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March 27, 2015

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PTA Boosterthon
Fun Run
April 1, 2015

Boosterthon Fun Run Schedule -  April 1
9:15-10:30 a.m., Kindergarten, 1st, Williams
11:00-12:15 p.m., 2nd, 3rd, Dietz, Stevens
1:00-2:15 p.m., 4th, 5th, Rogozinski, Wadkins

Please support Brookwood Elementary's PTA. Go to funrun.com to make pledges and find out more about Boosterthon.
We kicked off the PTA Boosterthon on Monday! Students had a "Rock 'N good time" at the pep rally. Students have been learning five ways to make their community rock with Boosterthon's character theme "Rock 'N Town Live," a music festival theme all about community.  The goal of the Boosterthon Fun Run is to raise funds while teaching our kids the importance of Fitness, Leadership, and Character. We are raising funds for technology, instructional materials, and for enhancements to the media center to support technology use. Our students are looking forward to
the Fun Run on Wednesday, April 1st. Your family is invited to come out and cheer them on!
Community Information and Flyers

GCPS Bring Your Own Device, Online Textbooks, Resources, & eCLASS, and Education City

Some classes in Gr. 2-5 will be participating in the GCPS Bring Your Own Device program. See attached information. Bring It Flyer pdf BYOD User Agreement Form pdf and Student-Parent Resource Flyer pdf

 

Education City at Home is available free of charge to ALL Brookwood ES students for the 2014-2015 School Year. Education City is an online software program that targets Georgia learning standards in the areas of Math, Language Arts, and Science.

  • To log on to Education City, go to www.brookwoodelementary.com, click on Curriculum Links, and click on General Interest. Education City will be listed on the left side.
  • The username is the student number followed by a 1; for example, for 200344662, the username would be 2003446621
  • The password is brookwood
Have your children shown you their
eClass page? GCPS provides this extensive resource for students. This is their at-home resource for online textbooks, math activities, and many, many databases for online research. 
Important Dates
  • March 30 - 7:45 a.m., 5th Gr. Chorus
  • March 30 - 6:30 p.m., Five Forks MS Parent Night (6:00 p.m., Sp Ed & Gifted)
  • March 31 - 7:45 a.m., Gr. K-4 Jump Rope Club
  • March 31 - No Tuesday Colt Clubs
  • March 31 - 4:30 p.m., Witzzle Pro Cluster Tournament - Cafe
  • April 1 - No Witzzle Pro
  • April 1 - PTA Boosterthon Fun Run
  • April 1 - 3:30-4:45 p.m., Wed. Colt Clubs
  • April 2 - Wear Blue for World Autism Awareness Day
  • April 2 - 3:30-4:45 p.m., Thurs. Colt Clubs
  • April 3 - 7:45 a.m., 5th Gr. Intramurals
  • April 3 - 10:00 a.m., PTA Exec. Brd. Mtg. - Learning Lab
  • April 3 - 4th Gr. Cultural Arts Program
  • April 6-10 - Spring Break
  • May 21 - School In Session (Snow Make-Up Day from Feb. 25) Specials will be Day 6

*Please note one of the Tuesday Colt Club dates has changed! Due to a schedule conflict with the Witzzle Pro Tournament, we will not have Colt Clubs on Tuesday, March 31st. The make-up date will be Tuesday, April 14th.

Thank you to our BES Volunteers!
We were thrilled with last Friday's turnout at the Volunteer Breakfast. It is because of all of the hard work and dedication of our volunteers that we are able to accomplish so much at Brookwood Elementary. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. The chorus students with soloist positions for the upcoming production of Broadway Beat serenaded the volunteers. Thank you to Rebecca Lyons, Hannah Mobley, Raina Wallace, Nicole Davis, Harper Kurth, Mandy Le, Katie Baker, Rylee Owen, Iris Smith, Alia Settles. Shayna Jenkins, Sofia Vergara, and Michayla Bell for an outstanding rendition of "For Good" from the Broadway musical Wicked. It was a wonderful way to start the breakfast!
Thank you to Mrs. Burnett!
Thank you to Mrs. Burnett for being such a bookworm and leading our Brookwood Elementary Reader's Rally all year. Everyone did an awesome job! Read on!