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  • New principal at IVE

    New principal at IVE

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    Our new principal started at Issaquah Valley Elementary this summer.She had the PTA board members and their families over to her house fora homemade lunch. The kids loved meeting her plus she had aprofessional sized trampoline and 3 young pygmy goats. Monti decided to skip her last day of choir camp to go to the…

  • Walk-a-thon results

    Walk-a-thon results

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    One of my last jobs for the Walkathon at school was to put together a bulletin board that displayed the results for the students. We exceeded all our goals this year. The kids at the school raised over $31,000. I like to think Joe’s Blues Brothers interpretation helped rally the kids around the fundraising goal.

  • WAT bulletin board

    WAT bulletin board

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    I was so done with promoting the walk-a-thon after working all weekend on the opening assembly but I had committed myself to also putting together a bulletin board. My goal was to keep it simple and get it done quickly. There was little overall plan for this project hence the multiple shades of light green…

  • The Blues Brothers come to IVE

    The Blues Brothers come to IVE

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    Joe and Gary did great at the assembly. The kids laughed and screamed at all the right moments. Best of all Joe really enjoyed being up on stage. I felt like I had dragged him into the show and I knew he was initially dreading the whole event so it really was important to me…

  • Practicing for the assembly

    Practicing for the assembly

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    To kick off the school walkathon they hold an assembly to pump up the students and to explain their role in the fundraiser process. We recruited Joe and another dad, Gary, to be our Blues Brothers. The opening act included singing “Sole Man”. The ‘sole’ spelling was our small tie in to anything doing with…

  • Dahlia’s science fair

    Dahlia’s science fair

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    As you can probably tell I gave Dahlia a lot of help putting together her science fair presentation. She did however pick out the fancy flower wrapping paper to use as her background. I tried to talk her out of it because I was afraid it would be too busy but the pink and purple…

  • Monti’s science fair

    Monti’s science fair

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    Monti put together most her own project. Joe helped her type up her descriptions and I glued all the pieces on the board. Many of the kids found her hamster experiment to be very entertaining. I worked at the science fair all day while each class went through all the experiments on display. It was…

  • Monti singing Dites Moi

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  • Golden Acorn

    Golden Acorn

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    They handed out Golden Acorn awards to a handful of people at our school including my friend Leah during the Tuesday night PTA meeting. She puts so much time and energy into all her school projects. Congratulations!

  • Potty training for Annie

    Potty training for Annie

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    For Monti's science fair project she will see if it is possible to train a hamster to use a litter box. We added the corner litter box to the cage today. We can't wait to see if she will use it or not.