June 1, 2011 - Weekly News Flash
Table of Contents:
- Yearbook Orders
- Eat for Autism
- Attention 5th Grade Parents
- Help with the Digital Divide
- Library Books Due June 3rd
- Field Day - June 3rd
- Thank you Wednesday Packet Volunteers
- Clip those Box Tops!
- Rockville Hosts Community Forum about Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance
Due to an overwhelming amount of late yearbook orders, the yearbook distribution date has changed. Yearbooks ordered prior to Spring Break will be distributed on Monday, June 13th. Also, best efforts will be made to distribute yearbooks to all 5th grade students who ordered yearbooks, including those who ordered books in May. Kindergarten through fourth grade students who ordered yearbooks after Spring Break, may not receive these books prior to the last day of school. We have placed a second order for yearbooks but the published cannot guarantee delivery prior to June 16th.
Late Orders: If you ordered your year book after April 26th, you book may not be here until after school has been dismissed for the year. You will receive an email notifying you that your book is available for pick up in the CGES Main Office. Please send an email to caroline@conwayz.com with your students’ name, grade, homeroom teacher & email address at which you want to be notified. If you would like to cancel your order and request a refund, you may do so until Friday, June 3rd.
If you have not ordered a book but would still like one, you may send $25 check along with your student information to school by Thursday, June 2nd. NO orders will be accepted after June 2nd. There will be NO EXCEPTIONS.
If you have any questions, please email Caroline Conway at: caroline@conwayz.com with questions.
**AUTISM affects 1 in 110 children, 1 in 70 boys. Please help us find a cure!**
You can help raise money for Autism Speaks by going out to eat—it’s that simple!
Please join us Thursday, June 9th from 4pm – 10pm at Hard Times Café and/or Carmen’s Italian Ice in Rockville. 10% of your bill will go directly to Autism Speaks!
GRADE 5 PORTFOLIO PICNIC:
Parents of fifth grade students are invited to attend the portfolio picnic on Monday, June 13, 2011, at 11:00 in the morning. Please be sure to return a signed flyer to your child's homeroom teacher so that all students have an adult to share years of learning with over lunch. Families are encouraged to pack a lunch and bring a blanket to sit outside together. For further questions, contact Mr. Dushel, IB Coordinator, via email.
PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAMME EXHIBITION:
Join us on Thursday, June 9, 2011, at 7:00PM in the all purpose room for our annual Exhibition. Come and experience the PYP in action as student groups present on topics including global diseases, water deficits, pollution, renewable energy, the digital divide, and more! Learn how our students gained knowledge and be inspired to make a difference in our world during this culminating experience of the programme. The fifth grade students look forward to having your attendance and support.
Save the Date for the Moving On Ceremony and Celebration!!
On Wednesday June 15th, the ceremony starts at 9:30 in the morning in the All Purpose Room and the celebration follows at Woodley Gardens Swim Club. Please see the attached PDF for more details. Please consider volunteering! If you can help out with chaperoning, helping with the day’s events and/or donating drinks (water/juice), fruits, vegetables and snack foods, please contact Tonya Davis tonyadavis@comcast.net or 301-840-4119.
Hello my name is Raquel Burnham and for our exhibition project I am studying the digital divide. We are facilitating a fundraiser to collect old cell phones. This will help with the digital divide. Oh, and if you were wondering what digital divide is then it’s the problem of not having enough digital appliance to share with the world. This fundraiser is helping out with the hopephones.org mission. For more information go on hopephones.org there are no spaces in the website’s title. Well labeled boxes will be in our main lobby area to receive used cell phones for donation June 2 - June 9 for the Hope Phone Organization.
Thank you for listening and helping us out with this great mission. Have a great evening!
All Media Center books are due back to the Media Center this Friday June 3rd. Please check with your child that they have returned their Media Center books. Overdue notices will be sent home this week (they include the price of the book if it has been lost). All books must be returned or paid for by the last day of school or your child will not receive their report card.
An exciting Field Day has been planned for College Gardens Elementary School students. The events will be held on June 3rd with this year’s theme being “2011 College Gardens Olympics.” To make this the most successful of days, we will need plenty of volunteers to facilitate station activities.
