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The Friday Digest
Pertinent Points for the Week Ahead
from the Chesterbrook PTA |
| Vol.2, No.9 | November 5, 2010
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At next week's evening General Membership meeting (7:30 pm, Media Center), we will be featuring Anita Capizzi, an RN and wellness coach, speaking about nutrition. See below for more information and topics Anita will cover. All questions welcome! Let's make sure we have a good turnout.
We're still trying to get everyone resubscribed to Chesterbrook emails after we have had about 60 email addresses get automatically "unsubscribed" from our Constant Contact account. If you are receiving this, your email is fine. And welcome back and thank you to those who resubscribed. But if you know someone who didn't, please direct them to our website to resubscribe. We don't want anyone to be left off any important emails! The school uses our database too, so you want to stay subscribed!
Thanks to everyone who worked and shopped at the Book Fair, and especially to Beth Lord and Marsha Camp. Beth graciously stepped back into the Fair after I "found" another PTA job and is finishing up a long career of book fairs at Chesterbrook, and Marsha graciously accepted some not-so-strong arming. We had another successful Fair, bringing in over $6,000 profits for the Media Center. Look out in the November Chronicle for more on profits and what Mrs. Moseley will do with them.
Don't forget to turn your clocks back this weekend!
Laurie
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Attend PTA Meeting with Guest Nutritionist
Special guest speaker Anita Capizzi, R.N and Nutritional Wellness Coach, will be on hand to discuss childhood nutrition and answer your questions. She will be covering the following topics:
- The state of health in America today
 - Childhood sugar consumption
- Negative effects of the standard American diet
- Real food vs. processed food
- Navigating the grocery store
- How to read food labels
Don't miss this opportunity to hear the facts and get real answers to your nutrition questions. Visit Anita's website at www.realfoodrealhealth.com.
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 Sign Up to Help Serve Thanksgiving Lunch
To assist the staff with this huge undertaking, we need many helpers. When the more than 40 volunteer slots are filled, we will be able to keep on our tight schedule and help everyone have a pleasant lunch with their student. Please use our Sign-up Genius to help with a 45 minute shift or with set up the day before if you are able. Helping with this event is a great way to see old friends and make some new ones in our Chesterbrook Community.
I hope to see you there!
Kim Johnson
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Sign Up for Silver Diner's Eat Well, Do Well Program
Every family should have received an Eat Well, Do Well card in their Thursday envelopes. If your family didn't receive one, please contact Melinda Settles to get a replacement. Register your card and preload it to start earning for the PTA every time you eat out! The food is great, and you can eat at any Silver Diner restaurant. We've had 29 families sign up already--thank you! Go to the EWDW website to get started!
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Join the PTA--It's Never Too Late!
On behalf of the Chesterbrook PTA I would like to extend an enthusiastic THANK YOU to all the parents who have joined the PTA. As of mid-October, we've had 354 families join - that's an incredible 83 percent of our total families. Our goal is always an ambitious 100%, so if you haven't done so, please consider joining today.
In a recent Washington Post article on the Washington, D.C. school chancellor situation, one sentence in particular stood out to me: No great school has a weak PTA. When parents, teachers, administration and staff are working together for the mutual benefit of our children, great things happen. At Chesterbrook we are incredibly lucky to have such an active parent community.
In addition to all the good stuff your dollars provide, membership has its benefits in that members receive a FREE copy of the school directory. Non-member price is $8.
Can't remember if you joined or not? It happens. Just contact me at gina@stationwagon.com and I'll check let you know. Thank you!
Gina Manning, VP for Membership
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Pick Up Great American Items
Many families' Great American items and prizes for online orders are still in the open pod awaiting pickup. Boxes of merchandise and prizes are labeled with the child's name and teacher. Please retrieve your items then, so your children don't have to carry them home.
You can still order items online through our Great American sale and credit the school. As a reminder, our school code is 1874999; online orders over $60 are shipped for free. Get a jump on holiday shopping! Any questions, call/contact Judy Williams at 703.442.3984 or email Judy Williams. |
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Donate Sweet Treats You're Not Gonna Eat
Don't let that left over Halloween Candy go to waste or your hips! Put those treats to good use by  donating them to the Chesterbrook Fun Fair. The Fun Fair committee will gladly take your leftover candy and use them to fill the always-popular "guesstimates" jars. Please drop off your Starburst, your Snickers, your SweetTarts, your Skittles and any other wrapped goodies in our designated drop box in the school office from now through November 12th.
