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Washington, DC 20016
202-282-0110
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Tuesday Sept 25:
Back to School Night
Wednesday Sept 26:
Soup Kitchen
Thursday Sept 27:
Cybrary training, 9-11 am
Auction kick-off meeting, 9 am multipurpose room Blue and White Day Tuesday Oct 2: Sign up for parent/teacher conferences Wednesday Oct 3: Sally Foster orders due
Jenny Kletzin DiBiase
Allie Hajian
Elizabeth Levenson
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A Note from Your PTA Co-Presidents
Just a few
things to note this week:
Picture
day was yesterday. We hope everyone smiled pretty; but don't worry if you missed
it, there's another chance to get a cute photo taken on December 6th.
Please come to the auction kick-off meeting hosted by our wonderful auction committee
chairs, Melissa Torgovitsky and Anita Seline, this Friday at
9:00. There'll be donuts and coffee and plenty of opportunities to
volunteer. Whatever amount of time you have to give-20 minutes, 2 hours,
20 hours-there's a job for you!
If you haven't had a chance to check out the field yet this year, take a look.
It's an example of your PTA dollars at work. It was resodded this summer in
time for opening day.
Back to School night is tonight. See you there!
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Coffee
Kick-off for Janney Auction 2008
The
date has been set, Saturday, February 2, 2008, the venue has been chosen, The
Katzen Arts Center at the American
University, and we even
have a theme. Now, we need you and all the wonderful donations that so many of
you offer and secure year after year for the Janney Auction.
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You
want to get involved, you know you do! Find out more about the auction and
how you can contribute by stopping by the multipurpose room after morning
drop off this Friday, September 28th. You will get a chance to meet some of the
auction team, ask questions, find out how you can be a part of this event, pick
up donation forms, sign up for one of the committees, and have some coffee,
breakfast treats and great conversation.
If
you have questions or cannot wait until Friday to volunteer, please contact
either of the auction co-chairs, Anita Seline at amseline@aol.comor Melissa Torgovitsky at
storgovitsky@aol.com. We would love to have your
help, and all are welcome to contribute to the success of this event. Please
understand that an amazing amount of volunteer time is required to create
the auction; so any amount of time you can offer, be it a few hours or a
hundred hours, will be welcomed.
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Check
out Sally Foster Gift Wrap on Back to School Night
A BIG
THANKS to all of the families who have supported Janney by purchasing (and
cajoling their friends and families to purchase) beautiful Sally Foster gift
wrap, candy, lotions, cards, gifts and other fine
products. Janney earns 50% on every purchase so every order, big or small,
will help our school. Feel free to pick up extra catalogs (you can take it
to work!) at the school office. Bring in your orders by Wednesday, October
3rd, to the Sally Foster box in the school office. If your family's
order is more than $200, we will provide free delivery to your home.
Please stop
by the Sally Foster display on Back to School Night to sample their delicious
candy, and check out many other new Sally Foster designs and products. You can
also sign up to volunteer (tabulating, unloading, assisting order pick-ups or
home deliveries). We appreciate any help you can give.
Remember
that your far-flung relatives can also order directly at the Sally Foster
website (www.sallyfoster.com) and designate 50%
of the purchase to support Janney. Our code number is 499219 (but you can
also look up Janney on the website if you forget). The on-line store
is open 24/7 year-round, you get UPS delivery straight to your door, and there
is no delivery charge for orders of $60 or more. Just click
"GIVE CREDIT" to designate Janney. There is a link to the Sally
Foster website on Janney's website.
If you
have any questions, please contact Linda Strickland (202-445-7460,
ltstrick2@yahoo.com) or Linda Weidman (301-380-3865,
linda.weidman@marriott.com). We appreciate all of your help. THANKS
again for supporting Janney!
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Note
from the Health Suite
Parents
please note that as a part of the school health program, annual health
screenings will begin soon. The targeted grades for the 07-08 school year are
PK, K, 1st, 2nd, 4th and 6th. The dates for the hearing screenings are
Thursday, September 27th, Friday, September 28th, and Monday, October 1st.
Vision, height, and weight screenings will follow later in the fall.
In addition,
all 6th graders will be screened for scoliosis (curvature of the spine). A
permission slip will be sent home later for scoliosis screening.
Both the
parents and teacher will be notified of any test failures.
Thanks to
all for your cooperation.
