Kindergarten Registration and Welcome!

Kindergarten Welcome (for students entering Kindergarten in the fall) will be May 1st,  May 8th & May 15 from 8:00-9:00 a.m.  All families with children entering Kindergarten in the fall are invited to visit P.D. Elementary, meet the Kindergarten teachers, see the classes, and tour the school.  There will also be a special question and answer session with the teachers.

Students that are 5 yrs of age on or before August 31, 2013 are eligible to register for Kindergarten.  Parents need to bring student immunization records, emergency contact information, and a birth certificate to the Peshastin-Dryden Elementary School office Monday-Friday between 7:30 am - 4:00 pm to register for both PD Elementary and Beaver Valley Kindergarten. 
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KODIAKS POST SEASON CONTINUES!  GO KODIAKS!!!!
After a busy weekend of Districts, this is how this week will look:

Golf
Tyler Bain and Courtnee Cook begin state play in Spanaway. Tourney play begins Tuesday. Ashley Strode is also traveling over as an alternate.

Tennis
The duo of Hailey Hassinger and Katie Whitten earned the #3 seed out of the District Tournament. They will head into state play this Friday morning in Yakima.

Softball
The Lady Kodiaks continued their dominating season defeating Brewster 19-1 in the district semi-final and then Okanogan 16-9 in the District Championship. The girls earned the #1 seed to state which starts Friday morning in Richland.

Baseball
The Kodiaks won two impressive games on Saturday in totally different fashion. In their opening state game, the Kodiaks defeated Connell 6-4. In their second round game the boys came back from a 7-0 deficit in the first inning to defeat Medical Lake 17-7 in 5 innings. The win sends the boys to Yakima for the state semi-finals. They will face Cashmere for a fourth time this year on Friday at 1 pm.

The Eli Sports Network at www.youresn.com will be broadcasting the 1A Baseball Final Four this Friday and Saturday. All four games will be carried regardless of 1st round outcomes. We also will be giving in-game, inning by inning updates on our twitter feed @youresn. We encourage you to pass this on to your coach, players, parents and fans, especially those who will not be able to attend. 

To listen, its simple, log on to www.youresn.com, then find the live webcast link in the tool bar near the top of the home page. Then scroll down to the Yakima County Stream and find the game you want to listen to and click on the "listen here" link.

Track
Results from Saturday's Bi-District meet at Riverside. The athletes listed below will travel to Spokane Thursday for the state meet at Eastern Washington University.

Dennis Meritt - 2nd in the 100 Meter, 3rd in the 200 Meter (Going to State in both).

Tyler Lee - 3rd in 110 Meter Hurdles, 3rd in 300 Meter Hurdles ( Going to state in both).

Mara Cummings - 3rd in the 400 Meter Dash, 3rd in the 800 Meter Run (Going to state in both).

Maddy Parton - 1st in the 300 Meter Hurdles, 2nd in the 100 Meter Dash, and 2nd in the 200 Meter Dash (Going to state in all three!).
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Cascade School District in Leavenworth earned Overall Excellence Awards for three of its schools: Osborn Elementary School, Icicle River Middle School and Cascade High School.

Osborn Elementary also won achievement awards in Science and for Closing Achievement Gaps. Icicle River Middle School also won in Language Arts and Science. Cascade High School also won in the Extended Graduation Rate category.

The state Board of Education and OSPI make the awards based on student performance and statewide assessments in reading, math and science tests as well as high school extended graduation rates, which includes students who took longer than four years to graduate. Assessments and outcomes are also broken down into achievement of students who come from low-income and those who do not come from low-income families, other peer comparisons and improvement from the previous year. This is the fourth year the awards have been made.

For a complete statewide list.

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SPEECH & DEBATE STATE RESULTS

Our Speech & Debate Team qualifiers competed for State and Charlotte Massey came home with the 3A State Championship in the Expository category.  Congratulations Charlotte!!!!

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OSBORN ELEMENTARY'S MATH IS COOL TEAM STATE RESULTS!!
Osborn's Fourth Grade Math is Cool team, made up of Leora Aurilo, Molly Wiser, Brooks Scheibler and Jerome Jerome (substituting for Stella Johnson who was ill), took fourth place at the state tournament in Moses Lake on Saturday.  Twelve teams in our division competed from across the State of Washington.  Leora Aurilo finished 9th place overall with an individual score that was just one point from bringing home an 8th place trophy.