Thursday Thriller, February 27, 2025

Thursday Thriller
February 27, 2026

CELEBRATIONS!

John Schumacher, WA HI Principal, and the kitchen staff commended our 8th graders for their great behavior during lunch and for doing a nice job cleaning up afterward! :D

Robin shared her photos she took of students at SeaTech! Their programs are amazing!

This picture is of Brayden and Camren working together in Nate's ELA class. Both of these boys have improved and grown this year!

Jack turned one this past Saturday and Axcel turned six yesterday. Love on your family and make them a priority. ❤

Nuts-n-Bolts

1.    Evacuation drill at 10:45 am on tomorrow.

Please be sure you are ready!

2. Yearbook Sales -March 3-17th.This the second open window for purchases.  The third and final open window will be April 28-May 9th.The cost of a yearbook is $25. I will announce on GNN ad Putin our Saturday Newsletter.

3. If you have things for our Saturday Newsletter, please let me know.  Here is a sample of last week's letter.  Julia, our web designer, places this newsletter on our webpage for parents. 

4. In March, each grade level will be going on a field trip, funded by the Blue Mountain Foundation. These field trips have been scheduled months in advance and are coordinated with Pioneer, so rescheduling is not an option. While we’ve secured most of the chaperones, we still need a few more volunteers. When we all pitch in, the responsibility is shared, and it doesn’t fall on the same people every time. When Stephanie reaches out, please respond promptly—it shouldn’t require a follow-up from administration. Be sure to check your emails and let us know if you're able to chaperone. If you have a conflict, please inform us as soon as possible so we can work together to find a solution. We’re also reaching out to our VIP volunteers for additional support. Thank you for helping make these trips successful!

5. Starting Monday, March 3rd, Martin Fortney will be supervising Millenials Soccer. Nicole and I will be meeting with him to go over the expectations for participants. We've had some initial conversations, and he has some great ideas about how to support students who aren’t passing classes but still want to participate. We’re also considering allowing 8th graders to do both track and Millenials Soccer. We’ll keep you updated so you're in the loop on the expectations for Millenials.

Something to Ponder

This article, written in 1990 (I know, some of you weren't even born yet!), really resonated with me because it focuses on self-renewal. It truly spoke to me. While it’s a bit longer, I hope you find at least one valuable gold nugget from it.

We can't write off the danger of complacency, growing rigidity, and imprisonment by our own comfortable habits and opinions. Look around you. How many people whom you know well -- people even younger than yourselves --are already trapped in fixed attitudes and habits? A famous French writer said, "There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives." CLICK HERE to read this useful essay about self-renewal from John Gardner.

WISE WORDS

Judgement is easy, giving grace is hard.

                     -Ted Lasso