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Reminders
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For Amana Text Alerts -text @amana to 81010
Give to the Annual Fund - Help us Reach our $50,000 Goal!
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November 20 Grandparents Day
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
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MS Turkey Trot
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
-- Recycle Uniform Sale
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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November 23-27
Thanksgiving Break
School Closed
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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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HELP US REACH OUR $50,000 GOAL
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We are SO close to our goal of $50,000. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far, especially those of you who rose to the challenge last week during the matching gift challenge. While we did not have 100 parents participate, we did exceed our monetary goal of $3000, and our generous anonymous matching donor matched with another $3000. We have currently raised almost $40,000. With that in mind, we are extending the campaign until December 18.
At this point, 35% of our families have participated in the Annual Campaign. This equates to about 150 families. This means that nearly 350 families have an opportunity to help us reach our goal of 100% parent participation. If each of those 350 families gave an average of $30, we would exceed our $50,000 goal.
You can donate online using the link below, or visit the annual fund table this Friday at dismissal. Make a donation and purchase a yummy treat from the bake sale (if you'd like to donate some baked goods to the bake sale, we need those as well).
As a reminder, here are some incentives to sweeten the deal:
- Classes that reach 80% parent participation get 15 min extra recess (Ms. Atkinson's class is at 77%. If just one more family in her class gives, they'll reach 80%)
- Classes at 80% parent participation and greater than $2000 raised - teacher gets an extra day off (Mr. Nguyen's class has exceeded $2000, but they need 5 more families to donate before he gets that much deserved day off. Ms. Guarino's girls are running a close second.)
- The first two families who donate $2500 will get a reserved carpool space each in front of the building. They can skip carpool and their kids are hand delivered to them at dismissal - BOTH OF THESE SPOTS HAVE BEEN CLAIMED
- ANY parent who enrolls in sustained giving "10 for 10" (ten payments of AT LEAST $10 each to celebrate our 10 year anniversary) are eligible for a drawing for 2 reserved carpool spaces in front of the building. They can skip carpool and their kids are hand delivered to them at dismissal - this drawing will take place after Thanksgiving break. (only 10 families have signed up as recurring donors, so there's still a chance to get in on this drawing)
- Highest Classroom Amount Collected = Class gets a Fine Dining experience with Ms. Campbell and Mr. Jaleel at Eagles Landing (right now, Mr. Nguyen's 5th grade boys class is in the lead, but there's still time to overtake them).
Gifts to the annual fund support the general operating budget of Amana, allowing us to provide more enriching educational opportunities for your children on a daily basis.
Thank you in advance for considering a gift to the Annual Fund - together we can make great things happen at Amana!
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| GEORGIA MILESTONE COACH WORKBOOKS ORDER NOW AVAILABLE |
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Dear Parents,
Last year, the Georgia Department of Education launched the Georgia Milestones standardized test, which includes questions that require higher depth of knowledge and the ability to explain your reasoning in math and ELA. At Amana we dig deeply into the standards and feel that our students are better prepared than students that don't have the benefit of the Expeditionary Learning model, but a little review is always helpful. We are pleased to offer the Crosswalk Coach (Science & Social Studies) and Common Core Performance Coach Workbooks (Math & Reading/LA) to help your child prepare for the Georgia Milestone Assessments. This grade specific series provides students with the level of rigorous practice that is called for by the Common Core Standards. Books are available for grades 3-8. We suggest purchasing the answer guides (especially for Math and Reading/LA), since there are many questions which require a constructed response, modeling, and short essays.
They may only be purchased this year online only at:
Deadline order: Friday, December 11, 2016
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The IXL board has been updated as of Wednesday, November 18th, 2015. Look for your child's name on the IXL board in the main hallway. We have seven students who passed the last milestone of 5,000 problems worked out. Students who pass this milestone will be recognized during the honors ceremony in January. For our overachievers, we have added an additional challenge with a milestone of 10,000 problems. All students who get their names on the IXL board will be candidates for a drawing to win an iPad!
Here are the students of the week:
K - Raadhiya Fatimah
1st Grade- Samantha Perez-Hernandez
2nd Grade - Muhammad Ammaar
3rd Grade - Shane Staten
4th Grade - Adam Adas
5th Grade - Esther Keiza
6th Grade - Pierce White
7th Grade - David Franchak
8th Grade - Shanai Moorer
And our class of the week with 3,798 problems worked out is: Mr. Herrington's class. Congratulations!
