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Dear Families,

I hope you enjoyed time off and spent time with family. We are excited to begin the third nine weeks. We have seen a significant increase in absences with student attendance. I hope everyone is feeling better and we get back on track with making it to school on a daily basis. We have been rewarding classes for perfect attendance!

Please know that our doors are always open. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach us by email, or by calling the main office at (540) 834-4569.

Sincerely,

Scott Orth

January 11: Report Cards Go Live

January 15: Martin Luther King Day Student/Teacher Holiday

Spotsylvania County Public Schools is excited to announce that we are reviewing and updating our elementary standards-based report cards for the fall of 2024. The primary goal is to make the report card more user-friendly and easier to understand your child's progress toward learning targets. We would appreciate a few moments of your time to provide feedback. This survey will be open until Friday, January 19, 2024. Thank you in advance for your help.

English- Parent Report Card Survey

Spanish- Parent Report Card Survey

Happy New Year to all our wolves in our wolf pack. We hope you all had a happy and wonderful holiday! December was a busy month, and while we unfortunately could not make it into classrooms for SEL lessons, we were able to provide some holiday joy through our Angel Tree program . Cedar Forest was able to hand out gifts for over 100 students and their families and we could not be more thankful for everyone's support. It was a huge success and amazing to see the Cedar Forest community spread some cheer to others. We are looking forward to getting back into classrooms this month. Here's to having a wonderful, successful 2024.

If you need any help or support from the counselors or our school social worker Ms. Elaina Pigue please complete the form below.

Parent Resource Form

If you haven't had a chance, please check out Spotsylvania's Parent Resource Center website. They offer many resources and events throughout each month!

Parent Resource Center

We had a rough start to the cold and flu season here at Cedar Forest. I know it is very important for all of us to be in school, but there are times when it is equally important to stay home so that we are not spreading illnesses to each other. I listed symptoms below to look out for. This is not a conclusive list, but reflective of the symptoms I am seeing most frequently in the clinic. As always you should contact your pediatrician, but if you have any questions please give me a call. I'm always happy to help.

Nurse Potter

* Fever higher than 100 degrees in the last 24 hours-MUST be fever free for 24 hours WITHOUT medication prior to returning to school.

* Chills, body aches, headache, nausea.

* Vomiting or diarrhea within the last 24 hours.

* Continuous Coughing

* Sore throat

* Ear pain

* Red eyes with discharge

Flu Information for Parents

Strep Throat: All You Need to Know

Flu Symptoms & Diagnosis

Welcome back and happy new year, Cedar Forest!! We hope everyone had a wonderful winter break.

Our 4th Annual Holiday Cookie Banquet Swap for our staff was held Thursday, December 14, 2023 and it was a huge success thanks to all the cookies and treats that were provided by our CFES families. Thank you for your help!

Our amazing CFES staff needs some Work Room Good Eggs to help with cutting, laminating, collating, copying, stuffing, and all other manner of good egg work...we've scheduled out 2 hour slots on Tuesdays and Thursdays through the end of the school year. If you've got some time to volunteer, please sign up to be a Good Egg. Good Egg Sign Up and search for Cedar Forest

We are looking for families to provide a "Staff Pick Me Up" once per month. Ideas include coffee, snacks, lunch, treats, or anything you'd like to do to support the CFES staff. If you would like to offer a Staff Pick-Me-Up donation, please email us at cedarforestpto@gmail.com. We are looking for volunteers for February and March!

We are partnered with Mabel's Labels to fundraise for the PTO! If you need high quality, durable labels to help keep track of your student's belongings, Mabel's Labels is a great choice. Visit campaigns.mabelslabels.com and search for "Cedar Forest Elementary School PTO (Fredericksburg): and purchase your labels today! YOU get personalized labels and WE get 20% back from each order.

Did you know that we have a CFES PTO Facebook Page, as well as the private group? Just search for us on Facebook "Cedar Forest Elementary PTO" and give us a like! We'll keep you up to date on all the happenings here at the forest. You can also request to join the private group, where we provide even more information and updates!

Next PTO Meeting: Tuesday January 9 @ 6:15 PM in the CRES library. It's free to join and all are welcome!

Last year, the Virginia Department of Education created a Parent Portal as a new method for you to receive your child’s Virginia Assessment Program test results. This attached link will take you to a document will help you access test results.

Parent Portal

Follow on on Twitter: @CedarForestES

If you shop at Weis or Publix please link us to your shopper cards! Cedar Forest will receive money quarterly based on sales linked to our school. You can go to this website to link Cedar Forest to your Club Publix shopper card.