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| Chesterbrook Friends | Coming soon! We'll be highlighting our Business Friends every week.
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| FAQs | Q: Will my child bring home her school supply kit?
A: Most teachers keep the supplies in bulk storage and hand out items as needed.
Coming soon -- check out our new FAQs section on the website for more as the year goes on.
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Chesterbrook PTA Weekly Digest
No. 3, September 5, 2011
Happy Labor Day! We are changing format in our now "Weekly Digest" to add flexibility to send it out earlier in the week and get you the information you need quickly and easily at the top, with details at the bottom if you need them. Look for a complete rundown of the PTA's communications program in the coming weeks. We welcome your feedback!
Items for the weeks ahead:
- PTA Meeting, Tuesday, 9/6, 9 am, NOTE TIME CHANGE. All are welcome. Mr. Fuqua will be discussing the new green slip policy -- please see the 9/1 Principal's Byline for details.
- Gardens Work Day in Remembrance of the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 Tragedy, Sunday, 9/11, 1-3 pm
- Back to School Night, Tuesday, 9/13, 7 pm (visit specialists at 6:30)
- Before- and After-School Activities sign-ups, online, 9/15, 6pm
- Wounded Warriors 5K, Saturday, 9/24, details below
- Reload mylunchmoney.com, ongoing
- Directory updates
Thank you to Ann-Marie Turnage and her team for organizing our Ice Cream Social last Friday, Carol Brunner for helping with Spirit Wear sales, Lisa Richter and Eleanor Gollob and their team for managing school supply kits and sales, Maryam Redjaee for managing membership sales, Melissa Abelev and her team for preparing the Back to School Folders, and Gina Manning, Betty Ende, and Laura Przypyszny for helping at Open House too.
Looking forward to seeing you soon,
Beth Mahood
2011-2012 PTA President
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School Supply Kits and PTA Memberships
|  If you haven't already purchased your school supply kits, please go online to the PTA website today to do so. They will be delivered directly to your student's classroom. This is our first fundraiser of the year, and along with PTA memberships, are a significant source of income for us. PTA memberships may be purchased ($20 per family, $10 per individual member) online in the same transaction. PTA members receive a free copy of the Family Directory ($8 value).
A note about ordering: orders are not complete on the website until you receive a confirmation order. There are a number of shopping carts with incomplete orders and we cannot be sure whether owners meant to complete them or not. You may need to click on a final "place order" button. Contact webmaster@chesterbrookpta.org if you have questions.
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Garden Clean-up Day
|  We are holding another Garden Clean-up Day on Sunday, September 11, 1-3 pm along with residents and staff from Vinson Hall and students from George Washington University. The service day is part of the Remembrance and 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 Tragedies. We will be working in the school Discovery Gardens, across the street at the outdoor classroom, and at Vinson Hall. You may bring garden tools and gloves or borrow some. Sixth graders may earn service hours too!
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Back to School Night
| This year Back to School Night is a week earlier in September than in the past, so put it on your calendars now. Please come at 6:30 to meet your specialists and then come to the gym at 7 pm next Tuesday evening to hear about the year ahead and meet the staff. Afterwards we will head to classrooms to talk with the teachers (upper grades may meet in various non-classroom locations to be announced).
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| Volunteer with PTA | Are you interested in getting more involved in school and PTA activities? The PTA needs your help in the coming year! Running a committee is a terrific way to learn more about what's going on at school and meet other parents. We have some critical jobs to fill. Please see our website for a list of the openings. For more information, please contact Beth Mahood so you can get connected to the right opportunity. In your Back to School Folder (distributed at Open House or on the first day of school) you'll find a Volunteer Opportunities form where you can indicate where else you'd like to help, even if you aren't chairing a committee. There's something for everyone and every schedule!
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| Before- and After-School Activities Sign-ups | The PTA and Chesterbrook teachers offer after school Chess Club, Drama, Fitness Warriors (before school), FLEX (foreign language), Girls Excelling in Math and Science (GEMS), Girls on the Run (GOTR), and Yoga. Plus this year we're offering several new programs: BE-STEMS (Boys Excelling in Science, Technology, Math, and Science), Ideaventions (science), Math Olympiad, and Writers Club. Some information was in the Back to School Folders, and additional information will come out in this week's Thursday folders. Please note that while we have several new activities, art will not be offered this session, but we hope to resume in the winter. Registration for all programs except GOTR and FLEX begins online next Thursday, September 15 at 6 pm. For more information on each program, please visit our website. There are links to the flyers there too. Please note that we can no longer accept checks and all registrations will go through our website and PayPal (which processes credit cards and electronic checks).
GOTR registration is run through the GOTR organization and is open now at www.gotrnova.org. Information on FLEX foreign language classes will be available in the coming weeks; registration is run through the county's website.
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| Wounded Warriors 5K with Vinson Hall | Come get healthy this fall and support wounded warriors! Chesterbrook is teaming up with Vinson Hall for their 5k race to support wounded warriors on the morning of September 24. Children can participate in a free 50m race, explore tanks and humvee's, meet and greet soldiers and build on our relationship with the active and retired military members of our community. Parents and families can run the race or sponsor a warrior. Click here for more information.
Chester is looking for a few more volunteers from our 6th grade class to help out at the water stations. If your child is interested, please email Candace Stromberg-Soberman. And yes, Chester will be running the races with the kids!! More information to follow but please save the date and visit the website to learn more on participating in the race.
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We will collect information for NEW Chesterbrook families on the website; please click here to complete the information. You will have to "checkout" but there is no cost associated with submitting the information. Remember, if you do not receive a confirmation email you did not submit the information. Returning Chesterbrook families will be given a flyer with the information the PTA currently has on file. You will be able to update that information by returning the flyer.
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| Grocery Cards, Etc. |  It's time to redesignate your grocery cards. This is great, FREE, money for Chesterbrook! Last year our proceeds were well below the previous year, so we're hoping to increase substantially this year. Giant, Safeway, and Harris Teeter cards work, as does Target's Visa card. You can redesignate your cards in several ways:
- When you join the PTA online, the form asks for your card numbers for each store.
- You may email your numbers with store names to Maryam Redjaee, our VP of Fundraising.
- You may register your numbers yourself through our website.
While you are thinking about free money, we also are an Amazon affiliate, which means that a portion of each purchase comes back to the school when you begin your shopping at http://chesterbrookpta.org/amazonchesterbrook.aspx, which is also on our website. Bookmark it!
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| MyLunchMoney.com |  Have you ever seen this sticker? When your child comes home with one, it means his or her lunch account is running low. You can avoid this by signing up with mylunchmoney.com and setting an automatic reload point. For a small fee, they will reload the lunch account in any amount. Through the website, you can also review what your child has purchased in the past week. You can sign up even if you have already paid in the cafeteria--it will just get added to your child's account. |
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Chesterbrook PTA Newsletters Disclaimer
The Chesterbrook PTA Newsletter (Weekly Digest and Digest PLUS) 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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