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Congrats to everyone who worked hard on their pumpkins - it was a tough choice!
🚶🍁A Big Walktober THANK YOU!
During the month of October, staff focused on their physical wellness and competed in teams in a “steps” challenge to record the most steps. We had THREE teams hit over 3 MILLION steps during the month! That’s an average of 1,312 team miles for the month! As a staff we walked over TEN THOUSAND miles!
Mosaic staff want to give a HUGE thanks to the following companies and individuals for their help with our Walktober school-wide competition. We couldn’t have done it without these supporters as well as Jenny Holliday and Sarah Erdman from our PTA helping us out!
Wegmans Fairfax is proud to support their local teachers and local families with gift card donations for healthy snacks and meals!
Mosaic Staff would also like to thank Nicole Zarou and her partners at Pearson Smith Realty, Goosehead Insurance, and Buckingham Mortgage for their donations for our Walktober schoolwide prizes. Check them out on Instagram: @nexthomewithnicole @gooseheadinsuranceagency @leighannesellshomes or at their websites for any of your home buying needs!
We would also like to thank F45 Fairfax, Burn Boot Camp Fairfax, and Core Power Yoga Fairfax for coming to our school for offering a workout class for staff every Wednesday this month!
🍬Candy Wrapper Collection
Mosaic SCA and Mosaic Get2Green are partnering with Trash or Treasure to reduce waste and keep trash out of landfills. We will be collecting candy wrappers from all students from October 31-November 11th. Just bring your empty wrappers in, drop them in a designated box in the lobby of the school, and feel good about reducing your waste! Trash or Treasure will then turn our waste into something useful like hard plastic items and dog waste bags!
🎉Spirit Week This Week!
We are enjoying our first Spirit Week of the year! See below for info for the remainder of the week:
Thursday 11/2: Sports/Hobby Day
Friday 11/3: Pajama Day (no slippers please)
⌛November Gift of Time
Please consider giving our teachers the gift of time! You will provide recess coverage by monitoring recess for 30 minutes. Please review the available slots on Sign-Up Genius.
We ask that you arrive 10 minutes before the recess time to check in at the office and go to the classroom.
Thank you for supporting our teachers!
📣PTA Bingo Night
📸School Picture RETAKES Day - November 15
Students who were absent on picture day will be photographed on November 15. Portrait orders should arrive soon—if you would like a retake for your child, please return the original order in its envelope to give to the photographer on Retake Day.
Photo orders and more information can be found on our school portal on the Barksdale website.
🗳️ Calendar Update for March 5 Presidential Primary
The Fairfax Board of Elections has requested that schools be closed on Tuesday, March 5, to accommodate the administration of the 2024 presidential primary election.
March 5 will be a school holiday for students and a virtual School Planning Day. Central offices and school offices will remain open. SACC will remain open, as it does on other professional work days.
📝Federal Impact Aid Survey: Now Online
FCPS is asking all families to fill out a Federal Impact Aid Survey. To make it easier, the form is now available online in SIS ParentVUE.
Completing this form for each school-aged child in every household is important because information from this survey results in an additional $3 million in grants each year from the U.S. Department of Education. These funds are used to support all Fairfax County public schools and centers.
Once logged in to SIS ParentVUE, click “Online Packets” in the top right corner. Then, select “Federal Impact Aid Survey.” Get more information.
Need to Register for ParentVUE?
Learn how to activate your SISParentVUE account, so you can easily submit your survey. Find out how to get technical support for ParentVUE.
👩🏫Mosaic Substitutes Needed
We are always looking for kind and caring substitute teachers and substitute instructional assistants to ensure our students continue to thrive when teachers and instructional assistants need to be out of the classroom. Substitute teaching is a great opportunity for future teachers, stay-at-home parents, retirees, college students, part-time employees, and anyone who wants to make a difference! If you are interested in this opportunity, please email Daveyva Garcia, Office Assistant, at dcgarcia@fcps.edu and apply on-line.
Substitutes will receive their hourly pay plus an additional $80 for each of the 18 designated high-volume days they work. All substitute instructional assistants will receive their hourly pay plus an additional $55 for each high-volume day they work. See the list of high-volume days.
A bonus program for substitutes:
- Substitutes working 50 days within a school year will earn a $200 bonus.
- Substitutes working 100 days within a school year will earn a $300 bonus.
- Substitutes working 150 days within a school year will earn a $400 bonus.
Bonuses will be paid quarterly in December, March, June, and July. Get more information about the pay schedule.
🍎FCPS News
In case you missed it in FCPS This Week, the school division shared updates on the following topics:
- Results of Fairfax County Youth Survey
- Become a Tutor!
- End of First Quarter
📰What's Happening at Mosaic?
Kindergarten students loved dressing up for Character Day!
Check out our website to learn about the amazing things our Mustangs are doing at our school!
Visit our page on X (formerly Twitter) and see snapshots of what goes on in our amazing classrooms!
Join us on our new Facebook page to hear the latest and greatest news coming from Mosaic!
🗓️Upcoming Events
November 3 - Quarter 1 Ends, 2-Hour Early Release
November 6-7 - Teacher Work Days (Student Holidays)
November 9 - PTA Bingo Night, 6:00 p.m.
November 15 - Picture Retake Day
November 22-24 - Thanksgiving Break (Student Holiday)
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