April Staff Appreciation: 1st Grade Families

staff appreciation

Thank you teachers and staff!

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 1st Graders: Sign up at http://bit.ly/3JuReob to participate and donate items on March 30th, April 1st and April 20th. Thank you for helping us continue this tradition of gratitude.

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

Get Ready for the Walkathon!

Get Ready for Walk-a-thon 2022!

Music!  Snacks!  Prizes!  Time Capsule!  Auction!  We’re ready – are you?  All funds raised enable extra classroom support and curriculum enrichments for all Cherry Crest students!  See you on April 1!

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A special thank you to our wonderful sponsors for Walk-a-thon 2022! They make your donations go further by fully underwriting the costs of this event. We appreciate their generous support of our children and community!

Thank you to our Platinum Sponsor – Julia and Mark Krill at Windermere!

Thank you to our Gold Sponsor – Gallagher Construction, LLC!

Washington State Legislature Recap

Our state legislative session has ended.  We encourage you to read the report from Washington State PTA (available at http://bit.ly/3N8yA7I) to learn the status of bills and budgets affecting education.

Walk-a-thon Kick-off this week!

This Thursday, March 17 students will learn all about Walk-a-thon at the Kickoff Assembly.  Each student will bring home a Walk-a-thon t-shirt and information handout.  We hope your family can join us on Friday, April 1 from 2:30 to 4:30pm at the school track for this special community event.
 
A special thank you to our wonderful sponsors for Walk-a-thon 2022! They make your donations go further by fully underwriting the costs of this event. We appreciate their generous support of our children and community!
 
Thank you to our Platinum Sponsor – Julia and Mark Krill at Windermere!
 
 
Thank you to our Gold Sponsor – Gallagher Construction, LLC!
 

Updates from the PTSA General Meeting on March 8

We are excited to announce the election of Jocelyn Tu as Co-President, effective immediately.  She will join Co-President Reetika Saxena for the rest of this school year and continue on as Co-President for the 2022-23 school year.  We’d also like to welcome the following officers who have been elected for next school year.

• Co-President – Claire Sumadiwirya

• Secretary – Katie McClintock
• Treasurer – Christina Nemeth

• VP Curriculum Enhancement (CE) – Nitin Gupta
• VP – Mengye Guo
• VP – Jessica Wang
• VP – Sanjali Kawal

We still need a Vice President for Communications and one more general VP to join the team.
Would you like to learn more or do you know someone who would be a great fit?  Please contact our Nominating Committee at nominatingcommitee@cherrycrest-ptsa.org.

Click through for updates from the PTSA meeting, including Social, Emotional Learning (SEL) resources from School Counselor, Ms. Mykela Fantone.

Walk-a-thon 2022

Count down to Walk-a-thon 2022!
 
We hope to see all students and families join us on Friday, April 1 from 2:30 to 4:30pm at the school track.  Come mingle with students, families, teachers, staff and our school mascot Champ!  View the contents of the time capsule placed underground in 1989 and make suggestions for the new one!
 
The Walk-a-thon is a long-revered community building event as well as one of our major fundraisers.  A special thank you to our wonderful sponsors for Walk-a-thon 2022! They make your donations go further by helping to underwrite the costs of this event. We appreciate their generous support of our children and community!’
 
Thank you to our Platinum Sponsor – Julia and Mark Krill at Windermere!

Afterschool Classes: Sign up now for spring sessions

Spring programs are open for registration! Most classes start at the end of March.

Most class offerings are from local businesses who are long-term partners with Cherry Crest. We are so excited to welcome them back to provide enrichment opportunities for our students.

Visit our After School Activities Page at http://afterschool.cherrycrest-ptsa.org to learn more.

Mark April 1st for Walk-a-thon 2022

Cherry Crest PTSA spends over $100,000 each year to fund extra General School Assistant hours in all 23 classrooms and curriculum enrichment: field trips, author visits, engineering projects and more for all 525 students. Funds contributed by families through the PTSA provide these pivotal supports for our children. We are so grateful for all our families’ assistance in strengthening our children’s educational experience at Cherry Crest!

More details will come home soon, but be sure to mark your calendar to join your children on Friday, April 1 from 2:30 to 4:30pm at Cherry Crest’s track as we encourage exercise, engage with one another and enable PTSA to invest in each student’s future!  If your business would like to contribute as a sponsor, please contact walkathon@cherrycrest-ptsa.org for details.

Volunteers needed this Friday for the Bookfair

Volunteers needed to make our book fair a success!

• Friday, March 4th, after school from 2:30-5:30pm (Older kids can help too!)
• March 7th–10th during sales times

As a volunteer your BSD background check must be current and you’ll need to comply with BSD’s vaccination requirements.

Click through for full details!

PTSA General Meeting Tonight, March 8 at 7:00pm

Please join us at our Cherry Crest PTSA General Membership meeting, Tuesday March 8th, via Microsoft Teams. Principal Steere will discuss various topics including the ‘Time Capsule’. We invite all families and community members to attend (PTSA membership is not required!).

Cherry Crest’s School Counselor, Mykela Fantone, will join us to discuss the Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum and the supplemental lessons she provides our students throughout the year. Learn the importance and why behind social-emotional learning, understand the district-wide curriculums used at the elementary level and see how you can access more information to reinforce these lessons at home. Questions? Contact your PTSA Co-President at president@cherrycrest-ptsa.org