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Dear Mann parent/guardian:

The district is continuing to experience enrollment growth.  Schools in the Redmond Learning Community, especially at the elementary level, are experiencing capacity issues and concerns of overcrowding. The overcrowding is most pronounced at Rockwell and Einstein Elementary Schools.

 Click to read entire letter from Dr. Traci Pierce

Service Club is sponsoring the annual coat drive again this year from Nov. 4^th - 18^th.  We will be collecting gently used coats which will be taken to Eastside Baby Corner and given directly to families who need them.

If you have coats that you've outgrown, please consider sending them in for a good cause.  We will also take hats, gloves and scarves.  Contact Jodie Miller or Colleen Wolfe with questions.   

The holiday season is fast approaching and we are asking for your help for our Horace Mann families who may need a little extra support during this time.  As a school community, we provide a Thanksgiving meal and Christmas gift cards to a handful of families in our school family who may be going through tough financial times.

If you are willing and able to help, please donate either money &/or gift cards (to any local store) to the school office, c/o Ann Glassey (checks made out to Horace Mann PTSA, with "Transitions" in memo line). 

Your support is very much appreciated and truly makes a difference.  We are collecting money and gift cards through November for BOTH Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Thank you.                      

Thursday, November 21^st

Horace Mann Commons

7 - 8pm

The funds raised from this year's book fair will be used to purchase more picture books, chapter books, and nonfiction titles for students to enjoy and to support the curriculum and Common Core Standards.  Many volunteers are needed to make our book fair a success.  To sign up as a volunteer go here:

Our wonderful Horace Mann Librarians, Mrs. Weber and Mrs. Beavo, have purchased the following books for the library.  Thank you to those who contributed and helped us reach the $10,000 mark!  You made this award possible for our Horace Mann students.  The Librarians have been sharing the books with their Library classes this week.

Pete the Car: The Wheels on the Bus by James Dean

Bink & Gollie: Best Friends Forever by Kate KiCamillo

A Big Guy Took My Ball by Mo Willems

Toney Baloney School Rules bu Pam Munoz Ryan & Edward Fotheringham

Brianna the Tooth Fairy by Daisy Meadows

Middle School: Get Me Out of Here by James Patterson

Theodore Boone: The Activist by John Grisham

The House of Hades by Rick Riordan  

Check out the baskets at the LWSD district offices and bid on them to win.  Horace Mann has one there too!

All funds raised go towards the Scholarship Fund!

Bidding closes Dec. 5^th.  http://www.lwptsa.net/basket-auction/

LWSD Dickinson and Rockwell Preschool classes has a limited number of openings.

Class time is 8:30-11:00 AM or 12:00-2:30 PM on M, T, Th. and F (no class on Wednesday)

 To register:

• Children must be four/five years of age to attend with a birthdate between 9/1/08 and 8/31/09.
• Immunizations must be current.
• Tuition: $300 per month.
• Monthly payments through the use of an automated clearing house (ACH)
• Parents will be responsible for child's transportation.

If you are interested in securing a spot for your child, please contact Michele Aiken-Dunn at our district office, (425) 936-1226 for a com­plete registration packet and availability. Your spot is only reserved after we receive a complete registra­tion packet and a deposit of $300. These funds will be applied to the last month's tuition in June 2014. Once we receive your deposit we will con­firm your child's spot.

The PTSA will award the class with the highest participation at PTSA meetings.  

All you need to do is come to PTSA meetings!  Students, teachers, parents and family members all count. 

Meetings are the 3^rd Thursday of the month at 7pm in the Horace Mann Library (except no meeting in December).

Be sure to sign in when you arrive so we can keep an accurate count!

Parking Lot Patrol - help in the parking lot in the morning during drop off.

Nominating Committee - Help find Board members for next school year.  

Contact:  Tamara Trepte (tamaratrepte@gmail.com), or  Andrea Bradford (cakbradford@comcast.net) 

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 #5 will be available 11/22 and is due 12/05 by 3pm.

Sponsored and funded by the PTSA. 

Neetu Srivastava (neetusv@yahoo.com), Horace Mann Math Challenge Coordinator

For Grades 2-5th at Horace Mann on November 22^nd in the Gym at 6:00pm.  It is $3 per child for the Competition.

To Register fill out this form and then further details will be emailed to you:  http://sdrv.ms/1d0xcfS

Thurs Nov 21:  PTSA Meeting  6:30 pm  Mann Commons

Wed Nov 27:  EARLY RELEASE

                       NO AM Kindergarten

Mon Dec 23 - Fri Jan 3:  Winter Break  NO SCHOOL 

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.