Weekly Bulletin - March 21st, 2011

EVENTS CALENDAR

PRINCIPAL’S NOTE

Final review of the new playground design will take place on Wednesday in the cafeteria/auditorium at 6-8:30. There will also be pizza! And you can drop in during that time frame to view the design and give feedback. The more feedback we get, the better.

The Salmon Bay AUCTION is Saturday, March 26. I can’t emphasize enough that this is a party and celebration as much as anything else. A potluck extraordinaire. Great fun. A good way to come together as a community. Michelle Ota, our assistant principal, will especially appreciate your support, as this is the one auction I will not be able to attend (a previously scheduled reunion in Utah). Please make every effort to come.

Finally, something we can never say too often: Thank you for sending your student to school every day ready to learn, and ready for the next big idea.

Have a good week. Jodee Reed, principal

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S NOTE

Did you know..... Tidbits that may be of interest to you...... Michelle Ota

Countdown to the auction....I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at the auction this coming Saturday, March 26th at North Seattle Community College. It’s a chance for us to celebrate with our school community. Please walk bikes, scooters and skateboards until buses have departed from the school. We want to make sure everyone is safe and the sidewalks are so congested after school with pedestrians rushing to their buses.

Sneak Peeks:

Unfortunately I was at Broadview Thompson on a learning walk so I did not get to observe Ohana last week. But some quotes from others about Ohana were: “...an amazing job of modeling compliments (taking time at the beginning of the session to give each student a thoughtful compliment which they just LOVED). At the end of the session each kid had a poster full of compliments and a huge grin on their face!!

“...The compliments were awesome – all of my kids were really inclusive. We also ended with the “I’m proud of...” exercise. My group started clapping after each person, and it was so cool to hear what the kids are holding near and dear.”

In an Intermediate class the students were studying Rocks and Minerals, they were given about 5-6 rocks and the teacher read a description of a rock and the students would then make a prediction on what rock it could be.

In the cafeteria on March 17th                  I was amazed by all the different food items that could be green; bagels, cream cheese, bread, chips and cookies... quite a bubbly day.

On my learning walk at Broadview our learning community looked at student engagement. We observed an amazing 3rd grade math class that did whole group instruction and then moved into small group work with two other adults supporting the class; some students reviewed the lesson around estimation, others worked on some review of number facts and some worked on independent work.

I also got the opportunity to teach a middle school elective class 6th period. Students looked at early architecture and compiled a group poster looking at lighting, layout and materials.

This week, millions of thanks goes to....

Our Elementary tour guides, Jean L, Beth A, Kelly B, Jutta E, Robin L, and all of the teachers and kids for patiently guiding prospective parents through our school community. Thank you for representing our community so thoughtfully and positively. Lots of great feedback about what the new eyes of non Salmon Bay parents see.

Our PIE committee and Caleb Banta Green for hosting a popular, well presented evening last Monday night regarding health, drugs and our kids. Hard topic, good pie.

Our Playground committee, who are wrapping up months of meetings, discussions, input, design thoughts and potential ideas, with their open house to show off what is next, this Wednesday night at 6:00 – 8:30.

ELEMENTARY VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR’S NOTE

Our Garden committee, who created more bags of yard trash than we have ever seen. The gardens look so tidy and ready to welcome their long lost friend.... SPRING.

Our Alternative Ed committee, Caleb BG, who is compiling all of the data that you all so kindly provided him through the Alt Ed Survey.                  Results will be discussed at this year’s board retreat, which happens to be on Saturday April 9th from 9 – 2. (Potluck lunch, place tbd)

Our Budget committee, who took time and thought to help craft a responsible budget for FOSB for next year, considering the many scenarios that known and unknown for our parent group at this time.

Our Auction committee, who have done what auction committees do and they have done it so thoroughly. They email late at night, they ask all of their friends for favors, they commit themselves to yet another class project, they mentally keep track of over 350 items, they paint anything that is not moving- silver, they try to find the very best way to ensure Salmon Bay parents will have a great time at this year’s event by hopefully; meeting all sorts of new friends, giggling with some old friends, finding they won a bid on an item they loved or didn’t even know their partner bid on, perhaps winning a raffle, for sure getting their photo taken, walking into the room and being amazed by the decorations and sounds of a funky band, spending not too much – but just more than enough, winning a new favorite bottle of wine, trying and tasting the dad’s home brew, combining that brew with a fancy new appetizer, smiling at all of the talented costumes, being impressed by all of the creative elementary class projects and abundant middle school baskets and perhaps most of all, being able to say you bid highest on a dozen farm fresh eggs to start off our live.                  We hope you come, we’ve tried to make it fun, the catalog is done, so be sure & check it out. http://www.salmonbayschool.org/auction/auction_catalog

Thank you Salmon Bay families for all that you do for your kids, our kids and our school. Have a wonderful week and hope to see you on Saturday night for our auction.

