orders will be due Friday, June 11, 2010. Credit card orders due Tuesday, July 15, 2010.
Questions? Contact your School Supplies Chairs Paige Somol at paigesomol@comcast.net or Briana Martin at briana_martin@yahoo.com .
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
LWSD Resource Building
16250 NE 74th St, Redmond 98052 ( Redmond Town Center )
Family resiliency, sibling support, couple survival... self care and summer break.
You CAN keep it all together!
This will be a two part meeting:
Part One - A presentation to inspire and empower you with ways for you to keep your special needs family together like "glue"... through the thick and thin.
Part Two – Q & A. Bring your questions and ideas to network/resource with other parents of special needs children for an informative interactive discussion.
PLUS...
This is our LAST meeting for 2009/2010 school year. We'll have treats and celebrate together another school year coming to a close.
Questions? Contact your Special Needs Chair, Stefanie Estes at specialneeds@mcauliffeptsa.org
Bike with other students from McAuliffe Elementary to improve skills, safety, meet new people and have fun!
Wednesday, May 26 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Permission slips were sent home on Thursday May 6th and are also available in the kiosk outside the office filed under bike rodeo. You can also download and print a permission slip here.
Questions? Contact your Bike Rodeo Chair, Kristen Mathison at 425-868-9735 or Kristenmathison@yahoo.com
Lake Washington School District is growing, by the equivalent of one elementary school a year for the next five years. The district has looked at alternatives to house this boom in student population and made two decisions, effective with the 2012-13 school year, to use its current school building space more efficiently. These two decisions, announced at the school board meeting on May 3, include changing its school grade configuration and shifting the junior high schools into which three elementary schools feed (Audubon Elementary, Bell Elementary, and Einstein Elementary Schools).
The majority of the district's growth over the next five to seven years will occur at the elementary school level. Moving from a grades K-6 elementary, 7-9 junior high and 10-12 high school system to a K-5 elementary, 6-8 middle school and 9-12 high school will shift one grade out of the elementary schools where space is already tight and move the population to the secondary schools, where more space is available.
While these changes will enable the district to use existing space more efficiently, there will still be a space problem at the high school level. The district plans public meetings for next fall to determine which of several options to select to address the remaining space issues.
Dr. Chip Kimball, superintendent, expressed his intent last spring to move toward a change in school grade configuration for academic reasons. He is concerned that ninth graders in the district's grades 7-9 junior high schools often do not fully recognize, despite admonitions from parents and teachers, that their high school transcript for graduation and college admissions purposes begins in ninth grade. Read more.
You can also see more on the school changes for 2012-2013 by visiting the new School Changes 2012-2013 section of the district web site.
McAuliffe Elementary won the 14th place team trophy for the 4th - 6th grade section at the recent Washington State Chess Championship. Approximately 65 schools were represented at the tournament held Saturday, April 24, 2010 in Tacoma, with about 1200 students participating from around the state. Washington has the highest attendance out of all 50 state elementary school chess championships, so this is quite an accomplishment.
Six McAuliffe students attended the tournament.
Emanuel Chang won the 13th place trophy (out of 249 participants) in the 3rd grade section for winning four of his five games.
In the 4th grade section, Pratik Padhi received the 28th place trophy with a score of 4.0 out of 5.0; Suhas Surendran took home the 86th place trophy for winning three of his matches; Luke Wall received a trophy for winning 3 games to put him in 93rd place; and Thomas Dulski finished in 129th place (out of 224 participants) with a score a 2.0.
Evangeline Chang came in 12th in the 5th grade section and was honored with the 12th place trophy (out of 209 participants) for winning four of her matches.
Congratulations to these McAuliffe students for their impressive successes at the State Chess Championship!
The McAuliffe PTSA is proud to be the recepient of three state level PTA awards announced at the Washington State PTA Conference on May 1, 2010.
Communications Awards
Communication awards identify and recognize all forms of effective communication from PTAs to PTA members and the community about programs, projects, activities, and issues affecting children. These awards are not limited to any specific medium and may include web sites, email, voice mail, public access television, communication through/with partners, and more.
McAuliffe received First Place in Electronic Communications and Third Place in Paper Communications. Thank you and congratulations go out to Susannah Pryal, your McAuliffe PTSA Communications VP, who assembled the entry along with her fabulous team, LeAnne Wilson, Briana Martin, Kristin Heffley and Mike Adams.
Honor Unit Award
An Honor Unit is a PTA/PTSA local unit which has, in its service to children, gone significantly beyond the attainment of standards of excellence and has demonstrated the kind of exceptional qualities that merit replication by others. A local unit must apply and go through a competitive judging process to be an Honor Unit. Honor Units will be announced and recognized at the State PTA convention.
McAuliffe PTSA received Honorable Mention in this category. Many thanks to Jane Dulski, your McAuliffe PTSA Co-President, for preparing the entry (which was a few hundred pages!) and congratulations all the PTSA members and volunteers that offer their time and efforts to our wonderful PTSA!
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