Weekly Newsletter 05/04/24 | |
Hello Salmon Bay Families! | |
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Hi All! This week you get Friday's newsletter on Saturday! Ok, well almost Sunday.
Thank you to everyone who joined us on Friday evening for the annual FOSB auction. Thank you to all the staff who joined us after a long day of work, parents who joined for a late night party, and all the community members who came out to support our amazing school.
More details from the night will come in as we tally up the auction bids!
Thank you community for showing up.
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Text BOOK to 71760 to register for free.
Parties are still open!
In-person parties are a unique & exciting part of the Salmon Bay auction, and there are some great ones this year! These are interesting get-togethers where you will have a chance to spend time, create art, eat good food and play with fellow Salmon Bay community members. Many of the parties still have openings, and we've extended the deadline to sign-up until 11pm Sunday, May 5th. Check out the available openings!
Click here for Click here for more details.
Here are some of the fun parties still available:
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#Paint YourPartner (or Pal!) Sip & Paint Night
When: Saturday, June 8, 7-10 p.m.
Where: In The Making Studio in Ballard
Have you seen the hilarious new trend: Paint your Partner or Pal? Join us for a very fun special edition of "Paint & Sip". Meet us at In The Making Studio in Ballard for an evening of fun and painting. We can't wait to see the finished products! Drinks and light bites provided.
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Classroom Marketplace for Adults-Kitchen
Edition!
When: May 6- June 10
Where: Shelby's porch for drop off
You've watched your kids participate in the classroom marketplace for years. Now, it's your turn! This version for adults is purely for fun.
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Zen & Zest
Whether you are brand new to yoga or have been practicing for years, this custom, small group class will allow you to leave stressors at the door, focus on your breathing, and enjoy time working on your core through intentional balance. After the 75-minute class, participants will be treated to a fresh juice and tea bar. Participants provide their own yoga mat.
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Photo Booth!
Did you take an adorable photo at the photo booth with your friend or partner? Did you put in your phone number and never get a copy of the photo? Due to some technical difficulties, some photos were not sent out. Photos will be downloaded into a google album shortly, and the link will be shared in the next newsletter. In the meantime, if you can't wait until next Friday, please email Erin here to get a copy of your photo!
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SUNDAY: May 5th, 2024, 7-8:30 pm: Budget Meeting (via Zoom FOSB)
All are welcome to join.Here is the link to our final Finance Committee meeting on Sunday, May 5, at 7pm. At this meeting, we will finalize the draft budget to send to the May 16th board meeting for a full vote. Please review the draft budget and come to the meeting on Sunday to provide feedback.
The agenda for the meeting can be found here.
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May 9th, 3:30 PM: Kindergarten Popsicles in the Park at Salmon Bay Park
All Kindergarteners and families are invited to meet up after school (3:30 PM) at Salmon Bay Park (park nearby school, 2001 NW Canoe Pl). Let's get together for an afternoon of popsicles, games, and fun!
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May 16, 6:30 pm: FOSB Board Meeting + FOSB Open House
Please save the date and plan on attending our May 16th 6:30pm board meeting in the school library. There are two important votes that need to happen: our 2024-25 FOSB budget and our slate of directors and officers. We need a quorum of 20 non-directors to pass these two items, so even if you haven’t attended any FOSB meetings yet this year, this is the one! We’ll hold voting in the first 30 mins of our meeting so that 7th and 8th grade camp chaperone parents can make it to the chaperone meeting starting at 7pm - please consider coming to the school 30 mins early to help us vote! The second portion of our meeting will be a FOSB Open House where we’d like to highlight the various committee chairs and open conversation and brainstorming to plan for next year. This will be an opportunity to put faces to names of some of the people working behind the scenes of FOSB and get ideas for ways you might like to be involved next year. Childcare is available for potty independent kids free of charge - childcare rsvp is requested but not required. There is a virtual option to join if you can’t make it to the school.
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June 7 (NEW DATE): 5th Grade Trivia Night
5th graders and their families are invited to join us for a kids vs adults trivia night on Friday, June 7, 6-8pm in the school library. Sign Up to Bring Food Here Questions? Contact Katie Roberts at katieqroberts@gmail.com.
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Advocacy for Option Schools
FOSB chairs are in touch with All Together For Seattle Schools and CANSSPA to collaborate on actions to help advocate for option and other school enrollment. The goal is to work alongside other school communities to get the message to the SPS School Board and district administration about how option schools are necessary to provide Seattle families with choices around education for their children. Sharing that families aren't actually fleeing public school, but many families are actively choosing schools like SB that have long been beloved to the community. We want to do our part to make sure they continue to be an option for our community.
