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Sponsor Highlight – The Carroll Law Group

June 16, 2021UncategorizedSponsorsGenesee Hill PTA

The Carroll Law Group, PLLC, is located in West Seattle and focuses on helping our clients with legal issues about the most important things in their lives—their families. We also work to preserve their livelihoods and their future plans. Our advice and representation covers areas including divorces, parenting plans, child support orders, property divisions, domestic violence protection orders, adoptions, third-party guardianships, estate planning, employment issues, and resolving tax disputes. Find out more at https://c-lg.com/.

End of Year PTA Survey

June 9, 2021UncategorizedsurveyGenesee Hill PTA

The GHE PTA Board wants to hear what’s important to you! As we close out this school year, we want to hear from as many community members as possible about their opinions of our PTA’s events and programs.

Your input will help inform the work of the PTA Board as we kick off a new year. It will take only a few minutes to let us know what you think in our survey here. The survey is open to all Genesee community members – teachers, staff, parents, guardians, students, family, and neighbors. So share with everyone you know in the community!

We want to hear from you!

GHE Virtual Book Fair

June 7, 2021Events, Fund Raisingbook fair, BooksGenesee Hill PTA

Calling all readers! Genesee Hill PTA is partnering with the local bookstore Paper Boat Booksellers to offer a virtual book fair. The fair started June 1st and will run through June 14th, and Genesee Hill Elementary will receive a credit of 25% of all sales to spend on books for the school library. From reticent readers to bold bibliophiles – all are welcome to fill up on books for the summer! Check out the fair here.

If you’re looking for ideas for books to buy, SPS created this fantastic summer reading list with options for each grade. Also, the book fair has wonderful librarian-curated lists for different categories. Enjoy!

The Fine Print:

All purchases on Bookshop will be shipped from the wholesaler’s warehouse directly to the purchasers (or to gift recipients). There is not an option for in-store pickup. Please allow 7-10 days for shipping for books in stock.
There is a shipping charge for all purchases, but Bookshop also discounts most books between 8-10%, which covers much of the shipping costs.

Virtual Move-A-Thon

May 28, 2021Events, Fund Raising, Move-A-Thon (MAT)Genesee Hill PTA

The Move-A-Thon activities will be virtual this year, but you still get your chance to earn the infamous plastic feet throughout the week. Activities will be released on June 1^s^t, with the FINISH LINE on Friday, June 4th at the Genesee Hill playground from 4-6 pm! Masked participants can pick up their earned ‘feet’ along with ice cream for participation. If your grade earns the most feet, your whole grade will earn a Pajama Day at school – thanks Principal Kischner! RSVP here for the Finish Line Event.

Here’s how it will work! On Tuesday, June 1, an all-school email will kick things off by sharing the checklist for earning plastic feet. The activities for earning feet will include running for a certain number of blocks, riding something with wheels for a certain number of blocks, and exercises you can do anywhere, like push ups, squats and jumping jacks. Do the activities at home or in a park with friends. Track your earned feet on the checklist with a maximum of 10 feet possible! Gather pledges as you go and direct friends and family to donate on our Move-A-Thon donation page. Let’s get moving!

The PTA has donated $8,000 to the school for supplies for every child. This ensures that each child is able to start school and maintain the year with fresh supplies. We hope to raise the funds for supplies with the Move-A-Thon this year. You might even see our very own Genesee Hill Fox at the Finish Line doing a workout to earn those feet… will you beat the Fox??

THE FINE PRINT

Earning Feet

Because we are doing virtual activities, this years feet earning is all honor system! Bring your checklist to the “Finish Line” tables on Friday, June 4th, 4-6pm to show our volunteers how many you’ve earned. If you forget your checklist, we will have extra printed for you to fill out. Make sure you ask Friends and Family to donate as well to cheer you on! The grade with the most participation earns an extra Pajama Day at school.

Activities

Students have all week to complete any of the challenges on any day.if you are unable to run, bike, do pushups – Substitute any of the activities for 15 minutes of your own preferred method of movement to earn a foot. The goal is move your body for fun.

Finish Line – Friday June 4th, 4-6pm

Masks required for playground entry. Please stay 6‘ apart from your classmates while on campus. All tables and lines will be spaced out 6’ from other students and tables. There will be separate Group A (AM), Group B (PM) and Group C (Remote) lines to separate cohorts. Feet and pre-packaged ice cream will be handed out by parent volunteers with masks, gloves and sanitizer. If you cannot make the Finish Line at the time listed, please contact Amanda Baker at bakerdesigner@gmail.com for alternate distribution.

May 23 Dine Out at Lady Jaye

May 3, 2021Events, Fund RaisingDine-outGenesee Hill PTA

Our May Dine-Out event will feature Lady Jaye in Alaska Junction on Sunday May 23, from 2 – 7:30 PM. Genesee Hill will receive 20% of all sales on this day. This includes takeout orders, dine in, gift cards, drinks and the Lady Jaye special Take and Bake. Lady Jaye makes everything super easy with their excellent online ordering system.

Their seating reservations opened on May 1^st! Make sure you book your spot early. The times and availability are limited and they do have to turn people away. Click here to reserve a table and here to see the menu and order some of their delicious items!

Key Details for May’s Dine out

Event Date and Time- May 23^rd 2pm-7:30pm. This includes walk-ins and pickups. They STRONGLY recommend placing all orders and reservations online. All orders need to be made by 7:30 pm.
They have limited seating. Tables can be reserved here starting May 1^st. Patio reservations (6 outdoor tables) availability: 2pm, 3:30pm, 5:30pm and 7:30pm.
Take and Bake Option – There will only be 50 of these items available for pick up on May 23rd. Order here starting May 10^th. There will be two options. Both options feed up to 4 people for $60.00
1. Braised brisket over roasted garlic mac & cheese topped with buttermilk biscuit breadcrumbs
2. Three cheese roasted garlic mac & cheese with smoked Vashon Island tofu burnt ends
Lady Jaye has a lovely list of to-go cocktails. The pricing varies from $25-35 and each is equivalent to 3-4 drinks.
The Lady Jaye General Store has tasty items for your kitchen such as their house rubs, local raw honeycomb, and farm-made caramel sauce. Add a couple onto your take-out order!
Gift cards can be purchased that day and 20% will go to the school.

We hope you’ll support our school and a local business while enjoying this delectable food. Invite all your friends too!

Staff Appreciation Week

April 27, 2021Events, Volunteers NeededGenesee Hill PTA

Staff Appreciation Week is May 3-7. There are many ways we can show our appreciation to the amazing teachers and school staff who have worked hard – and creatively! – to teach and support our students during this school year. Read below or check out the flyer for details.

We love our teachers a Latte! Staff can stop by Hotwire coffee any day this week for a drink of their choice. How You Can Help: donate any amount via PayPal (paypal.me/dawnfranklin1) or Venmo (@Dawn-Franklin-6)

Sign up here to help shower our staff with gifts of gratitude. Deliver gifts to the school between Monday, May 3rd and 10am on Thursday, May 6th.

Teaching is a work of heart! How You Can Help: click here to head over to our Jamboard to have your student leave a heart filled note to our staff .

Let’s sing out our praises for our amazing staff. Snap a photo of your student with a note of thanks to be included in our video to staff. Send photos to Noirin at hapachik@mac.com by Wednesday May 5. Click here for photo ideas (video edited for student privacy).

Genesee Hill Elementary PTA

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