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Kindergarten Enrollment for Fall 2012 If your child will be five years old on or before August 31, he or she is eligible to register now. To register your child, please go to Parkside Main Office. If you are unsure which school is yours, please call 206-433-2424. Watch for information about the upcoming Spring Kindergarten Night. When you go, it is important to take: - Your child’s birth certificate.
- Proof of your address. (This can be a rental agreement, purchase agreement, or utility bill.)
- Your child’s immunization records.
- Two emergency contacts, including addresses and phone numbers.
Do you Crave a Parkside Carnival?
 A Carnival has been a fun Parkside tradition for the last five years. Unfortunately, we have had to say good-bye to a number of our parent volunteer coordinators as their children have moved on to the seventh grade.
For the Parkside Family Carnival tradition to continue for a 6th year, we need to have a new team of Parent Coordinators. If you would like to see the tradition continue and you are willing to help coordinate games, food, publicity or event day volunteers, please contact Jen Young at jencolin@msn.com or call text her at 206 234 6782. Piano Club is Back Impress your friends, incease your brainpower, learn to shred.
Piano Club is for 1st-6th graders. with Nick and Peter will be starting again on Friday January 20, 2012 2:15 - 3:15pm The fee is $120.00 for 6 weeks (please excuse last week's misprint). Make checks payable to "Nick and Peter's Piano Extravaganza" . Parents will be responsible for transportation home. Watch for theflyer to come home soon. If you have questions email Nick at Nschadel@gmail.com 6th Grade Camp Info Night January 31 5:30-6:30pm in the Multipurpose room. What do you need to pack for Camp? Come find out on January 31. There will also be information about camp fees and an opportunity to fund raise for camp with the PTA. You will also be able to make a payment towards camp. Spring Cookie Dough Fundraiser Kicks off February 1, 2012 The “Good Stuff” is Coming Back!!! The PTA got the message loud and clear, Parkside families wanted the "good stuff" back for the spring fundraiser, so we have contracted with the preferred vendor we used two years ago, Masterpiece Fundraising. What Parkside Families like about Masterpeice: - Masterpiece Cookies is proud to provide gourmet and premium frozen cookie dough to supermarkets, hotels, casino's and restaurants. They are made with a Perfect Blend™ of real Butter and No added preservatives or additives.
- This year families can choose between a 3 pound cookie dough tubs and pre-portion dough balls.
- Not only will be offering delicious tasting cookie dough, but there will be Pretzel Dogs featuring Nathan's Famous 100% beef hot dog wrapped in Auntie Ann's amazing dough; fully baked and ready to eat Almond Cookies Bites from Master Chef Martin Yan, and Turtle Cheesecake ready to thaw and eat.... plus much, more. Check out the catalog at http://www.masterpiececookies.com/idi/web/products/index.cfm
The fundraiser will kick off on February 1. This is a 40% profit sale. The profit will help support Sixth Grade Promotion, Staff & Volunteer Appreciation, Hero Day, a Library Grant and much, much more! If you have questions about the fundraiser you can contact our coordinator Kristy Dunn at kristyharro@gmail.com. Order will be collected February 13th and product will be ready for delivery the third week of March. REFLECTIONS NEWS!!!
We had 56 wonderful and thoughtful entries in the PTA Reflections Program this year to the theme of "Diversity Means...." All entries will be displayed at the Des Moines Public Library for the next two weeks. Stop on by and take a look!
The following entrants have been chosen to move on to the district level for judging:
Visual Arts grades K-2
Andrew K., Shilah M., Rory S. and Liberty M.
Visual Arts grades 3-5
Claudia C., Delaney H. and Anna H.
Visual Arts grade 6
Chau Nhi N., Hayley C. and Zach T.
Literature grade 6
Katie A.
Literature grades 3-5
Chloe V.
Musical Composition grades 3-5
Victoria M.
Musical Composition grade 6
Quinn A. and Vy L.
Photography grades 3-5
Valentine S. and Rebekah J. (2 entries)
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU!!!
Congratulation Lego Explorers Going Overboard It was a very exciting day at the regional FLL Robotics Competition on December 3, 2011. Twenty-two teams competed in a “Food Factor Challenge”. Parkside sent two teams to the competition and both teams won in the following categories: Lego Explorers Going Overboard – Team 1 with won medals and a trophy for “Best Presentation.” Lego Explorers Going Overboard – Team 2 won medals and a trophy for “Best Mechanical Design.” Team 1 was one of five teams chosen to continue on to the State Competition in January!!! The Robotics teams were coached by volunteer parents, Liam an Aviation High School Student Mentor, and Ms. Sahm. Team members have been meeting twice a week since the beginning of September and some additional days as well. They researched and made a presentation to the judges and worked hard on programming the robot. These members and coaches put in a tremendous amount of time and worked so hard to complete their tasks on time. Congratulations Payton, JJ, Susu, Jared, Max, Liam, Mitchell, Evan, Tyler, Riley, Ellie, Calvin and Eric.
There’s a New Way to Apply for Free or Reduced Price Meals! Parents can now complete an application on-line at https://apply4meals.hsd401.org. The on-line application is currently available in English. Spanish will be available soon. Applications submitted on-line will download to our approval software as soon as the parent clicks to submit the application. This is the fastest way to apply and receive approval.
Pop Can Pull Tab Collection Upate Parkside has collected over 100 cups of pop tops in 2010-11 for charity! Also, we are already saving up for next year. Pop tops can be dropped off in room 2210 (Ms. Sahm’s room) at any time of the year. Ms. Sahm will start collection right away for the next year. This year we collected more than in the past 2 years! Hope to see a lot more come in and a big thank you to everyone who has contributed.
Shopping Online? Shop through www.GoodShop.com for Parkside More than 1,600 top stores including Amazon, Toys R Us, Best Buy, Apple, Gap and more will donate a percentage of virtually every sale to the Parkside School PTA.
Just go to www.GoodShop.com, designate Parkside Elementary School PTA, Des Moines (be sure is says Des Moines, there is more than one Parkside) as the cause you support and then click over to your favorite store. You pay nothing extra - and you can even save money as GoodShop lists thousands of money-saving coupons and free shipping offers. (Parkside won’t see any of your personal information; we just receive a check from Goodshop.)
Or, add our toolbar to your browser at http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar - and your purchases will count even if you forget to go to GoodShop first! There's no easier way to support us this holiday season! Please spread the word.
United Way of King County Did you know that the Parkside PTA is a 501(c)3 not for profit organization and eligible to receive United Way work place donations? The Parkside PTA is also for corporate matching programs.
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