It’s the first day of school!

Welcome back to BF Day, the family school! Be safe getting to school and let’s have a great day!

 

Fundraising Opportunity from Bartells

Do you have a Bartell’s loyalty card?  Be sure it is registered at escrip.com!  Use it this month for a chance to win money for BF Day.

August 30th – New Family Dinner and Playground Open House

August 30th is the New Family Dinner hosted bythe PTSA. If this is your child’s first year at PTSA in any grade, please joinus from 5:30 to 7:00 pm in the cafeteria for a yummy dinner and meet BF Day students, families, teachers, and our new principal, Katie Pearl.

Main dishes are provided; please bring a side dish or salad if your child’s last name beginswith A – L, or a dessert if it starts with M – Z. We still need a few volunteers for this event to help with set up and clean up. If you’d like to help, please email our PTSA president, Kristin Anderson at kanderson11@comcast.net.

On the same evening, at the school from 6:30-8:00 is the playground open house. We invite our families and neighbors to a join us and help decide what playground equipment our neighborhood needs, as well as learn about this exciting project that is happening at BF Day.

Fremont Wiffleball Universe Tournament

Fremont Wiffleball Universe Tournament

Game Play – Sat. & Sun., September 8 & 9
Tournament Sunday, September 9
BF Day School Play Field
(42nd & Linden Ave N)

Join the Fremont Chamber for a fun, team building wiffleball league. This one weekend tournament will whip your company into shape and give you the opportunity to become the Wiffleball Champions of the Universe!!

Teams of 6 or more people
Cost $250 for 6, $20 each additional player
Includes: game play, tournament & t-shirt
Proceeds benefit BF Day School Playground Project

Please Register online

Join Seattle Parks and Recreation at the first public meeting Wednesday, July 18, 2012 from 7 – 9 p.m. at the Phinney Neighborhood Association and provide input on the renovation of the Woodland Park play area.

The Parks and Green Spaces Levy provides funding for planning, design and construction.  For more information please visit http://seattle.gov/parks/projects/woodland_park/playground.htm

Parks has scheduled two public meetings for this new project. At the first meeting please come prepared to talk with Park’s Landscape Architect Shwu-jen Hwang about your ideas for the play area; think about what you like about the existing play area and what could use improvement. We will also talk about the project schedule and budget. Shwu-jen Hwang designed the very popular Ercolini playground in West Seattle. At the second meeting in October, Shwu-jen Hwang will present three play area options. These will serve as a basis for discussion for the preferred schematic design. You may also fill out this brief survey. The existing play area will be open during the summer 2013, but will be closed during construction that autumn.

Again that link to the brief survey is here. 

Get Fit for BF Day – A Gym-A-Thon Fundraiser!

What is this? Excercise is a good thing and now for a good cause! Here’s how.

Starting now – print out this form and begin collect pledges.
July 12-15 – go to Anytime Fitness between 9am and 7pm, sign in and work out.  Don’t forget to turn in your pledge form to qualify for prizes!
Anytime – Turn in your pledges! Use the paypal donate button on this page with Gym-A-Thon in the comment section. You may also mail a check to BF Day PTSA, 3921 Linden Ave N, Seattle, WA  98103.

Volunteer at Red, White & Dead Zombie Walk in Fremont to helpraise money for the B.F. Day Playground

On Saturday, July 7, the Red, White and Dead Zombie walk will attempt to set a Guinness Book of World Records for a Zombie Walk. Managing, registering and lining up all these zombies requires a lot of humans. Piranha Blonde, organizers of Red, White and Dead Zombie Walk have generously offered to make a donation to the B.F. Day playground project. If we can provide volunteers to help staff the event, organizers will donate 10% of tickets sales to the B.F. Day Playground Project.

Volunteer shifts are from:
10am – 2pm
1 – 4pm
3 – 8pm

Volunteers/staff remain in regular clothes. Volunteers must be adults.

Interested individuals and/or groups should contact Jerry at vols.piranha@gmail.com

For more information on the event, visit www.redwhitedead.com and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Red-White-and-Dead-Zombie-Walk-presented-by-ZomBcon/136074383141451

If you go to the Fremont Fair tomorrow (hours 11-6), please stop by the Fremont Rotary/BF Day Garden Booth, kitty corner from the Rocket!

We’re raising $ for the playground by asking for donations for flower starts and zoodoo, all donated; BF Day students planted and bagged.  Thank you!

Rotarian Beth

Direct Drive Update and Next PTSA Meeting at Pecado Bueno

Thank you for supporting the PTSA Direct Drive!

Congratulations to Ms. Kendrick’s class! This kindergarten classroom had the highest percentage of students participating in the direct drive for school year 2011-2012. Ms. Kendrick and her class will enjoy a pizza party for all their efforts.

Room 103 had the highest participation rate, but the contest was close. We appreciate the generous response from so many to our recent direct drive plea. Our direct drive alone raised over $18,600 this school year. Receipts for donation of $50 or more will be sent out in later this month. Including other fundraising efforts this year, the PTSA has raised over $61,000 to be used to enhance our children’s learning experience at B.F. Day.

Please join us to vote on next year’s PTSA budget and how that money will be spent.
All PTSA members are invited and encouraged to attend and vote on next year’s PTSA budget.

When: Tuesday, June 12, 6:30-7:30pm (Business), 7:30 – ? (social)
Where: Pecado Bueno, 4307 Fremont Ave N

June Agenda

Fremont Rotary teams up with Fremont Brewery

Two local institutions who have been infinitely supportive of BF Day, are working together to bring you an evening of fun and community enrichment. Fremont Rotary, aka Fremont Fun Club, and Fremont Bewery present the following: