Horace Mannager - March 30, 2014

Thanks to all the parents who helped make Staff Appreciation Week OUT OF THIS WORLD! The teachers were spoiled by their students all week long and loved every minute of it. In the staff lounge, they enjoyed Space Capsule Lunches, Supersonic Snacks, an Interstellar Lunch from the Chef Lynn Food Truck a Blast Off Breakfast, and Galactic Goodies!

The delicious treats for the Galactic Goodies dessert bar were created by: Luly's Sweets & Treats, Sweet Tweets, Wickedly Whipped, and Three Monkey's Cakery.

Our big event of the week was the Supernova Surprise. These businesses are the BEST IN THE UNIVERSE! They donated over $7,000 worth of prizes for our teachers and staff: Pacific Northwest Float Trips, Bellevue Center for Health, Simply Clean, Myers Chiropractic, Linda Kahle Fine Art Imagery, Unique Dry Carpet Service, Bella Photography, Mantra Bands, Maid 2 Please, Flawless Beauty Bar, Clear Solutions, Snapshot Sandy, Cork & Click (Get Off Auto), Covington Cellars, Northwest Aesthetics, Redmond School of Glass, Murder Mystery Company, Jo Totes, Rivaage Salon, Cork & Canvases, Ambrosia Med Spa, eMeals, Erin Condren, Big Picture Classes, Laura Ashton Cellars, No More 'To Go', Brown Bear Car Wash, Pepper Bridge Winery, Entropy Trading Company, Expressions Bracelets, Staples, Costco, Better Life, Ben Franklin Crafts, Smug Mug, Vol25, Letter Girl, Nifty Swank, Home Studios, Swirling Scarves, Agave Restaurant, Eclisse Creazioni, Paper & Oats, Coho Cafe, Canyons Restaurant, Tasty Suite.

In addition to donating prizes for the Supernova Surprise, these businesses are offering discounts to Mann families as well!

Home Studios - 10% off your purchase.

Expressions Bracelets - 25% off your purchase. Use coupon code: MANN25.

Letter Girl - Free shipping. Use coupon code: horacemann. (Ends 6/15/14)

Paper and Oats - 20% off your purchase. Use coupon code: SupernovaSurprise. (Ends 5/31/14)

Eclisse Creazioni - 20% off anything in the shop. Use coupon code: 3MOM11.

Three Monkey's Cakery - 10% off your purchase. Use coupon code MANN14.

MantraBand Bracelets - 10% off your purchase. Use coupon code MANN.

eMeals - 15% off your subscription. Use coupon code MEALS15. (Ends 5/31/14)

Rivaage - $50 Facials with microdermabrasion

Photos from Staff Appreciation Week will be posted on the PTSA website next week.

Yearbook!

The deadline to order a yearbook and to submit photos to be used in the yearbook is MARCH 31st!

Yearbooks are $16 and your child will receive it the last week of school. Order online at:

http://horacemannptsa.org/Packet/YearBook

Please submit photos online at:

http://sw.balfour.com/tops-services/publicupload/loginForm

Our project number is 419421 and you can leave the password blank. You will need to enter your name and email address to upload photos so we know who they came from. When uploading photos you don't need to list every child in the photo but PLEASE label the photo with the classroom teacher name.

You can also put your photos on a zipdrive or cd labeled "Yearbook" and leave it in the office PTSA box.

Questions? email [email protected]

Becoming Drug Aware

Monday, March 31

7:00-9:00 pm

LWSD Resource Center

Becoming Druge Aware Parent Ed flyer

Spring After-School Classes Now Open for Enrollment!

Want to write your own programs? Play Dodgeball with your friends? Learn Chess? Then check out our after-school classes on our PTSA Enrichment Page.

We now accept online payments so you can pay and register at the same time.

Click here for more information.

Seeking an After School Enrichment Coordinator!

Do your kids enjoy the after school enrichment classes like Art, Chess and Dodgeball?

To keep this program going, we need a parent volunteer to help plan and schedule these classes. You would work with our current coordinator, Gretchen, to run the program, starting in September 2014.

If you're interested please contact Gretchen Connors or Sara Buckley

Nutrition Services is Hiring

Interested in earning extra money?

Sodexo Nutrition Services currently has paid

positions available to help serve your students.

Paid positions are 2-4 hours in length.

Starting pay is $9.75 an hour.

