Go Be Awesome
October 18, 2019
Important Dates to Remember
October 20: Monster Dash, Fun Run @ 2:00 p.m. & 5K @ 2:20 p.m.
October 20: Tent or Treat, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
October 21 - 25: School Bus Safety/Appreciation Week
October 23 & 24: Early Release Day/Parent Conferences -
Early Release Day-Students Dismissed at 11:50 a.m.
October 23: Family Connect Night
October 25: Professional Development Day - NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS
October 31: Passion First Day
November 3: Daylight Savings Time Ends (Fall Back 1 hour)
November 6: Spirit Night at Chick-fil-A, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
November 8: Heritage Night, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
November 11: Veteran's Day Assembly
November 11 - 15: Scholastic Book Fair
November 13: World Kindness Day
November 13: Family Connect Night
November 14: Family Night at the Book Fair, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
November 18: National Take a Hike Day
November 25 - 29: Thanksgiving Break - NO SCHOOL
Special Schedule October 21-25
October 22: A
October 23: B Early Release Day
October 24: B Early Release Day
October 25: No School
This Month's Mindset is... We Are Connected
- Embrace Everyone
- Maximize Positive Relationships
- Build Your Dream Team
- Lead With Value
Monster Dash - Sunday, October 20
MONSTER DASH is THIS Sunday, October 20!!! The Fun Run will begin at 2:00 p.m. and the 5K will start at 2:20 p.m.. The Fun Run is FREE and does not include a t-Shirt. Registration for the 5K is $25 per person/runner and includes a guaranteed t-shirt for all 5K participants who registered by Friday, September 27. For more information, please click this link to access the Monster Dash flyer: http://brookwoodpto.digitalpto.com/files/2019/08/2019-Monster-Dash-Flyer.pdf If you have not registered, you may do so the day of the race, but please remember that the deadline for t-shirts has passed. We will accept cash, check and charge the day of the race. A note about the weather: We will run rain or shine! A delay/call-off would only occur if storming and/or unsafe!! Best of luck, Bobcats!!!
Tent-Or-Treat
Our very first Tent-Or-Treat event is THIS Sunday, October 20, following the Monster Dash, from 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.!!!! This is a FREE PTO event! Students will wear their costumes and Trick-Or-Treat around a variety of decorated tents with fun and tasty treats! Allergy-friendly options will be available! To sign-up to sponsor a tent, or to access the Tent-Or-Treat sign-ups, please follow this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050b49aca82babf49-brookwood1 We look forward to seeing our Bobcats Trick-Or-Treat with their classmates during this fun Fall weekend! A note about the weather: Should the weather not be in our favor, we will relocate to the gym for this event.
Bus Driver Appreciation Week
Bus Driver Appreciation Week
October 21 - 25
Don't forget to thank your child's bus driver for all they do for our children
Safety Week
October 28 - November 1
"Send a Message. Stay Drug Free"
Monday: Tech Safety. “The screens so bright you gotta wear shades”
Wear your favorite sunglasses
Tuesday: Drug Safety. “Red Ribbon Day”
Wear your red
Wednesday: Crazy for Safety!
Wear your crazy socks and celebrate safety!
Thursday: Passions are Healthy-Dress up as your passion!
Dress to represent a passion you have.
Friday: Stranger Danger. “Stick with a Buddy”
Buddy up with friends, and wear your favorite team shirt or spirit wear
Heritage Night
Heritage Night (previously known as Cultural Night) will be held on November 8, 2019 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.. We look forward to working with our Brookwood families to make this a fun and educational evening. Specific details regarding this event, including sign-up opportunities can be seen by clicking the link below:
http://brookwoodpto.digitalpto.com/files/2019/08/2019-Heritage-Night-Flyer.pdf
We are so encouraged, and excited, by the many volunteer reservations we received, and look forward to a wonderful event!
