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Volume 2, Issue 45; June 19, 2019
Flint Hill administration would like to thank all of our family members, including our teachers, students, and parents for their ongoing support throughout this school year. This has been a truly wonderful year of learning!
We are sad to say goodbye to some of our staff, listed below, and excited to welcome new staff to our school for the 2019-2020 school year. Planning and preparation are already underway to make this year the best one yet!
Flint Hill wishes the very best to our family members who are moving on to other adventures. We thank them for their dedication, expertise, and love for our students during their time at Flint Hill:
Karen Wilcock: pursuing other opportunities
Bets Thomas: pursuing other opportunities
Susan Menashi: transfering to Sleepy Hollow ES
Kirsten Gogoel: relocated to Florida
Lauren Rodriguez-Gregg: Instructional Facilitator in LCPS
Rebecca Stephenson: pursuing other teaching opportunities within FCPS
John Kirkman: transferring to Sangster ES
Ellen Lustre: transferring to Kent Gardens ES
Ainsley Marsh: transferring to Fairfax Villa ES
Lauren Lipton: transferring to Louise Archer ES as a full-time counselor
Elisabeth Frostick: transferring to a SPED position at Greenbriar West ES
Carmen Alvarez-Keefer: increasing from 1 to 2 days art at Chesterbrook ES
Edniza Segarra: transferring to a FLES position at Cherry Run ES
Nicolas Arnal: pursuing other FLES/teaching opportunities within FCPS
As a reminder, summer office hours will be from 9 am to 12 pm daily. If your child was not here on the last day of school, you may come by to pick up their 4th quarter progress report from the office.
Lastly, we hope you take time to relax and enjoy the summer with your family. We our taking a short break from the Falcon Flyer; however, we will communicate with you next month to provide details regarding our library hours and summer read-aloud events!
Have a safe and relaxing summer!
Warmly,
Jennifer Hertzberg and Allison Hoak
Flint Hill Administration
Summer Selfie BINGO, Third Edition!
This summer, we have connected our game spaces to the Portrait of a Graduate skills and attributes. We hope to see you on Twitter this summer, sharing your adventures with our community! #FHESfamily
Class Placements
In order to learn of your child's teacher in advance of August 23rd, you must have a Student Information System (SIS) account. We continue to encourage our parent community to sign-up for an account before the end of the school year or when they register their child(ren). Please note that we will not be posting class lists this year. To learn more about the additional features of SIS, please click here.
Open House/Back-to-School
Our Open House and Back-to-School festivities will take place Friday, August 23rd. The schedule is as follows:
3:30 pm: Optional Meet the Teacher for Students with Special Needs
4:00 pm-5:00 pm: Meet the Teacher
4:00 pm-4:20 pm: New Family Orientation in the Library
4:45 pm-5:15 pm: Popsicles on the Playground (*Please feel free to use the outdoor equipment past this time. Parents, thank you, in advance, for supervising your child.)
There will be a Google Slide presentation that will be shown in each classroom, and due to the additional PoG Night in mid-October, we are not asking teachers to present at this time. These presentations, will will run on repeat, will be posted on our website, just like last year.
During this event, you will be able to greet your child's teacher, learn favorite facts about him or her, possibly participate in a classroom scavenger hunt, and familiarize yourself with the learning environment in your child's classroom--activities typical of an Open House. There will be opportunities to sign-up as a parent volunteer, as well as additional sign-ups, too. You will also learn how your child's teacher, and grade level, will be communicating with you during the 2019-2020 school year.
By orchestrating our "Back-to-School" in this manner, we are able to familiarize you and your child with the routines and expectations in his or her classroom, and build momentum with instruction, beginning on the first day!
Thank you, in advance, for attending!
DedicatED
New Video! Lexia Core5 Reading and PowerUp
Your child has been using Lexia Core5 Reading (grades K-5) or PowerUp (grade 6), a web-based reading program that provides targeted practice and instruction to continue to develop reading skills. To this end, we want to support your child with his or her progress over the summer and are offering the use of Lexia Core 5 and/or PowerUp at home during the summer months. Please note that rising 6th graders will now sign on to PowerUp instead of Lexia Core 5.
Since there is no teacher follow-up during the summer, we ask that you monitor your child’s use with the program and limit usage to 20 minutes per week. In addition, please allow your child to work independently at his or her own pace. The program tracks the student’s needs and adjusts to them. The information we will be able to glean through this formative assessment at the beginning of the year will be so helpful! Therefore, once again, please encourage your child to log-on, but refrain from helping!
Getting Started is Easy!
Please watch this step-by-step video to help you with any log-on questions you may have.
Looking for other ways to promote literacy and learning in your household this summer? Check out this article!
 Thank you to our amazing 6th grade teachers for an outstanding last year for our students. A special debt of gratitude goes to Mrs. Tardy and her team of miracle workers who turned our gym into a circus theme, rivaling that of The Greatest Showman. It was spectacular, and fun was had by all!
I normally wouldn't highlight my tweet, but this is too good to miss! Our 6th grade students surprised us with a rewritten song, celebrating their year at Flint Hill. Check it out!
Please click on our hashtag, #FHESfamily, for more awesome highlights from Flint Hill! There are just too many to highlight them all!
Tweet, tweet, Flint Hill family!
 ...and, we couldn't resist adding these photos to the mix. We were so busy enjoying the festivities to tweet! We hope you enjoy these mementos, as well as this video created by Mrs. Yazdani. We appreciate our parents for all that they do for our school and community!
Please Mark Your Calendars!
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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Falcon Feedback
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