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Question: Is the last day of school, June 18th, an early dismissal day?
Answer: Yes! Students will be dismissed at 11 am that day. The sixth grade moving up ceremony and 4-6th grade awards ceremony will take place that morning. K-3rd graders will be doing activities in their classrooms.
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Chesterbrook PTA Digest
No.20, June 17, 2013
Dear Chesterbrook Families,
Thanks so much for your time, energy and financial support this year. It has been a great year at Chesterbrook! Please check out these last few thoughts which include information about year end, summer and start up activities for next fall. As a reminder, the Chesterbrook PTA will sell school supply kits online in July and August, but not at the Open House.
Congratulations to our new PTA officers: President Kate Garcia, VP Fundraising Elizabeth Hale, and Secretary Kathleen Weil who were elected as officers at the June 12th PTA Meeting. They along with Treasurer Delia Swigart,VP Membership Maryam Redjaee, and Past President Laurie Plishker will be leading the PTA through the next year.
And, we extend a special thank you to our outgoing VP of Fundraising, Julia Nelson. She is quite an amazing person and has overseen the PTA Fundraising for TWO very successful years and the amazing Auction for FOUR years. During her time as VP of Fundraising, Julia started the popular Homemade Pizza Nights fundraiser. In addition, the very successful, Friends Program, was created by Julia and her husband, Bob, several years ago as a way to encourage financial support from businesses and families. Julia has volunteered for every volunteer activity at Chesterbrook and always lends a hand where needed. Julia is a very thoughtful person. She has excellent insights and suggestions and is very organized. Thanks for all you've done for Chesterbrook Julia!
I hope everyone has a happy & safe summer!
Beth Mahood,
Outgoing President, Chesterbrook PTA
P.S. If you're interested in getting more involved at the school next year, we'd love to help you figure out the right spot! You can get more information by emailing nominating@chesterbrookpta.org.
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| Hats Off to Gina Manning! |
 In the last few weeks, we've written about a few outgoing PTA volunteers whose youngest children are moving on to Longfellow next year. Although there are many people who have contributed in big ways at Chesterbrook, there's one more person who stands out so much we'd like to call attention to her now. Those who know her are thinking you must be talking about the lovely Gina Manning whose organization skills, energy, wit and enthusiasm has permeated the Chesterbrook PTA.
The Manning Family joined the Chesterbrook community six years ago when their daughter, Stephanie, started first grade at Chesterbrook. As an entering parent, Gina volunteered to serve as yearbook editor, a position previously managed by Chesterbrook staff. The 2007-2008 yearbook she produced was beautiful, but also amazing because Gina was the entire yearbook staff! This past year, the yearbook committee had eight people. That giant assignment did not put off Gina. She has continued to be actively involved at Chesterbrook in a variety of areas both in the classroom (four years as a Room Parent and Committee Chair for Greco and Colonial Days) and as a PTA Executive Board Member (two years as VP of Membership and two years as a Fun Fair and Auction committee chair).
For the last two years, Gina has served as Co-Editor of the Digest PLUS, where in addition to editorial duties she has written numerous articles about Chesterbrook programs. If a catchy headline has grabbed your attention, chances are Gina wrote it. If you've noticed the beautiful and ever changing student artwork displayed in the Chesterbrook hallways, you should thank Gina! A few years ago, she sought out ways that parents could assist the art teachers and now organizes a team of parents who help change out the student art work on a quarterly basis. Gina's thoughtfulness, creative approach and incredible organizational skills will be sorely missed at Chesterbrook!!
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Share of McLean Honors Chesterbrook ES
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At the June 12th PTA Meeting, Hunter Pollitt of Share of McLean, presented Chesterbrook with a Certificate of Appreciation for donating more than 1,500 pounds of food to its food pantry this year. Also in the photo are Kathleen Weil, founder of Food Bus, LLC and organizer of Chesterbrook's weekly deliveries to the food pantry; Principal, Bob Fuqua and Outgoing President, Beth Mahood. At the presentation, Hunter thanked the Chesterbrook community for their generous support this year. Share is a nonprofit corporation which provides emergency assistance to the less fortunate in McLean and has no paid employees. Their programs include family emergency financial assistance; distribution of food, used clothing; recycled furniture; and transportation services for seniors. Hunter advised that they provide assistance to 800 families per week. Click here if you're interested in learning more about Share, making a financial donation, or donating food, clothes or other materials, or volunteering. They especially need donations during the summer! |
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Still Planning Your Summer? Check out Summer Quest
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 It's not too late! Registration for our 2013 Summer Quest camp program continues until the week before camps begin, but space is getting limited!! Camps that still have space can be found on our website. Summer Quest will be held over 4 one-week sessions beginning July 8, 15, 22, and 29, with morning and afternoon sessions and an after-care program. The Program Guide includes descriptions of all camps. We also have Matrix that shows classes by week and age group. (Note that these guides still show full and cancelled classes.)
Because of construction work at Chesterbrook this summer, Summer Quest will be held at Haycock Elementary School at 6616 Haycock Rd, Falls Church, Virginia. It is the same Summer Quest program you've enjoyed the past few summers taught primarily by Chesterbrook Elementary teachers....only the location has changed and by less than 2 miles!
