Maria McCarthy

News Blast

Download Vaughan-PTSA 2010-2011 Calendar[1]

Download BoosterthonCommunication

Download Curves info. 

 

Next Week at Vaughan    ** Please be sure to see Vaughan's PTSA calendar attachment with new updates. Monday 10/4:    Deadline for pre-order BBQ and pre-order attraction tickets  for fall festival. Tuesday 10/5:   Town Hall Meeting 6:30-7 pm/3rd grade curriculum night 7:00pm Wednesday 10/6:  Reflections Judging/Judges reception  Friday 10/8: FALL FESTIVAL! 5 -8 p.m./  HAT DAY! Bring your 50 cents to the office to wear a hat.                       FALL FESTIVAL INFORMATION:                    When: Friday, October 8, 2010  Time: 5:00-8:00 pm  Where: Vaughan Elementary School Café, Gym, and Bus Port (Pre-Order Tickets and BBQ food vouchers will come home in Thursday's folder on October 7th.)    Attractions include: 2 Quad Jumps, the Titanic Slide, the Jail, Dunk-a-Teacher/Student Tank, Famous Cake Walk, Silent Auction, Vendors’ Sales, and much, much more. New this year: The Forbidden Forest and Photo with a Lamborghini, Ferrari, or GTR.       This is Vaughan Elementary’s traditional fun fall event.  To make it a success, we need your help.    We need: ·         Bagged candy for the carnival game prizes.  Donations can be brought to the PTSA room at any time and put in the box labeled Fall Festival Candy.    ·         Baked Goods for the Cake Walk. You can drop these off the morning of the festival.          WE NEED YOUR HELP for VAUGHAN’S FALL FESTIVAL on October 8 th.    We have many parents that have already volunteered to help, but need the additional following parent volunteers to fill the remaining positions: SET UP 2 volunteers (2:45-4:45pm) TEAR DOWN 10 volunteers (8-9pm) VAUGHAN COUNTY JAIL 2 volunteers to be “Jailors” to work from 6:30-8pm (will have middle or high school volunteer helpers) SILENT AUCTION 1 volunteer to work from 5-8pm HAIRSPRAY 1 volunteer to work from 6:30-8pm (will have high school volunteer helpers) CONCESSIONS 1 volunteer to work from 5-6:30pm 1 volunteer to work from 6:30-8pm PHOTOGRAPHER 1 volunteer to take pictures of children with Sports Cars/ 5-8pm (volunteer will need to have own camera that can be hooked up via a USB cable to a provided printer) PICTURE PRINTERS 2 volunteers that can help print out photos and man a table for picture pick-up. IF YOU ARE ABLE TO HELP FILL ONE OF THESE SLOTS, PLEASE EMAIL Michelle@LettsFamily.com.          BOOSTERTHON IS COMING,,,,,,,,   The Boosterthon Fun Run program is a healthy alternative to traditional product sales to raisemuch-needed funds for our school and many others across America. The program also promotes three specific values during the nine day fun-filled program:   Fitness, Leadership, and Character . This year’s character theme is “Leader LAUNCH.”         Boosterthon Fun Run Basics The event will kick off with a 30 minute school-wide Pep Rally on Monday November 1st and conclude on Wednesday November 10th with the Boosterthon Fun Run event. Please see attachment for more details!    ***Mad Science is coming to Vaughan! Science Night will be Oct. 26th from 6:30-8:00 pm. Please look for the registration form coming home soon or go to the PTSA website to register.    Cobb Schools Family Arts Series Fall/Winter 2010:  We are pleased to announce our second season of the Cobb Schools Family Arts Series!  We have teamed up again with The Atlanta Opera, Cobb Symphony Orchestra, Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre and the Georgia Ballet to bring you 1st class arts performances for only $15 per ticket! Check out these offerings: The Atlanta Opera - "La Boheme" Tuesday, October 5 @ 7:30 pm TICKET ORDERS MUST BE RECEIVED BY SEPT 24 FOR THIS PERFORMANCE! IT WILL SELL OUT! The Georgia Ballet  - "Pinocchio" Sat, Oct 23 @ 7 pm  & Sun, Oct 24 @ 2 pm Cobb Symphony Orchestra "Dvorak's New World Symphony," Oct 23 & 24; "Sounds of Autumn" Nov 13 & 14 or the popular "Holiday Pops" Dec 4 & 5 Don't miss your opportunity to see these fabulous shows!  Tickets available at this price through this promotion only!  Ticket order forms can be found at this link: http://cobbschoolsfoundation.org/proj_familyarts.htm Order your tickets today!  Shows will sell out!  A portion of the proceeds benefits the Cobb Schools Foundation.  Cobb Schools Family Arts Series.  Your Ticket to the Arts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

COME JOIN IN THE FUN!

