Just a short update and some clarification on snack for this year. This year snack will go to all grades including middle school. Now with the earlier school start time some kids will go as long as 5 hours without eating, so snack plays a more crucial role in making sure kids are refueled and feeling energized till lunch and through the day. To be successful in our efforts, the snack committee is targeting snacks to be daily (everyday), nutritious and as organic and local as possible. To make this happen, we are budgeting approximately 20 cent per student per day or ~$50 per year. So more than ever, your donation of $50 or whatever you can contribute is needed in order to make the program sustainable and to take advantage of the volume discounts available when we can buy in bulk.
On the first day, your child should have come home with a packet of information. Attached to the front was a yellow PTSA form. On the back of the form was information regarding the snack and snack donation. We are now realizing that a number of you skipped the back side of the form which was easy to do. If this was the case, we are in the midst of returning the form back to you. Please return the yellow form along with your donation to your teacher.
Thanks to the efforts of Parents like Kate Malkin and Michelle Perkins with support from the teachers, snack is looked forward to and enjoyed by all. And the way we are doing this and the level of nutrition supplied by the snack far exceeds what the district could possibly supply (if they could) and meets all expectations of a healthy diet. I challenge you to find anything comparable. Thank you for your time and donation to keep this program running. It's amazing what we can do for 20ยข a day. Please feel free to call me direct if you have any questions or concerns about the snack program
Thank you!!
koichi kitazumi
206.856.0571
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