Hello Generous TC Families, 

  

Thank you so much for what you have already given the school with your time, auction contributions, and other donations.  If any of you would like an opportunity for further giving, the scrip team, in conjunction with me, your school counselor Kristina Miller, is setting up a Helping Hands program to offer financial assistance to families in need. If you are willing and able to purchase an extra gift card to a grocery store (minimum donation of $25), then Kristina will distribute these cards to help Thornton Creek families who are on a tight budget. Please stop by the scrip table and let the scrip seller know that you'd like to make a donation. Alternatively, you can contact Leslie Cary (scrip@thorntoncreek.org) or myself (klmiller1@seattleschools.org) to make arrangements, if you're not able to stop at the scrip table.

  

Thanks!

Kristina

Thornton Creek's May Bike Everywhere Challenge is in its final stretch. Most data from May 1-20 have been processed. Not all the data are in but so far over 26,000 minutes have been logged.  

The rules for the contest have been amended so that any class with 6000+ minutes OR 20+ riders can win a pizza party. It looks like P6-Treehouse is getting very close to winning their pizza party. With 17 riders from their class size of 20,  P6-Treehouse  just needs 800+ minutes to win their pizza party. P4-cottage is another contender, needing 2200+ minutes or 6 more riders to win their pizza party. Hurray for the Kindergarten class room 2, which only needs another 5 riders to win a pizza party for their class.

Don't forget to log the biking activities. Each rider gets a prize, a spoke card.   Riders with more than 360 minutes get 2 spoke cards. Cycling can be done ANYWHERE, not just to school. Please log all cycling activities to help your class win their pizza party, there's still time. Logging can be done online at https://goo.gl/h7HgR1  (or at http://www.askmeqr.com/s/7ddf54 for mobile devices).   

If your kid rode their bike to school on the national Bike-to-School Day on May 4, don't forget to log in their time. There are still about 20 kids who haven't logged their time for that day.

BIKE RESULTS:

Room	Minutes	Riders	To win the pizza party
P6-Treehouse	5245	17	needs 800 minutes or 3 riders
P4-Cottage	3792	14	needs 2200 minutes or 6 riders
14	3634	14	needs 2700 minutes or 6 riders
17	2342	14	needs 3700 minutes or 6 riders
8	1365	8	needs 4700 minutes or 12 riders
4	1335	10	needs 10 riders
P2-Lighthouse	1330	8	needs 12 riders
9	1060	12	needs 8 riders
P8-Bungalow	1020	13	needs 7 riders
2	945	15	needs 5 riders
11	795	6
P1-Lodge	788	9	needs 11 riders
7	330	1
13	300	1
1	250	2
5	50	2
P3-Cabin	50	1
3	40	1
10	5	1
Total	24671	149

* Data for each classroom were emailed to most classes.   Some classrooms' data for the 3rd week haven't been processed.
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