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| School Supply Kits Available in July |  School supply lists will be available on the Chesterbrook PTA website in July. But no need to rush out to stand in line at the store! The Chesterbrook PTA offers complete school supply kits for each grade, including Kindergarten, to make it easy for you and to ensure each classroom is stocked with key supplies! Buy your School Supply Kits online and avoid trips to multiple stores to gather all the needed supplies. This is also a fundraiser for our school! Supply kits will be available starting Friday, July 19!! Kits can be purchased online at chesterbrookpta.org and paid for by credit card. You can pay for multiple students at the same time and in a matter of minutes you can do all your back to school supply shopping-from the comfort of your beach chair! School Supply kits will be available online through Friday, August 23. See the full flyer. - Supply Kits will not be sold during Open House or after School begins.
- Supply Kits are delivered to teachers for distribution to students on the first day of school.
And don't forget to pay for your PTA membership at the same time as your Supply Kits--it's all one easy transaction. |
| Rising Kindergartner's Summer Playdates |  We're still collecting contact information for our Rising K Playdate list. Over the summer our coordinators, Lori Boerner, Theresa Valencic and Christy Baldrate, will organize several playground playdates so kids (and parents) can make some new friends before school starts. The first was held this past Saturday on Chesterbrook's playground (see photo above, courtesy of Sunghee Chon). If you have any questions about the playdates or kindergarten, email kinders@chesterbrookpta.org.
You can register for the Kinders list, as well as PTA mailings, on the PTA website chesterbrookpta.org through the Newsletter Sign-Up on the right hand menu.
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SAVE THE DATE: August 30th
Chesterbrook Open House & Ice Cream Social
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Chesterbrook will hold its annual Open House on Friday, August 30, so that students and their families can meet with their teachers, meet their classmates, catch up with friends, join the PTA (in-person or online) and update or (for new families) sign up for the PTA Family Directory. Times are expected to be as follows:
- Kindergarten: 10 - 10:45 a.m.
- Grades 1-6: 2 - 3 p.m.
 The Open House will be followed by the PTA's traditional Ice Cream Social from 3-4 p.m. on the playground. It's a great way to catch up with old friends and make new friends. Note: the Kindergarten Open House is in the morning, but please come back for the Ice Cream Social!
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Shop Amazon and Earn Money for Chesterbrook
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Don't forget if you shop Amazon over the summer, you can help earn money for Chesterbrook at no extra cost to you by clicking through the Amazon link. Chesterbrook PTA earns between 4% and 10% of every item sold and shipped through the PTA Amazon link depending on the type of product and number of items shipped each month. The more items purchased and shipped, the higher the percentage earned each month. It's as simple as:
- Visit the PTA website www.chesterbrookpta.org and click on the Amazon PTA Link in the upper right hand corner ; "book mark it" or "add to your favorites" for easy access in the future.
- Use the PTA Amazon.com link - BEFORE adding items to your cart
- ANY and EVERY purchase made through the PTA Amazon link counts, including music downloads, toys, Kindles, books, on demand movies, clothes and toys!
- If you have items in your wish list click on Amazon link before you place your order.
Thanks very much to Joy Molony for promoting the AMAZON link this year which resulted in increased funding for Chesterbrook.
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| Donate Used School Supplies | |
Not sure what to do with your used school supplies and you don't want the clutter in your house? New and used school supplies will be collected to be sent to a group home for abused or at-risk girls in Managua, Nicaragua. Please tear out all used pages from notebooks.
* Pencils
* Children's scissors
* Black ball point pens
* Colored markers (fine and wide tips)
* Composition notebooks
* Crayons
Any questions on the Nicaragua program should go to Ann-Marie Turnage. Donations will be collected at school through June 21 in a box outside the library. |
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Amazing MHS Summer Theatre Workshops
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Still looking for something fun and worthwhile for your kids to do this summer? Rising 5th grade through graduating seniors are invited to join McLean High School Theatre Company's Award Winning Director Amy Poe and Kent Garden's MTC Director Joanne Wertz in a series of week-long acting, musical theatre, technical theatre and dancing workshops. The Workshop Sessions will be held weekly from July 8-July 26, 2013.Each day will consist of three workshop sessions: 9-Noon; Noon-3 and 3-6pm. Students can register for an individual workshop session that fits into their schedule or one they are interested in on a weekly basis, or sign up for all of the sessions for all three weeks. The 3-6pm session will be a production workshop session which requires a three-week commitment as the session will culminate in a full scale production of Aladdin Jr. on the McLean HS Stage at 7pm on July 26.All workshop sessions will be held at McLean HS. The registration deadline has been extended five days to June 20th. Register Now by clicking on this link: https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=f3l-3QOAz3-8EfZgVUNObQ. If you have any questions, please email mcleandrama@gmail.com.
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Book Sale to Benefit Arlington Pediatric Center
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 St. Mary's Episcopal Church is holding its annual book sale to benefit the Arlington Pediatric Center (APC). The APC provides health care to children living in poverty. All of the proceeds of the book sale go to the APC, and the unsold books are given to the APC so that its patients can take a book home with them after their appointments. Please donate gently used books, DV D movies, and magazines appropriate for kids up to age 15. Donations may be left by July 24 in the lower lobby of St. Mary's Church located at 2609 Glebe Road in Arlington, M-F, 9 AM - 4 PM, and Sunday, 8 AM - noon. The book sale will be held Saturday, July 27, from 9 AM to 1 PM, and Sunday, July 28, from 9 AM to noon at St. Mary's. Come buy books at bargain prices! Questions may be directed to former Chesterbrook students Tyler and Jade Davis at margiegdavis@gmail.com. | |
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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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