If interested, please call Nutrition Services at: 425-936-1393

Spring Noetic Learning Math Contest

The Spring NLMC contest is coming up in April and available for grades 2 to 5. The goal of the competition is to encourage young students' interest in math, to develop their problem solving skills, and to inspire them to excel in math. During the contest, students are given 45 minutes to solve 20 problems. Many problems are designed to challenge students and to enrich their problem solving experiences.

What: Spring Noetic Learning Math Contest

When: April 16 (Wednesday) at 6 p.m.

Where: Horace Mann Elementary

Registration: Click here to register and print permission form

Fee: $10 per student

Contest is provided by NLMC and sponsored and hosted by Horace Mann Elementary PTSA. Spaces are limited, so register early!

Awards: Students that make National Honor Roll will receive a medal given out at the end of year Awards Assembly.

Food for the Potluck

Horace Mann International Night & Potluck 2014

One Family, Many Cultures

Thursday, April 24th, 5:30-7:00 pm

Thank you to all the families who have signed up to help with this exciting event. We still need more families to bring food for the Potluck. It does not have to be a dish associated with a specific culture; if you have a favorite family dish, please consider bringing it to the event. We have created a Sign Up Genius to make the process easy for everyone. If you are able to bring an appetizer, main dish or dessert, please sign up using the link below (if you have already turned in a form indicating that you will bring food, you do not need to sign up again).

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0E49AAAC2AAA8-international2

It is also not too late to organize and/or run a station that represents your family's culture or participate in the cultural fashion parade. Just return the blue form to the school as soon as possible. If you need another form, you may pick one up in the office.

Thanks for all your support! We could not have the event without your help.

If you have an questions, please contact Lucy Davies, Trish Trotter or Colette Weber.

Art Night 2014

Hello Art Docents,

We hope you've all been enjoying these last few months helping Horace Mann students bloom where they're planted. It's time to start thinking about our annual Art Night Festival! Come celebrate Art in Bloom! It's all over the earth!

The official date is Friday May 30, 2014.

Bring your families and invite your friends to an evening of art, entertainment, food and adventure. Save the date and start thinking about tailoring a few art lessons focusing on a floral or natural theme related to the following assignments. Class art raffle items are not required to be in the Art in Bloom theme and now is a good time to begin thinking about your raffle project.... Remember, you have a budget of 75$ for this and make sure if you've spent any money from it, to submit your expenses. The deadline for the raffle project is May 9th.

We are in need of volunteers for the Art Night. Look out for a Singup Genius notification after the spring break!

Floral and natural art is such an all-encompassing thing. Grade level assignments are here for your inspiration, please feel free to cross lines when it comes to art projects with the kids. We want students to know about all art and artists! Here is a reminder of this years' themed assignments:
K - Dale Chihuly (arts & crafts)
1 - Claude Monet (impressionism)
2 - Georgia O'Keeffe (American modernism)
3 - Pacific Island Art (Hawaiian, Maori, tribal)
4 - Vincent Van Gogh (post impressionism)
5 - Japanese Art (Sakura, kimono, sumi-e)

Get creative and keep an eye on the PTSA website (horacemannptsa.org) for art lessons, lesson ideas and links to great websites for ideas. We're looking forward to having a diverse art display in the gym and halls to reflect our growing knowledge of art right in our classrooms at Mann!

Yours Truly,
Art Night Committee & Anne Savage, Art Night Committee Chair

Horace Mann Math Challenge

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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 (check updated 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 #12 is available and is due 4/03 by 3pm.

Total number of students who participated in MC #11 were: 31

MC Winners were:

Melody S - K	Kotaro O - 2nd
Bella S - K	JohnPaul R - 2nd
Ethan G - K	Leo T - 3rd
Leah N - K	Alice M - 3rd
Dahlia R - 1st	Kailani Y - 3rd
Alex F - 1^st	Nick Z - 4th
Robert K - 1st	Richard J - 4th
Annabel W - 1st	Hannah C - 4th
Aavier S - 1st	Christopher T - 4th
Will Z - 1^st	Kazuma I - 4th
Kyra B - 2^nd	Lucy Z - 4th
Tamir M. - 2nd	Abby M - 4th
Aniela A - 2nd	Annika R - 4th
Krithi I - 2^nd	Rimjhim S - 4th
Riya R - 2nd	Eli T - 5th