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For 50 years, National PTA’s Reflections cultural arts program has helped students explore their own thoughts, feelings and ideas, develop artistic literacy, increase confidence and find a love for learning that will help them become more successful in school and in life. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students in Pre-K through Grade 12 create and submit original works of art in one or all of the six available arts categories. his year, the theme is Heroes Around Me. Your student can create and submit a work of art in any of the following categories:
Visual Arts Photography Literature Music Film Dance Choreography The Art Docent in your student's classroom may focus their October and November art lessons on this theme. The PTSA will also host art studio hours in the library after school November 7-9 so artists can work on their Reflections submissions. All submissions are due to the PTSA Reflections Committee by November 30th. Look for more information in your student's Friday Folder, as well as in the PTSA newsletter and Facebook page. For inspiration, visit the Reflections virtual art gallery and learn more about prizes and scholarships at PTA.org/Reflections. Last year, Sonja Sackett was substitute teaching at our school when she noticed that many Mukilteo Elementary teachers were providing snacks for students that needed them. She realized that the teachers were spending their own money to feed hungry kids in their classrooms. The teachers told Sonja how important it is for kids to have that snack break so they could focus on learning. A snack helps to fuel kids up to concentrate. Kids who receive free lunch during the day typically do not have a snack from home to eat, while the rest of their classmates do. That's a lot of snacks every day, for multiple children for the entire year. And that's a lot of snacks, money, and time that our teachers have been investing in making sure everyone has what they need to learn. Sonja wanted to help support the learning environment in the classrooms, and also help take some of that financial burden off of the teachers. So Sonja started Food For Thought to provide healthy snacks for children in need so they can focus on learning. Food For Thought delivers snacks to the staff lounge for teachers to take back to their classrooms for their students in need. Sonja told me, "I thought I would personally provide all of the snacks. But I soon realized the need was far greater than I could fill alone. So I started asking for donations. And to my surprise, the donations flooded in. We obtained enough donations last year to cover the need completely at ME." Sonja has even had donations from as far away as the East Coast
You can deliver store-bought snacks or monetary donations to the ME office, labeled "Food For Thought." Especially appreciated are fresh fruits like small apples, bananas, and clementines, granola bars, Nutrigrain bars, and small snack-size bags of pretzels, Goldfish, pretzels, etc.
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