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The Friday Digest
Pertinent Points for the Week Ahead
from the Chesterbrook PTA |
| Vol.2, No.11 | November 19, 2010
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Thank you to Julia Nelson, Bob Nelson, and Dale Lumme for going above and beyond again this year and developing and implementing the Chesterbrook Friends program. It's been really well-received by our families, and now they are starting to grow our Business Friends as well. Please take a minute to look at the Friends website to see what it's all about and all the hard work Julia, Bob, and Dale have done.
Thanks also to Candace Stromberg-Soberman for bringing in Anita Capizzi to talk about nutrition at our PTA meeting last week. If you missed it or want more information, check out www.realfoodrealhealth.com. Tell your kids to watch out for more nutrition information on upcoming morning news episodes and in the cafeteria.
All PTA members and those who a bought Family Directory separately should have received one by now -- if you haven'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 again to Dana Renz and Nancy Stuckwisch for their monumental efforts in putting it together. And a big thank you to the Gralla Family for donating paper and printing services again this year! It's a great help to the PTA and school community.
Congratulations again to our Reflections art competition winners: Max Mobley, Zeyan Chaabane, Annie Przypyszny, Caroline Allen, Katherine Kelleher, and Josh Leong. And a big thank you to Betty Ende for picking up the management of the program, no small feat with the amount of paperwork involved, and for shuttling the entries from stage to stage. Good luck to our winners at the county-level competition!
Happy Thanksgiving! The Friday Digest will be taking a break next week to enjoy a different sort of digesting...
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Order Spirit Wear
It's the final day 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. Note that the yellow t-shirt will have blue instead of white lettering due to a printing problem of white on yellow. Orders are due by the end of today, 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 are online. Color versions of the designs are viewable at the Chesterbrook PTA website. |
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Learn Some Chinese
The Chesterbrook Morning News episodes of Time for Chinese are now online. Through the school's website you can link to the iTunes podcasts of the 2 minute clips the students see every morning. You can also go straight to the iTunes page. It's a great way to practice every day!
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 Consider Becoming a "Friend of Chesterbrook"
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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!
We had several families join the PTA this week after they didn't receive a directory and realized they forgot to join. We have plenty more directories, so please join today. Can't remember if you joined or not? It happens. Just contact Gina Manning at gina@stationwagon.com and she'll take care of everything.
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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. |
 Did you know that the numbers on the fruit stickers actually mean something?
The sticker labels (produce codes) on fruits actually tell you how the fruits have been grown - whether they were organically grown, conventionally grown with pesticides and herbicides, or genetically engineered.
- Conventional Fruit Labels: Four digits and mostly start with the digit 4 (does not start with 9)
- Organic Fruit Labels: Five digits and starts with number 9
- Genetically Modified Fruits: Start with the digit 8
For those shoppers that can't find or afford organic produce, they can use Environmental Working Group's Shopper's Guide to avoid those conventional fruits and vegetables found to be highest in pesticides - the Dirty Dozen - and, instead, choose items from the Clean Fifteen list.
The EWG finds that consumers that eat 5 fruits and vegetables from the "Dirty Dozen" will ingest an average of 10 pesticides a day. Those who eat from the 15 least contaminated conventionally grown fruits and vegetables ingest fewer than 2 pesticides a day. |
 | November 23, 1 - 1:45 pm | 4th Grade Weather Program | | November 24, 1:20 pm | Two-hour early release | | November 25-26 | Thanksgiving Holidays | December 7, 8:30 am
December 9, 7 pm
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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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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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