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November 21st, 22nd and 23rd Student Holiday, No School
November 28th Chick-Fil-A night
November 29th - Level 4 AAP referral and PYP information night 6 pm
November 30th - FECEP parent meeting 9:30 am
December 7th Movie Night
December 8th 2nd Zumbathon 4-6 pm
December 11th- Family Science Night 6-8 pm
December 14th 3 Hour Early dismissal
December 24th - January 6th - Student Holiday, No School
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 While our understanding of best practices in mathematics has shifted, change can be difficult! It can be frustrating for families when they are trying to help their student with math and the strategies they know are different from “the old way”. For years, we learned math on a surface level through timed tests and drilled worksheets that emphasized fast math, memorization, and procedures. For many, the fear and anxiety that we felt as children created negative perceptions of math. Luckily, we have calculators at our fingertips that can do the fast math and procedures for us. What was traditionally absent from mathematics instruction were opportunities for reasoning and sense making. Reasoning is the process of using critical thinking skills and sense making is the process of developing deep understanding of a concept. Students who use reasoning and sense making, rather than memorization, can be flexible in their thinking. They make sense of mathematical ideas and apply their thinking to unfamiliar and non-routine mathematical problems. More importantly, these students believe in their ability as they persist through cognitively challenging tasks.
So how can we build reasoning and sense making at home? The answer: problem solving. Problem solving begins with inquiry and continues with purposeful guidance on how to support thinking as students construct understanding. The focus is on the process of understanding rather than the solution (Remember: we have calculators for that). The following examples are rich math tasks that encourage problem solving:
*Robbie earns five dollars for every dog he walks. He would like to buy a bike that costs $35. How many dogs does he need to walk to buy his bike? Use pictures, numbers or words to explain your thinking.
*Mrs. Hock has 24 students in her class. She wants them to sit in equal groups. What are 3 different ways the students could group themselves?
*Mo, Rachel, and Brian ran for five minutes. Mo ran ½ of a mile, Rachel ran 0.4 of a mile, and Brian ran 0.75 of a mile. Who ran the farthest? Use pictures, numbers or words to explain your thinking.
Here are some great websites for problem solving tasks: https://mathbeforebed.com/, https://gregtangmath.com/, and https://nrich.maths.org/9122.
Written by, Sheri Kiley and Karen Schmidt, Dogwood Math Teachers
 If you missed it the first time, brought back by popular demand, we will have a Zumbathon on December 8th at 4 to 6 pm, don't miss it a second time!
 This holiday season, the best gift you can give your child is a good education. And the best place to get an education is in school. It’s tempting to extend your vacation by a few days, but remember, those days count as absences. Just a few missed days here and there, even if they’re excused absences, can add up to too much lost learning time. So make sure your child is in school every day, right up until vacation starts. Our teachers will be teaching, and our students will be learning.
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 As inquirers, you are often wondering. We are excited to offer an opportunity for you to search for answers to a wondering and share your findings with the Dogwood community.
Wonderfest is being aligned with Dogwood’s Family Science Night, as it will be an evening of discovery! To participate in
Wonderfest, complete the registration form distributed by classroom teachers and available outside of the main office.
Each participant who registers by November 30th will receive a tri-fold project board. All projects will need to be turned in on Monday December 9th to your child’s classroom teacher. Please contact Mrs. Gadley with any questions you may have: jcgadley@fcps.edu http://safeYouTube.net/w/C7tf
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Broadway Night 2019
Student & Parent Interest Meeting
6th Grade Elementary Students
November 28, 2018
7-8pm
South Lakes HS - Lecture Hall
Broadway Night is a musical theatre intensive offered to students of the South Lakes High School Pyramid. BroadwayNight provides a unique musical theatre experience where students have the opportunity to work with vocal coaches, theatre coaches, choreographers, and musicians on numbers from Broadway musicals. Broadway Night includes musical acts that will feature pyramid students from grades 6-8.
Participation is based on teacher recommendations from the
General Music/Choir teachers at the pyramid schools.
Performance Dates
February 1 @ 7pm, February 2 at 2pm & 7pm
Full-Time Level IV (Center Screening Procedures)
Guidelines:
Parents or guardians may refer students in Grade 2 who are not in the screening pool, and students in Grades 3-7 by submitting the Advanced Academic Programs Level IV Referral Form to the school. The referral is due January 10, 2019 5pm. Attn: Stephanie Guffain, AART. We will confirm that it has been received.
Referrals:
The completed form is submitted to the school principal or AART who acknowledges, in writing, receipt of the referral. Do not wait for test scores to arrive before submitting a referral for your student as there will be no referrals for Level IV screening accepted past the January 10th deadline.
Screening Files:
The local school screening committee prepares and submits completed Level IV screening files to be evaluated by the countywide central selection committee. Multiple sources of information are reviewed to determine eligibility for placement in Level IV. Documents included in the screening file are listed below. Parents or guardians are responsible only for those documents specifically noted, to be turned in to the AART by the January 10th deadline.
    
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Dogwood Hours:
8:35am: Doors open
Bus riders and walkers enter through the front door and Kiss and Ride students enter through 5. All students go directly to classrooms.
8:50 am: Instruction begins
3:35 pm: Dismissal
Any changes to Dismissal procedures must be communicated before 3 pm.
Attendance phone number: 703-262-3131
Main Office phone number: 703-262-3100
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