Elementary students in the Mukilteo School District will be able to find out who their teachers are later this month.
Most of the schools will have classroom lists posted by the end of the day on Aug. 27.
Horizon and Odyssey elementary schools make class lists available the next day.
Picnic Point will post the lists Aug. 30 and Serene Lake on Aug. 31.
Classes in the Mukilteo district begin Sept. 1.
Reading materials available Friday
Parents and others interested in the Everett School District’s proposed reading curriculum for special education students can attend an open house to learn more.
The open house will be 9 a.m.-noon Friday at the district’s special services offices, 202 Alder St. in Everett.
The district has been revising the reading program for all students. As part of the plan, the special education department has recommended reading instructional materials for all qualifying students from kindergarten through the 12th grade.
Lunch prices will increase by 25 cents for Arlington School District students next fall.
The cost of elementary school lunches will rise from $1.75 to $2 and middle through high school meals will increase from $2 to $2.25.
Breakfast prices will also go up from $1 to $1.25 districtwide.
The Arlington School Board approved the rate hike July 26. It is the first increase since 2000.
A carton of milk will remain at 40 cents.
Incoming kindergartners at College Place Elementary School are getting an early glimpse of what class will be like in September.
A $15,000 Boeing Co. grant allows the Edmonds School District to offer the transition program at the Lynnwood campus.
Through the program, parents will also be given pointers about how to help their students at school and at home, from how to reinforce basic writing skills to learning how to open the school lunch milk pouches.
The parent program, funded by an Early Learning Flight to the Future grant from Boeing, will meet four times over the next two weeks.
In its ninth year, the kindergarten “Jump Start” program lets 5-year-olds rotate around learning stations, working on reading, math and how to sit quietly during story time.
The sessions started Monday and continue from 9-11:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday through Aug. 12.
“Jump Start allows parents and their children to come in and meet the principal, teachers, the nurse and classmates before the school year starts,” said Sue Venable, principal of College Place Elementary. “It helps to break down some of the barriers and anxieties that exist on the first day of school.”
The Kent Prairie Elementary PTA in Arlington has donated $8,105 for the following:
$6,850 will be used to buy iBook laptop computers for student use,
$750 goes to a bullying prevention program, and
$500 will be used to buy a grill for PTA and school-sponsored events.
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