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Calendar At a Glance
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This Week
Red Ribbon Week
Annual Can Drive begins
Wednesday, October 2, 8:45am - DCPC at Huntley Hills Elementary
Thursday, October 3 - Last day to Pre-Register for the Tour de Dunwoody
Friday, October 4 - Photo Retakes
Saturday, October 5, 6am-10pm - Subway Spirit Day
Next Week
CogAT (Grades 1,3,5)
Scholastic Book Fair
Tuesday, October 8 - School Council Meeting
Tuesday, October 8 - Chick-fil-A Spirit Night
Wednesday, October 9 - International Walk to School Day
Wednesday, October 9 - PTO Executive Committee Meeting
Friday, October 11 - DES Spirit Day
Friday, October 11, 6pm - Fall Family Dinner
Save the Date
Monday, October 14 - Columbus Day - NO SCHOOL
Saturday, October 19 - Tour de Dunwoody
View the complete calendar on the Dunwoody Elementary PTO Website, and/or Subscribe to the GMail Calendar
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From the PTO Co-Presidents
Despite all the rain, we hope that you all had a wonderful week at DES!
We had a terrific Saturday celebrating  the overwhelming generosity of North Atlanta Church of Christ. They came out with volunteers for a Serve Day to help clean up our grounds and organic gardens. We had 12 volunteers, including DES parents and church volunteers who worked tirelessly for several hours sprucing up our playground area, organic gardens and general grounds areas. We want to take a moment to thank North Atlanta Church of Christ for their wonderful gift of service. What a beautiful way to help our school!
As September comes to a close, we would like to thank all of the volunteers who work with our teachers, students and staff to ensure that Dunwoody Elementary School runs smoothly on a daily basis. Thank you to all of the following volunteer groups who we see around the school: Carpool, Room Parents, Lunch Bunch, Spirit Wear, School Store, Tour de Dunwoody organizers, Mystery Readers and Copy Parents. The dedication of our parent volunteers is one of the many reasons that DES is such a great place to be!
Calling all Family Events Volunteers! Our Fall Family Dinner Night in conjunction with our Scholastic Book Fair is coming up! Please join us on Thursday, October 10, from 6-8pm. We need lots of volunteers to help make this event successful. Please email Amanda Rountree ( akrtree@gmail.com). We need volunteers to help with setting up, serving food, and cleaning up.
FALL FAMILY DINNER NIGHT! Our Family Dinner Night information went home in your child's TIP folder on Thursday. Please make sure you complete the registration form and return it no later than Monday, October 7. There will be no dinner purchases on the night of the event, so please make sure to reserve your spot soon! Check out the article below for more information.
Lights, Camera, Smile! Photo Retakes will be on Friday, October 4. If you were not pleased with your child's photographs or if they missed our original picture day, please plan for them to be camera ready for photo retakes.
Have a fantastic week!
Amy LeVasseur & Amanda Rountree
PTO Co-Presidents
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From Your Community Business Support Committee
DES IS GRATEFUL FOR OUR PARTNERS!
The Community Business Support Committee has been very busy with fund-raising efforts. In addition to the many generous sponsors who have donated money to support our school, a few local businesses are providing significant in-kind support to kick start our students' year!
Thank you to Kaplan Orthodontics for providing agendas for all of our students to utilize as an effective means of homework organization and parent-teacher communication! Dr. Kaplan, DDS, MS, and his team are dedicated to supporting our school and helping children and adults achieve the smile they deserve.
Thank you to Karate Atlanta for rewarding those DES students who completed the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge with free karate lessons and a uniform! These lessons will help students learn self defense and taekwondo while improving confidence, focus, physical fitness, goal-setting and other skills.
Thank you to Mathnasium for offering an assessment and three-month tutoring program valued at $1,000 to a DES student! All qualifying student names were entered into a drawing. Congratulations to Heidi Botwinik for winning the scholarship raffle!
For a complete list of the generous sponsors who are supporting our school this year, please check out the right-hand column of this email, or you can visit the Dunwoody PTO website and scroll down the right-hand column of the webpage.
Please consider thanking our fantastic DES Partners in Education by supporting their businesses!
Become a DES Sponsor today! Click HERE for more information.
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Subway Spirit Day
Visit the Subway located on Ashford Dunwoody Parkway across from Perimeter Mall on Saturday, October 5 from 6am-10pm for DES Spirit Day. 
15% of ALL proceeds on this date (not just DES sales) will be given to support our Tour de Dunwoody family friendly bike event.
So, tell your friends and family members, get your tennis match subs here, and bring your soccer players over for a team meal and help support our Tour de Dunwoody event!
Thank you Subway for your support of DES!
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DES Book Fair Coming Soon!
Dunwoody Elementary's Fall Scholastic Book Fair is Tuesday, October 8 through Thursday, October 10.
We are excited about the Book Fair and all the great activities that surround it. We will be open mornings before school and afternoons after school. And join us during Family Dinner Night on Thursday, October 10th!
Book Fair Hours
Tuesday: 7:00 - 7:30am and 2:30 - 5:00pm
Wednesday: 7:00 -7:30am and 2:30 - 5:00pm
Thursday: 7:00 - 7:30am and 2:30-8:00pm ** Family Night
Book Fair is an excellent opportunity to encourage your children to read with the great selection of books available from Scholastic. Your child should have received a flyer with book titles and information on the great selection that is available this year. Proceeds from the Book Fair are used to fund school events, add to classroom libraries and to provide reading instruction for the entire school.
