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Nov 25-Dec 1 ---- Read-a-thon reading week
November 28-29 Thanksgiving Holiday: NO SCHOOL
December 4 ---- PTSA Board Meeting
December 6 ----- Read-a-thon packets and pledges due
Enatai Family Art Night
December 11 ---- Staff Appreciation: Cookie Blizzard
December 13 --- Passport Club check
December 23 - Jan 1 Winter Break
| Volunteer Opportunity | Questions? | Needed | Progress |
| Staff Appreciation Cookie Blizzard 12/11 | Staff Appreciation Chair | 138 | 93 |
| Passport Club Checkers 12/13 | Passport Club Chairs | 22 | 10 |
| Art is Awesome! Classroom Art Docent | Art Docent Chair | 38 | 13 |
| PTSA Room Parent Coordinator | Volunteer Coordinator | 1+ | 0 |
| Academic Adventure Co-Chair | Volunteer Coordinator | 1+ | 0 |
| PTSA Staff Appreciation shadow | Staff Appreciation Chair | 1+ | 0 |
| Geo Bee shadow | Passport Club/Geo Bee Chairs | 1+ | 0 |
| Field Day Chair | Volunteer Coordinator | 1+ | 0 |
| Variety Show Chair | Volunteer Coordinator | 1+ | 0 |
| Carnival shadow | Volunteer Coordinator | 1+ | 0 |
| *What is a shadow? Shadows are future Chairs that learn by observing the current Chair |
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The Read-A-Thon READING WEEK is next week! Students received their information packets this week -- Parents, please ask your student to see their Read-A-Thon packet! It contains FAQs, a calendar, a sample sponsor letter, a pledge sheet, and a reading log. All of these materials are also available to download and print from the Read-A-Thon page on our website.
Students should be gathering reading materials and asking family and friends to sponsor their reading efforts. Sponsors should be people you know. Students can win special participation prizes so please let your teacher know if you need help finding a sponsor and fill in your reading log!
Remember: any assigned reading for school counts for the Read-A-Thon too! Audiobooks and being read to also counts! Only read part of a book? Read-a-thon logs record minutes read not how many books you complete! Filled out packets and donations are due Friday 6 December. This year the Academic Adventure program includes Read-a-thon and will issue a special sticker for participants!
Happy Reading!
For the month of December, the Staff Appreciation Chair coordinates a "Cookie Blizzard" for our dedicated teachers and staff members. An annual favorite, each staff member goes home with a wonderful assortment of cookies! To be successful, we need EACH CLASS to contribute 6 dozen cookies (homemade or store bought). Please participate in this all-school Appreciation event for the Holidays! We need YOU (and your cookies)!!
To sign up to bring some treats or to volunteer to help out with the event, click here.
Enatai families turned out in big numbers to see Toy Story 4 at the first Movie Night of the year last Friday, with a record 148 kids entering the prize drawing for The Movie Night Sofa. Helping to draw the winning ticket was a special guest, alumnus Darla Vail. Mrs. Vail started in 5th grade at Enatai in 1953 when the school first opened.
Congratulations to the Wan family! Desmond Wan, another Enatai alumnus, won the grand-prize seating on The Movie Night Sofa, and he invited his brother, Matthew Wan (3rd grade), to join him.
The evening included a family game show prior to the screening. Kudos to siblings Kara Kang (3rd grade), and Gavin Kang (4th grade). The Kangs, with their Grandma Susan, won the game show by answering Enatai trivia questions, and prevailing in a tie-breaking hula hoop contest.
Many thanks to these parent volunteers for staffing Movie Night: Jack Castro, Chris Fletcher, Keiko Nakamura, Rae Okamoto, Claire Phillips, and Jon Shoemaker. Thank you also to the many parents who stayed to help clean up the Multipurpose Room following the film. Thank you to Mrs. MacDonald for her kind and generous support of Movie Night.
Thank you to all of the families who donated bags of potatoes for the potato book character project in October. I had over 50 students bring in potatoes that they turned into a book character and all of the students at Enatai were excited to see what their friends created.
Charleen Lee
Teacher-Librarian
With Thanksgiving quickly approaching, the Enatai PTSA wanted to express gratitude and appreciation for all the 2019-20 Corporate Partners in Education. To date our Corporate Partners have helped us raise $6500 in support of our Eagles' education. It's really exciting to see local businesses demonstrate their commitment to improving the lives and education for each and every student at Enatai Elementary school. A special thanks to:
Jesse Pacem LLC Environmental, Health and Safety Consultant
Michael Chiulli /Trilliam Dental Specialists
Soleil Roberts, DMD MSD/Soleil Orthodontics
Suh Esthetics Eastside
Factoria Family Dentistry
Teresa Kang DDS, PLLC
Team Foster
Allegro Pediatrics
theCoderSchoolBellevue
Seattle Children's Hospital
La Belle Music Academy
Enatai Families: Do you know of a business that would benefit by becoming a 2019-20 Enatai Corporate Partner In Education? You can read more about the Corporate Partnership program in this PDF and view other businesses that have joined our website. If you have questions, please contact corporatepartners@enataiptsa.org for more details.
See new listings below. Find the full list of Community Corner offerings on our website.
Bellevue Association for Educational Office Professionals (BAEOP)
Holiday Craft Fair
The Bellevue Association for Educational Office Professionals (BAEOP) is the professional organization for the office staff and classified employees in the Bellevue School District.
BAEOP is holding a Holiday Craft and Vendor Fair on December 5th from 3-7 PM in the Rainier and Baker Rooms at the WISC (12241 Main Street, Bellevue). The event is free and open to everyone. Come take a look at the lovely holiday gifts, grab some refreshments and start your holiday shopping!
We have room for more vendors and would love to see the handicrafts and other items our BSD families have to offer! Contact Lori Hanson (hansonlo@bsd405.org) if you would like to reserve a table or if you have any questions.
Bellevue School Foundations
Stroum Jewish Community Center
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