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WHEN:
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - Room 2700
Thursday, March 14, 2013 - Room 2700
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - Room 2700

All trainings take place from 4:00 to 5:00PM. 
John Stanford Center for Educational Excellence 
2445 Third Ave S, Seattle, WA 98124

To register, please email your name and phone number to Regina Redmond atrredmond@washingtonea.org.  To ensure space for everyone, pre-registration is required. For additional dates, visit the SPS website.

Thank you!
QAE PTSA

This year for our coat drive, the PTSA decided to benefit a personal favorite of Mr. Elliott,  Treehouse for Kids, a foster child charity.  There will be donation boxes at both main entrances to the brick building and the treehouse.  Foster kids get used to parting with familiar clothing and favorite toys, saying goodbye to family and friends, and changing schools time and again.  Your donations will stock the Treehouse "Wearhouse", a free store where foster youth can shop for clothes, shoes, school supplies, books, toys and other essentials that help them feel good and fit in.   

Kids achieve academically when they feel good about themselves. Fitting in or being part of the team makes a huge difference. The donations Treehouse collects provides for our community’s foster kids, making sure they have everything they need to learn and thrive. 

Here’s how you can help:  
 Buy one or more gifts for a foster child. 
 Make a donation of "almost" new clothes (coats and sweaters) and toys or books. 
 Please bring your donations to the school and drop them in the donation boxes at either main entrance.  
 
No time to shop or clean out your closet? You can still help by giving online at www.treehouseforkids.org/donate. 
Don’t forget to put Queen Anne Elementary on the “Drive Host” line at check-out. You can also mail your cash or check donation to Treehouse, or drop it off with me, Kristin Teske the PTSA Community Development Chair. 
 
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, and thank you for supporting kids in foster care,  teskes@comcast.net.
 
Thank you, 
 The QAE PTSA

 Community Development Committee

Reminder: Procurement FORMS are due by Feb 1.  (Physical ITEMS are not due until 3/1). 
Fill out forms at http://auctions.readysetauction.com/queenanneelementaryp/donate/item

Early Bird Tickets are $75 until Feb 1 and $85 after Feb. 1.    
Purchase individual tickets, get a table for 10, or help buy a ticket for a teacher at http://auctions.readysetauction.com/queenanneelementaryp/tickets.
March 8, 2013.  6-11pm  (Childcare available at KidsCo.  206-216-2250)

Thank you!
QAE PTSA Auction Co-Chairs
Sarah Morris and Christopher Kashap
qaeauctioninfo@gmail.com

Reminder: Procurement FORMS are due by Feb 1.  (Physical ITEMS are not due until 3/1). 
Fill out forms at http://auctions.readysetauction.com/queenanneelementaryp/donate/item

Early Bird Tickets are $75 until Feb 1 and $85 after Feb. 1.    
Purchase individual tickets, get a table for 10, or help buy a ticket for a teacher at http://auctions.readysetauction.com/queenanneelementaryp/tickets.
March 8, 2013.  6-11pm  (Childcare available at KidsCo.  206-216-2250)

Thank you!
QAE PTSA Auction Co-Chairs
Sarah Morris and Christopher Kashap
qaeauctioninfo@gmail.com

Reminder: Procurement FORMS are due by Feb 1.  (Physical ITEMS are not due until 3/1). 
Fill out forms at http://auctions.readysetauction.com/queenanneelementaryp/donate/item

Early Bird Tickets are $75 until Feb 1 and $85 after Feb. 1.    
Purchase individual tickets, get a table for 10, or help buy a ticket for a teacher at http://auctions.readysetauction.com/queenanneelementaryp/tickets.
March 8, 2013.  6-11pm  (Childcare available at KidsCo.  206-216-2250)

Thank you!
QAE PTSA Auction Co-Chairs
Sarah Morris and Christopher Kashap
qaeauctioninfo@gmail.com

Learn how to use Weebly and support your child in personalizing his/her digital portfolio. Students are invited to change their banner and design, add pages and links and post to their blog. Mr. Jeffrey is offering three Weebly workshops (1/29, 2/5, 2/9) – click here to register. The first class is offered tomorrow. Join the fun – explore Weebly, make comments and see your child’s talents as a writer and artist.

