No School Monday and Tuesday (November 6 and November 7) – Parent/Teacher Conferences

Thank you to all the Dads and Dad-types (grandfathers, uncles, etc) who came to Lake Anne last Friday. What a great turn-out! So many classes had special guests – so many things got done. We know how valuable your time is - and we are so pleased you chose to spend it at Lake Anne. Thank you!

Marco Rando and John Smith deserve a long round of applause for coordinating this day and making certain we had lots of volunteers and lots of tasks for volunteers

to take on. Thank you both! Your enthusiasm was contagious and made for a wonderful day for volunteers and the students.

Week of Deadlines – have you done everything you wanted to do – skate night tickets, spirit wear, Mom’s pie orders? Have your children finished their Reflections entry, yearbook cover or student directory cover? Get the details here so you don’t miss out.

Reflections is the annual creative expression program sponsored by the PTA. We are so excited to have received 2006 Reflections Program entries from the following children:

• Samantha West – Kindergarten
• Grace Cutrell - Kindergarten
• Tallie Mortensen – Grade 1
• Rachel Glozer - Grade 2
• Ignacio Velez - Grade 2
• Gina Bisbee – Grade 2
• Mariah West – Grade 2
• Stephanie Porto – Grade 3
• Amaani Sirajuddin - Grade 4
• Ilaha Farzaie - Grade 5
• David Atkinson - Grade 5
• Tope Oladimeji – Grade 5
• Rebecca Mattern – Grade 5
• Anidith Guevara – Grade 6

Thank you for sharing your thoughts about “My Favorite Place.”  Your work is truly creative and you did a great job expressing yourself!There are ONLY 5 DAYS LEFT until our Friday 11/10 deadline and we are looking forward to many more submissions! Please drop in the Reflections box in the front office. Contact Cathy Cutrell (cathy.cutrell@usa.net) at 703.318.0506 for more information, an application or if you have any questions.

The Lake Anne Student Council will be sponsoring their annual food drive starting on Wednesday November 8th. Students are welcome to bring canned or no-perishable foods to their afternoon teacher. All canned items collected will be going to the non-profit Reston/Herndon organization F.I.S.H. (Friendly Instant Sympathetic Help) On your next trip to the grocery store or Costco, put a little extra in your cart to make the holiday season a little easier for a family in need.

If you have any questions, please contact the SCA Advisors, Ms. Kastner (Julie.kastner@fcps.edu) or Mr. Whiting (timothy.whiting@fcps.edu) at 703.326.3500.

Design the cover for the LAES Student Directory. Each design submitted for the contest must be black and white and no larger than 8 1/2" x 11". Please turn your artwork into your classroom teacher, marked with your name, grade and teacher's name on the back. One design will be chosen for the cover; all submissions will be included in the directory. The deadline for this contest is November 8th.

LAST CHANCE for Spirit Wear orders!  PLEASE have all orders in no later than Thursday so that we can order these awesome clothes ASAP – thanks to all who have supported this fundraiser and shown their school pride!!!

Do you need a form? Visit www.laespta.org and click on the link on the top of the page. Any questions – please contact Catherine Castrence (chadandcat@comcast.net) at 703.471.2051

Delicious varieties of pies for Thanksgiving! Pies delivered to school on November 21st. Contact Cheri Danaher (kdanaman@erols.com) at 703-709-5283 for

more info or to help out with delivery and distribution on 11/21.

Come join us for Lake Anne’s Family Fun Night on Ice at SkateQuest of Reston. You can pay at the door if you didn’t pre-order tickets! Do you need a form? Visit www.laespta.org and click on Skate Night form (near the top of the page) Terraset Elementary School is joining us and we get the whole skating rink to ourselves! If you have any questions or would like to help at the event, please contact Carla Watkins (watkinscj3@aol.com) at 703.437.1974.

November 14 – PTA Meeting 6:15 p.m. Board Meeting, Everyone is Welcome.

7:00 p.m. General Meeting, Free Child Care is available.

The guest speaker is Stephanie Fillman, the Heritage

Language Literacy Club Coordinator for Bailey's Crossroads Elementary

School, another FCPS Spanish Immersion School. She'll be talking

about Relevant attributes of the Spanish Partial Immersion Program;

Specific enrichment opportunities; and Strategies to help with homework.

November 15 – PTA Sponsored Assembly – “The Little Maids of History and Co.”

November 15 – SCA Food drive ends

November 16 – Thanksgiving Luncheon – parents and families invited to join the Lake Anne Community for Thanksgiving luncheon at school. Save the Date- information will be sent home soon

November 17 - the Yearbook Cover Contest deadline has been extended to November 17. Use your talent and your imagination to design the Lake Anne Yearbook Cover for the 40th Anniversary. ARtwork for this contest should be submitted to your art teacher. . If you have any questions regarding the submission of the artwork, please contact Lee Ann Lovgren (lalovgren@msn.com) at 703-437-9966.

We want fill the yearbook with candid pictures of our Lake Anne students doing all the wonderful things that they do each day.  To do so, we need parents, teachers, students, and volunteers--anyone with access to a digital camera--to take pictures and send them to us.  (For classroom pictures, please get permission from the teacher before taking photographs.) 

Email your high quality .jpg files to LAESyearbook@verizon.net.  Please do not use an email setting when sending these photographs.  For us to consider a photograph, you must provide the names and grades of the students pictured.  If the photographs depict a specific classroom, event, or activity, that information would also be very helpful.  We only have a few months to prepare these pages, so please start snapping! 

If you have any questions, send an email to Ann Confer at LAESyearbook@verizon.net e or to Lee Ann Lovgren, the yearbook chair, at lalovgren@msn.com.  Thank you in advance for all your photographs!

Prefer two people to research and bring new programs to Lake Anne students and also manage the registrations and other administrative tasks. Contact Robin Campbell (campbell1016@yahoo.com) or Giannina Velez (president@laespta.org) at 703.834.0710 to discuss needs and how you can help.

Volunteers Needed for GRACE ArtSome classes still need a lead instructor or an assistant.No art experience required - just a love of children and a desire to learn alongside them. Please contact Cathy Arney (cdarnee@aol.com) at 703.318.3225 to find out more. Lake Anne students just LOVE GRACE Art!

Volunteers Needed for Mom’s Pie Delivery – Tuesday November 21 (from 3 - 6:30pm)

Please contact Cheri Danaher (kdanaman@erols.com) at 703-709-5283

Carolyn Low

Newsletter/Email

703.476.5312

Carolyn@familytalk.org

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