Congratulations to Ms. Freer (4th grade) - Abigail Lynn Freer was born last week! And depending on how you count, the 100th day of school was either last Friday or today! Either way, Hooray! and Well Done!Have you heard there may be “real” snow this week? Don’t wait – register NOW for Keep In Touch https://fcps.medianext.com/fcps/signup.html so that you will know when Fairfax County Public Schools decides to close or open late. Next Monday – February 19 - No school! President’s Holiday

Tue (Feb 13) – After School Programs Begin

Afterschool Programs will start this week. Please contact Cheryl Green (ssi97@comcast.net) at 703.464.9395 with any questions.

Tue (Feb 13) – Room Parent Meeting (AM and PM classes) 7 p.m. in Library

All room parents, for both A.M. and P.M. classes are asked to attend this meeting to prepare for Fiesta events. Please contact Candy Glozer candy50@comcast.net or Sabrina Nero sabrinanero@hotmail.com for more information.

The 2006-2007 yearbook will be packed full of the best collection of photographs representing the school year: the best candids, group photos, and individual portraits of all students, faculty, and pictures of all your special friends having fun while they learn.

Order by March 1, 2007 to guarantee your child a yearbook. Yearbooks are $21 – checks should be made payable to LAES PTA.

ORDER NOW – YOU WON’T BE DISAPPOINTED!

Any questions? Please contact Lee Ann Lovgren (lalovgren@msn.com) at 703.437.9966

A bowl of soup sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? While it is heating up, peel off the label, tuck it into a ziplock bag and then send them to school in the Tuesday folder. It is just that simple to raise money for Lake Anne! If every family had one can of soup this week and next – and sent the labels in – we’d have over a 1000 labels! A very significant number!

And what about Box Tops? Have you registered at www.BoxTops4Education.com yet? Every new email registered at www.BoxTops4Education.com/love during the month of February will be entered in a drawing for 10,000 bonus box tops! What a windfall that would be!

Don’t delay – check out www.BoxTops4Education/love today and sign up! You don’t have to receive any emails from them – but if you would like to, you‘ll hear about special offers, receive coupons, collect recipes, plan menus and much more. www.BoxTops4Education.com/love.

Do you need more information? Want to help trim and count? 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.

Starting this week, a mid-week Fiesta email will bring Lake Anne families and staff up-to-date about Fiesta plans – please take a moment to look it over and see what is happening and how you can be a part of it. Volunteers are needed in ALL areas – donations are needed for the Silent Auction and for classroom baskets. Please say Yes when asked to help. If everyone participates, the Fiesta will be an even bigger success!

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

Lake Anne Fiesta – March 24, 2007

Imagine making lunch for 140,00 children?! This month’s Parent Program guest speaker, Penny McConnell from FCPS Food Service, does just that every school day!

Ms. McConnell will be discussing what foods are on the cafeteria trays and why, how good nutrition impacts learning and how FCPS is working towards their goal of being the best food and nutrition service in the nation. You won’t want to miss this conversation – there is much to learn! Free childcare is available.

For more information about the Parent Program and/or the PTA Meeting, please contact Erin Schulz (emm1138@hotmail.com) at 703.464.0448.

Feb 19 - No School – President’s Day Holiday

Feb 20 – PTA Meeting

Board Meeting (all welcome!) 6:15 p.m.

General Meeting/Parent Program on Food and Nutrition at FCPS – 7:00 p.m.

Feb 22 – Restaurant Night at McDonald’s on Wiehle 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. – even at the drive thru!

Feb 27 – Langston Hughes Middle School hosts a Rising 7th grade orientation on Tuesday, Feb. 27 at 7:00 p.m. (GT, ESOL and Special Education sessions scheduled for 6:00 p.m.) Contact Langston Hughes Middle School office for more information 703.715.3600.

The PTA is pleased to bring the Original Works program back to LAES!This month, under the instruction and guidance of Lake Anne’s talented art teachers, each LAES student will create an original artwork that will be sent to the Original Works company to be professionally reproduced for use on a variety of products.Just before Spring Break, you will receive in your child’s backpack his or her original artwork along with a product catalog, price list and order form. As a courtesy, Original Works is also sending a large magnet produced from each child’s original work. You may purchase this magnet for $5.00 or return it to school if you don't wish to keep it. You will also have the opportunity to order any of a number of products such as note cards, t-shirts, key chains, luggage tags, ceramic mugs, tiles, matted prints, calendars and more, all featuring your child’s original art and all of which would make great gifts or keepsakes.Please note that this program has a quick turnaround time. Order forms and payments will be due back at the school one week after you receive your child's packet, no later than March 30th. The finished products will be delivered to the school by May 2nd, in time for Mothers' Day and year-end appreciation gift giving. These are fun products to give or to keep, and every order will help support both the PTA and the art department.

Parents interested in leading a small informal reading group with 4th, 5th or 6th graders are encouraged to contact Michelle Swallow (michelle.swallow@fcps.edu) in the Lake Anne library or Carolyn Low (carolyn@familytalk.org) at 703.476.5312. Books would be chosen from the Virginia Young Readers collection or student suggestions.

Ms. Zanger's kindergarten class is in need of a GRACE Art volunteer for the rest of the school year. Love of children and willingness to learn about artists and art concepts with them is all that is required. You do not need to have a child in this class to be their GRACE Art volunteer. You work with the teacher to set the time and date for presentations.If interested - or if you'd like more information - please contact Cathy Arney (cdarnee@aol.com) at 703. 318.3225.

Carolyn Low

Newsletter/Email

703.476.5312

Carolyn@familytalk.org

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