Year: 2023

Upcoming Book Events

Bigfoot Kids’ Book Festival – Saturday, Sept 9th

Brick & Mortar Books presents AMAZING children’s book authors for a FREE day of books and fun! Scheduled authors include: Vikram Madan (Bobo and Pup Pup author who visited Cherry Crest!!), Elie Peterson (How to Hug a Pufferfish author who visited Cherry Crest!!), Dan Gemeinhart (The Honest Truth author who visited Cherry Crest!!), Kazu Kibuishi (Amulet series author and who has visited Cherry Crest!!), Ben Clanton (Narwhal and Jelly series author and who has visited Cherry Crest!!), Donna Barba Higuera (The Last Cuentista and Lupe Wong Won’t Dance author – who won the Newbery award!!), Liz Wong (I am Not a Penguin author), and many more!

Celebrate International Dot Day – Friday, September 15 | 10:00 AM PT

Sign up to join New York Times best-selling author and illustrator of The Dot, Peter Reynolds, and his twin brother Paul Reynolds who will challenge students to believe in themselves and find the courage to make their mark. This year’s event will be a very special 20th anniversary celebration of The Dot book and a peek at the new Dot Dot Dot musical!

World Minds Online Spanish Classes

World Minds Language 4 All has live and fun online Spanish classes. They start September 18th. Register at https://worldmindslanguage4all.com/

Student and Family Directory

The 2023-24 Student and Family Directory will be updated shortly after classroom placement has been completed. Using BSD’s ParentVue (be sure to “opt in” to listing your student (under Release of Information About Your Student, uncheck “By checking this box, I do not give permission to release my student’s directory information).

Only families listed will be able to login to the directory and view class lists.

Questions? Contact directory@cherrycrest-ptsa.org

Staff Appreciation Throughout the Year

Each year Cherry Crest families show their appreciation for our outstanding educators by volunteering to provide food, beverages and paper products throughout the school year to stock the staff room as well as encourage teachers and staff with periodic breakfasts. Each Grade is assigned one month to focus their efforts and many items can be delivered by your student.

Check the website for more information: https://www.cherrycrest-ptsa.org/staff-appreciation/

Welcome to the Charger Chatter

Welcome to the first edition of the Charger Chatter newsletter for this school year! The Cherry Crest PTSA “Charger Chatter” newsletter is produced every other Tuesday during the school year by parent volunteers.

Look to the Chatter for news about PTSA-sponsored activities for students such as Clubs and Curriculum Enhancement and for announcements of PTSA-sponsored events such as the Walkathon, Grade-level Potlucks, Spelling Bee, Family Engineering Night, Festival of Cultures, Readathon and more!

You can also find links to Bellevue School District Information, a calendar with school and PTSA important dates, information about after-school enrichment opportunities, athletic activities, and community activities for families and children.

WISE Stem-themed Summer Camps

We have two things we’d love you to pass along to your parent community:

#1: Our popular STEM-themed summer camps sold out, but we were able to add more rock star teachers and classrooms at a new venue (Tyee Middle School in Bellevue), so we opened registration back up! www.wisecamps.com 

#2: We have limited spots for a Halloween-themed STEM night this fall on October 18th: https://wisecamps.com/minicamps/

Summer Camp Information (planning guide here!)

Running Club Ends June 16th

Let’s get those last miles in! Running club will conclude for the year on June 16th. The final awards will be handed out on June 20th. Congratulations to the 43 students who have run a marathon, or 2 or 3! Read more to find out who!

Math Challenge Completion

Math Challenge Program has completed this school year, we have 10 students who has completed at least 10 sets of Math Challenges, great work! Certificates and prizes have been distributed. We are looking forward for more participations next school year, keep up the great work all!

Volunteer to be our Advocacy Chair

Interested in learning more about how PTAs influence policies, laws and education outcomes? Volunteer to be our Advocacy Chair for the 2023-24 school year! Time commitment is 2 hours per month and includes voting rights as a member of the Cherry Crest PTSA Board of Directors. Contact legislativerep@cherrycrest-ptsa.org for more details.

Cherry Crest Environmental Impact Club taking their learning from classroom to community

These next generation changemakers from our school district were invited to share “Environmental Sustainability Education” with students (grade 2-6), at a local non-profit organization at Bellevue Northwest Art Centre (NWAC), recently. Students from the Environmental Impact Club are building two-way partnerships between the school and the wider community and sharing learnings around environmental stewardship, bringing energy conservation, recycling, composting and pollution prevention ideas with schools and communities.

Kudos to these creators of our future world, for making a positive impact on our environment and making their communities more sustainable.