Thank you for your help!!
Trisha Downey & Kim Johnson, Fun Fair Co-Chairs
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 Consider Becoming a "Friend of Chesterbrook"
Thanks to a few families and businesses who have already committed to becoming a Friend of Chestebrook through our new program. All donations, large and small, make a difference, and all are tax-deductible. Please find more information and necessary forms on our website. Email friends@chesterbrook.org with questions.
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Order Spirit Wear
The PTA is happy to announce the return of Chesterbrook Elementary Spirit Wear! We are offering, on a pre-order basis, two t-shirts (one navy, one yellow), a grey hooded sweatshirt and a car magnet - featuring all new designs. Orders are due by Friday, November 19, 2010. Delivery is expected by December 16, 2010. T-shirts are $12/youth sizes and $15/adult sizes. Sweatshirts are $22/youth sizes and $25/adult sizes. Magnets are $5. More information and order forms were in this week's Thursday envelopes. Color versions of the designs are viewable at the Chesterbrook PTA website. |
Keep Cafeteria Card Funded
If you child comes home with this sticker, their lunch card is low. Please send in more money to the cafeteria. As a service, the cafeteria staff will charge a PTA lunch card for students whose account is underfunded. When the student's card is funded again, the PTA account will be reimbursed first, so you must send in enough to cover the lunches already purchased, plus lunches moving forward. And after you have reimbursed the cafeteria and PTA, please consider setting up a mylunchmoney.com account with an automatic reload. This is a great way to be sure your children always have lunch money. It allows you to pay by credit card, and it rolls over from year to year.
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Support Outside Volunteer Opportunities
The School Outreach Committee is launching a new initiative to inform Chesterbrook families about local volunteering opportunities. If you have any volunteer opportunities you'd like included, please email Emily Ludwikowski (eludwikowski@gmail.com) or Shawna Saaty (shawna@saaty.com). There is a Stop Hunger event on Saturday, Nov. 6. For more information and links to register, please visit the PTA website. |
 | November 8-12 | Salvation Army canned food drive | | November 9, 7:30 pm | PTA General membership meeting on Nutrition
| | November 10 | Picture make-up day | November 11
November 12
November 16, 7-7:45 | Thanksgiving Luncheon
Impact Aid forms due
Bully Prevention seminar for parents and students of all ages | | November 16-17 | Science assemblies | | November 19 | Candid and club pictures | November 24
| Two-hour early release at 1:20 pm
| November 25-26
| Thanksgiving Holidays
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| School and PTA Partners | 
The Chesterbrook PTA Executive Committee offers our sincere thanks to our school and PTA partners.
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Chesterbrook PTA has 110
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Reading Rockets,
New
York Times Fitness & Nutrition, Wired Magazine's
GeekDad,
Washington Post's
Family Filmgoer and Family Almanac, and more!
FCPS Websites
FCPS Homepage
 
| Fairfax County Websites
Community Emergency Action Network
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Chesterbrook PTA Newsletters Disclaimer
The Chesterbrook PTA Newsletter (Chronicle or Friday Digest) may contain external links to non-Chesterbrook ES PTA websites and access to certain third-party services, which may include, without limitation, social bookmarking services. These external links and services are provided as a convenience, and the Chesterbrook ES PTA is not responsible for the content of any linked website or use of any third-service service. Any external link to a non-Chesterbrook ES PTA website or service accessed from the Chesterbrook PTA Newsletter is independent from the Chesterbrook ES PTA, and the Chesterbrook ES PTA has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policy, terms of use and practices of such website or service. Any such website or service has terms of use and a privacy policy different from the Chesterbrook ES PTA's privacy policy. In addition, an external link to any non-Chesterbrook ES PTA website or access to a third-party service does not imply that the Chesterbrook ES PTA endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or use of such website or service. By using any such website or service, you expressly release the Chesterbrook ES PTA from any liability arising from your use of such third-party website and service and any related content. |
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