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Early Dismissal Days (12:15pm) Coming up in March: Enroll Your Student in Conference Week Camp by Growing Outdoors: 3/1 - 3/4!
We're thrilled to announce that Growing Outdoors,
Brookside's After-school Enrichment provider, will be
running Conference Week Camp! On our early release days (12:15pm), from Tuesday, March 1 through Friday,
March 4, Growing Outdoors will offer fun, activity-based programming from dismissal until 3:00pm. Parents can register their students for 1, 2, 3, or all 4 days. After eating
their home-packed lunch, students will be grouped by grade to participate in games, sports,
arts & crafts, and much more, all with Growing Outdoors signature touch of 21st century skill-
based learning and team building wrapped in fun! For more information, pricing, and online registration visit the Growing Outdoors website: growingoutdoors.com/brookside.
Tile Painting Success! Thank you students, parents and volunteers for making yesterday’s tile
painting extravaganza a day to remember! Special thanks goes to Tas
Sutarwala and Denise Helfstein for chairing the fundraiser and Color Me
Mine of Calabasas for supporting this special event. And, a HUGE ROUND
OF APPLAUSE to middle school student volunteers Elena Yan and Olivia
Dods. You guys were awesome! THANK YOU!
Did You Miss out on Painting a Tile? If you would like to paint a tile but missed out-- there are still a few ties left. LAST CHANCE
tile painting will take place the week of February 8th at the Color Me Mine Studio in
Calabasas. Email [email protected] ASAP if you are interested in purchasing a tile.
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Run Club Starts THIS Wednesday, February 3rd! Run club starts at 7:45 a.m.-8:15 a.m. this coming Wednesday out on the big field. Please have your students wear old running shoes and/or bring a
change of shoes if they wish. Waiver forms for the Run Club are mandatory
for every student and parent participating. Please visit Coach Christa’s original
ParentSquare post below to access the forms: https://www.parentsquare.com/
feeds/134563 You may also turn in the forms via your child’s homework folder
or to the PTA workroom. There will be a box marked "Run Club.”
THIS SATURDAY, 2/6! Don’t Miss OPUSD’s Annual Super Saturday: Sustainability Fair & Recycling Drive at OPHS! SUSTAINABILITY SHOWCASE FROM 10 AM– 2 PM (OPHS Great Lawn)
RECYCLING FROM 9 AM – 2 PM (OPHS parking lot near basketball courts)
LIVE ANIMALS:
Captain Carl’s living tide pool table, Education Through Nature: Live reptiles, arachnids,
insects and a hedgehog! Lavender Wood Farm: Goat to pet, milking and cheese making
demos , 350.org of Conejo: Chickens to pet
BUILDING ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS:
Mini-Solar Cars: Build your own and take it home! Discovery Center’s “Build a Scribble
Machine,” CReATE Studio: “Make a Bug” Recycled Materials Craft Project, Wildflower Seed
UPCOMING EVENTS…
2/1 PTA Science Fair Permission Slips & Jogathon T-shirt Contest Entries Due! 2/1-2/5 Kindergarten Assessments (12:15 p.m. early release for K only) 2/3 2016-17 School Year Sibling Registration 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm in the MPR 2/3 BES PTA Run Club Starts! 2/5 Chinese Culture Night at OPHS Pavilion 7-8:30 p.m. 2/6 OPUSD Super Saturday Sustainability Fair at OPHS from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 2/9 PTA Spirit Stick Sale after School (1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m. & 2:56 p.m.-no sale in January!) 2/12 & 2/15 NO SCHOOL (staff development/Washington’s Birthday) 2/20 PTA Give to Grow Mid-Winter Gala & Auction at the Four Seasons Westlake 6-11pm 2/24 PTA General Association Meeting in the MPR 8:30 a.m. (Present Audit) 2/29 GREAT RACE Registration Deadline: Designate Brookside!
