Important Upcoming Dates
3/3: Two Hour Early Release
3/4: Student Holiday
3/8: Interims go home (select students only)
3/10: Spring Picture Day
3/14: Clubs and Candid Pictures
3/17: PTA Meeting
3/22: NNAT3 Testing for First Graders
3/31: Quarter Three Ends
4/1: Student Holiday
4/4 - 4/8: Spring Break - No School
4/11: Quarter Four Begins
5/30: Memorial Day - No School
6/10: Last day of school: Two Hour Early Release
IN THIS ISSUE
- Read Across America
- Parent Notification of NAAT3 Testing for First Graders
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NEW:PLEASE Enroll Now!
- NEW: Calling All New Kindergarten Dragons
- REMINDER:Parent Internet Activity Reports
- Water Bottles for Students
- Academic Testing Results Information
- Picture Day Volunteers
- Monday & Friday Fairfax Villa Clothing
- PTA News
- FCPS COVID-19 Case Dashboard for School Year 2021-2022
- FCPS Daily Health Screening Reminder
- Parent Liaison
1.Read Across America
March 2nd was Read Across America Day. The NEA, which sponsors the celebration of reading nationwide, is proud to encourage readers to celebrate diversity in books. It’s time to “try a new hat” by celebrating diverse authors from various backgrounds and books that provide mirrors for readers to see themselves and windows into other cultures and experiences.
We will celebrate February 28th – April 11th.
Been Booked! – Each grade level will receive a bag of read alouds that will travel among the classrooms. As classes enjoy the books, the teacher will display the “been booked!” sign outside of their room. Classes will then rank their favorite read alouds from the bag and the winners will be announced on our Morning News Show.
Read Across America MyOn.com Reading Challenge: Beginning Feb. 28th and ending April 11th the class in Kindergarten-2nd and the class in 3rd-6th who read the most in MyOn.com will receive the books from the Been Booked! event. Students can use MyOn at home too!
Reading Bingo Fun: Look for the Bingo Board in the March 1st Tuesday Folder. Students who complete the Bingo Board and turn it in to Mrs. Case by March 31st will receive a fun bookmark.
2.Parent Notification of NNAT3 Testing for First Graders
In an effort to obtain additional information about your child, the online version of the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test Third Edition (NNAT3) will be administered to your first grade child on Tuesday, March 22. It is important that your child attend school on this day. If possible, please avoid scheduling trips or appointments that would take your child out of school during this time period. It is also important that your child has had a good night’s rest and a healthy breakfast before testing.
The NNAT3 is a nonverbal measure of general intellectual ability. The test evaluates a student’s reasoning and problem-solving skills through the identification of patterns involving geometric shapes and pictorial designs. The test is designed to assess ability without requiring the student to read, write, or speak. Students are not expected to know the answers to all questions and will be given opportunities to practice sample items before taking the test. The NNAT3 is an abilities test, so children are not expected to study or prepare for the test the way they would for an achievement test.
Score reports will be provided to parents once scores become available. Typically, these reports are available several months after the test is taken. If you have any questions about this test, please contact the Advanced Academics Resource Teacher (AART), Ms. Cat Wilkins, or one of the School Test Coordinators, Ms. Schmidt or Ms. Sobeski.
There are a few students in grades 2-6 who will also receive this assessment. The parents of those students have received a separate notification letter.
3.PLEASE Enroll Now! We need new students to enroll NOW for the 2022-2023 school year!
Our current student enrollment is lower than anticipated. Therefore, to ensure we continue to be fully staffed with highly qualified teachers, please reach out this week to your neighbors who may still need to register future students with the following message.
- Is your child turning 5 years old by September 30, 2022?
- Is your child a 1st-6th grader who is new to Fairfax Villa?
First, see if your student falls in the Fairfax Villa ES boundary by viewing the FCPS boundary locator.
Then, if your student does fall in the Fairfax Villa ES boundary, please call Silvia Dossmann, our school registrar, this week so that she can assist you with the registration process. Her phone number is 703-267-2801.
Please email any questions to Silvia Dossmann, Fairfax Villa Student Information Assistant, at smdossmann@fcps.edu.
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Calling All New Kindergarten Dragons!
Do you have a child at home who will be five by September 30th? Please start your registration now. If you have any neighbors with little ones, please send this information to them as well.