If you can't make it to the Book Fair, you can shop online! You can get an expanded selection of items and orders will be delivered to the school. Check it out at Scholastic.com. All proceeds go to DES.
Book Bucks
Book buck flyers went home in your child's TIP folder this past week. If you are interested, you can give your teacher "book bucks" to use at the fair. These monies allow them to buy much needed reading materials for their classroom. Book bucks can be purchased in $5.00 increments and you may give as many you wish. If you missed the form, simply send a check or cash, in a sealed envelope marked Book Bucks. Include your child's name and teacher and place in the PTO mailbox in the front of the school.
Volunteer to help at the Book Fair
We are seeking enthusiastic volunteers to work as helpers and cashiers for 1 hour shifts in the morning (Thursday and Friday 7-8am) or 2 hour shifts after-school (between 2:30 and 5pm Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, as well as 6-8pm on Family Night). Interested? Please use this link to see the Book Fair Sign Up. Thank you!
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 Fall Family Dinner
 Join us for a wonderful Family Dinner night catered by Mad Italian on Thursday, October 10th from 6:00-8:00pm. Penne pasta with a choice of sauce and garlic bread, plus salad donated by Shane's Rib Shack will be served. Family Dinner Night is a delicious reason to take the night off from cooking and enjoy one last night of shopping at our Scholastic Book Fair. We are also celebrating 100 years of educating Dunwoody students, with a special unveiling of historical photographs on canvas, sponsored by Dunwoody Homeowners Association and Dunwoody Preservation Trust. You won't want to miss this Family Dinner evening!
Fall Family Dinner Flyer and Dinner Order Form - Due by October 7
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Earn Free Money for DES
Vote for DES in the "Give with Target" Campaign
Don't forget to place your vote for DES in the "Give with Target" fundraiser. Each weekly vote earns $1 for our school!! You can vote from all electronic devices and repeat your vote every few days to help get more money for the school.
Simply visit http://givewith.target.com/ and search for Dunwoody Elementary School to vote!!
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DCPC Recap
The first Dunwoody Chamblee Parents Council (DCPC) meeting of the 2013-2014 school year took place at DHS on Wednesday, September 11. Mr. Michael Thurmond, acting Superintendent of the DeKalb County School District (DCSD), was the speaker. Mr. Thurmond updated the audience on the current status of DCSD including:
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Submitting a balanced budget for approval by the board;
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Updating on SACS probation (in May, AdvancED noted significant progress on all 11 items);
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Introducing The Bridge Initiative (opening up a bridge to success across socio-economic lines); and
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Initiating a "Strategic Planning Process" to look at the next 5-10 years
The next DCPC meeting is October 2 at Huntley Hills Elementary. Refreshments are served at 8:45am. The meeting starts at 9:15am and ends by 10:30am.
Upcoming DCPC Meeting:
October 2, 2013 at Huntley Hills Elementary
Topic: Literacy and Common Core Curriculum
Speaker: Kathy Howe, Deputy Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction
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PCMS 411
For Rising 6th Grade Parents:
Peachtree Charter Middle School (PCMS) 411: Fact or FictionMonday, October 7th 10am-11am PCMS Media Center Please join us for a Q&A with a Panel of Parents from each feeder school. Principal Heptinstall will open the meeting with a few remarks and then rising 6th Grade Parents will have the opportunity to ask questions of current PCMS parents. Find out answers to: How is my child placed academically? What are the Gifted, High Achiever, and General Teams? How is bullying handled? What is Accelerated Math? Is there really band, orchestra, or chorus every day? When does my child begin foreign language every day? Can you really earn HS credits in 8th grade? Come and ask an experienced group of parents your toughest questions and get honest answers. Tours available immediately following the Q&A. There will be Rising 6th Grade Parent Information Sessions scheduled in the spring semester.
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Community Events
We would love to include every event going on in the community in these newsletters but we are really trying to keep them to a readable length. So we have created a Community Events page on our PTO Website where we will be posting happenings in and around the Dunwoody Community. If you haven't already, check out dunwoodypto.com and look for the Community Events tab, or click HERE to go directly to that page!
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How to Send an Announcement Using Tiger Talk
Tiger Talk is the weekly e-newsletter of the Dunwoody Elementary School PTO. Every Sunday, we publish information that is pertinent to the students and parents of DES.
The submission deadline for each issue is 10pm on Tuesday.
All announcements must be brief and sent in writing as an email to Dunwoody.TigerTalk@gmail.com. Announcements will run for two weeks prior to the event or as applicable. If you have any questions about Tiger Talk, please contact the editors at Dunwoody.TigerTalk@gmail.com.
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Tiger Talk Archives are Searchable!
Ever need to find an old newsletter to get an announcement? Tired of searching through your thousands of emails for it? Starting in the fall, 2013, all newsletters are archived, and searchable on dunwoodypto.com!
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LIKE us on Facebook and Twitter!
Our school's Facebook page and Twitter account will be used to promote upcoming school events and communications. We will also allow comments from our DES community but through daily monitoring we will remove anything that is not appropriate. We're excited about this new opportunity to share all the good things happening at our school.
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