Spirit Wear Fridays Volunteers Needed
Looking for a fun and easy volunteer opportunity? The PTO needs help handing out prizes on Spirit Wear Fridays once per month. It takes only 30-40 minutes and you'll be done by the time school starts! Sign up here -- https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090544a5ab2ea02-spirit1. Please contact danapedro.brookwoodpto@gmail.com if you have any questions. For a complete list of dates for Spirit Wear Fridays, please click on the flyer: http://brookwoodpto.digitalpto.com/files/2019/08/Spirit-Wear-Fridays-2019.pdf
Spirit Wear
Scholastic Book Fair
Mark your calendars! PTO's Fall Book Fair will be the week of Monday, November 11 - Friday, November 15, and will include a Family Night at the Book Fair on Thursday, November 14 from 5:00 -7:00 p.m.. More details to come after the Monster Dash & Tent-Or-Treat! Parents, be on the lookout for a sign-up, coming soon, to coordinate our much needed parent volunteers for the Book Fair!
The Place Holiday House - A Place of Joy
In a few short months, the air will be filled with smells of the holidays and the atmosphere will carry feelings of merriment, good wishes, and joy. For many in the Forsyth County area, however, the Holiday season is met with stress, fear, and sadness. As these parents work to make it day-to-day, Christmas morning is simply an expense they cannot afford.
Last year, The Place Holiday House helped these parents provide Christmas joy for over 2,000 children. We hope you'll let The Place Holiday House be your PURPOSE this holiday season. To see what you can do to help, simply click https://bit.ly/2qmSmqr
2019-2020 Brookwood Yearbooks
Update - As soon as our vendor has completed some necessary updates to our Brookwood PTO webpage... stay tuned! The price of the yearbooks will increase to $35 this year to help support the cost of adding in an additional 8 pages to the yearbook. Our yearbook club will continue to design and create the yearbook under the guidance of Ms. Paluzzi. 5th-grade ads will be available at a later date and information will come home, after the new year, regarding this process.
Screenagers
Save the Date
Screenagers
January 15 ! 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Lambert HS Cafteria
We are thrilled to present SCREENAGERS: Growing Up in the Digital Age, a documentary about the biggest parenting issue of our time.
Are you watching kids scroll through life, with their rapid-fire thumbs and a six-second attention span? Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston saw that happening with her own kids and began a quest to uncover how it might impact their development. As with her other two award-winning documentaries on mental health, Ruston takes a deeply personal approach as she probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including her own, to explore struggles over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Through poignant, and unexpectedly funny stories, along with surprising insights from authors, psychologists, and brain scientists, SCREENAGERS reveals how tech time impacts kids’ development and also offers solutions on how adults can empower their kids to best navigate the digital world to find balance.
SCREENAGERS addresses the most pervasive parenting issue of our time head on—depicting teen struggles over social media, video games and internet addiction. The film empowers kids to best navigate the digital world and provides practical resources to help them do it.
Family Connect Nights!
Brookwood works with our middle and high school feeder schools to have a combined Family Connect Night once a month. This night is designed to put down homework and connect as a family. Some great ideas are to try something new, cook dinner together, have a puzzle night, game night, go for a walk or anything where you change up your routine and be in the moment! Be on the lookout for how we will post pics of your awesome Family Night!
October 23
November 13
December 4
January 22
February 19
March 11
April 15
May 6
DENMARK HIGH SCHOOL HOSTS
Wellness and Meditation Festival
Partners in Education
Starbucks
Crazy Cakes Bakery
Card My Yard
Target Johns Creek
Young Chefs Academy
Jersey Mikes
DaVinci's Donuts
Tropical Smoothie Cafe
Zoe's Kitchen
Publix Flynn Crossing
Dutch Monkey Donuts
$250 Partners:
N-Step Dance Academy
Mangia
Automotive Detail
Rosati's Pizza
Five Guys
Culvers
$500 Partners:
DOJO
Stars and Strikes
$1,000 Partners
Green Feet Lawncare
Karate Atlanta
Aurora Cineplex and Fringe Mini Golf
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