Calendar
Calendario
April 10-14: Spring Break
Vacaciones de la Primavera
April 18: PTSA Meeting
La Reunion para PTSA
May 23: PTSA Meeting at 7:00pm
La
May 29: Memorial Day - No school
Dia
Memorial - No hay Escuela
June 13: PTSA Board Meeting at 7pm
BENNETT RELAY FOR
LIFE TEAM
We
are still raising money for the Relay for Life.
One way we are fundraising is a coin drive. The coin drive will take during
the weeks of April 17 - 28. There
will be a Relay for Life Donation Bucket
in the office. Students can drop donations off before school
or take it to class where it will be brought to the office with the classroom
attendance. Checks should be made out to the:
American Cancer Society (ACS). All donations are greatly appreciated!
Don’t forget to attach forms with your donations if your company will match
it. Currently we are happy to say that
we now have 27 Relay for Life team members!
It is still not too late to join.
We especially need more for the fourth grade team. The team members are:
Alexia
Gutierrez Amelia
McDermott Daphne Guan
Dora
Verbowski Karissa Shapard Kari Lynn Morrison
Shelby
Woodhouse Katherine
Kaiser Aleana Groenhout
Jack
Bentsen Hiromichi Kawabata Hadleigh
Morgan
Malley
Rachel
Tsai Ashly Wall Emma
Ostlund
Emma
Petersky Cassidy McDermott Dana Beach
Alexandria
Kaiser Elliot Wood
Thank you for
supporting our Bennett Relay for Life Team!
Thank You Bennett YSW Supporters
Thank you to the many supporters and volunteers that helped make Bennett Young Scientist Week 2006 a success. We would like to thank the financial and in-kind support provided by:
Bellevue Police Department
Bennett PTSA
Bellevue Schools Foundation (Classroom Grant funding for PSC class activities)
Byrnes Specialty Gas & Brent Fernyhough
CH2M HILL
Nintendo &
Israel Cruz-Morales
Siemens
Ultrasound & Bruce McDermott
Smith Brothers Farms
Star Rental
UW Medical Center & Roberts family
Thank you to the Bennett PTSA Science Team that built and tested hands-on science activities, ran student science workshops, recruited 150 additional volunteers, and performed the many other tasks required to organize and run Bennett Young Scientist Week. Team members include Karen Dawson (chair), Clay Dawson, Marian McDermott, Amy Doran, Karen Black, Susan Steckler, Elise Roberts, Lloyd Roberts, G.T. Banai, Lee Bodin, and Dave Halstead.
We would like the thank and recognize the many parent volunteers that helped Pacific Science Center staff in the classrooms and on field trips, the volunteers that assisted during the Egg Drop Contest, and the 100+ volunteers that helped during Family Science Night. We would also like to recognize the Bennett Student Service Club and Stacey Vaiphei for creating the many posters to advertise YSW activities and for selling/distributing the science boards. We have such a tremendous community – our children are so fortunate!
Bennett
Egg Drop
The Bennett Young Scientist
Week Egg Drop Contest was a smash! Bennett junior engineers and scientists,
from kindergarten through 5th grade, designed and built protective devices to
safely land a fresh egg on Planet Earth. On March 29, 2006, these landers were put to the test! 177 eggs were launched from
the Bellevue Fire Department ladder truck and plummeted 70 feet to hard
pavement on Earth. The eggs were cheered by one very large chicken and 450
jubilant kids, teachers, parents, and curious onlookers drawn by the roar heard
nearly ½-mile away. Amazingly, 68 of the eggs survived the drop! NASA will be
lucky to recruit some of these budding engineers and scientists!
We are extremely grateful to
the C Platoon from Bellevue Fire Department Station No. 3 (Crossroads) for
first safely putting out an apartment fire in the Bennett neighborhood and then
stopping by with their ladder truck and crew to launch eggs. Thank you C
Platoon members Lt. Dave Beste, ladder man (and
expert launcher) Kris Johnson, Tony Mastrandrea, and
Sean Oliver (son of DARE Officer Bob Oliver). Thank you CH2M HILL for donating
Planet Earth prizes to all Egg Drop Contest participants.
The Egg Drop Contest was
featured on KOMO 4 News and in the King County Journal (archive: http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/sited/story/html/233938).
