Bobcat Blast

Jog-a-Thon Tomorrow!

Good afternoon, Bethany Elementary Families,

Tomorrow is one of my favorite days of the school year. It's our annual Jog-a-Thon! The weather is going to be beautiful, so please come cheer on your child as they run their laps and feel the incredible community spirit.🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣 Get ready for a Colorful Fun Run! 🟣🔵🟢🟡🟠🔴

We want to extend a BIG THANK YOU to our incredible Jog-a-Thon Chair, Emily Logue, and the entire committee and volunteers. The amount of work that goes into this event is truly a labor of love—from organizing t-shirts, decorations, and volunteers to handling all the communication and day-of logistics. We couldn't do it without you.

Your generous contributions through this fundraiser directly support the amazing enrichment opportunities that make Bethany Elementary so special. This includes funding for clubs, field trips, guest speakers, new library books, and special materials for our art and STEAM program. We can't wait to see you all tomorrow! 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏃🏻‍♀️ Don't forget to have your child wear sneakers and bring a water bottle.

With Gratitude,

Ms. Rosenquist

Interested in being our MORNING CROSSING GUARD?

Mrs. Gandhi has done a wonderful job keeping our students safe as they cross 174th Avenue each morning, but she is looking to reduce her hours slightly. We are hoping someone in our Bethany community would be interested in being paid for 30 minutes a day to do this important, yet fulfilling, job. If you are interested, apply using the link below or go to the Beaverton School District website.

https://applybsd.org/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partnerid=26669&siteid=5016&PageType=JobDetails&jobid=42201

September

26 - Jog-A-Thon

29 - Vision Screening. (K-5)

30- Orange Shirt Day - See below

October

8 - Walk and Roll To School

8 - Bethany Bike Bus Begins, see information below

8 - PTO Meeting, 7:00 ZOOM

10 - No School. (Staff Development)

14 - Picture Day

20-24. Book Fair

22 - Fall Conferences, 4:00 - 8:00PM

23 - Fall Conferences, 12:00 - 8:00 No School

24 - No School (Staff Development)

30 - Haunted Hallway

31 - No School. (Grading Day)

Printable 2025-26 Yearly Calendar

Please make sure your students are prepared. They will need to:

Wear shoes and clothes they can run in
Bring a Water Bottle
Bring Sun screen if needed

Checking In Tomorrow..

Upon arrival, please head to the back of the school via the east side of the school. Please plan on arriving ~5 minutes early to make your way to your designated area.

There will be a check-in tent at the back of the school for everyone to check in at before going up to the track. Everyone will require a name tag of some sort identifying you as one of the following:

Volunteer: you will need to have previously signed up and been approved for a specific shift.
Registered in Raptor: you will receive a badge that tells our volunteers you have been approved in the system and can interact with staff, volunteers, and students.
Spectator: you will receive a badge that gives you access to our spectator tent area where you can watch and cheer but will not be able to interact with staff, volunteers, or students.

Thank you for helping us keep the event safe and fun for everyone.

Entries were automatic if your student created a Pledgestar page and our lucky winners won Piccolo Mondo Gift Cards, and a LCD Writing Tablet. Congratulations to the following winners.

Cohen, Saafir, Beth, Lennox

Hermione, Mavi, Charlie, Aren

PTO Sponsored Free Clubs

Are you looking for a FREE after school activity for your child to participate in? Check out these great PTO sponsored clubs! Please click on the Club Sign-Ups button below and submit a form for each child that would like to participate.

Submitting a form is not a guarantee that your child will be able to participate. Please be on the lookout for confirmation emails to confirm your child’s spot.

Card Making Club - Mrs. McGinty and Mrs. Peterson

Do you enjoy making cards?? Join Mrs. McGinty and Mrs. Peterson in our card making club!! This class is for students in Grades 1-5. We will be meeting on Thursdays from 2:20 - 3:15 starting on October 8th and our last class will be December 17th. Please sign up as soon as possible so enough supplies will be available.

