posted May 25, 2012 5:23 PM by jodi newton
We will be hosting our Early Learning Transition night for INCOMING PreK, K and 1 families on June 7th from 6-7:30. A postcard has been sent to all families. An overview of the early learning commitments, families can meet the teachers and see the classrooms, we will host a light dinner and have some children activities. |
posted Apr 30, 2012 11:04 AM by jodi newton
posted Apr 6, 2012 11:59 AM by jodi newton
Taco Tuesday Community Dinner April 10, 4-8 pm
Cooking begins at 4 pm, dinner served at 6:30-8:00 pm. Come meet our school community, try new foods, share your cultural foods and learn how to prepare fresh, tasty food
Upcoming Community Dinners: Tuesday May 8 and Tuesday June 12
More more info, see the attached flyer or contact Marla at Hill/mdhill1@yahoo.com or 206-914-4884 |
posted Apr 6, 2012 11:55 AM by jodi newton
Last day of school at Seattle Public Schools finalized: Friday, June 22
The Seattle School Board on Wednesday decided to extend the school year by two days to make up for January’s inclement weather.
The last day of school will be Friday, June 22. Seattle students lost three days of school in January because of severe winter weather conditions. One day was made up on Jan. 27.
The School Board voted 0 to 7 against applying for a waiver from the state, which would have allowed Seattle Public Schools to not make up those two days. Not making up the days would have saved the district about $500,000.
“This is a statement on the value of classroom instruction,” said Board President Michael DeBell, after the unanimous vote. |
posted Apr 4, 2012 4:54 PM by jodi newton
Monday, April 9th – PTSA membership meeting with speakers presenting the Safe Routes to School Program (see excerpt below for more information). We will also be electing 2012-2013 PTSA officers and doing some budget brainstorming for the next school year. Everyone is invited! Speakers at the April 9th South Shore PTSA meeting will be discussing:
SDOT is the main applicant for a Safe Routes to School Program project in Rainier Beach and would like to work with both South Shore and Dunlap Schools. The program would include: infrastructure improvements such as raised crosswalks, signage, buffering sidewalks from streets; enforcement improvements such as more crossing guards; and educational events such as walk to school days, bike safety lessons. Brian Dougherty from SDOT is coming to the PTSA membership meeting to collect ideas from parents, students, teachers about what should be included in the project proposal.
Tuesday, April 10th – TACO TUESDAY! FREE RAVE/Seattle Tilth Community Kitchen Dinner from 6:30-8:00pm. All community members are invited to come and share a healthy and delicious meal. Volunteers interested in cooking should contact Leika Suzumura at 206-214-8892 and come at 4:00pm. No experience necessary. Students are encouraged to volunteer and learn!
Wednesday, April 11th – Family Fitness Night! 6:00pm-7:30pm Bring the entire family, friends and neighbors for a fun evening of games and physical activity – basketball, ping pong, vendor tables, prizes and much more! |
posted Apr 4, 2012 4:49 PM by jodi newton
AGENDA
SOUTH SHORE PTSA GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Date: Monday, April 9, 2012, 6:00pm –7:30pm. A light dinner will be provided.
Location: South Shore School
We have speakers and a full schedule! Every effort will be made to follow the schedule.
Any issues that require discussion beyond the time limits scheduled will be “tabled”. Board members will stay after the meeting for additional discussion or to make arrangements to meet with members at another time. If you would like to be on the agenda for the next membership meeting on May 14th please contact Co-Presidents David Hardy Jr. dhardyjr@gmail.com or Stacey Jacobsen kal_stacey@yahoo.com
5:45p.m. Free childcare sign-in
6:00pm Welcome (10 minutes)
- Introductions
- Membership applications distributed
- Call for people to count election votes and confirm results
6:10pm Treasurer’s Report (5 min.)
6:15pm Committee Reports (10 min.)
6:25pm Speaker: Safe Routes to School Program Presentation with parent Jennifer Pritchard and Brian Dougherty of Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) (20 min.)
6:45pm Elections (20 minutes)
- Nominating Committee slate of 2012-2013 candidates; Candidate statements (10 min.):
o Co-Presidents – Keisha Scott and Stacey Jacobsen
o Vice President/Bilingual Coordinator – Malaika Robinson
o Treasurer – David Hardy Jr.
o Co-Secretaries – Mawiayah Fields and Katy Hestad
- Call for any nominations from the floor; candidate statements (5 min.)
