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Quick Notes
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 |
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School Calendar
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Wednesday |
Oct. 17 |
12:15-12:45
p.m. |
Lunch-A-Month (12:05-12:45 for middle school) - Parents Welcome
(chicken nuggets, potato chips, Halloween cookie, lemonade)
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Thursday |
Oct. 18 |
5:00-6:00
p.m. |
Circles of
Community Meeting for New C.S. Families
(Room 103)
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Wednesday |
Oct. 24 |
12:15-12:45
p.m. |
Pizza Day
(12:05-12:45 for Middle School) - Parents Welcome
No pizza day for Seminar students.
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Friday |
Oct. 26 |
10:30 a.m.
1:00 p.m. |
C.S. Middle
School Play: Once Upon A Starfish
Performance
for Early Learner through Middle Elementary Classes
Performance
for Upper Elementary & Middle School Classes
Parents
Invited. See details below.
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Friday |
Oct. 26 |
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C.S.
Bolivian Exchange Students Arrive in Roanoke
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Tuesday |
Oct. 30 |
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Student
Pictures (Retakes and Make-up Pictures)
Please call the office to schedule. (Rain Date: Nov. 1)
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Wednesday |
Oct. 31 |
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Hollins
Univ. Halloween Carnival
(Elementary
Students)
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Wednesday |
Oct. 31 |
12:15-12:45
p.m. |
Pizza Day
(12:05-12:45 for Middle School) - Parents Welcome
No pizza day for Seminar students.
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Thursday |
Nov. 1 |
10:30-11:45
a.m.
12:45-1:30
p.m. |
All Saints
Day Activities.
Parents
Welcome. See information below.
Early Learner & Elementary Classes
Middle
School Classes
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Saturday |
Nov. 3 |
7:00 p.m. |
Caribbean
Music Fest Benefit Concert
for Community School & Quest Academy (Jefferson Center). Order
tickets now at 345-2550.
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Tuesday |
Nov. 6 |
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Conference
Day.
No classes.
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Wednesday |
Nov. 7 |
12:15-12:45
p.m. |
Lunch-A-Month (12:05-12:45 for middle school) - Parents Welcome
(cheeseburger, BBQ chips, brownie, lemonade)
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Monday |
Nov. 12 |
6:15 p.m. |
Board of Trustees Meeting
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Wednesday |
Nov. 14 |
12:15-12:45
p.m. |
Pizza Day
(12:05-12:45 for Middle School) - Parents Welcome
No pizza day for Seminar students.
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Wednesday-Thursday
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Nov. 14-15 |
10:15 a.m. |
Fall Open
House
for Current and Prospective Parents |
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Friday-Sunday
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Nov. 16-18 |
Please
Note Date Change! |
C.S. Book
Fair at Barnes & Noble
(Valley View Mall) |
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Barnes & Noble Book Fair
November 16-17-18, 2007
The Community School Book Fair is taking place at the new Barnes
& Noble at Valley View Mall. Start making your list: holiday
gifts, birthday gifts, anniversary gifts, indulging yourself,
etc. C.S. will get up to 20% of the value of everything you buy
during the dates of our book fair! You can even use B & N gift
cards and/or your B & N Reader’s Advantage card when making
purchases. Remember, Barnes and Noble carries a whole lot more
that just books: CD’s. DVD’s. stationery, magazines, greeting
cards, games, toys, puzzles, mugs, diaries, bulk coffee and tea,
and on and on.
We’ll start sending out purchase vouchers next month. Please
share them with your friends and co-workers and encourage them
to come on our book fair weekend. There is no additional cost or
commitment to the person using the voucher -- just present it to
the cashier at checkout. Vouchers will also be available at our
C.S. info tables at the store entrances. All purchases with C.S.
vouchers will be credited toward our total, so please encourage
all of your family members, friends, and acquaintances to shop
on our dates and to use our vouchers. Please save these dates to
do a lot of your buying at Barnes and Noble and help C.S. in the
process! Most items for sale at Barnes & Noble are eligible for
this percentage donation including books, music, games, cards,
gift-wrap, gifts, and magazines. This is a great time to
jumpstart your holiday shopping!
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Attention New Families
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Please join us for a Circles of Community meeting
for families new to our school on Thursday, October 18, from
5:00-6:00 p.m. Meet each other in a gathering of new friends
hosted by Lucia Koski and Gretchen Notermann in Room 103. C.S.
teacher Autumn Scanlon will provide childcare in Room 104.
