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Our March Magic "Pass the Hat" Fundraiser IS HERE!  The Odle PTSA is raising funds to benefit every student during the coming year.  Some specific requests we want to meet: 

• Books:  Additional copies of the popular Young Readers Choice novels
• Computers: Two new laptops for the Language Arts department
• Instruments: One new bassoon and two new violas for Band and Orchestra
• Sheet Music:  New sheet music for the Choir
• Science: New Phylomon science card game
• Math: Fund Math Whizz on-line math tutoring program
• PTSA General Fund: Allows us to meet other school needs as they arise

Any amount you can give will make a difference for our kids!  Look for our donation box at the school office, or go to odleptsa.org and donate via PayPal.  Thank you!!

An evening for all of our Spanish-speaking families at Odle will be held on April 2, 2012 in the MUR. This will include a keynote speaker and parent sessions on different topics. This event is brought to our families as a joint project of Odle's new Action Team For Partnerships (ATP) which aims to engage families and the community in ways that support student achievement and success.

The ATP committee is made up of Silvia Honores from BSD, Liliana Benavides from our new Family Connections Center, our principals, teacher representatives, PTSA representatives and Eastside Pathways. Please watch for more information soon. If you are a parent interested in serving on this committee, please contact PTSA or the Odle main office.

Thank you to parent Beverly Mitchell for putting them together, getting them printed, labeled and delivered!  They look great!  Thank you also to our registrar Cynthia Vaca for her positive attitude and willingness to help us with whatever we needed. 

We are looking for friendly parents who are willing to help us in 2013-2014.  We do a lot for Odle and can't do everything without teamwork.  If you would like to know what positions are currently open and talk to someone about your interests and time available, please contact one of our nominating committee members.   PTSA provides training, and no prior experience is necessary.

Brenda Bedrosian brenda1224@comcast.net

Amelia Kwok aakwok@hotmail.com

Cahty Chow cathychow2004@yahoo.com

Katie Moran katie.mo@hotmail.com

Are you interested in getting involved with PTSA at the city level where you network with PTSA presidents at all of the schools and with the Bellevue School District Leaders?  Our PTSA at the council level is looking for people for 2013-2014. 

The Council Nominating Committee is recruiting candidates for the 2013-14 PTSA Council Executive Committee.

Council Nominating Committee:

Laura Weingaertner: lweingaertner@hotmail.com,

Brooke Rose: brose07@live.com,

Julie Windell: jrwprado@gmail.com,

Catherine Smith: cathjsm@gmail.com

Upcoming Events:

Friends of Odle Music (FOOM) News

Your Donations At Work

Many thanks to your support, FOOM has bought two violins, one cello and one oboe and new choir songs for Odle's music department year to date.  If your child has outgrown his/her instrument, please consider donating them to Odle by contacting the music teachers.

Seattle Symphony Open Rehearsal Field Trip

On February 5, more than one hundred Odle Academy Band and Orchestra students attended the Seattle Symphony Open Rehearsal at the Benaroya Hall in Seattle.  It's a valuable learning experience for students to see how professionals rehearse and perform.  On behalf of the teachers and students, we are very thankful for the following band and orchestra parents who've made their Tuesday available to chaperon the group: 

Laurie Beck, Bob Cornell, Alice Gu, Jennifer Huang, Vicki Liao, Shirley Lim, Tao Ren, Barbara Skotte, Renée Smart, Jenny Zheng

Odle Symphony Retreat

Given the successful holiday CD sale, we hosted the first retreat at the Jubilee Reach Center for our 150+ Odle Symphony students on February 9, 2013.  Our orchestra and band students received valuable coaching during both sectional and group rehearsal at the retreat.  This further prepared them for the upcoming Northwest Orchestra Festival.  More than fifty finest high school orchestra groups will attend the Festival each year, and Odle will be the only middle school competing in the junior high school full orchestra division.   To ensure a smooth running retreat with 7 sectional rooms, one group rehearsal room and two Odle Symphony groups of students following tight schedule between rooms, we could not have done it with our capable and dedicated chaperons for spending their Saturday at the retreat. 

Lesley Bacon, Bob Cornell, Luanne Lemmer, Vicki Liao, Svetlana Loksh, Dan Phillips, Scott Phillips, Barbara Skotte, Jim Zhao

Upcoming Events

March is national Music In Our Schools Month-and as always, we have multiple performances coming up.  Please save the dates and attend the concerts coming up on  March 7, 20, 21, 28.  You don't want to miss these concerts especially if you can't be at Northwest Orchestra Festival (in Gresham, Oregon) or Frontier Junior High School Jazz Festival, and/or the District Festivals for Band, Choir and Orchestra.

Contact: Friends@Odlemusic.org

Website: www.odlemusic.org