Briarlake Elementary School PTA
October
1st, 2009
Eighth Week of School
onth,
Year - Vol 1, Issue
1 | |
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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
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Saturday 10/3
Fall Festival
Wednesday 10/7
National Walk to School
Day
Thursday 10/8
Beaver Bulletin deadline
Friday
10/9 & Monday 10/12
School Holidays
Tuesday 10/13
Sally Foster Delivery
Friday 10/16
Picture make-up day
Class pictures
October 17
Reflections deadline
October
5-30 Testing for 1st, 3rd, 5
th grades |
| Thank you
to: |
Ms. Jenks for getting our testing
periods "all figured out".
All the teachers that stayed late to
accommodate our conferences.
Nicole Spiro for getting all our
school photos organized and sent home.
The Fur Bus volunteers..you need
extra super thanks for riding that!
La Detra White
Philip
Mancusi-Ungaro | |
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Greetings
Briarlake Beavers,
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*This is a long one, but
a goodie...read it all!
*Thank you to all who
showed the Roberts family loving support Monday and wore
green. It's amazing what small acts of kindness
can do... our hearts and prayers continue to go out to
the Roberts family, and "Go Quinn, Go"! She's doing
quite well.
*The rain thwarted our plans
again...sorry about the Lakeside
football game. We'll try again.
*Get well soon, Mrs. Crabtree!
Our dear cafeteria manager, has been ill for several
weeks now. Keep her in your thoughts! We
miss you Mrs. Crabtree!!
*Important Bake Sale information for
all 5th graders! Read below for details.
*ITBS Testing schedule is
below.
*Carpool complaints: Please be
mindful of blocking the carpool driveway if you choose
to park and exit your car before carpool begins.
If you choose to leave your car unattended before 2:00
p.m., please park single file on the left side, so
that others can pass through.
Thanks!
*2 days 'til the Fall
Festival. This is our time-honored tradition
brought to us by Carolyn Hansen and Angela
Pilcher. Bring friends, neighbors and smiles and
welcome in the fall with us.
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| Fall
Festival |
FALL FESTIVAL
COUNTDOWN...
TWO Days TO
GO!
Are you ready for some
fun?!!
The Fall Festival has new
hours this year. Make note that it will begin at
11am and end at 4pm. The craft show opens one hour
earlier at 10am.
Thanks so much. We are
looking forward to another wonderful Fall Festival with
our Briarlake families and the community!
If
your plans have changed and you can lend a hand to help,
please contact Vanessa Erens at verens@bellsouth.net .
Carolyn
Hansen and Angela Pilcher
Fall Festival
Co-Chairs
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| Fall Festival--FOOD
COURT--NEW!! |
FOOD
NEWS:
Briarlake Fall Festival Voted
Best Place
for Lunch in
Town!
New for 2009! Fall Festival Food
Court featuring:
·
Chick-fil-A
·
Moe's Southwestern
Grill
·
Maddio's
Pizza
·
PTA Fall Harvest
Café
·
Coca-Cola
Beverages
·
Beta Club Bake Shop
Our restaurant vendors
will be contributing a generous portion of proceeds to
the Briarlake PTA, so come for
lunch!
Denise
Chiavetta
Fall Festival food
coordinator
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Fall Festival Bake Sale--calling ALL
5th graders |
HELP!!!
Due to a miscommunication,
the 5th graders did not receive the notice about working
at the Fall Festival Bake Sale on Saturday!!! We
are notifying you now!
We need any and all 5th
graders that can volunteer for 30 minutes to help sell
baked goods. They will also need to bake and bring
in items to sell...cookies, brownies, krispie treats,
popcorn balls, muffins, etc.
Please wrap each item
individually and label carefully if the item contains
nuts or peanut butter.
Shifts are 1130-1200,
1145-1215, 1200-1230, 1215-1245, 1230-100,
1245-115,100-130, 115-145, 130-200.
See Ms. Jenks if you can
help!
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Quinn Roberts--
YOU make Briarlake Great!