We encourage you to register for our Kindergarten/New Student intake form on our website ASAP so we have accurate numbers for staffing our classes for next year!
If you have questions regarding kindergarten registration, please reach out to Ms. Dossmann at smdossmann@fcps.edu or 703-267-2801.
5.Parent Internet Activity Reports
Parents who are interested in knowing more about their child’s Internet browsing activity on an FCPS device can sign up to receive a weekly Parent Report from Lightspeed, our internet content filtering service. The report provides a list of the top sites the child visited that week.
Additionally, if you wish to get more detailed information, the weekly Parent Report offers parents the ability to self-sign-up to the free Internet Use Parent Portal. Parents who sign up for the Internet Use Parent Portal can log-in any time to see a little more detail about their child’s internet browsing. The portal also offers you the added ability to “pause” access to the internet during non-school hours on the FCPS device.
Interested parents can submit a request directly from the Technology Support for Families page for weekly Parent Reports. FCPS will validate the enrolling parent’s email in SIS, and once processed, the parent will receive a weekly report over each weekend from our internet content filtering service, Lightspeed.
6.Water Bottles for Students
We are again in need of donations for water bottles for students. If you would like to donate some to our students, please bring them to the school office. We appreciate any donations you can provide.
Please make sure that your student has a refillable water bottle with them each day. This will help us in making sure that all students have water during the day and will also help us to be more environmentally friendly.
7.Academic Testing Results Information
Here is the FCPS schedule for the parent reports of the testing that students have had this fall.
- iReady: Fall reports were published to ParentVue for grades 1 and 2; for grades 3-6, the reports were published the week of November 29. Report letters will be centrally published to ParentVUE Documents. You may also view historical results in ParentVUE History. If you do not yet have a ParentSIS (ParentVUE) account, please email Ms. Schmidt at bdschmidt@fcps.edu for the directions you need to activate your account.
- SEL Screener: Fall letters will be mailed by FCPS to families of students in grades 3-6 in February.
- SEL Screener: Winter results letters will be mailed to families of students in kindergarten - grade 2 in mid-March.
- VGA: Fall results letters were mailed by FCPS to families in January.
- VKRP: Fall letters were mailed by FCPS by mid-January for PreK and Kindergarten students.
- CogAT: Fall results letters were sent home in backpacks on December 7 for students in grades 2 and 3 and select students in grades 4-6 who took the assessment.
- IAAT: Results were sent home February 18th with students who took this assessment
- NAAT3: Results for the Spring testing will be sent to parents and posted in ParentSIS by the end of May
8. Picture Day Volunteer
Picture Day is this Thursday, March 10th, and we could use some parent volunteers! Please let Deb MacLean know at dmmaclean1@fcps.com if you’re able to help for either time slot: 9:00-12:00 or 12:15-3:15. Your extra hands are greatly appreciated.
9.Monday & Friday Fairfax Villa Clothing
To celebrate being back in person, students and staff will be wearing the same clothing to kickoff and end each week during the 2021-22 school year!
- On Mondays, we will be wearing our Positivity shirts to highlight our character strengths and virtues that we will be learning throughout the school year. The Boosterthon team distributed these green shirts during the fun run. The shirts highlight our Villa dragon and Positivity logos on the front of the shirts.
- On Fridays, we will be showing off our favorite Fairfax Villa spirit wear. If your son or daughter has outgrown their Fairfax Villa spirit wear clothing, our PTA has some new ones.
10.PTA Message
https://villapta.org/
The following message is sent on behalf of the Fairfax Villa ES School PTA. Its content reflects the views of the PTA.
Original Works
FVES PTA is hosting a spring Original Works to help fundraise, one last time, for the 2021 / 2022 school year. Artwork is due to the black portfolio in front of the school’s admin office by Monday, March 7th at 4pm. Special arrangements can be made for late submissions. The merch created from your student’s art will arrive in time for Father’s Day and Mother’s Day! Don’t let this opportunity to pick your own gifts get away!
We sent home a piece of white cardstock paper, a label and instructions, in our students’ Tuesday folders. If you are unable to locate the materials, simply submit artwork on an 8x10, good quality, white paper. Please put a “T”, in pencil on the back, indicating the top of the picture. Please also include the student’s name, grade and teacher, also in pencil, on the back.
