PTA Wednesday After-School Program

This is PTA sponsored program for all students of Olympic View. It consists of three separate sessions of 6 classes each. Sessions are offered in the Fall, Winter and Spring. Classes offered are usually in science, arts & crafts, music and athletics. This is a fun opportunity for students to experience new activities or old favorites.

Session One for Fall 2007 will begin on Wednesday, October 3, 2007. Students will be brought to the cafeteria after school where they will receive a snack. At 3:30pm after school classes will begin. Students will be dismissed at 4:30pm. Bus transportation will be provided for eligible bus riders. The Olympic View PTA underwrites this program.

The classes offered in Session One (Fall 2007):
What's Cooking?, Masks in Motion, Sign Language Fun, Crow Valley Arts Workshop, Clayworks, Jump Rope USA, Miss Molly's Mache Madness, Tennis, Kid Pix and PowerPoint, Make 3-D Art, and Yoga Fun.

Chess Club

To sign up please fill out the registration form – Hurry Enrollment is limited, first come first serve! For more information contact: Vince Slupski 206-522-0630

The Chess Club meets every Friday in the Cafeteria from 3:20 – 4:30, starting October 5th . You get more than 20 days of chess instruction, free admission to two tournaments, and chess puzzle workbook (available in four different levels) developed by three time Chess Champion, Elena Donaldson. Priority is given to 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders* If space permits, first and second graders who are very enthusiastic about chess and are accompanied by one of their parents (due to the intensity of the class) may be considered.

Volunteers: Parent volunteers encouraged and appreciated. Please try to make one or more sessions. You’ll learn something too! Fees: $59 for Chess Mates Foundation and chess puzzle workbook, $20 for snacks and trophies; waived for students eligible for free/reduced price lunch. Please make separate checks out to Chess Mates Foundation ($59) and OV PTA ($20); put checks and the form in an envelope and return to the box marked “OV Chess Club” in the parent room.

Choir

Come join the OV singers-led by Heather Hawkins. We rehearse before school once a week for twenty minutes most weeks that school is in session. One morning for K-2 and one morning for 3-5. We sing and play musical games. We performed one concert last year in the spring and will add one more concert this year. We also perform at school assemblies.

Everyone in K-5th grade is welcome-no fee or audition required-just a desire to sing!!!!!! Stay tuned for more details. Accompanists encouraged to volunteer.

Contact Heather at hawkinsweinland@hotmail.com with any questions.

Drama Production

Olympic View Elementary has an outstanding after school drama program run by the PTA, that culminates in an amazing musical production by the 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. For the past two years the play has been shown at the Nathan Hale Performing Arts Center to sold out shows. The plays have ranged from "the Princess Bride", a 50's version of "Midsummer's Night Dream", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Alice in Wonderland" to "the Three Musketeers".

This year's drama production will be Sasparella, a western version of the classic Cinderella story conceived and adapted by David Drummond and directed by Heather Hawkins. Sasparella is a fun musical packed with hysterical characters and lots of music from the folk and western music canon. Performances will be during the evening of February 1st and 2nd at the Nathan Hale Performing Arts Center.

Parent involvement is key to these shows and is represented in hundreds of ways, from producing the play, to costumes, choreography, props, scenery, chaperoning, etc. . .

Instrumental Music

Instrumental music is offered to 4th and 5th grade students. The program is designed to provide an introduction to and appreciation of instrumental music by providing 30 minutes of instruction each week in a number of different percussion, string and wind instruments.

Math Club

We are very excited about an opportunity available to our 4th and 5th grade students as we begin our first ever Olympic View Math Club team! Math Club will stimulate enthusiasm for mathematics by challenging our students’ mathematical thinking in a fun, supportive team setting. Our Math Club team will meet for one hour each week to practice math and prepare for competitions. Additional information about Math Club will be coming home with 4th and 5th grade students in kidmail.

Safety Patrol

Interested 4th and 5th grade students may apply to be a member of our school safety patrol. The safety patrol helps to direct traffic and serve as crossing guards on the intersection at 8th and 95th NE.

Student Council

Students from each of our classrooms, K-5, are elected to be representatives on our student council. The student council finds solutions to quality of life issues impacting Olympic View Students. Each year, the student council organizes a school-wide service project, and a variety of school spirit days. For more information about student council, contact Mr. Moynihan at tmoynihan@seattleschools.org

Conflict Mediators

Interested 4th and 5th grade students may apply to receive training to be one of several conflict mediators who work on our school playground. Conflict mediators assist our playground supervisors by assisting students in finding peaceful solutions to problems that arise on the playground. For more information about conflict mediators, contact Mary McDaniel, Head Teacher.