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Calendar At a Glance |
This Week
Tuesday - Thursday, March 15-17 - Book Fair
Wednesday, March 16, 7:45am - Principal's Coffee - Technology
Wednesday, March 16, 9-10am - PTO Board of Directors Meeting
Wednesday, March 16, 3-5pm - Parent/Teacher Conferences
Thursday, March 17, 5-5:30pm - PTO General Membership Meeting
Thursday, March 17, 6-8pm - Cultural Arts Dinner
Friday, March 18, 6:45am - All Po Dad
Friday, March 18, Tiger Paw Celebration - Pajama Day
Friday, March 18, 12-2pm - PTO Executive Committee Meeting
Next Week
Thursday, March 24, 9 Week Progress Report
Friday, March 25, STEM Day
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From the PTO Co-Presidents
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BOOK FAIR
Please sign up to volunteer at the Book Fair!
 Book Fair is open this week (March 15-17) - Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 7:00-7:45 am and 2:30-5:30 pm, with extended hours on Thursday to 7:30 pm.
Book Fair is a huge fundraiser for DES, it can not happen without Volunteers!
We have shifts open Tuesday (3/15) and Wednesday (3/16) afternoons, and Thursday late afternoon into evening during Cultural Event. Your child can help you work, you can log your volunteer hours, get the best of both worlds by working Book Fair and participating in Cultural Event....meet parents in the DES community. Picking your child up from After-School? Stay an hour and volunteer for Book Fair! Kimi Lenertz and Kimberly Kirkland Book Fair Chairs
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Heritage Lunch Day
What's a Heritage Lunch?
Everyone has a heritage!
Let's celebrate it!
- On Thursday, March 17, all students are encouraged to pack a lunch including their favorite foods from their heritage!
- Discover more about your heritage and celebrate our cultural differences!
- Learn about foods from other cultures through asking guided questions during lunchtime! (Remember, don't share food.)
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Cultural Arts Dinner and Talent Exhibition
Mark your calendars and join us for our Cultural Arts Dinner and Talent Exhibition on Thursday, March 17, from 5 to 8pm. The Book Fair will be open that night, too.
Please also plan to make and share your favorite family dish for our potluck dinner. Use the link below to sign up to bring an appetizer, side dish, main course or dessert. Drop off your dishes in the school cafeteria between 5 and 5:15pm. Dinner will begin at 5:30 and last until 6:15, followed by our talent exhibition at 6:30.
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DES Dads, please come to our All Pro Dad Breakfast this month.
Friday, March 18 - 6:45 to 7:45am.
Please arrive for breakfast in the cafeteria (6:45 - 7:15am)
Program will begin in the media center at 7:20.
This month's topic is "Being Brave"
All Pro Dad Dad's Day is a simple idea with a profound impact. It's a one-hour monthly breakfast held before school where fathers and their children meet with other dads and kids in the school cafeteria. During this time, we will discuss a wide range of family topics, spend time together, create fun memories, and leave equipped with resources to strengthen your relationship with your child.
The program is fun and free! All you need to do is attend, and if you want to purchase breakfast, you may do so in the cafeteria by using your child's myschoolbucks account, cash or check ($1.65 adults, $1.20 children). If you do not have a myschoolbucks account, please register for one at MySchoolBucks.com before the meeting.
To help with keeping the parking lot and carpool drop off running smoothly, please park at GA Perimeter College and walk over to school.
Please visit our chapter website for dates and more information.
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Caldecott Medalist Author Visiting DES!
Reminder: Caldecott Medalist and New York Times bestselling author, Dan Santat, is visiting DES on April 13 to present a writing and illustrating program to our 1st and 2nd grade students.
Please send in your order form with payment no later than
Tuesday, March 29. Make checks payable to "DES PTO."
(Cash cannot be accepted. Checks only.)
Please consider purchasing a book to support DES! The order form can be found on the DES homepage.
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Attention parents of rising Kindergarten students
Kindergarten Roundup at Dunwoody Elementary School is taking place on Thursday, March 31!
Join us at the school with your child from 8:00 - 10:00am.
