West Seattle Academy
NOVEMBER 2010
October was filled with many exciting and educational outings for our students at WSMS & WSA. From the Pumpkin Patch to the Seattle Children’s Theater to the Cedar River Water Shed, Karaoke Night, the Carnival and the Salmon Hatchery, we have been quite busy!
If you have not yet heard, West Seattle Montessori School has been chosen as one of three schools in the nation to host a Pardoned Turkey All-School Assembly! Each year, two turkeys are chosen to be sent to the White House for the President’s Thanksgiving dinner. Starting in 1989, with George H. W. Bush, the turkeys were formally “pardoned” from the traditional meal. This year, the two birds were hatched July 10 at Foster Farms in California. They will be flown to Washington, D.C. to meet the President and for the historic ceremony after visiting three schools (two in Washington and one in California), and will then live the rest of their lives on a farm in Mt. Vernon. We are very excited to meet these feathered friends on their way to the White House! If you have any questions, please contact Dolores in the Main Office at 935-0427.
Our last Little Green Thumbs session was on Thursday, October 28. A big THANK YOU to FareStart for choosing WSMS as a partner in education. What an amazing time for our Kindergarten students! THANK YOU Seattle Tilth experts for your energetic and informative classes.
THANK YOU to Chef Ron for coming into our classrooms and teaching our students about the importance of nutrients in foods such as root vegetables!
THANK YOU to Casey Clarke for rotating the large tire on the pre-primary playground!
THANK YOU to Debbie McGrew-Keller, M.D., for speaking at our first Parent Ed night!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
§ Recreation, Chess Club, Math Club and Book Club are all in full swing in the Academy. Please contact Tara Requa at tarajoedejong@earthlink.net if you have any questions regarding these extracurricular activities.
§ Last month, classrooms focused on the virtue GENTELNESS. This month we will focus on the virtue RESPECT.
§ Our Lost & Found is located in the main corridor (the clothing rack on the right hand side of the Blue Green Hall). Please note all items that are not labeled or claimed before the last Friday of each month will be donated.
§ WSMS is participating in a Food Drive to help support local food banks through November 19. If you have any nonperishable items you would like to donate, please place them in the tub labeled FOOD DRIVE in the Main Office!
§ Our next POMS (Parents Of Montessori Students) Parent Group Meeting is Tuesday, November 16 at 6:30pm. Mark your calendars!
§ Our 4th and 5th Grade class will be starting a Land & Water science kit this month!
§ Our website has some new features! Subscribe to receive all updated posts, view the new calendar of events, or take a look at the new POMS tab for current minutes from our parent group meeting.
§ We are currently working to get a virtual terminal in order for families to pay tuition via credit card/automatic deposit. More details coming soon!
§ Our annual Dinner for the Arts will be on Tuesday, November 30, at the Alki Masonic Lodge in West Seattle. Save the date!
REMINDERS
§ Please send a warm jacket, appropriate shoes, and gloves to school with your child daily. It can get really chilly outside these days!
§ Please keep your child home if she or he is not feeling well. We are doing our best to make sure students are staying healthy and happy at school!
§ Please turn in your child’s Pardoned Turkey All-School Assembly Permission Slip as soon as possible.
§ WSMS Snow Policy: Administration will contact classroom teachers in regards to snow day closures the morning of the day in question. Teachers will then email families as to whether or not school is in session. KOMO4, KIRO7, and KING5 news stations will also be called and will display West Seattle Montessori School & West Seattle Academy status. Our website will also announce the closure or delay.
UPCOMING EVENTS
November 11
NO SCHOOL in observance of Veterans Day
November 15
Pardoned Turkey All-School Assembly
Delridge Community Center, 9:30am
November 16
WSMS Parent Group Meeting (POMS: Parents of Montessori Students)
WSMS Multi-Purpose Room, 6:30pm
November 19
NO SCHOOL (Preprimary-3rd grade)
Conferences
*WSA is in session!
November 24
HALF DAY
Early Dismissals, 12pm
November 25 & 26
NO SCHOOL
Thanksgiving Break
November 30 SAVE THE DATE!
Dinner for the Arts
Alki Masonic Lodge
