Bonny Slope Elementary

MARCH

3/10 Bobcat Trail Club 7:45 am

3/11 Choir 7:30 am

3/12 Choir 7:30 am

3/13 Bobcat Trail Club 7:45 am

3/17-20 Scholastic Book Fair-Library

3/17 Bobcat Trail Club 7:45 am

3/18 Choir 7:30 am

3/19 Choir 7:30 am

3/20 Bobcat Trail Club 7:45 am

3/19 Book Fair Family Night-Library

3/19 Europe Part 1 (GeoClub)

3/21 March Birthday Lunch

3/24-3/28 NO SCHOOL - Spring Break

Spring Classes are enrolling now! Watch this link for new additions thru the Month of March.

After School Activities

Dear Bonny Slope Families:

Get ready! The Scholastic Book Fair is coming our way (YAY!). Choosing their own books empowers kids and inspires them to become Bolder, Prouder, and Stronger Readers. AND—as always—every book they buy earns rewards for our school.

Here’s what you need to know about the Fair, which will take place from Monday, March 17th through Thursday, March 20th in the library:

Before the Fair, set up eWallet for worry-free, cash-free purchases. Anyone can contribute! Share each child’s eWallet so friends and family can add funds and give your kids more books to enjoy. Remember, even if you set up an eWallet in the past, you must create a new eWallet for each Fair.

The children will be coming through the Book Fair during their Library Specials, and after-school shopping is available until 4pm on Monday, 3/17.

Family Night is Wednesday, March 19th from 3 - 6:30pm. Please join us for fun activities including Bingo, a poster raffle, and more!!

If you can’t make it to the Fair, then shop at our school’s Online Book Fair. All orders ship directly to your home, and shipping is free for book orders over $25. Your online orders will also benefit our school. You can shop the Online Book Fair from March 17 - March 30 at the link below.

Visit our Book Fair homepage to learn more and get started with eWallet and online shopping:

https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/bonnyslopeelementaryschool

Happy Reading!

CALLING ALL BONNY SLOPE FAMILIES AND STAFF!

Join us in creating our first-ever BSE Cultural Cookbook.

In celebration of Culture Night, BSCO is creating a digital cookbook to showcase our community’s diverse cultures. Everyone is welcome to submit a family recipe, whether or not you can attend. Recipes can include appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, desserts, beverages, and more. Share a dish that represents your culture, family tradition, or favorite meal. Recipes with everyday ingredients and straightforward steps are encouraged to allow all skill levels to participate. We welcome you to tell your story with a short description and a photo would be helpful. Please contribute to the cookbook by submitting through Google Form or email your recipe and photo to Cultural@bonnyslopebsco.org before Monday, March 15th. For additional questions, contact Brittni Henry, brittnihenry1@gmail.com.

Save The Date, Science Night is back! This family-friendly annual BSCO event is returning to Bonny Slope on Friday, May 9 from 6-8 PM. This is a fun-filled evening of hands-on science exploration! Stay tuned for more information.

2024-2025 Yearbooks Orders + We need Photos!

The Yearbook needs more photos! Please help us by uploading photos of your child in class parties and school activities. Visit the Yearbook website to upload photos and to order yearbook if you haven’t done so yet. Yearbook for this school year is $17, which can be paid online or by check/cash. The book will feature portraits from picture day and photos from all the exciting activities throughout the school year. This is a great keepsake for kids and families to flip through for years to come. Important dates for this year’s yearbook:

April 12 - Photo submission deadline

May 9 - Yearbook order deadline

June - Yearbooks delivered to classrooms

Please note: If your student attended picture day in the fall or spring, their portrait will appear in the yearbook. If not, families can provide an alternate portrait for inclusion in the yearbook.

Please contact the yearbook committee with any questions at yearbook@bonnyslopebsco.org.

Hello 5th Grade Parents!

The end of the year is upon us and BSCO is working hard behind the scenes to celebrate our 5th Graders. A favorite tradition of many is the 5th grade slideshow. This will be a wonderful trip down memory lane for our students and parents. We need as many photos as possible starting from when our kids were in Kindergarten way back in 2019!

Please use the link below to upload photos for each grade your child attended Bonny Slope. The photos can be from any Bonny Slope Elementary related event such as Art Lit, Jog-a-thon, Field trips, School parties, etc. We have also included an “Individual Photo” folder. Please upload no more than 6 individual photos of your child.

Online school for half of kindergarten and all of 1st grade was tough! For those two years, we would like to see photos from your online learning adventures, study groups/pods, and other learning activities that took place.

The kids absolutely LOVE seeing themselves grow through the years at Bonny Slope. By uploading as many photos as possible, your child will laugh and giggle with their friends as they say, “I remember that!” We want every child to enjoy seeing themselves up on the big screen so please upload all your photos by Friday, May 2nd.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us! The slideshow email is below. We look forward to seeing these folders fill up with photos.

Thanks,

5th Grade Activities Committee

slideshow@bonnyslopebsco.org

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qwy-iK7PxJl4EK6PtPMARddpTxbZbPlI?usp=sharing

Only 2 weeks left to get your tickets for the Auction and Gala!

We hope you’ve already purchased your tickets and are getting just as excited as we are to go WILD for a great cause at this year’s Auction and Gala. Have you bought a leopard dress, you party animal, you? A zebra tie? A tropical skirt? A jungle-green suit jacket? Go bananas with the theme, and get ready to have fun!!

