📅 Dates #
- April 11 — Spring Enrichment Starts
- April 11 (7:00 PM) — PTA Meeting
- April 22 — Eid al-Fitr (No School)
- April 23 (9:00 AM) — Earth Day Celebration
- April 28 (5:30 PM) — International & Cultural Heritage and History Night
🆕 New #
👋 PTA General Membership Virtual Meeting on Tuesday, April 11 #
- Who: Teachers, Parents, Guardians, Students, Community Members
- What: April General Membership Virtual Meeting
- Where:
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- When: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023, 7:00 PM EST
- Why: We will have a Q&A with Principal Horak, and discuss opportunities to engage with the Abingdon Community. Additionally, virtually meet Abingdon’s Living Histories Teacher Ms. Aagaard to learn about our school’s partnership with the Kennedy Center through the Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA) program. Her presentation will provide an overview of the variety of forms art integration takes into classroom instruction. Finally, the Nominating Committee will report on nominees for PTA officers for the 2023-2024 school year.
The meeting agenda is available here: https://www.abingdonpta.org/agendas/2023-04-11. Live Spanish translation will be provided.
✍️ SOL Dates #
Each year schools in Virginia administer assessments to evaluate students’ knowledge of Virginia’s Standards of Learning (SOL). At Abingdon, these assessments are currently scheduled as follows:
| Reading | Math | Virginia Studies | Science | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd Grade | May 17 | May 23 | N/A | N/A |
| 4th Grade | May 18 | May 24 | May 31 | N/A |
| 5th Grade | May 19 | May 25 | N/A | June 1 |
💻 Tech Night #
Join us in the school library on June 1 from 6–7 PM for an information session to review ParentVue, the Acceptable Use Policy, how to access all APS resources, along with best practices for Digital Citizenship. Parents of students in all grades are welcome. Detective Tiffanie McGuire of the Arlington County Police Department’s Special Victims Unit will give a presentation about Digital Citizenship.
🏢 Countywide Information #
- Arlington County is hosting a 7-week interactive workshop “Strengthening Families Program” for students (ages 10 to 14) and parents/caregivers intended to enhance skills in communications, goal-setting, and more. Additional information is available here, and interested families may sign up here.
- Information about 2023-2024 Extended Day registration can be found here.
- Washington-Liberty is hosting a robotics day on April 29. More information can be found here.
👉 Reminders #
- Don’t forget! Abingdon will hold International & Cultural Heritage and History Night on Friday, April 28th. More information about the event and how to volunteer is available here.
- Abingdon will have an Earth Day event in the school garden on Sunday, April 23rd. More information is available here.
🙏 Thank You #
- A heartfelt thank you for the extremely generous grant from the Arlington Community Foundation for field trip funding support. This grant funding will be used to cover the transportation costs for field trips requested by each grade level teaching team. Thank you ACF for making a positive impact on our school community and helping our Cardinals to soar. These educational field trip experiences (e.g., visiting the Kennedy Center or the Smithsonian Zoo) help reinforce students’ classroom learning. Most importantly, it provides everlasting memories to our entire student population as they enjoy the learning experience with their friends and classmates.
- A huge thank you to our Abingdon first grade student Jack for adding a beautiful outdoor Little Free Library to Abingdon’s campus. Jack is extremely thankful to the Shirlington Animal Hospital for sponsoring his project. Together with his mom Tammie Dzubak, they assembled and painted it, and plan to keep it stocked with books by diverse authors as well as books about different abilities until it hopefully becomes self-sustaining. We are thankful to first grader Jack for sharing the love of reading with our Cardinal flock. Stop by the Abingdon bus loop to pick out (or leave) a book in our new Little Free Library!