Roslyn Polk, RN |
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Join the
Janney Yearbook Team
Although
the school year has just gotten underway, the Janney Yearbook team has already
started thinking about how we will document all the fun and memorable things
that will happen at Janney this year, and we need your help! First, we need a
Yearbook Representative for each classroom, who will be responsible for taking
and/or gathering photos for each classroom and creating a collage for its
yearbook page. Second, we need you to send us photos you take throughout the
year at Janney events. Any good photos from the Fall Picnic or Fanatic Fan Day
out there? Send them to us! If you would like to help with the yearbook this
year, please contact Karen Garman at (202) 966-9172 or
karenandbob1@netzero.com; or Elizabeth Levenson at (202) 537-1941 or elizabeth_levenson@yahoo.com |
Math
Really Counts!
For three
years Janney Elementary has sponsored a challenge math club for fifth- and
sixth-graders. We participate in a series of problem-solving experiences
that have been created by MathCounts, a nonprofit foundation. The
foundation is sponsored by professional organizations such the National Society
of Professional Engineers and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics,
and by corporations such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and General
Motors. The mission of MathCounts is to increase enthusiasm for and
enhance achievement in middle school mathematics throughout the United States.
We meet on Wednesday mornings from 8:00 to 8:40. Dr. Thomas Verghese, who
has led this group for the past two years, will do so again this year. I will
likewise participate in these sessions. We will begin on October 10. All fifth-
and sixth-graders who are interested are invited to participate.
This year we are going to expand our challenge opportunities to second-, third-
and fourth-graders. I will lead these sessions. Third- and fourth-graders
will meet on Monday mornings from 8:00 to 8:40. We will begin on Monday,
October 22. Second-graders will meet on Tuesdays from noon until 12:40. Children
will eat in our meeting room. At 12:40 they will go outside for 20 minutes of
recess. This group will begin on Tuesday, October 23. In both cases
we will work together to solve challenging problems.
Further grade-specific details will come to you in a letter in Take-Home
Tuesday packets.
Dr. Karen Langford
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Don't Buy
Books! YET.
Come
to the Janney Book Fair at Politics & Prose, all day Saturday, October
27th, and Sunday, October 28th. Twenty percent of all Janney sales go directly
to the school. Please volunteer to help staff the book fair! Contact Emily
Bazelon at emily.bazelon@slate.com
or 202.244.5626.
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Janney
String Ensemble
It's not
too late to join the Janney String Ensemble! Rehearsals will be before school
this year. We will have several
performances. If your child missed the audition but would like to participate
in the string ensemble, please contact swetherbee@gmail.com.
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Room
Parent Roundup
Things are
happening at Janney, and an important component of all things running smoothly
is to have room parents in place for each of the classes. I have heard from only
a few classes with the names of those who will serve as room parents. I
need to hear from the rest of the classes and need to have the name of the lead
room parent as well as a class treasurer for each class. As of
September 20th, I had heard from the following classes: Ms. Waters, Ms.
Rutledge, Ms. Butler, Ms. Miller, Ms. Zallman, and Ms. Carpousis.
Being a
room parent is a great way to spend time with your child, to get to know your
child's classmates, to support your child's teacher with classroom activities,
parties, trips and other projects or events, and to support the strong sense of
community that we have at Janney. The most important thing to remember
about room parenting is to delegate. The primary responsibility of the room
parents is to try to get all parents involved in the class activities and
events because there are too many activities and events for the room parents to
handle alone. Also, even if you are not named as a room parent, there are
still plenty of ways to help your child's class (for example, class
photographer, yearbook page coordinator, host for the class social) as well as
tasks that would ease the burden on our wonderful teachers. We need to work
together to continue to foster the amazing sense of community that is Janney.
If lead
room parents have been named, please send me the contact information for
room parents in your class, as well the individual designated as class
treasurer, as soon as possible. I can be reached via email at storgovitsky@aol.com or by phone at 364.3035. Once I
have the names for all classes, I will send out the Room Parent Guidelines and the
schedule for the year's events. I will also distribute class fund checks to
each of the classroom treasurers.
I look forward to working with out you and
keeping you apprised of happenings throughout the school year. As always, I
welcome your feedback and suggestions as to how we can continue to make room
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Notebusters
Will
begin again. This time with a new director, Mariano Vales! Grades 2 through 6
will practice on Tuesdays as usual right after school until 4:00 in the
auditorium. Ks and 1s will practice on THURSDAY this year right after school
until 3:45 in the auditorium. Sessions begin the first week in October with a
show planned for the first week in December. Enrollment forms may be picked up
at the school office.
Our new director, Mariano Vales, is the director of the Junior Philharmonic
Orchestra within the DC Youth Orchestra. He also directs the Washington
Sangerbund choral group. He is commissioned to write a musical comedy to
be completed in 2009 and is doing lots of other things. He is very talented and
works wonderfully with children. He is enthusiastic about beginning a new
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Writing
Portfolios
I have
Writing Portfolios for the students listed who have left Janney. If you have
contact with a family and would be willing to pass the student's work on, I
would appreciate it. E-mail me at murphyreads@yahoo.com or drop a note in my
box, and I will send it home with your child. I would love this great work
to get to its owner.
