Brookwood Elementary

2980 Vaughan Drive ~ Cumming, GA * Telephone: 678-965-5060 Fax: 678-965-5061

Principal: Kathie Braswell * Asst. Principal: Gina Burns * Asst. Principal: Greg Singleton

October 14, 2016

Dates to Remember

Plan Your Year In Advance: Click 2016-2017 Student Calendar

October 19, Brookwood Reflections Gallery Night – 6:00-8:00 p.m.

October 19-20, Early Release/Parent Conferences-Students Released at 11:50 a.m.

Octobert 21 Professional Development Day – No School for Students

October 24, Forsyth County Drug Summit, Forsyth Conference Center – 6:00 p.m.

October 30, Monster Dash and Fall Festival

November 21 – 25, Thanksgiving Holiday – No School

Ongoing Announcements

Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brookwoodpta

Check out the PTA website: www.brookwoodpta.org

School Store: Open Every Wednesday from 7:10 – 7:30 a.m.

Tomcats: To volunteer, go to www.brookwoodpta.org, click the Tomcat link and complete 2 easy steps.

Specials Schedule for October 17-21

Monday, October 17 C Tuesday, October 18 D Wednesday, October 19 E (Grades K-2) Thursday, October 20 E (Grades 3-5) Friday, October 21 No School For Students

BUS DRIVER APPRECIATION WEEK

October 17 – 20, Bus Driver Appreciation Week

Don’t forget to thank your bus driver

2016 Flu Shot Day

The Forsyth County Health Department, in partnership with Forsyth County Schools, is conducting a

No-Cost Flu Shot Clinic For Forsyth County children ages 4-18 years

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

(Early Release Day for Grades K-8)

2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Sawnee Elementary School 1616 Canton Highway Cumming, GA 30040

If you have medical insurance or Medicaid, please bring your card with you. A parent MUST accompany all students.

Brookwood National Mock Election Day on October 25

We are all very excited for Brookwood’s first ever

National Mock Election for U.S. President and the Brookwood Grade Level Presidential Elections

to be held on Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Before October 25, each homeroom classroom will hold their own Class President Election to determine who will run for Grade Level President. Grade Level Presidents (and possibly Vice Presidents) will have opportunities to meet with administration and leadership as part of “Brookwood’s Student Government”. All K-5 students will have an opportunity to use an online platform to vote in the National Mock Election for U.S. President and the Brookwood Grade Level Presidential Elections in one of our two polling locations. Students from the “Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade Precincts” will vote in our Extra Music Room, while students from the “Third, Fourth and Fifth Grade Precincts” will vote in our Multipurpose Room. Numbered “Voting Booths” will be set up in each polling location, but we need some help to run our elections! We would love for some grandparents/retirees/parents to volunteer their time to work in our voting rooms to help check students’ “IDs” (students will make these before voting) and to assist in voting. If you can volunteer your time, please sign up using this Sign-Up Genius link - Brookwood National Mock Election Day Volunteers. This will be a memorable real-life experience for our students. Thank you for all of your support! If you have any questions, please contact Rob Meinberg, Brookwood’s Instructional Coach @ rmeinberg@forsyth.k12.ga.us.

Live to Give - Thanksgiving Food Drive

The Brookwood Elementary Trek Leaders are supporting The Place and their efforts to

provide food for members of our community this winter.

What: Canned Peas and Carrots

When: October 17th- November 4th

Where: Brookwood Elementary Food Drive collection boxes-located

in the main hallway.

Fun Fact: If every student at Brookwood Elementary donated 1 can

that would be over 1,000 cans of food to help feed families in our community!

MONSTER DASH 2016 - SUNDAY OCTOBER 30

Mark your calendars! The Monster Dash is coming to

Brookwood Elementary on

SUNDAY, October 30, 2016.

Custom shirts still guaranteed to all 5K runners who pre-register NOW.

