Madrona Bear Facts: Week 3

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Check your ParentSquare for the latest information on the school parking lot and other back-to-school info!

📅 Upcoming Dates

🐻 MIT First General Meeting - Monday September 15

🙋 Get Involved With MIT - Volunteer to Help Our School!

💻 New digital form for MIT Scholarships

🎨 Madrona Enrichment is Back for Fall 2025!

🥾 More Info about Trail from Woodway!

🚌 School Bus Info

🍔 BBQ cancelled

🏃 Fun Run

🏃 Volunteer at Fun Run!

👹 Monster Mad Dash

📸 Picture Day

📸 Volunteers Needed for Picture Day

👟 Madrona Let Me Run

🥪 This Week's Menu

⭐ Notes From MIT

9/15 6:30 PM 🐻 First MIT General Meeting

CANCELLED 9/20 🍔 Welcome Back BBQ and Volunteer Fair

9/22 📝 Registration opens for Enrichment Classes

9/24 🏫 Kindergarten/Primary Curriculum Night

9/25 🏫 Intermediate/Middle School Curriculum Night

9/25 📸 Picture Day

9/26 🏃Fun Run

9/28 🔚 Deadline for registering for Enrichment Classes

10/4 👹 Monster Mad Dash 5k

10/10 👟 Deadline to register for Let Me Run

Full calendar on Madrona BearFacts

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Our first MIT General Meeting will be at 6:30 PM on Monday, September 15, at the school library. All parents are invited to attend, in-person or via Zoom.

Attendees can park in the bus loop and staff parking, since it's after school hours.

Come early and get your volunteer badge photo taken and stay for the meeting. We'll be voting on this year's budget. The principal will be giving a Principal's Report. Meet your MIT board!

We will also present a special one-time funding request, as well as introduce all of the teams and volunteer opportunities. This meeting is an important opportunity to find out more about MIT and all of our programming for the school throughout the year.

What is MIT?

Madrona Integrated Team (MIT) is a non-profit, charitable corporation whose purpose is to support and enhance the experience of Madrona School students by sponsoring educational and related family programs, as well as enrichment activities for our students. It is similar to a PTA, but operates as its own non-profit and is not affiliated with the PTA. There is no fee to join; all Madrona students, staff, teachers and parents are automatically members. MIT is run by an elected volunteer board of directors and is responsible for raising money for use in the classrooms and throughout school as well as for creating a community through events.

We have a few key positions that need to be filled in order for certain events to run smoothly. Training is available for both positions.

Madrona Kids Fund Co-lead. September - October. This is our main fundraiser for the year. We really need another person to help run it. Last year we had very little help and don't want a repeat of that.

Madrona Grants Lead. 3 times a year, one time each quarter. Go though the submitted proposals and clarify anything that needs to be clarified. Gather a team and distribute to them the proposals that meet the grant submission criteria.

If you are interested or have questions please email me at mitvicechair@gmail.com. Please reach out to the chair at mitparentchair@gmail.com or the vice chair at mitvicechair@gmail.com if you’re interested.

More information about volunteering may be found on our website here: https://www.madronabearfacts.com/helpful-information/volunteer-information/

Volunteer Signup Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSNMS9S_Y2ANOP7HccdhiB7Y6h8SuHqENJ5kCTUy23WvBa0Q/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=110083319410728073725

The Madrona Integrated Team (MIT) understands that the costs associated with school may be a hardship for some families. The MIT community has determined that it is important to support our community during this time.

The fees covered by the Scholarship Program include:

• Supply fees (also available under Free and Reduced Lunch benefits)
• One ticket to Bear Scare
• One Enrichment class per year
• Two tickets to a Madrona Children's Theatre show
• Field trip fees (also available under Free and Reduced Lunch benefits)
• One yearbook & one pen

Anyone who thinks the cost of these items may be a hardship for their family should apply.

The new MIT Scholarship form is live. It's all digital. You should receive some information about this from your teachers as well.

Note the information received is confidential and only goes to our Office Manager, Kim Zimmerman. MIT does not have access to the information.

Madrona Integrated Team (MIT) is excited to offer another fantastic session of Enrichment classes this fall! From robotics and art to American Sign Language, yoga, music, and more — there's something for every interest and grade level.

🍁 Key Dates:

• Flyers sent home: Week of Sept 15

• Registration opens: Monday, Sept 22 at 8:00am

• Registration closes: Sunday, Sept 28 at midnight

👉 How to Register:
Visit 6crickets.com → go to “Parents” → “Programs at your school”
Returning users can use their existing login.

💻 Explore Classes:
Check out the full list of classes and more information on the Enrichment website.

Volunteers Needed:
Some classes require an adult volunteer in order to run — click here to volunteer if you’re available to help!

Scholarships:
Financial assistance is available. Visit the MIT Scholarship page for details.

Questions? Contact us at madronaep@gmail.com.

We got some more information about the best trail from Woodway Center, and we wanted to share it with the wider Madrona community. Thank you to Kelly Haller for the detailed writeup and her permission for us to share it, as well as for marking the trail to help fellow Madrona parents!

"This map shows the dicey/steep trail which leads to the opening in the fence near the parking lot (top), and the meandering trail which is well-maintained (bottom). I marked the maintained trail with little white flags today, so it’s easy to tell which direction to go along the way."

Here are photos of the trail that is well-maintained. It has a lot of off-shoots and it is not well-marked, so it’s understandable why a lot of us didn’t find it at first.

This trail ends at the fence line behind the track. There is a gate there, but it’s been unlocked every time we have come & gone so far (unlike the gate at the dead end of 240th street, which has been locked at pick up time).

Given the parking lot situation, we have been seeing a lot of questions about school buses.

You can find out all of the information about schedules, and who to contact if you have questions, by using the school district busing app. Click the button below for more info!

