Category: IVE
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Lockdown at IVE
Thursday at 11:15 am Monti and Dahlia’s school received a call fromthe Issaquah Police Department telling them they needed to go to alevel 4 lockdown. An armed man had threatened another man at abusiness near the school and fled before he was apprehended. Theyfeared for the safety of the kids with the angry man at…
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A quilt for Ms Howard
Due to reduced school budgets for next year Issaquah School Districtchose to layoff 158 out of its 1097 teachers. The layoffs were donecompletely on a seniority basis. Dahlia’s teacher had been teachingless than 3 years so she was included on the list of 158 teachers. Itis a tragedy that so many of the young energetic…
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My first PTA board meeting
I was asked by my friend Trisha to be co-VP of Volunteers on the IVEPTA board. I’m still not exactly sure what the position will entailbut my first board meeting was very interesting. I think I will enjoyit.
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Officer Karen
The Issaquah Police Department sent an officer to talk to the second graders at IVE. The kids were very curious about how her handcuffs worked. One child raised her hand and explained to everyone that her dad and mom had some handcuffs too but that they used them to play. Of course all the adults…
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Fake flag
For multicultural night at IVE we decided to make flags for decorations. Using vinyl tablecloths and packaging tape I made close to 40 flags. Some were very simple like Poland while others were rather tricky like South Korea and Northern Ireland. After making so many flags I decided to make up my own flag to…
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