Canyon Creek PTA is 100% volunteer run and we depend heavily on our school community, including parents, older siblings, etc to help make programs & events successful. These notes are our THANK YOUS to all those who make what we do possible! We couldn't do it without you!
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THANK YOU to Northshore School District and Northshore School District Board of Directors for addressing the racial disparities and injustices that have been occurring in our community and country.
MUCH APPRECIATION to PTA leadership, chairs and volunteers who all contributed to a wonderful school year. Read the full thank you article.
GRATITUDE to the entire Northshore School District community for all their efforts and planning for the last 3 months, getting technology dispersed to those who need it, preparing and distributing food (and books), coordinating childcare, and more.
KUDOS to the Helping Hands donors who supported our efforts of collecting money to help our Canyon Creek families with food over the summer.
MUCH GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION to our 2019-2020 PTA Board. Nicole Trimble, Bethany Jager, Melanie McKenzie, Mumtaz Zimbalist, Emily Cross, Jennifer Snyder, Jennifer Spataro, Barby Taheri and Alyssa Koske. Countless hours have been dedicated to supporting our PTA and school from these amazing volunteers. They make sure events and programs happen, communication is delivered in a timely effective manner, our financials are accounted for and being spent to support our membership's desire, advocacy (at local, state and national levels) is being shared, and they ensure that we ALWAYS focus on our mission: To serve our school and community by supporting a positive and inclusive learning environment. Thank you for your service, 2019-2020 PTA Board!
MUCH GRATITUDE to our PTA leaders that attended WSPTA Convention: Karen Mitchell Smith, Nicole Trimble, Jennifer Snyder, Emily Cross, Mumtaz Zimbalist and Melanie Mckenzie. We also had Barby Taheri and Robin Zaback attend on behalf of other schools. Overall more than 25 separate classes were taken between our delegates.
MANY THANKS to our 2019-2020 chairs: Courtney Carr, Karen DeMercer, Elesha Ostrander, Alyssa Koske, Stephanie Dunning, Han Wexler, Phuong Nguyen, Robin Zaback, Jodie McClure, Nicole Trimble, Courtney Pansini, Misty Carter, Jenny Herbison, Emily Cross, Megan King, Navdeep Bawa, Megan Madsen, Nancy Tangen, Mariel Villa, Melanie Mckenzie, Casey Dwyer, Abhishek Mehta, Jennifer Spataro, Daisy Tan, Bethany Jager, Dawn Draheim, Patty Buchanan, and Michael Richards. These are the superb individuals that make our PTA what it is, offering their time, expertise and dedication to better the lives of our children. Thank you so much!
MANY THANKS to Cindy Tucker with Super Sitters LLCfor hosting a very successful online presentation of the Safe Kids Home Alone 101 class. Congratulations to the Canyon Creek students that took the class and learned the best ways to stay safe when home by themselves!
MUCH APPRECIATION to the nearly 35 attendees that attended our Zoom membership meeting. We elected the 2020-21 PTA Executive Board, approved the 2020-2021 PTA Budget, announced the PTA Golden Acorn, Outstanding Educator and Outstanding Advocate awards, heard from Skyview Principal Mark about transition for incoming 6th graders, welcomed 6th grade families to Skyview PTSA by President Barby Taheri, and saw an incredible volunteer video presented by Mr. Denton. Many thanks to all! Read our recap.
THANK YOU to our VP Program, Bethany Jager for compiling and submitting the WSPTA Standards of Excellence. We won GOLD in Outstanding Communication Strategy, Outstanding Website, Face and Community Engagement and Standards of Excellence. We also received BRONZE in Outstanding Newsletter.
CHEERS for our Membership Chair, Jennifer Snyder for managing our membership this past year. We reached 404 members and also received the WSPTA 100% Staff Membership award! HOORAYS to our Canyon Creek staff for their support by becoming members, which allowed us to receive this award!
HEARTFELT APPRECIATION to the entire Canyon Creek administration- Mr. Denton, Ms. Airhart, Sue Hanson, Terri Jaenson, and Lynnea Webb. We are so appreciative of your support, engagement and partnership.
TREMENDOUS THANK YOU to the Canyon Creek teaching teams and specialists. We appreciate all the time you set aside for our PTA, attending our programs, sharing information about PTA events, helping to making sure our programs are as successful as possible. We value this relationship and know we couldn't do it without you.
THANK YOU to Bethany Jager, Barby Taheri, Melissa Kline, Nancy Tangen, Mrs. Rogers and Mr. D'entremontfor selecting the 2019-20 PTA award winners. We are so so excited to learn about the award recipients at our last General Membership meeting of year on Tuesday, May 19th.