If your child loses something on the bus, first check with the bus driver. They may have it or have given it to the office at Madrona. If not, you can call the District Transportation Center and ask to check their lost and found.

Electronics typically go directly to the District Transportation Center for safekeeping. The Transportation Center is located at 20601 52nd Ave in Lynnwood, and their phone number is (425) 431-7230

Due to lack of parking and other logistical issues, the Welcome Back to School BBQ, Volunteer Fair, & Movie Night has been cancelled.

MIT is working on another way to get the community together. We will let everyone know as soon as we know more. We appreciate your understanding.

A great start to the school year on the Madrona School track!

Awards for: Best Spirit, Most Laps, Best Dressed, Goofiest, Loudest

Mission

• Kickoff the school year
• Enhance school spirit
• Build a sense of camaraderie among centers and the entire school
• Promote themes and ideals for the upcoming year

Activities

• Opening Ceremony - all centers/classes gather on the South field in their assigned locations
• Opening announcements by Leadership
• Centers are introduced to each other while being encouraged to dance/cheer.
• The Fun Run
• Centers/classes report to their assigned stations on the track for the start of the fun run
• Each station includes a ‘gate’ where students will pass through each lap so their lap will be counted
• Closing Ceremony - all centers return to their field stations for closing announcements and awards.

• All volunteers must be cleared by Safe Visitor Solutions before volunteering in any capacity at Madrona.
• Volunteering at Madrona information: https://www.madronabearfacts.com/helpful-information/volunteer-information/
• Volunteers need to check in at the front office at 8:30am

• Once checked in, head to the check-in table on the track to find your assignment
• Parking information forthcoming

Questions? Please contact Shana Hicks, shanaehicks@gmail.com

The Monster Mad Dash 5k in support of Foundation of Edmonds School District is 9 am, Saturday, Oct 4. This year’s run will be at Lake Ballinger, Mountlake Terrace.

Everyone is welcome to join us in supporting the Foundation by donating to registering with our team, Madrona Bears!

Full Event Day Details

Madrona Bears Team Page for Donation & Registration

Some of our 2024 team:

School photos will be taken during school on 9/25

NOTE: Class photos will also be taken the same day

Please complete your order by 9/25 either online, or using the form sent home with your student and return to their teacher. Class photos need to be added separately to your order and are not included in the packages.

Volunteers may also have their photo taken for their badge on this day.

• After you add the package to your cart on the Dorian website, go to your cart.
• There is a Bonus Section, as seen in the photo below.
• Here you may Add On Ala Carte images for $8 each instead of $16
• 1 8x10, 2 5x7, 4 3.5x5, 8 wallet
• This only shows up if you've added a $43 package or above
• Here you may add an Image Download Add On (digital download) for $9 instead of $24
• This appears for all packages
• If you have individual images or the image download in your cart already, the Bonus Section options will not appear
  

We need 6 volunteers for Picture Day, 3 in the morning, and 3 in the afternoon. Volunteers are welcome to have a middle school lunch of sub sandwiches or salads from the school cafeteria on MIT.

• All volunteers must be cleared by Safe Visitor Solutions before volunteering in any capacity at Madrona.
• Volunteering at Madrona information: https://www.madronabearfacts.com/helpful-information/volunteer-information/

Let Me Run is a program for 3-6th grade boys to train 2 times a week for 7 weeks, and then compete in an end-of-season 5k. You can find registration information at the button below:

Subject to change

See the menu any time at MySchoolMenus.com

If you or anyone you know would like to receive updates on what is happening at Madrona and how you might be able to get involved, you can sign up for the MIT Newsletter on our website.

Hi! I'm Dan Hart, your friendly neighborhood MIT Communications Coordinator. I will be responsible for sending the weekly MIT newsletter on Sundays. My goal is to continue to keep this newsletter fresh, fun to read, and informative for the whole Madrona community!

You may notice that this email is a little lighter on images than usual. After some feedback, we've decided to move away from the use of AI images as part of our newsletter theme (other than when they are used as the graphic for a specific event). Instead, we'll be coordinating with the centers and Spark! to include student artwork in the newsletter. Watch for this in the near future!

🎁 Feedback is always a gift, and I invite you to give us the gift of your feedback!

Please email me with feedback and suggestions including, but not limited to:

• What do you like
• What could improve
• Suggest a theme
• Any other feedback or suggestions!

Do you have an article you’d like included in our weekly email? Please email your blurb to Beth at MITCommCoordinator@gmail.com or submit online by Friday at noon to be included the edition going out that Sunday. Please include if you’d like the article to run for multiple weeks.

Interpretation for families is available through the school district for MIT events.

To request ASL interpretation, email aslrequests@edmonds.wednet.edu

To request other language interpretation, call or email Kelly Carlson at carlsonka@edmonds.wednet.edu | 425-431-2900

* Families that need interpretation must register in advance: We need 7 days to schedule interpreters for events.

* Familias que necesitan interpretación deben registrarse con anticipación: Necesitamos 7 días para programar intérpretes para los eventos.

*통역이 필요한 가족들은 미리 등록을 해야 합니다: 행사를 위한 통역관을 준비하는데3일이필요합니다.

* Các gia đình cần thông dịch phải đăng ký trước: Chúng tôi cần 7 ngày để sắp xếp thông dịch viên cho các sự kiện.

* Семьи, которые нуждаются в переводчике должны зарегистрироваться заранее: нам необходимо 7 дополнительных дня, чтобы заказать переводчика для мероприятия.

بالنسبة للعائلات التي بحاجة إلى مترجم يجب عليهم أن يسجلوا مسبقاً: نحن بحاجة إلى 7 أيام لتأمين جدول مواعيد للمترجمين لهذه الأحداث*