If you have any questions regarding this

event, please contact Coach May or Coach Feuerbach at 678-

965-5060 x470422

REGISTER ONLINE BY VISITING www.brookwoodpta.org

Fall Festival and Silent Auction

There will be a silent auction at Fall Festival and we need fun items to fill these baskets! Can you please help? Grade levels are being asked to donate the following items...

K- crazy socks or anything Beanie Boos (purchased at Target) or similar items

1st- board games and Legos (ages 5-10)

2nd- movie basket with Regal or AMC gift cards, family appropriate movies, candy, popcorn...

3rd- dog basket with treats, toys, pet store gift cards...

4th- restaurant gift cards, gourmet pasta, pasta sauce, bottle openers, dried herbs and spices, baking/cooking utensils, spatulas, pot holders, measuring cups/ spoons....

5th- sports basket/book basket: sporting goods store gift cards, sports equipment, small cooler, cold/hot cups...books appropriate for ages 7-10, book marks, book light, bookstore gift card...

Thank you so much for your help in making this

Fall Festival great! Please email Michele

Lockwood, mklockwood22@yahoo.com, if you

would like to help create baskets or Kim Smith,

smith.kimjs84@gmail.com, if you’d like to

volunteer in other ways for the Fall Festival.

This is a big event and we need a lot of

volunteers.

Buy your Fall Festival wristband today at www.bookwoodpta.org.

Adults and children under age 3 DO NOT need a wristband for the

Fall Festival. The event is free to enter,

but the games, crafts and rides do require a wristband.

Kiss the Pig Contest!

Four of our most popular faculty members, and our very own PTA president, are going head-to-head in a contest to

see who can raise the most money by Fall Festival. The person who raises the most money will be lucky enough to kiss

the pig at the festival! Beginning Monday there will be five buckets set up in the front of the school each morning.

Children may put money in the bucket of their choosing between 7:05 and 7:30 a.m. Whosever bucket raises the most

money is the "winner”. Any amount is accepted!

The choices will be:

Mrs. Braswell

Mrs. Burns

Mr. Singleton

Coach May

PTA President Nicole Ponziani

Box Tops and Coke Rewards Contest

We need your Box Tops and Coke Rewards. Every 10 cents will make a

difference! Collect all Box Tops and Coke Rewards and send them in with your

student. The contest dates will be Monday,

October 10, through Friday, October 21. We will

still accept them on Monday, October 24. Thank

you for your continued support.

Brookwood Cultural Night 2016

Cultural Night was a HUGE

success! We had 24 countries

represented and TONS of fun

learning about other countries

and their cultures. Special

thanks to the Committee Chair,

Karen Ogden, for her hard work!

We would also like to thank the

Brookwood families who came

to visit each country and the

Brookwood families who

participated by making a

display/demonstration.

Ireland: Angela Bolger; Denmark: Jennifer Ashtar; Peru: Darlene Torres; Estonia: Natalia Davis; USA: Dana Pedro,

Amber Swicicki, Kelli Ross; Nicaragua: Guerillermo Kuhl; France: Claire Theron; Romania: Irina Adams; Mexico:

Alejandra Ramirez Gutierrez; Great Britain: Mark Ogden; Brazil: Luciana Stradioto, Maria Lucia Ribas; Australia:

Nicole Bansavage; Cuba: Angela Atehortua- Perez; Colombia: Martha Leon; Venezuela: Jacobo Gamez, Keri Pacheco;

Argentina: Flo Valdes; Cambodia: Jessie Cheng, Stephen Cheng, Vanessa Cheng, Lani Cheng; Egypt: Catherine Long;

Italy: Tabitha Racki; Armenia: Edie Barionian; South Korea: Teresa Choi, Dae Jo, Su Tye, Jiyoung Park, June Choi,

Jeongah Ko, Jisook Kwon, Aelee Lee, Eui Chung, Jennifer So, Kyeongseon Rhee; Japan: Aki Yoo, Takako Lee, Mihoko

