As you reflect on all you have done this year, we’d like to share how your generous donation to the Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation has been used to excite students about learning.

Every day we are inspired by the proud smiles on the faces of our students when they show off something they’ve learned in school.
Here’s a note from one of the great teachers in our Snoqualmie Valley
schools:

As I was walking about my science classroom observing the students work on a car and ramp lesson, I heard one student exclaim something every science teacher loves to hear. “Oh, I get it! Look! As you raise the ramp higher, the speed of the car goes up.” This was a concept I had been trying to get across to the students without much success. Finally, when I used the basic physics equipment purchased through a grant from the Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation, I hit pay dirt. The grant provided me with hands-on equipment that helps all learning styles. The equipment is simple enough, and yet technologically advanced to what I usually use, that they provided all students with the sense of accomplishment. By using the cars, ramps, and high-tech electronic gates, learning was taking place within my classroom!

David Cruz, Ed.D. / Science, Snoqualmie Middle School

With the help of donors like you the Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation has been able to impact thousands of valley students whose learning environments have been enriched by beneficial and meaningful opportunities. Thank you for your past and future support Assuring Opportunity and Encouraging Excellence for the students of the Snoqualmie Valley. Experiences dictate the outcome of individuals; the Foundation Grants make student learning experiences richer and more meaningful.

To nurture exceptional schools we must continue to excite children in the classroom, in arts practice, on the field, or in the library. We need to work together with parents, business and community leaders to demonstrate to our children that education is worth the investment of time and money.

Attention all Starry Night Enthusiasts, young and young at heart! The 3^rd Annual Star Watching Party at Snoqualmie Point Park (4^th actually conducted over the years) has arrived for MSHS! With the aid of trained astronomers from the Boeing Employees Astronomical Society and the Tacoma Astronomical Society, come one-come all to the Mount Si Star Party where we will be observing the cosmos on a hopefully beautiful, clear, and dark starry night in the valley (weather permitting). On the designated evening of Friday June 3rd, our guest astronomers will be showing us many different celestial objects in the night sky relatively free of annoying light pollution often experienced by viewers in major cities and will be available to answer any and all questions as you learn more about astronomy.

This activity is sponsored by our Astronomy classes, UW Astronomy and Basic Astronomy, led by Kevin Knowles, and we hope to see all interested amateur astronomers there to enjoy the event.  Thanks to the Snoqualmie Valley Foundation and our Mount Si science department, we now have a wonderful hands-on 11-inch Celestron Digital Cassegrain telescope for our astronomy students to work themselves in learning how to orient to and navigate the night sky.  We plan to start the event upon sundown and a nicely dark sky at 8:00 PM and run the event to 12:00 AM or so at Snoqualmie Point Park, just off Exit 27 (park along entrance circle because the standard gates to the park will be closed).  Hope to see you all there!  In the meantime in memory of  Jack Horkheimer, “The Star Hustler” and director of the Miami Planetarium, who always says on PBS short segments… “Keep looking up!” Any questions? Please call Mr. Knowles at 425-831-8124.