Contact Information
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Briarlake Elementary
School
Office: 678-874-2502
Clinic:
678-874-2507
Send email to : Briarlake PTA
3590 LaVista
Road
Decatur, Georgia
30033
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PTA Officers
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Co-Presidents: Sarah Rigby &
Laurie Hobbs
VP Programs: Heidi Carpenter &
Lisa Moore
VP
Fundraising: Irenea Seufert & Michelle Linder
Treasurer:
Micki Gulley
Secretary:
Jessica White
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Dates to
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August 5--Sept. 4
SALLY FOSTER sale
Thursday, Aug. 27
PTA meeting-6 p.m.
Curriculum/Volunteer Rally
Night-5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept.1
School Picture
Day
Friday, Sept.4 Sally Foster orders due
Monday, Sept. 7
NO SCHOOL
Labor Day
Tuesday,
Sept. 15
PTA meeting/ Ice Cream Social
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ELPC
MEETING SCHEDULE FOR 2009 -
2010 |
Third
Wednesday of each month ~ Refreshments at 8:45AM
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Meeting at 9:15AM
Sept. 16,
2009
BriarVista Dr Lewis -
State of the System
Oct. 21, 2009 McLendon
DCSS: How to Effect Change
Nov. 8, 2009
Henderson Mddle
Your School: How to Effect Change
Jan.20 2010
Evansdale
TBD
Feb. 17, 2010
Pleasantdale TBD
March 17, 2010
Fernbank
TBD
April
21, 2010
Coralwood School TBD
www.emory-lavista.org
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| Greetings
Briarlake Families,
Welcome back Briarlake
Beavers!!!
Thank
you to our wonderful group of teachers and staff for
making our first week of school fabulous! We
are off to a great start.
Get ready
for our Volunteer Rally and Curriculum night,
coming up in two weeks, on August 27
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Who is that "whiskery"
fellow?
Name the Briarlake
Beaver!
We all know
him. We have all worn t-shirts with his face on
them or proudly displayed him on a car magnet or a
bumper sticker or a car window. But we do not know
his name! A creative Briarlake student will
have the opportunity to come up with a name for our
furry, bucktoothed mascot and will win a prize for doing
so. You'll hear more next week, but we will be
accepting proposed names for the beaver from all
students. Our committee will then narrow it down
to five (5) names. We will hold a school wide
election and the winning name (and namer!) will be
announced at the ice cream social on September 15,
2009. So put your beaver hats on and start
thinking!
Thank you to Susan
Gouinlock for leading
this effort! | |
| News:
PTA
MEMBERSHIP
Please
become a member of our PTA. All parents,
guardians, grandparents, cousins too, are
asked to join! We need 100% participation to
receive important funding. It's only $5 to
join. Send your name and money in an
envelope to Christy Van Horn, our PTA
membership goddess.
Thank you Christy!
New VP of
Programs:
Lisa Moore has graciously agreed to
fill the VP position vacated by Litsa Vastakis.
Thank you Litsa for your two years of service and good
luck in your next chapter! Thank you Lisa--You
Rock! We will hold a formal vote at the next PTA
meeting.
Terrific
Thursday
Wonderful Wednesday is now TERRIFIC
THURSDAY!
Mrs. Laster's and Mrs. Bouda's
classes will host the luncheon this month on Thursday,
August 20.
AR is defunct
Ms.
Berry reports the Accelerated Reader program is not
operational in all of Dekalb county due to computer
updates this summer. Ms. Berry will notify us
when repairs are made. Stay tuned.
Cough Etiquette
Please review the flyer being sent
home today with important information about the H1H2
virus.
PTA Member Discounts
Use this link to save
money.
PTA
discounts
Kudos
Our own Ms. Diana Berry, librarian,
was chosen to be a member of the selection committee for
the National Children's Book Award.
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| "Thank You" goes
to:
Dana Gavrielides and
Lynn Hale, our school office gurus, for making the
"back to school" transition smooth for us all!
The Parent Coffee was a
huge success! While enjoying a cup-of-joe parents
and families enjoyed making new friends and reuniting
with old. It was great to see the support of
established families given to new families. We are
lucky to have such a caring school. Thank you to
Mary Margaret Neal for pulling off, yet another
hospitable event!
The first day of school offered
another opportunity for familes who missed Open
House to register and purchase school
supplies. Thank you to Geoff Boyer, Irenea
Seufert, and Tonya Roberts for again, being
willing to jump in and
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Curriculum Night
PTA Meeting and
Volunteer Rally
Thursday, August 27
5:00-6:00pm - Tables-Volunteer
sign-up
6:00-6:30pm - PTA Meeting
6:35-7:15pm -
Session I
7:20-8:00pm - Session II
Don't miss
this opportunity to get
involved! |
Welcome
new Teachers and Staff ~
The PTA would like to welcome the
following teachers and staff to our
school:
Ms. Tonya Fields,
Gifted Resource/ESOL
Ms. Jessica Goodwin,
Music
Mrs. Amber Warbington,
S/PID
Mrs. Rhonda Moseley, S/PID
Ms. Dellie Graf,
S/PID Para
Ms. Nancy Hutchinson, S/PID Para
Ms.
