NOVEMBER 14, 2014 * ISSUE 11142014

Upcoming Important Dates

11/19PTA/Principal Coffee
11/20Deadline for International Festival submissions
11/25Passport Check day
11/27 & 28No School - Thanksgiving Holiday
12/4PTA Board Meeting
12/10Reflections Art Gallery Night
12/16Passport Check Day
12/22 - 1/2Winter Break

Support our school - Join the PTA and get benefits! 

Did you know that PTA MEMBERS SAVE AT GREAT WOLF LODGE? PTA members receive 10% off the best available rates, valid through December 30, 2014! Use corporate code: WSPTA984A. When you check-in, you will need to show your PTA ID card that should have arrived via email.  

PTA members will also receive special rates from FEDEX/KINKOS. To receive discounted services, simply provide WSPTA's account number at the checkout or online whenever you are ready to place your order. For more information on this exciting opportunity, click here.

There are even more member benefits listed here.

If you have not joined yet, it is not too late! Join our PTA or renew your PTA membership online.  Any questions or did you not get your PTA ID card via email? Email Alison & Jana at [email protected]

Earn Money for Puesta del Sol just by shopping!

Puesta del Sol earns money when you register and use your grocery cards at Fred Meyer, Bartell Drugs, and Safeway.  If you intend to ramp up your shopping over the next two months, please register your grocery cards beforehand.   

  • Fred Meyer Customers:  click here  to register your Fred Meyer Rewards Card.  
  • Bartell Drugs and Safeway Customers: Click here and register all of your loyalty cards.  Safeway purchases must be made with cash, debit, or check.  

Be sure to keep an eye out for those Box Tops.  That's free money for Puesta del Sol too!

Announcing the PTA's New Online Directory! 

The new online searchable directory is available NOW! 

What It Does
The PTA is excited to announce the new Online Directory feature.  This website feature enables you to be at your computer or on your tablet, pull up the PTA website, and look up another Puesta del Sol family's phone numbers, emails, addresses, and make plans and playdates while you are on-the-go! 

Access the online directory by clicking here.
Information about the directory can be found here.

Please contact the PTA Webmaster at [email protected] if you need technical assistance or have questions

PTA/Principal Coffee

Wednesday, November 19th, 9:15am in the Gym
Come meet Kelley Lee, our new Dean of Students, and join Sr. Jonathan Shearer as he shares our Building Improvement Plan.  The 2nd half of our hour will be open for any Q&A you might have about our school in general.

A Great Pumpkin Thank You 

We would like to thank all the families who came out for the Pumpkin Family Fun Night! The evening was filled with lots of creative pumpkin carvers and fun! A special thank you to all of those who volunteered to help run the event and those who baked delicious treats for us to sell. The evening wouldn't be possible without the generous help from our Puesta del Sol families. Thank you! Sarah Fink, Chairperson

International Night: Volunteers Needed

Calling all parents that want to be a part of an incredible Puesta Del Sol tradition.  The International Festival is the culminating event of the school year where our students come together to perform cultural dances, songs, and music taught by volunteer and paid members of our International Spanish Academy community, staff, and families and experience the tastes of food from countries around the world.  However, to put on this high-caliber show it literally takes a village! Each year, new and returning families have proven to have amazing talents to share behind the scenes. Help support bringing back this incredible tradition this year by volunteering! 

 

We need committee chairs for:

  • Ticket Sales
  • Performance/Stage managers
  • Emcee
  • Amity coordinator 
  • Foods of the World 
  • and more!

For more information on volunteer opportunities for International Night, click hereIf interested in leading a committee or if you would like to help out in any of these or other areas email [email protected]

Call for Talent: International Festival

Deadline extended! Applications due November 20th

 

Calling all hidden talent in our Puesta Del Sol Community! Extended Deadline: Nov 20th! We are looking for student-inclusive acts that represent an array of our student's cultural population and our school's Spanish foundation.

 

If you have a culturally unique and entertaining talent - we need you! Our International Festival is now accepting applications for performance acts. We need 6-8 acts of 2-4 minutes in length to fill out the performance line-up for our March 21st International Festival. There are two great ways you can help make our International Festival performances even more amazing:

  1. Teach a dance and/or song(s) from your culture to a group of Puesta Del Sol students.
  2. Already have a student or students with a unique and entertaining cultural act ready to shine on stage?

Details about the International Festival and submission guidelines are available on the PTA website. Anyone interested please email [email protected] no later than Nov 20th.

RAD: LEE M�S!

As the final week of the RAD reading challenge comes to a close, please remember to email your classroom RAD volunteer with your minutes for the week. Keep on reading! LEE M�S! 

 
Email us or find out more at the PTA website: Readers Are Doers! 