Much gratitude and appreciation to Elesha Ostander, Misty Carter, and Dawn Draheim.These amazing PTA chairs have given so much to our PTA and school and are now moving on to other schools. We are forever thankful for their care and attention to our students - and we will miss you.
MUCH APPRECIATION to our VP-Programs, Bethany Jager for her work with our Local PTA Awards and kudos to the individuals that submitted a nominee!! We are excited to announce our winners at our General Membership meeting Tuesday, May 19th.
THANK YOU to the PTA Staff Appreciation Team, Alyssa Koske & Stephanie Dunning for their work on gathering photos and making into a video for Staff Appreciation Week! We had around 40 photos submitted.
HOORAY to all the families who went the “extra mile” and submitted photos of drawing, notes, etc for Staff Appreciation. We sure appreciate your effort and support of Canyon Creek staff.
SPECIAL SHOUT OUT to our Sustainability and Environmental Chair, Courtney Pansini for the week long suggestions on how we can celebrate Earth during Earth Day and Week.
KUDOS to all the students and families that celebrated Earth Day and made an extra effort to celebrate our Earth this week.
CONGRATULATIONS to the 17 members of the "Canyon Creek Coyotes" CanDo5K Team. They completed the virtual race on Saturday (or in the weeks prior). Thank you for showing your support of those with special needs!
KUDOS to the 31 students who read more than 8 hours of recreational time and participated in the March reading challenge. They will receive a voucher from High Trek Adventures for a fun outdoor activity. Woohoo!!
MUCH APPRECIATION to all attendees of our first Zoom Membership Meeting. We were able to conduct our PTA business with lots of smiles! It was so wonderful to see everyone!
HUGE THANK YOU to Daisy Tan, Emily Cross and Melanie McKenzie for donating gently used books to Northshore Schools Foundation to help families that need books in the home.
MUCH APPRECIATION to everyone who attended our first Zoom PTA Board Meeting - and helped work out all the kinks!
GRATITUDE to our outgoing Spirit Wear Chair, Dawn Draheim. Dawn has managed all the spirit wear for our PTA and school for the past few years. Thank you for your incredible organization and all the time you put into this. You made it look easy!
MUCH APPRECIATION to Courtney Pansini for bringing Earth Hour to our attention! Joining the world in turning off lights for an hour last night - or making an entire evening of it. HOORAYS to those who celebrated and shared photos of their experience! We look forward to sharing ideas about Earth Day 2020 (on Wednesday, April 22nd).
KUDOS to Bethany Jager for setting up our Canyon Creek Coyote CanDo5K virtual run. It's a fantastic way to show your support of those with special needs in our community!
TREMENDOUS APPRECIATION to the amazing Northshore School District food services and transportation staff who have distributed over 10,000 meals this past week, provided at 33 different locations. What an amazing help to so many families in our area.
THANK YOU to our Box Tops Chair, Jenny Herbison for processing and submitting the Box Tops from our February drive. We earned $125 for that drive - resulting in a total of about $500 for the school year. Much appreciation Jenny!
SO MUCH APPRECIATION to our Canyon Creek staff and teachers for all of their efforts over the last 2 weeks, setting up and implementing the first week remote learning. You are very appreciated and we hope you are spending this time with family and taking care of yourself!
THANK YOU to our PTA Membership! Because of your membership and support, we were able to provide a delicious lunch to our Canyon Creek staff this week and it was so needed and appreciated! Much gratitude to all our PTA MEMBERS!
HOORAYS to Northshore Council PTSA for hosting an online meeting for Northshore School District PTA leaders to discuss impacts of the closures on our PTAs and come up with ideas of how PTAs can help in this uncertain time. Also, for providing online resources for PTA leaders! And THANK YOU to all the other NSD PTA leaders who shared their insights and challenges.
THANK YOU to our amazing VP Communications, Nicole Trimble for her diligence and proactive care of ensuring all our PTA members are constantly informed of EVERYTHING.
KUDOS to our PTA Board for their effort and dedication to our PTA. Many changes have occurred in the last couple weeks to respond to the current situation - and their continued focus is to ensure we do our best for our school.
SPECIAL SHOUT OUT to our Glow Dance, STEM Fair and Bingo Chairs- Nicole Trimble, Jodie McClure, Alyssa Koske, Stephanie Dunning and Abhishek Mehta. Their prompt action to adjust our PTA calendar to ensure most events still happen is commendable- THANK YOU!
