In this week's Paw Print:

1. Principal Message 🐾

2. Social Emotional Screener Results 📊

3. Parent Input Form 📝

4. Talk About It Tuesday 🗣️

5. Light the Night Campaign ❤️

6. Panther Praise 🙌🏼

7. Girl Scout Bronze Award  🐈🐕

8. 6th Grade Yard Signs 🎓

9. Chantilly Boys Basketball Camp 🏀

10. PTA Information 🤲

Dear Poplar Tree Families,

This week we celebrated Teacher Appreciation Week! Thank you to our PTA for providing yummy breakfast Monday morning from Panera, a delicious boxed lunch on Wednesday from Corner Bakery, and a candy bar on Friday! You all definitely made our staff feel spoiled!

Thank you to all the room parents who planned fun ways to recognize our teachers and specialists with each class. We are so grateful for all of our staff and know it takes all of us working together to make our school a success!

We hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!

Sue Andujar, Principal

Carol Larsen, Assistant Principal

Social Emotional Screener Results

Students in grades 3-6 took the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Screener in March. The SEL Screener reports will be mailed directly to families in the next week. Please visit the FCPS SEL Screener Report and Guide website to learn more about how to understand the results and strategies for talking to your children about their responses. These supports are available in multiple languages. To learn more about Social Emotional Learning and how we support students at school and at home please see the FCPS SEL website. Please reach out to our school counselors with any questions!
Beth Mertens, Grades K, 1, 5 & 6 eemertens@fcps.edu
Stephanie Girellini Grades 2, 3, & 4 smgirellini@fcps.edu

SY 2023-24 Parent Input Form

As we look ahead to the 2023-24 school year, we are asking for your input. We value our partnership between home and school and appreciate your thoughts on your child's learning needs.  

If you feel that there is pertinent information to support your child’s success for the upcoming school year, please complete this optional Parent Input Form by Friday, May 26.

This system is not intended for families to request specific teachers. Requests for specific teachers will not be honored.

Thank you in advance for your support, 
Poplar Tree

🗣️ Talk About It Tuesday! 🗣️

Check out the video where we learn how some of our Paw Tech Squad members have been communicators and collaborators this year!

Light the Night Campaign

As a reminder, our school is participating in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Light The Night campaign, a service-learning program that helps raise critical funds for blood cancer patients. 

There are THREE ways to donate:

1. Through your child’s classroom page (for the specific link, please contact your child’s teacher)
2. Our school website by clicking HERE.
   • Click “Join Team” to create a fundraising page
3. Sending in a check made payable to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (please send in an envelope and have your child bring to Mrs. Sniffin’s class or mailbox)

Our campaign has been extended for an extra week and will run through Friday, May 12!

As a school, Poplar Tree has a goal of raising $5,000! The grade level that raises the most money will have teachers complete a dare voted on by students. In the past, teachers have been slimed and played egg roulette! We can’t wait to see what dare teachers complete this year! We invite you to join our school as we fundraise to help end blood cancers. If you have any questions, please reach out to Mrs. Sniffin at smsniffin@fcps.edu. Thank you for your support!

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!

🐕Girl Scout Bronze Awards🐈

Poplar Tree Elementary 5th grade Girl Scout Junior Troop 56024 is supporting the Fairfax County Animal Shelter to earn their Bronze Award! You can help by donating new pet toys and beds, collars or leashes, or unopened, unexpired pet food! Donations will be accepted next week, May 8 - 12 in the front lobby of the school! 

🐾6th Grade Yard Signs🎓

Chantilly Boys Basketball Camp

There will be a basketball camp put on by the Chantilly Athletic Boosters this summer. Learn more about it HERE and register for the camp HERE!

👏🏼 Block Party Volunteers 🎈

We need you to help make the May 19th PTES Spring Block Party a success! Please volunteer your time or items for use during the party! We are also in need of student volunteers for service hours! Sign up HERE!

🖐🏼 2023-2024 📋

PTA Board Volunteer Opportunities

WE NEED YOU! We have various levels of time commitments for positions to help the PTA and PTES for the upcoming school year. We are happy to answer questions about any of the positions, and we have outgoing chairs to help assist with transition planning and share resources! You can see all the opportunities HERE!

PTA Meeting/Officer Election May 11

Please join us for our virtual May 11 PTA meeting at 7PM. We will vote on our PTA officers, discuss open PTA positions for 2023-24 and share updates and volunteer opportunities for our spring events!

Here's the Zoom link!

2023-2024 PTA Officers Slate 

President: Brooke Smith 

VP1: Linda Fielding

VP2: Tim Ramlogan

Treasurer: Cat Berta

Secretary: Heather Vineis

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