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The Friday Digest
Pertinent Points for the Week Ahead
from the Chesterbrook PTA |
| Vol.2, No.10 | November 12, 2010
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Thanks to Kim Johnson and her Hospitality team and to all the volunteers who helped set-up, serve and clean-up for the Thanksgiving Luncheon yesterday. It was as beautiful and seamlessly run as ever, and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves! The cafeteria served over 700 meals, compared to 320 on a regular day. Everyone's patience with the tight schedule and space is appreciated!
Everyone should receive a Family Directory in their child's backpack today -- if you don't, it may be because you haven't yet joined the PTA or ordered a Directory (see below to take care of that). If you didn't receive yours but are a PTA member or purchased it separately, please contact directory@chesterbrook.org. Thanks to Dana Renz and Nancy Stuckwisch for their monumental efforts in putting it together. While it is coming out at the same time as last year, we have some plans in the works to simplify and get it out much sooner next year.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the book collection to the Escuela Caracol in Guatemala during the Book Fair. Please see the attached letter from Joshua Wilson, the school's director.
Finally, 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!
And don't forget to come to the Bullying Prevention program on Tuesday evening at 7 pm in the cafeteria. This was very well-received and attending last year and is something that unfortunately affects all of us!
Laurie
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 Consider Becoming a "Friend of Chesterbrook"
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Order Spirit Wear
It's the final week to order 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 last week's Thursday envelopes and online. Color versions of the designs are viewable at the Chesterbrook PTA website. |
View Reflections Entries
Congratulations to the Chesterbrook students who entered the PTA's Reflections Art Contest for 2010-2011: Nate Salkoff, Smith Graninger, Zeyan Chaabane, Maxwell Mobley, Katherine Kelleher, Josh Leong, Annie Przypyszny, Eleanor Salkoff, Gabriela Kohlmayer, Caroline Allen, Caroline Brunner, Natalie Hill, Haley Rose/Victoria Gralla/Shelby Rose, Mia Valencic and Amanda Mullet.
Please stop by Chesterbrook's Media Center and check out the display case to see the great job our students did in illustrating via visual arts, literature, photography and film this year's theme "Together We Can..."
We extend special congratulations to the following students whose work placed first in their category and division. We wish you good luck in your competition at the District Level where your work will compete with that of other students in Fairfax County:
Primary Division:
Maxwell Mobley Literature
Zeyan Chaabane Visual Arts
Intermediate Division:
Annie Przypyszny Literature
Caroline Allen Visual Arts
Katherine Kelleher Photography
Josh Leong Film
For more information, please contact the Reflections Committee. |
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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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 12 | Impact Aid forms due | November 16, 7 - 7:45 pm
| Bully Prevention seminar for parents and students of all ages | November 16-17
November 19 | Science assemblies
Candid and club pictures
| | November 19 | Spirit Day -- Bring a stuffed animal to school | | November 19 | Spirit Wear orders due | November 23, 1 - 1:45 pm
| 4th Grade Weather Program
| November 24, 1:20 pm
November 25-26
| Two-hour early release
Thanksgiving Holidays | December 7, 8:30 am
| PTA meeting
| December 9, 7 pm
| 6th Grade Choral/Strings Concert
| December 10, 9:15 am
| 6th Grade Choral/Strings Concert
| December 16, 2 - 3 pm
| Principal's Coffee
| December 22, 1:20 pm
| Two-hour early release
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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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