Barbara Murphy, Reading Specialist
Madison and Courtney Boyle
Yasmeen Butler
Olivia Anderson
Cristina Antonijuan
Maggie Wood
Bess Moore
Brigitte Wilson
Dominic and Gianna Meloni
Catherine and TJ Young
Sarah Bien
Corso Rosselli del Turco
Liza Darvas
Aliyah Sola-Exum
Jack Ellert-Beck
Carter and Ned Ruffin
Rubii Tamen
William and Peter Yanes |
In the Neighborhood
The
Children's Art Studio, Washington,
DC
The Children's Art Studio is founded on the belief that children reap
tremendous emotional and intellectual benefits from making art. The
organization is committed to offering outstanding visual art classes to
children throughout the city. Small class size, high quality materials and
thoughtful instruction characterize the experience. Ninety minute sessions give
students the opportunity to relax into completing in-depth projects. The
Children's Art Studio is a 501c3 nonprofit organization.
The following short workshops are being held in October at the Wesley United
Methodist Church
on Connecticut Avenue.
The cost is $120. All materials are included.
Line, Shape and Color (for three, four and five year olds)
Monday and Wednesday, 12:30-2, October 15, 17, 22, 24
Pencil, Brush, Hand (for PK and K students)
Monday and Wednesday, 3:45-5:30, October 15, 17, 22, 24
Drawing, Painting (for first and second graders)
Tuesday and Thursday, 3:45-5:30, October 16, 18, 23, 25
Each course is designed to give children the
opportunity to engage in hands-on, nonverbal expression. Student-driven
projects will be completed using pencil, watercolor, collage, clay, ink, and
found objects. Inspiration will be taken from art history, the natural world
and the inner world of imagination.
Additional workshops will be offered in the coming months: book making; maps
and murals; observing nature, making art.
Contact Nicole Brandes at nicoleandrewsbrandes@hotmail.com to register.
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 Safety Patrol Tip of the Week
Do
not let children out on the driver's side of your car when dropping them off at
school.
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 Principal's Letter
Dear Janney Community,
As a reminder, tonight is Back-to-School Night from 6:30-8:30 p.m. As in
recent years, we are dividing up the evening into sessions for primary grades (Pk-2nd)
and intermediate grades (3rd-6th). This allows us to have an extra session for those
of you with multiple kids, and it also allows us to fit more comfortably into the
auditorium for the opening. The schedule will be as follows:
For Primary Grades (PK-2nd Grades):
6:30-6:45 Opening Session in
auditorium
6:50-7:20 Classroom Session
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7:25-7:55 Classroom Session
II
For Intermediate Grades (3rd-6th Grades):
7:05-7:20 Opening Session in
Auditorium
7:25-7:55 Classroom Session
I
8:00-8:30 Classroom Session
II See you tonight!
On Thursday, there will be an orientation for parents who wish to work
in the Janney library. The meeting will be
from 9-11 a.m. and will cover all of the basics on how to shelve books, handle the
check-out process, be a class reader, etc. All are welcome!
Last Thursday, our primary teachers had a wonderful professional development
opportunity. Matt Glover, a principal from
Ohio led a one
day seminar on the writing process focusing on our youngest authors. The basis for the seminar was a great book by Katie
Wood Ray called About the Authors. One of
the many reasons that our teaching staff is so incredible is their willing engagement
in numerous hours of professional development throughout the year. The staff meets weekly by grade levels to plan
and work together, as well as in groups around different content areas. We offer staff development from our reading and
math coaches (Barbara Murphy and Karen Langford) and work with a literacy consultant
five or six days a year. In addition, we
have teachers that are engaged in graduate level coursework, work to complete National
Board Certification, work with arts integration, and a number of other outside providers.
It's a real pleasure to work with such a committed group of educators.
Have a great week!
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Contributing to the E-Newsletter
Submissions to the PTA newsletter may be emailed to Janneynewsletter@yahoo.com.
The
deadline for submissions is Thursday at 3:15 pm. Because the newsletter
is reviewed by several individuals before distribution, we must adhere
to this deadline in order to get the newsletter to you every week on
time.
Please make every effort to submit your notices by email
for the electronic newsletter. Include all text in the body of your
email (rather than as an attachment). Small jpeg thumbnails may be
attached and can be included in the newsletter. All links or email
addresses will be made active (clickable).
Prepared fliers should be turned into the school office by COB Monday for inclusion in the regular Take Home Tuesday envelope.
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