Horace Mannager - June 1, 2014

The school looked amazing! What a great show of the artistic talent that our students posses! Docents, we are truly fortunate to be a part of this experience with the kids! The work you've put in all year and for this event has been awesome. The PTSA must be thanked for ensuring we have an art program in operation at Horace Mann. Your support of Art Night was instrumental - from funding to blasts .... Your help makes it happen.

Thank you teachers and staff for your combined efforts to help the work along during testing!

Thanks to all of the parents and student volunteers from RHS and RMS for your amazing help setting up, running stations, participating in the raffle and cleaning up. Art night couldn't have run so smoothly without you!

Special thanks to the Sudo family for staging a World Record event at the school. It couldn't have gone forward without Jane Wither of the Redmond Arts Commission and Mrs. Swain from RHS counting over 23,000 origami boats!

Thanks to the YMCA for sacrificing their space in the commons for the evening. Thank you Stan! For drawing caricatures of the kids! Thank you student artist Asaki Nelson, your talents were enjoyed by all. Warm thanks to TNT treats for treating us to your delicious food! A heartfelt thanks to Mike Ewanchuk, for working with the fifth grade as our Artist in Residence.

Lastly, thanks from the bottom of my heart to the Art Night committee for your skill and talent. The long hours you put in to organizing the event created a spectacular evening!

Sincerely,

Annie Savage

Knights of the Multiplication Table

Hear ye, hear ye! On Thursday, May 15th, we held our fourth Knighting Ceremony for the third grade. These students worked hard to earn their place in the Royal Order of the Knights of the Multiplication Table. Congratulations to our newest knights: Grant G., Peter S., Cameron B., Ian S., Andrew H., and Claire K.

Third graders: You have one more opportunity to join The Knights of the Multiplication Table! The final ceremony of the year will be held on Tuesday, June 10th. Do lots of multiplication review at home and practice, practice, practice!

Noetic Learning Math Contest Spring 2014

This spring we had a large number of participants at Horace Mann!

Congratulations to the 5 National Honor Roll students.

Allen X.
Dahlia R.
Sapir T.
Richard J.
Abby M.

All students will receive awards at the end of year, school Award Assembly.

Volunteer Tea

Three awards are presented annually by the Horace Mann Elementary PTSA

Please join us

Thursday, June 12 at 3:30 pm

Volunteer Tea Invite

Please RSVP if childcare is needed - 425-936-2610.

PTSA Nominating Committee

2014 - 2015

Proposed Executive Committee Slate

The Nominating Committee would like to thank you for all the nominations that were submitted and people stepping forward to volunteer your time! We followed up on each one and carefully considered the open positions. We feel confident that the slate presented will provide the students, parents and teachers with another year of outstanding support.

The following candidates are recommended to serve on the Horace Mann PTSA Executive Committee for the 2014-2015 term from July 1, 2014 until June 30, 2015:

Proposed Executive Committee Nominees

Co-Presidents

Lia White

Jean Chenevert

Co-VPs Fundraising

Rachel Roland

Desiree Michael

Co-VPs Volunteers

Andrea Bradford

Lala Sarmiento

Co-VPs Enrichment

VP Programs - Nalina Varanasi

VP Art - Lisa Wheeler

Secretary

Elaine Paul

Co-Treasurers

Susan Stenner

Konna Xiong

This slate will be presented at the General Membership Meeting on June 5th at 7pm in the library and the voting will be conducted using paper ballots. The votes will then be tallied and the results announced by Satin Brennan and Mike Ewanchuk, our current Presidents.

Proposed PTSA Budget for 2014-2015

A proposed budget for the 2014/15 Horace Mann PTSA has been posted to the Treasurers page on the Mann PTSA website. The proposed budget will be discussed and voted on at the June 5th PTSA General membership meeting at 7pm in the Mann Library. All PTSA members are invited to attend.

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

Egg Drop Experiment

Horace Mann PTSA is excited to announce the Egg DROP EXPERIMENT!

On Monday, June 9, 2014, a Redmond Fire Department Ladder Truck will arrive at school at approximately 9 am to test students' creations by dropping them from 50 feet. Please invite your students/children to take part, and help us out by volunteering! Sign up here to volunteer:

<http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D49A8AE2AA20-eggdrop>www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0D49A8AE2AA20-eggdrop

Students! --> Use your engineering design skills and science know-how of physics to create a device, contraption, or anti-gravity chamber to protect an egg from a 50-foot fall.

Sign-Up --> Students or Teams of Students MUST sign-up by filling out our online registration <http://horacemannptsa.org/Packet/Egg%20Drop%20Experiment> .

REGISTRATION CLOSES JUNE 6th

For further details: http://horacemannptsa.org/Page/Enrichment/EggDrop

Yearbooks for Sale

There are 100 yearbooks still available to purchase. If you would like to purchase one please visit http://horacemannptsa.org/Packet/YearBook. Buy one today before they are gone!! Email yearbook@horacemannptsa.org with questions.

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

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.

MC 15 Winners will be announced June 2.