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Cluster Creations
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Beneficial Bugs Q & A, Honeylove Beekeeping, Plug-In America: Test drives of the newest
electric cars, Pedego101 electric bicycle test-drives (age 12-18 need a parent’s signature),
Poison Free Malibu: Rodenticide Education, Triunfo Sanitation: Water–wise strategies and
giveaways, Enhanced Landscape Management: Drought tolerant landscaping, School
Gardens Veggie Contest and Sale, OPHS & MCMS Student Sustainable Art Showcase and
Contest, Gourmet lunch for purchase from JOI Cafe , and DJ
RECYCLING FROM 9 AM – 2 PM (OPHS parking lot near basketball courts)
Help fund district-wide environmental education when you bring: Electronics (anything with a
plug), batteries, NO LIGHTBULBS, On-site paper shredding (first 3 boxes per car free, $5/box
thereafter), Clothing / Shoes / Textiles, Green Hippo: ink/toner cartridges, small electronics
(phones, cameras, tablets), Expired/Unwanted Medications and Liquids, Prescription
eyeglasses and eyeglass cases, CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes and cases. CLICK HERE for details about
what is recyclable. VISIT http://www.oakparkusd.org/SUPERSATURDAY for the latest
information.
Sponsored by OPUSD’s Environmental Education and Awareness Committee
PTA Science Fair Permission Forms Due 2/1! If you are interested in having your student participate in our
8th Annual Brookside PTA Science Fair, make sure to view all
of our guidelines and documents and print your permission
forms HERE! All participants MUST turn in their permission forms BY February 1st so that display boards
can be ordered in time. If you are committing to participate, please add yourself to our ParentSquare group at: https://www.parentsquare.com/groups/3155/users
The Brookside PTA is pleased to provide display boards to all committed participants with completed forms turned in. In addition to having their projects on display on March
8th in the MPR where their classmates can come through, the projects will remain on display
at that evening's Family Science Night in the MPR. Please note, unlike in previous years, there will be NO informational workshop this year. All the guidelines are contained in the
documents located on our webpage HERE. If you have further questions please contact Eva
Larson, our Science Fair chair at [email protected].
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Jog-a-Thon T-Shirt Contest! Entries Due By 2/1! CALLING ALL BROOKSIDE TIGER ARTISTS!
The Brookside PTA’s Jog-A-Thon is March 11th and we have a T-shirt that needs original
artwork! Any Brookside student who wants to participate just needs to draw Stripes (our
school mascot) or their idea of Brookside on the “Road to Fitness.” The winning design will
be placed on every Jog-A-Thon T-shirt (that’s over 600 T-shirts)! Deadline for entries is February 1st-no exceptions! If your child would like to enter the contest, click HERE for
rules and more detailed instructions. Got any questions? E-mail PTA Jogathon T-Shirt Chair Jennifer Burstein at [email protected]
Calling All Business & Families! Jog-a-Thon T-Shirt Business Sponsorships & Banners Along the Great Race Route Would you like to see your business logo on the back of over 600 Brookside Jogathon T-shirts and on a banner hung on the Great Race of Agoura route? Download our form
HERE, and contact our PTA Jogathon Sponsorship Chair, Monica Chizzo at
[email protected] , to reserve your T-shirt logo and banner today!
SPOTS ARE GOING FAST! SIGN-UP FOR THE GREAT RACE & DESIGNATE BROOKSIDE! Thank You to the 103 Brookside Registrants We Already Have! THANK YOU to all of our Brookside families who have registered and designated Brookside as their affiliate! Don’t delay! Sign-up now for the
annual community event, Great Race of Agoura Hills & earn for Brookside! The Great Race of Agoura
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Hills is Saturday, March 19, 2016. All you have to do is go to http://greatrace.run by
February 29, 2016 and register yourself, your spouse, and/or your children and designate
BROOKSIDE under the “affiliation or school” selection tab in order for Brookside to get credit!
Brookside PTA will earn $5 for every person who registers for the race. If we have 200 runners
that increases to $7.50 per runner.
*IMPORTANT NOTE: In order for Brookside to get credit for your registration, you must designate "Brookside" under the "affiliation or school" selection tab. This tab is located on the
participation information section of your registration just under the tab where you select your T-shirt
size. If you have already registered for the Great Race but did NOT designate Brookside, please go
back and edit your registration through imathlete.com registration engine.
