The Lion’s Roar
September 10, 2021
Upcoming Events
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Monday, 9/13 – Friday, 9/24 – Kindergarten Color Weeks (see article below for each day’s designated color)
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Tuesday, 9/14 – Advanced Academics Program (AAP) Information Meeting, 6 p.m., Cafeteria and via Zoom
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Friday, 9/17 – PTA Ice Cream Social & Used Book Swap, 6:30 p.m.; Spiritwear sale ends
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Wednesday, 9/22 – PTA Restaurant Day at Chuy’s in Springfield Town Center, 5 to 9 p.m.
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Friday, 10/8 – PTA Fall Beautification Day & Community Fair, 4:30 p.m.
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Monday, 10/11 – Student Holiday (Indigenous Peoples Day)
In This Issue
- Daily Health Screening Questionnaire
- Additional Lunch Monitors Needed – Paid Opportunity!
- Kindergarten Color Weeks – Help Our Littlest Lions Learn Their Colors!
- Advanced Academics Program (AAP) News
- Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Screener
- Library Volunteers Needed!
- PTA Events: Spiritwear Sale, Ice Cream Social & Used Book Swap; Restaurant Night at Chuy’s
News & Notes
Daily Health Screening Questionnaire
It is important that you screen your children each morning for any COVID-like symptoms and keep them home if they have any symptoms. This is the most important way you can help as a parent.
Parents, caregivers, or guardians are strongly encouraged to monitor their children for symptoms of infectious illness every day through a home-based symptom screening, and students who are sick should not come to school. Please consider the questions in the Health Screening Questionnaire each morning before sending your child to school. If you answer “YES” to any of the questions, please keep your child home.
Keep your child home if you suspect your child may have come in contact with someone who has COVID.
If you keep your child home and he or she feels better the next day, then no documentation from a medical provider is needed to return.
If your child comes to school and presents with COVID-like symptoms, he or she will be placed in the Care Room and will be sent home. Your child must then be seen by a medical provider in order to return to school.
Please be overly cautious and keep your child home if you are awaiting COVID test results.
You can find more information about COVID prevention strategies as well as the process for handling cases or suspected cases at the following links:
Health and Safety Guidance Webpage
Flowchart outlining process for students identified as a close contact
FCPS COVID Dashboard
Additional Lunch Monitors Needed – Paid Opportunity!
We are in need of a few additional monitors to assist our students as they enjoy lunch together in a safe way. This position is paid. The hours each day, Monday – Friday, are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you're interested, please email Kelly Tolley in the front office at kltolley@fcps.edu or call 703-924-7700.
Kindergarten Color Weeks – Help Our Littlest Lions Learn Their Colors!
Kindergarteners are learning their colors, and students in other grades are encouraged to celebrate the rainbow along with them by wearing the designated color of the day starting Monday, September 13th. Here’s the schedule:
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Monday, September 13th: wear your favorite color
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Tuesday, September 14th: orange
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Wednesday, September 15th: green
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Thursday, September 16th: red
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Friday, September 17th: blue
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Monday, September 20th: yellow
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Tuesday, September 21st: purple or brown
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Wednesday, September 22nd: pink or grey
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Thursday, September 23rd: black and white
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Friday, September 24th: rainbow day!
Please encourage your child – no matter what grade level – to join the colorful fun!
(Kindergarten parents: Because Kindergarten is also working on listening skills, students will be told what color to wear before the following day. Our hope is that students will listen and tell you the color at home. Please don’t share the secret!)
Advanced Academic Program (AAP) News
Parent Meeting, Tuesday, September 14th
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) offers a continuum of advanced academic services for all students in Grades K-8. Learning experiences are designed to develop higher-level thinking through enrichment, acceleration, and extension of the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs). Teachers, administrators, and Advanced Academic Resource Teachers (AARTs) work together to provide four levels of services. Videos showing each level of service in action, as well as information about middle and high school services, are available at https://www.fcps.edu/academics/elementary-school-academics-k-6/advanced-academics.
