Music Class - Calle Ocho Campus
Garden Market at J.F. Cook Campus
Communications, Information & QuestionsNEW! Halloween No Candy and No Costumes
NEW! Possip Survey Results
Calle Ocho Campus - Michigan Park Community Playground
This Week! Picture Day: Calle Ocho Oct 24 & J.F. Cook Oct 25
Did You Know the SY22-23 School Calendar at a Glance is Reflected on the ParentSquare Calendar and the School Website?
Family Portal is Your Resource for Information
Health & SafetyMasking No Longer Required
Childhood Vaccination Clinics Available Until November 18
NEW! Covid Boosters and Flu Vaccine Are Now Recommended For All Individuals 5 Years of Age and Up
School ServicesMundo Verde Services Payments Reminders
Extended Day Program
Community AnnouncementsNews From Comunidad - Calle Ocho Campus Parent/Caregiver Organized Group
School Calendar and Upcoming EventsFamily Handbook
SY22-23 School Calendar
EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
Garden Market is back at J.F. Cook campus every Tuesday from 3:30-4:30pm! Join us to support our 5th grade Garden Market Interns and to support local growers. We always have tasty free samples featuring fresh, local produce. We hope to see you there!
COMMUNICATIONS, INFORMATION & QUESTIONS
Consistent with a commitment to diversity, sustainability, and wellness, we ask families to not send your child/ren to school with candy or in costume prior to Halloween on Friday, October 28, nor Monday, October 31.
As a school, Mundo Verde practices a commitment to embrace and celebrate social events that are aligned with our mission and priorities. Our school celebrations focus on cultural heritage and diversity, and we invite families to share their experiences. As a school, we refrain from celebrating days or traditions that may show preference of one group over another or do not align with our school policies. Hence, we do not celebrate holidays such as Halloween, Valentine’s Day, and holidays of a solely religious nature. For families who value holidays that are not observed at the school, we encourage them to continue the celebrations at home.
Thank you to everyone in the community who has been taking the time with Possip surveys to educate school leaders about what’s important to you.
Read our Community Pulse Blog for a summary of what we have learned.
We now understand that although the signs for the Michigan Park Community Playground indicate a suggested age of 5-12, our PreK students may continue to use the park, with the noted exception of the rope tower structure, which is specifically designed for children 5 and older.
Our PreK students resumed usage of the Michigan Park Community Playground this past week! As we resume, teachers are ensuring PreK students refrain from utilizing the rope tower structure for safety reasons.
Oct. 24 - Calle Ocho Campus
Oct. 25 - J.F. Cook Campus
This week all students will get their individual pictures taken. OJO! Class photos will be taken in the Spring.
Calle Ocho Campus - Monday, October 24
J.F. Cook Campus - Tuesday, October 25
Make-up Day - Tuesday, November 22
Reminders:
Uniform - All students must wear their Mundo Verde T-shirt.
Individual Photo - As part of having student profiles updated in our Student Information System (SIS), ALL students will get their individual photos taken regardless of their Media Release authorization.
Check out the dates from the Calendar at a Glance reflected on the school website calendar as well as the ParentSquare calendar!! The Calendar at a Glance provides more details on the school activities at grade, campus, and school level, and community building activities for trimesters 2 and 3.
Family Portal is Your Resource for Information
Our website is your source for information. Please visit the Families Portal (password: crew) to find information about:
School Services (Extended day program, meals, uniforms, and Kids Ride Free Program)
School Communications (Weekly Family Updates, and letters from school leadership)
Health and Safety (Arrival & dismissal routines and Covid protocols)
Family Engagement (Engagement opportunities)
School Calendar
Policies and Handbooks
Directories and Forms
HEALTH & SAFETY
Starting Oct 17
Based on results from school testing protocols implemented during the first six weeks of school, as well as community-wide Covid data, masks are optional at Mundo Verde as of Monday, October 17. We continue tracking public health guidance, best practices, and evolving science related to Covid throughout the Fall and Winter and inform staff and families as needed of any adjustments to masking or testing protocols. Please continue to carefully follow existing guidance if anyone in your immediate family or household is exposed to or contracts Covid.
To read the most updated Covid-19 Policy, click here in English / Spanish.
Available Until November 18
DC Health is offering childhood vaccination clinics at five locations around the city until November 18. The clinics are designed to ensure that any child who is excluded from school because that child is still noncompliant with the District’s school vaccination policy can receive a vaccination and return to school.
