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Brookwood Elementary Happenings

March 28, 2013

Support Brookwood Schools Foundation
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 Support Brookwood Schools Foundation by Bidding For Good!
Online Auction Fundraiser - Bid for promotion or musical parking spaces and front row seats, and bid for reserved parking for the last month of school. See the link below.
CRCT  PRACTICE

Attached you will find instructions to go to CRCT online practice. There are a small number of tests this year so use wisely!

CRCT ONLINE DIRECTIONS

Light It Up Blue - April 2nd.
Red Cross Week
Pencils & Stickers will be sold April 1-5 $.50
Hat Day - April 5 $1.00
See attached pdf
Gwinnett Braves Opening Weekend - City Of Snellville Community Night!

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Friday, April 5th - 7:05 pm - Coolray Field

Visit www.snellvillepride.com for more information.

See attached pdf.

Gwinnett Braves pdf

PTA  - TrueBlueSchools Program
trueblueThe PTA is excited about a program we would like to share with you!  It's called the TrueBlueSchools program.  Georgia Natural Gas will donate $5 a month (from their funds) to our school if you link your existing or new account to Brookwood Elementary.  Residential and commercial accounts are included.  If we have just 100 accounts linked to Brookwood, we can raise $6,000 in a year.  Go to TrueBlueSchools.comor call 1-866-ONLYGNG for more information and to link your account.  The steps are quick and easy to link your account or switch providers to GNG.  They will also give you a discount per therm if you use promocode: TrueBlue.  Thank you for supporting Brookwood!!  (See attached flyer) switch n save pdf
Take Charge of Education

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Brookwood Elementary PTA would like to pass along information regarding the "Take Charge of Education" program. Please see the attached information. Target pdf

Witzzle Pro Pictures
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Important Dates

  • April 1 - April 5 - Yearbooks On Sale At School
  • April 2 - Light It Up Blue - World Autism Awareness Day (Everyone show your support by wearing blue)
  • April 2 - 2nd Grade Cultural Arts Program
  • April 2 - 6:30 pm - Area Board Meeting - Parkview High School
  • April 4 - 6:30 pm - Science Night - Grades 3-5
  • April 5 - Red Cross Hat Day
  • April 5 - Last day to buy yearbooks at school or on-line
  • April 8 - 12 - Spring Break!!
The Witzzle Pro Tournament 
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Thank you to all of the Witzzle Pro players and volunteers! We couldn't have done it without you! The 4th Brookwood Cluster Witzzle Pro Tournament, held on Tuesday, March 26, at Craig Elementary was a great success! Students from Gwin Oaks, R. D. Head, Craig and Brookwood Elementary Schools competed to write solutions for math problems. They did it in seconds!

 

Medals and certificates were presented to the first and second place winners of each school. The student with the highest score at each grade for the entire cluster received a trophy. Students from Gwin Oaks won the trophies for the scoring the most points overall.

 

The winners representing Brookwood Elementary are: 

4th Grade Ciara Mitchell - 1st place and Rehal Bollavaram - 2nd place. 

5th Grade Afreen Salewala - 1st place and Neil Patram - 2nd place.

Afreen and Ciara will compete in the county Witzzle Pro Tournament on

Saturday, May 4th from 9:00-11:30 am at Stripling Elementary School.

Next year's tournament will be hosted by R.D. Head Elementary School!

 

Brookwood Elementary Witzzle Pro Club will continue to meet on Tuesday and Friday mornings until May 3th. There will not be any WP club meetings during the week of CRCT testing.

 

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SuccessMaker At Home Program Information and Order Form - Order Form pdf SuccessMaker at Home Program - Must have Internet access at home.

Education City

educcityThis is an online software program (www.educationcity.com) that targets Georgia learning standards in the areas of Math, Language Arts, and Science. Students work on creative activities that teach them needed academic strands at the same time. The children love this software! Home licenses usually cost around $75 for a year but through Brookwood Elementary you can purchase a home license for $10 for one child plus $5 for each additional child in the same family. To sign up, print the attached form and send it in with your payment. Education City pdf

Free Math Tutorial Access

  1. Go to the Gwinnett Online Campus Website: www.gwinnettonlinecampus.com
  2. Click "LOGINS" in the upper right corner.
  3. Username: brookwoodesmath
  4. Password: brookwoodesmath
  5. Select desired tutorial.
  6. For grade 4, click the "Content" tab in the upper left corner of the screen to begin the tutorial.  For all other grades, you wil be prompted to "click here" to begin the tutorial.

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