Discovery Elementary PTSA Unit 2.6.9 PTSA President : Hollie Smith

www.discoveryptsa.org Editor and VP Communications: Jen Rose www.facebook.com/discoveryelementaryptsa Sammamish, WA

The Eagle Times

October 2014

October 6th - Hearing and Vi-

sion Testing

April 2016

April 11th-15th: Spring Break

April 29th: Family Fun

Night

April at a glance

President: Hollie Smith

Co-Treasurer: Shana Jukes

Co-Treasurer: Cary Wade

Secretary: Veronica Winkler

VP (Membership): Rohit Puri

VP Communications: Jen Rose

VP Programs: Melissa Jewell

VP Volunteers: Sara Manningsmith

VP Fundraising: Alisha Brummett

Webmaster: Nancy Huang

Executive Board

2015-2016

Discovery Membership : 554

April 2016 President’s Letter Hello Everyone! Hope you are enjoying this wild and windy spring as we move out of March and into April. I don’t know about you but I can feel the end of the school year coming rather quickly! It’s a whirlwind after spring break. We’ve had some wonderful events the past few weeks, namely the Talent Show and Science Fair. Both of these PTSA events highlight the AMAZING talents of the students at Discovery. Whether describing a science experiment or singing, dancing, telling jokes, playing an instrument, doing gymnastics, etc. on stage, the students at our school are incredibly gifted. I’d like to give a big thanks to the Talent Show Chairperson, Rowena Lum, for pulling together a very complicated event. I’d also like to thank Christian Wade, our Science Fair chairperson, for successfully executing another great Science Fair. To both of you, we appreciate your dedication! Hope everyone has a relaxing and safe spring break and comes back ready for a big flurry of activity in the end of the school year. Hollie

2016-2017 New PTSA Executive Board

President: Hollie Smith

Vice President: Noreen Awan

Secretary: Veronica Winkler

Treasurer – Accounts Receivable: Yan Cheng/Accounts Payable: Teresa Bright

Director of Programs & Volunteers: Jen Rose

Director of Fundraising: Alisha Brummett

Director of Communications: Cary Wade

Co-Webmasters : Nancy Huang and Gayathri Subramonian

Membership Chair: Shana Jukes

Advocacy/Legislative Chair: Sarah Manningsmith

Introducing

Golden Acorn Award Winners

2016

Wil Chromey ~ Outstanding Advocate

Stephanie Keibel ~ Outstanding Educator

Linda Ogden ~ Outstanding Educator

Sarah Manningsmith ~ Outstanding Volunteer

Our yearbook chair has been collecting pictures all

year long of all the fun activities the students,

staff, and parents have experienced...and we have many

more to go.

Don’t miss the opportunity of seeing all these fun

things put together in our annual yearbook. If you did

not get to order one at the beginning of the year, here

is your chance. Please connect to the link provided:

https://discovery.ourschoolpages.com/

Packet/YearbookOrder/ProductsPacketPage/1

Hey Parents! Looking for a fun Friday night activity that the whole family can

enjoy? Want to get to know other Discovery parents? Then come join us to our

annual Family Fun Night April 29, 2016. Kids will have an awesome Friday night dancing and hanging out with their friends? More information to come as the event gets closer.

2016 School Bond

Building the Future for Students - School Construction and Maintenance Bond

Issaquah School Bond - A Few Facts: The Issaquah School District covers 100 square miles and five municipalities. We currently have 24 schools, housing 19,700 students. Since 2001, the ISD has increased its total building space from 36.2 square, but its energy consumption has de-creased by 2%!

Issaquah School Bond - Enrollment & School Buildings: Our District has grown by nearly 5,000 students in the last ten years and is projected to grow an additional 1,500 to 2,000 students in the next five years. More facilities are needed to meet the demand for classroom space.

ISD link to 2016 bond information page: http://www.issaquah.wednet.edu/2016-school-bond-feasibility

Honk & Waves

Thursday April 7th & Monday April 25th

6:30-8:30am and/or 5-7:00pm at locations throughout the district

Honk & Waves: Bring a friend and dance around waving your signs to promote a YES! Vote!

Take pics to share on Facebook of you and your peeps having fun promoting the bond. It is fun

to count how many honks you can get. If you can’t stay for the entire time slot, that is ok,

come for as long as you can. Students can earn community service hours too. Click on the link

below to sign up and for more information. Thank you so much for your help - your support is

sure making a difference district-wide!

Sign Up here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c084eabae2aa0f94-2016/

Visit our website below for more details on each programs.

http://discoveryptsa.org/Page/EventsAndPrograms/Enrichment

After School Enrichment Programs

We are grateful for the financial support from our local retailers and businesses~

Thank you!

Discovery’s Amazon link is now on our website!

Simply shop on Amazon through our link and a

percentage of your sale will be donated to

Discovery PTSA.

www.amazon.com.

Box Tops

An easy way to earn money for Discov-

ery Elementary!!!! Simply cut, and col-

lect and turn into the school. Each Box

Top is worth 10 cents. Believe it or not,

these really do add up. We earned over

$1,000 last year. Kids love looking out

for these on packages.

B Cards (Bartell)

Enroll for your ‘B’ Carding Card at Bartell

Drugs by filling out the form and turning

it into the store. (http://

www.escrip.com/merchants/identity/

bcaringcard/pdfs/

visit_stores_bartell.pdf)

Office Depot

Shop at Office Depot for your school

supplies and use ID# 70107272

Target

If you have a REDcard, go to

www.target.com/tcoe to designate Dis-

covery as your school of choice and use

your REDcard every time you shop.

Yo Plateau

On the first Friday of each month, men-

tion you are with Discovery and 20% of

the sales will go to our school.