2009-2010 Volunteer Open Positions

Hello to everyone. We hope you are enjoying your summer!

We are very pleased to say that nearly all of the volunteer chair positions for next year are filled... giving the 2009-2010 PTSA Board a nice base to begin the year with.

There are a couple of key positions still yet to be filled. Please take a moment to read through the following opportunities and consider volunteering. As we all know, it takes a village to make an organization like the PTSA run smoothly and efficiently.

Several of these positions only require a small time commitment. Please consider helping!


High School Volunteer Liason
Time Commitment - Minimal. Can easily be done by phone/email.
Contacting High Schools to coordinate volunteers for some of our larger PTSA events (Carnival, etc.) Helpful (but NOT necessary) if you have connections at one of the local High Schools.

Bellevue Schools Foundation Representative
The BSF Reps’ primary responsibility is to promote BSF among their schools’ families, PTSAs and staff to raise awareness of BSF among parents and to inform BSF of their schools’ news. BSF Reps also recruit volunteers for the fall Phonathon fundraiser and donors/guests for Spring for Schools benefit luncheon.

• BSF Reps meetings are scheduled three times per year in September, January and April.
• Meeting Location: Board Room, Bellevue School District
Educational Service Center (ESC), 12111 NE 1st St, Bellevue WA 98005

Legislative Chair / Representative
Keeps the PTSA Board and parents informed on legislative issues that affect the school system in Weshington or locally in Bellevue. You will communicate this information to the PTSA Board via email and/or at board meetings. Almost all of this information will be sent directly to you through the State PTSA and can be done from home on a computer. You will ensure the appropriate information reaches those who need it.


If interested, please send an email to: president@woodridgeptsa.org

Thank you!
Pamela Cook and Dawn Geffe
2008-2009 PTSA Co-Presidents

Traveling Outside the Country this Spring or Summer?

As part of our Bellevue Information Literacy curriculum, I will be doing a unit using picture postcards from anywhere in the world outside the US. If you could send me a picture postcard from one of your destinations using the following guidelines, I’d really appreciate it (and so will the third graders)!

1. Select a card that illustrates something about that country (architecture, geography, customs, people, foods, etc.)

2. Record the date you wrote the message on the card

3. Include in the message….
Weather?
Customs?
Sights to see?
Food?
Entertainment?
Transportation?
Customs?
Other helpful information?

4. Sign your name


Please print so the third graders can readily read your message (you can even use a pen-name if you want to).

Thanks!
Linda Peterson
Librarian

Linda Peterson
Woodridge Elementary
12619 SE 20th Pl.
Bellevue, WA. 98005

Field Day HELP NEEDED!!

FIELD DAY - Friday, June 19 - 1:00 - 2:25 - MANY MORE VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED!!!
Thank you to the few who have already contacted me to volunteer. Please check your schedules and let me know early this week if you will be available to help make field day a success for all of our children at Woodridge.

The end of the year is quickly approaching and our kids are looking forward to an afternoon of field games (relays, potato sack races, hurdles), water activities (water balloon toss, relays with water), parachute games. tug of war and more!

Our fabolous PE Teacher, Kristin Young, has done all of the planning and organizing - now we need to help make this fun event happen.
I need atleast 30 parent volunteers to run stations at this event! Jobs are easy and fun! If you can't volunteer during the day - I also need volunteers to fill up water balloons Thursday night and bring them to school Friday morning.

Please let me know how you can help! It is such a fun afternoon, please come be a part of it!

Please contact Carolyn Janisch at cmjanisch@comcast.net to let me know if you would like to volunteer for an event during field day, or if you would prefer to fill up water balloons and deliver them in a large garbage bag to school Friday morning (we will provide the balloons).

Thank you,
Carolyn Janisch

Last Day of School

Just a reminder that the last day of school is a short day!

Last Day of School
June 25th - 8:10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Lake Hills Soccer Club is currently registering for recreational soccer and is in need of players in several age groups! If your child is interested in fall soccer, please visit: http://www.lakehillssoccer.org

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The Woodridge PTSA is posting this as a community service to our parents at Woodridge.

Please Scroll Down for all Postings

- Field Day
- Book Exchange
- Message from the Bellevue School District

FIELD DAY - Friday, June 19 - 1:00 - 2:25 - CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS

The end of the year is quickly approaching and our kids are looking forward to an afternoon of field games (relays, potato sack races, hurdles), water activities (water balloon toss, relays with water), parachute games. tug of war and more!

