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We are a family.
We are capable.
We are caring.
We all belong!
 Kindergartners enjoyed learning about Johnny Appleseed on Friday.
FCPS Calendar for the 2023-24 School Yearl
October 4 Celebrate Walk & Roll to School Day!
October 5 Family Market, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
October 9 No School - Staff Development
October 19 PTA Meeting, 6:00 p.m.
October 19 Family Engagement: Social Emotional Wellness, 6:30 p.m.
October 23 - 27 Scholastic Book Fair, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
October 27 PTA Pizza Sales, 6:00 p.m. & Scholastic Book Fair Open
October 27 BINGOween, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. in the gym
Virginia Literacy Partnerships
Welcome to a new school year, families! You may be familiar with some of the shifts that we are experiencing in FCPS as we embrace reading research and best practices for teaching all students to read. As students learn to read, there are two major skills that they must develop: the ability to read the words on the page, and the ability to listen to and understand language. These two skills combine to develop reading comprehension, which is a child’s ability to understand what they read.
How can you support reading comprehension at home? There are two useful strategies that you can use with your child any time they read independently or you read together. When reading at home, ask and answer questions such as what, how, and why. Then, work together to determine the main idea of what was read. To help determine the main idea, ask yourself, “What is this mostly about?”. These two strategies for thinking about reading help students to remember more of what they read, and therefore they learn more from what they read. Watch this short video from The Meadows Center called “Helping Your Kid With… Two Useful Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension” for more information about using these comprehension strategies at home with your young readers.
Happy Reading!
  
Bren Mar Park continues to welcome new students to our school community. Not all are able to provide requested School Supplies. Any community supports in donations of the following items would be much appreciated:
- Dry erase markers
- Composition, notebooks
- Colored pencils
- Spiral notebooks
- Dry-erase board
Ava Lehavi, ID Teacher
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- Hi! This upcoming year will be my first year as an intellectual disabilities teacher and my first year at Bren Mar Park! This will be my second year teaching in FCPS.
- I grew up in Westfield, NJ and graduated in 2022 from Vanderbilt University with my degree in special education.
- In my free time, I love to watch TV, read, and go to workout classes!
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