For more information, please email villapta@gmail.com, or visit villapta.org.
Running Club
SPRING IS ALMOST HERE & WITH IT: the “YES YOU CAN” RUNNING PROGRAM!!!
Who: 3rd to 6th grade boys and girls
When: Tuesday & Friday afternoons, 4:15-5:30pm for 8 weeks (meet in cafeteria at dismissal)
Where: Fairfax Villa Elementary
Why: Great exercise, great fun, great friends! Starting: Friday March 18th and “running” through Friday May 20th
Cost: $175 which includes: • 16 classes and trophy at Awards Ceremony; • Registration fees and shirt for the Feed Fairfax 5k Race on Saturday, May 14th
Make checks payable to Yes You Can, LLC and mail to: 1164 Fieldview Drive, Reston, VA 20194
*OR* submit a registration from to school ATTN: MEG MOODY, PTA
For more information, contact Clare Girolamo at 571 212-7106 or clarelosty@hotmail.com
March 17th, 2022, 7pm-8:30pm Online FVES PTA Meeting
Please join us via zoom on Thursday the 17th to participate in our 3rd to last meeting of the school year. This meeting will be the first discussion of what we will work on planning for the 2022 / 2023 school year. We need to hear from you! We’d like to know your ideas for everything from fundraising and celebrations, to after school activities and community needs. Please attend the zoom meeting and share your thoughts!
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us05web.zoom.us/j/86598694056?pwd=VTZiMXA1dFhpTm1PRERBTmltMDdFZz09
Meeting ID: 865 9869 4056
Passcode: L7cM98
Spirit Wear
The PTA would like to announce our new partnership with 1st Place Spirit Wear! 1st Place Spirit Wear uses what might be the new way of merch making – a printing process that’s on demand and requires no minimum orders. You browse the several pages of Villa merch options. You purchase 1 – 100 pieces of merch. They guarantee it arrives at your door within 10 business days. Simply go to https://1stplacespiritwear.com/ and type in our school’s name. 10% of all proceeds come to FVES PTA!
11.FCPS COVID-19 Dashboard for School Year 2021-2022
On a daily basis, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is sharing COVID-19 cases (self-reported to us by students and staff) with the Fairfax County Health Department. The information in the link below helps the health department begin contact tracing. More information about the data is available in the "About" tab on the site.
https://www.fcps.edu/return-school/fcps-confirmed-covid-19-case-reporting
Clicking on the 4th tab (FCPS Reported Daily Cases by Site), scrolling far over to the right, and then choosing our school in the dropdown box on the right side will give you the data for our school.
12.Daily Health Screening Reminder
On a daily basis, please consider if any of the following are true for your child, and if so, please keep them home:
- Feeling feverish and/or having chills –documented temperature of 100.4°F or higher?
- Has there been any use of fever reducing medication within the last 24 hours?
- A new cough that is not due to another health condition?
- Nasal congestion or runny nose?
- New shortness of breath or difficulty breathing that is not due to another health condition?
- New chills that are not due to another health condition?
- A new sore throat that is not due to another health condition?
- New muscle aches that are not due to another health condition, or that may have been caused by a specific activity (such as physical exercise)?
- Fatigue (more tired than usual)?
- Headache?
- A new loss of taste or smell?
- Abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea or vomiting?
- New onset of poor appetite or poor feeding?
- Have you had a positive test for the virus that causes COVID-19 disease within the past 10 days?
- Were you currently tested for COVID-19 because you were sick and are still waiting for the lab results?
- In the past 14 days, have you had close contact (within about 6 feet for 15 minutes or more) with someone with suspected or confirmed COVID-19?
As a reminder, if your child comes to school with any of these symptoms, they will be isolated in the CARE room and you will be contacted to bring them home. They will need to see a doctor to verify a negative COVID test or alternate diagnosis before they can return to school. (NOTE: If you decide to keep your child home due to any of these symptoms there is no Return to School form requirement.)
Students who must remain absent for multiple days for COVID-related reasons will be provided asynchronous activities. Please communicate with us if your child tests positive for COVID and is isolating, or if your child is quarantining by order of the Fairfax County Health Department.
13.Parent Liaison
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