If you would like to receive certificates sent to you by email, go to settings once your child is logged into IXL and enter your email address.
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| CLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING BREAK |
This is a reminder that  Amana is closed next week, Monday November 23 - Friday November 27 for Thanksgiving Break. School will resume Monday November 30. We wish you all a happy and safe Thanksgiving, and look forward to seeing everyone when we return on the 30th.
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| IMPORTANT UPDATES FROM PIE |
Grandparents and special friends are invited to join Amana Academy students on Friday, November 20 from 8:00 until 10:00 am to visit their classrooms in order to see what a day at school looks like for them. Light refreshments & photo booths will also be available. We look forward to welcoming these special guests to our school! Grandparents and special friends MUST register. Please follow the link below:
Box Tops Winning Classroom for the Fall submission - PIE would like to THANK those who participated in the Box Tops Fall Contest. Together, we collected 4,664 box tops for the Fall submission. Please keep bringing box Tops. There will be 2 more collections until the end of the year (one in November and one in December). Then, we will kick off the Spring Contest. The winning classroom for the year (fall and spring contests combined) will receive a class party at Sky Zone!
Here are the top 3 classrooms:
1st place: Ms. Williams, 3rd Grade, 504 Box Tops
2nd place: Ms. Woodard, 1st Grade, 424 Box Tops
3rd place: Ms. Ham, 2nd Grade, 381 Box Tops
Congratulations to Ms. Williams' 3rd grade class for winning 1st place!
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BRING A NOTE FOR YOUR TEACHER DURING THANKFUL TOTES WEEK
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This week is Thankful Totes Week! Each classroom teacher has a special tote in their classroom. Students are asked to bring in personal notes and cards to fill in their teachers' totes during the week on as many days as they wish. It's a great time for Students, Parents and Staff to write and share handwritten notes to show appreciation for all the hard work and effort.
Specials teachers, support staff, and administration will also have Thankful Totes. Let's remember to appreciate all of them! Staff who does not have a classroom will have their totes placed in the front lobby.
Teachers and staff appreciate small gifts as well! Please give gift cards directly to the recipients rather than placing in the totes.
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THANK YOU FOR A GREAT TEACHER & STAFF APPRECIATION LUNCH
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 Teachers and staff enjoyed a wonderful appreciation luncheon with delicious food cooked with love by amazing parents!
A BIG Thank you to the following families for donating food, items, and their time to make the Appreciation Luncheon a huge success: Ajala, Amos, Character, Chaudhry, Ead, ElAboudi, ElKhayyat, Elsawy, Finney, Garrett, Garton, Godoy, Grant, Halpin, Harris, Jaafar, Jaleel, Jones, Kaminski, Kanaan, Khan, Khattabi, Landsman, Leddy, McNinch, Mathew, Monestime, Montford, Moody, Ortiz, Owusu, Perkins, Petit-Jean, Said, Spann, Tukes, Velasco, and Welch. Thank you to Samuel OD, Abdul Ghalayini, Mustafa Elsawy, Sharon Mumbi, Sassy Zelmat, Amal Elnazer, Amber K., Iris Gorduk, Mokhira Makhsudova, Maryam Hamed, Natalie Chaudhry, Sara Ead, Sheila Boyd, Colleen Jaafar, Lisa Montford, and anyone else we might have missed who helped set up, clean up, buy supplies, or brought in food or items but did not sign up. A big thank you to Cyndi Said for her hard work behind the scenes.
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| FULTON COUNTY OFFERS INFO SESSIONS ON REDESIGNED SAT |
 The Fulton County School System's School Counseling Department is presenting Parent Information Night: the Redesigned SAT.
Each session will cover the following:
The College Board will share with parents the redesigned SAT that will begin in March 2016, including the new system for scoring the SAT, the contents of the test, including the different test sections and specific types of questions students will be answering.
In addition, the College Board will share student preparation opportunities that are free of charge offered through the College Board's website.
There will also be a brief question and answer session at the conclusion of the event.
Six parent information nights are scheduled. Parents can attend the session of their choice. There is no registration for either session but the approximate capacity per session is 250 people.
Parents of students in grades 6-12 are invited (middle school parents are invited to attend as well as high school parents).
Tri-Cities High School Auditorium
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Roswell High School Auditorium
Thursday, December 17, 2015 6:30-7:30 p.m.
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