Needed: Volunteer Coordinator

The PTA Board of Directors needs help assisting committees in attracting volunteers using multiple resources such as the PTA website volunteer reports and creating Signup Genius events. Can be done from home on your own. 4-5 hours a month. Year Round. Please contact [email protected] if you are interested.

Needed: Laminating Volunteers

We need 2-4 volunteer parents who would be interested in learning how to use the laminator and be in charge of laminating twice each week.  Time commitment is flexible in terms of what days/times. Please contact [email protected] if you are interested.  

TechVentures coming 2015!
CORRECTION

 

The Puesta del Sol PTA will be sponsoring TechVentures to teach an 8 week coding class after school on Thursdays; 3:30-5:00.  This will be available for students in 3rd -5th grade.  Look for registration information in the El Sol coming in December.   Cost will be $200.

   

You can find out more about the coding class here.  Thank you!

Flamenco Casa Patas in Seattle!
November 21 & 22

Don't miss the wonderful opportunity to see The Flamenco Casa Patas at the Seattle Symphony, on November 21 at 8:00pm and November 22 at 2:00pm and 8:00pm. This world renown Flamenco group came to Puesta del Sol for an assembly last year. There are seats still available! Find more information on their website.

The Casa Patas Flamenco Foundation presents:  Flamendo de plomo y cobre - Flamencos of Lead and Copper.

 

Two artists, tow hefty weights, two souls, two destinies, two bodies, two metallic elements, two gazes... lead and copper, conductive of the hazy and the electric, of the intimate and of the grand, come together to fuse into the eternity of what is flamenco.

 

Flamenco of Lead and Copper, engages us into recollecting our most profound memories, and our most primitive traditions, to gently glide us, almost without noticing, toward the fluid element which is flamenco, take us on an exciting journey where the suppleness of movements and malleability of rhythms blend with the voices of the metals that will bring us to the present, to our contemporary reality. 

Cafeteria Challenge...Coming Soon!

Cafeteria Challenge....TODAY!

 

It is the eve of AMERICA RECYCLES DAY. Today we will measure how much waste we make as a school and enter the Cafeteria Challenge to see which elementary school in Bellevue can make the least.  Help out by sending your child's lunch in reusable containers, rather than disposable ones.  Thanks!  Stay tuned for results! 

School Clinic: Donations Needed

The school clinic is in need of boys and girls clothing sizes 5 to 10.  Any donations would be appreciated. Pants/undies/socks/t-shirts only.  No coats or jammies.  For ease of use, elastic waistbands are 
preferable.
Procedure 3420 Anaphylaxis Prevention and Response

The Bellevue School District Board of Directors has retained Policy 3420 but suspended the recently updated Procedure 3420 Anaphylaxis Prevention and Response. The BSD will be using the last approved Procedure 3420 until revisions to Procedure 3420 is completed by February 2015. 

Click the Links Below
to Sign Up

Thank you to

Sarah Fink, GG Haight and all the volunteers that helped make our first Pumpkin Family Night a success!

 

Thank you to all the volunteers
who helped Nurse Karen Ruby
with Vision Screening for all of
our students!

 

Thank you to all the volunteers who helped with Picture Retake Day!
Amith


 
Amity Interns at
Puesta del Sol 

Help us welcome them into our school community.  Consider inviting them to your home for dinner, or if your family has a fun activity planned, invite them along.  Click here to find information for tutoring or visiting with our Amity Interns.



 

 

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Each Box Top is worth 10� for our school! That adds up FAST! The last two years we raised over $1,300. Can we reach $1,000 in a year?

Clip, save & have your kiddos drop them in Box Top box located in the school office on the PTA table to the right of the door.

 

(We will only be collecting Box Tops this year, NOT Labels for Education.)


Bellevue School Board Regular Meeting Dates


 

Meetings are at 4:30 pm unless otherwise noted. Any public comments are heard first at 4:30pm, each speaker only has 3 minutes and there is a time limit of 10 minutes for each total topic. Please come prepared with a written statement of what you are going to say as they will ask you to write it down for the minutes.

 

Board meetings are held at: WISC Rainier Room at 12241 Main Street

Bellevue, WA 98005 

  • November 18, 2014
  • December 2, 2014
  • December 16, 2014
  • January 6, 2015
  • January 20, 2015
  • February 3, 2015
  • March 3, 2015
  • March 17, 2015
  • April 7, 2015
  • April 21, 2015
  • May 5, 2015   NOTE:  Location Change to ESC 200
  • May 19, 2015
  • June 2, 2015
  • June 16, 2015

Puesta del Sol PTA   Unit 2.3.95, Bellevue, WA

Lisa Dembo, Co-President

Julee Seibel, Co-President

425.456.6143 PTA Office

425.456.6100 School Office

www.puestadelsolpta.org

www.bsd405.org/puestadelsol


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