Weekly Newsletter 11/24/23 | | |
Hello Salmon Bay Families! | |
I hope you have had a wonderful week off! Whatever your week looked like and whomever you spent it with, I hope that there were many parts of your week that brought joy to your life. My kids and I were happy to see many familiar faces around the neighborhood this week, enjoying the crisp sunshine and clear skies.
Today, on Native American Heritage Day, I’d like to invite you to take a moment and learn more about the Duwamish people, whose traditional, ancestral lands we live on today.
Here is a link to information from Seattle Public Schools, including grade appropriate resources for families.
We look forward to seeing you all on Monday! Have a wonderful weekend!
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Direct Giving Update:
We are two weeks into our fall Direct Giving campaign. So far we have raised $37,311 toward our goal of $77,000. We’re almost halfway there. Thank you to everyone who has already contributed.
The money raised in this campaign will be spent this school year on staffing, teacher grants, yearbooks, scholarships for camp, field trips and the Spring Enrichment Program (fka: WEP) and much more. If you are able, please consider donating. No gift is too small. Donations are tax deductible.
Click here to get more information, and to see our progress in real-time!
Background:
The Direct Giving campaign is the fall fundraising event for Friends of Salmon Bay (FOSB), our parent teacher organization. Instead of asking you to buy cookie dough, wrapping paper, or popcorn, we ask you to contribute directly to our efforts to support Salmon Bay School.
FOSB works with Salmon Bay to close the gap between the programming that is funded by Seattle Public Schools and the support our students need. Your contributions to our Direct Giving campaign help FOSB support education at Salmon Bay in many ways: staffing; teacher grants; yearbooks; scholarships for the spring enrichment program (SEP), field trips, and camp; and much more.
Ways to Donate:
If you are able, please consider donating to the Direct Giving campaign. No gift is too small! Donations are tax deductible. This year we are trying something new: Text2Fund.
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To donate by phone: Text FOSB to 71760
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Donate by check: Write a check payable to FOSB and deliver it to the school office, or mail it to FOSB Direct Giving, ℅ Salmon Bay School, 1810 NW 65th St, Seattle, WA 98117.
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Ask your friends and family to donate. Give donation information to others you think would be willing to support our school in exchange for never being asked to buy cookie dough, wrapping paper, or popcorn.
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Ask your employer to match your donation. If your employer matches employees’ charitable donations, they could double, triple, or even quadruple your contribution! FOSB’s tax ID is 91-1622350.
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4th Grade Movie Night - Thursday, November 30th at 6pm
4th grade Movie Night in the Cafetorium on Thursday, November 30th at 6pm. Bring a water bottle and blanket or something cozy to sit on. We’ll have some light snacks. Email liila.woods@gmail.com or syl@sylvialoh.com with questions and/or movie suggestions.
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2nd Grade Winter Crafts & Cocoa - Friday, December 1st, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Second graders join your crew and come see the winter crafts we’ve got planned for you! Siblings welcome. Enter in the evening through the North doors on 18th; crafts will be in the cafetorium. (Gentle reminder kids need to stay in the cafetorium during the event.) Email Kim Kaino at kimkaino@yahoo.com with questions. Keep a lookout for volunteer sign ups!
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5th Grade Dinner & A Movie- Thursday, December 7, 5:30-8:00pm
Fifth grade families- please join us in a community potluck followed by a movie in the SB cafeteria. Sign up for food or snacks here and send your movie ideas to Katie & Dawn! KatieQRoberts@gmail.com and Quest4Grace@gmail.com
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6th Grade Winter Event - Cocoa, Games and Ballard Food Bank Drive! Friday, December 8th at 7:00 - 9:00 pm
All 6th graders and their families are invited for an evening of community in the cafetorium on Friday, December 8th from 7-9 PM. We will have coco and cookies, do a few crafts and play board games. Students are invited to bring a game their family enjoys or simply join in with others. Siblings welcome.
We will also do a collection for the Ballard Food Bank. Families are encouraged to check the list of most needed items ahead of time, from food and hygiene products to pet and children specific needs, and bring what you would like or are able. Any questions please reach out to FOSB's Building Community lead Jackie Thai (jackieraethai@gmail.com) or 6th grade parent rep Andrea Althauser (AndreaAlthauser@hotmail.com). Hope to see you all then!
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FOSB November Board Meeting
FOSB held its November board meeting on 11/16; thank you to all who attended! Our meeting minutes will be available here.
At the beginning of each meeting, a member of the community reads a land acknowledgement. We are including a connected action with our land acknowledgement each month this year. This month’s action is to learn more about the Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival, which is held each November in Virginia, and find a film from a previous year that you are interested in watching that is available elsewhere, like 2021’s Home From School: The Children of Carlisle, which is available to watch for free on Kanopy with a Seattle Public Library log in. If you would like to suggest a connected action for future months, please reach out to fosbchair@gmail.com.
