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November 16 Progress Reports go home with students in 1st-6th grades
November 21-23 Thanksgiving Holidays—No school on these 3 days
November 26-December 1 Book Fair
November 26 FLE Materials Preview for Parents, 6-7pm, Tech Lab
November 28 Make-up Picture Day
November 28 PTA Meeting, 7:15pm
November 30 PTA-sponsored “Donuts with Dudettes,” 8:30-8:55am, Camelot cafeteria
November 30 PTA Fun Run Pledge Donations due
December 4 Group and Club Pictures for the Yearbook
December 5 AAP Parent Meeting about Level IV Referrals, 7:00pm, Camelot library
December 14 3-hour early release. No DHH Preschool. Head Start and K-6 dismissed at 12:50pm
December 24-January 4 Winter Break (School resumes on Monday January 7)
The Positivity Project (P2) character strength for this week and next is GRATITUDE. Gratitude is described by P2 as follows: You are aware of and thankful for good things that happen. For more information, see the Gratitude card, or any other character strength card at https://camelotes.fcps.edu/node/1945.
FCPS Employee Awards. It is FCPS Employee Awards season! We invite the community to nominate Camelot teachers and staff members in a variety of categories. All you have to do is complete and submit a Google form for each staff member you wish to nominate: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SB6RjalavpU-GTbKWRhLnxRrtQW857OH5FAtOgrpBSg/edit?usp=sharing. The nominations are due today (or tomorrow!)
Book Fair. The Book Fair is coming to Camelot during the week of November 26-December 1. Extended hours will be held on the following dates: Monday, November 26 until 7pm, Wednesday, November 28 until 7pm, Friday, November 30 open at 8am. If you would like to volunteer to help our librarian, Mrs. Vickers, at the Book Fair, please use the sign up genius, or contact her directly at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/409094AA8A823A4F49-camelot1
FLE Parent Preview. Earlier this year, we sent home opt-out forms for the Family Life Education (FLE) K-6 curriculum (which includes Emotional and Social Health for grades K-6, and Human Growth and Development for grades 4-6). For more information about the FCPS FLE program, please see the detailed grade-level program descriptions at https://www.fcps.edu/academics/elementary-family-life-education-fle. In addition, grade level-specific curriculum lessons are available for review online in FCPS 24-7 (Blackboard) Parent View. This includes lessons and media titles that FCPS has streaming rights for. Any additional media or book titles that are not streamed are available in our school library. Parents/guardians will need a SIS account to access FCPS 24-7 https://fcps.blackboard.com/https://www.fcps.edu/resources/technology/fcps-24-7-learning. Parents/guardians are also invited to preview materials at school on Monday, November 26 between 6-7pm.
Level IV AAP Referrals. Save the date—On December 5, from 7-8pm, Karen Mitchell, our Advanced Academics Resource Teacher will host a session for parents on the topic of referring students for the highest level of Advanced Academic Program service. Level IV service is offered to students in grades 3-6. Parent Referrals for Level IV screening are due to Camelot no later than January 10, 2019.
Fun Run Pledge Donations Due November 30. Over 600 Camelot students ran superlaps last month and completed thousands of miles to help support their school. Now it's time to collect pledge money to make the Fun Run a success! Students can be entered to win prizes and the top class wins a party. A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped make the run successful and fun! Please contact Molly Southworth with questions at molly.south24@gmail.com.
Thank again to our event sponsors: Silver Diner, Tiber Creek Partners, Benaji Pediatric Dental Specialists, Milkworthy and Chick Fil A.
PTA Meeting; Save the date November 28. If you missed this week’s PTA meeting, you can review the October PTA Meeting Minutes. Please save the date for Nov 28th for our next meeting. This meeting will include a presentation on testing at Camelot: What tests are given in FCPS and why; what the school does with the testing data; and more.
School Directory. Our AtoZ Camelot school directory with this year’s information is almost complete. Emails to verify and add your contact info to your listing will be sent out this week. Please keep your eye out for the email from Camelot@atozconnect.com
Shop through AmazonSmile to earn Money for CES. Support our school by shopping at Amazon through the Amazon Smile system. All your info is carried over so it’s just a matter of going through the Amazon Smile URL. Simply go to https://smile.amazon.com/ click on “Supporting”, search for “Camelot Elementary School PTA”.
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