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Quinn Roberts, 2nd grader,
underwent a kidney transplant on Tuesday, September 29,
her 8th birthday. She will be out of school
approxaimately 4-8 weeks. She now begins the
long process of recovering.
Their story will also be featured on
WXIA/11 news this week by reporter Julie
Wolfe.
If your child would like
to send Quinnlin a card in the coming weeks, we know
that she would appreciate her school community thinking
about her. Her home address is: 2876
Guinevere Dr. NE, Atlanta, GA 30345. How
nice would it be for Quinn to get lots of real
letters, cards and pictures?
If you would like to see updates on
Quinnlin's surgery and progress or you want to help the
family with meals, you can visit her mom's blog at www.kidneysandeyes.com.
No longer forward nor
behind
I look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take
the good I find,
The best of now and here.
~John
Greenleaf Whittier~
The entire Roberts family is
in our
hearts!
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| Important IOWA testing
Updates |
Amendment to the testing schedule:
We have received notice that
Tuesday, October 6 cannot
be used for testing due to
FTE.
Monday,
10-05
Practice
Questions
Vocabulary
Tuesday,
10-06 NO TESTING !!!
Wednesday,
10-07
Word
Analysis
Listening
Thursday, 10-08
Language
Mathematics
Wednesday,
10-14
Reading: Session
1
Thursday,
10-15
Reading: Session
2
Grades 3 and
5
Monday, 10-5
Vocabulary
Reading
(Part 1)
Tuesday,
10-06 NO TESTING !!!
Wednesday,
10-07
Reading (Part
2)
Spelling
Capitalization
Punctuation
Thursday,
10-08
Usage and
Expression
Math Concepts and Estimation
Tuesday,
10-13
Math Problem
Solving
Math
Computation
Wednesday,
10-14
Social
Studies
Science
Thursday,
10-15
Maps and
Diagrams
Reference Materials
Information provided by Ms.
Jenks |
| National Walk To School
Day -- Wednesday, Oct. 7 |
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Wednesday, October 7 plan to walk
to school. What a great way to get your day
started!
There's a crispness in the air, and
beautiful brilliant fall blue skies (we hope), so enjoy a
moment with your children walking to school. If you live
too far away to walk all the way to school, consider parking
on one of the neighborhood streets and walking some of the
way.
Please mark your
calendars and join the rest of the WORLD as we
walk,
bike, run, scooter, or
dance our way to school.
Briarlake Elementary is
very pleased to announce our new partnership with The Safe
Routes to School Program [SRTS}. The National SRTS
is
designed to enable and encourage children, including
those with
disablities, to walk and bicycle to
school; to make bicycling and
walking to school a
safer and more appealing
transportation alternative; and to
facilitate the
planning,
develpoment, and
implementation of projects and activities that
will
improve safety, and reduce traffic,
fuel consumption and air
pollution in the vicinity of
schools.
On October 7th, each student will
receive a Walking Card and zipper
pull to kick off
our new walking program. For the next 10 weeks,
the
cards are to be carried by the students when they
walk or bicycle
their way to school. The cards
will then be randomly checked and a
hole will be
punched in the card. After 10 weeks the SRTS team
will
hold a raffle for our card carrying
walkers/bikers to win a prize. We
hope you
enjoy the glorious
mornings!
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| Lost
and Found--ready to find owners |
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Remember to check the Lost and Found rack
in the cafeteria. It is getting so full that in the
next few weeks we plan to donate the
remaining clothes to Goodwill.
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| Green
Team--Carpool Collection |
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The Green Team will collect Sally
Foster boxes and electronics to recycle on Friday,
October 16 during
morning carpool. You don't even have to get
out of your car...How easy is
that? See below for the link for
acceptable items.
The Fall Festival is just about
here! What a great time to get out and enjoy the day at
Briarlake. Please stop by to help create the the best
Marble Run EVER !! Look for us outside, near the
kindergarten hall. We'll also be selling those fabulous
reusable shopping bags. Another opportunity to create
non-toxic cleaning solutions will be available as well.
Please come out and support our team while you have
fun.
