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
Remember
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August 5--Sept. 4
SALLY FOSTER sale
Thursday, Aug. 27
School Council meeting 1 p.m.
PTA meeting-6 p.m.
Curriculum/Volunteer Rally
Night-
5:00-8:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 29
Campus Beautification
9:00 a.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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Reminders:
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Reflections
This year's theme is
"Beauty is... "
The
deadline for all
entries is October
17th.
If you have any additional
questions, please contact Lisa
Spivack
Box Tops
Continue clipping Box
Tops. Look for Box Tops on many different
products, not just food.
School
Store Hours
Open
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays before
school--7:35-8:00 a.m. Voluteers
needed! Contact Paige to
help. |
Interesting
dates and facts:
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| AUGUST 22
National Tooth Fairy Day
AUGUST 24
National Waffle Day
AUGUST 25
National Kiss and Make-up Day
AUGUST 28
MLK Jr. gave
"I Have a
Dream" speech in
1963 | | |
| Greetings
Briarlake Beavers,
Wow...how time does
fly. Hard to believe we've been back in school for
two weeks.
Thanks to our brilliant
administration for a smooth first 2
weeks!
Get ready for our
Volunteer Rally and Curriculum night, coming up
next week, on August 27
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BEAVER BULLETIN:
Our first edition of the new school
year is now available. Be sure to check out
the new feature: Educator
Spotlight. This month spotlights
Mrs. Spencer, Mrs. Moody, Ms. DeFrancis, Mrs. Blackmore,
and Mrs. Elliott.
Thanks to Melissa Beaupierre for all
her editing
talents! | |
| News:
PTA MEMBERSHIP
We need you!!! Please join the
Briarlake
PTA!
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.
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
Remember to teach our children to
cough and sneeze into their elbow.
PTA Member Discounts
Use this link to save
money.
Past PTA president "moving on
up"
Our own Angela Hansberger has
been named to the
Dekalb County Calendar Committee. Congratulations!
I guess this means that next year we'll have more
holidays.
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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
All homeroom teachers will be
available for both
sessions. For new families, the purpose of the two
sessions is to give you an opportunity to meet all of
your children's teachers and visit their
classrooms. If you only have one student at
Briarlake, you do not need to attend both
sessions.
Fifth grade will meet in the Media
Center. Discovery Teachers will meet in Ms.
McMillan's classroom during both sessions. Special area
teachers will be available during Session II in the
cafeteria. Meet the staff, find out about our PTA, visit
the classrooms - don't miss this big event.
FYI - This is a parent's only
event. Please plan now and get a sitter for the kids.
And you may want to plan to walk - parking is always a
challenge.
Don't miss this opportunity to get
involved!
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| "Thank You" goes
to:
Heather Leahy for
coordinating all our Class volunteers. Our
teachers would be lost without Room parents and Helper
parents!
Mrs. Hilliard for already attending
to our runny noses and coughs with a warm and
comforting smile.
Mrs. Norris-Brown for listening
to our every concern with a kind ear and positive
perspective as we transition into this new school
year.
Mrs. Laster's and Mrs. Bouda's
classes for coordinating our first Terrific Thursday
teacher/staff luncheon in only the second week of
school. Bravo! Especially to Rose Boise,
Karen Roser and Sarah Rigby. Our
educators felt special as they dined on
the delicious cuisine.
Micki Gulley, treasurer, for making
all our deposits and cutting all our checks in the
back-to-school avalanche of money.
Our Custodial staff: Mr. Nunn,
Ms. Jackson and
Mr. Tran. Our building shines
brightly because of you! Thank you for going above
and beyond
everyday! |
Campus Beautification
August 29th: First Briarlake
Campus Workday of the Year: Please lend a
hand!
Help us make Briarlake a premier learning
environment inside and out! We have an upcoming
Campus Workday to spruce up the grounds, create our new
courtyard gardens, and get the campus looking beautiful
and ready to explore. We will also be working in
the Janice Benator Memorial Garden. Please lend a
hand. Whatever your skill or interest level, we
would love your participation. Kids are always
welcome on campus workdays. Just bring gloves,
wheelbarrows and gardening tools and join us anytime
between 9am
and noon on August 29th. Email
Stephanie Byrne or Sarah
Cook with questions.