- Voting (5 min.)
7:05pm New Business (15 minutes):
- Budget brainstorming: What do we as a membership want to support in the 2012-2013 school year?
7:20pm Election results – Announcement of 2012-2013 Elected Officers. (5 min.)
7:25pm Final Announcements (5 min.)
7:30pm Meeting Adjourns |
posted Apr 3, 2012 12:23 PM by jodi newton
Y.E.S. at Theatre9/12, a new acting school for youth ages 3-18, is offering drama camps this summer from June - August. Check out the attached flyer for more information. |
posted Mar 30, 2012 1:12 PM by jodi newton
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The April 2012 newsletter is attached below. |
posted Mar 22, 2012 3:32 PM by jodi newton
The student survey window is from March 26 through April 27 (NOTE DATE CHANGE). Please distribute the following letter found here (revised) to parents/guardians of students in Grades 3-12. The letter describes the type of questions we will be asking on the student survey and gives parents/guardians a chance to opt-out their student by returning the form to the school.
We have also translated this letter into Spanish (revised) and Somali (revised). If you cannot distribute the letter in hard copy, please post on your school’s website during the week prior to administering your survey.
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posted Mar 15, 2012 3:18 PM by jodi newton
Hello South Shore family,
I was blown away by the way everyone came together at Family Math Pi Night. I saw smiling faces and families engaged in math together. I want to thank everyone who participated, lent a helping hand, served a pie, baked a pie, promoted pi in their classrooms, or volunteered at a station. This was truly a team effort and a powerful message to the community that South Shore values math and family engagement at school.
Special thanks to …
- Bryan Street for tirelessly promoting the event in our classrooms and through the internets, coordinating staff volunteers and remembers the details.
- Jennifer Gaer from Explorations in Math for providing volunteers and bringing so many wonderful ideas and amazing games.
- PTSA - Keisha Scott and Stacey Jacobsen for coordinating online publicity and pie donation (and baking!) and Sebrena Burr for flyer distribution.
- John Benner and Kids Co., Julian, and volunteers for helping with the setup and takedown, providing volunteers and many awesome stations tonight.
- Ms. Tyler, Ms. Sears and the MESA club for creating the passports and putting up all the awesome posters around the school and in the gym.
- South Shore volunteers for helping to supervise stations and serve pie – Mr. Abdirahman, Ms. Abdul-Alim, Ms. Alfonzo, Ms. Brady, Ms. Dreiling, Ms. Dumont, Mr. Fulford, Ms. Haynes, Ms. Hestad, Mr. Le, Mr. Maldonado, Ms. Nichols, Mr. Santos, Ms. Sisson, Ms. Stukenberg, Ms. Torcaso and Ms. Wilson.
- Ms. Le, Mr. Abdirahman and Ms. Ruiz for translating robocalls so that all families would hear the message.
- South Shore teachers for decorating the pi number posters in the rotunda and publicizing the event through activities in the classrooms. Even the Pre-K’s got into it!
- Jerinee Mason and Arnaldo Gando for so much of the behind-the-scenes work that is crucial to making these events run smoothly.
- All the students and parent volunteers who stayed late to help us clean up.
- Ms. Scarlett, Dr. Morrison and the administrative team for their continued support.
With much appreciation,
Walter Chen, NBCT | Principal Intern
- Check out these stats!
- 404 people attended. I think we had attendees from every class in the school.
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- 36 volunteers made it happen (Wow!)
- 18 stations were set up
- 30 pizzas were eaten (x 12 slices each = 360 slices; uh-oh)
- 20 pies were eaten (x 8 slices each = 160 slices)
- 105 digits of pi were memorized by the winner of the pi memorization contest for middle school (Menna,) 61 digits for 3rd-5th grade (Amelia,) and 35 digits for PK-2nd grades (Amber.) Also, congratulations to Cory, Juliana and Erica who got 2nd place at their respective grade levels.
- 64% of Mr. Dusenbery’s class attended, winning today’s pie party (Dumont and Sisson were close behind with 62% and 61% respectively)
Thanks everybody for helping to promote the event. Next year we’ll order more pizza and pie!
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