Parents will be able to pick up pre-registration packets, hear about the kindergarten program, and participate in a Parents Panel with DES parents of current kindergarten students.
Rising K children will participate in classroom visits and activities. Please plan on arriving promptly at 8:00am and staying until 10:00am for this program. At the conclusion of the program, families will be offered the opportunity to take an abbreviated tour of DES.
*Current Pre-K students will participate in an orientation at a future date.
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Action Ministries
Feed the Hungry Foundation
Dunwoody Elementary will team up with Action Ministries - Feed the Hungry Foundation in an effort to feed children in a nearby county that have been identified as not having enough to eat. Without our help, these children would only receive one meal a day - the meal that they receive from their school lunchroom cafeteria.
Our school can help by collecting food items that make up a healthy part of their diet. In order to avoid adding to obesity, Action Ministries has teamed up with a hospital dietician, and have requested only certain items to be collected:
 * Individual Cereal Packets* Fruit cups
* Cup O Soup (instant soup mixes)
* Libby's Sweet Corn or other veggie envelopes
* Ramen Noodles
* Instant mac-n-cheese packs
* Campbell's Chicken Soup
* Instant Oatmeal envelopes
Selected students will receive a backpack with these items pre-bagged.
We are not required to bag or sort -
Just Collect.....
Thanks, Lynn Johnston
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School Store Volunteers Needed
The School Store has volunteer slots open in March, April, and May and we need you! Please consider signing up for just one of these shifts.
The children LOVE it and we hate to turn them away if we don't have the volunteers to staff it. It's also a great way to get in your volunteer hours before the work days starts!
The school store is open from 7:10 - 7:40am on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the cafeteria.
If you have any questions about the day or time, or what to do if you're new, please do not hesitate to ask!
Thank you,
Dana Coulter
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DES Student Places 3rd in
State Technology Fair
Congratulations to Cora Webster! Cora won third place at the State's technology fair in Macon, GA for her digital photography entry. Cora is one of only two DeKalb County Elementary students to place at the State level in any entry category. Thanks so much to Mrs. Sampson who mentored and took a group of DES students to the Technology Fair this year!
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Dunwoody High School
Softball Camp for Rising 6th Graders
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Dunwoody Cheerleading
2016 KIDS CHEERLEADING CAMP
for Elementary Age Students
 LEARN:
Cheers, Chants, Jumps, Dances, Stunts Taught by the Dunwoody High School Varsity Football Cheerleaders
Complimentary T-Shirt
Bring a sack lunch and a drink!
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DHS Kids Gymnastics Camp
Saturday March 19th, 2016
9am to 2:00pm
Ages 5-14
Taught by the DHS Varsity Gymnastics Team. Practice Tumbling, Bars, Beam and Vault.
Complimentary T-shirt, Lunch and Crafts provided. For more information, please email Jennifer Maddux, jhmaddux@gmail.com.
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Math Competition for
Elementary School Students
Chamblee Charter High School would like to invite your students to participate in our first annual math competition competition for elementary school students, ChaMATHon on March 26th, 2016. We would greatly appreciate it if you could encourage your students and parents to register and participate in this competition by spreading word through the math department and the school e-blast/newsletter.
This math competition is for students from grades 3-6, with Division I for the  3rd-4th graders, and Division II for the 5th-6th graders. The tournament will be held from 9am-12:30pm. There will be a culminating award ceremony for the top three schools and the top ten individuals in each division. Each school will be allowed to send as many students as it wishes, at an entrance fee of $10 per student. The top four individual scores and ciphering scores will be totaled for the final school score. Snacks and lunch will be provided. Every student will complete in a 45 minute written multiple choice exam with 20 questions, and 5 open-answer tiebreakers, as well as a 10 problem ciphering round with short questions to be answered within 2 minutes. Correct answers within one minute will earn 4 points, while correct answers within the second minute will earn 2 points. We hope that you will be interested in attending our first annual elementary school competition. Please let us know if you are interested or have any questions or concerns. Thank you, Chamblee High School Math Team
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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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Please make sure to follow DES on Twitter @des180_sanders for any school updates or last minute notifications.
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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.
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