HUGE HUGE HUGE APPRECIATION to all Canyon Creek teachers & staff, as well as the NSD leadership and staff! We know they are doing their best to ensure our students continue to learn during this new challenge. We appreciate you and all you are doing!
THANK YOU to all who supported our PTA during our MOD Night Dine Out! We made $265.16. Special SHOUT OUT to our Partnership Chair, Misty Carter for organizing that event for us.
WOOHOOS to everyone who contributed lunches or money to help us make the Staff Appreciation: Bring a Lunch for Staff event such a success! And a BIG APPRECIATION to our Staff Appreciation Team, Alyssa Koske & Stephanie Dunning for all they are doing this year to help make Canyon Creek staff feel special and appreciated! More detailed thank yous...
HUGE KUDOS to all who shop at Fred Meyers and have Canyon Creek Elementary PTA linked to their reward card. We made $276.23!! Woohooo!!
APPRECIATION to all our PTA members that took action and sent emails to our legislators during WSPTA Advocacy Week! Our voice is powerful and can make a real difference!
THANK YOU to all who have donated to the Canyon Creek PTA Helping Hands program. We are able to provide grocery gift cards to 17 Canyon Creek families for food assistance over mid winter break! Much appreciation to all!
HUGE HUGE THANK YOU to our Spelling Bee teachers: Mr. Henderson, Mrs. Larson, and Mrs. Lindleyfor judging and moderating the Bee. We so appreciate your time and effort. Also THANK YOU to Jennifer Spataro for keeping track of all the rounds (YES, it went 23 rounds) and the words. EXTRA KUDOS to our middle and high school student helpers: Connor Rosenberry, Arav Popli and Bhuvit Verma (and mom Astha too). Much appreciation for them! MUCH GRATITUDE to our spellers for their effort and their parents for their support.
HOORAYS to our incredible principals, Mr. Denton and Ms. Airhart for supporting our PTA and participating in our last Pastries & Principals. Parents attending got a tour of the new building and discussed many important topics with our principals.
CLAPS to our Box Tops Chair, Jenny Herbison for organizing our last Box Tops Drive of the school year! Thanks so much, Jenny!
YIPPEES to our Game Night chairs: Emily Cross and Bethany Jager for putting on our super fun Game Night. It was a huge success. Also thanks to volunteers: Arav Popli for helping with set up and Astha for helping with the popcorn station.
WOOHOOS to our Partnerships Chair: Misty Carter, for coordinating the MOD Pizza event last week. THANKS SO MUCH to all of the families and community members who supported the event - there were so many people at MOD! We will announce the donation amount when we get that number from MOD Pizza.
CHEERS to our PTA Directory Chair, Phuong Nguyen, for organizing and putting together our PTA Canyon Creek Student Directory! Many thanks for your time and efforts!
SHOUT OUT to all our spectacular art docents who have been providing enriching art lessons to all students at Canyon Creek. Special shout out to our PTA Art Docent Chairs: Karen DeMercer, Courtney Carr, and Elesha Ostrander for continuing to support and inspire our art docents!
MANY THANKS to our PTA After School Programs Chair: Han Wexler for organizing and bringing many great winter after school programs to our school- much appreciation, Han!
THANK YOU to our PTA Reflections Chair, Robin Zaback, for all the time and effort put into the Reflections program this year! Preparing the art submissions for judging is quite a task, and she did it beautifully! Robin also helped with the Reflections Celebration last weekend. Thank you for supporting art at Canyon Creek!
THANK YOU to Northshore Council PSTA for hosting the Reflections Celebration on Saturday. Also, CHEERS to all those who were able to join the celebration. It was a lovely event highlighting the wonderful artist pieces that made it to the district level judging in the Reflections program. We are super excited to share ALL of the Canyon Creek artists' Reflection submissions at the Art Gala in May!
HUGE KUDOS to our PTA Staff Appreciation Team: Alyssa Koske and Stephanie Dunning for stocking the refrigerator full of yummy, nutritious snacks for our Canyon Creek staff after the winter break.
