Happy Holidays and a Wish for a Great New Year
As we close out our week and month here at Forestville, we want to wish all of our families a Happy Holiday and all the best for the upcoming New Year in 2019! As we look back at December (with many more days to go!), we were very thankful for the opportunities to see our children shine in and outside of the classroom with music concerts, performances and art work that helped represent the holiday season. In this edition of the newsletter, you will find information about the AAP process, Rise Against Hunger and many pictures of our students as well as the Langley Madrigals who performed for us.
Once again, thank you for your support and all of the celebratory gifts and recognitions you provided this month to our staff. We look forward to seeing you in January!
e-Notify Emergency Messages Will Be Communicated via New Vendor
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
AAP Information
January 10, 2019 Deadline
Advanced Academic Programs Level IV Referral Form and optional materials for students in Grade 2 who are not in pool and students in Grades 3–7 due to Shana Twitchell, the Advanced Academic Resource Teacher (AART) by January 10, 2019 . If you have any questions, please email Shana Twitchell.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the tight time frame, do not wait for test information to submit a referral if you would like your student screened. No exceptions to the referral deadline are made. For more information see the AAP website: https://www.fcps.edu/registration/advanced-academics-identification-and-placement.
Rise Against Hunger Event-Save the Date
Event Date: Saturday, February 9, 2019
Langley pyramid Fundraising Goal: $29,000
Each year we package meals based on the amount of money raised from our schools in the Langley pyramid. This year’s goal is $29,000 which, in turn, will provide 100,000 meals.
How to get involved?
Donate before the End of the Year
Families may be interested in donating to this Charity Navigator 4-star non-profit organization before the end of the 2018 fiscal year. Until January 25th, parents may continue donating online here to help our fundraising efforts.
On January 7th, your child will bring home a small Rise Against Hunger collection box in which they can start to save money to be donated.
New this year, we are putting forward our “Learn to Earn” initiative. “Learn to Earn” is a message families, if they would like, can use to encourage students to earn money they would like to donate by, for example, taking on additional chores at home, shoveling snow etc.…
We will be collecting the money families would like to donate at a table in the front lobby, in the mornings, as students are arriving beginning January 8th.
Click here to learn more about Rise Against Hunger
Thank you ahead of time for your consideration and we look forward to sending home the Rise Against Hunger Boxes on January 7th!
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Yearbook Contest Results
Congratulations and thanks to all participants who submitted a drawing for the yearbook cover.
On the back cover:
Katie C, Delaney D, Farid R, Alyssa S, Zach U, Rex W
On the title page:
Iris T
On the front cover, the winner of this years yearbook cover contest is:
Audrey M
EARN MONEY FOR FORESTVILLE
WHILE YOU SHOP!
. The money from Giant, Harris Teeter and Box Tops 4 Education goes directly to the school. It is used to pay for paper, staples and other administrative expenses. When you shop at Amazon, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the PTA. Click on the link for more information: http://www.forestvillepta.org/grocery-loyalty-programs.html
Winter Concerts
Thank you to Ms. Hirt, Mr. King, and Ms. Shamlian and our wonderful choral, band and strings students who helped us bring in the holidays with cheer and songs that we are all familiar with throughout the month of December. Their performances at school were wonderful additions to the holiday spirit and always bring smiles to the faces of our faculty, families and friends. A job well done!
      The Langley Madrigals perform for our 5th & 6th Grade Students
Important Dates
Monday, December 24th-Friday, January 4th
Student Holiday-No School Main Office Will Be Closed
Wednesday, January 9th
6th Grade Panorama Picture
Thursday, January 10th
AAP Referral Deadline
Tuesday, January 15th
Iowa Algebra Aptitude Test (IAAT)
Wednesday, January 16th
Geography Bee, 2pm
Friday, January 18th
Bingo Night / Ice Cream Social
Friday, January 18th
Students released 3 hours early
Monday, January 21st
No School Martin Luther King Day
Wednesday, January 23rd
Cooper Counselor visits 6th grade students at Forestville
Friday, January 25th
No School - Teacher Workday
Friday, February 1st
6th grade Cooper registration paper forms due to teachers
Saturday, February 9, 2019
Rise Against Hunger
See the complete 2018-19 school year calendar.
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