Hi All,
If you have any fun pictures that should make the yearbook (especially from all school events like the spaghetti dinner or game night), please take a moment out of your busy schedule to send them to Kristin Teske at teskes@comcast.net  The yearbook needs you!
Thank you so much for your help!
The PTSA Yearbook Committee

Whether you have a green thumb or not, the QAE PTSA needs you and your enthusiasm!
We are in need of a new Community Garden Chairperson.  There are several volunteers with green thumbs willing to help, so whether or not you are a gardner yourself,  we need you to organize us!  Please consider helping today!  If you are interested or would like to find out more about  being a PTSA chair person or just want to help with the garden, please contact Kristin Teske at teskes@comcast.net or Amy Janas at: amyjanas@gmail.com.

Thank You!
The QAE PTSA Board

150 AUCTION ITEMS needed -- 7 Days to Go!
We are only a quarter of the way to our goal of 200 auction donations -- Procurement FORMS due by Feb 1.  (Physical ITEMS are not due until 3/1). Forms can be filled out athttp://auctions.readysetauction.com/queenanneelementaryp/donate/item

SOLICIT AUCTION ITEMS FROM HOME
Send email requests to restaurants & businesses using our Online Auction Documents 
1. CUT & PASTE our Donation Letter:  qae_2013_auction_donation_letter.docx
2. ATTACH a Procurement Form
3. Hit "SEND"  
4. Take another sip of coffee.

EARLY BIRD TICKETS... Save $10 until Feb. 1
On sale now at http://auctions.readysetauction.com/queenanneelementaryp/tickets   
Purchase individual tickets, get a table for 10, or buy a ticket for a teacher!  
March 8, 2013.  6-11pm  (Childcare available at KidsCo.  206-216-2250)

The free flu vaccination clinics will be held at Public Health Centers at the following locations and times:

Columbia Public Health Center

4400 37th Ave S, Seattle, 206-296-4650
Saturday, January 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Thursdays, 3-7 p.m. through January

Eastgate Public Health Center

14350 SE Eastgate Way, Bellevue, 206-296-4920
Saturday, January 19, 10 a.m.—2 p.m.
Wednesdays, 3-7 p.m. through January

Federal Way Public Health Center

33431 13th Place S, Federal Way, 206-296-8410
Saturday, January 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Saturday, January 26, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

North Public Health Center

10501 Meridian Ave N, Seattle, 206-296-4765
Saturday, January 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Tuesdays, 3-7 p.m. through January

The vaccinations will be given to people who do not have insurance or cannot afford to pay for vaccination otherwise. No other vaccinations will be offered at the time of the clinics. You will be able to get flu shots or nasal spray vaccines, and preservative-free, gelatin-free, and latex-free vaccines will be available.

For more information, visit www.kingcounty.gov/health/flu


Thank you,
Eileen Bullinger, School Nurse

Go to http://auctions.readysetauction.com/queenanneelementaryp/tickets  Early Bird savings until Feb. 1!  
Purchase individual tickets, get a table for 10, or buy a ticket for a teacher!  
March 8, 2013.  6-11pm  (Childcare available at KidsCo.  206-216-2250)

Volunteer on your Couch!  You can with the Auction from home --  send out 20 emails to your favorite restaurants & businesses using our online auction documents 
1. Cut & Paste our Donation Letter 
2. Attach a Procurement Form  
3. Hit "SEND"  
4. Take another sip of coffee.

Questions?  Ideas?  Contact qaeauctioninfo@gmail.com"Questions?  Ideas?  Contact qaeauctioninfo@gmail.com

QAE Auction Chairs
Sarah Morris and Christopher Kashap

Monday, January 28, 7:00pm, Lincoln HS Library in Wallingford.