EXTREME GRATITUDE to everyone who contributed to our Helping Hands Holiday Wish List. We were able to provide every family on our list with something for each listed person. THAT IS INCREDIBLE!!!! Thank you so much to: Mrs. Vasatka, Emily Owen, Mrs. Vancour, Mr. D’entremont, Melanie McKenzie, Jennifer Snyder, Emily Cross, Megan Mullins, Mrs. Fiser, Crystal Fry, Christine Hansen, Mrs. Roland, Gowri Natarajan, Ms. Airhart, Courtney Pansini, Katie Parsons, Stephanie Siverston, Mr. Graff, Ms. Hanson, Jennifer Griffin, Nancy Tangen, Jennifer Herbison, Melissa Houghton, Bria LeFeuvre, Nicole Trimble, Mrs. Burkett, Shaylin Petersen, Mrs. Hart, Ms. Kieffer, Mrs. Slywka, Mrs. Sprague, Kristina Belcher, Cristi Comes, Heather Douangpanya, Ms. Ducotey, Ms. Ehlers, Karlie Kirkham, Ms. Mahoney, Mr. Trischetti Jr., Robin Zaback and Terri Jaenson. We also received a few last minute monetary and wish list items from a few unknown individuals- THANK YOU so much! Special thank you to Canyon Creek Office Manager, Sue Hanson, for coordinating with our school families about their needs--and for the extra effort and energy to support our PTA in this project! We are so grateful. Again, our gratitude and appreciation is endless for everyone that came together to make this happen!
MUCH APPRECIATION to our amazing Spelling Bee teacher volunteers, Mrs. Larson, Mrs.Lindley and Mr. Henderson for taking time out of their busy schedule to work with our Spelling Bee students. Much appreciation for your devotion to our Spelling Bee students.
HUGE KUDOS to our PTA Chaperones for our fall after school programs: Laryssa Schwartz, Daisy Tan, and Sudha Natarajan. Without your help, we could not have our after school programs!
MANY THANKS to our nearly 70 parents and studentswho attended our Hour of Code sessions last Tuesday. HUGE WOOHOOS to the middle/high school student volunteers for their help: Connor Rosenberry, Parisha Mundra, Shreya Mundra, Dhriti Rao, and Aditya Nair. THANKS to our assistant principal, Ms. Airhart, for going toe to toe with a few Minecraft coders. APPRECIATION to our STEM Chair, Abhishek Mehta, for his organization and coordination of this event.
MUCH APPRECIATION to everyone who attended our Savvy Parents Safe Kids Parent Education! The feedback about the presentation was great. THANKS also to Christy Keating, owner of Savvy Parents Safe Kids, for providing important information about keeping our kids safe from sexual predators. SPECIAL SHOUT OUT to Canyon Creek Elementary parent, Celeste Marion, for providing the Spanish translation during the presentation! And THANK YOU to Northshore School District for lending us the translation equipment (headphones & transmitters).
Oh, and we updated the Taste of Canyon Creek Thank You article to include some of the books read and photos of the event. Check it out.
MANY THANKS to Mr. Gray for planning the Veterans Celebration on Friday - and Barby Taheri for planning our Veterans Reception. THANKS to everyone who donated something to the breakfast! HOORAYS to all of the students who made art to decorate the hallway, welcoming the veterans to the celebration. WOOHOOS to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts who provided the color guard for the celebration. HIGH FIVES to all the 1st grade students who sang and signed "You're a Grand Old Flag" for our visitors. And of course, last but certainly not least - HUGE HEARTFELT THANKS to all the veterans who attended our celebration and shared in the student classrooms! We have heard many lovely comments about that special time.
APPRECIATION to Superintendent Reid for stopping by on Friday for a Meet & Greet with parents. THANKS to the parents who came to ask questions or discuss issues.
MANY THANKS to Dawn Draheim and Woodinville Print for working with us to create our PTA Sponsor & PTA Welcome banners! We will be hanging the PTA Welcome banner, highlighting our top PTA business sponsors - look for it next week along the entrance driveway to Canyon Creek Elementary!
CHEERS for Megan King, our Library Brigade Chair, for keeping the library assistant schedule updated!! Also in advance for the work figuring out volunteer schedules for early release conference days and the upcoming Scholastic Book Fair! We appreciate you!
APPRECIATION to Jennifer Herbison, our Box Tops Chair, for trimming, checking expiration dates, counting and submitting the approximately 3,900 Box Tops received for our fall drive. WOOHOOS to Maria Allen and Natalie O’Reilly for helping cut and count all those Box Tops. Every Box Top counts...so THANK YOU to everyone who turned in Box Tops!!
MANY THANKS from Nurse Susan for making the vision & hearing screening day such a success! She thanked Barby Taheri for providing lunch for the volunteers - and Stephanie Dunning & Starbucks for the coffee! She also thanked all the individual volunteers. See the complete message from Nurse Susan - along with an update about screening next steps.
MUCH APPRECIATION to our PTA Popcorn Team: Megan Madsen, Courtney Carr and Nancy Tangen, for popping nearly 800 bags of popcorn for our students and staff on Friday. The Popcorn Team will take a break until March, when Popcorn Fridays will resume!