ALL-SCHOOL AUCTION: Is this Saturday, March 26th! Be sure to save the date. The auction committee welcomes volunteers and donations. More information in this Bulletin. See you at the Auction!

AUCTION VOLUNTEER NEEDS: Dessert donations needed and 40x one gallon waters! 1. We are still in need of a few more beautiful and delicious desserts for the dessert dash! Please let me know if you have a dessert to donate! 2. We are in need of pick up at Ballard Market of 40x one gallon jugs of water. The cost will be reimbursed. We need one or two people who would be willing to pick up and deliver the water on the day of the auction.

SEE YOU THERE! I'm looking forward to seeing you at the Salmon Bay All-School Auction! This is our schools biggest fundraiser and an important part of maintaining the rich curriculum at Salmon Bay K - 8 school Everyone is welcome and encouraged to come! It is a great community event, great friends, great food and amazing auction items! It will be a very fun night! See you Saturday!

ALL SCHOOL INFORMATION

CALLING ALL PARENTS - KATE DAVIS 7th/8th LA Teacher needs you

Dear Parents,

I have been looking for fun ways for students to practice spelling and vocabulary and have recently discovered the card game, Quiddler. In this game, players compete by spelling words from cards in hands of increasing size, with each card worth various points. It is a mix of Scrabble and gin rummy. I am hoping to teach this game to students in order to improve their spelling and vocabulary, and as a reward for working hard in class. I will need 16 sets of cards for this to work and was hoping for donations from parents. Quiddler is available at amazon.com, Toys R’ Us, and at various other stores and websites that sell games. Here's the link for Amazon.

Any donations would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!!! Kate Davis (7th/8th Grade Language Arts Teacher)

AUCTION NEWS

NEED SOMEWHERE FOR YOUR KIDLETS TO GO?

Childcare for the night of the Salmon Bay Auction -at Coho Kids Time

4:30pm to 11:00pm Call or email Coho Kids Time to sign up: 297-7764, coho@positiveplace.org

HAVEN’T TURNED IN YOUR INVITE YET? RSVP NOW!!

Turn them in, mail them in or email your intent to attend to Katie Shinn at shinns10@comcast.net . Thank you

WONDERING HOW TO STILL CONTRIBUTE? HELP OUT WITH THE DESSERT DASH

We still need over 20 desserts to auction off for dessert for the evening. Fanciest dessert brings in highest bid. If you can provide a dessert for the auction, please contact Julie Hanon at Julie.hanon@seattlechildrens.org

INTERESTED IN SAMPLING SOME DAD’S HOME BREW OR FIRESTEED WINE?

Beer and wine by the glass are available for a cash only purchase. All others are bidder number friendly.

DIRECTIONS ARE EASY TO THE NORTH SEATTE COMMUNITY COLLEGE WELLNESS CENTER

9600 College Way N Seattle, 98103.

Entrance from 92nd is easiest and most direct to the Wellness Center, also known as the basketball gym.

FRIENDS OF SALMON BAY PARENT INFORMATION

AUCTION NEWS: SATURDAY MARCH 26th, 2011 - A Space Oddity

SALMON BAY SWEATSHIRTS have arrived!

They will keep your family warm and toasty for years to come... that is, if you remember to write your name on the tag! Sweatshirts can be purchased in the lobby during Tuesday coffee hour (tomorrow I will be there early at 8:00) and Friday mornings before school. Or in April, you can buy them from Megan if you can track her down (don't bug her before then, please!). Adults sizes M-XXL in black, royal & red and cost $25. Kids sizes S-XL in black, royal, red and purple and cost $20. Email me with any questions - Jen Busch jbusch9@gmail.com

Playground Concept Unveiling Next Wednesday: Join the Playground Steering Committee next Wed., March 23, in the cafeteria, from 6-8:30, for the ta-da! big unveiling of the concept for our renovated playground. Meet the architect, ask questions, share the love. Pizza and drinks provided; students welcomed!!

