Briarlake Elementary School PTA
November
5, 2009
Thirteenth Week of School
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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 |
| Dates to
Remember |
Thurs., Nov. 5
Chick-fil-A Spirit Night
Fri., Nov. 13
Beaver Bulletin
deadline
Nov.
15
America Recycles Day
Mon. 11/16 - Fri. 11/20
Food Drive benefiting
CHOA
Wed. 11/18 - Fri. 11/20
Book Fair
Thurs. and Fri. 11/19 &
20
Thanksgiving Lunches
Wed. 11/25 - Fri. 11/27
Thanksgiving Holidays
Tues., Dec.
1
Holiday Music Program
Pre-K-3rd
grade |
| Thank you
to |
SpaceMax...super Fall
Festival Sponsor!
Workout
Anytime
Decatur
678.925.6621
One of our super sponsors
for the Fall Festival!
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| Reminders |
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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. Volunteers
needed! Contact Paige Fitts to help.
School Tours
Available:
Mondays
9 am
Tuesdays
1 pm
PTA Meeting Dates
November 17- 6pm
December--no meeting
January 19- 6pm
February16-6pm
March 16- 6pm
April 20- 6 pm
May 11- 6
pm | |
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| Greetings
Briarlake Beavers, |
*Thank you everyone who has
recycled bottle caps for our art projects. We have
enough at this time, so please suspend cap-giving for
now.
*Remember to Label your children's
coats, jackets and other "loose" items.
*Please check the Lost and Found for
personal items. Our "closet" runneth
over!
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| TONIGHT
Spirit Night--Thursday, Nov. 5 |
Come out
and support Briarlake Elementary...
Thursday, Nov 5th
for Chick-fil-A Spirit Night.
A portion of the
proceeds will go to Briarlake. We raised $150 at our
last Spirit Night! There will be a prize wheel and a
dance contest with "The Cow"!
Treat yourself to
a night of no cooking and no dishwashing and support a
great cause!
.
Chick-fil-A at the corner
of Briarcliff and N. Druid
Hills. |
| CULTURAL ARTS
PROGRAM |
Pre-K - 2nd grade will
enjoy The Wow Show by Vincenzo Tortorici on Thursday,
November 12th. Please click here to read about the show and Mr.
Tortorici.
Stay tuned for more exciting
events! |
| Fifth Grade Discovery
Social Studies Fair |
| Congratulations to the
following students who were selected to represent
Briarlake in the Dekalb County district-wide social
studies fair.
The students are Will Rigby, Patrick Wang, Piper
Takei, Nolan Wilson, Krishan Chib, Trevor Gulley, Kelsey
Brown, Heidi David, Ben Hansberger, James
Traynelis, Fabricio Andrade, Anna Paige Teachout,
and Katie Horne. The fair will be held
November 10-12 at Stone Mountain Middle School. Good
luck students!
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| Safe Routes to School
Survey... |
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Thank
you for participating in the Safe Routes to School
survey
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| Box
Top News |
Last
week I mailed in $310 worth of Box Tops for
Education! Thank you to everyone for sending
in Box Tops. Keep them coming! We will be
having another Box Tops collection contest in the
winter.
Dave
Flanagan |
| Book Fair Coming
soon--Get Ready to Read |
Briarlake, are you ready
to Read Around the World?
The Scholastic Book Fair
is coming to Briarlake beginning Wednesday, November 18
and running through Friday, November 20.
The
Fair will be open before and after school and during the
Thanksgiving Lunches on Thursday and Friday. This is a
great opportunity to get some new books, get started on
your holiday shopping, and help out our teachers by
purchasing books from their "Wish Lists" - and a portion
of the proceeds stays at Briarlake! A letter will be
sent home soon outlining details.
If you'd like to
help your child's school (it's a lot of fun, you get a
10% discount and you get to shop while you work!),
contact Randy
David-Faigin.
Come on, we need your
help!
Get ready to READ!
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| Community Outreach
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Starting November 16, Briarlake will
begin collecting food bags for Children's Healthcare of
Atlanta. Details coming
soon. |
| Green Team
News |
Briarlake will continue to
collect cell phones and their chargers, headsets,
and accessories, all year long. The
collection box is near the front doors. These
phones will benefit gorillas from the Democratic
Republic congo area. What an easy way
to reach out and help another part of the
world.
Ms. Berry,
our librarian, is collecting batteries all year as
well.
We hope many of you are
enjoying the morning walks to school. Our
safety patrols are ready to punch a hole in your walking
cards each week. This is
Week
5. Remember
to walk or bike to school at least one day each
week to get your card punched for that week so that
at the end of 10 weeks we can enter your card into a
raffle for a prize. Walk to
Win!
Thank
you Green
Team!
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| Running
Club |
In
preparation for Henderson Mill Elementary School's fun run we
will be doing our track club for the month of November. We
could do it on Tuesday afternoons from 3-4pm. With the
short notice, we will need support from parents to make it
happen. The dates would be November 10, 17, 24 and
December 1.
So from parents, we need a healthy
snack provided for each day (we typically assign 2 families to
each practice) and 1-2 parents to come to each practice to
help hand out stickers and assist in setting up our
water.
Parents need to send in a
note to Whitney Blackmore giving your child
permission to participate by Friday, then we can start it on
Tuesday. If you would like a track club
shirt, you can also let Whitney know, and what size they
need (YS, YM, YL, AS, AM, AL). The cost of a shirt is
$12 and we can try to get them in time for the Henderson
5K.... but we need to know by the first track club
meeting on November 10.
Sorry for the late notice! We just received the
information. Please see below for a link to sign
up for the run.
Mrs.
Blackmore
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| News
from our Representative |
The DeKalb Legislative
Delegation to the Georgia General Assembly will host a town
hall meeting on Thursday, November 12, at 7:00 p.m., at the
Chamblee United Methodist Church (4147 Chamblee Dunwoody Road,
Chamblee, GA 30341).
In addition to the delegation
meeting, Sen. Dan Weber, who represents part of our House
District 82 in the Georgia Senate, is hosting a series of
evening town hall meetings, including one at Henderson Middle
School Cafeteria (2830 Henderson Mill Road) on Thursday,
November 19, which Kevin Levitas plans to
attend.
The topics to be covered at Sen. Weber's meeting
include:
2010 Legislative
Priorities
Education Initiatives
Water Issues
State
Finances | |
Sarah Rigby and Laurie Hobbs, PTA
Co-Presidents
Briarlake Elementary PTA
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