Make a Monetary Contribution or a BIG Bag of Food

 

 

12th annual food Drive

Saturday October 23rd

10 a.m.— 2p.m.

 

 

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                Enjoy Chili & Refreshments

  

Complimentary New Patient Start-up

(Includes: Consultation, Exam, & Any Necessary X-rays)

  

Therapeutic Massage ( $1 a minute donations)

  

WCC Patient Adjustments

  

Silent Auction, Raffle, & Vendors 

  

Activities for KIDS!

Face Painting 

Sand Art

Halloween Costume Contest ( 11AM & 1PM)

Carnival Games

Awesome Inflatables!

Dunking for Apples!

  

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Homework - Week of September 27 - October 2, 2010

SPELLING TEST THIS WEEK ON THURSDAY - Sort 29 EX, NON, IN, FORE, IN - students will need to know the meaning of the prefix

EX=out, NON=not, IN=non, FORE=Before, IN = in or into depending upon the word

Monday - September 27

1. Read and Record Only tonight - complete a night write - please be sure to use the book you checked out of the media center today!  You should be reading the current book on your reading log in your reading book bin in class.


Tuesday - September 28

1. Read and Record
2. Math PW 32 - working with Expressions - remember an expression does not have the equal sign and you do not "SOLVE"


Wednesday - September 29th

1. Read and Record
2. Math - Reread page 132 then on page 133 complete the "Practice and Problem Solving" section #6 through 22.  Make sure you use lined paper and head your paper at the top. 
   Name - Subject, Date       


Thursday, September 30

1.  Read and Record - make sure that night writes are written this week - I will be checking these on Friday and will be grading over the weekend!

2.  No Math Homework - What???? We are still working on expressions and variables.  There were a number of students who did not make a good choice by not completing their math homework for Wednesday night.  It is unacceptable NOT to complete homework.   I will be giving heavy fines for NOT completing homework!!!!

3.  We did not get to the spelling test.  Today we were making sure we had all things completed for our Literacy Workstations.  This will be graded over the weekend.  There are several grades Reading Grade, Grammar Grade, Spelling Grade and Content Grade.  Some children took things home to complete - please help them with their assignment.  You will see more of the little readers come home with Graphic Organizers to complete on the day they  meet with me in Guided Reading

 

 

 

 

News from Social Worker ~ 9/16/2010

I would like to take a minute to tell you about an incredible resource now available to the community. In conjunction with the Success for all Students Program, the Cobb County School Social Work department has launched an electronic resource database. There are close to 1,000 agencies and resources available to school staff, parents and the community at large instantly! The database has a Cobb County focus but it does list out-of-district resources as well.  While we are still available to assist parents, this electronic database allows them to access resources from the privacy of their own computers.

To access the Resource Database visit http://www.cobbk12.org/familyresources and you can search by service type, agency name or zip code.

Please pass along the word to parents, PTA and anyone who might be in need. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks- Antoinette

   
Antoinette Frazier, MSW
School Social Worker
(Hillgrove HS, Lovinggood MS, Still ES, Vauhgan ES)
Office Phone-
Lovinggood   (678) 594-8718
Hillgrove   (678) 331-3961 ext 239

Diary of a Whimy Kid Scholastic Pre order

Attention Parents:  Schoalstic Book Fair is offering a paperback edition of the new Diary of a Wimpy Kid:  The Ugly Truth that will not be available in stores.  This book is scheduled to go on sale November 9th, however your child can reserve a copy in advance.

To participate in the pre-sale, fill out and return the order form that was sent home with your child today.  Please remember to send cash or check (made out to Vaughan) with your order form to the book fair by Thursday, Oct.16th.  We will send home a receipt with your child showing payment. 

