Congratulations to the following elected officers of the 2022-23 PTSA Board. 

• President – open
• Vice President – Yvonne Klaue
• Secretary – Ann Hall
• Treasurer – open

A special thank you to Jennifer Magin, Nadiya Bak and Yvonne Klaue for their efforts and time as members of this year's Nomination Committee. 

~ The Alcott PTSA 2021-22 Board 

☐Virtual Cooking Classes with Eat, Move, Thrive! Spokane - May 17th

Don't want to cook?  Have your kids make dinner! Join us for our last virtual cooking class on Tuesday, May 17th @ 5:30 pm.  Kids will be making mini pot pies. 

☐ Volunteer:

School is opening back up!  Sign up to help out today! Check out all open volunteer positions and how to become an approved district volunteer. 

 See open positions!

 ☐ Orcas Making Waves!

Table to Farm: The Alcott Green Team with the support of the Alcott PTSA has set up a program to collect food scrap waste at Alcott! For several weeks now, 22 classrooms across 5 grade levels and our Quest program are participating in our new “Table to Farm” program. Students in these classes now have the opportunity to sort their left-over food scraps, that would normally end up in the trash, into a special bin that is collected daily and taken to Mrs. Tavares’s house for her two pigs to snack on! 

Rather than have pizza crusts, fruit peels, and leftover veggie scraps end up in the landfill, students get to learn about how we can reuse this waste and turn it into something positive. Together we are repurposing an average of 13 pounds of food waste per day. That is roughly 65 pounds of food that is saved from the landfill weekly! Way to go Orcas! 

PTSA Reflections: Congratulations to Quinlan for Outstanding Interpretation for Visual Arts (PreK-2nd) at the State level.  His piece will now move on to the National competition!

Scripps Spelling Bee: Congratulations to Reyansh who competed in the Regional Spelling Bee in Seattle.  Reyansh competed against students from schools across King and Snohomish County and had an impressive 9th place finish. 

☐ Kindergarten Registration is OPEN!

Kindergarten registration for the 2022-23 school year is now open.

Register online at https://www.lwsd.org/students-families/registration/kindergarten-information

Important: While K-12 student registration is available throughout the school year and summer, families are highly encouraged to register students as soon as possible. Doing so helps LWSD to ensure that class sizes are balanced and adequate staff are hired in time for the new school year.

☐ Become A PTSA Member:

Get a headstart purchase your PTSA membership for next year, so you will have nothing to worry about when things get busy.

☐ Orca Community:

Do you, as a parent, need help navigating language barriers or school, school district or life in the Pacific Northwest? Do you live here without family support? Let's get connected and help each other. Find out more about our Orca Community Connector program here.