🐾 12/3 Paw Print 🐾


In This Week's Paw Print

1. Principal Message 🐾

2. A Disney December ✨

3. Advanced Academics Level IV Referral Deadline Reminder 🗓️

4. Panther Praise 🤗

5. Our Neighbor's Child 🎁

6. Fairfax County Police Toy Collection 🧸

7. CHS Girls Lacrosse Clinic 🥍

8. PTA information ❗


Dear Poplar Tree Families,

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! 

Starting this week, students may obtain COVID-19 diagnostic testing at six drive-through sites in Fairfax County. Diagnostic testing is provided for anyone who has symptoms or is identified as a close contact of someone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19.

COVID-19 testing helps us reduce the virus’ spread and keep our schools safe places for all students to learn. I encourage you to utilize our new diagnostic testing services as needed.

Appointments are not required for diagnostic testing but families must register in the secure online portal. When you register and provide consent for your child to be tested, they will also be added to Poplar Tree's screening testing pool. If you do not wish for them to be part of the weekly screening testing pool, simply log back into the online portal after your child’s test is complete and withdraw consent. 

More information about diagnostic and screening testing, including site locations and schedules, is available on our website

Take care,

Sue Andujar, Principal

Carol Larsen, Assistant Principal

waving

Disney December

A Disney December!

To celebrate our last two weeks before Winter Break, we will be having a "Disney December!" Starting Monday December 6, each day will be a Spirit Day that relates to a Disney movie! We'll also play songs and/or clips from these movies during our Good Morning Poplar Tree news show!

We can't wait to see all the magical Disney spirit over the next two weeks!✨


Deadline

 

Reminder:  Window for AAP Level IV (full-time) Referrals to Close December 15, 2021

Parents/guardians of students in Grades 2-7 who would like their student to be considered for full-time advanced academic programs (level IV AAP services) may submit the AAP Level IV Referral Form to Kim Keleher (KJKeleher@fcps.edu) no later than December 15. 

The window to submit an AAP Level IV Referral Form is the first day of school through December 15, annually.  Forms for full-time and part-time referrals are available on the AAP Forms Page. No late referrals for Level IV services can be accepted. 

Submitting a referral form for AAP Level IV will initiate a process that begins at the local school and is then completed at the central office level. Our school will put together a portfolio that includes multiple data which are considered holistically. At the central office level, a committee of professionals from various schools review materials to determine eligibility for level IV placement.  Eligibility decisions are communicated by early April. Parents may request a copy of the portfolio that was submitted after they have been turned in for central selection by emailing Kim Keleher (KJKeleher@fcps.edu). Referrals for AAP Levels II-III (part-time services) are screened at the local school. 

For more information, there are parent presentations available on the FCPS AAP website (under “Presentations”) that contain information similar to our fall parent information meetings at Poplar Tree.


Panther Praise Image

 

Poplar Tree Staff Panther Praise!

We truly appreciate all our Poplar Tree staff and would like to give the community the opportunity to say thank you and/or show appreciation for all of the effort the Poplar Tree Staff is putting in day and night! We will share these praises with the staff members. To submit a Staff Panther Praise, please fill out this form!

Thank you for helping to recognize our amazing staff!


🎁Our Neighbor's Child 🎁

Our Neighbor's Child

🧸Police Toy Collection🧸

Santa's Ride

 

Fairfax County Police Motor Squad's

Toy Collection

We are excited to share that our school is one of the collection sites for the Fairfax County Police Motor Squad’s Santa’s Ride Toy Collection.  We are collecting donations of NEW unwrapped toys, games, books and gifts.  The collection boxes are available in our school lobby and in front of the school now through Friday, December 10th.  The donated toys will go to the children at Fairfax Hospital, Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center, and children in the community. Thank you for your support!


CHS Girls Lacrosse

PTA

 

PTA Information 

📚Read-a-thon through December 17th📚 

CONGRATULATIONS to our Bookmark Contest winners Nathan Kang and Pooja Sreekumar. We are excited to share these beautiful designs on bookmarks that will be distributed to all of our students during the Read-a-Thon!

Poplar Tree’s Read-a-Thon is underway! There is still time to collect donations and support your child and PTES! It’s easy to share the link via text or Facebook to collect donations. Teachers will be administering the minimum reading requirement during the day, but you are welcome to add minutes that you read at home!  If you have not already done so, please click on this link to activate your reader’s personal page: https://www.read-a-thon.com/readers/r/cZcWgi


📚Read-a-thon Spirit Days📚 

Friday, 12/10 - My Many Colored Day

Dress head to toe in your favorite color or colors representing how you're feeling

Friday, 12/17 - "Read-in" Day

Wear pajamas or cozy clothes. Teachers will encourage reading throughout the day.

Students can bring in books from home to share with friends throughout the day (labeled with student’s name)


🛍️December 6-19 Shopping Fundraiser at Five Below🛍️ 

A flyer will be sent home with your student today for our December shopping fundraiser - please bring it with you and shop at Five Below with 10% going back to support PTES. You can also print the flyer at: https://poplartree.ptboard.com/annlist


How Your Support of the PTA Benefits PTES 

Thanks to your support of the PTA and our supply kit sale earlier this year, we are able to fill a disinfecting wipes shortage at the school and supply 750 packets of wipes! This is the power of community and giving. Thank you for your continued support!

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Renew or join the PTA - https://poplartreepta.membershiptoolkit.com/membership

Make a donation - https://poplartreepta.membershiptoolkit.com/store/product/DONATION

Access the Membership Toolkit directory and download the app: https://poplartreepta.membershiptoolkit.com 

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