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Reminders
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For Amana Text Alerts -text @amana to 404-941-8355
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Annual Fund Progress
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We have raised $30,317.69 to date. THANK YOU!
Class rankings
KK - 51%
1st - 78%
2nd - 48%
3rd - 52%
4th - 47%
5th - 49%
6th - 33%
7th - 28%
8th - 31%
Total Parent Participation - 48%
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Events
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February 14
School Closed
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February 17
Presidents Day Holiday
School Closed
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February 18
PIE General Body Meeting
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
in the Parent Center
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February 19
Admissions Lottery
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Media Center
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Basketball Game at Hopewell Middle School
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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February 21
Spirit Wear Day
In Observance of Georgia Arbor Day
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Family Fun Event
Roller Skating at the Cooler
3:30PM - 5:30 PM
10800 Davis Drive
Alpharetta, GA 30004
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Basketball Game at River Trail Middle School
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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February 22
Governing Board Meeting
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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Hands On Amana
Learning Garden Work Day
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Thank You to Our Business Partners
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Stay Connected
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285 South Main Street
Alpharetta, GA 30009
678.624.0989
info@amanaacademy.org
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LEARNING RESOURCES YOU CAN USE AT HOME DURING SNOW DAYS
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While you're weathering the winter storm, here are some great online resources to help students stay on top of their studies. These are also linked on the Media Center/Library page on our website. Please email your child's teacher for any necessary logins/passwords if you don't already have them.
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Family Advertisements for the yearbook are now on sale! Send your student, sibling or friend a congratulatory note starting at only $5. Yes, that's $5 for 42 characters (includes letters, spaces, and punctuation) on our SHOUT OUT page. Thank a friend or a favorite teacher. Give a volunteer a pat on the back. Acknowledge a summer birthday, a personal achievement, an academic award, or participation in a special event. Fun, inexpensive and personal, these messages are a permanent reminder of wonderful ideas, milestones met, and our community. Look for the flyer next week or download and print and return with your payment to the PIE mailbox in the lobby.
Prices for photo ads range from $35 to $250 and can be submitted online. Click here for the order form and payment instructions.
Lastly-the Yearbook Committee congratulates the Fifth Grade for winning the Yearbook Pre-Order Signing Party! Look for more details on this event in May.
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| LEARN MORE ABOUT CCRPI AT THE RESCHEDULED PIE GENERAL BODY MEETING |
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Because of the snow storm, the meeting for Partners in Education (PIE), Amana's parent organization, has been rescheduled. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 18, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM, in the Parent Center, located at suite 109-A, in between Satay House and the main school entrance. Come find out what's happening at Amana, including our latest results on the College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI) from the Georgia Department of Education.
The College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI) is a comprehensive school improvement, accountability, and communication platform for all educational stakeholders that will promote college and career readiness for all Georgia public school students. The Index will include scores that easily communicate to the public how a school is doing. Each school will receive a score out of 100 points, just like what students receive in their classes.
While CRCT scores are the primary driver for the CCRPI index, the State DOE has made changes to the scoring of the index; so we are not sure how our scores will compare to last year. One thing we do know that we will not receive all the available points because last year we were unable to conduct computer online career inventories with students. While our Expeditionary Learning approach exposes students to many types of careers, our school counselor is ensuring our students use the online tool this year for the 2013-2014 score (published in 2015).
Please click on the following link to learn more about CCRPI:
http://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Accountability/Documents/CCRPI_onepager_Overview.pdf
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HELP TALA BUDEIR COLLECT ART SUPPLIES FOR SYRIAN CHILDREN
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Tala Budeir is a 2nd grade student at Amana Academy. She presented a TEDxYouthDay talk last fall at TEDxAmanaAcademy on Syria. Her talk connected with the EL Design Principle of Empathy and Caring. Tala believes that art can help the Syrian children feel happy. She has started an art supplies collection at Amana Academy. Art supplies like crayons, sketchbooks, coloring pencils, markers etc.. can be donated from now until the end of the month into specified containers. Tala has gotten support from a number of people outside of Amana Academy as well. Her project is being supported by Maria Zulfiquar, an Amana Academy alum! For more information please see her TED talk: http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/8484
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| 2 WAYS TO FULFILL YOUR VOLUNTEER REQUIREMENT |
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The Library always needs volunteers to help with shelving books, book check-in & check-out, book processing and special projects. Please stop by the library during the school day for 10 minutes or two hours.
See you in the Library!
The Copy Room is also looking for volunteers to make photocopies for teacher and staff use. Slots are available in two-hour chunks, Tuesday through Thursday, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Training is provided. Sign up here, or contact Michelle Bard at LeedesLady@aol.com with questions.
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| SEARCH THE AMANA LIBRARY FROM HOME |
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The Newly Updated Destiny Quest is available for use at home and as a mobile app!
You can now search the Amana Academy Library from home or your phone by logging into
or by downloading the free Follett Destiny mobile app in Google Play or iTunes.
Look for a QR code at the front desk and outside the library!
See you in the library!
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We hope you are as excited as we are about our new Learning Garden project! Follow our progress by visiting our Learning Garden website.
Join us for a Hands On Amana service day on Saturday, February 22 from 11AM until 4PM. We will be preparing beds in front of the school for planting. To volunteer for this project, please click here. |
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