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December 14th 3 Hour Early dismissal
December 14th NEW e-notify emergency messaging system - read article below
December 24th - January 6th - Student Holiday, No School
January 7th - Welcome back to school
January 10th - PTO meeting 7 pm
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The Primary Years Programme framework is based on the development of learning skills in an inquiry driven and transdisciplinary way through a focus of developing conceptual understanding. The 8 key concepts are form, function, causation, change, connection, perspective, responsibility, and reflection. Students have been learning about these concepts in their classrooms and throughout their day.
In Physical Education, students have been applying these 8 key concepts as they participated in their basketball unit. The students learned about their form as they shot baskets. They focused on reflection when thinking about what they could have done differently after missing a shot.
At the end of their basketball unit, Ms. Brod and Ms. Eschen asked students to reflect on how they applied their understanding of the 8 concepts during the unit.
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Come check out the bulletin board by the gym for more example of student reflections! |
 Every year, school absences spike in the weeks before and after winter break, as families squeeze a few more days of vacation out of the holiday season. Let’s break that cycle. Make sure your child is in school every day. Because the best gift you can give your child is a good education.
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Our littlest learners are loving exploring their world and developing their language through play with their teachers and each other. In the PAC classroom we have seven sweet and inquisitive boys and 4 wonderful staff members. Mrs. Jessica, Mrs. Maria, Ms. Dulce, and Mrs. Eyman work together with our boys to create opportunities for each boy to work on their own goals while also creating a classroom community and experiencing realistic school and world activities.
We work on helping the boys increase their language, increase their play, and increase their communication with their friends.
We love:
-collecting leaves outside
-playing tag
-trying new foods
-playing with the sensory table
-making the train track
-using musical instruments
-singing and dancing along to lots of songs
We loved having our family visit for Thanksgiving Lunch!
The week of December 17-21 is RIF Week. Each student will select a free book and participate in an activity during their Library time. These books have been purchased through Reading Is Fundamental due to the generous funding of Navient Corporation. Navient has been our RIF supporter for more than 10 years. In addition to financially supporting our RIF program, Navient sends volunteers to help with our activities. This is a wonderful opportunity for our students to “shop” for a free book to keep at home to read and enjoy. Next week be sure to ask your child about their RIF book. Watch for pictures of our RIF distribution in next week’s News You Choose
Submitting Student Absences Online
You can now easily submit student absences online! All submissions go directly to our front office, as well as your student's classroom teacher. You will find a link to the new attendance form on Dogwood’s home page.
Submit Dismissal Changes Online!
Need to make a change in your student's regular dismissal routine? Will your student be taking different transportation home? You can quickly let the school know of these changes by filling out our online change in dismissal form. Form submissions go directly to our front office, as well as your student's classroom teacher.
Changes in dismissal will only be accepted until 3:15 p.m. Submit a change in dismissal/transportation using our online form.
Our 2018-2019 Dogwood Yearbooks are currently on sale for $20 each. They can be purchased at the web site below or using the paper order form that is available in the main office. The yearbook will contain many great photos and memories from this school year. Make sure you get your copy soon!
https://ybpay.lifetouch.com/Order/SelectJob
Yearbook ID: 12464419
Fairfax County Public Schools will be moving to a new vendor to provide emergency and essential email, text, and phone notifications beginning December 14, 2018. If you currently receive emergency and essential communications via email, text, or phone, you do not need to do anything as you will continue to receive this information.
Parents and guardians who have included a cellphone number (in the cellphone field) on a student’s emergency care card will receive a text message on December 14 to confirm the account is set up to receive text messages from FCPS. You do not need to do anything when you receive the text message from the new vendor, School Messenger, on December 14th. If you do not receive a text message, please check the contact information listed on your child’s emergency care card in weCare. Your cellphone number must be listed in the cellphone field in order to receive text messages from FCPS.
New this year, parents can enter their student’s cellphone number in weCare so that their student will also receive text messages for delayed openings, school closings, and late bus notifications. The student’s cellphone number will need to be entered in Section 4, under Additional Information. If the student’s cellphone is listed in weCare, they will also receive the text message on December 14.
Emergency and essential information includes:
- Emergency
- Delayed openings/school closings
- Attendance
- Early release
- Buses running late
- Low lunch balance
- Power, telephone, internet outages or facility repairs
- Back to school information
- Important testing dates
If you have recently changed your contact information, please be sure to update the emergency contact information in weCare.
As a reminder, in addition to email and text messages, all FCPS weather delays and openings are also posted on Twitter, Facebook, FCPS website, school websites, and local radio and television broadcasts. Read more about Weather Cancellation Procedures.
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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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