Sat. 4/30:
Tues. 5/3:
Weds. 5/4:
Fri. 5/6:
Weds. 5/11:
Madison Valley Spring Clean
Teacher Appreciation Day
PTA Meeting (Budget Discussion)
Walk for Water
PTA Meeting (Vote! and more …)
April 29, 2016
Principal’s Corner
Submitted by Maria Breuder
SBA testing: Smarter Balanced
Assessment (SBA) testing has
begun at McGilvra. This is the
state test that is administered to
all students in grades 3, 4 and 5.
Students will take two
assessments for Math and two
assessments for English Language
Arts (ELA). Additionally, 5thgraders will take an assessment
for Science. Here is the testing
schedule for McGilvra students:
 Week of 4/25:
Fourth/fifth-grade Math
assessments
 Week of 5/2: Fourth/fifthgrade ELA assessments
 Week of 5/9: Third-grade
Math assessments
 Week of 5/16: 5th-grade
Science assessment
 Week of 5/23: 3rd-grade
ELA assessments
Please contact your child’s
classroom teacher if you have
further questions about the
testing schedule.
Water in Seattle Public Schools:
There has been a lot of media
coverage around lead in the water
in schools. The Seattle Public
Schools considers student health
and safety as a top priority. Over
the last several years we have
adopted and implemented a set of
rigorous standards which have set
nationally recognized standards
for safe drinking water quality in
public schools. The program was
established by the School Board,
which adopted a Drinking Water
Policy in 2004. It includes periodic
testing of each drinking water
source in each school, coupled
with reporting of the results on
the District website.
http://www.seattleschools.org/Us
erFiles/Servers/Server_543/File/Di
strict/Departments/Risk%20Mana
gement/Water/waterQualityProto
col.pdf
I hope you have a wonderful
weekend.
All the best,
Maria
Upcoming PTA Meetings –
May 4th & May 11th
Submitted by Heidi Ob'bayi
Please mark your calendars for
two important PTA meetings!
Next week:
WHEN: Wednesday,
May 4th, 6:30pm- 8:00pm
WHERE: McGilvra Library
AGENDA: General Budget
Meeting – Learn about
and discuss 2016/17 PTA
Budget proposals.
In two weeks:
WHEN: Wednesday,
May 11th, 6:30pm- 8:00pm
WHERE: McGilvra Library
AGENDA: Meet new
Meany Middle School new
principal, get an update
on the McGilvra
construction work, vote
on the 2016/17 PTA
Budget, and vote for
2016/17 PTA Board
members.
**Childcare provided at BOTH
PTA meetings**
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McGilvra’s 7th Annual
Poetry and Art Challenge
Submitted by Danae Powers
The poem for our challenge this
year is Jabberwocky by Lewis
Carroll. Students received a copy of
the poem at school this week. You
can also find it online at
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe
ms-and-poets/poems/detail/42916
To participate in this year’s poem
challenge, students need to
memorize the poem and create a
piece of art representing one of
the creatures in the poem (please
see requirements below).
Poem Memorization
You will need to memorize the
poem and recite it at school to Ms.
Powers, Ms. Slye, Miss Julia or Ms.
Burgess. You can try more than
one time. You must successfully
recite the poem during the week of
May 2 - 6.
Celebration
All students who successfully
memorize the poem and turn in
their artwork by May 6th will be
invited to a special celebration.
Wanted: Gently Used
or New Soccer Balls
Submitted by the McGilvra
Student Council
Dear McGilvra Families,
We would like to inform you that
we currently do not have enough
soccer balls for recess play. If you
have a gently used or new soccer
ball that you would like to donate
to help with our recess games, we
would truly appreciate it. You can
drop off soccer balls in the library.
Thank you,
The McGilvra Student Council
Your artwork must:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Have your first name, last
name and grade level
Identify the name of the
creature(s)
Be turned in to the library
by Friday, May 6th
Be two-dimensional
Be on paper
Be in color – colored
pencils, oil pastels, paint,
collage, crayons, etc. but
NO markers, please!
Madison Valley
Spring Clean 4/30!
Submitted by Linda Moy
Artwork - Requirements
You will create a piece of art to
represent at least one creature in
the poem: the Jabberwock, a slithy
tove, a borogove, a mome rath, the
Jubjub bird, or the Bandersnatch.
Poetry – April is National
Poetry Month!
In the library we have been
celebrating National Poetry Month.
Last week students participated in
Poem in Your Pocket Day. Every
student selected a poem and
started the day with that poem in a
pocket. Some students kept that
poem for the entire day. Others
traded throughout the day. We all
shared our poems. It was a great
way to expose students to a wide
range of poetry. We are ending the
month with the poem Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll. This is our poem
for McGilvra’s 7th Annual Poetry
and Art Challenge.