SPS will likely announce school closures for the 2025-26 school year at their May 8th school board meeting. Several people suspect that option schools will be on the chopping block. This does not mean that we are too late to advocate for option schools! Since the 2025-26 budget will not be voted on by the School Board until June of next year, we still have time. Another 8-9 months to advocate for options schools (K-5 and K-8), HCC, focused SPED schools, Center School, Nova, Cleveland STEM, Middle College, etc. We can be more effective if we work with All Together for Seattle Schools.
If you’re available to get involved in this, please reach out. We need help with this.
Email FOSB Chairs here.
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Do you know someone on the waitlist for Salmon Bay next year?
Space is available!
If you know someone on the wait-list to attend Salmon Bay next year, have them contact Ms Dixon. The district does NOT give her your names and she cannot advocate for you until she knows who you are and what your exact scenario is. She is open and waiting for your contact! There is room in nearly every grade level at SB - even though the district is telling parents differently. She is advocating for parents wanting to get in and for the waitlist to be moved. Email Principal Dixon here.
We also encourage families to contact the district themselves and explain that the Salmon Bay principal has said there is space at Salmon Bay. Get information back in writing from them. Email SPS enrollment here.
Also, if they’d like to please keep FOSB posted on their situation and progress, we are hoping to figure out wider messaging to the district. Having real info (not hypotheticals) helps with crafting language around the bigger picture issue - we won’t include specific names in our messaging. Email FOSB Chairs here.
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Eighth Grade Camp Chaperones needed!
We are in need of chaperones for the eighth grade camp trip. We are still in need of 2 moms and 7 dads. Please contact Sam Olsen if available.
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Plastic Film Drive with Ridwell
Salmon Bay is keeping Plastic Film from landfills with Ridwell this spring! As part of this limited-time drive, you can bring these types of CLEAN Plastic Film to school on either Friday, May 17th or Monday, May 20th and Ridwell will make sure they stay out of landfills and are turned into new decking materials instead! Start collecting these items at home now as Salmon Bay parents are coordinating a one-time large scale pickup for our community.
You can also help Salmon Bay recycle our school’s Plastic Film for the entire ‘24/’25 school year! Be sure to use this link to join Ridwell with an at-home membership by May 31st, 2024. If we sign up 10 or more new members by this date, we will be awarded monthly Plastic Film pickups for our school next year! That would be amazing!
Want to test your plastics recycling knowledge? Here are 10 questions, how many will you get right? Take the quiz here.
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Lost & Found
The lost & found is jam-packed once again! A Salmon Bay parent posted photos of many individual items in the Salmon Bay Community Facebook group - take a look there to see if you recognize anything!
Please stop by the lost & found or send your kids to look! A clean out will likely happen again soon, but it is a lot of work for volunteers! Best case scenario is getting items back to families, and for that we can use your help!
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Join Kids on the Run - NEW START TIME!
The FOSB running club meets Wednesdays and Friday mornings from 8-8:35 am. This program runs until Friday, June 7. Parents and siblings are welcome to run with us. Our goal is to make running fun and help kids get a great start to the school day. Those who are interested can challenge themselves and register to run a 5k in June. We are also encouraging families to try out the Bill Roe All Comers track meets which are for all ages and abilities. Our running club is a gender-inclusive group and is open to students in grades K through 5. Registration will stay open so kids can join at any time.
Register here.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Salmon Bay has partnered with Seattle Mariners to offer discounted tickets to our students and families for their June 1st game against the LA Angels. Join us for an evening of fun with other Salmon Bay families!
What: Seattle Mariners vs LA Angels
Where: T-Mobile Park
When: June 1 at 4:15pm
Who: Salmon Bay students and families
How: Tickets are $12 each. Please purchase through SchoolPay.
Scholarship donations are greatly appreciated to help make these events equitable, no amount is too small! Donations are accepted through school pay.
For scholarships, please email fosbtreasurer@gmail.com
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A parent in the Salmon Bay Community Facebook group asked about opting children out of the upcoming school assessments. Suggestions were to contact your child's teacher and Vice Principal Amy Acquino.
The link for the opt-out form was also shared. Link can be found here.
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The following dates, activities & announcements pertain to the school and come from information provided by school staff/teachers/admin. We are pleased to include them as reminders to our community, but this may not be an exhaustive list of everything the school has planned. Please check with your student’s teacher(s) or office staff for more information. | |
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News from Principal Dixon:
SBA (Smarter Balanced Assessment) window is opening this coming Monday. 3rd through 5th graders will be tested between May 6th through 10th while Middle Schoolers will have their testing done the following week, May 13th through 17th. All kids taking SBA will have ELA and Math sections, while 5th and 8th graders will also have science. Please send your kids with extra snacks and a water bottle on testing days.
