PTA PRESIDENT UPDATE
KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION
If you live in Lake Washington School District (LWSD) and your child will be five years old on or before August 31, 2017, it is time to register them for Kindergarten. Registration takes place at your neighborhood school during regular school hours. While registration will continue throughout the school year and summer, parents are highly encouraged to register students as soon as possible. Doing so helps ensure class sizes are balanced and adequate staff are hired in time for the new school year. Don't delay - register today!
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
Snow days extend the last day of school to Friday, June 23. Five Wednesdays are now full days (3pm release).
PARENTING AND THE TEEN BRAIN
Parenting and the Teen Brain, Jennifer Kennett, Eastside Family Counseling, Tues., Feb. 28, 6:30 p.m., Inglewood Middle School - Have you ever wondered just why teenagers seem so alien? There is new research showing that the answer lies in the brain. Come learn about how the teenage brain differs from an adult brain, and what you as a parent can do differently to communicate with a brain that is still under construction!
PTA ESSAY CONTEST
THIS Wednesday, March 1 entries are due!
Is your child willing to write an essay about an important male in their life? Read over the complete details here and submit your entry & application by March 1.
Use PTA number 2.8.47 on your application
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE NEEDED ASAP
We are in need of three PTA members who can build next year's Board of Directors (currently a total of 12 members-- although only 4-6 will need filled based on term limits and outgoing 5th grade parents).
TASK: talk to existing Board members to confirm their position placement and seek new individuals to fill remaining positions by May 11.
Nomination Committee must be filled by March 30th or we are in jeopardy of losing our PTA status.
This is a big deal, Beagles!
Email Stacy by Wednesday, March 1.
ROCKWELL RECOGNITION:
Elizabeth Rosemond- After school academic enrichment programs have been planned, staffed and successfully running since the start of school. Art, Chess, Coding, and Lego's are just a few of the program's Elizabeth has managed to bring to Rockwell! Choreographing these programs based on class sizes, room availability and coordinating volunteers takes a special person to orchestrate so many moving parts!! Thank you for working your magic, Elizabeth!
** additional recognition goes out to ALL of the volunteers for finding parking, holding up signs at the flagpole, accounting for absences, and supervising enthusiastic students! Thank you, enrichment volunteers!
Pam Teh- webmaster extraordinaire! To all of us (except Pam), the above links and announcements on the PTA website come alive with just a click on the link. Pam keys in every detail, uses special computer language and makes those links "active" and user friendly. Take the member benefits button. We tasked her to put our idea into action. She did. In just a couple of hours.
New spirit wear items, prices, design? No problem--Pam completed the keystrokes and added carrots with an active link prior to the deadline. Thank you Pam, for seamlessly doing the behind the scene stuff so we don't get caught in any sticky web messes!
Patience Djeuji- Movie night hit an all time high attendance on Friday! What could be better than planning an evening for families to wind down together after a busy week? Patience would answer, "nothing!" Patience and her family are new to Rockwell this year and right away asked how she could help make things happen. In October, she gathered notes on how to host movie night. She has swept the gym floor and took a crash course in operating the equipment, sought volunteers and bought snacks, and then..... did it all again in February! Thank you Patience for being new to Rockwell, willing to step in/step up and creating one of the PTA's most relaxing and enjoyable family evenings of the year. Merci beacoup!
PTA President
