Year: 2023

Environmental Science ImPact Club Registration Open

Day of week: Wednesday from 12:15pm-2:15pm
Start and end dates: 3/1 to 5/31 (No class April 12 – Spring Break)
Location: Cherry Crest Elementary School Art class
Cost: TBD based on participants who sign up for team competition.
Registration Link Environmental Science ImPact Club Flyer
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, February 22
Contact Person & Contact Info. scienceclub@cherrycrest-ptsa.org

Free Robotics Camp at Sammamish High School during Mid-winter Break

The Sammamish high school robotics team is hosting a FREE robotics camp at Sammamish High school over mid-winter break! This camp will teach your students how to think like an engineer. From designing and programming robots to tackling STEM problem solving, your students will learn introductory coding and engineering skills from a robotics team who has qualified for World Championships. This is for all elementary school students, K-5, and is 100% FREE. It will be during mid-winter break, Tuesday through Friday or from February 21st to 24th. The camp will be at Sammamish High school (100 140th Ave SE Bellevue WA) from 9:00 am to 4:00pm, we ask that students bring lunch, and fill out a form you will be emailed once signing up. To sign up please use the link
We hope to see you there!
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The Robototes | the Sammamish High school robotics team

Bellevue Battle of the Books

Thanks to the hard work of our Cherry Crest Librarian Mrs. Lux, six teams of 4th and 5th grade students competed in the first ever Bellevue Battle of the Books (B.B.O.T.B.).  Each team read six Sasquatch Nominee books, created questions for each book and then studied for the competition.  Of the six teams, F.B.I. (aka Federal Book Investigators) advanced to represent Cherry Crest against Ardmore, Medina and Woodridge elementary schools.  Congratulations to Ardmore Elementary for winning the Final!   11 of the 18 elementary schools in the district participated in this pilot year.  We’re excited to see this competition continue next year.  Thank you BSD Librarians, PTSAs and Administrators for supporting this initiative!

Join us for Family Engineering Night – March 8th from 5:45 to 7:45 pm

Save the date to have your family join us at Cherry Crest for the much beloved Family Engineering Night March 8th from 5:45 to 7:45 pm. We encourage all family members of the Cherry Crest students to come and enjoy the fun and challenge together!  While families can come and go as you please, we encourage you to maximize your time to try to do all the challenges!

We cannot do this without help – Please Sign up to bring supplies or volunteer to set up or clean up.  We need many teen volunteers for the event to work as well!

The night will include:

  • 3 main challenges – boat building, launcher, mining for chocolate
  • 9 quick challenges
  • High school robotics teams demonstrations
  • Bee bot and Ozo bot programming
  • Coding

2022-23 Art Reflections Update

We will have an Art Reflections Recognition Ceremony on Tuesday, February 7th from 9:00am – 9:30am in the CCE Lobby area for all the 17 students from Cherry Crest who participated.

Three of the student’s art submissions are part of Bellevue Council PTSA Reflections finalists to Washington state level. Congratulations to Aahan Prakash (Photography), Aliera Zill (Literature) and Anastasia Kozlova (Dance)!! A virtual showcase & an in-person exhibition of all Bellevue Council entries to state level is coming shortly.

If you have any questions please send an email to reflections@cherrycrest-ptsa.org

Order Yearbooks now!

ORDER YOUR YEARBOOK

It’s Yearbook Time!  To memorialize this year, please preorder a yearbook for $24.99 before May 5th at Lifetouch and enter Yearbook ID Code:  1577523

YEARBOOK DISTRIBUTION

Yearbook distribution is tentatively schedule for the week of June 9th. Keep an eye on the chatter and this section for more information.

Yearbook Cover Contest Submissions Due Feb 10th

YEARBOOK COVER CONTEST 

Have a 5th grader?

We need their help!!!  We are inviting ALL Cherry Crest Elementary 5th grade students to enter their artwork in our Yearbook Cover Contest! Our panel of judges will select one entry to be on the cover of this year’s yearbook, in addition, the artwork will be modified to become the design for the Walk-A-Thon tee-shirt!  We can’t wait to see what amazing artwork our students have to contribute this year.

Rules for submission:

  1. This year’s theme is “Spread Kindness Like Confetti”
  2. Art must be on 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper
  3. The orientation of the paper must be vertical
  4. The student’s name, grade and teacher’s name must be written on the back of the paper in pencil only so it does not show through the artwork on the front.
  5. 1st place will be featured on the cover of this year’s yearbook and modified slightly for tee-shirt quality

All entries are due February 10th!

Submit entries by putting them in the PTSA mailbox in the Cherry Crest office.

Tips for a good entry:

  1. Not a lot of white space – lots of color (including background)
  2. Use up the whole sheet of paper – the bigger the better!