BEAGLE BUGLE Newsletter Norman Rockwell PTA

Monday Bugle - October 18th

IN THIS ISSUE COVID Student Quarantine Update Redmond High School Harvest Fest Picture Retake Day PTA General Membership Meeting Volunteer Vaccinations Unity Day Math Challenge #2 Great Shakeout - Earthquake Drill Reflections Art Competition Get your Rockwell Spirit Wear Volunteer Vaccination Verification Have you donated to the ABC Fund? Still Looking to Fill PTA Board Positions IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES October 20 - Unity Day (wear orange) October 21 - PTA General Membership Meeting 7PM October 21 - Math Challenge #2 Due October 21 - Great ShakeOut (Earthquake Drill) October 28 - Picture Retake Day November 11 - No School (Veteran's Day) November 25 & 26 - No School (Thanksgiving) For more details on these events, check out the October Calendar on the PTA website

COVID Student Quarantine Update As we near the middle of the fall season, we want to thank all of our students, families, and staff for the collective efforts to keep everyone safe. We need everyone to keep being vigilant about staying home when sick, wearing face covering, and washing hands. We continue to follow guidance from King County Public Health, when it comes to determining when students can return to school when they are close contacts, test positive, or have symptoms. Isolating and quarantining students or staff that present symptoms, test positive, or have been close contacts is an important layer of safety to help prevent transmission of COVID-19 within our school. When provided with a range of options we are using the safest options identified by King County Public Health. We will continue to evaluate the impact on our students and schools and may adopt other options identified by Public Health as conditions evolve. Under Public Health guidance: Unvaccinated students and staff identified as close contacts and have a negative test will quarantine for 14 days from the last date of contact with the person with COVID-19. Students and staff who are vaccinated and do not have symptoms do not need to quarantine. Students and staff who test positive and have no symptoms can return after isolating for 10 days. If students and staff who test positive and do have symptoms must also be symptom free before returning. Students and staff with symptoms, who test positive, and have no close contact are required to isolate for 10 days. Students and staff with symptoms of illness, who test negative and have no close contact, may return AFTER they are cleared by a contact tracer (this may take up to 48 hours). In all cases where students have symptoms, they must be symptom free for at least 24 hours before returning regardless of the length of isolation or quarantine. Accessing free testing sites and private providers as a first option for testing. For families that cannot access free sites or private providers resources, the district will soon begin offering free testing at regional sites. More information about our COVID Safety Plan is available here.

Redmond High School ASB Invites You To Harvest Fest Tuesday, October 26th | 6PM - 8PM Redmond High School 17272 NE 104th ST Redmond, WA 98052 Dress up in your SPOOKIEST costumes Play game and Trick-or-Treat at your future high school! Admission is free! Please bring packaged food for RHS students in need

Picture Retake Day Thursday, October 28th If your student missed Picture Day back in September or if you would like to retake their picture, we have scheduled a retake day on Thursday, October 28th. Picture packages are available - order on mylifetouch.com with your Student's Picture Day ID: EVTQMX2GV

PTA General Membership Meeting Please join us at our first general membership meeting of the year on October 21, 2021 at 7PM. The meeting will take place through Teams Click Here to Join the Meeting. We would love to see a strong turnout at this first meeting, where we will be voting on important issues like our budget and standing rules. Principal Clark will also be making a guest appearance to share updates on programs. If you have any questions about the meeting, please email Denice at president@normanrockwellpta.org

📢All Volunteers Must Be Vaccinated by October 18th As of October 19th, only volunteers who are approved and have shown proof of vaccination will be allowed to volunteer in our schools. Rockwell is a LWSD approved location to verify vaccination status for volunteers who are currently LWSD approved. To maintain distancing and our regular work schedule, we will have 5-minute appointment slots available for you to stop by with your government issued picture ID (with a date of birth) and proof of vaccination from one of the three acceptable forms of verification: CDC COVID Vaccination Card (physical or high-resolution picture) Washington State Certificate of COVID Vaccination, or Washington State Immunization Information System printout. Sign Up here! Contact Mrs. Hatch if you need additional information StHatch@lwsd.org

Unity Day Wednesday 10/20 This is an opportunity for all members of our school community to come together to challenge bullying and stand in support of kindness, acceptance, and inclusion. Our amazing counselor, Mrs. Bauer, has a variety of fun and engaging activities planned for the day! In the spirit of unity, we are encouraging everyone to wear orange on Wednesday.

Math Challenge #2 Due by Thursday, October 21st Thank you to all of you who participated in Math Challenge #1. Congratulations to the following winners: Soham C, Florence W, Iris W, Ishanth M, Ben C, Jason Z, Phoebe Z, Saketh S, Dmytro Z, Raina W, Yuna S, Caroline Z. Math Challenge #2 is now avaiable HERE. For this challenge, lucky prize winners will be randomly selected from qualified submissions. Please feel free to try more questions than the minimum required for your grade level in order to qualify. Grab some friends and family and work on the challenges together! Once your student completes the challenge, email their paper by the due date to mathchallenge@normanrockwellpta.org The due date for Math Challenge #2 is Thursday, October 21st. Pease contact us if you have any questions or if you need additional information about this program. Let the challenge begin! Janelle Urfer Fiona Zhang