Dr. Gephart has lectured nationally and internationally to physician groups on ADHD and is the author of numerous medical articles on ADHD and its ramifications.  His current emphasis is in teaching physicians to screen for, recognize, and treat such coexistent conditions as anxiety and depression, which commonly are secondary complications in ADHD patients.  

The talk will emphasize practical suggestions for parents in how to monitor their child's mental health, with time for questions.  This is a rare public presentation by Dr. Gepart.

Dr. Harlan Gephart is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington and Consultant in Behavioral Pediatrics at Pediatric Associates, Bellevue, Washington.   Dr. Gephart trained in Pediatrics at the University of Washington, and practiced both General and Behavioral Pediatrics at Group Health Cooperative.  From 1990 to 2002 he was Medical Director of the Center for Attentional Deficit Disorders in Redmond, Washington.  During that period he assessed and treated several thousand children with ADHD.  The parenting behavioral program developed in that clinic became a national model for that treatment modality in ADHD patients.  Research publications from the clinic studied the cost of ADHD, Coexistent Mental Health concerns in ADHD, and Behavior Modification treatment.

(Twice exceptional (2e) kids are kids who are academically gifted and also have a disability, such as dyslexia, autism, ADHD, or SI.)

Please consider joining Queen Anne Elementary legislative co-chairs Angie Masco and Tanea Stephens as we drive to Olympia to join Washington State PTA for a full day of school advocacy. We will meet with our district's legislators and voice the paramount importance of school funding schools first, staying focused on advanced basic education reform (passed in 2009, 2010) and access to algebra in middle school (look for a parent education night about this subject later this spring). 
 
when: carpool from school Thursday, January 24, 8:30 a.m. and return around 5:30 
who: Washington State PTA is the organizer for this advocacy day
where: The State Capital Rotunda in Olympia
how: contact taneastephens@outlook.com, angelamasco@hotmail.com if you can join us.

Thank you! 
///The QAE Legislative Committee

Creative Ballet (grades K-2, or ages 5-7) Tap their imagination and give it expression… 

While establishing body awareness, muscle development, flexibility, coordination and basic locomotor skills, this class expands each child’s inner creativity. Exploration of space, shapes, pathways, rhythms, and movement qualities will also help your child to develop problem solving skills. We will introduce the basic Ballet positions, some preparatory steps and sequencing with special attention to posture, core strength and clean technique. We’ll also focus on musicality, phrasing, terminology, and Ballet etiquette while gaining strength and flexibility in all muscle groups – all this, wrapped in fun themes that the children will love. The warm and friendly atmosphere will foster camaraderie, cooperation, encouragement and a positive self image. Leggings and a T-shirt recommended for girls; sweats and T-shirt recommended for boys. But any loose comfortable clothes or dance attire will be acceptable.  

Class Time: Mondays, 3:45-4:45 

Dates: February 4 – April 1, 2013 (No class February 18) 

Cost: $80 

Registration is now open at:  http://www.americandanceinstitute.com/Registration.aspx



Drama Club Winter Session for Kindergarten-2nd grade and 3rd-5th grade:

Don't miss out on a chance to find your inner Actor/Director/Playwrite!
During this 7 week session we will be writing and performing our own play.  Starting with points from the language arts curriculum for writing will then use theatre games and improvisation exercises to create a story, fill it with interesting characters, and then perform it! 



Drama club has begun for the winter session but there is still time to sign up! For more details visit: http://qaeclubs.weebly.com/drama-club-by-mr-barlow.html

Reminder: The final scheduled in-person Volunteer Training session for the school year is coming up on Friday, January 25th from 3:45-4:45.  If you missed the ones in the fall, and want to help out in the classroom or in other kid-centric activities, please sign up for on VolunteerSpot by clicking this  Volunteer Orientation link.  If you have any questions, please send us an email.

Thank you,
Volunteer Coordinators