The Wildchat: 10/16/2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
What's Happening This Month:
- 10/17: Vaccine Clinic *NEW DATE!*
- 10/17: October Staff Appreciation (5th Grade)
- 10/22: Kinder – 1st Grade Caregiver Happy Hour
- 10/25: Whittier PTA Fall Carnival
- 11/05: PTA Work Session (Election Night Edition)
- 11/05 – 11/08: In-School Hearing & Vision Screening
- 11/12: PTA Meeting
- 11/20: Helping Hands Drive Begins!
- 11/21: November Staff Appreciation (4th Grade)
- 11/26: Wildcats Ice Skate
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Volunteer Opportunities!
Fall Carnival
October 25th
3:30 – 8:00 pm
One hour shifts shifts
Sign up here!
Fall Carnival Dessert Donations
October 25th
Sign up here!
Helping Hands Assistant
November through December, especially 12/16 – 12/20
Primarily remote, self-paced
Learn more and sign up here!
Visit https://whittierptaseattle.org/volunteer/ for more ways to get involved!
*ALL volunteers for classroom or on-campus events during the school day MUST be cleared by Seattle Public Schools prior to volunteering. Your volunteer clearance is good for two years. Learn more here. If you need any help or have any questions, please contact Ms. Monica at maganyard@
We Need YOU!
Where are we in fundraising for our school?
We have accomplished an amazing feat, raising $100,880! Our goal is $138,000 so we need to come together to raise $37,370 by October 25th!
Unfortunately, given the current state of public school funding, if we do not meet our fundraising goal THIS YEAR, we could lose some of our school enrichment programs.
We need YOU to support enrichment programs like Massive Monkees, WildCats Read, and in-house field trips such as author visits, African drumming, and plays. We need YOU to support art, PE, performing arts, math assistance, a nurse, and social worker.
We need a two-prong approach:
- Fundraise right now for our children’s education
- Advocate loudly for funding reform
Here are some stats from this year’s Annual Give:
- 56% of students have turned in their forms! That means, we still need 151 forms returned.
- We are 67% to goal to keep these amazing programs running. We can do this!
- We need to raise $37,370 by October 25th!
If you have not donated, WE NEED YOU. We really do need your donation to run programs and fund staffing grants. Come on WildCats, let’s shoot for 100% participation!
Fall Carnival is on Friday, October 25th from 5-7pm on the Whittier Blacktop!
Costumes are welcome but completely optional.
Get ready for amazing activities, food, and fun, including:
- Raffle!
- Popcorn!
- Food trucks!
- Dessert Dash!
- Pumpkin Patch!
- Apple Toss!
- Photo Booth!
- Face Painting!
- Candy Corn Toss!
- Glow in the Dark
Tattoo Parlor! - Pumpkin Decoration!
- Black Light Art Gallery!
- Guess What’s Gross?!
This year, skip the concession ticket line and pre-purchase your cotton candy and popcorn tickets! Tickets can be purchased here.
As always, this is a completely volunteer run event, so any help you can give is greatly appreciated.
Older family members, Whittier Alumni, and high school students looking to fulfill their volunteer requirements are also invited to volunteer!
Donate baked goods for the Dessert Dash here!
All Wildcat alumni and friends are welcome. Our neighborhood is our community! We can’t wait to celebrate this wonderful Whittier tradition with you all
Submit Your Photos to Whittier's Yearbook Committee!
We’re looking for high-resolution photos that capture our community learning and having fun together!
Submit photos for Whittier’s 2024-2025 yearbook to yearbook@whittierptaseattle.org.
Performing Arts of Whitman Proudly Presents Their Festive Fall Comedy!
Come check out your future middle school in this hilarious spoof of a Charles Dicken’s classic where a slacker student is visited by ghosts from Quizzes past, present and future!
When: Thursday, 10/24 and Friday, 10/25
Time: 6:00 – 6:45 pm. Doors open at 5:30.
Location: Whitman Middle School Auditorium
Appropriate Age: Recommended for 7+
Tickets: $10 per adult, $5 per student, $20 per family (including Grandparents, aunts, etc), sold via QR code at the door.
Parekh's Pack is collecting SOCKS for SOCKTOBER!
Room 210 is collecting socks to be donated to The Bridge Care Center in Ballard. All Sizes! All Colors!
We collected 458 pairs last year… this year, we hope to collect at least 500 pairs of socks! Spread the word to family and friends and start collecting as many socks as you can!
Send your collected socks in with your Wildcat or drop off in the Front Office.
Let’s help everyone in our community get a warm pair of socks (or two) this year! Thank you for helping us make this a successful Socktober!
Reflections Art Contest 2024-2025: "Accepting Imperfection"
Whittier is excited to be taking part in the Reflections Art program this year! Reflections is a National PTA arts recognition program that helps students pre-K through grade 12:
- Explore their own thoughts, feelings, and ideas
- Develop artistic literacy (by describing how their art relates to a theme)
- Increase confidence
- Find a love for learning that will help them become more successful not only in school but in life
Students create original works of art in response to a theme. Finalists from local PTAs will move on to their council PTA, then finalists from councils will advance to the state round. Washington State PTA finalists who receive an “Outstanding Interpretation award will advance to the National PTA round.
Students may enter in one or more of the available arts categories (literature, music composition, photography, visual arts, film/video, choreography/dance).
The theme for 2024-2025 is “Accepting Imperfection.”
To learn more, watch this short video.
Access the entry form here.
All entries will be due by Friday, November 22nd (end of day) to vp@whittierptaseattle.org. For physical entries, please contact this email address to coordinate a drop off.
Questions? Contact Renee Hartnett at vp@whittierptaseattle.org.
PNW Parent Education 2024-2025 Speaker Lineup
Save the date for the three FREE speaker events we have planned! These are provided at no cost to you thanks to donors. You can register now for all events, and we will send more details as each event gets closer.
Wildcats Ice Skate at the Kraken Community Iceplex!
Join us for fun on the ice with our family ice skating event at the Kraken Community Iceplex during Thanksgiving break!
Date: November 26th, 2024
2:00 to 3:00 pm
We are looking for volunteers to sign in skaters at the beginning of the event. Please sign up here if you are interested.
To reserve your spot, please pay through the PayPal link. Make sure you arrive ~30 minutes early to get your bracelet and skates before hitting the ice! The Iceplex will provide some skate aids for our group.
Cost: $12 per skater, which includes skate rental.
Payment: Visit paypal.me/WhittierPTASeattle.
Please add a message and indicate payment is for the ice skating event. Include your name and number of skaters.
Waivers: Download here. One waiver is required per skater each year.
What to bring: Waiver and helmet.
Can’t wait to see you on the ice!