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3/4 - Spirit Night at Monty’s

3/10 - PTCO Meeting, 6:30pm (Pattie Library)

*No Advisory Council Meeting this month

3/13 - 3/25 - Pattie's Book Fair is Open

3/18 - 5th Grade Integrated Reading and Writing SOL

3/20 - No School: Eid al-Fitr

3/23 - Book Fair & PTCO Family Night, 5:00pm - 7:00pm

3/23 - Dress Like A Pirate/Book Character Dress Up Day

3/27 - Tornado Drill during School

3/27 - End of 3rd grading period

3/30 - 4/5 - No School: Spring Break

4/6 - No School: Teacher Workday

4/9 - Gauntlet Competition for 4th grade students

The 5th Grade Promotion Ceremony will be in the evening this year. It will take place on Thursday, June 11th at 6:00pm in Pattie's Cafeteria/Gym. Due to capacity restraints, each student will receive 3 tickets for family members. Tickets will be required for entry.

5th Grade students will take their Integrated Reading and Writing SOL on Wednesday, March 18th. Please do your best to ensure that your student is in school on this day, and also remind them that all smartphones and smart watches must be turned off and put away.

Students who have worked hard to make progress towards their goals and have "leveled up" to Gold participated in a VIP celebration before getting front row seating for our Mad Science Assembly.

All students who have "leveled up" to Blue or Gold got rewarded with a Mad Science Assembly!

Mrs. Cooper's Kindergarten class has been hard at work learning how to sign the Pledge of Allegiance, so they got to show off on our recent morning announcements.

On 2/25, a few Kindergarten teachers, along with an ESOL teacher and our Parent Liaison provided a learning session for families. The goal of this session was to equip families with strategies and resources to support their student at home. Parent engagement is vital to the success of a student, so we encourage families to take advantage of these opportunities whenever they're offered.

If you are interested in participating in the 26-27 Peer Model Program (half-day program) at Washington-Reid Preschool, please reach out to Taylor Fields at wollerta@pwcs.edu. We will hold our first Peer Model Play Date in April.

To be eligible for the Peer Model Program:

1. Children must be at least 3-years old by September 30, 2026.
2. Comply with simple directions.
3. Interact with children of the same age.
4. Use words to express ideas and have strong expressive language skills
5. Independent with toileting skills.

Congratulations to Logann Mink, Judith Desamours, and Elisabeth Catterton for representing Pattie in the Prince William All-County Chorus. We are so proud of you!

During music, students continue to sing, dance, and play instruments. Fifth graders are learning a beanbag passing game with music in 5/4 time. Fourth grade has just begun our unit with recorders. We are so excited to have an instrument of our very own in our hands! Second and Third graders are finishing up folk dances. Not only is it FUN to dance with our friends, but we also are skilled at recognizing the melody of a song. Kindergarten and first grade are singing and moving to music with different TEMPO and DYNAMICS. We are learning that the speed of the music, and how loud/quiet we sing can help make the song truly come to life.

RESCHEDULED SCOTT MAGOON Author/Illustrator Visit: Thursday, March 26th

We have already spent lots of time preparing for Scott's visit by reading lots of his books! Specifically, we have worked the most with the following:

Kindergarten: read The Nuts: Sing and Dance in Our Polka Dot Pants. They decorated their own characters and polka dot pants AND composed a rhythm to match the song!

1st Grade: read Chopsticks and wrote about an activity that can be enjoyed alone AND another activity that is better experienced with a friend. "To standing on our own and to sticking together!"

2nd Grade: read There's No Place Like Gnome's and designed treehouse hotels.

3rd Grade: read Linus and constructed number 2 pencils out of papier-mache.

4th + 5th Grades: read excerpts of Extincts: Quest for the Unicorn Horn and folded origami Passenger Pigeons to create a flock the match one of the main characters, Martie.

You can see the complete list of his books here: https://scottmagoon.com/all-books

#pattiereaders #readallthebooks #readreturnrepeat

Friday, March 13th-Wednesday, March 25th

Tons of details coming soon...