Important things to remember:
- Students will eat a bag lunch 12:00 – 1:00.
- Students will be dismissed at the normal time.
- Parents should communicate with the classroom teacher and the main office of any changes in your child’s schedule.
- Students are encouraged to bring a water bottle.
- Sunblock should be applied before arriving to school.
- Students are encouraged to wear his or her grade level spirit wear color (tee
shirt) Spirit wear tee shirt colors Grade Level:
- navy blue Head start
- yellow Kindergarten
- red First Graders
- white Second Graders
- light blue Third Graders
- lime green Fourth Graders
- gray or 5th grade t-shirts Fifth Graders
Please seriously consider volunteering at this year’s field day. For additional information please contact Mrs. Moore by telephone at 301-279-8470 or by email at Jennell_Moore@mcpsmd.org.or email at the following link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NU5dSiewyP0Pk5TP5QRkKhavAX_yHgAGS3va71dPFLI/edit?hl=en&authkey=CLPjifgI
Thank you Wednesday Packet Volunteers
The PTA and Staff of CGES would like to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to volunteers who work practically every Wednesday to ensure that flyers are distributed to students in a timely manner with minimal classroom disruption. There were many volunteers over the year and we appreciate your time. Several volunteers gave their time more regularly and a special thanks goes out to: Kathy Rosier, Christine Hutchinson, Karen Hagan, Carrie Arizpe, and of course the Wednesday Packet Coordinator, Rachel Navarro.
Thank you for serving our students, our school and our community!
Continue to help your school earn easy money by clipping Box Tops for Education. College Gardens receives 10 cents for every box top we turn in for this program, and so far we have earned over $1000 this school year! Thanks to everyone who helped us achieve this big goal!
There is a complete listing of box tops products on the PTA website or you can visit www.boxtops4education.com. The program includes products like Ziploc bags, Cheerios, El Paso taco products, Hamburger Helper, Hefty products, Gogurt, Pillsbury & the list goes on. You can also register with this website and learn of other no cost ways to raise funds for College Gardens.
Bring in any non-expired box tops to school before the end of the year. (The box top is just the small rectangle that says “Box Tops” – not the entire top of the box.) Also, continue to clip and save your box tops over the summer. Ask your friends and family to help save their box tops too. There will be a Box Tops container in each classroom for students to turn in their box tops. Thanks for your support!
Rockville Hosts Community Forum about Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance
Rockville, Md., May 19, 2011- A public forum that will allow Rockville residents, business owners and others to share their views on the City's current Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (APFO) and standards will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 2, at City Hall, 111 Maryland Avenue. The forum will be held by the APFO Advisory Committee, appointed by the City's Planning Commission in December 2010.
Anyone wishing to speak at the public forum should call 240-314-8200 before 4 p.m. June 2 to have their name included on a speakers' list. Speakers on the list will be called in the order listed, to be followed by speakers not on the list.
Written testimony will also be accepted until 5 p.m. Friday, June 17. Send comments to City of Rockville, Department of Community Planning and Development Services, 111 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850. Please address comments to the attention of Chief of Planning. Comments may also be sent via email to apfo.committee@rockvillemd.gov.
The Planning Commission appointed the advisory committee, consisting of residents and business representatives, to review the City's APFO, including the associated Adequate Public Facilities Standards (APFS). The goal for the committee is to determine whether the City's needs are being met by the current ordinance and standards, and to recommend changes.
An APFO is designed to assure that public schools, roads, sewer and water service, and fire and emergency response are adequate to support proposed new development.
APFOs can be timing devices that can help to manage growth in a particular area. An APFO allows a municipality to time development to coincide with when public facilities are or will be available.
Montgomery County's APFO addresses schools and transportation and has been in place since 1973. In Rockville, the APFO and the companion APFS were adopted by the Mayor and Council in 2005 as part of the City's Zoning Ordinance.
The committee is expected to give recommendations in July to the Planning Commission about the APFO and APFS.
To learn more about the advisory committee or the APFO and APFS, go to www.rockvillemd.gov/government/commissions/pc/apfocommittee or call Jim Wasilak or Deane Mellander at 240-314-8200.