August 22          General PTA meeting / Curriculum Night, 6 p.m.

August 24          Board of Directors Meeting

September 1      Chick-fil-A Spirit Night - Perimeter Pointe

September 5      No School - Happy Labor Day

September 6      School Pictures

September 7      Dunwoody Walk-to-School Day

September 22    Parent University

                           "New Parent Orientation with Mr. Maloof"

Thank you!

Our parent volunteers truly help make Vanderlyn such an amazing school. Over the summer our volunteers worked to get ready for the start of a new year and we want to thank them for offering their ideas and time.

Thanks to the following committees:

Annual Fund Co-Treasurers - Scott Madden and Jennifer Powers

Appreciation (Teacher and Staff)- Melanie Gracey and Paige Ackaway (Welcome Breakfast and Gifts for Teachers)

Directory - Christy Keohane, Kelly Coker Smith and AnnMarie Madden

Gardens and Grounds - Tina Wilkinson (Maintained Organic Garden) and Shawn Bard

Hospitality - Ginny Rice and Julia LeDoyen (Welcome Lunch for Teachers and Volunteers, Popsicle Social)

Information Boards - Susan LaKier and McDaniel Leask (Marquees) and Sara Friedman (Bulletin Boards)

Merchant Partners - Jennifer Westrick and Laura Mixon

New Families - Beth Reaves and Alison James

PTA Website - Julie Erickson and Kay Sedberry

Spirit Wear - Shelley Levy and Randi Siegel

Traffic - Cami Mitelman and Kate Sweeney

Viking Views - Jennifer Nail and Melissa Wilks

PTA Executive Board - Carolyn Matulich, Amy Tharp, Amy Hillegass, Jennifer Cohen, Diane Weiss, Laura Horlock-Pankey and Mythreyi Joshi

We also want to thank these volunteers who helped make our Registration and Class Assignment Days a success. It was a busy week and your help was sincerely appreciated.

Paige Ackaway, Audra Anders, Nancy Anderson, Beth Balga, Shari Bayer, Kim Bertschi, Krista Biondo, Andrea Byers, Renee Cannon, Missy Chiverton, KaLyn Davis, Wendy Dell, Erin Dixon, Laura Dowling, Pam Duffy, Jill Fearney, Michelle Fincher, Bill Florence, Melanie Ford, Jodi Fox, Leslie Frohman, Lynn Garber, Michele Garber, Kim Gavlak, Kim Gies, Laurie Goldstein, Melanie Gracie, Tara Hastie, Jill Hodges, Melissa Humphries, Alison James, Christine Keleman, Christy Keohane, Peter Keohane, Shamaila Khalil, Courtney Kuriger, Susan LaKier, Shamsha Lalani, Julia LeDoyen, Shelley Levy, Jen Lowenstein, Ashley Luke, Laura  MacElroy, Ann Maurer, Veronica McNamara, Cami Mitelman, Michelle Mittleman, Laura Mixson, Katy Moomaw, Melissa Nims, Dia Parks, Sherrill Pettit, Beth Reaves, Ginny Rice, Val Romano, Kelly Seets, Sandi Sherman, Randi Siegel, Shannon Speice, Brandi Stevens, Peggi Stone, Sandi Strasburg, Susan Tallent, Cindy Tibbetts, Beth Toly, Heather Trotter, Katie Troxell, Lucia Urtusastegui, Stephanie Warshal, Lisa West, Jennifer Westrick, and Tina Wilkinson.

Please accept our sincerest apologies if we have missed anyone.  And please know we are so appreciative of your time and efforts.

Lyn Brown and Brenda Ridl, Co-Presidents
Vanderlyn PTA 2011-2012

We are in need of used tennis balls to place on legs of chairs and desks to prevent damage to the school's floors.  Please leave your tennis balls in the front office.

From rock climbing, to photojournalism, to canoe adventures, to community gardens. Girl Scouts turns boring days into days girls will remember all their life.  Girl Scouts gives every girl access to life-changing experiences that inspire her to do something big.

For more information, please attend the following meeting:

Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Time: 6 p.m.

Place: Vanderlyn Media Center

If you cannot attend and would like to volunteer or need additional information, please contact Cindy Tibbetts at cindy@h2odistributors.com. 

• Troops will be able to be formed only as volunteer leaders become available.  Please consider becoming your daughter's Troop Leader.
• Girl Scout volunteers receive free local training and the satisfaction of helping to build girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place!
• Girl Scouting is open to girls in Kindergarten - 12th grades.

Our recycling programs last year were a great success! Thank you to everyone who participated. We continue to encourage all Vanderlyn families to bring in the following items to the school, where we have collection bins available by the office: 

• Plastic bottles
• Aluminum Cans
• Printer cartridges (All types)
• Cell phones (All types)
• Digital Cameras
• Used crayons
• Batteries (alkaline and lithium)
• Empty Elmer's brand glue bottles and glue sticks
• Aluminum can poptops (collection will be donated by the girl scouts to the Ronald McDonald House, for their fundraising initiative)
• Plastic bottle caps (The only types accepted are rigid caps that twist on with a threaded neck such as caps on shampoo, water, soda, milk, and other beverage bottles, flip top caps on tubes and food product bottles (such as ketchup and mayonnaise), laundry detergents and some jar lids such as peanut butter.  Note: These types of caps do not get recycled during the bottle recycling process.) 

We also encourage the kids to recycle these items, which are collected in the cafeteria. 

• Juice pouches (All brands)
• Plastic ziploc-style baggies and containers 

For more information, contact Sandi Strasberg or Nat Lanier, Environmental Education Committee Co-chairs, for more information. Or visit the PTA website: http://vanderlynpta.com/1/Programs.html. 

Looking for a volunteer opportunity at Vanderlyn this year? Lunch Bunch volunteer slots are available and offer a great opportunity to spend time getting to know your child's classmates while helping out at lunchtime. Look for sign-up forms in your VIP.

Our summer garden is going strong with cucumbers, tomatoes, basil, potatoes, chives, thyme, peppers, and eggplant still coming in. The garden thrived all summer with the help of volunteers from the following families: Fincher, Humphries, Mitchum, Addalia, Hammond, Limor, and Etheridge. We also had help from a group of rising 4th, 5th, & 6th graders from Dunwoody United Methodist Church during their week of community service. Thank you to all who volunteered. We'll harvest our remaining summer crops during the next few weeks and plant fall crops by mid-September. Fifth graders will harvest throughout the fall as the vegetables mature.

Our work is featured in this week's Dunwoody Patch, an online news publication in the article titled Readin', Writin; maters and Cukes.

Questions? Please contact Tina Wilkinson at tinaw@wilkinsons.com.

Earn money for Vanderlyn by collecting box top labels. These labels can be found on a variety of products. For a complete product list, please go to www.boxtops4education.com. Each label earns Vanderlyn 10¢. Last year, over $1,000 was earned for our school. Start saving labels today. Ask your family, friends and neighbors to collect them too. The first collection will be in the fall and the second in the spring, details to follow. The student who collects the most labels in their grade will win a Yogli Mogli gift certificate.