John Muir Elementary
 Calendar 2007 - 2008

*PTA events  highlighted*
School dismisses @ 2pm every Wednesday grades All Day K-6
School dismisses @ 10:55 every Wednesday for AM K

August 2007
20 Office Opens for Registration
21 Primary Election in Gym
29 NEW DATE - Kindergarten Parent Orientation, 7pm, Gym
30 Parent/Student Meet & Greet, 2:30pm-3:30pm

September
3 Labor Day - NO SCHOOL
4 First Day of School, first bell at 8:55am
5 Band @ JM, 9:30am assembly, 4-6 grades
13 Band Open House @  Kamiakin, 6:30pm
13 Curriculum Night, 6:30pm - 7:00pm OR 7:15pm-7:45pm
13 Camp Orkila meeting with 6th grade parents, 7:45pm
20 First PTSA Meeting, 7pm in the Library
27 Ice Cream Social, 6:30pm

October
11 Individual Picture Day
12 King County Library System Assembly
23 3rd grade field trip to The Farm
25 Vision and Hearing Screening
26 LEAP Day - No School

November
1,2 & 5-8 Turkey Trot
4 Daylight savings ends, set clocks back one hour
6 Election Day
8 Individual Picture Retakes
Reflection entries due today!
PTSA Meeting, 6pm in the Library (one hour earlier this date only)
9 Veterans' Day Assembly, 2:30pm
12 No School for Veterans' Day
13 3rd grade field trip to Kamiakin
16 Conferences, school dismisses at noon, AM Kinders attend
19 Conferences, school dismisses at noon, AM Kinders attend
New due date for Reflection entries
20 Conferences, school dismisses at noon, AM Kinders attend
21 School dismisses at noon, No AM Kindergarten
22-23 Thanksgiving Break, no school
29 Bookfair at Park Place Books, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

December
1 Kamiakin Craft Fair, 10am-4pm, fieldhouse
8 John Muir Make it Take it Fair, 9am-1pm, gym
18 Winter Music Festival - 2:30pm, gym
19-31 Winter Break - No School

January 2008
1 New Year's Day - No School
10 PTSA Meeting, 7pm in the Library
21 Martin Luther King Jr. Day - No School
26 Chess tournament @ Kamiakin Jr. High

February
4 Skate night at Skate King in Bellevue, 6:30-8:30pm
11 District Battle of the Books tournament, N.S.H.Y. Muir vs. Franklin
18-20 Mid Winter Break - No School
28 Literacy Night and Scholastic Book Fair, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
6 Kindergarten Registration, 1-7pm, library

March
7 LEAP Day - No School
13 Class and Activity Picture Day
Camp Orkila Parent Meeting, 6-7pm, Room 113
PTSA Meeting, 7pm in the Library
17 Conferences, School dismisses at noon
18 Conferences, School dismisses at noon
20 Camp Orkila Chaperone Meeting, 6pm, Room 113
26-28 6th Grade to Camp Orkila
31 Spring Break - No School
1-4 Spring Break - No School
7 Product Game Begins
9 Spring Movie Class begins, 2-4pm
10 PTSA Meeting, 7pm, Library (elections)
14 WASL testing begins
21 John Muir's Birthday

April

May
1-30 Campbell and Box Tops for Education Drive
2 WASL testing ends
5-9 Teacher Appreciation Week
8 PTSA Awards Meeting, 7pm in the Library
12 Children's Book Drive, ends June 6th, bins outside Library
15 Muir in Motion, 2:15-3:15pm
20 McTeacher Night, John Muir Staff will be serving and taking orders at the Kingsgate McDonalds from 4:30-7:30pm
22 Volunteer Tea, 2-3:30 in the gym
23 LEAP Day - No School
26 Memorial Day - No School
30 Science Fair, 6:00-7:30pm

June
6 Family Dance, 6-8pm
17 Field Day
18 Moving Up Ceremony, 9:30am
Last day of school, noon dismissal