Parents whose children are still not up-to-date on their required vaccinations should first contact their regular pediatric provider to schedule an appointment for vaccinations. If parents do not have a regular pediatric provider or are unable to schedule an appointment with that provider, they can call Children’s National Hospital at 1-800-884-BEAR (1-800-884-2327) and request to schedule an appointment for general pediatrics as soon as possible.
The clinics will operate Monday-Friday from 8:00am-4:00pm. Additional evening and weekend hours will also be available on select dates and at select locations. Click here to read the full announcement.
The FDA authorized bivalent COVID-19 vaccines for use as a booster dose in younger age groups.
The bivalent boosters are now recommended for all individuals 5 years of age or older if it has been at least two months since they have completed their primary vaccination series, or at least two months since they received a previous booster dose.
DC Health continues to emphasize the importance of vaccinations and boosters to help District residents protect themselves and their families from Covid-19. To find the closest vaccination location to you:
Visit coronavirus.dc.gov to find the nearest District COVID Center or DC Health community vaccine clinic
Make an appointment with your healthcare provider
Make an at-home vaccination appointment by calling 1-855-363-0333
Find other opportunities to get vaccinated by visiting vaccines.gov.
SCHOOL SERVICES
We have heard a number of questions about when and how parents should pay for school services. School services have DIFFERENT payment mechanisms in the Infinite Campus portal.
ALL Families that don’t qualify for FARM: Daily snacks should be paid for monthly through the portal's fees
Students participating in school lunch: Families should prepay for lunch by adding money to their child's food services account. OJO: If your account is showing a negative balance, you add funds to your food services account. Click here for instructions on how to add money to your account. Spanish here.
Students participating in the Extended Day Program: Program fees should be paid monthly, through the parent's portal - school store. Click here for instructions on how to add money to your account. Spanish here.
Once you add all of the required fees to your cart, you can pay all of your fees in one single transaction.
For questions about how to add money, fees, and payments, email Rocio Yoc, Senior Business Manager at invoice@mundoverdepcs.org.
Questions About School Services?
Meal or Snack program questions: Email Jack Leng, Senior Food Program Manager at meals@mundoverdepcs.org.
Extended Day program questions: Email Gloria Quirarte, Extended Programs Director at gquirarte@mundoverdepcs.org.
NEW! Sibling Discount Product Now Available in the School Store
If you are a family with more than one student in the Extended Day Program you are entitled to a 10% discount for siblings. To facilitate this transaction, we created a product titled “Sibling 10% Discount” in the school store. We ask families to pay for student #2, student #3 and so forth using the steps described in the How to Pay Guide in ENG and SPA. We are committed to reimbursing families for sibling discounts that were not applied to September payments.
Extended Day Program Payments
Please be reminded that payment for the program is due on the 10th of the month. Families seeking to make their October payments can follow these instructions: How to Pay Guide in ENG and SPA. If you have not made your October payment, please do so right away!
Questions: Email extendedday@mundoverdepcs.org.
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Calle Ocho Campus Parent/Caregiver Organized Group
October 25, 8:30-9:30am - Comunidad Meeting
Mark your calendars for the first in person meeting of Comunidad! Meeting will be hosted in the mulch area unless there is bad weather in which case it would be in the Zocalo. Meeting agenda includes:
Reach consensus on decision making process
Brief spoke updates
Issues raised by the community
These meetings are for the full community and we want you to guide the agenda. You can submit questions/suggestions here, call/text 202-922-6272 or email comunidad.calle8@gmail.com
Use our online calendar to say up to date with all meetings, events and activities. You can even import the calendar into your own using the “plus” button.
Share Your Voice - Commuting survey
Please take a moment to complete Comunidad's commuting survey to help us understand how families are getting to and from school and what concerns you have about street safety near the school so we can be effective advocates.
Upcoming Events:
Oct 24: Picture Day - Calle Ocho Campus
Oct 24: PADRES Meeting
Oct 25: Picture Day - J.F. Cook Campus
Oct 25: COMUNIDAD Meeting
Oct 28: Student Progress Reports Trimester 1
Nov 2: Student Community Meeting by Campus
Nov 4: PADRES First Friday Coffee and Donuts
Nov 9: Regular School Day / Parent Teacher Conferences in the afternoon
Nov 10: Parent Teacher Conferences all day, NO SCHOOL
Nov 11: Holiday, SCHOOL CLOSED
Nov 16: Culture/Heritage Wednesday
Nov 17: Board Regular Meeting
Nov 22: Make-up Picture Day
Nov 23-25: Fall Break, SCHOOL CLOSED