Mathis; Reddy, Ami Parikh, Shaily Daftari, Roshelle Merandez, Malini Ganesh, Durga Raja, Satya, Manika Singh, Sakthi

India: Mumtaz Khan, Shireen Ali, Viraj Dave, Archana Atluri, Gouri Vishnubatla, Ganesh Viswanathan, Aarti Raj,

Triveni Sadayappan; China: Hong Tang, Ping Cui, Xin Yan, Kui Yu, Qing Ou, Zhongxiao Li, Yian Zhao, Zi Lin, Flower Liu,

Wen Zhou, Tong Xin, Dong Li, Liping, Jing Qiao, Zi Lin, Lin Sun

5th Grade Yearbook Baby Ads

What better way to honor your student than with a yearbook baby ad in the yearbook? We are offering baby ads for

you to do for your 5th grade student this year!! ADS ARE DUE BY DECEMBER 2, 2016!!

Creating your ad is easy, and can be done from anywhere with the following online ad builder. Here’s how to create

the perfect message for your son or daughter!

Go to www.balfour.com

Enter your school name: Brookwood Elementary, Cumming, GA

On our school’s page, please click YEARBOOK.

In the Shop Categories, click YEARBOOK ADS.

Select the Business sized ad. The 2nd ad is the one you will want to submit (picture on the left and text on the

right). You will be able to submit one picture and enter your text as well with this ad.

Create an account. Your account will allow you to save your ad if you need to come back to it and complete it

in a future session. Be assured that your info won’t be used for anything other than logging into this site.

Enter your student’s name and click CREATE NEW AD.

Add pictures to your gallery by clicking UPLOAD PHOTOS. A file list will open and you can select the image to

upload. For best results, images should be medium to high quality (300ppi) and not larger than 8MB per

image. JPG, JPEG and PNG are suitable for use.

To insert an image into the image frame, simply drag it from the gallery onto the frame.

The text should be in Cochise font and should be no smaller than 8PT so that it will fit. You do not need to

change the font color or the background. Just type your text and make sure it fits in the box when you do

preview. If it does not, you can adjust the size, and if it still does not fit, you will have to delete some

text. This is very important!

When you have finished your ad, save it. Then click PREVIEW AD.

To save a copy of your ad to your computer, right-click on the preview and click SAVE IMAGE AS. This will

save a JPG preview to your computer.

When your ad is complete, click ADD TO CART to add to your shopping cart.

You will receive an email confirmation once your ad is submitted and will know that we have received it!

If you have any questions, please contact Tabitha Racki at therackifamily00@gmail.com Thank you again for placing

your ad in the yearbook!

ADS ARE DUE BY DECEMBER 2, 2016!!

Pathways2life

We are pleased to announce Pathways2life, intervention specialists (formerly known as Segue), is offering a 2-hour parent workshop designed to educate parents on the material their children are learning in the Health classroom. This allows for parents to be fully equipped and aware of possible questions and cultural issues, along with being knowledgeable in order to reinforce the prevention message at home. 6th-8th grade students will participate in a workshop in their Health classes during Red Ribbon Week on either October 26th or 27th. We look forward to seeing you at this candid conversation about issues our students may face. Feel free to invite other parents, even if they do not have students at Riverwatch. Topics will cover: Indicators of drug use, parenting tips, stress, risk factors and what is being seen in Forsyth County specifically.

When: Tuesday, October 18th Time: 6:30-8:30 pm Where: Riverwatch Cafeteria For: Parents Only (this is not a discussion for students)

PARTNERS IN EDUCATION

Please patronize these businesses who have donated to our school. For more information on

becoming a Partner in Education visit http://www.brookwoodpta.org

Diamond Partners $5,000+

Platinum Partners $1,000+

Golden Partners $500+

Green Partners $250+

General Partners $50+