Briefs
Published 2:57 pm Thursday, October 2, 2008
Cherry Valley
plans Kindergarten Open House
Registration of new kindergarten students for the 2000-2001
school year is approaching. As in years past, the month of April is
Kindergarten Registration Month. On Thursday, April 6, Cherry Valley Elementary
will hold a Kindergarten Open House in the school library from 1 to 4 p.m.
This will be an opportunity for parents and students to meet this year’s
teachers and see one of the current kindergarten rooms.
Registration packets will be available and questions about
transportation and extended day can be addressed.
If you know of families in your neighborhood with first-time
kindergartners, please let them know about the open house date.
District recognizes Classified School Employees Week
The Snoqualmie Valley School District #410 has chosen the week
of March 13 _ 17 as a time to salute their non-teaching _ or classified _
employees whose valuable contributions keep the school running smoothly.
“Classified employees include bus drivers, secretaries, food service
workers, custodians, bookkeepers, mechanics, instructional aides, and others
who support the educational effort,” noted Kristy Sullivan, president of
the Snoqualmie Valley School District board of directors. “We couldn’t
provide quality education without them, and we don’t tell them often
enough how much we appreciate their professionalism and dedication to our
children.
“Many of our classified employees work directly with children as
instructional aides or playground supervisors, bus drivers, school lunch
servers or cafeteria managers. It is our school district’s classified
employees who keep our school offices running smoothly, get our students to
school on time, see that our students are well fed and maintain our facilities.
“We also depend on classified employees to help with the
business and personnel operations of our district, and depend on our classified
supervisors to direct the operations in such areas as accounting,
community relations, food service, maintenance and operations, and
purchasing,” Sullivan said.
“I hope the staff and community will take the time to join with me
and the other members of the school board in thanking these dedicated and
talented men and women for their excellent work in our school district.
They deserve our gratitude and appreciation.”
Books come alive for Opstad students
All the children came inside, to see just what the artist could hide. In
his book that he wrote and drew, can you find the snake, now here’s a clue.
He hides in “cakes, clocks, ice cream and socks.”
That’s right! Just look in the book “Hide and Snake” by Keith Baker
of Seattle.
Students at Opstad Elementary were drawn into the writer
and illustrator’s world last week as part of Dr. Seuss Day.
Baker introduced the students to several of his colorful creations
including a magnificent fan, a mischievous snake and a magical cat. But each
of those characters first began merely as lines on a paper.
“I think of things that I want to draw,” he said. “I doodle and draw
a character’s personality, who their friends are and then put them in
situations.”
The artist advises upcoming illustrators to take classes to learn
different drawing techniques and to “be open to new ideas and have lots
of hobbies.”
Baker’s books are available at area libraries.
POP holds information meeting
If you are looking for a school program where you can be involved
in your child’s education, then POP (Primary Optional Program) may be
for you.
The program is for elementary school aged children where
parents play an active role in the education of their children. It is offered
at Snoqualmie Elementary and is available for every grade level, K _ 5.
An information evening is scheduled for 7 p.m. on March 21 at
the North Bend Public Library. Enrollment will also be offered at the
information meeting.
If you would like further information, contact Diana Haemmerle
at (425) 831-6929.