If you haven’t bought tickets yet, you might be wondering “What is this all about?,” or “Why should I find a babysitter for a night out with BSCO?”. Check out the top 10 reasons to join us on April 26th. We can’t wait to see you there!

1. Support your children’s education: The auction is the largest fundraiser of the year, and proceeds will fund things for your kids like art literacy, field trips, OBOB, classroom parties, and science school!

2. Support BSE’s beloved teachers: staff appreciation events; technology refreshes; materials and supplies for the classrooms; and fun programs like chicks, snails, and salmon eggs

3. Fund Community Events: Field Day, Monster Mash, Carnival, Pancake Breakfast, Culture Night

4. Snag a spot at the ever-popular pay-to-play parties: Sign up for family movie night, margarita mamas, a STEAM class for your kiddos, a cornhole tourney, and more! Keep having fun and building community well after you party your tails off.

5. Get a priceless experience for your kids: grade-level parties like ice cream socials, pottery making, board games, painting bird houses, or bowling with teachers; principal, PE, or music teacher for a day; or even join Andy Carson on Fox12 as weather person for a day!

6. Meet new BSE families: Connect with the parents of your kids' friends and continue to build your village.

7. Parents' night out: Kid-free? Let’s have a ROARING good time! If you went to the Auction last year, you know this group is nothing but a good time!

8. Dinner and drinks: Dinner and drinks are included in your ticket price. Cheers to that!

9. Purchase some fun stuff: family vacas, summer camps, local sporting events, restaurant gift cards … that’s just a taste of the amazing things you will find at our silent and live auction.

10. Tax write-offs and company matches: donations make a difference!

Purchase tickets before March 21st on our website: https://bonnyslopebsco.ejoinme.org/auction2025. If the ticket price is cost prohibitive, please reach out to the school principal, Betty Skundrick, directly to get access to a small collection of tickets we have made available. We want everyone to be able to attend who would like to!

If you have further questions, please reach out to our auction team at auction@bonnyslopebsco.org.

Families can support this work at home by talking with students about what they are learning about integrity and ways they can demonstrate integrity both inside and outside of school.

We are excited to announce that our district is adopting the Raptor Safe mobile app as part of our ongoing commitment to enhancing school safety and streamlining visitor management in our schools. This app builds on our existing visitor procedures, offering a more convenient and secure check-in process for everyone.

What is the Raptor Safe App?

The Raptor Safe app offers a convenient and secure way for visitors to manage and verify their identity before arriving at a school. With the Raptor Passport feature, visitors can pre-verify their identity, allowing for a seamless sign-in process when they arrive on campus.

How Does It Work?

When visiting a school, visitors can use their secure QR code generated by the app to expedite the check-in process. QR codes automatically regenerate every 5 minutes to ensure security and prevent misuse. Please remember that our visitor wiFi and phone service are not always reliable in our building which may hinder the use of the Raptor Safe App.

Getting Started

The Raptor Safe app is available to all visitors across the district. To download the app, please visit https://raptortech.com/raptorsafe-app/.

For questions or assistance, please contact Bonny Slope Office staff: 503.356.2040 or bslp-communications@beaverton.k12.or.us . Thank you for helping us keep our schools safe.

There has been some concern shared about the changes in the way volunteer opportunities are shared, and the volunteer sign up process. Because the school district now requires volunteer sign ups to be posted in ParentSquare, BSCO is limited in the way they can request volunteers and share opportunities. The volunteer opportunities that BSCO manages can only be posted in ParentSquare, and it is not possible to include links to the sign up in this newsletter or anywhere outside of ParentSquare. There are a couple of ways families can get BSCO event sign up information.

1) BSCO sends a newsletter in ParentSquare with the volunteer information

2) Families can check ParentSquare and access the Sign Ups any time

Classroom teachers manage their own volunteer opportunities and will send out their own information about how to sign up. If you are interested in volunteering in the classroom, please reach out to the classroom teacher. Teachers will sometimes not have volunteer needs.

We appreciate all of our volunteers! Please reach out to the office if you would like any help with finding the sign ups.

After School spring classes are enrolling now. More classes will be added soon....you can watch for them here: After School Activities

Ready to go WILD for Bonny Slope and have a ROARING good time, Bobcats?! Mark your calendars! Tickets for the 2025 Auction & Gala will go on sale online next Friday, February 28th. Invitations and details will be sent home in Friday Folders that same day.

The Auction committee has been hard at work procuring really amazing items you will see at the Auction. Looking for a week of summer camp for your kids? DONE! Want to hit up La Chona or Hopscotch for a fun date night? We’ve got you covered. Want to reserve a parking spot JUST for you so you don’t have to circle around the BSE parking lot for-ev-er? Who wouldn’t?! How about a dream getaway to Bali or Italy? CHECK! This and so much more could be yours all in support of BSE. Stay tuned for previews of additional items that will be available.

If you are able, also don’t forget to contribute to your grade-level Bobcat basket. As always, if you have ideas or items you’d like to see at the auction, we’d love to hear from you! Questions? Check out the FAQ, or reach out to the Auction Committee @ auction@bonnyslopebsco.org.

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11775 NW McDaniel Rd.

Portland, OR 97229

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