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Sneak-A-Peek & Open House
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
9:00-9:20 Sneak-a-Peek for Grades K-2, parents and students visit
classrooms
9:20-9:30 Student drop off to selected areas prior to Open House
9:30-10:10 Open House for Grades K-2
10:15-10:45 K-5 Cafeteria All Grades K-5th
PTA Memberships, Foundation Donations, Spirit Wear, Prepay for Lunches,
ASP & ASP Clubs, Girl Scout information, Bus Routes
You may also visit Target and ESOL Classrooms at this time
10:45-11:05 Sneak-a-Peek for Grades 3-5, parents and students visit
classrooms
11:05-11:15 Student drop off to selected areas prior to Open House
11:15-11:55 Open House for Grades 3-5
Chalker's Fastest 5th Graders
Congratulations to Jasmine Robinson and Jace Caldwell!
Jasmine won the girls 100M race.
3/12/2019
Chalker's Odyssey of the Mind Teams
Advance to State Finals
Odyssey of the Mind problems challenge students to go beyond
conventional thinking and incorporate creative problem solving in
learning. Chalker was the only Cobb County School to have 5 teams
represented at the regional tournament. We are also the only
elementary school to have 4 teams advancing to State Finals on April
13th! Congratulations and way to go!
2/26/2019
Beginning Monday, March 4th, parents may
begin using a new app to track when their child's bus will arrive at
their stop. Please see directions and the video below on how to
access this new app.
Sign Up Instructions for Parents:
-
Download Here
Comes the Bus app or visit herecomesthebus.com
- Click the "Sign Up" button
- Enter school code 87881 and click
"Next" followed by "Confirm"
- Complete the "User Profile" box
- Under "My Students" click "Add."
Enter your child's last name and student ID number
- Once you confirm your information,
you're ready to begin
3/1/2019
12/17/2018
Chalker's Spelling Bee Winners
Congratulations to each of our students who
competed in last Friday's spelling bee competition. Rhyanna Watkins
will serve as Chalker's spelling bee champion and compete at the county
level.
12/7/2018
11/6/2018
10/1/2018
Classified Employee of the Year Luncheon
Congratulations again to our Classified Employee
of the Year, Karen Manoussos! Mrs. Manoussos was recently recognized at the
county's annual luncheon. Thank you Mrs. Manoussos for everything
you do to support our students here at Chalker.
8/13/2018
Thank You Active Life Chiropractic, Partner in Education
Chalker's staff is very appreciative of all of our partners in
education. Last Friday, Dr. Stone of Active Life Chiropractic
treated Chalker's staff with several delicious breakfast choice items!
Thank you Dr. Stone!
Dr. Stone's office is located at 4390 Bells Ferry Road, Kennesaw, GA
30114. Please support our partners in education.
www.ActiveLifeChiropractor.com
Meet the new
ASP Director, Kera Mayes
Cobb
County Bus Routes
On-Line Meal Applications
2018-2019 Teacher of the Year
Tamara Bearden
2018-2019 Classified Employee of the Year
Karen Manoussos
Flu Information
Good News: Office 365 for all students
All CCSD students (K-12) will have access to the
Office 365 digital tools suite unless a parent previously opted out last
year. If a parent wants to confirm student access and/or ascertain
their student's Office 365 username, they can locate this information
via ParentVUE
(https://parentvue.cobbk12.org/)
Communication with parents will be as follows:
1. The "all parents.pdf" message will be sent to parents who
previously consented or provided no response to the consent emails last
school year. See attachement below.
2. The "Opt-Out Parnets. pdf" message will be sent to the small
number of parents who previously opted out last school year, giving them
information on how to opt-in. See attachement below.
3. Parents will no longer receive monthly emails
requesting they provide a consent option.
4. Schools will no longer need to send the
consent email to their parents.
Download All Parents Letter
Download Opt-Out Parents Letter
Office 365 Support Page for Parents
Donate to the
Chalker Foundation in order to “Save the Stem Lab”
Chalker
Foundation Donations
Chalker
Foundation Blog
Thank You, Vulcan!!
Chalker Elementary would like to THANK Vulcan Materials Company for their financial support. We appreciate your donation to our STEM Lab.
Thank you for being such a gracious Partner In Education, supporting our local school programing.
School Council Representative Information Letter
Seeking professional, safety-minded individuals for
School Bus Drivers!
Starting rate is $17.50/hour
Apply online: www.ccsdbusdriver.com
Registering New Students at Chalker
Registration is handled between 8:00 am and 11:30 am each day.
For your convenience, you may make an appointment to register
your child. If you arrive after 11:30 am, we will be glad to
give you a registration packet to take home with you.
Class placement will depend on the information that the
enrolling adult provides and information from the previous
school. Once all the pertinent information is received, we
can place your child in a classroom.
Thank you for your help with the registration process.
Clinic Substitutes
Licenced Clinic Substitutes needed, $18.40 hourly rate.
Apply online at www.cobbk12.org
Student Birthday Celebrations
Parents,
Thank you for taking the time to review the following school policy which can be found in the Chalker Parent / Student Handbook.
For children’s birthdays, treats may be brought during lunch time only, for the teacher to distribute to the students. We are
promoting a more health conscience approach to birthday treats and ask that you consider bringing mini cupcakes or something
more nutritious. Please do not bring party favors, balloons, etc. to the classrooms as this can interrupt valuable
instructional time.
Please coordinate all birthday treats beforehand with the classroom teacher so we can address any
student allergies.
We appreciate your support of this policy as we want to work
with you so that all students can participate in these special
treat days.
Thank you!
Chalker PTA
Support Chalker..... join PTA, please click on the link
above to join PTA, find info about the PTA officers, Chalker
Chatter, fundraisers, food nights after school activities,
special events and much more.
Performing Arts
Do you remember donating money and signing permission slips for Cobb County Performing Arts?
All the donations go to the county; they pay for 2nd and 5th grade field trips,
and then send the rest back to the school.
These programs were a huge hit with all the students, so please consider donating to this fund, click
here for more information and to download a
permission slip and the donation form.
Here are some of the upcoming Performing Arts programs. Some are sponsored by Chalker PTA and some are paid with Performing Arts donations.
3rd Grade (PA) - Holly Stephens: Laura Ingalls
K-5th Grade (PTA) - Laughing Matters Improv
2nd Grade (PA) - Ballet (Field Trip)
K and 1st Grade (PA) - Wendy Bennett: Sing!
4th Grade (PA) - Sherry Norfolk: Spine Tinglers
K-5th Grade (PA) - Atlanta Opera: "Stone Soup"
5th Grade (PTA) - GA Ensemble Theatre
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Did you know that State Child Protective Services has a
policy regarding lack of adequate supervision for children?
State Policy states
that children, ages 13 and above, can act as babysitters for
other children. Children, ages 9 – 12, can occasionally be
left unsupervised for brief periods of time. Children 8
years old and younger should never be left home alone.
Of course, a specific child’s immaturity and behavior
may necessitate adult supervision.