Pre-ordered books will ship to Vaughan on November 9th.  They will be sent home with your child as soon as they are received.

Homework Week of 9/13/10

Monday, September 13, 2010

1. Read and Record
2. Please do not forget about Night Writes - I have been reviewing and grading their Night Writes and many children are not completing 2 per week. I will take notebooks up every two weeks so this should give you plenty of time to complete summaries.
3. Math - PS 39 - Word Problems involving 2-3 digit by 1 digit multplication - attached is the Math Unraavel that I went over today in class - please review with your child if you wish

Download UNRAVVAL

Download MATH UNRAAVELcover

 

1. Tuesday, September 14, 2010
2. Read and Record
3. Math - go onto the Vaughan Website and go to Mrs. Crekmur's website and play a multiplication math gaem or any game there to practice your skills
4. Today, we spent a great deal of time on aread models - attached below is a brief synopsis of areas models - this is not how we were taught when we were in school. But, they will have to be able to do it on quizes and tests this year!

Download TwoDigitMultiplicaition_Gr3-5

 

Parent Letter 9-12-01 re: Curriculum

September 10, 2010

Math:  Please continue to practice multiplication and division skills each night.  Each student has created a resource book that includes all concepts taught so far.  This includes place value to the millions, rounding and estimating to the ten thousands, order of operations (PEMDAS), and the properties of multiplication (zero, identity, commutative, associative, and distributive.  We will definitely continue to maintain these skills through continued practice and skill through guided math groups.  Groups will begin this week.

Reading:  I have started guided reading groups and literacy workstations this week and there will be a push toward independent reading and completing a task.  I believe that this year I can “push” your child to reach his or her maximum abilities in reading and writing.  Therefore, you may see some guided reading homework come home this week or after the break.  I never do a reading assignment without some sort of writing that can accompany their reading and further develop their thinking about what they are reading.  This allows me to assess and understand if they truly comprehending what they are reading.  All students have a Reading Response Journal in their book bin.  They are responsible for maintaining their journal to the highest standards.  They will be graded each week on their Journals in addition to keeping a reading log.  This will count as a reading and writing grade.  Please talk to your child about working and giving me their personal best with each assignment and task if they are completing an independent task.  Some students are rushing, not focused and think this is a time to play and socialize with their group.  It is not!!!!!!!  It is a time provided to think about their reading. 

Writing:  We have been developing descriptive poems and will move to descriptive essays.  Each child has a writing binder where all writing is to be kept.  This will be graded after each published piece.  The children will be assessed on the 6+ traits of writing.  These are:  ideas, organization, voice, sentence fluency, word choice and conventions.  They have done a great job so far on their descriptive poems.  This upcoming Friday, we will be having a poetry café whereby the students will read their poems aloud, dress in hats and dark clothing to create a café atmosphere where we read our poems aloud.  Parents are welcome – we will begin at 9:00 am with smoothies and inviting music. 

Grammar:  We are learning about complete subjects and complete predicates.  This has been a struggle for most students.  Therefore, we will be practicing this skill each morning with morning work activities and games.

Math Rap:  Order of Operations Skill and Drill

Social Studies:  Wow, our class average was 105% - I cannot be prouder!!!!  We are finished with this unit and believe me you will see many maps as we start to study American History.  This week we will learn basic economics.  The children will need to learn basic economic terms.  Each day I will review a term and they will need to complete a Q&A sheet.   We will be making a flip book with key economic terms.  If anyone is skilled in this area and would like to come in to complete lessons please let me know.

Science:  The 3 states of water (not matter) and the weather cycle.  We probably won’t get to this until after the break.  I know we have a few meteorologists in our class so if your child would like to research any topics and present to the class please let me know.  If you would like to come in and present something to the children – we would love to have you!!!!

This is a lot of information but it is almost impossible for me to communicate everything.  Now that we are six weeks into school, the pace will increase.  I will be sending home average grades so far!  We only have 4 weeks after the break as the end of the 9 weeks is October 8^th.  Report Card Distribution is Friday, October 15th

News Blast ~ Next Week at Vaughan ~ 9-9-10

Next Week at Vaughan

 

Monday, 9/13: Book Fair.