Family Science Night
Approximately 650 students, teachers, and family members crowded the Bennett multi-purpose room, hallways, playground, and two classrooms to have fun learning science and math from 45 different hands-on activities and 200 student science project displays. Kids learned how radar guns clock speed from Bellevue Traffic Officer John Kivlin and Officer Bob Oliver (and had their running speed recorded), what math has to do with electronic games from Nintendo, how to extract their DNA, how taste and smell work together, how your eyes and brain work together, how pulley arrays can let them easily lift their mom or dad, and more. The evening was wrapped up by the science entertainer of the year, Jim Burrows. Wow! Thank you to the more than 100 volunteers that made the evening possible!
FROM THE PRESIDENTS
GT Banai and Denice Malone
Thank you one and all for making the Bennett Annual Auction a success. We certainly could not have done it without YOU! Each teacher, staff member, auction committee members, parents and children all deserve a solid pat on the back for putting such wonderful efforts into the keepsakes, class baskets and wonderful family baskets that went up for bidding.
With your support we raised a large sum of our operating expenses to keep Bennett running at its current pace. The money you raised helps put on such wonderful events as this week's Young Scientist Week. We had a great turnout for Family Science Night. I hope everyone got a chance to see all the great displays in the hallways that our young scientists created. And our 3rd Annual Egg Drop Contest was a *smashing* success! (we even had a bit of press in the King County Journal yesterday!). Again THANK YOU to all the teachers and parents who were able to staff the experiments on Wednesday night--you did a wonderful job!
I believe Young Author Week will be coming up shortly, so get your students ready!
Have a relaxing and enjoyable Spring Break! Please put on your calendar to attend our next General Membership meeting of the PTSA on April 18th 7:00 p.m. We will be electing next year's officers!
Spring Social
The Bennett Spring Social is approaching soon! We are looking for volunteers to help make this evening a very fun, family oriented event.
Please contact Peggy Ruehr at pruehr@msn.com or (tel: 614-0852)
April
2006
Spring For Schools Benefit Luncheon is fast approaching!
Save
the date! Bellevue Schools Foundation Spring
for Schools Benefit Luncheon will be held on Thursday, June 1
at
Volunteers Needed:
If
you are interested in volunteering for this event, both adult & high school
students are needed for the week of May 30 – June 2. For further information,
please contact our volunteer coordinators, Mary Austin (email: maryaustin1@aol.com, 425.864.8004), or Kristin
Fletcher-Hendricks (email: kfletch62@comcast.net, 425.562.7080). Thank you!
BSF Reps Meeting – April 25, 2006
All
parents are invited to attend the next BSF Rep meeting on Tuesday, April 25,
2006. There will be 2 meetings, choose which time works best for your schedule:
10:00am – 11:30am or 7:00pm – 8:30pm. Both meetings will be held in the
Boardroom at the school district’s Educational Service Center (ESC).
Parents
interested in serving as a BSF Rep or co-Rep (liaison to the Bellevue Schools
Foundation) next school year, 2006-07, please contact your current BSF Rep,
PTSA President and/or Meredith Brown in the BSF office (meredith@bsfdn.org, 425.456.4199).
Teacher Appreciation Week in May
How
about honoring your children’s teacher in a slightly different way this year?
Rather than stressing over what gift to buy, simply make a donation to BSF in honor
of their teacher(s). Your gift in their name will help students and teachers
all across the district. We’ll even send a note to the teacher letting them
know of your generosity.
To
donate, simply go to the Bellevue Schools Foundation website, www.bsfdn.org/donate or
call our office on 425.456.4199.
Shopping on amazon.com?
Access
it through the Bellevue Schools Foundation (BSF) website and BSF receives a
portion of the proceeds from amazon.com. It’s simple: go to the Bellevue Schools
Foundation website at www.bsfdn.org
and click on the amazon.com link – that’s all it takes to help support students
in the
For
further information on any of the above, please contact:
Gillian
Doyle
Bellevue
Schools Foundation
tel: 425.456.4199
email: gillian@bsfdn.org
Expose your child to another language and culture!!
Host Families needed from August 10 - August 16, 2006
Students are from
Students will attend
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From The Editors
Editors:
Janan Carter and Karla
Ostlund
We
are pleased to serve as editors of The Friday Flyer this year. Just go to the
www.bennettelementary.org
and click on “Click here to submit to the Friday Flyer”. Fill out the form, which will be forwarded to
us for publication. The deadline for the next issue of
The Friday Flyer is Friday,
April 21st.