Ben Rush PTA E-Newsflash 
 
   
 
PTA General Meeting
 
Don't miss your opportunity to learn more about what the PTA does for your child. Our January General Meeting will be on Thursday at 6:45 PM in the school library. We will have a special guest speaker, Laurynn Evans.  She is the principal of Rose Hill Junior High and will be speaking about the atmosphere and curriculum at that school--a must-hear for parents of 4th, 5th & 6th graders.
 
 Mini Art Museum
How your garbage can help
 your child's art education
 
The mini museum will take place in the library from February 1st - 5th. It is a traveling art collection made possible by the Bellevue Art Museum and the Seattle Junior League. After they have toured the museum, the classes will participate in a school-wide art project, creating a beautiful person from "trash"  to reinforce our recycling assembly in December.

We would like small things you could use to make a face or a person with.  They MUST be clean and used or found, not from a craft store.

Suggestions would include:

Buttons, shells, bottle and screw off caps, film canisters, corks.

Small broken toys, wheels from toy cars, or gadgets

Yarn, ribbon, rubber bands, twist ties from bread, cloth scraps

Small boxes, like the kind jewelry comes in, toilet paper and paper towel tubes, empty matchbooks

Drink bottles, plastic or metal spice containers, unmatched "Tupperware" parts

Basically, if you think you could make a face or a person out of it, trust me, there's a kid who can! Donation box is in the PTA office.

We are in need of volunteers in the library when the students touring the museum!! There will be a training workshop at school on Wednesday at 1:30 PM.  Please contact Fang Koh at fangkoh@hotmail.com to sign-up.
 
 
 

AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

 

Some winter after-school classes start next week. Space is still available in the following classes. Go to the PTA Website and get your registration form - registrations are due one week before the class begins.

 

Mad Science                                      Mondays  3:10 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.  2/1 - 3/15

Get ready to touch, see, hear, smell and taste what science is really about!  Learn about animal habitats, life in the sea, gravity, the motion of planes and trains and the energy of motion in this Science in Action unit. Scientists make and take home a project most weeks.      $70 ($75 non-PTA member)   (6 weeks)   no class 2/15

 

Drama with SecondStory Rep        Tuesdays  3:10 p.m. - 4:30         2/2 - 3/23

"Fractured Fairy Tales" is the theme this winter and students will use fairy tales as a springboard to create characters and stories with a unique point of view.  Experience battling dragons or playing princess is a definite plus for this class.

$90 ($95 non-PTA member)       (8 weeks)

 

 

If you have any questions about after school classes at Ben Rush, please contact  Lisa Sturgeon atlisa.sturgeon@yahoo.com. Paper copies of the flyers are available at the PTA kiosk near the main office.