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Office:
425-936-2610
Safe Arrival:
425-936-2611
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Colt Carnival Update
Carnival is this Friday, October 4th, 5:30-8:30! Come and enjoy an evening of fun with your family and friends.
We still really need parents to help work booth shifts, especially during the carnival! Please sign up TODAY at
Ticket presales will be held after school on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week, right after school. Tickets cost 50 cents each and can be used for games and food. The first 20 people to buy $20 worth of tickets will get a special tote bag!
We are looking for a generator to borrow to help with lights for carnival.
Please bring your cakes and cupcakes for our cake walk to the Staff Lounge, after school on Friday! We really need your help with this :)
Thank you for your generous book and stuffed animals donations. We don't need anymore!
Plan on eating dinner at Carnival, we will have Pizza (a limited number of gluten free between 5:30 and 6:30), salads (also a limited number) and Jamba Juice (while they last). We also have bottled water, popcorn, and treats.
Thank you in advanced for making this a special night!
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Colt Carnival Poster Contest
Congratulations to all of the artists who entered the Colt Carnival Poster Contest! We received many creative entries - thank you for participating!
We chose 10 winners this year - 5 from the primary grades and 5 from the intermediate grades:
Makenzie Croker - Kindergarten (Davis)
Simon Ceaicovschi - First (Simpson)
Selina Tang - Second (Droke)
Sophie Boeschoten - Second (Ortloff)
Quentin Randolph - Second (Ortloff)
Kailie Dolan - Third (Dayton)
Xenia Ferry - Fourth (Maver)
Hadley MacKenzie - Fifth (Wobker)
Lauren Watanabe - Fifth (Hartford)
Benton Kellogg - Fifth (Wobker)
Winners will be announced at school on Monday. Each winner will receive 5 Carnival tickets. Congratulations again!
See you on Friday, October 4th!
Colt Carnival Committee
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Upportunity Team Event Saturday, Oct. 5
The Upportunity Team is hosting our first big Saturday event. We will return to the on-site pond to do more battling with blackberries. It will be October 5th from 9:00 - 12:00. We know it's right after the carnival. But you and your kids can burn off a lot of those carnival calories working with a shovel or a pick. So please come on down! Consider this your fall upportunity. Any child can participate with an adult family member present. Adults will sign a held harmless agreement. Upportunity members and former members may attend on their own with a signed permission slip. We look forward to seeing you there!
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PTSA Membership & Directories
A plea from the Membership Chair:
 The green PTSA membership/directory form that was included in your child's first-day packet needs to be returned ASAP. Membership in our PTSA not only gives you a vote at our monthly meetings, but provides much-needed financial support for dozens of programs run by the PTSA. Your $16 fee pays for emergency prep, our carnival and dances, art night, and many other things, including grants to our teachers for classroom supplies. With your membership you will receive the highly popular student directory! Even if you choose not to join the PTSA, the green form must be returned in order for your child's information to be in the directory. We can list names but there will be no phone number or email address for your child if you do not return the form. The directory makes it very easy to set up play dates, send party invitations, and coordinate in-school events like harvest parties and teach appreciation events. Please return the form to school with your child as soon as you can! Copies can be found on the Mann website, or click on this link. Thank you! |
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We need Your Help
There are a number of very important PTSA volunteer opportunities that have not been filled yet. Please take a look below and let us know if you are interested or have questions about any of these positions.
Please contact any of the following people:
Tamara Trepte (tamaratrepte@gmail.com), Andrea Bradford (cakbradford@comcast.net), or Satin Brennan (satin_san@hotmail.com)
· Legislative Chair - attend Legislative Assembly in October and advocate for our school at district and state.
· Membership Co-Chair - learn the role this year and then lead next year.
· Health/Safety Chair - oversee that all goes smoothly and liaison with leads & report info to Board of Directors (there are already lead volunteers in place for each area: Emergency Prep, Health Screening, Health Room and Safe Arrival)
· Safe Arrival - help the school office staff to follow up on absent students at 9am once/twice a month - you pick the day(s).
· Yearbook - collect and then submit photos and info online at Yearbook vendor website and coordinate for our school.
· Assemblies - research what might be good assemblies (~2 per year) to hold at our school and then coordinate getting the vendor. Help as needed with school-related assemblies.
· Awards Committee - at the end of the school year, send out nomination forms so people can nominate a teacher, parent or community member for being exemplary and then choose winners from the entries and then present the awards at the final Awards Assembly.
· Nomination Committee - help find people for the PTSA Board of Directors for next school year.
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Horace Mann Math Challenge
All students are invited to participate. Pick up paper form in the school office or print online at: http://www.mathinaction.org/Pages/MannMC.aspx or see schedule: http://www.mathinaction.org/Documents/MC%20SCHEDULE%202013-2014.pdf
Winners are randomly chosen from submissions.
Turn in at school office, Math Challenge Box.
Math Challenge #1 will be available on 9/27 and is due 10/3 by 3pm.
Sponsored and funded by the PTSA.
Neetu Srivastava (neetusv@yahoo.com), Horace Mann Math Challenge Coordinator
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Interested in Quest?