The art room is full of creativity!

Kindergarten artists made textured turtles out of clay with a painting of their habitat. They loved their first experience with clay and look forward to making a sculpture every year! First grade artists are learning the new skill of making a pinch pot with clay and using it as a base to create any sculpture their art smart minds can create! Second graders celebrated their clay sculptures with an art gallery that the entire school came to see! They are now exploring a variety of printmaking techniques. Their favorite is painting rubber fish, inspired by the ancient Japanese art, Gyotaku, where fishermen would paint the fish they caught to prove how big it was! Third graders created paper mache sculptures of pencils to celebrate our visit from author/illustrator Scott Magoon. Sadly, his visit has been postponed due to weather, but they are excited to show it off March 26! Fourth graders donut sculptures are hanging in the Encore hallway and making everyone’s mouths water because they are so realistic! They are now making functional pottery using the coil technique. Fifth graders are designing and creating a mosaic design using either Excel or Lego Dots!

We are super excited for our March Spirit Night with one of our 25/26 PATTIE LEGEND sponsors!! Monty's Clubhouse Restaurant is locally owned and new to our community. We are thrilled to help them expand awareness as an area restaurant that is open to the public. They are generously offering a 20% kickback to our Pattie PTCO for all dine in and carry out orders on March 4th from 4-8pm! They are located in the Montclair Golf Club clubhouse. We can't wait to see all of our Panthers enjoying a night of dining together in our community! Thank you for your support!

Thank you to our kindergarten families for treating the staff to a Valentine's Brunch. The feedback was wonderful and a great time was had by all! Your Kindergarten PTCO Reps put your generosity to delicious use with a spread of food and drinks, a restocked Keurig stash, and even some fun games and prizes. A heartfelt thank you to the K reps and all the families who made it happen- and a special congratulations to kindergarten's very own Ms. Kelly for taking home the candy and gift card prize!

We were also able to host the rescheduled 1st grade hospitality event from January! Thank you to all of the families that made donations toward this lovely treat. Special thanks to three special volunteers who took the time to organize, assemble, and set up the beautiful charcuterie cups. They also took special care to make sure our staff with dietary restrictions were able to enjoy themselves as well.

Thank you to all of the walkers who showed their love for our crossing guards on Crossing Guard Appreciation Day, and a special thank you to a PTCO member and walker parent for spearheading this initiative!

Finally, thank you to everyone who came out to Panera, the Prince William Ice Center, and Winestyles to support our February Spirit Events! Our fundraisers were a big success and we hope you had a great time too.

This month’s PTCO meeting will continue to plan for our upcoming events in the Spring.

The meeting will take place in Pattie's library. You can also join us virtual via Zoom!

PTCO Zoom Link: https://pwcs-zm-edu.zoom.us/j/86987817532?pwd=YlRlZm5rTlpNcVl1a2tqWUV1TGsvUT09

Join us in the bus loop for a fun-filled Family Book Fair Night as we celebrate the library’s Treasured Tales Book Fair! We’ll have activities, games, and food trucks available.

The Pattie PTCO is all volunteer run and needs your help. There are lots of opportunities to get involved, like working a shift at Pattie events, attending meetings and sharing your ideas, scanning your receipts for Box Tops, dressing up as Pattie Panther, helping stock the staff lounge snack cart, and more. Join here and tell us how you would like to help.

*If you joined in previous years, you will need to rejoin for the 25-26 school year.*

PTCO Facebook Page - The Pattie PTCO Facebook page is active and a great place to get more information, see reminders and ask questions.

Pattie PTCO Linktree - This link is updated with resources you may need related to the PTCO.

If you have any questions, ideas, or would like to help in any way, please feel free to contact us at any time at PattiePTCO@gmail.com.

If you are interested in checking out Pattie's daily, student produced, morning show, they are uploaded to Pattie's Youtube channel daily. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh-odLQZRxQm1vN_zOTSiYw