Elementary School News:
Yearbook Cover Competition:
It is that time of year again! We know a lot of the students have been looking forward to this year’s Yearbook Cover Competition. The theme for this year is “Salmon Bay Community”. If your student wants to participate, please have them complete an artwork and submit either in the office or with their teacher until Friday May 10th. The submissions need to be 8.5 x 11 inches in portrait orientation. Once the submissions are closed, we will have a vote and the winning artwork will be on the cover of this year’s yearbook, with the runner up being on the back cover. FOSB is providing every child with a yearbook, so there is no need to purchase one.
Middle School News:
As most of you know, 7th and 8th grade camp paperwork has been sent home on Monday. The forms are due back at the office on Monday May 6th. Next week staff will process the paperwork and determine camp logistics based on information provided. We appreciate your partnership in completing the paperwork. Please connect with your student's Homeroom teacher with any questions.
We've only had about half of 7th grade families fill out the online NatureBridge registration form and we need that ASAP. Here's the link again.
The camp payment links are also up and running, you should have received links for them from your children’s teachers. Please reach out to Elif if you have any payment questions.
Congratulations to our 6th grade Ultimate Frisbee team who won every game this past weekend and are the Spring Reign Champs!! Great job to ALL of our Frisbee Players this weekend!
All School News:
Middle School Photography class is asking for working digital cameras to help those students who don’t have cameras. If you have a camera you can donate, we would appreciate it. You can drop off at the main office.
Theater production needs yellow and pink ball gowns, men’s suit jackets and an old fashioned TV antenna. If you can donate, please reach out to theater teacher Rachel Street.
Library News:
Tuesday, May 14th 9-9:45am
Where: Salmon Bay cafetorium
Who: Author Josh Tuininga presents his graphic novel, "We are not Strangers"
This will be for all middle school students! Parents and community members are welcome to come too. To order Josh Tuininga’s book, please click here.
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School Calendar Dates:
April 30: “Norma” Book reading by author Markie Mitchell
May 3: The FOSB auction, organized by FOSB
May 6-10: SBA Testing, Grades 3-5
May 6-10: Staff Appreciation Week
May 13-17: SBA Testing, Grades 6-8
May 13: 4th grade sailing trip
May 20-22: 3rd Grade at Camp Colman
May 22-23: 1st Grade at Indianola
May 23-23: Middle School Spring Play
May 29: 6th Grade Welcome Night
May 30: Middle School Band Concert @ 7:00 pm
June 3-5: 4th Grade at Camp Seymour
June 4-7: 8th Grade at Camp Orkila
June 5-7: 7th Grade at Camp Naturebridge
June 7: Kindergarten Camp Day
June 11: Elementary School Talent Day
June 12-13: 2nd Grade at Camp Indianola
June 13: Middle School Marimba Concert
June 14: Elementary School Field Day
June 17: Middle School Graduation Ceremony and Ingram High School
June 18: 5th Grade Promotion
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Seen (and heard!) Around School: | |
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Sunny Days!
Beautiful, sunny afternoons make for busy playgrounds!
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Lost & Found
The lost & found is once again overflowing! Sunny days mean layers are shed (and left) on the playground.
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Lunchroom Volunteers Needed:
Volunteers needed in the elementary lunch period from 11:10-12:05 daily. Please check that your volunteer paperwork is up to date and sign up here. Ms A appreciates any days you can come in to assiste her during lunch!
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School Spirit Wear
Want to show some school pride? Salmon Bay apparel is available for purchase online! You can choose from a variety of shirts and sweatshirts and have them delivered straight to your door. Both Youth and Adult sizes are available. Use this link to order.
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School ID Cards:
Families can now purchase an ID card online for $5. ID card orders take about 7-10 business days to arrive to the home.
2023-24 Salmon Bay K-8 Picture Days
Online Code: SPS student ID number
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Get to know the PTO (that's FOSB!): | |
Stay Connected & Get Involved!
While you automatically receive emails from Salmon Bay K-8 administration, staff, and teachers on all things school-supported and classroom related, it doesn’t always include FOSB-related events, opportunities, and information. Tap into these information pipelines to stay connected and find ways to get involved.
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Everyday Ways to Give
You can support Friends of Salmon Bay in everyday ways, like shopping at a merchant of your choice or searching online. Details about programs offered by Fred Meyer, Bing, and Office Depot/Office Max are on our website. Consider signing up!
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In The Making, a Ballard art studio, is offering creativity camps for kids. Wednesday after school and over the summer. Adult camps also offered. Check our website for more information. | |  |
A Seattle parent has put together a website to bring all the data about every Seattle summer camp into one filterable, searchable (free) place. We all know that finding summer camps is very nearly a full time job, and often requires extensive spreadsheets. Please consider signing up to check out activities for your kiddos! Learn more here. | | | |
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Sunday Basketball K-5th
This class will be a beginners course to the game of basketball. We will work on the basics of dribbling passing and shooting with fun games and drills. This class will be led by a variety of coaches!
April 14, 21, 28, May 5, & 19
11am- Noon Magnuson Park
Link to sign-up for Sunday games here.
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