Important Upcoming Dates
3/13: Family Engagement Survey Opens
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
4/3: Family Engagement Survey Closes
4/4 - 4/8: Spring Break - No School
4/11: Quarter Four Begins
4/20: Woodson Pyramid Art Show 6-9 PM
5/13: Deadline for Parent Input Forms for 2022-2023
5/19: Kindergarten Orientation 4:45-5:30 PM
5/30: Memorial Day - No School
6/10: Last day of school: Two Hour Early Release
8/10: Kindergarten Playdate: 10-11 AM
8/10: Grades 1-6 New Student Tour and Playdate 11 AM-12 PM
IN THIS ISSUE
- NEW: Welcome, Ms. Corrigan!
- NEW: Family Engagement Survey
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Read Across America
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PLEASE Enroll Now!
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Calling All New Kindergarten Dragons
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NEW: Kindergarten Orientation
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NEW:Parent Input Form for 2022-23 Class Placement
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Water Bottles for Students
- Academic Testing Results Information
- NEW: Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week
- PTA News
- Monday & Friday Fairfax Villa Clothing
- FCPS COVID-19 Case Dashboard for School Year 2021-2022
- FCPS Daily Health Screening Reminder
- Parent Liaison
- Woodson 5K
1.Welcome, Ms. Corrigan!
We are very happy to announce a new part-time ESOL teacher who will be working with our current ESOL team, Ms. Atkinson and Ms. Quinn. This week, Ms. Jingwen Corrigan started at Fairfax Villa for 2.5 days a week. She also works at Silverbrook Elementary 2.5 days a week.
Ms. Corrigan was born and raised in China and speaks English, Mandarin Chinese, and some Shanghainese. She received her master’s degree in education from George Mason University and has been teaching in FCPS since 2010. Ms. Corrigan taught Chinese at the middle and high school levels before she decided to make the change to elementary ESOL. We are glad she did!
Welcome to Fairfax Villa, Ms. Corrigan!
2.Family Engagement Survey
On Sunday, March 13, in the afternoon, you will receive an email from Fairfax County Public Schools via K12 Insight regarding FCPS’ Family Engagement Survey. Your feedback is critical in helping to inform and improve our practices to best support our students.
Taking this survey will also help strengthen the partnership between your family and your school. When that partnership is strong, students can experience a range of benefits including improved school readiness, higher student achievement, and better social skills and behavior.
FCPS is partnering with independent firm K12 Insight to administer the survey. It will be available in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, Urdu, Farsi, and Amharic. Please visit our Family Engagement Survey webpage for more information and look for the survey in your inbox on March 13. Your voice matters!
3.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 received a bag of read aloud books 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: The Bingo Board was sent home 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
Decades Day at Fairfax Villa!
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PLEASE Enroll Now! We need new students to enroll NOW for the 2022-2023 school year!
• Is your child turning 5 years old by September 30, 2022?
• Will your child be a 1st-6th grader who is new to Fairfax Villa?
Please start your registration now! If you have any neighbors with little ones, please send this information to them as well.
If your student does fall in the Fairfax Villa ES boundary, we encourage you to register on our Kindergarten/New Student intake form site ASAP so we have accurate numbers for staffing our classes for next year!
You may also reach out to Silvia Dossmann, our school registrar, this week so that she can assist you with the registration process at smdossmann@fcps.edu or call 703-267-2801.
The 6th grade team and students dressed for Decades Day!
5.Kindergarten Orientation
This year’s kindergarten orientation will be held at Fairfax Villa in the afternoon of May 19th from 4:45 - 5:30. Parents and new kindergartners will have the opportunity to meet the 2022-2023 kindergarten team and learn more about our school and what to expect for your child’s important year in kindergarten.
We look forward to meeting our new kindergarten families!
6.Parent Input Form for 2022-23 Class Placement
With the end of the year quickly approaching, we are already looking ahead to next year. While we look at class placements for the coming year, we want you to be aware of the process. We place students in classrooms based on numerous criteria. Students are grouped so that classrooms are heterogeneous, having a balance of boys and girls, a balance of academic performance and ability, and groups that will allow for the greatest support from our resource teachers.
Classroom teachers will have input into the recommendations for next year, as will our counselors and specialists. Our staff has been told that we will not take requests for particular teachers because we base our placement on instructional criteria and individual student strengths and needs. It is unfair to give special consideration to some parents when it would be impossible to grant requests from all parents. Please be aware also that grade level assignments for staff sometimes change, due to late enrollments or other changes. Staff assignments are determined at the end of the summer. Our staff has been directed not to give out information about placement prior to that time. Children and parents are disappointed when changes must be made due to staffing issues.
In addition, we also value parent input. If you feel there is pertinent information to support your child’s success for the upcoming school year, you may submit your input by clicking on this Google Form link:https://forms.gle/JxkCXDfW1PStFg356. The parent input forms are due by May 13, 2022. We value and consider your insight into your child’s learning needs. Taken together with teacher input, your feedback informs class placements.
7.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.
8.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
9.Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week
We are just under 2 months away from Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week (TSAW)!
This year, we are asking every family that can to ADOPT A TEACHER/STAFF GIFT! We’ve collected individual gift wishes from every staff member and are asking YOU to log on to Amazon and purchase one (or many!) of these requested gifts.
Every gift was selected by a teacher or staff member at our school, and YOU can help make those gift
wishes come true!
Gifts will be delivered to the TSAW coordinator and presented to our wonderful staff on the last day of Appreciation week. Act NOW and help complete our gift registry purchases!
Questions? Contact Meg Moody, TSAW Coordinator at megmoody12@gmail.com
THANK YOU!
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.
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.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.
12.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.
13.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.
14.Parent Liaison
15.Woodson 5K
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