HUGE HOORAYS to our PTA Skate Night Chair, Megan King for coordinating a super fun skate night! The kids always love to see their friends outside of the classroom!
THANK YOUS (again) to our PTA Art Docent Team: Courtney Carr, Karen DeMercer and Elesha Ostrander, for hosting another Art Docent Training Session to make sure our Art Docents are comfortable getting in classrooms and giving art lessons! Also, MANY THANKS to those to have volunteered to be art docents and attended this training meeting!
APPRECIATION to our VP: Communications, Nicole Trimble & President, Melanie McKenzie for securing our PTA Business Sponsors again this year! We have 9 confirmed sponsors (and one or two pending payment)! We will be creating our 2019-20 Sponsor page soon - as well as working on our new 2019-20 Sponsor & Welcome banners!
WOOHOOS to our PTA Box Tops Chair, Jenny Herbison, for coordinating our Fall Box Tops Drive...but it's not really done, she will be working to trim and count the Box Tops - and we will report the total amount for this drive when she submits it!
MANY THANKS to volunteers who answered our call for help with the school's APEX Fun Run! We appreciate all those who helped hand out water and mark laps on t-shirts! You were an essential part of making the fun run work!
APPRECIATION for our PTA Social Media Chair, Megan King, for her continuing commitment to posting timely and pertinent information on our social media! If you haven't already, like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram!
YIPPEES to our PTA Special Education Representative, Bethany Jager, for her work with the CCC box. We hope this becomes a helpful resource for families!
MUCH APPRECIATION to Mr. Graff and Michael Richardsfor coodinating the Watch D.O.G.S. Kickoff for the new school year! HUGE HOORAYS for the potential Watch D.O.G.S. (and their kids) who came to learn about the program and sign up - we welcomed over 80 guests to the kickoff and went through 24 pizzas! We anticipate a GREAT year with Watch D.O.G.S.! MANY THANKS to our middle school volunteers (Sadie, Kelsey, Jordan & Jocelyn), who helped setup, serve, assist the kids at the art tables, and cleanup! An additional WOOHOO toDerrick Snyder for setting up the PTA membership table!
SHOUT OUTS to the kindergarten, social/emotional & 4th grade teachers for hosting the curriculum nights on Tuesday! Hearing more from teachers about how things will work over the school year is wonderful.
CHEERS to Melanie McKenzie for setting up our After School Enrichment class registration for the fall! We have a new After School Enrichment Coordinator, Han Wexler, who will be taking over the program for the winter & spring classes!
HUGE HOORAYS to all of the Community Serve Day volunteers who gave their time to help our school prepare for the new school year! We had many community volunteers in addition to student families and staff! Volunteers assisted teachers with so much in their classrooms and really made our school grounds look beautiful. You are SO appreciated. Special thanks to Ms. McLain for coordinating the specific event at our school. Canyon Creek was just one of 31 different schools that were part of the larger Community Serve Day, supported by many churches and groups.
THANK YOUS to our Staff Appreciation Team, Stephanie Dunning & Alyssa Koske, for the "Walk of Fame" breakfast for the Canyon Creek staff on their first official day back for the new school year. Special woohoo to Jonathon Dunning too! BIG CHEERS to Starbucks @ Canyon Creek Place and Starbucks @ Bothell Everett Hwy & 220th for their donations! Find more details.
MUCH APPRECIATION to the amazing Canyon Creek Teachers & Staff and PTA volunteers who made the Back-to-School Ice Cream Social a wonderful kick-off for the new school year! HOORAYS to all of the Canyon Creek families who attended!! SPECIAL APPRECIATION to Melanie McKenzie for coordinating the event this year. Check out more thank you thoughts.
MANY THANKS to Patty Buchanan, our PTA Summer Fun Playdate Chair, for hosting the four playdates for our incoming kindergarteners this summer!! We had a wonderful turnout at Stipek Park! We hope those who attended, found it fun and helpful. APPRECIATION to our PTA Board Members (Jennifer Snyder, Bethany Jager, Melanie McKenzie & Nicole Trimble) who attended the playdates to help answer questions for our new families.
WOOHOOS to everyone who donated crayons and markers to the drive at the end of last year! Our PTA Sustainability Team (Alyssa Koske, Courtney Pansini, and Gentle Chikani) sent 35 lbs of markers to Crayola to be re-purposed into clean burning fuel -- and 40 lbs of crayons to Crazy Crayons to be melted down and reused. We were also able to donate the very best 15 lbs of crayons to the Northshore Headstart program!! Read the recap article.
