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Quick Notes
Tuesday, October 02, 2007 |
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School Calendar
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Wednesday |
Oct. 3 |
12:15-12:45
p.m. |
Lunch-A-Month (12:05-12:45 for middle school) - Parents Welcome
(pasta with
marinara sauce, bread, cookie, lemonade)
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Tuesday-Thursday |
Oct. 9-11 |
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Fall
Festival Trips
There will
be After School on Oct. 9, 10, and 11.
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Friday |
Oct. 12 |
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School
Closed – No Classes.
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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 CS 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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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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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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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 |
Nov. 14-15 |
10:15 a.m. |
Fall Open
House for Current and Prospective Parents |
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Friday-Sunday |
Nov. 16-18 |
Please
Note Date Change! |
CS Book Fair
at Barnes & Noble (Valley View Mall) |
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Caribbean Music Fest Tickets on Sale Now
Tickets are now on sale for the
concert, and we need parents and families to participate to make
this a successful fundraiser for the school. Eleven different
steel drum bands will perform in Shaftman Hall on November 3 at
7:00 p.m. at the Jefferson Center, presenting a high-energy
evening of music, dance and family fun. These bands are
professional, regional performers, and you are guaranteed a
concert worthy of your time! Please get your tickets today.
Tickets are
being sold through the Jefferson Center. Adults are $16;
students, $12; children $6; and children under six may attend
for free. Please buy your own tickets to support Community
School, and encourage other family members, friends and
co-workers to attend as well.
Call 345-2550.
Fall Festival
Fees & Destinations
On the
website... gear lists, directions and more
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Classes |
Destination |
Fees |
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Lucia, Tulie, Sarah,
Ruth Ann, and Katlyn |
Layman’s Orchard &
Camp Bethel |
Students: No Charge
Parents: $6 each for
Layman’s |
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Katie, Beth, Autumn,
and Gretchen |
Camp
Bethel (Fincastle) |
Students & Parents:
$15 per person |
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Kim and Betsy |
Apple Ridge Farm |
Students & Parents:
$40 per person
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Middle
School |
Williamsburg, VA |
Students: $60 per
person
Chaperones: $30 per person |
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Middle School Garden Friday Group Bulb Sale Ends This Week!
Order
Deadline: Oct. 5 |
Last year the Middle School Garden Friday Group
raised $1000 for campus landscaping and class gardens. The
fruits of the students’ labor will be visible soon. Please help
our students raise $2000 this year for their landscaping
projects while making your yard or the yard of someone you love
beautiful. We are selling fall-planted bulbs that bloom in late
winter and spring. Please order from the Garden Friday Group
students, from the order form on the bulletin board in the main
office, or from Anna Beebe. The deadline for orders is October
5.
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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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Alumni
Update
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Robin D., currently a junior at Tufts University,
is spending the 2007-2008 academic year studying at Oxford
University. Last year, she interned at the Boston office of
Congressman Ed Markey. Robin attended Community School for seven
years in elementary and middle school (Seminar class of 2001).
She was the Class of 2005 Salutatorian at North Cross School. |
Special Notice:
Date Change |
Please note, this year's Barnes & Noble Book Fair
will take place at VALLEY VIEW MALL on November 16,17, and 18.
More information will come in the next Quick Notes.
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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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Tuition
Payment Due on Oct. 20 |
If you are paying on the
monthly installment plan, your fourth tuition payment is due by
October 20. Contact Sue with questions about your account.
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One Laptop
Per Child Gearing Up
for “Get 1,
Give 1” Program
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For two weeks in November,
the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation will let citizens of
the United States and Canada buy two of its XO laptops for $399
so that the buyers can keep one and donate the other to a child
in a developing nation. Find out about the program here:
http://www.1105newsletters.com/xccarkr_kvmrriib.html
You will find general
information about the program most easily by clicking on the
icons in the center of the page. Find information about this
specific promotion by clicking on the “Give a laptop” link in
the upper right of the screen.
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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.
Childcare will be provided by Autumn Scanlon in Room 104.
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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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Family
Packets
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Family packets were disseminated earlier in
September via the youngest child in each family. The packets
included a family handbook, family directory, computer usage
agreement, and the most recent class list. If you did not
receive your packet, please contact the main office at 563-5036.
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Quick Notes
Schedule |
Due to Fall Festival trips, there will be no
Quick Notes next week. The next issue of Quick Notes
will go home on October 16.
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