The following week on Oct. 7th is
International Walk to School Day. The Green Team,
Coach Cocks and the Healthy Habits Team will be there to kick
off the new walking program. What a great way to start
good, clean, healthy and inexpensive
habits!
Please do not forget to collect your
electronics. We'll be collecting those items as well as
your Sally Foster Boxes on October 16th, during morning
carpool. The link for the list of items accepted is
www.decaturga.com/cgs_citysvcs_sfm_electronics.aspx
We
look forward to seeing you at all of these wonderful
events.
Thank you Green
Team!
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| Healthy Habits call to
action from the Georgia PTA |
CHILD NUTRITION ACT AND COMPETITIVE
FOODS
Info from the Georgia PTA: The Child Nutrition
Act and the Child Nutrition & Protection Act (i.e.
Competitive Foods Bill) is being voted on this year.
Please support Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch
Protection Act (S. 934), introduced by Senators Harkin and
Murkowski. As you know, good nutrition is central to
children's health and ability to learn. The bill calls on the
U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to update its national
school nutrition standards for foods sold outside of school
meals. This includes foods sold through vending machines,
school stores, and a la carte in the cafeteria. The current
standards are out of date and do not reflect current concerns
regarding children's diets and health.
The Georgia PTA is encouraging all members
to sign the letter to Senator Chambliss (feel free to add
a personal note).
Mailing addresses for Senator
Chambliss' regional offices can be found at
http://chambliss.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=RegionalOffices.
Resources
and more information can be found at:
Video - Lunch Encounters of the
Third Kind
PowerPoint Presentation
Letter to Senator Saxby
Chambliss
Information provided by Sarah
Cook |
| H1N1
Vaccines available at the Department of Health
clinics |
|
Based on the latest information
received from the Department of Health, vaccines for the H1N1
will be provided through their clinics with extend clinic
hours. |
| SALLY
FOSTER |
| What fun was had by
the FUR BUS riders! The pizza parties are coming for our
top class participation winners--Mrs. Johnson and Mrs.
Winburn!
Our sincere gratitude is extended to Irenea
Seufert and Michelle Lindner for their dedication
and committment to raising money for our children and
school. We all stand with an ovation for you
both. The time you have given to all students,
staff and teachers at Briarlake, and the time you have taken
away from your own families and yourself, does not go
unrecognized. We salute you, and thank
you! |
| Philip
Mancusi-Ungaro you ROCK! |
|
Have you noticed the path leading to the
cul-de-sac behind the school that many students and parents
traverse before and after school? Well, after the
flooding, the path resembled the Grand Canyon. Thank you
to Mr. Mancusi-Ungaro for filling in the ravine with
rocks. We really appreciate your
kindness. |
| Briarlake Baptist
Work Day--October 4 |
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Thanks to La Detra White, the Briarlake
Baptist Church community service project will be held at
Briarlake Elementary again this year! Thank you in
advance for all that you do for our school, in this project
and many others throughout the year. What a great
relationship we have!
Thanks to Mrs. White for her time, energy and efforts
organizing this project.
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| Reminders |
Girl Scout troop #
25437 will be collecting eye glasses at the Fall
Festival. We will have a box to collect all glasses.
They will be given to the Georgia Lions Lighthouse who
provides assistance to those in need in our community by
helping to pay for glasses or a visit to an eye doctor (among
other programs). The Lighthouse collects used eyeglasses
(or sunglasses) for use in Operation Eye Care. Donated
glassed are washed, read and sorted by their volunteers.
They are then sent on mission trips to developing areas in the
world.
Thank
you, Mrs.
Francis
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Reflections - Deadline
Coming...
This year's theme is "Beauty is...The deadline
for all entries is October 17th.
If you have questions,
please contact Lisa Spivack
Box Tops
Continue clipping Box Tops. Look for Box Tops
on many different products, not just food. Box Tops
Website.
School Store
Hours
Open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays before
school--7:35-8:00 a.m. Volunteers needed!
Contact Paige Fitts to help.
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Sarah Rigby and Laurie Hobbs, PTA
Co-Presidents
Briarlake Elementary PTA
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