Tuesday, 9/14: Chick-fil-A biscuits for sale in the morning. Book Fair. 

Wednesday, 9/15:  Book Fair.

Thursday, 9/16:  Book Fair. Friday, 9/17- Spirit Day & Reflections Interest forms due & HAT DAY (see below)!*

REMEMBER: NO SCHOOL SEPT. 20th-24th

*Hat Day is back!  Vaughan Elementary is so excited to support the Rally Foundation this year!  Rally Foundation is an organization that helps raise money for childhood cancer research.  Every Friday, beginning this Friday, September 10^th, your child can wear a hat for a 50 cent donation that will go directly towards Rally Foundation.  Your child can bring their money to the office before announcements.  Thank you for helping us support the Rally Foundation!

ATTENTION ALL VAUGHAN FAMILIES--does your child want FREE Rocket Bucks?:

The Vaughan PTSA Health and Wellness Committee is inviting all Vaughan Families to participate in National PTA and Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play !!! On Saturday, September 25th, Nickelodeon and National PTA® encourage you to join hundreds of thousands of kids, families and communities across the world, as they turn off the TV and go outside and play!

On Worldwide Day of Play, Nickelodeon will suspend all programming and go dark all afternoon. Thousands of schools and community organizations will be hosting events engaging kids in physical fitness around the world.  

Why not go outside and and have some family fun by simply "playing"  in the backyard?!  NO cost, just your family and some good old fashioned physical activity!

Any Vaughan student that participates in this Day of Play with his/her family and writes a short story of what they did and how their bodies felt after exercise will earn 2 Rocket Bucks to use in the school store.  Pre-K and Kindergarten students may choose to draw a picture with a short caption in lieu of a story.  All stories/pictures must be submitted to the PTSA mailbox in the Front Office by Wednesday, Sept. 29th. ** This is a completely optional activity but we would love to hear about what your Family did during this Worldwide Day of Play!! **

 

  

Earn Money by Drinking Coke?

Yes!  Really!  Here's an easy way to support Vaughan with some help from Coca Cola!  Earn money simply by drinking the Coca-Cola products your family already enjoys.  Simply enter the rewards codes on hundreds of Coca Cola products online at My Coke Rewards and select Vaughan for your rewards.  Anyone can participate!  Tell your friends.  Go to:   mycokerewards.com/schools for more information and start turning My Coke Rewards points into rewards for our school.

FREE MONEY for Vaughan!  Be sure to have the Publix cashier scan your Publix Partners In Education card every time you checkout at Publix.  A portion of your purchase price will be donated back to Vaughan Elementary.  It's as simple as that!  If you don't have a card for your keyring, pick one up in the front office or email Ami Monday at ami.monday@yahoo.com to have one sent home with your child.

Please start saving your  empty water bottles for Science Night on Oct. 26th. Simply put the lid on the empty water bottle and leave them in the PTSA room. We will need many empty water bottles for this night.

Vaughan students received a special visit last week from Leonardo da Vaughanci to kick off the 2010/2011 PTA Reflections Program! 

Encourage your child to participate in Reflections by creating art inspired by this year’s theme “Together We Can.” They may submit entries in up to six areas—dance choreography, film production, literature, musical composition, photography, and visual arts.  They compete against others in their grade at Vaughan to win 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd place, or Honorable Mention.  First and 2^nd place winners move up to Council, State and then the National level.  First place winners at State and National levels receive cash prizes! 

Return the Interest Form your child received from da Vaughanci to school and we will e-mail you the official entry form and rules for each category your child is interested in.  All projects are due by September 30^th. 


Check out what other students did last year by visiting the Reflections Program gallery online at www.ptareflections.org. 

It's Back! The Cozi Back-To-School PTA/PTO Sponsorship

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Could your school PTA/PTO use some extra cash this year? How about $500? How about $750? Then be sure to enter to win a Cozi sponsorship for your school!

In honor of back-to-school, Cozi is bringing back our super-popular PTA/PTO sponsorship. And since we know school budgets are tighter than ever, we're upping the prize to up to $750 bucks! That's cold, hard cash your PTA/PTO can use to handle anything the school needs: Buy supplies, pay for a new piece of equipment or even buy a closet full of healthy snacks for hungry kids.

