If parents/guardians would like to subscribe to the Eckstein Parent Email Bulletin that is sent out a couple times each week, please go to the bottom of the page and click on “subscribe by email”.   The Bulletin is also posted on the Eckstein website under the bullet “Daily Bulletin” on the lefthand-side of the Home page.

Principal’s Welcome Letter – 9/2/10

Click on the link to view the Principal’s Welcome Letter of 9/2/10.  This letter contains important information about the first two days of school.

Program Hours: 2:45pm – 4:45pm; Program Days: Monday – Thursday; Fall Session: October 4^th – December 9^th.  Registration forms for Fall session will be available September 14^th.   To view the entire flyer click here:   Eckstein-CLC-2010-2011

Eckstein Families,

Bus assignments should be sent out around the last week of August, 2010.  If you have not received any information from the District’s Transportation Department about a bus assignment, that means your child is NOT assigned to a school bus.   Please contact Transportation at (206) 252-0900, rather than Eckstein.  They can fill out a Space Available form, but last year Transportation did not look at the requests until the beginning of October.

Bus cards are not needed to get onto a bus if you are assigned to a bus.  So, if your student is assigned to a bus, just have them at the pickup location and the bus driver will have a list of students for that bus route.  If your student is assigned AN ORCA CARD, we should have those passes available the first day of school, but not before.  We will inform those students assigned to Metro when they can get their pass.  If you have any questions about transportation, please call the District’s Transportation Department directly at (206) 252-0900.

For FAQs on Transportation visit www.seattleschools.org.  Select “Transportation”.  FAQs contains some very useful information for families.

A Welcome to Eckstein letter was sent home to all Eckstein families the week of August 9th.  If you didn’t receive one, click on the link below to download a copy.  The letter contains important dates, including the First Day of School information.

http://ecksteineagles.org/files/2010/08/Opening-school-info-2010-11.pdf

All Students:

 One 2-3” heavy duty three-ring notebook (no expanding folders or trapper keepers)

 Notebook dividers (5 tab minimum)

 Pencil pouch

 Writing supplies: one dozen sharpened pencils; 8 pens (black or blue ink); highlighter; colored pencils

 Pencil sharpener with receptacle

 Erasers

 8 ½” x 11” notebook paper (College rule, preferred)

 Flash (thumb) Drive

 Box of tissue for homeroom/study hall

 Standard/metric ruler

 4 operation calculator

 Protractor

 1 ream of 8 ½ x 11 copy paper

 Hole reinforcements

For 8th Grade: Five Mead composition notebooks, 80-100 pages (wide- rule, if possible);

For 7th Grade: Five Mead composition notebooks, one of the five notebooks should be with graph paper;

For 6th Grade: One, 1 ½” three-ring binder; Four Mead composition notebooks;

(Donations of any of these supplies are greatly appreciated and can be dropped off in the Main Office. Thank you.)

PERMANENT MARKERS (Sharpies) ARE NOT ALLOWED

Dear Eckstein Families,

It has been a joy and a privilege to work at Eckstein Middle School for the past two years. I have had the pleasure to work with outstanding professionals, students and families.

At this time, however, I wanted to inform you that I have accepted an Assistant Principal position in the Shoreline School District and will begin work there this summer. Please forward any questions at this time to Principal Kim Whitworth (kdwhitworth@seattleschools.org) or contact the main office (206) 252-5010.

Thank you for the opportunity to be part of such a wonderful school community.

Warm regards,

Cindy Watters

Ms. Whitworth just posted her “End of Year Letter” on her blog (click this link to go to the Whitworth Weekly blog), in which she writes about what we accomplished on this year and some changes for next year (including a new bell schedule).

Also, the early release calendar for 2010-2011 is now available for download as a pdf.

Congratulations to Eckstein student Maxwell Krist for winning first place in a nation-wide computer-aided design contest. Click here to read the Seattle Times story.

From Monday June 14 through Friday June 18 the Eckstein Library will be hosting a community book drive.  The intent of the drive is to build strong classroom libraries that support our Eagle Readers.  

Please consider donating gently used books, appropriate for ages 8-18, to support our Eagle Readers.  Donations can be dropped off in the library from 7:30am to 2:45pm.  Your generous donations will then be equally distributed throughout the school to provide constant access to quality books for all of our students.  Please contact Rebecca Wynkoop (rlwynkoop@seattleschools.org) if you have any further questions.