Thank you to Sarah
Cook and Stephanie Byrne for their green
thumbs!
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Directory Ads Still Available
Prices:
- Business card size
$25
- Half page $50
-Whole Page
$100
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School
Store
Come visit the
Briarlake School Store!
Have you been to
the school store lately? We have expanded our
supplies for the students!
Here's a sample
of what we have: planners, pencil cases,
composition books, spiral notebooks, pencils, folders,
pens, rulers, highlighters, erasers, protractors and
more. We of course have "fun" items too - slap
bracelets, Briarlake rubber bracelets, key chains, and
our new tye dye t-shirts!
If you have
suggestions for other items OR would like to work a
shift at the store, please send an email to Paige
Fitts. |
Spirit
Night
Briarlake's first Spirit
Night of the year!
Join us for food, fun and bingo.
Tuesday, September 1st 5:00 -
8:00
Chick-fil-A --
North Druid Hills and Briarcliff
10% of all food purchases go to
Briarlake.
Let's make our first Spirit night a
great one!
Hope to see you there!
Look for our "special" guest that
"moo-ning" in the carpool
line. |
School Pictures coming soon!
Get ready to smile
pretty on
Tuesday, September 1st.
Order forms will be coming home
soon.
This year, individual and class
pictures will be taken on the same
day.
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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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Sally
Foster
Keep
selling "Toad-Ally Awesome" Sally Foster
Two Weeks Down
- Two Weeks to Go!
* Orders due Sep.
4! * There is NO sales tax on orders placed
through the paper catalog. Tax
will automatically be added to orders placed on the
Internet. * Remember to send in your "Weekly
Progress" sheets each Thursday for a chance to
win cool prizes! Congratulations
to students who won the "froggy" surprise for
selling 8+ items: Sean Costin, Kelsey Fitts, Will Grice,
Ansley Guerino, Jordan Lin, Mathew Melendez, Lena
Schaefer, Harris Simpson, and Ally Spivack!
THANKS for supporting Briarlake!
Next Wed. Aug. 26th- Watch
out for the Sally Foster "fashion walk-about"!!!
Marvel at the fashions created from Sally Foster
papers!
***As outlined in the SF letter
attached to the catalogue, only a portion of proceeds
will benefit the new playground. Most proceeds
will go towards general PTA operating
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Student
Pick-Up
If you pick up your
student in the carpool line any time during the school
year, this information is for you.
Student Name Signs will be
sent home today. Please display the sign in your vehicle
so that the carpool caller will be able to read it. It
should remain visible until your child is in the
car. If someone else is picking your child up,
please provide a sign (or ask person to make one) and
please be sure the school is aware of the change -
send a note to the teacher, email the teacher or
contact the school office before noon if at all
possible.
Thank you for helping us get
your children dismissed safely and quickly. Sally
Elliott, carpool
caller
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Healthy Habits
Promoting HEALTHY HABITS at
Briarlake -Are you interested? The Healthy Habits Program at
Briarlake helps plan Walk/Bike to School Days, the
Briarlake 5K and Family Fun Run, Wednesday Walking Club,
the Healthy Habits Challenge. We work to make
healthy eating and physical activity an important and
regular part of the Briarlake experience. If you
are interested in getting involved in these efforts,
please email Sarah
Cook.
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Peace Day
September 22 is International Day of
Peace
To prepare for another Peaceful
Showcase, our children are creating Peace
Flags in art this month. Stay
tuned! |
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Who is that "whiskery"
fellow?
Name the Briarlake Beaver! Coming
soon!
In addition
to naming our beaver friend, we are planning a
"beaver spirit- blitz" in September. Complete with
Beaver Song, and new mascot. Be sure to attend
Curriculum Night and the Ice Cream Social for beaver
surprises... |
E-mail
We have changed our e-mail program and are using
Constant Contact to send out our news and updates.
If you have not updated your information,
please do so at this time. The link
(Update Profile / Email Address) is located at the
bottom of this email. You are welcome to remain
"anonymous".
In our effort to "Go Green",
we will be using the student information which you
include in your update to reduce the paper copies sent
home.
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also located at the bottom of this email.
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