Here's how to enter:

1. Go to our Facebook page.
2. If you're not already a fan, "click" Like so you can write on the Wall.
3. Write the name of your school, the town and the state on the Wall. For example, Wonderful Elementary School, Excellentville, WA. Your Wall post counts as your official entry.

To get even more entries, share this article on Facebook, so all your friends can enter for your school (or their own.)

That's it! Anyone using Facebook can do this, and it only takes a minute or less to enter. All you have to do is get the word out to your school.

Rules

You may enter ONLY ONCE for your school. If you have three kids at three different schools, you may enter ONCE for each school.

If your spouse wants to enter separately to get an extra entry, that is FINE.

Feel free to invite aunts, grandparents, neighbors and friends to enter for your school. Every post on the Wall with the name and info for your school COUNTS. But each person may only enter ONCE.

The 3 winners will be chosen AT RANDOM. The more entries your school gets, the greater your school's chances of winning.

The prize is $500 for each winning school. If your school gets over 100 entries, the prize is automatically raised to $750 if your school wins.

Entries close on September 17, 2010 at midnight PST.

As always, feel free to complain about these rules, or anything else that is bugging you. Everyone needs to sound off now and again, especially busy families, so we are ready to smile, nod and sympathize.

Questions, comments, just want to share some love? Post it in the comments below. But FIRST, click over to the Cozi Facebook page and ENTER to WIN up to $750 for your school now!

Good luck!

 

 

The Cobb Schools Foundation will be hosting our 6th Annual Cobb Homecoming Classic charity golf tournament and our 1st Annual Cobb Homecoming Classic tennis tournament on Monday, September 27 @ Brookstone Country Club in Acworth!  The days events include food, fun, golf or tennis, prizes, mascots, silent auction, Tailgate Dinner Awards party and marching bands!  (Thank you to Kell and Hillgrove High School bands!)  Supt Sanderson and business leaders will be on the course to support our schools!  We invite you to join us!  We still need golfers, tennis players and event sponsors!  Please help us get the word out to your members, schools, parents & friends! Please view the flyers attached to this newsletter email blast or click on the link below for more information (tennis tournament info to be added soon!):
http://cobbschoolsfoundation.org/
Proceeds benefit the Cobb Schools Foundation.  Funds help to provide grants to teachers, college scholarships to graduating seniors, ASP funds for kids in-need and so much more!  Thank you for your help as we work to support Cobb Schools!

 

 

Hat Day is Back at Vaughan

Hat Day is back!

     Vaughan Elementary is so

    excited to support the Rally Foundation this year!  Rally Foundation is an organization that helps raise money for childhood cancer research. 

Every Friday, beginning this Friday, September 10^th, your child can wear a hat for a 50 cent donation that will go directly towards Rally Foundation.  Your child can bring their money to the office before announcements. 

Thank you for helping us support the Rally Foundation!

Jennifer Maxwell

 

Homework ~ Week of 9/6/10

Monday, September 6, 2010

1. No School - Labor Day

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

1. Read and Record - be careful with the dates on the sheet - we changed the dates to reflect the right dates.
2. Math - PW 10 - more practice with estimating and rounding
3. Social Studies - please study for Maps and Globes Quiz on Friday - we went over the three different kinds of maps today (Political, Physical, Raised Relief) -use VENN DIAGRAM to study these three
4. Spelling - please study for test on Thursday - sort 28 - prefixes (dis means not, mis means badly, pre means before)

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

1. Read and Record - be careful with dates on sheet - we changed the logs to reflect the right dates
2. Social Studies - please study all materials sent home and bring back to school tomorrow- we are creating a game tomorrow with out SS unit
3. Study Spelling - Sort 28 from last week - I usually take 7 school days to work on words - Spelling Test Tomorrow - Thursday

Download Unit28 - Spelling list Sort 28

Thursday, September 9, 2010

1. Read and Record -
2. Social Studies - study - Unit Test Tomorrow!!!!
3. Math - Quiz on the Properties of Multiplication - Study Flip Book in takehome binder