Lake Washington Schools Foundation

January LWSF Foundation News

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Dear Mann Community:

Thank you so much for the wonderful conference week.  Students and teachers put in a lot of hard work for these conferences so your participation is so appreciated.  Hopefully you learned a bit more about how your child is learning and progressing.

Also, I wanted to make you all aware that the LWSD Board did consider and approve a temporary boundary adjustment at Monday night's board meeting.  In a nutshell, this means that Mann will be getting portable classrooms and will be increasing in size.  This does not mean class size will increase, but rather our population will increase.  The same class-size ratio will continued to be used as it is all over the district.  This is type of growth is rare in a school, but I am convinced will be a positive opportunity to welcome new members of our community.

For more information on this temporary boundary change, please visit the LWSD website at http://www.lwsd.org/News/temporary-boundary-change/Pages/default.aspx .

I hope you are having a restful weekend.

All the best,

Megan Spaulding

Principal

Kindergarten Registration is on Thursday, February 6^th. That's this week and WE NEED YOUR HELP. Please use the link below to sign up for the times that you are able to help welcome our newest Horace Mann families.

www.SignUpGenius.com/go/70A094FACAD292-kindergarten                      

The Upportunity Team would like to thank all the families who contributed to the American Red Cross Philippine Typhoon effort last Friday evening. Thanks to your generosity we raised $732.63! The concert was a wonderful chance to build our community at home and half way around the world at the same time.

On January 22^nd, our school will begin Reach for the Stars, a pledge based reading incentive program.  Reach for the Stars participants should read or be read to at home for 30 minutes each day between January 22^nd and February 5^th.  Students will request pledges to support their reading during the two week period.  100% of the pledge money collected will come back to the students and our school to purchase more books and support literacy at Horace Mann.  Students will receive 50% of their total pledges in free books from Usborne and Kane/Miller.  Horace Mann will receive the other 50% to purchase books that will support the Common Core and our summer literacy program.  Your child's Reach for the Stars Reading Journal and Pledge sheet should have come home January 22^nd!

RMS Family Math Night flyer

The Horace Mann Service Club has sponsored the Valentine Post Office for over 15 years.  Each February our group designs, sells, and delivers valentines.  Funds raised by the Valentine Post Office are donated to local charities.

Everyone loves sending valentines, and the Valentine Post Office is the perfect way for family and friends to send greetings to anyone at Horace Mann.  Do you have a friend in another classroom who you would like to surprise?  That's what we are all about.  Do you have a younger sibling who you'd like to send a valentine?  We can do that too!   Moms, Dads and grandparents can send them too!

Valentines are available for pre-order in pack of 10 for $1 using the order form that came home with your child on Friday.  They will also be sold

during recesses on February 10th, 11th, and 12th.   Pens and markers will be available for decorating and addressing your greetings.  Pre-orders should be sent  by February 5.

If you have questions or would like to volunteer at one of the recess sales, please contact Jodie Miller at 5mill@frontier.com or Colleen Wolfe at jcabtwolfe@comcast.net

Please plan to join us in Olympia on Tuesday, February 4 for Focus Day 2014!  You won't want to miss our premier, statewide advocacy event.  Focus Day is a great way to connect with legislators as we put kids front and center this legislative session.

Registration and other information are all available now at the Wash State PTSA website: 2014 PTSA Legislative Focus Day. The event is free (there is a small charge for the boxed lunch).

Lake Wash PTSA Council will again charter a bus to/from Olympia.  If you'd like to join us on the bus, please register via the link below.

Note: due to our schedule for meeting with legislators, participants from Lake Wash School District will kick off Focus Day at 9:30 a.m. in Olympia. Our first legislator meeting is set for 10 a.m. (w/ Senator Andy Hill - Redmond), followed by meetings with Rep. Roger Goodman and Rep. Larry Springer at 1 p.m.

For more details regarding bus charter and to make a reservation, click here.

Also feel free to contact Marco Montanez Horace Mann Legislative Chair at montanezx4@gmail.com.

The 2014 Puget Sound Engineering Council Engineers Fair will be held on Saturday, February 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Museum of Flight. It is an opportunity for students K-12 to meet professional engineers and learn about the engineering profession. The group will showcase the various types of engineering. There will be many activities and demonstrations hosted by the engineering societies so students can enjoy some hands on learning. It is free admittance to all students and their families. See attached flier for more information.

2014 EFair Flyer

The world map is up on the bulletin board next to the elevator at school with dots showing where Horace Mann families hail from.

If you haven't already, please fill out this quick survey and we'll add your location!  We also want to know how to say "hello" in many different languages.

http://sdrv.ms/1d8Bzrg

Yearbooks are $16 and we will only be accepting online orders this year. The deadline to order is May 1st!  Yearbooks will not be available for purchase at the end of the year.

Order at http://balfour.com and "shop your school" to place your order. Your child will receive their yearbook in June.


Email lincolngina@gmail.com with questions.

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.

Sponsored and funded by the PTSA. 

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

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!

To add content to the Horace Mann Newsletter, email your entry to horacemannager@horacemannptsa.org 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.