December 2021 – CHERRY CREST ELEMENTARY PTSA

Parent and Caregiver Education Sessions

Diana Bastien, Clinical Psychologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital, will speak about anxiety at our virtual PTSA General Meeting tonight (Tuesday, January 11).

A speaker from Sound Discipline will join us to talk about Positive Discipline on Friday, February 4 at 8:30am.

Cherry Crest School Counselor, Mykela Fantone, will speak about the SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) Curriculum at our virtual PTSA General Meeting on Tuesday, March 8 at 7:00pm.

Final Read-a-Thon Update

Together, we exceeded our fundraising goal, raising a total of $44,617! We also had a record-setting 65% participation schoolwide. Thanks to your support, we can continue supporting important PTSA-sponsored programs like Curriculum Enhancement and General School Assistants providing extra hands in the classroom.

Click here (https://www.cherrycrest-ptsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Read-a-thon-2021-Award-Ceremony-Presentation-1.pdf) to view the full results and list of winners.

Please contact readathon@cherrycrest-ptsa.org if you have any questions.

Staff Appreciation: 4th Grade

Each month one grade level of Cherry Crest families show appreciation for our outstanding educators by providing food, beverages and paper products for all teachers and staff. Most items can be sent in with your student to be dropped off in the Main Office.

Parents of 4th Graders: Sign up to participate. Thank you for helping us continue this tradition of gratitude.

Questions? E-mail staffappreciation@cherrycrest-ptsa.org

Lost and Found

With the return to in person school. Kids are losing their stuff. Please remind your kids to check the lost and found in the entrance of the school.

Clothes not claimed will be donated over winter break.

Holiday Shopping on Amazon? Remember to “Smile”!

Trying to get all your gift shopping done before Christmas?

Help Cherry Crest PTSA raise funds by selecting it as your preferred charity for the Amazon Smile program – Amazon will donate 0.5% of your purchase to the Cherry Crest PTSA! No cost is passed on to you.

Before you begin your gift shopping this season, please directly set your charity to Cherry Crest PTSA by clicking https://amzn.to/3ykqa6e.

No Chatter during Winter Break

Due to winter break, there will be no Chatter newsletters 12/21/2021 and 12/28/2021. The next issue will be published on 01/04/2022. Wishing everyone Happy Holidays, and see you in the new year!

Update on Art Reflections

Thank you to all those that took part We received 14 wonderful submissions, 10 visual arts and 4 literature. Several of the pieces have been sent on to the Bellevue PTSA council for the nest level where art work from all school in Bellevue that take part will be judged to go forward to the next level. View the entries on the padlet https://padlet.com/alibpayne/aobt8ez3hec9c7aj

Congratulations to the following students who were voted for in the Cherry Crest choice awards

Mitali Khaimar, 5th Grade, Ms Jessa with I will change the world by..

Akshaya Ramprasad, 2nd Grade, BVA with Protect the Earth

Aahan Prakash, 2nd Grade, Ms Wells with How to stop climate change = clean air

Read-a-thon Thank You!

Thank you for participating in the annual Cherry Crest Read-a-thon!
Our Principal Mr. Steere will announce prize winners later this week. Prizes will be delivered to students in their classrooms on Friday December 17th.
More information can be found here: cherrycrest-ptsa.org/read-a-thon-2

Questions? Please contact readathon@cherrycrest-ptsa.org

School Options for the 2022-23 School Year

School Options for the 2022-23 School Year. This year, the Open Transfer (formerly Open Enrollment) and Choice School/Program application period are during the same time period – December 6, 2021 through January 14, 2022. Open Transfer Applications for the 2022-23 school year will be accepted beginning Monday December 6, 2021. The application period will close Friday January 14, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. Results will be emailed in February for high school, March for middle school, and April for elementary school.

All applicants must be residents of the Bellevue School District at the time of application.  Residency documents will be requested at the time of enrollment. (The children of fulltime BSD employees may apply.)

Siblings of current students are not guaranteed enrollment and must apply.

For more information please visit

Open Transfer https://bsd405.org/departments/student-placement/open-transfer/
Choice Schools/Program https://bsd405.org/schools/choice/

Nurse News

We want to remind all our families and staff that if you were experiencing symptoms of cold or illness (or it begins during break), that the return to school protocols will be expected for return to school Monday. Covid test results should be sent to cherrycrestattendance@bsd405.org

If you need help determining if you or your student should have a Covid test over the break, please refer to the Department of Health COVID Decision Tree https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/820-229-SymptomDecisionTreeCTChecklistSchools.pdf for guidance. Thank you for considering the health and safety of our community when returning from a break!