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Volume 2, Issue 37; April 22, 2019
Welcome Back! We Missed You!
We hope that you enjoyed your spring break with your family and friends!
April 22nd, Earth Day
Will you be attending our Garden Grub this Saturday, from 8-11 am?
We look forward to seeing you there!
Earth Week Activities
"We do not inherit the Earth form our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."
Please see the calendar below for a list of some of the activities our students are participating in this week! This calendar also lets you know what colors your children can wear this week to demonstrate their earth consciousness!
Attention Avid Recyclers and Environmentalists:
The Environmental Club is collecting plastic bottle caps and jar lids to create piece of Eco-Art for their Environmental Club Garden. Clean, colorful plastic lids of all sizes are needed. They can be dropped off in the designated box in Ms. McAlister’s room.
On Tuesday, April 23rd, twenty of our 5th and 6th grade Eco-Action Team members will be attending the School Environmental Showcase at George Mason University. They will be presenting their work on helping Flint Hill reduce, reuse, and recycle. They have spent the year learning about the challenges faced by our community and working with our county recycling coordinator. These students are leaders in modeling and communicating good environmental stewardship and have worked to make significant changes in the ways we channel our waste. We are very excited for them to share their work with peers within our county!
Double Dollars Event on Tuesday, April 23rd!
From the Town of Vienna Conservation and Sustainability Commission (CSC)
Parents and students are invited to Vienna’s annual Green Expo, which will be held at the Vienna Community Center on April 24th, from 7-9 pm. Come see alternative fuel vehicles, and visit with 30 exhibitors covering composting, recycling, increasing native plantings, home energy efficiency, SolarizeVienna, green landscaping, ways to reduce plastics, and much more! James Madison high school students will talk about "Trout in the Classroom" and their Stream Team, as well as their successful efforts to get solar panels on FCPS schools. Enter a raffle to win a free rain barrel and/or composter! Kids can grab a passport and visit exhibitors, learn about the environment, and earn a prize! See you there!
DedicatED
New insights into how motivation works, why it can lag, and what we can do to help students develop it
(excerpted from Usable Knowledge, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
Teachers can know their content backwards and forwards. They might have put hours into their lesson plans. But if their students aren't motivated, learning won't happen.
Often, childhood experiences may make motivation harder for students, according to a new working paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, a multidisciplinary research collaborative housed at Harvard University. The paper takes a look at the machinery of motivation: what’s going on in children’s brains when they’re motivated, and what’s holding them back.
The researchers identify two types of motivation: approach motivation, which steers us toward a reward, and avoidance motivation, which prompts us to avoid damage. Ideally, they balance each other out. Approach is foundational to most forms of learning, while avoidance can inhibit higher-level learning by forcing us to fixate on our immediate response to a task, rather than a long-term goal. Ultimately, to survive, we need both, but when they’re out of balance, it can lead to impulse-control problems, anxiety, or depression, among other mental health struggles.
To learn more, read this article!
 Your children certainly demonstrated motivation when they learned and performed the songs for the band and chorus concert on April 11th. It was a musical masterpiece! Thank you to all who attended, and, most importantly, our talented students and staff!
 April is Month of the Military Child! Check out Mrs. William's video tweet!
Below, you will notice the amazing effort of our first graders...a job well-done on educating their audience about some of their favorite animals! We applaud their learning!
   Please google our hashtag, #FHESfamily, for more awesome highlights from Flint Hill! There are just too many to highlight them all!
Tweet, tweet, Flint Hill family!
Please remember to add money to your child’s school nutrition account. All accounts must be brought current before the end of the school year in June.
Please Mark Your Calendars!
Double Dollars Event: April 23rd (*See flyer above!)
AAP Information Night: April 25th, 6:00 pm, library
SOL Testing Calendar: Please keep these dates in mind when scheduling appointments and other family matters. Thank you!
Great news! Flint Hill Elementary’s school events are now easily added to your own personal calendar. To find out how to download our calendar feed, please go here.
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