Important Upcoming Dates
12/15 Interims for Second Quarter (As Needed)
12/21 - 1/1 Winter Holidays
1/4 - School Resumes (Asynchronous Monday)
1/14 - Frost MS Virtual Orientation
1/18 - Martin Luther King Day - Holiday
1/20 - Inauguration Day - Holiday
1/22 - End of Quarter Two 2 Hour Early Release (2:00)
1/25 - Student Holiday for Teacher Workday
IN THIS ISSUE
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NEW: Advanced Academic Program Local Level IV at Fairfax Villa
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NEW: Book Fair Update
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REMINDER: Parent Choice Survey for Grades 5 and 6
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REMINDER: Don’t Forget Your Child's Art Supplies
- PTA News
- Send us your pics!
- Support Homeless Students for the Holidays
- Grab and Go Meals
- Frost MS transition
One of our kindergarten students enjoying her distance learning experience!
1.Advanced Academic Program Local Level IV at Fairfax Villa
Currently, more than half of FCPS elementary schools offer level IV services for students without having to leave their neighborhood school. As one part of improving equity to access and opportunity, the district has a three year plan to expand AAP local level IV programming to all FCPS elementary schools that do not already have it. As part of the expansion, Fairfax Villa will be offering Level IV services beginning in 3rd grade for the 2021-2022 school year. One grade level above will be added in each subsequent year.
A virtual informational meeting will take place on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. as part of the next PTA meeting. The meeting link is https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/e553065b5c314a049de3492858780664.
Mark your calendars and plan on joining school administrators, Ms. Cat Wilkins, our FVES Advanced Academics Resource Teacher, and Ms. Kirsten Maloney, Coordinator of Advanced Academics Programs for FCPS, to learn more about this program.
In order to facilitate questions, a Google link has been created for you to submit any questions you may have prior to the meeting: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeqTRlB8o2gTTuEoTdpmFGUDD_yOrgEbyA1Ll-hV6ko5CQNOA/viewform?usp=sf_link
Please submit questions no later than Tuesday, December 15.
2.Book Fair Update
From Ms. Case, our Fairfax Villa Librarian:
Thank you for supporting our Fairfax Villa Book Fair! We hope you were able to find some great books in the new online fair. If you haven’t received your books yet, they are continuing to ship, and you should receive your order soon. We are excited to purchase some new books for our library that our students will be excited about reading!
3.Parent Choice Survey: 5th and 6th Graders
If you have not yet filled out the form to tell us if you want your student to be all virtual or to come to school for 2 days a week once FCPS starts bringing students back into the building, please do that today. We want to honor your wishes for which choice you want and we need that information from each of you so that we can plan.
We still have 36 fifth grade parents and 23 sixth grade parents whom we have not heard from.
Thank you for helping us to honor your wishes for your child.
Fifth Grade Parent Survey
Sixth Grade Parent Survey
4.REMINDER: Don’t Forget Your Child's Art Supplies
Art Material Pickup for general education grades 1-6 have been going on for 3 weeks and we still have many students that need to pick up their art supplies for upcoming lessons.
You can pick up the materials Monday-Friday from 9-3 in the front lobby.
- EACH student gets ONE bag of art materials.
- Each bag includes: sketchbook, construction paper, a watercolor set, and modeling clay.
- Please bring a pen to sign your child’s name and grade when you pick up a bag of materials
5.PTA News
The following message is sent on behalf of the Fairfax Villa ES School PTA. Its content reflects the views of the PTA.
PTA Meeting
Join us next week for our PTA meeting on Wednesday, December 16 at 7 PM. We are hosting special guests Ms. Kirsten Maloney, Coordinator of Advanced Academics Programs for FCPS and Ms. Cat Wilkins, our FVES Advanced Academics Resource Teacher. They will be sharing information about a local Level IV AAP program at Fairfax Villa.
The meeting link is https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/e553065b5c314a049de3492858780664.
Original Works is still available!
Did you miss the deadline last week to order Original Works keepsakes? The Original Works At Home program is extended indefinitely, so you can still order! Orders placed now might not make it by the holidays, but they will try their best. And every order we place will benefit the PTA! Visit www.originalworks.com/atHome for instructions, and use our school code FAFA at checkout. Please contact Jessie at villata@gmail.com with any questions.
PTA Membership
PTA Membership is still open! Please join online at https://fairfaxvilla.memberhub.store/. Memberships are $10/person. If you would like to pay by check or need financial assistance, please contact Jessie at villapta@gmail.com.
AmazonSmile
Are you doing your holiday shopping at Amazon.com this year? If so, you can support the Fairfax Villa PTA, and our kids and teachers, while you shop! Visit smile.amazon.com and choose the Fairfax Villa Elementary PTA as your charity, and AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of your order total to the PTA.
@ FairfaxVillaPTA on Instagram & Twitter
@ PTAFairfaxVilla on Facebook
6.Send us your pics!
Over the next couple of weeks, if you have created learning activities that your children have enjoyed or have pictures of your children learning online, please email us at drgerstner@fcps.edu and DRSutter@fcps.edu with a picture and a brief description. We would like to share them in our upcoming Friday News You Choose messages and they may also be included in the 2020-21 yearbook.
The Foundation for FCPS’ Kids in Need initiative is partnering with FCPS for our annual gift card drive to benefit homeless students. FCPS typically identifies up to 3,000 children per year as homeless. Many of them are unaccompanied, living without a parent or legal guardian. Securing essential needs such as clothing, medicine, emergency food, and hygiene supplies is even more of a struggle since the pandemic began.
If you are able to help, please make a donation which will be used to purchase gift cards and empower students to make purchases for their own personal needs. If you would like to donate a physical gift card(s), please mail it to:
Patti Parisi
Gatehouse Administrative Center, 4214
8115 Gatehouse Road
Falls Church, VA 22042
Please contact Patti Parisi with questions at poparisi@fcps.edu. Thank you!
8.Important Update on Grab and Go Meals: Delivery Times and Some Bus Stop Locations Have Changed
Fairfax County Public Schools is offering no-cost nutritious meals to ALL students through June 30, 2021. Meals are available at school sites and along bus routes.
As of November 9, grab and go bus delivery times and some bus stop locations have changed. The updated bus schedule is now available online. Bus delivery times were changed to accommodate the need for more buses to transport students returning to school buildings for in-person learning.
Breakfast and lunch meals are offered Monday through Friday (excluding holidays). Breakfast and lunch are served at the same time. Breakfast and lunch are also offered at no-cost to any student who attends in-person instruction at a school Monday-Friday. Meals for Saturday and Sunday are offered at sites and on bus routes every Friday.
More information is available online, or by calling the Office of Food and Nutrition Services at 703-813-4800.
9.Frost MS Transition
Families of current 6th grade students who will be attending Frost Middle School during the 2021-2022 school year are invited to an upcoming transition event. On January 14th at 6:30 PM, Frost will be hosting a virtual Rising 7th Grade Orientation. Students and parents will be provided an overview of Frost, the registration process, class options, and more. More information, including the link to access the event, will be sent later this month. We look forward to seeing you there!
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