Did you know that by buying gift cards and using them for your weekly shopping, you help raise money for our wonderful school? Scrip brings in about $5,000 a year. That's money that could be used to buy classroom supplies! And all you have to do is spend your money differently. Easy as pie!

I'm at the table in the front of the building every day, Tracy is there on Thursday afternoons and I bring the box to FOSB meetings. If you don't normally come in to the building, feel free to e-mail me and we'll figure out a way to connect.

We currently have Fred Meyer/QFC cards for $50, $100, $200 and $300. Safeway for $100, PCC for $20, Starbucks for $10 and $25.

Have a great week! Suzanne Waller suzaroo@gmail.com

ROCK FER FOSB

Mark your calendars for another semi-annual evening of Salmon Bay parents rockin' the joint: Rock Fer FOSB 10, Saturday night, April 30th at the Ballard Eagles! To celebrate this milestone we're shaking it up a little by having the first ever Salmon Bay Rock-A-Roke. What does that mean? It's a chance for all you closet and shower singers to share your talents with a live back-up band. The RFF House Band is putting together a book of favorite rock and roll songs so that you can step up to the mic and get your fifteen minutes of fame. There will also be a chance for guitar players to sit in on a few songs. If you're interested in participating and you like to plan ahead, send an email to vida@seanet.com and we'll get you the list of songs in advance. If there's a song you're dying to sing, let us know. Or just show up that night and pick a song from the book, just like karaoke, but live.

We'd like to open the evening with a few sets from musicians who have yet to play at Rock fer FOSB. There are so many talented folks at Salmon Bay. Any bands, duos, solos ready for prime time? We'd love to have you play. Let us know.

Playground Open House: Wednesday March 23rd, 6:00 – 8:30 in the Cafeteria

ROCK FER FOSB 10 – APRIL 30th - BALLARD EAGLES

Your Rock fer FOSB team--Cameron, Alan, Penny and Michael

MIDDLE SCHOOL INFORMATION

Ohana Lesson on Thursday

This Thursday our middle schoolers will be going through an exercise in which they will be reflecting on the changes they want to make in their lives to be the best person they want to be. Part of this processs elicits parent/guardian participation. On Thursday, please have a conversation with your student about the change they plan on making. Also your signature on the worksheet titled, “My Change Plan” is required for your student to receive credit for the assignment.

Aloha, Anthony Malaki, Counselor

LEEP

Next Tuesday, 3/22, at 1:50 - 2:40 representatives from the LEEP program will present to our 8th graders. LEEP is a 6 week long program, held at Lakeside School, focused on academic enrichment in preparation for high school. Some of the highlights of the program are a 3-day long camping trip, daily physical activities, leadership training, and on-going college counseling throughout high school. The program is free for those accepted. If you would like to get more information, please attend the informational meeting and/or have your 8th grader attend the meeting.

Thanks, Anthony Malaki, Counselor

SUMMER ACTIVITIES

If you are looking for a summer activity for your child, but may not be able to afford it, please go to www.seattle.assistanceleague.org or more information. Applications are on-line. The April 1st deadline is quickly approaching so please look into this scholarship. Please refer to the website for the programs restrictions. Thanks, Anthony Malaki, Counselor

I’m a Math professor at the University of Washington, and this is the second year in a row that I organize public math lectures for Seattle area middle school students. The lectures are free and open for any middle school kid (and parents and teachers) willing to sit through an hour of an interactive math talk on a Sunday afternoon. We are trying to get more kids excited about math and show them how many interesting things it can lead to.

This year we’ll have three lectures - in March, April and May – all happening on Sunday afternoons, at the University of Washington. The first one is on March 13th.                  We put a lot of effort into this and we would like to reach as many kids as possible, especially the ones that we don’t have a chance of reaching by word of mouth through colleagues and friends.

I include below a short description of the first lecture. We have lots of additional information on our website: http://www.math.washington.edu/~mathcircle/mathhour/

Thank you very much for your help! Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington,Department of Mathematics.

