Forest View Elementary

🌍 Earth Day at Forest View!🌍 Our STEM teacher led students in a campus litter clean-up using kits from @DurhamBeautiful 🌱 We're so proud of our students for stepping up to care for our Earth and our community, not just today, but every day! ♻️

We celebrated SOAR Week our disability & inclusion awareness week, learned about adaptive PE, Pet Pals therapy, guest speakers, and more! 5th graders designed accessibility solutions. Everyone took the inclusion pledge & learned how trailblazers of all abilities shaped the world.

Forest View is so proud of our Odyssey of the Mind teams! Team Cooking with Books, 3rd graders. 🏆Placed 5th Team Save Me Structure, 4th and 5th grader 🏆Placed 7th Team AstronOMical Odyssey, 5th graders 🏆Placed 1st gofund.me/56eeac99

This week, Forest View took learning beyond the classroom with Week at the Creek! 🌿 K-5 students explored, discovered, and experienced the joy of outdoor learning. 🌎 Time in nature sparks curiosity, creativity, and a love for our environment! #WeekAtTheCreek #OutdoorLearning

Congratulations, Forest View Battle of the Books Team! Our amazing team worked hard, read tons of books, and showed incredible teamwork—earning 4th place in the district! 👏 We are so proud of your dedication and love for reading. 📖💙 Way to go, Falcons! #ForestViewSoars

On Friday, 2nd grade went on a great field trip to Stagville State Historic Site. This came after our Long Journey to Freedom Unit which (among many other topics) covered enslavement, resistance, and emancipation. Check out some of the reflections from students' experiences!

🧠 5th grade had an unforgettable day exploring the wonders of the human brain! A special visitor brought a real brain for students to see, touch, and learn about firsthand. Hands-on learning at its finest!

We are thrilled to celebrate our Staff of the Year! 🎉 Instructional Assistant of the Year: Lakshmi Premkumar Beginning Teacher of the Year: Jessica Tornai Teacher of the Year: Abigail Lloyd Your passion, commitment, and impact on our school community do not go unnoticed!

🎉💯 100th Day of School Parade! 💯🎉 Our 3rd-5th graders cheered on our K-2 students as Forest View celebrates 100 days of learning, growth, and fun! Here's to finishing the year strong and making every day count! #100DaysOfSchool #100DaysSmarter

🌿💗 Another successful Exceptional Gardeners sale just in time for Valentine’s Day! 💗🌿 This amazing program helps children and young adults with diverse abilities grow skills, confidence, and connections through horticultural therapy. 🌱 #ExceptionalGardeners #GrowingTogether

We are excited to welcome our families this evening! Estamos emocionados de ver a nuestras familias esta tarde!

DPS Families: Beginning Dec. 2 through Dec. 20, DPS will implement rotational bus services. Thank you! Familias de DPS: Comenzando el 2 de diciembre hasta el 20 de diciembre, DPS implementará un servicio de autobús rotativo. Gracias!

Finishing up the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations with our third annual school-wide Hispanic Candy Tasting! Our students embraced their inner food critics, collected data on their favorites, analyzed their findings, and even created school-wide graphs to display the results

We are so happy about our successful curriculum night and Pulga! It was amazing to see the community come together for a great cause. Thank you to everyone that donated and everyone that helped make this night happen. We hope our FV families enjoyed it as much as we did!

Please follow the schedule for your grade level for curriculum night and the Pulga! Por favor siga el horario para su grado correspondiente para la noche de currículo y la Pulga!

We are so excited to bring back our free flea market for curriculum night! Please don’t miss this great opportunity! Estamos muy emocionados de traer este gran evento durante la noche de currículo! La Pulga tendrá todo gratis para que las familias! No se pierda esta oportunidad!

We are so excited to celebrate Hispanic Heritage month at FVE! Here is a quick glance at some events and activities happening this month.

Thankful to have Duke Project BUILD students on campus yesterday and today, helping staff prepare to welcome our Falcons! A great example of our community producing #FalconLift for take off! #AcademicsCultureCOMMUNITY @DukePBUILD @FVFalcons

Excited and ready to welcome faculty and staff tomorrow! It’s time to soar!