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Volunteer Opportunity: Evening Lantern Festival
Long-time Salmon Bay families know and love our yearly lantern festival held with the Elementary grades. Students have been hard at work creating lanterns in art class for the past few weeks to use for the celebration. The last Friday Sing of the year before winter break, December 15, will again be an in-school Lantern Festival, open to the community. For many years Salmon Bay families have gathered at Salmon Bay park in the evening after the Lantern Festival to sing songs by lantern light. Mary Kay, who used to run this event, is no longer working with the school and thus will not be leading the community in song. If an evening event is going to take place, we need community help to lead and to coordinate the event - and to figure out how it evolves this year. If the lantern festival is a valuable experience to you, and you are able to coordinate or want to support the effort, please email FOSB co-chairs at fosbchair@gmail.com.
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Community and Engagement
Some important work we’re doing this year in our FOSB Board Meetings is centered around serving all families in our community. SB parents, Erin Dury and Liz Hunter are working to sketch up a plan for reaching and engaging as much of the Salmon Bay community in a conversational survey. We expect to spend most of this year on community and engagement and would like this exploration to be open to all ideas of what ‘community’ and 'engagement’ mean to folks. More info is captured in the November board meeting notes shared above. Please contact Erin Dury to get involved, or reach out to FOSB Chairs Julie and Caitlin.
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From the PIE (Parent Information Exchange) Committee
What is PIE? We are a group of parents and guardians who want to share, collaborate, and support each other in raising our kids and building community. We sponsor parent education events throughout the year, including hosting guest speakers, film / documentary screenings, panel events, book discussions, and more. We have gathered a library of books on parenting-related topics. This library cart is located in the school’s front lobby. We have begun collecting an online library of resources as well. Topics that we delve into include: substance use, gun violence, racial equity and justice, physical and emotional health. Other topics that we would like to raise are: environmental justice and menstrual awareness.
Ways that you can be involved:
- Volunteer to disperse info on our meetings and events to your parent friends, cohorts, and grades. We’ll provide the blurbs with details, so all you need to do is copy and paste or share at in-person gatherings.
- Donate books or share online resources that you find supportive and helpful.
- Take on one task related to an event. Examples: pick up food or drink at a local vendor, email admin to confirm dates and spaces for events are available, arrange spaces prior to events.
- Share ideas, resources, and expertise for events.
- We welcome other offerings that you can think of!
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Please email fosbpie@gmail.com.
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Calling All 2nd Grade Families
We are attempting to make a single grade email list in Google Groups. If you are not yet a member of Salmon Bay 2030, please email KatieQRoberts@gmail.com to be added. We will use this to share info about upcoming 2nd grade events and community gatherings. Thank you!
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Volunteer Opportunity: Teacher Snack Shack
We are hearing lots of gratitude from the teachers who are enjoying the snack shack at school. We are looking for more volunteers to bring snacks, drinks and Keurig pods to school on Fridays. Feel free to drop snacks in the front office or the Volunteer Coordinator office. Sign-up for snack delivery here.
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School Crossing Guard Needed
Seattle Schools is hiring crossing guards at multiple locations including Salmon Bay! Crossing Guards work 2 hours per day/ 10 hours a week, starting at $18.69 an hour. You can find out more by clicking on this link.
At the October FOSB meeting SB parent, Otto Loggers, put forward the idea of delivering a flier to each door within a couple-block radius announcing the position opening. Otto has pulled names and mailing addresses into a spreadsheet, and is hoping that someone else is able to take the baton from here. Are you that person? Contact fosbchair@gmail.com.
At the November FOSB meeting members voted to move some money in the FOSB budget to be available to pay for background checks for anyone applying for the position. Also, SB parent, Cynthia Anderson, suggested that this might be a position that is well paired with another part time position at Salmon Bay.
Keep those ideas coming! How else can we help get this important position filled? Contact fosbchair@gmail.com.
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Stay Connected
Set yourself up to stay aware of FOSB events this school year! Sign up here to receive FOSB emails as they are released. Go to the Events page, click Subscribe to Calendar at the bottom right, and select the type of calendar you use (Google Calendar, iCalendar, Outlook, etc). Or follow us on FaceBook for more info about meetings and events.
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Holiday Giving Opportunities | |
Adopt-the-Family Gift Drive (Middle School homerooms):
Once again, Salmon Bay Middle School homerooms are participating in our annual Adopt-the-Family gift drive for the Broadview Emergency Shelter & Transitional Housing Program. The parents and children at Broadview shelter are all experiencing homelessness due to domestic violence and rely on the shelter for basic necessities and transitional services. Your donations help to give the parents a joyful holiday and provide those necessities and gifts they would otherwise struggle to supply for their children.
The Amazon wish list link of our adopted families will be available in the Homeroom Schoology page in first week of December. Please look out for the information from your child’s HR teacher. If you have any questions, feel free to contact your homeroom teacher or Victoria (vpschurman@seattleschools.org).
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Salmon Bay Holiday Community Giving Program
Our sixth annual Salmon Bay Holiday Community Giving program is here! For families new to the school, this program provides a way for our families to support each other during what can be a very challenging time of year. From November 17th through December 13th, our community will be collecting gifts for those families in our school who could use some help this holiday season. We’re forwarding this message from the school so everyone who would like to participate, either as a recipient or a donor, has the details.
