No School today - Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

January’s PTA Meeting Board meeting begins at 6:15 p.m. (all are welcome)

General Meeting with Parent Program begins at 7:00 p.m. (free child care is available.)

Hear from Ms. Hajj about school progress, hear from PTA President Giannina Velez and others about LAES PTA events, hear from the phenomenal reading resource teachers, Emelie Parker and Desiree Hall about reading “With, To or By” your child.

The agenda for the PTA meeting is available on the PTA Bulletin Board and at the Lake Anne PTA website, www.laespta.org.

If your child loves afterschool programs, you’ll be happy to know that descriptions of Winter After School program offerings and registration information will go home in this week’s Tuesday folder.

Registration starts Jan. 16 thru Feb. 9 and classes begin Feb. 13

A big thank you to Cheryl Green for agreeing to coordinate the after school programs for Lake Anne students. If you are interested in assisting with these fun programs that directly benefit our students, please contact Cheryl (ssi97@comcast.net) at 703. 464-9395 to see how you can help

Please help the yearbook team by contributing your great photos for the candid section of the 2006-2007 yearbook. Field trips, class programs, parties and more are all desirable! Any photos that show our Lake Anne students in action are perfect!

Forward your photos to LAESyearbook@verizon.net - or put the prints in an envelope marked YEARBOOK and send it in the Tuesday folder. Be sure to include your contact information (name, email, phone number). Please do not send links to Ofoto or Shutterfly or other online photo services – unfortunately those images are not usable.

The yearbook may seem like a long way away but the pages are being produced now! Questions? Want to help? Contact Ann Confer (LAESyearbook@verizon.net) or Lee Ann Lovgren, the yearbook chair, at lalovgren@msn.com. Infroamtion about ordering your child’s yearbook, coming soon!

Please ask your child to check the lost and found in the cafeteria or come by after school or before the PTA meeting to see if anything that belongs to your family might be in this large collection of items. Anything not claimed by Tuesday evening will be donated to a local charity.

Help spread the word about this informational meeting to neighbors and friends with children who would be eligible for Kindergarten or First Grade in the 2007-2008 school year (Children who will be five years old by September 30 may apply for the two-way Spanish immersion program and current kindergarten students may apply for the partial-immersion foreign language program). Fairfax County Public School representatives and Lake Anne principal and staff will describe the Spanish Immersion program and the selection process. If you know a friend or neighbor who is intrigued by the idea of Spanish Immersion, encourage them to attend this meeting. Fairfax County Public Schools have more about Language immersion on their website, http://www.fcps.edu/DIS/OHSICS/forlang/partial.htm.

Keep clipping! Many favorite foods have little “Box Tops for Education” logos or “Labels for Education” labels – not just Cheerios and soup! Clip your box tops and save the labels – and send them to school in a ziplock bag in the Tuesday folder. We have trimmers and counters standing by to turn your labels and box tops into $$ and supplies for Lake Anne.

Visit www.boxtops4education.com and www.labelsforeducation.com for a complete list of all eligible items. Register at Box Tops and shop online through their Marketplace. You can also request to receive recipes, coupons, reminders and more – or no email from the site at all. For more info, please contact Chris Keefer (thekeefers@sprintmail.com) at 703.444.2888.

Lake Anne’s Fiesta is an annual event – a fun fair, silent auction, cake walk, party extravaganza! And this year’s Fiesta will be bigger and better to celebrate Lake Anne’s 40th anniversary.

Silent Auction donations from outside businesses are starting to come. Please think about how your family, your business, you would like to participate in the Silent Auction this year. Do you have season tickets to a sports team? Would you consider donating one game’s tickets to the auction? What about a talent or hobby you could share – through lessons (guitar, kayaking, scrapbooking) or perhaps an item you created (quilt, stained glass, mosaic). Would you host a party for adults or kids? Would you share your boat for a day trip? Would you bake a pie a month for some lucky family? Get imaginative and bold – the Silent Auction team would love to hear from you!

Please contact Giannina Velez at 703.834.0710 (president@laespta.org) for more information about the Silent Auction and the Lake Anne Fiesta – and she’ll help you figure out how you can help!

Lake Anne Fiesta – March 24, 2007

Jan 25 and 26 – End of 2nd Quarter - No School

Carolyn Low

Newsletter/Email

703.476.5312

Carolyn@familytalk.org

Don’t forget to check the Lake Anne Elementary School website (www.fcps.edu/LakeAnneES) or the Lake Anne PTA website (www.laespta.org) for more information about activities and events.

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