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C.S. Middle School
Students to Perform
Once Upon
a Starfish
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Community School parents
are cordially invited to see Once Upon a Starfish on
October 26 at Northview United Methodist Church (6605 Plantation
Road). Twelve C.S. middle school students will perform this
delightful musical written by Lisa Turpin-Gabourel, our own
middle school drama teacher. There will be two performances:
10:30 a.m. for Early Learner through middle elementary classes
and 1:00 p.m. for upper elementary and middle school classes.
You are most welcome to join us for either show.
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Retakes & Make-Up Pictures Oct. 30
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Student picture retakes and make-up pictures are scheduled for
Tues., Oct. 30. Please call the office to schedule. Make-up
pictures are free, but retakes cost $5 each to be paid at the
time the picture is taken.
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Halloween Carnival
For
Elementary Classes
Date: Wed., Oct. 31
Location:
Tayloe Gym, Hollins
University |
The elementary students will
be attending a Halloween Carnival on the Hollins University
campus on October 31. Please send
your child’s costume to school that day. Students should not
wear their costumes to school as it makes classroom
concentration extremely difficult! We will need parent
volunteers to help children put their costumes on, to walk
the children to Hollins, and to attend the party with the
classes. Please see your child’s teacher if you can help. |
Bolivian Exchange Students Arrive on October 26
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For the tenth year, we are delighted to welcome
exchange students from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, to our school. This
year we have seven boys and two girls visiting. They will be
staying with Community School families and attending classes at
C.S. from October 26 through December 14. Students from our
middle school program will go to Santa Cruz during the second
semester.
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C.S. Students Learn About All Saints Day on November 1
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On November 1, our students will be comparing
cultural traditions by learning about and celebrating All Saints
Day. They will participate in activities in the Spanish and art
rooms, assisted by students from the Community High School
Spanish classes. Parents are welcome to join the fun. Schedule:
10:30 - 11:45 a.m. for Early Learner & Elementary Classes and
12:45 - 1:30 p.m. for Middle School Classes.
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Lost & Found
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Missing a tent from the Camp Bethel trip? Please
check the school office.
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Community School Emergency Plan
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Community School strives to provide the safest
environment for students and staff members at all times. What
are our emergency procedures (fire, tornado, etc.)? A copy of
“Community School Emergency Procedures” is located in the
office. If you have any questions, contact Michi.
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Reminder: Fall Festival Fees Due
by October 22
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Katie’s, Beth’s, Autumn’s,
and Gretchen’s Classes: $15 per person
Kim’s and Betsy’s Classes:
$40 per person
Middle School Classes: $60
per student, $30 per chaperone
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CS Website Redesign
Coming Soon
We will be using tracking code
to help design our improvements to serve you better. |
Our website will shortly be undergoing a
redesign. In order to make it accessible and to determine which
content to keep, I have added tracking code to many of the
pages. This type of code is also known as a cookie. It will not
collect any personal information, but it will give us statistics
to help make the new website better. For example, I will be able
to tell that 15 people visited the Parent’s Resource Page on
Monday. I will know that eight of them used Internet Explorer
6(IE6), two of them used IE5, three of them used Safari and two
used Firefox as their web browsers. I will be able to tell how
long they stayed on that page and if they visited any other
pages on the CS site (and only the CS site). I will not know who
they were, just that they visited. This will enable us to
determine which pages to keep on the new website and also ensure
that they work properly with the browsers that our visitors to
the site use. If you have your browser set to reject cookies, or
if it’s set to ask you if you will allow cookies, please
consider allowing them on the CS site. It’s how we can make the
site serve you better. Thanks! Lelia
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Music Blog
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If you want to see what your child is doing in
music class on a weekly basis, check out the music blog on Kim
M's teacher page. The blog will be updated by the end of each
school week.
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Spotlight on
Boxtops for Education |
During the month of October, Oriental Trading
Company is offering a special promotion if orders are made
through the Boxtops website portal. Four percent of all
purchases will be given back to Community School if you order on
line by going to http://www.boxtops4education.com/marketplace/otc/.
Additionally, you can get free shipping on orders over $60 by
using a special promo code (RT1XY06). |
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