To Give A Gift: We will send out a Sign-up Genius soon with all wishes listed. Simply purchase what is noted and return the unwrapped, labeled item one of three ways (direct ship/drop off/porch pickup) no later than December 13th, and we’ll handle the rest. Full details will be available on the Sign-up Genius. If you have any questions, please contact Jacqueline Anderson (jacqueline_anderson@outlook.com) or reach out to our school counselor Rob Bright (rabright@seattleschools.org) or social worker Allie Ash (aeash@seattleschools.org).
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Thanksgiving has passed, but conversations around what this holiday means are still important. A link highlighting ways to engage in these conversations was also shared in the Salmon Bay Community Facebook group. Tips for approaching the history of Thanksgiving with family, friends, and kids can be found here. | |
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. | |
Order School Photos:
School photos are available for viewing/purchase for your student(s). You will need their student ID number; student ID numbers can be found on the Source. Follow this link to view. Picture retakes are scheduled for November 28th.
• Missed picture day? Students who missed picture day should plan on getting a photo taken on makeup/retake day. Families can preorder photos here. (deadline to preorder is the night before, 11/27)
• Pre-ordered photos and would like a retake? If you pre-ordered portraits (ordered without viewing) and would like a retake, your student can return their portrait package in exchange for a complimentary retake replacement.
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Winter Middle School Athletics Info:
Basketball starts on December 4th. Winter season is quickly approaching. Specific practice days are not scheduled yet, but teams will have 2 practices per week and a game on Saturdays. Please use the following links to get yourself set up for the season. Email Ms. T at ejtelford@seattleschools.org (with questions and/or digital copies of paperwork).
Basketball Interest Form here.
Middle School Athletics Paperwork here.
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Middle School Transcripts:
Parents of Middle Schoolers who need transcripts sent to other schools (transfers, High School, etc.) must have a transcript request sent to Salmon Bay from the respective school, or go through Ravenna Solutions.
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School Calendar Dates:
- November 24th: No School (Native American Heritage Day)
- November 28th: Picture Retakes
- December 15: 1-hour early dismissal
- December 18 - January 1, 2024: Winter break (no school)
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The Intersection of Autism & LGBTQ+ Identities -
Tuesday, December 5th at 6:30pm
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The Loyal Heights PTA and UW Autism Center present "The Intersection between Autism & LGBTQ+ Identities." Join this virtual conversation about the intersectionality of neurodiversity and gender identity. Learn how to affirm, support and advocate for your neurodivergent LGBTQ+ or LGBTQ-exploring child(ren). Hope you can join us!
When: Tuesday, December 5
Where: VIRTUAL
Time: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
RSVP: Sign up by 12/3 here.
Questions: specialedchair@loyalheightspta.org
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SPS Board Proposal Information
A group of SPS parents/caregivers from across the city have come together to share information about upcoming SPS Board proposals, and to figure out actions to support our schools and students. The group formed a group called All Together for Seattle Schools. Find out more on their website here.
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Seattle JazzED
Click here to learn more about the mission of Seattle JazzED! Here is more information about upcoming events:
Open Enrollment for Winter Programs:
Winter registration is live! In addition to new seasons of JazzSprouts, Foundations, and Connections, students in grades 8 to 12 can sign up for new Exploration ensembles, including Drumline and New Works. No auditions are required.
Youth Hosting Jam Session:
On Thursday, December 14, students participating in our Jazz Lab: Gigging and Mentoring program will be hosting a jam session open to peers in the community. Middle and high school musicians are invited to join for the evening are encouraged to RSVP.
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Seattle Public Safety Survey:
What is the survey and why am I taking it?
The purpose of the survey is to solicit feedback on public safety and security concerns from those who live and/or work in Seattle. A report on the survey results will be provided to the Seattle Police Department to help them better understand your neighborhood’s safety and security concerns and community-police dialogues will be held in May-August 2024 to provide opportunity for police-community engagement about the results.
More information on the Seattle Public Safety Survey which is part of the Seattle Police Department’s Micro-Community Policing Plans (SPD MCPP), can be found on the SPD MCPP website here.
Take the survey here.
The survey is being administered from October 15th through November 30th and is available in Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, English, Korean, Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigrinya and Vietnamese.
Please circulate this information to your friends, family, co-workers and community members and feel free to post the information on your social media. To access the 2023 Seattle Public Safety Survey flyers in all 11 languages, please click here.
If you would like to work with a Seattle University researcher to set-up outreach and assist in the facilitation of the survey to your communities or organizations, or you would like more information about the survey, please do not hesitate to contact the SPD MCPP research team by emailing Elaria Zakhary at Ezakhary@seattleu.edu.
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Watch this Space!
This year the fourth grade classes will be hatching salmon. Keep an eye out!
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Seen at School
A wonderful bulletin board of self portraits seen outside Shannon's 2/3 class.
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We'd love to include photos from in & around the school!
If you have one you'd like to share, please submit it to fosbnewsletter@gmail.com.
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