Wondering about a snow day tomorrow –or a delayed start? There are several ways to get up-to-the-minute information.

Visit the FCPS Website – Emergency Announcements.

If school is starting on time, there will be no emergency announcement made.

If school is cancelled or delayed, you’ll read it here.

The recording on the FCPS Hot Line [800-839-FCPS(3277)] will also have any weather –related.

Cable Channel 21 will run a “crawl” on the bottom of the screen if there are any delays or cancellations.

And as always, if you subscribe to Keep In Touch, you’ll receive an email announcement from the school system.

Please remember, if school is delayed two hours tomorrow, the students will be dismissed at the regular Tues – Friday time (2:55), not the early Monday time.

And before we forget, thank you to all the families who came to the Spirit Night at McDonald’s last week! Thanks to the Wiehle McDonald’s for hosting such a fun evening – and thanks to Ha Brock for coordinating another successful Restaurant Night.

The SCA will continue collecting donations of used children’s books all this week – bring your outgrown, already read paper backs and hard covers to your afternoon class (or drop off in the front office). The class with the largest number of books donated will get an extra recess on a Monday. Please - no text books or technical books. The SCA Book Sale will be March 5 through March 9. For more information, please contact Mr. Whiting (timonthy.whiting@fcps.edu) or Ms. Kastner (Julie.kastner@fcps.edu) or call the Lake Anne office at 703.326.3500.

Tues (Feb 27) - Rising 7th grade Orientation at Langston Hughes

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.

Our four teams will hold dress rehearsals on February 28th (Wednesday) from 6 - 7pm in the LAES cafeteria for a final run-through of their performances prior to the March 3rd competition.  Anyone interested to learn more about Odyssey of the Mind is invited to attend.  You will be amazed at the creativity and teamwork demonstrated by these four groups of students.

Wed (Feb 28) Last Day to Register at www.BoxTops4Education.com - LAES could win 10,000 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.

Sat (March 3) – Odyssey of the Mind competition (Falls Church High School)

On Saturday March 3rd, four LAES teams will compete in the Odyssey of the Mind Regional Championships at Falls Church High School.  Our teams have been working hard since last October to creatively solve problems, build sets, design costumes and develop scripts for problems provided by the Odyssey of the Mind International organization.  Odyssey of the Mind is a team activity where students work together within age defined divisions to come up with creative solutions to problems and then perform their solution with hundreds of other teams.

Lake Anne's teams and coaches:

6th Grade Team: Adina White, Scott Confer, Alexandra Dilldine, Maya Loehr, Dylan Katz, Mitchell Parker  Coaches: Paula Parker, Angie Coombs

5th & 4th Grade Team:  Jake Loehr, Charley Thaler, David Atkinson, Samentha Chen, Sam Joslyn, Brentan Walters, Rachel Jacobs  Coaches: Aurian Lotter, Stacey Freer, Tammy Joslyn

2nd Grade Team:  Zachariah Zimmerman, Eli Nachison, Alana Hull, Madeleine Emmert, Brandon Miller, Zophia Pryzby, Adrian Paltoo  Coaches:  Doug Zimmerman, Jane Hull

2nd & 1st Grade Team:  Clark Zimmerman, Sage Raphael, Calisa White, Karisma Quist, Giselle Walters, Gina Bisbee  Coaches: Erik & DeeAnn Quist, Jessie Clark

Good luck to all our Lake Anne Teams! We already know you are winners – have a great time at the competition.

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.

Volunteers are needed. Please don’t assume (or hope!) someone else will do it. Please say YES when your room parent asks for help – or better yet, offer to help now, before they ask!

Please make a donation to the class theme baskets and/or the Silent Auction. The Silent Auction team can certainly use some additional donations of time, talents, services or items.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

Mrs. Hajj and Dr. Menuey will discuss Standards of Learning testing.

March 12 – Restaurant Night at Chick-Fil-A (across from Target)

Board meeting 6:15 p.m. – all are welcome

General Meeting and Parent Program – 7 p.m. – child care is provided.

This month’s speaker is Sharon Weiss, a behavioral consultant, who will share her techniques for dealing with everyday troubles as well as some more challenging issues.

March 24 – Fiesta 40 – Lake Anne’s Spring Fiesta and 40th Anniversary Celebration

Carolyn Low

Newsletter/Email

703.476.5312

Carolyn@familytalk.org

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