Flag Football - Mr. Stoller

Flag football will include defensive and offensive skill building. Grades 3-5 are welcome to attend. We will be meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:25 - 3:15pm starting Sept 30th through October 21st. Bring athletic shoes, water bottle and a good attitude each day:)

Drama Club - Mrs. George

In this after-school club, students in Grades 3–5 will explore acting, storytelling, and stage skills through games, improvisation, and short performances. It's a great way to build confidence, teamwork, and imagination—all while having a blast on (and off) the stage! Students will also be the cast of the winter performance of "Flakes". This will be our Winter Celebration performed by the entire school in December. Classes will be held Monday's starting October 6th - December 15th from 2:30 - 3:15 with the final performance the week of

December 15th TBD. Class size will be limited.

Lego Club - Mrs. Myers

Students will learn about different Lego elements and building techniques. They will get to free build and work together in teams to complete Lego Challenges. Lego club will meet on Mondays from 2:25 to 3:15 starting October 6th and going thru Dec 15th. There is no school on November 10th and 24th so there will be no Lego club. Grades 1st- 5th are welcome.

Lottie's Detective Agency - Mx. Regan

Do you have what it takes to crack the case? Detective Lottie the Axolotl is looking for 15 ~ 20 student assistants from grades 3 to 5 to help solve riddles, puzzles, and mysteries for an assortment of supernatural clients in this six-week after school club. Assistants will meet at the Agency (aka Art Studio) from 2:20 to 3:15 on Mondays from October 6th to November 17th (excluding November 10th). Fans of the Cipherhunt are encouraged to apply!

Choir - Mr. Smith

Please consider joining the Bobcat Choir. Our choir is for 4th and 5th grade singers who are interested in singing more and diving deeper into music than we do in our standard music class. We rehearse every Wednesday after school from 2:30-3:30.

Our first rehearsal of the Fall term is on October 1st, and our last rehearsal is December 17th.

All of our hard work will lead to a special performance! We'll be singing at the Washington Square Mall on Thursday, December 11th at 4:30 p.m.

Club Sign-Ups

During the school year, outside organizations will be offering a variety of after-school classes at Bethany. These classes will begin in October and do have a fee associated with them.

Each week, we’ll share updated information about the available classes, including flyers and registration details.

📌 You can click on the flyers below to learn more about each class and how to sign up!

Art Enrichment

In each session, students in grades K–5 dive into the elements of art: line, shape, form, color, value, texture and perspective. They’ll also learn about influential artists and art movements, both past and present.

Days: Mondays

Fall Session: October 6th - December 15th

Time: 2:20 - 3:10pm

Cost: $225.00

Register at www.whimsywees.com/enrichment-art

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Play Fit Fun

Play.Fit.Fun. is like PE that has crashed into field day and then bumped into team building! Activities are organized, uplifting, empowering and 100% focused on the kids! Fun, Organized, ACTIVE Play is what we do.

Days: Monday

Fall Term: October 6th - December 15th

Times: 2:20 - 3:30

Cost: $175.00

Register at Playfitfun.com

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Vision screening will be conducted by the Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation, for all of our students on Monday 9/29/25. Students who wear glasses should wear their glasses for the screening. Parents will only be notified if follow up care is recommended based on vision screening results.

Please notify Esperanza Pietrok at esperanza_pietrok@beaverton.k12.or.us if you prefer that your child not participate in this vision screening. Students who are absent during school screenings will be screened individually with a parent request.

Content Area: 🦅 Tribal History Shared History

Each year on September 30th, First Nations, Metis, Inuit and Native American communities honor the children who fell victim to the residential, boarding school, mission school, and day school systems in both Canada and the United States.

Established in 2013, by First Nations community in Williams Lake, British Columbia elder Phyllis Webstad shared her story of how her grandmother bought her an orange shirt to wear to her first day at residential school.

