Be The Match Bone Marrow Registry Drive
Thursday, May 17, 2012 from 6-8pm during the QAE Spaghetti Dinner
In conjunction with the Puget Sound Blood Center and Queen Anne Elementary PTSA, we are holding a Bone Marrow Donor Registry Drive on Thursday, May 17 from 6:00-8:00pm during the QAE Spaghetti Dinner (details about the dinner coming soon!). We will have a table available where interested adults, between the ages of 18 and 60, can sit with a volunteer to educate themselves about the donation process, complete a questionnaire to ensure eligibility and perform a simple cheek swab for testing.
Registration is free! The Puget Sound Blood Center covers ALL costs for registration and testing.
70% of all patients cannot find a match within their own family. Please consider stopping by the table to talk with us!
Thank you,
Lynn Doolittle and Brandon Bussell
Parents of Fiona Carroll (Ms. Meck's class)
Good Times! Last night was incredibly fun, thanks to a huge turn out, an enthusiastic community and great games! If you found a game you really loved, make sure to visit Blue Highway Games and support their generosity with a purchase!
Also Teacher Appreciation Week is May 7th-11th!
Please ask your class coordinator what else you can do to help make it a memorable week for our teachers!
Thanks to all!
The PTSA
This year the state administration of the Measurement of Student Progress (MSP) is available on line. Our school has decided to test grades 3-5/Math, Science (only 5th), Reading) online. The test questions are the same as paper/pencil version, but shown in different order on each computer screen for test security. Students will have the same amount of time to take the test as before and there are tools built into the presentation for students to use. The test window is extended for the online version to allow all students time in the computer lab. The writing test will continue to be paper/pencil due to the volume of handwritten response. Your child’s teacher will be sending home notification of specific dates for online tests that we are involved in this year. We want our students to be well prepared and comfortable with the online format as this moves forward.
Please ensure your child is rested, has a good breakfast and comes to school ready to focus on the MSP. If you would like to view a demonstartion of this test and also take a sample test with test questions in the different subjects and grades please go to OSPI’s link: http://www.k12.wa.us/Assessment/StateTesting/OnlineTesting.aspx The box on the right has the downloads for you to view.
All students will have the opportunity to see both the DEMO and the Online Training Tools (Sample test) at school. Viewing it at home, with parents, is encouraged as well.
If you have further questions, please contact Jeffrey Riley – jsriley@seattleschools.org – 206 252 2511
Thank you for your support in helping to make this a successful experience for our students.
QAE MSP Schedule: (All testing to begin at 9:45)
Math
Reading
Science
Writing
3rd
5/23
5/16
X
3rd/4th
5/22
5/24
X
5/3, 5/8
5th
5/15
5/14
5/21
All families are invited to join art teacher Ms. Meg and the Garden Committee as we celebrate your child's art work and the QAE Garden. What can you expect at this exciting event...?
*The walls throughout the brick building will be FULL of student art work, much of which will be unveiled for the first time! Come and see what your brilliant child has been creating.
*Live music will be performed by renowned songwriter and vocalist (and parent of Ruby), Connor Desai!
*The garden will be newly planted by every student in every grade and decorated with stunning new signage and ART!
*Cheeses and treats and kid-friendly bubbly will be served in the reception area (i.e. cafeteria) throughout the event!
Please mark your calendars and come at any time during this two hour event. This is one Art Walk you won't want to miss.
REMINDER:
Join us for our biggest garden workday of the year this weekend, Saturday, April 28, 10am-1pm.
QAE's Garden Week is April 30-May 4. Before the kids can get to work, we need to prepare the garden space for them. To keep our garden program alive, we need you!
No experience required. Just show up and we will give you direction-- you might be surprised by how much fun you have. Donuts and coffee included.
If you support the garden program and are available, join us at the garden for any amount of time this Saturday. Let's keep our garden program growing for our kids and our community. RSVP to Elizabeth Kruse if you can be there (emdowell@comcast.net).
Our QAE community generously donated over 3000 books to our chosen organization--Treehouse. The amount of books collected completely exceeded our expectations! It was uplifting to see the faces of the students each day as they brought their donations into the school, or when they would check the boxes outside of their classrooms. Thank you so very, very much for helping to make this event so incredibly successful! We can't wait to deliver the books to Treehouse this week.
While the competition for lunch with our visiting author, Derek Munson, was tight ... the classroom who donated the most books was Ms. Leland's room with a grand total of 710 books. That's a lot of books! A big high five, and much congratulations to Ms. Leland's first graders.
The Book Drive team (Laura Cooper, Laurie Reed, and Lara Francisco) would like to extend a great big THANK YOU to all of you who participated. It was an amazing experience, a lot of fun, and we are really proud of our student participants!
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