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In this Paw Print:
- Principal's Message 🗣️
- Uniquely YOU Spotlight 💡
- Attendance Reminders ✅
- Canned Food Drive 🥫
- Kindergarten Registration 🏫
- Kindergarten Orientation 🖐🏼
- Little Free Library 📚
- Chantilly Pyramid Art Show 🎨
- Kids Heart Challenge ❤️💪
- Fire & Ice Basketball Game 🏀🔥🧊
- Techstravaganza 2024 🧬🧲🚀⚛️
- PTA Support - Why it Matters! 💸
- PTA Announcements 📣
- Staff Panther Praise!🎉
- Follow Us! 👍🏽❤️
Dear Poplar Tree Families,
As many of you know, Ramadan, the holy month of fasting and reflection for Muslims, began this week. During this time, our Muslim students, families, and staff members will be observing traditions that center around prayer, charity, and community.
Here at Poplar Tree, we strive to foster a respectful and inclusive environment. We can support our Muslim community members during Ramadan by:
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Being understanding: Some students observing Ramadan may experience changes in energy levels or require adjustments to their schedules.
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Celebrating the spirit: We can encourage acts of kindness and generosity throughout the school, reflecting the spirit of Ramadan.
Wishing all those celebrating Ramadan a peaceful and blessed month.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Sue Andujar, Principal
Amy Alley, Assistant Principal
💡Uniquely YOU Spotlight 💡
As we are helping ensure everyone at Poplar Tree has the opportunity to celebrate their uniqueness, we also want to highlight what makes our staff members unique! This week's spotlight is our other ESOL teacher - Patty Chambers.
Think about it...what makes YOU Uniquely YOU!?
✅ Student Attendance🏫
Student attendance is very important. Every day, our teachers are teaching, and students are learning. Studies have shown that just two absences per month can cause students to fall behind.
Family trips taken during school days will be counted as “Unexcused Absences.” Excessive absences can additionally hurt our school’s accreditation status with the Virginia Department of Education. Most importantly, it creates a very difficult learning gap in a student’s education both academically and socially for all the days that are missed.
We ask that families do their best to schedule your trips during school breaks. The next school break is Spring Break which is March 25-29. Spring Break is followed by two teacher workdays (student holidays) on Monday, April 1 and Tuesday, April .
Please reach out to our school counselors Beth Mertens (eemertens@fcps.edu) or Stephanie Girellini (smgirellini@fcps.edu) if you have any attendance concerns. You can also visit this website for attendance resources.
Let’s work together to make sure your student(s) are in school and excited to finish the year strong!
🥫SCA Food Drive 🥫
The SCA is running a food drive through 3/22 to help support our community. All donations will be donated to a local food pantry. There's a bin in the lobby to place any canned goods or non-perishables. If you have any questions, please reach out to Mrs. Sniffin (smsniffin@fcps.edu).
🏫 Kindergarten Registration 🏫
We are so excited for our littlest Panthers to join our school for the 2024-2025 school year!
It's time to register your child for Kindergarten! To do this, fill out the forms linked HERE. Then, please contact our School Information Assistant (SIA), Claudia Guitjens-Munson (caguitjensmu@fcps.edu) to schedule an appointment!
🔠 Kindergarten Orientation 🖐🏼
Our future Panthers and their families are invited to come meet our Kindergarten teachers, see our Kindergarten classrooms, and learn more about our school community!
- When: Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Students will go to classrooms with the teachers, hear a story in the library, and take a tour of a bus, while guardians will meet in the cafeteria for a presentation!
📚 SCA Little Free Library 📚
We love seeing all of the use that the Little Free Library gets, however, we noticed it's running low on books. If you have any books that you're looking to donate, please feel free to add them directly to the shelves or coordinate a drop off time with Mrs. Sniffin (smsniffin@fcps.edu).
Thank you for your continued support of our community!
🎨 Chantilly Pyramid Art Show 🖼️
Our greatly anticipated Pyramid Art Show is right around the corner!
Join our Chantilly community on Friday, April 5th at Chantilly High School from 6-8pm for a fun and creative night out! Check out select artworks from our very own Poplar Tree Panthers, and learn about art programs in the Middle and High Schools as well! There will be fun crafts like bag hats, henna tattoos, and even a photo booth! Did we mention that there will be 4 different food trucks this year? YUM!
There will also be T-Shirt sales at the event for any proud artists to rock for the rest of the year! Bring the family and enjoy a night of creativity and community!
We hope to see you there!
❤️ Kids Heart Challenge 💪
The Kids Heart Challenge is now over and we would like to thank all that registered and helped raise money for this fundraiser. Poplar Tree raised over $8,000 for the American Heart Association. Way to go Panthers!
Additional "thank you" gifts that your child earned will be distributed in the next few weeks.
🔥Fire and Ice Basketball Game🧊
The 6th grade invites you to join us for the Fire and Ice on Friday, April 26, 2024. Fire and Ice is two basketball games. One between 6th grade students and one between 6th grade students and Poplar Tree Elementary teachers. There will be a fun half-time show, the Poplar Tree band, and a sprit squad. There will be food, drinks, and novelties sold. It is a fun, exciting, family friendly event. All Poplar Tree Student's and their families are invited to come!
Please be on the look out for more information coming soon!
🧬🧲 Techstravaganza 🚀⚛️
Techstravaganza is a free, public, hands-on STEM activity fair for elementary and middle school students in Northern Virginia put on by Tomorrow’s Women in Science and Technology (TWIST), a student organization at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST). Each year, they promote STEM through their annual flagship outreach event, Techstravaganza.
The Techstravaganza will happen on Saturday, May 18, 2024 from 10 AM to 4 PM at TJHSST. Admission is free and food will be for sale. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/techstrav24,
More information can be found on their website at tjtechstrav.org.
Our PTA's fundraising efforts include giving the school grants for supplies. While most supplies are not big or flashy, they are greatly appreciated!
Thank you for participating in the PTA's fundraising efforts!
Your support benefits our students and staff!
🎷🎹 PTES Talent Show 🎤🎩
Come out and support our performers TONIGHT, FRIDAY, MARCH 15 at 6pm! We have over 60 performers. There will also be bake sale items to support our 6th graders!
🎭 Not Just Dance Registration
To register for the next session of Not Just Dance, click HERE! Meetings will be Thursdays from 3:30 - 4:30 from April 11 - June 6, 2024. Register by April 2!
📣 Join the PTA!!!
If you haven't renewed your membership yet this year, you can renew here: http://www.poplartreepta.org/membership!
🎉 Staff Panther Praise
We are so grateful for all of our awesome staff who keep our students engaged and learning everyday. If you would to recognize one of our staff members for all their hard work, please give them a Staff Panther Praise!
Another option you have is to complete an FCPS Cares. You can do that HERE!
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