Like her grandmother and mother before her, Phyllis was sent to a residential school. Immediately upon arriving, she and the other kids were stripped and forced into different clothing. She never again saw the orange shirt. Webstad later stated, “I didn’t understand why they wouldn’t give it back to me, it was mine! The color orange has always reminded me of that and how my feelings didn’t matter, how no one cared and how I felt like I was worth nothing. All of us little children were crying, and no one cared.”

Over a decade later, Orange Shirt Day is a symbol of our losses as Native peoples, but also our resilience, a day to remember those who didn’t survive and those who are still with us today.

Since May 27th, 2021’s announcement from the Kamloops Residential school, thousands of grave sites have been identified – but the total number of children lost remains unknown. (NAYA Family Center)

At BSD this day is an opportunity to engage students in discussions about the importance of remembering and acknowledging the resilience of our students and their families. Our elementary and middle school students are exploring this topic each year through Tribal History Shared History lessons. While this may be an uncomfortable part of history for some to discuss, it is important for our students to be knowledgeable about it in order to be better prepared to be community members and leaders in the future.

We are looking for Parents to help ride with us., If you're interested, please contact the school office.

We’re excited to kick off our Bethany Bike Bus on Wednesday, October 8th, in celebration of International Walk + Roll to School Day! After that, we’ll ride every Wednesday morning—rain or shine!

We’re looking for parent volunteers to help ride with us. If you're interested, please contact the school office.

Reminder: Helmets are mandatory for all student riders.

Let’s roll into a fun and active school year together!

Governor Tina Kotek proclaimed September 2025 as Attendance Awareness Month in Oregon. Evidence shows students who regularly attend school in September are significantly more likely to continue attending regularly throughout the school year.

In BSD, we believe that attendance is an important life skill that helps students be successful in the classroom, graduate on time and be prepared for life beyond high school. The desire to attend school regularly starts with students feeling a sense of belonging. We want our classrooms, schools and district to be places where students develop meaningful relationships with staff and other students. But to forge those connections, students need to show up for school.

BSPTO Meeting Minutes, September 10

We want to encourage parents to join us next month:

PTO Meeting

Wednesday, October 8th.

7:00 pm on Zoom

Dear Parent/Guardian:

As part of the Beaverton School District’s promise of Belong. Believe. Achieve. we aim to create an environment in which all students feel a deep sense of belonging to their school community — where they are accepted, supported and encouraged to be their authentic selves. As part of this commitment, our school will be administering the SAEBRS universal screener this school year. This tool is intended to build student awareness and help school staff know which students might need additional Social Emotional Learning (SEL) support. There are two kinds of SAEBRS assessments: student self-rating assessments and teacher rating assessments. Staff will administer the following assessments up to three times per year at the corresponding grade levels listed:

Kindergarten-12th grade: SAEBRS teacher rating tool
2nd-12th grade: mySAEBRS student self-rating tool

We believe this survey is a valuable tool because the SAEBRS screener can help identify risk factors in students. The tool also informs the selection of SEL lessons and other instructional practices in classrooms.

Other Important information:

1. Participation is voluntary and your student may decline to participate.

2. The mySAEBRS is done using a computer or tablet and takes students approximately 5 minutes to complete.

3. If you would like to see the exact questions asked on the survey you may contact the counselor at your student’s school.

4. Please contact Toni Rosenquist at Bethany Elementary (3305 NW 174th, Beaverton 97006) no later than October 3rd if you do not want your student to participate in the SAEBRS or mySABERS during the 2025-2026 school year.

More information can be found at: https://www.illuminateed.com/products/fastbridge/social-emotional-behavior-assessment/mysaebrs/

Thank you,

Toni Rosenquist

We love having families involved at school, and volunteering is a great way to connect and support our students and staff. To help keep everyone safe, all volunteers need to complete an application through our district’s volunteer system, Raptor, and pass an Oregon criminal background check. Once you're approved, you'll get a confirmation email.

Update: If you were in the system last year, you are still approved.

Volunteer Information and Application

Thanks so much for your support—we couldn’t do it without you!

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