You can learn more about AAP at Lane and in FCPS at a parent information session next Tuesday, September 14th, at 6 p.m. in the Lane cafeteria. At this meeting Linda Simon, Lane’s Advanced Academic Resource Teacher, will provide information about the continuum of AAP services in Fairfax County as well as a brief overview of the screening process for both part-time and full-time AAP placement. This meeting is open to all interested parents with students in kindergarten through sixth grade.
The AAP parent information session will also be available virtually over Zoom. Due to Zoom security features, parents will be required to “register” with their name, email, child(ren)’s name(s) and grade(s). Zoom will then send an auto-reply with a link and passcode to join the session. Registration can be done in advance if parents choose.
Here’s the registration link: https://myfcpsk12.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdO-uqTgqHtbcAkMRlc4ldJqGqipf-fOd.
Fall Advanced Academics Newsletter Now Available!
You can get all the latest news on the Advanced Academics program in the fall newsletter posted on our school website.
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Screener
This year K-12 students in FCPS will participate in a Social-Emotional Learning Screener. Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions (CASEL, 2020). You can find more information about the screener and the importance of social-emotional learning here. This screener will be a useful tool for us here at Lane to learn how to best support our students and school community. An email will be sent to families soon with more information.
If you choose to opt your child out of the SEL Screener, please return the opt-out form no later than Friday, October 8th. The form only needs to be returned if you DO NOT want your child to participate in the SEL screener.
From the Shelves of the Lane Library:
Volunteers Needed!
Our librarian, Mrs. Chozick, is in need of volunteer help in the library. Most of the work will be shelving books (training will be provided); occasionally other help will be needed, like making copies or taking down displays, but expect to be shelving books most of the time.
If you can spare just one or two hours once a week, that would be splendid! As it is most helpful to have volunteers throughout the day and week, so that books can be continuously shelved, volunteer times are on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please contact Mrs. Chozick at schozick@fcps.edu to let her know what times you might be available or if you should have any questions. Thanks so much for considering helping in the library!
Parent Resources
FCPS Parent Resource Center Provides a Variety of Supports
The FCPS Parent Resource Center serves to support the success of all students. It provides access to information and resources including free webinars, free consultations, a free lending library, and more!
Click on the below links to see the Fall 2021 schedule of free webinars/programs and learn about other help that you can find at the Parent Resource Center.
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Schoology Learning Management System
The new learning management system is Schoology (pronounced /SKOO-luh-jee/). Schoology is a learning space that enhances communication, collaboration, and personalized learning for students, teachers, and families.
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Students will have a Schoology account.
- Students use their FCPS student ID and password to login to Schoology.
As a parent or guardian, you will be able to use Schoology to view:
- Your child’s class.
- Your child’s assignments and participation.
- Your child’s calendar.
- Teacher comments, scores, and feedback.
To access Schoology, parents will need to have an active SIS/ParentVUE account. Please contact our parent liaison, Melanie Crosby Hardy, at macrosby@fcps.edu to get the access codes needed to create an account if you do not already have one.
Please review these resources to learn more about Schoology:
PTA News & Events
Spiritwear Sale Continues through September 17th!
Order your Lane Spiritwear today! The PTA's fall spiritwear fundraiser has begun! Order online at https://lane21.itemorder.com/sale now through Friday, September 17th! Order forms are available for those who prefer to pay by cash or check.
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Save the Date for the PTA’s Ice Cream Social & Used Book Swap - Friday, September 17th, at 6:30 p.m.! |
Make plans now to stop by this popular PTA back-to-school tradition to enjoy a sweet frozen treat and pick up some new-to-you reads – all for free! Stay tuned for more details coming soon!
Spice Up Your Night with Dinner at Chuy’s!
The PTA’s first Restaurant Day of the year will be held Wednesday, September 22nd from 5 to 9 p.m. at Chuy's in Springfield Mall. Bring your family, friends, and neighbors and enjoy great food while raising money for our school! A percentage of all sales generated by Lane will be donated back to the school. Takeout is included too! Delivery apps such as UberEats and DoorDash are NOT included.
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Don’t forget to sign the book at the Host Stand to help your class win the special prize at the end of the year and grab a flyer to present to your server for your purchase to count.
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