Happy Reading!
Ms. Powers
Library News
Submitted by Danae Powers
Reading BINGO!
Before spring break I introduced
students to our Library BINGO
Reading Challenge. I sent home
BINGO Cards with all students. The
BINGO Challenge encourages
students and their families to
engage in a variety of reading
activities. There are three different
BINGO cards: a K/1 card, a 2/3
card, and a 4/5 card. If you need
help finding a book for a BINGO
activity, please let me know. Extra
BINGO cards will be available in the
library and on the McGilvra Library
Webpage. BINGO cards are due on
Friday, June 3rd.
All McGilvra families are invited to
participate in the Madison Valley
Spring Clean on Saturday, April
30th from 10 am to 1 pm! Meet at
Fast Frame at 2840 E.
Madison. Free coffee and pastries
will be provided by the Madison
Valley Merchants Association and
Community Council. This is the
second year that McGilvra has
partnered with our community to
sponsor this event. Let's show our
neighborhoods that McGilvra
students give back to our
communities! Wear your McGilvra
Wildcat gear proudly! Sign up
opportunities are at the below link!
http://tinyurl.com/zfbybra
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Need a Date Night? – Donate to
My Water 1st Page
McGilvra Walks for Water
Submitted by Danae Powers
Submitted by Danae Powers
My name is Selma Powers and I am
currently an eighth grade student
at Washington Middle School. I am
a McGilvra alum and my mom is
your school librarian. I am
currently on the middle school
board for Water 1st, a nonprofit
organization that helps get safe,
clean water to people in developing
countries. I know at McGilvra
students have learned about Water
1st and are doing a school Walk for
Water event. On May 15th, I will
be participating in an event at
Seattle Center called Carry 5 Walk
for Water. The event is a 5k where
people carry water while walking,
like many people do every day in
these impoverished
communities. This is similar to
what McGilvra students will do at
school on May 6th. The purpose of
the Carry 5 event is to raise money
to support clean water projects so
that people (mostly women and
girls) do not have to spend hours
each day walking for water. With
better access to clean water, more
girls will be able to go to school and
get an education.
I am offering an afternoon or
evening of babysitting in exchange
for a donation to my Carry 5
fundraising page. You can access
my fundraising page at
https://my.water1st.org/fundraise?
fcid=597769. To schedule
babysitting, please call or text me
at 206-437-6938.
Thank you!
Selma Powers
Kids' Time Registration for
Spring Session Now Open
Submitted by Ginger Plaster
Student Council is helping to
support global learning about the
need for clean water in our
world. We will be simulating an
activity offered to the greater
Seattle community called Walk for
Water. In order to engage students
in this learning during their school
day, we need all families to collect
and drop off milk jugs, juice jugs or
5 gallon plastic cat litter containers
and bring them to the library by
APRIL 29th. Please rinse them
clean and send them to school with
your child any time before April
29th. We are hoping to collect
about 2 jugs per child or about 600
jugs total. McGilvra students will
walk for water at school on Friday,
May 6th.
If you or your child would like to
sign up for the greater community
event, please follow this link to
McGilvra’s team page.
https://my.water1st.org/fundraise/
team?ftid=74035
Donations to walk for water may
also be made on this page. The
event is on May 15th at the Seattle
Center.
Walk For Water
Milk Jugs needed
Drop off in library
until 4/29
The current session of Kids' Time
will be ending on April 29th and
registration for the Spring session
of Kids' Time is now open! The
Spring session will run from May
2nd through June 17th. An
electronic version of the Spring
brochure with course descriptions
is attached. A printed version will
go home in students' folders later
this week.
To register or view available classes
online, please visit the Seattle Parks
& Rec web site at
https://class.seattle.gov/parks/Acti
vities/ActivitiesAdvSearch.asp.
You may search for specific classes
by barcode or browse under
"Childcare and Out-of-School time"
and select the location "McGilvra
Elementary School" to view all class
offerings. If you are new to the
online SPARC system, have
questions regarding registration, or
would like to register via phone,
please contact the Montlake
Community Center directly at 206684-4736 for assistance.
Registration will be open for all
classes until the day prior to the
start of class.
Scholarships are available for Kids'
Time classes - to apply for a
scholarship, complete and return a
scholarship application to the
Montlake Community Center.
Applications can be found in the
McGilvra lunchroom, at Montlake
Community Center, or can be
downloaded at
http://www.seattle.gov/parks/camps/f
iles/scholarship_application.pdf.
For questions or additional
information on Kids' Time, please
contact Ginger Plaster at
[email protected]
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