Lakeside Educational Enrichment Program (LEEP)

Assistance League of Seattle Summer Scholarship

Opportunity for Middle School Students and Families to attend free Math Lectures

ECOLOGY YOUTH CORPS

Will your child be turning 14 years old by July 5th or July 29th, then they may be hired to be a part of the Ecology Youth Corps. The EYC is responsible for cleaning up our community green spaces, while getting paid for it. You can go to www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/swfa/eyc/nwro.html or talk with Anthony for more information and an application. The application deadline is April 5th.

The new dates for Open Enrollment are March 15 - April 15. Significant changes in transportation service for next year are under consideration, with a decision expected at the Feb. 16 School Board meeting. The Transportation Department will be sending out letters notifying families about students' transportation eligibility for next year. Open Enrollment is being extended to give families more time to consider whether these proposed changes will impact their choices for next year.

UW SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMS

UW Summer Youth Programs offer 2 and 3 week full-day programs for both elementary and middle school students. In addition, middle school students also have the option of enrolling 2 week 1⁄2 day short courses on a variety of topics (e.g., Robotics, Computer Game Design, Young Writers Workshop, Dance). Registration is now open. We encourage parents and students to visit our website at: www.summeryouth.washington.edu for more information.

SEATTLE CANOE AND KAYAK CLUB

Is your student looking for a great sport that offers individual achievement as well as the benefits of participating on a team? The Seattle Canoe and Kayak Club are holding their annual “Open House” on Saturday, March 26, April 2 & 9 from 10 am – 1 pm.                  Come join us at the Small Craft Center on Green Lake at 9:45AM. Get to see the competitive Junior Team finish their training session, meet the coaches of this exciting sport and then climb into the boats with our team members to get a feel for what it is like to be in an Olympic style Sprint Kayak or Canoe. You need to bring a parent/guardian to sign the waiver and bring a change of clothes in case you get wet! Questions? Contact Tami Oki at 524-1116 or tamaraoki@wonderanimal.com or the Green Lake Small Craft Center at 684-4074.

Beginner classes start in April, the full schedule can be seen at Youth Kayak - Seattle Parks & Recreation.

Saturday, April 2, 2011 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Rainier Community Center, 4600 38th Ave., Seattle The Seattle-King County Asset Building Collaborative is proud announce Financial Fitness Day which will offer one-on-one help filing tax returns, printing and analyzing free credit reports, opening bank

DISTRICT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Open Enrollment extended two weeks through April 15

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Be sure to check out the Summer Youth Programs at the University of Washington.

Seattle Canoe & Kayak Club Open House

Saturday, April 2, 2011 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Rainier Community Center, 4600 38th Ave., Seattle The Seattle-King County Asset Building Collaborative is proud announce Financial Fitness Day which will offer one-on-one help filing tax returns, printing and analyzing free credit reports, opening bank

DISTRICT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Open Enrollment extended two weeks through April 15

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Be sure to check out the Summer Youth Programs at the University of Washington.

UW Summer Youth Programs offer 2 and 3 week full-day programs for both elementary and middle school students. In addition, middle school students also have the option of enrolling 2 week 1⁄2 day short courses on a variety of topics (e.g., Robotics, Computer Game Design, Young Writers Workshop, Dance). Registration is now open. We encourage parents and students to visit our website at: www.summeryouth.washington.edu for more information.

Seattle Canoe & Kayak Club Open House

ANNOUNCING FINANCIAL FITNESS DAY!

April 2nd, 2011, FREE
accounts, creating a household budget, developing a plan to get out of debt, working with a financial planner, applying for public benefits (food, utilities, child care, health insurance, social security), learning how to start a business, and shredding confidential documents. To register for this event or to find out more information, visit www.skcabc.org/fitness_fair or call 888-864-8623. Registration is strongly encouraged for those who need childcare or language interpretation or American Sign Language services. B FREE!!

2011 Classes/Events Coming Up:

• Drawing Class Tuesdays March 22 – April 12 from 3:45 – 5:15 STARTS TOMORROW!
• Reversible Tote Bag Machine Sewing Thursdays, March 24 and March 31 from 3:45 - 5:30
• Adult Silk Scarf Painting Friday March 25th from 7 – 10 pmUkrainian Egg Workshop

Two different sessions:

• Adults: April 7th 7-10pm Parent + Child: April 9th 9am-noon
• Kids Night Out Friday, April 1 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Space to Create - www.spacetocreate.net -1414 NW 70th Street 784.0401