Our fabulous PE Teacher, Kristin Young, has done all of the planning and organizing - now we need to help make this fun event happen.
I need at least 30 parent volunteers to run stations at this event! Jobs are easy and fun! If you can't volunteer during the day - I also need volunteers to fill up water balloons Thursday night and bring them to school Friday morning.

Please let me know how you can help! It is such a fun afternoon, please come be a part of it!

Please contact Carolyn Janisch at cmjanisch@comcast.net to let me know if you would like to volunteer for an event during field day, or if you would prefer to fill up water balloons and deliver them in a large garbage bag to school Friday morning (we will provide the balloons).

Thank you,
Carolyn Janisch

Woodridge Book Exchange!

Woodridge Eagles, here’s your chance to pick up new reading material for the summer--FREE!! Sort through your books, bring the ones you’re done with**, and exchange them for something ‘new’!!

**Please only bring in children’s(Chapter ,Board and ,Picture) books in good condition.

Drop off books between 7:45 – 8:10am Wednesday ,Thursday and Friday, June 17 -19th -next to the bulletin board at the school entrance.
(Students are especially interested in chapter books!!)
Then, with your class, on Monday, June 22, you will get to “shop” for other books. You earn one free book for every two books you donate.
Children can receive a maximum of 10 books — and no child leaves empty handed!
Books cannot be dropped off the day of the Book Exchange!

Parents, you will get a chance to “shop”, too, from 2:30 – 3:00 on Monday, June 22nd. Look for board books, classics, etc. Books will still be free, while supply lasts, and the maximum per person will depend upon how many books are left after the students pick theirs.

So start sorting through those book shelves, and
“Join The Reading Herd!”

Message from the Bellevue School District

Dear Parents, Staff and Community Members,

This is to let you know that the School Board is supporting the decision made by middle and high school principals to move their librarians to the classroom next year in order to partially offset larger class sizes. (Elementary school librarians are not affected.) The funds the district has been using to reduce class sizes were the funds targeted by the Legislature in its cuts for next year. With state funding cut for 2009-10, we know that class sizes will be larger, significantly larger in some instances. The result of having librarians teach will be to open up 28 more classes to students in grades 6-12.

If the district has additional funds for next school year, decisions about how to use these will be based on what the principals believe are their biggest staffing priorities.

For 2009-10, each middle school library will be staffed by at least a half-time library assistant. Each high school will have a full-time or nearly full-time library assistant. The district also is working to ensure that all secondary students are taught research skills and ways to assess the quality of internet resources when doing research.

Looking ahead, if state finances continue to shrink, the question of whether to keep the seven-period day, when the state funds only five class periods, will be up for discussion next school year. The board will develop a large-scale public process to understand what our community values most, before making budget decisions for 2010-11.

Golden Acorn Nominations Due

Please get your Golden Acorn Volunteer nomination forms in to the school office by the end of the day Monday, June 8th.

Please take the time to nominate the volunteer who stands out in your mind for their contributions to Woodridge and our community!

Thank you,
Dawn Geffe
PTSA Co-President

Volunteers Needed for BSF "Spring for Schools"

We're looking for a few more great volunteers to help us prepare for "Spring for Schools".

"Spring for Schools" is Bellevue Schools Foundation's 2009 fundraiser, to be held on Thursday, 6/4/09. We expect to raise $500,000 at Spring for Schools, for funds that are invested directly into Bellevue schools and students - and we rely on volunteers to make that possible. Work parties are a lot of fun, and a great chance to meet people from across the district. Please join us!

Work parties occur from now through Friday, 6/5/09. We have committees ranging in time commitment from 1-5 hours, in various tasks such as packet assembly to registration. It’s OK to sign up for an hour or two, or for more than one work party. If you’ve got the time, we can use you!

To sign up, please send an email to pang_gang@prodigy.net with your name and phone number, and you will be contacted to arrange a schedule which suits you best. Meeting locations are at either at the BSD ESC or Meydenbauer Center.

Thanks so much for your interest in helping with "Spring for Schools". It’s a lot of fun – and makes a real difference for Bellevue students!

Melanie Pang

Spring for Schools Volunteer Coordinator

Bellevue Schools Foundation

http://www.bsfdn.org/Events/springforschools.asp

Transforming Education. Supporting Students.

Expense Reimbursement Deadline

Do you have receipts that need to be turned into the PTSA for reimbursement?

The deadline for Expense reimbursement requests is June 12th which allows 2 weeks for checks to be processed prior to the end of school. PLEASE submit any requests to Natalie Littrell as soon as possible.

Extra expense reimbursement forms have been put in the PTSA Box in the office and all forms can be submitted there as well.

Thank you!
Natalie Littrell, Treasurer