Alma Ako-Arrey, S/PID Para
Mrs. Jill Reiter, Fifth
grade Hearing Impaired
Ms. Jessica Faber, Interrelated
Co-teacher, with Mrs. Winburn
Mr. John Taylor, Fifth grade
Ms. Jarrett Jackson, Part-time Speech
Language Pathologist
We are so glad you are
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New Spirit
T-shirts:
Consider purchasing a new brightly
colored tie-dyed Briarlake Beaver t-shirt!
Youth and adult sizes available. $12
each. Available in the school store which is open
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays before
school.
Sizes/colors are limited due to an
overwhelming response. We will order more as the
year
progresses.
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School Store
Hours
Open Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Fridays before school--7:35-8:00
a.m.
Voluteers needed! Contact
Paige at
paige.c.fitts@accenture.com to
help.
Thank you Paige
Fitts--our trusty
mercantile expert!
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Sally
Foster
Briarlake's
"Toad-ally Awesome" Sally Foster fund raiser is off and
running! Half of all Sally Foster sales will go to
support our playgrounds. Remember to
turn in your Sally
Foster "Progress Sheet"each Thursday to
be entered into the Toad-ally Awesome daily drawings to
win cool prizes. The
drawings begin Monday, and students only
need to sell one item to enter. If you sell 8
items, you will automatically win a special froggy
surprise! Don't forget about the Fur
Bus! The class with the highest participation will
win a class party. Check out the front
bulletin board to see how your class is
doing.
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Academic Bowl
A message from Ms.
Berry:
I'll be the coach of the Briarlake Academic Bowl
Team. (Each school can only have 1 team of up to 10 5th
grade students.) Next week, students will let me know if
they are interested in trying out for the team. If there
are a lot of interested students, they will take a
general knowledge written test, then compete against
each other for a place on the team.
The
Bowl will be held on November 14th at Avondale Middle
School. The team will be comprised of up to 10 5th
graders. Team selection will be made from interested
students who demonstrate the greatest ability to respond
correctly to questions from a range of subjects,
including, but not limited to, current affairs, math,
science, literature, history and geography.
I'm sure that we will have an exceptional
team.
**If
interested contact Ms.
Berry
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Reflections
This
year's theme is "Beauty is... "
The deadline for all
entries is October 17th.
Official Rules & Entry Forms go
to:
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Girls on the
Run
A Briarcliff
Woods Girls On the Run chapter, will be started
this fall. GOTR, under the guidance of Girls On The
Run International, is a non-profit organization
started in 1996 with chapters in over 150 cities across
North Amercia. Our mission is to educate and prepare
girls (3rd-5th graders) for a lifetime of self-respect
and healthy living. It is a running/youth
development sports program that would be delivered
by four local moms that have been trained as
official GOTR coaches.
The GOTR
program would meet for 1.5 hours, two times a week for
10 weeks, on Tuesdays, 4-5:30 pm and Sundays, 2-3:30 pm
starting on September 15th, 2009. The meetings will be
held at Briarcliff Woods Beach Club, 1830 Morris
Landers Road, Atlanta, GA 30345. Our ultimate
goal is to build their confidence &
self-respect and teach them how to keep a healthy body
image, especially as they enter into middle school and
their teen-aged years.
Fall
Registration OPENS online on August 24, 2009 @ 9am
at www.girlsontherunatlanta.org.
FIRST COME, FIRST
SERVE
Program fee:
$160 (Scholarships are
available.)
Registration
closes September 7, 2009.
Programs close at
a maximum of 16 participants. Spots are
limited. If you are interested in signing up your
daughter, it is very important that you try to register
at EXACTLY 9 am on Monday, August 24th. We anticipate a
lot more than 11 girls will try to register on this day.
For additional information
contact:
Janine Kupersmith
678-358-6843
Information provided
by Janine
Kupersmith |
BOX TOPS:
Continue clipping Box
Tops. Look for Box Tops on many different
products, not just food.
Briarlake made over $2000 in
Box Tops last year! That's a lot of
money for such little effort.
THANK YOU TO: David Flanagan
and Candace Randall for chairing our Box Top
initiative. You are great
clippers! |
| BEAVER BULLETIN:
Our first edition of the new school
year will be available on-line next week at
briarlakepta.org.
Thanks to Melissa Beaupierre for all
her editing
talents! |
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