Quest Highly Capable Programs has announced the timeline for students applying for the 2014-15 Elementary and Middle School Quest programs.
Parents of private school and homeschooled first graders and of any and all second through seventh graders interested in applying for Quest for the 2014-15 school year should do so online during the October application window. Please note: parents of first grade students attending LWSD schools do not apply in October.
Applications are available starting October 1, 2013, through 4:00 p.m. on October 30.
o The elementary application will be available at http://www.lwsd.org/Parents/Accelerated-Programs/Quest/Elementary-Quest/Pages/Application-Process.aspx
o The Middle School application will be available at http://www.lwsd.org/Parents/Accelerated-Programs/Quest/Middle-School-Quest/Pages/Application-Process.aspx
Elementary Quest Parent Information Night is for parents of first graders who attend private schools or who are homeschooled and for parents of all students in grades 2 through 4. It will be held on Thursday, September 26, at 4:30 p.m. and repeat at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center at Lake Washington High School (12033 N.E. 80th St, Kirkland, WA 98033). Parents are encouraged to come to the earlier session if they need to bring children with them.
Middle School Quest Parent/Student Information Night will be held on Tuesday, October 1, at 7 p.m. at Evergreen Middle School (6900 208th Ave. N.E., Redmond, WA 98053).
Parents of first graders attending LWSD schools do not apply in October. Again this year, LWSD first graders will be given the CogAT in the fall in their home schools. Parents of LWSD first grade students who meet the acceptance criteria will be contacted by the Quest office in late fall to see if they would like their students to continue with the Quest application process.
LWSD First Grade Parent Information Night is for parents of first grade students enrolled in LWSD schools. It will be held on Tuesday, October 15, at 4:30 p.m. and repeat at 7 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center at Lake Washington High School (12033 N.E. 80th St, Kirkland, WA 98033). Parents are encouraged to come to the earlier session if they need to bring children with them. |
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Nutrition Services is Hiring
Food service currently has paid positions available help serve your students.
Paid Positions are 2-4 hours in length.
Starting pay is $9.25 an hour.
If interested, please phone the Nutrition Services at: 425-936-1393
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Help WSPTA Speak Up For Kids
Every fall, the Association selects its legislative priorities, and hearing from you is a valuable step in the process
You can respond to the survey anonymously or provide your contact information at the end. The survey covers four issues that members asked to make priorities. The survey closes on September 30, 2013.
We still need a Legislative Chair for Horace Mann PTSA!!
· Click here for the WSPTA 2013 Issues Online Survey
Read about the Issues:
· Legislative Assembly Blog
· 2013 Issues Guide
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Parent Education Opportunity
Cyber Safety and Social Media Risks
Parent Ed 2013 flyer
All presentations 7:00-9:00 pm, Includes Q&A; Admission is free
October 3 Alcott Elementary
October 17 Peter Kirk Elementary
October 24 Redmond Elementary
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Parenting the Love and Logic Way
Oct. 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13
6:30 - 8:00pm
Inglewood Middle School Commons
$15 / workbook (couples can share a book)
Facilitator: Mead Principal and mom, Sandy Klein
Contact vwalton@lwsd.org to register.
More info: http://www.loveandlogic.com/
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Fundraising: Amazon Affiliate Program
 Don't forget that the Horace Mann PTSA earns money on nearly every Amazon purchase you make when you start at our unique Amazon URL. Just click the logo each time you shop, or better yet, bookmark the link (http://www.amazon.com/?tag=homaellw-20). Thanks! |
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Horace Mann Calendar
Fri Oct 4: 5:30-8:30 pm Colt Carnival
Mon Oct 7: 9:30-10:30 Assembly "Bringing Literacy to Life"
Fri Oct 11: Popcorn sales
Mon Oct 14: Half Day - Conferences; 11:30 am dismissal
AM Kindergarten attends NO BUS
Tues Oct 15: Half Day - Conferences; 11:30 am dismissal
No AM Kindergarten
Wed Oct 16: 1:30 pm early dismissal; regular school day
Thurs Oct 17: Half Day - Conferences; 11:30 am dismissal
AM Kindergarten attends NO BUS
Fri Oct 18: No School - LEAP Day
Wed Oct 30: Picture Retakes
Thurs Oct 31: Harvest Parties
Fri Nov 1: Popcorn sales
Mon Nov 11: Veteran's Day NO SCHOOL
Fri Nov 15: Popcorn sales
Wed Nov 27: EARLY RELEASE
11:30 am dismissal for all students
NO AM Kindergarten
Thurs Nov 28-Fri Nov 29: Thanksgiving Break NO SCHOOL
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To add content to the Horace Mann Newsletter, email your entry to HoraceManager@hotmail.com by 5:00pm on Thursday. Mid-week blasts are subject to approval. Entries can be PTSA events and programs, or raves and applause. Please be sure that announcements and other items for the newsletter are from the PTSA or school.
Other organizations (e.g. the YMCA, Girls or Boys Scouts, Boys and Girls Club, etc...) can post announcements on the electronic Community Bulletin Board. Send e-mail to Shannon Parthemer at sparthemer@lwsd.org to post. |
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