Arbor Heights Elementary School

🏃🏾Today we welcomed 40 visitors to observe the Arbor Heights "elite" P.E. program in action. The visitors are in Seattle for the SHAPE (Society of Health and Physical Educators) America Conference and from Japan, China, Washington D.C., and many other cities around the United States. They include representatives from the CDC and the US. Department of Education too. Go, Mr. Brannon and Mr. Davis!

🎭 Missing musical theatre? Stage Struck Seattle, one of our long-time after-school enrichment providers (pre-Covid), has a great line-up of summer camps, including Annie, Grease, and Best of Stage Struck showcasing numbers from Best of Broadway, Mary Poppins, Hamilton, Frozen, Aladdin, Addams Family, Mamma Mia, Peter Pan, Moana, The Wiz of Oz, and more! Registration is open at https://www.6crickets.com/providerDirectory/US/WA/Seattle/Stage-Struck-b1c00bcd4b518370?refer&provider=2726&utm_medium=provider&utm_source=providers

Photo: Arbor Heights Elementary's Fall 2018 production of Grease with Stage Struck.

📚 Good luck to 'The Flying Pickles' at today's Semi-Finals. We'll be cheering for you!

👏🏾👏🏻👏🏽Way to go to 'The Flying Pickles' for winning this year's in-school The Seattle Public Library's Global Reading Challenge. Good luck at the semi-finals!

🐞 🐝 🦋 What a treat to welcome Taproot Theatre to our school yesterday for a live performance of BUGS, a play about:

*Recognizing, Reporting, and Refusing Bullying Behavior
*Being a Positive Bystander
*Celebrating Differences
*Welcoming Newcomers/Forming Friendships

🏫 This week, we're hosting our first Pre-K & Kindergarten School Tour of the year on Jan. 25 from 8:15–9:15 a.m. If you have a child ready to start Pre-K or Kindergarten in Fall 2023, RSVP to this week's tour or one of our other tours in February and May. https://arborheightses.seattleschools.org/calendar/pre-k-kindergarten-school-tour/2023-01-25/

We're excited about our special guest speaker, Kai Kunkel, who will join our PTSA Meeting tonight to discuss social-emotional learning. 🫶

PTSA General Meeting - Arbor Heights Elementary School January PTSA General Meeting with guest speaker Kai Kunkel (she/her), SPS Social Emotional Learning Project-Program Manager.

🏁 It's the final stretch of our Direct Drive campaign. We're 88% funded with $2,400 left to go! Help us cross the finish line by making a donation here. https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/arborheightsptsa/arborheightsdirectdrivecampaign

🎨 🖌️ Support our visual arts program with a gift to the Direct Drive and help us reach our goal of $20,000! https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/arborheightsptsa/arborheightsdirectdrivecampaign

Thanks to our donors for getting our 2022 Direct Drive off to a great start! We raised close to $4075 so far today and need $925 more to qualify for the $5K match. With your gift tonight, you can help us get closer to our $20,000 goal! 🌟

❤️ Support your Jr. Seahawks on with a gift to our 2022 Direct Drive campaign. https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/arborheightsptsa/arborheightsdirectdrivecampaign

❤️ Support your Jr. Seahawks on with a gift to our 2022 Direct Drive campaign. https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/arborheightsptsa/arborheightsdirectdrivecampaign

🌧️ Nice to see you red umbrella!

🍨Join us on tomorrow night for a school ice cream social on the Arbor Heights Playground from 6–8 p.m. Grab a sweet treat and kick off the new school year with the Arbor Heights Elementary community. Say hello to friends old and new, then join us in the cafeteria at 8 p.m. for the first general PTSA meeting of the school year.

(Image description: Images of ice cream and soaring Jr. Seahawk and text that says "Back2School ICE CREAM SOCIAL THURSDAY, SEPT. 22 6-8PM Arbor Heights Elementary playground. Free event, open to our community. PTSA general meeting to follow. Questions? Contact [email protected].")

Welcome, Jr. Seahawks! We can’t wait to see you this morning!

We look forward to seeing our students and families TODAY at Meet & Greet (2–3 p.m.)

🌻 Would you like to help keep our thriving this summer? Sign up for a week of summer gardening and enjoy digging in the dirt, and weeding, watering, and harvesting!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0f4daaad2da1f58-arbor

🕹️👾 🎲 Arbor Heights' Caine's Arcade is up and running. Students created a cardboard arcade out of everyday objects and came up with a game, name, instructions, and rules.

Let the games begin! We're thrilled to bring back this year after a two-year hiatus for this fun-filled end-of-year event. Here's a look back to Field Day 2016, when we were at our temporary location at Boren while our new school was under construction. 🏐🏃🏿‍♂️🥏

🎶 Yesterday, Denny International Middle School's band, orchestra, and choir gave a mini-concert for our 5th graders. They were amazing — and extra special to see so many former continuing and excelling at music in middle school.

✨So fun to see so many people dressed fancy or in clothing from their culture for Day 3 of —

✨ Day 2 of — ! A few of the many colorful and unique hats worn today including Ms. McAlpin's class who engineered their own hats today during class. 🎩 🧢 👑

✨ What a fun first day of ! Today's theme was — dress as your favorite character from TV, movies, anime, or video game.

Pride & Spirit Week is finally here! Students are encouraged to dress for each day's theme. 🏳️‍🌈 🙌🏽

Monday: Character Day
Tuesday: Hat Day
Wednesday: Dress-up Day
Thursday: Rainbow Day
Friday: Pajama or Arbor Heights Gear Day

https://arborheightses.seattleschools.org/news/pride-spirit-week/

Pride & Spirit Week - Arbor Heights Elementary School Pride & Spirit Week at Arbor Heights (June 6–10)

Is someone in your family eligible for a Covid booster? There's a vaccination clinic happening on Saturday at Denny International Middle School for SPS students, staff, and their families, ages 5 and up. https://www.seattleschools.org/news/vaccine-clinic

June COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics for Students and Staff - Seattle Public Schools Seattle Public Schools is offering vaccine clinics for students and staff.

🎶 Our instrumental music students treated us to some mini “caroling” style performances today to celebrate the end of the year. Our flutes added an extra piece just for our kindergartners — "Baby Shark."

These preschoolers were so excited to show us the books they made in today.

Our budding 1st-grade artists at work in the .

In addition to our beautiful , we also have a rooftop container garden! Thanks to Ms. Kennewick's 4th-grade class for being in charge of watering. We're waiting patiently for those strawberries to be ready to pick! 🍓

👏 We spot a former in this photo! Congratulations to you and your teammates on your state championship. Good luck at regionals in Arizona in a few weeks.

https://westseattleblog.com/2022/05/congratulations-girls-soccer-team-wins-surprise-state-championship-heads-to-regionals-with-community-help/

CONGRATULATIONS! Girls' soccer team wins surprise state championship, heads to regionals - with community help Congratulations to the HSA Select G07 soccer team, the Washington State U15 Division 1 President's Cup champions this year, which means they're heading to Arizona to compete in regionals - with community assistance. The photo and information are from parent Krista McInerney, who explains: This is ki...