Odyssey of the Mind Judge Needed! One of our awesome Brookside Odyssey of the Mind teams needs to find a judge! Are you 18
or older? Interested in learning more about Odyssey of the Mind? Volunteering to be a judge
is a great way to learn. No previous experience required, as you will be trained on February
20th at San Marino High school. You will get an Official t-shirt, a little background on the
program, and all the necessary tools and information to be an effective judge. You will judge
on tournament day, February 27th, at San Marino High School and it will be a fun experience
for students and grown-ups alike. Oak Park teams have spent months preparing for this day,
and you're sure to see some amazing things. Come with an open mind and appreciation for
the work they've done and have FUN! If you are
interested in volunteering please email Principal Ahl:
Give to Grow Mid-Winter Gala & Auction: SOLD OUT! Online Items Go Live on 2/12! www.biddingforgood.com/BESGALA
We would like to thank all of the wonderful Brookside Parents who have helped us by donating Auction items. We can always use more because every dollar spent on an item goes back to our school. If you think you may have something to donate,
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please email Lolly Parker at [email protected]
And of course, none of this would be possible without the
support of our generous Sponsors
EMERALD TABLE SPONSORS Johnson Aviation, Mark & Maria Cross, Mohammed Elbanna & Rania Abdellatef, Todd &
Denise Helfstein, David & Eliza Parker, and Gary & Tina Wang.
CORPORATE SPONSORS
Deborah Fagan of
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
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TIGER SHOUT OUTS!
Tigers Celebrated 100 Days of School! Last week our classrooms celebrated 100 Days of School in various ways, and some of our
teachers got in on the fun! Can you guess which awesome K-teachers below went through the
time machine and aged themselves 100 years?
Thank You to Our AWESOME Yearbook Chairs! Ever wonder where all of our fantastic photos and Kids with Character group shots come
from? Look no further than our fantastic Brookside PTA parent VOLUNTEER Yearbook Co-Chairs, Stephanie Boggs & Karen Pemberton who have been working so hard all year
round capturing photos at every one of our events! THANK YOU to these incredible parent
volunteers for the amount of time they are spending putting together our wonderful yearbook
and for going above and beyond in showing up at school to ensure coverage of all things
Brookside!!!
Music Van Success! Last week the “Music Van” visited Brookside 3rd and 5th grade students. The Music Van is a
nationally acclaimed program made possible by the New West Symphony and Erin Boscovich
(aka the “Music Van Lady”). Our students were able to have a “hands on” experience with
orchestral instruments. The Brookside PTA would like to thank our Music Van Chairperson Stuart Forman. Without Stuart, our students would not have had this wonderful opportunity.
Special thank you also goes to Virginia Standring for helping the PTA coordinate this
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event and Jill Duim and Amanda Benjamin for working
with students during the program. Thank you Yearbook Co-Chairperson Karen Pemberton for taking so many
wonderful pictures! This program also would not have been
possible without parent volunteers who took time from their
busy schedules to supervise students. Thank you: Ty Avendano, Nicole Baumann, Nilesh Bhatti, Kerrie Bjerkaas, Michele Blum, Leslie Broberg, Maria Cross, Joe DeCastro, Wendy Diaz, Shawna Driggs, Dominique Berger, Tim Fontenette, Sue Fulcher, Carey Fried, Lauria Gallagher, Denise Helfstein, Brian Huber, Michal Keidar, Rian Li, Lia Linn, Prema Mathur, Ray Meek, Annapurna Nori , Rachel Oakes, Eliza Parker, Brenda Panameno, Jennifer Richter, Shaina Rosenfeld, Alison Ross, Tatiana Rubio, Ray Sahagun, Sandy Sanil, Natalie Shafran, Bonnie Shoden, Andrew Simon, and Cynthia Snyder. You
guys rock!
Brookside Represents at Mathnasium’s 5th Annual TriMathlon! Several of our Brookside Tigers participated in Mathnasium’s 5th Annual TriMathlon
held on October 18th at their Thousand Oaks location and earned a donation for
Brookside! Kudos to Mathnasium and the following students:
Grade 2: Jonathan Lin, Ian Morrison, Darwin Goldstein, Caitlyn DePrano
Grade 4: Aiden DePrano (won the silver medal in his grade level)
Grade 5: Adithya Karthikeyan, Shreya Narayanan
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The TriMathlon is a free and fun-filled annual math event held at many of the 645
Mathnasium locations nationwide, where students participate in three exciting math
challenges – The Counting Game, Magic Squares, and Mental Math Workout.
Designed to build students’ excitement about math, the TriMathlon focuses on:
• Empowering kids through math
• Supporting local schools
• Highlighting the success of kids in our community
OAK PARK COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
2/5- Chinese Culture Night: 7-8:30 p.m. at OPHS! Come to OPHS Pavilion and experience demonstrations by students from Medea Creek
Middle School, Brookside, Oak Hills, and Red Oak! Chinese food will be available for
purchase that evening as well!