On Tuesday, May 17, the Stroum Jewish Community Center (JCC) will hold its annual Truck Day event for its Early Childhood School program in its upper parking lot. Please plan for traffic delays on Tuesday, May 17. If you have any questions, please email Transportation@FASPS.org. Thank you.

FASPS families are invited to drop off their used French kids’ and teens’ books and magazines on Thursday and Friday, May 19 and 20, and pick up new selections on Wednesday and Thursday, June 8 and 9. Here’s how it will work:

If you have any questions, please email FridayFlash@FASPS.org. Thank you!

What better way to show your love and appreciation to our amazing faculty and staff than by baking them a deliciously sweet treat? Click here to sign up to bake (or buy) your favorite dessert to share in our FSA Dessert Day buffet on May 19. We also need volunteers to help coordinate, set up, and clean up. Click here for further details. Thank you!

We are still Soaring to New Heights after such a wonderful Gala and Auction on April 23! A big thank-you to our amazing FASPS community for all the many ways you supported it. We are so grateful to everyone who helped procure, bid, donated, and volunteered, and/or attended the Gala both in person and virtually. Your involvement made all the difference, and we are truly grateful for the outpouring of support our community provided to make the Gala such a success!

Our Fund-A-Need goals were $50,000 for our bus program and $50,000 for our PBC Endowed Scholarship Fund, and we surpassed both goals! To date, through your incredible generosity, we have raised $56,000 for a bus and our bus program, and $86,000 for our PBC Endowment. These are not the final totals since we are still receiving some gifts and information on matches. We are also so thrilled to share that we met and surpassed our overall Gala and Auction goal of $320,000, which includes our Fund-A-Needs totals.

If you purchased an Auction item, you are welcome to pick it up at FASPS’s administrative offices in the Globe Building at 9725 SE 36^th Street, Mercer Island, WA 98040. Please email Debbie Baxter at DebbieB@FASPS.org to coordinate your Auction item pick-up.

Merci, FASPS community! Your generosity and support makes all the difference to our school.

Ever Wonder What You Should Do With Any of the Following Materials: animal waste | appliances | asbestos | batteries | carpet | cleaning products | construction and demolition debris | drums and barrels | electronics | fluorescent lights | food | furniture | glass | landscaping, land clearing | metal | paint | pallets | paper | pesticides | plastic | printer cartridges | propane tanks | sharps | tanks | textiles | thermostats | tires | vehicles. Click here to find King County businesses and organizations that will accept your unwanted materials for reuse, recycling, or disposal.

Click here to save your spot in our popular seven-week Bilingual Discovery Program: Camp des Lucioles! Limited space remains available for our Rouge (rising PK) and Orange (rising Kindergarten) groups. Campers will enjoy activities, games, projects, and more in a welcoming, bilingual environment. Join us as we transform FASPS’s campus into a new “location” each week: a beach, a zoo, a circus, and more! The Camp day will be from 9:00am to 4:00pm with before- and after-care available. Sessions run from June 27 through August 12. For questions, please email Summer@FASPS.org.

Choose your adventure this summer with three exciting weeks full of field trips, friends, and French! Make a splash with Water Week (June 27 – July 1), get to know the city from a new angle with Seattle Neighborhoods Week (July 5–8), and do your part for the environment with Green Week (July 11–15). The Camp day will run from 9:00am to 4:00pm with before- and after-care available. Click here to register now. For questions, please email Summer@FASPS.org.

Come out to Islander Middle School for this fun community event to close out the 2021–2022 school year! Watch our Middle Schoolers go head-to-head with FASPS faculty and staff on Saturday, June 4, from 9:30am to 11:30am. For questions, please email Athletics@FASPS.org.

Solutions are due no later than Tuesday, May 31.

Congratulations to Jacob Chen in Grade 2-A for being the only student who was able to successfully solve our challenging April Math Problem of the Month. Bravo, Jacob!

To celebrate and thank our amazing faculty this week, we offered up some daily treats. A huge thank-you to all our teachers, teacher assistants, educational assistants, learning specialists, and substitutes for your hard work and dedication to our families, to each other, and to our whole FASPS community!

William Summerfield, in Grade 6, represented FASPS at the Washington State Elementary Chess Championships 2022 on April 30 at the Tacoma Convention Center. He won all five of his matches and finished in a tie for first place for the 6^th grade. We could not be more proud of his amazing attitude, his unfaltering determination, and his limitless stamina. Bravissimo, William!

The students explored Quentin Blake, the illustrator of Roald Dahl’s books, and Craig McCracken’s (PowerPuff Girls) work.

By getting clues from peers and by asking yes or no questions, students had to guess the historical figures, authors, and literary characters they’ve been studying since the start of the school year. Fun was had by all!

After Marion turned the library into a polling station, students proudly cast their ballots this week for their favorite work of contemporary Francophone fiction that has been translated into English and published in the United States within the preceding calendar year. Learning civic engagement can never start too young.

While studying La chenille qui fait des trous / The Very Hungry Caterpillar, our YPK-A students made fruit salad with plums, mandarins, strawberries, blueberries, bananas, apples, and pears. Yum!

Join the French American Chamber of Commerce on Friday, May 13, 6–9pm, at Tam O’Shanter Golf Club in Bellevue to celebrate French-American business connections and a festive tasting featuring premium French and American wines! You will enjoy wines from high-end PNW and French wineries, authentic French food, and live music by the Beau Goss Band. Click here to book your tickets now.

New Seattle family seeking dependable sitter for 3½-year-old boy, weekdays from 8:00am to 4:00pm. Would love a former FASPS student to help prepare child for PK in the fall. Please contact Kristin Scott at (312) 806-2073 or at kristinscottsf@gmail.com.

On Wednesday, May 11, 6:30pm at the Majestic Bay Theatres, Treehouse, a local organization that FASPS / Solidaire have supported for years with events and donation drives, is screening a documentary about foster children who have received services from them. Click here for details.

“Mary Mary quite contrary how does your garden grow?” An orphaned Mary Lennox, a grouchy disagreeable child, arrives at her equally grouchy uncle’s home in England. All hope seems lost, that is until she discovers the mysteries of the house, including a secret garden. Join us for this classic story of friendship, growth, and nature. This is not the Broadway musical. Friday, May 6, 7:00pm, Saturday, May 7, 2:00pm and 7:00pm. Click here for details.

Hello everyone, my name is Zach Harker. I am a 21-year-old student visiting from Denver, and I will be working with Summer Programs at FASPS as a group assistant for Classe Aventure. I am currently looking for a place to stay from June 19 to July 17/18. I am very flexible when it comes to accommodations, and I am willing to help out around the house in any way possible. I love meeting new people and would love the chance to be a part of your community for a month. Please reach out to me via email or text if you would be interested in discussing a possible accommodation: zach.harker@du.edu (208)-891-8766.