Join the World's Largest Earthquake Drill Great Shakeout - October 21st, 2021 When the ground starts to shake, what do you do? If it involves a doorway, a triangle, or running - these are NOT earthquake-safe actions. Register now at ShakeOut.org/register to learn more about Drop, Cover, and Hold On and practice updated earthquake safety actions. Our school will be participating in this drill this Thursday. Reinforce your child's learning by practicing Drop, Cover, and Hold On at home, too (and in different rooms). In an earthquake, you may only have seconds to protect yourself before strong shaking knocks you down, or something falls on you. Practice earthquake-safe actions on October 21st. Why? Because when adrenaline kicks in, you may not act safely if you haven't practiced the Drop, Cover, Hold On drill before that moment. Don't wait until the shaking to practice earthquake safety with your community! After you register to join, click HERE for a handout on Recommended Earthquake Safety Actions for Parents. Invite friends and family to practice their safety too! Stephanie Wagner Susan Walker Indrani Gadamsetti E-Prep Co-Chairs

Reflections Art Competition "I will change the world by..." The Reflections Program is a National PTA and Washington State PTA cultural arts competition which was started in 1969 and is the largest arts in education program of its kind in the United States. The purpose of the program is to provide an opportunity for students to use their creative talents by expressing themselves through their own original works, created around a specific theme. A student may submit an entry in any of the following six arts categories, or as a special artist (an option for students with disabilities who receive services under IDEA or Section 504): Dance Choreograph Film Production Literature Music Composition Photography Visual Arts Please note that the LWPTSA is unable to accept 3D art for 2021-2022 Deadline for Entries: Wednesday, October 27th Submit Your Entry All artwork will be submitted digitally. Details to come! Rockwell submission forms. Coming soon! Rules HERE Additional advice on putting together your submission coming soon Please let us know if you have any questions! For more information, please click HERE Denice Gagner & Sri Wulfe Reflections Co-Chairs

Rockwell Spirit Wear Now Available! Spirit Wear Orders are now available today through December 31st! Order HERE Adult/Youth Cotton Tee $12 Adult Hoodie $27.50 Youth Hoodie $27.00 Adult Jersey $20.50 Youth Jersey $19.50

Have You Donated to the ABC Fund? We need help achieving our fundraising goals! If you haven't donated to the Annual Beagle Contribution (ABC) Fund, it's not too late. We were hoping to raise $25,000 by October 1st. We've fallen short of that goal, with only $18,000 in our ABC fund thus far (barely 70% of our goal). Sadly, only 30% of our families have donated to ABC so far. We understand that many families have been hit hard by the pandemic and do not have the extra funds to donate right now. If you're one of the lucky families who have not taken a financial hit, please give today, and consider GIVING BIG. The ABC fund is the PTA's main fundraising source each year, and it's the primary resource for all academic and enrichment grants that we give to teachers and students throughout the year. CLICK HERE to donate to the ABC fund (it's step #3 in the online welcome packet, after you join the PTA). Thank you!

Still Looking to Fill PTA Board Positions Rockwell Families: Your PTA Board is hard at work making sure that we can support the school, our teachers, and all our children's academic opportunities this school year. We still have a few positions on the board that we'd like to fill. If you're telling yourself that you don't have time to join the board because you have a full-time job, or because you are caring for younger children who are not yet in school, I'd like to share some details about the dedicated parent volunteers currently serving on the PTA board. There are 13 dedicated parents (one of us is also a grandparent!) serving on your PTA board. Most of us have full-time jobs. We're accountant managers, real estate brokers, lawyers, software engineers, executive producers, carnatic music teacher, cancer survivors, retired kindergarten teachers, HVAC designers, and even IAs at Rockwell. Collectively as have 27 children of our own, ranging from one to forty three years old. Some of our kids have disabilities, some have IEPs, and some are in quest. Some of us grew up in Redmond, but most of us moved here from other parts of the world. What we all have in common is a commitment to making Norman Rockwell the strongest school community possible. But we urgently need more volunteers to help us. Joining the board requires attending our monthly board meeting (taking place through Teams), doing the work assigned to your specific board role, and positions we still have open. If you're interested in joining, or if you have further questions about what the role entails, please email Denice at president@normanrockwellpta.org VP of Fundraising: This board member oversees the PTA's various fundraising efforts throughout the year, including dine-outs, spirit wear orders, read-a-thons, box tops, and any other programs that help the PTA earn funds for the school community. Legislative Advocate: This board member keeps the school informed on matters affecting education on the local and state level through occasional Bugle articles and updates on monthly board meetings. We also have opening for the committee chair positions listed below. These positions are less of a commitment than a full board position, but are also crucial to the PTA's success. If you are interested in learning more about any of these chair positions, please email Sri at volunteering@normanrockwellpta.org 5th grade promotion chair Field day chair Rockwell musical chair School dance party chair STEM night chair Nominating committee chair Virtual dance party committee chair Teacher appreciation week chair Volunteer awards Room parent co-chair Read-a-thon chair Box tops chair Restaurant week / Dine out chair F.A.C.E. (family and community engagement) chair

Do you have any photos from Walk-to-School Day? We'd love to include your photos in the yearbook. If you have any pictures that you'd like to share, please email them to: yearbook@normanrockwellpta.org

STAY INFORMED You might find the following additional resources useful:  Join the PTA Norman Rockwell PTA Facebook Page (be sure to click "LIKE" so that we're included in your Facebook feed) Lake Washington School District Facebook Page (be sure to click "LIKE" so that they're included in your Facebook feed) Lake Washington School District webpage LWSD's Coronavirus information page Norman Rockwell's Amazon Smile page (earn money for our school with each purchase!)

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