Monday, February 25, 2019

News From The FORCE - February 25, 2019


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Message From Our FORCE Staff
February 25, 2019

Happy Monday FORCE Families!

We are officially in our final week of Trimester 2!  Wow, hard to believe that we are moving into the final third of the school year!

As we end February and head into Spring, we have a ton of things on the horizon.  For grades 3-5, we are pushing towards the CAASPP - Smarter Balanced state testing in April/May,  and we have many field trips, assemblies, and PTC community events coming up very soon!

Look for report cards for Trimester 2 to be sent home on Friday, March 8th, and mark your calendar for Wednesday, March 6th, as it will be an Early Release Day (Same as Monday Schedule) for all students!

Please check out the blog below, a ton of new info including Read Across America Day, Pennies for Patients, School Safety, Spring Pictures, and your last few days to order a Yearbook!

As always, we want to thank our community of parents and guardians for supporting Fiddyment Farm School, it's students, and it's staff!

    Our school mission is to maximize learning for each member of our FORCE!
    We are the F.O.R.C.E.
    F - Focused  O - Organized  R - Respectful  C - Compassionate  E - Encouraging

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    REGISTRATION Reminder!
    If you have not registered yet, you should do so as soon as possible.  If your student is returning to Fiddyment Farm Elementary, will be a new student here, or a 5th grader moving on to Chilton Middle School, you still need to register, and can do so by following this link to the district registration webpage!
    CLICK HERE

    Read Across America Day!
    We are celebrating - READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY - this coming Friday, March 1st!
    Students and Staff are encouraged to show their spirit of reading and come to school dressed as their favorite book characters!

          Gift of Reading - Thank you!
    A HUGE THANK YOU goes out to all of our amazing students and families and our PTC for supporting our Gift of Reading Event a couple weeks back!  We had over 100 books donated to our library.  The smile on Mrs. Enos' face was a mile wide, and the smiles on the students who were the first to check out the book that they donated, was even brighter! 

    Thank you again for making our library that much better!











    Pennies For Patients Update!
    Final week of Pennies For Patients is here!  We are a little over half way to our goal, but need a very strong final push of donations to meet it!  

    KONA ICE will be parked outside Fiddyment Farm this Thursday after school, and a portion of proceeds will be donated to P4P in Fiddyment's name!

    Please give all you can, it is much appreciated!

    Thank you!

                                     Safety Reminder!
    Please remember that there are NO VEHICLES allowed to enter or park in the bus loop on the west side of the campus!  

    Recently we have had multiple incidents with parents dropping students off in the loop or waiting in the loop and being in the way of the bus.  Also, there is NO CROSSWALK there as well, so parking across the street and letting children cross to the loop, into the loop, is very dangerous.  

    Please follow all proper parking/drop off/ pick up rules and procedures of the neighborhood and the school for the safety of all.

    Thank you! 



      Spring Picture Day!
    Spring Pictures are coming up NEXT Monday (March 4th) for all students!
    All 5th graders will get their picture taken so they have a picture on their 5th grade completion certificate at the end of the year!  Parents can still purchase packages for extra copies of those pictures.

    For students in grades TK-4, only students who are purchasing pictures will have their pictures taken!

    Yearbook Online Sale!
    Time is running out to get a YEARBOOK for this school year!  Online orders close on March 30th!

    HERE is the link to buy your Yearbook online!

    Fiddyment Yearbook Code is 13391319

    Please Support Our Awesome PTC
    If you haven't joined our amazing PTC yet, we highly encourage you to do so!  By becoming a member, you are NOT committing yourself to any meetings, duties, or obligation, however, you WILL be simply giving a membership fee that help support the awesome community events that the PTC puts on, as well as helping financially with purchases the school makes that enhance the learning and fun for our students!  By becoming a member, you also get voting rights to help guide the goals and choices that the PTC makes as a whole!
    WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT!

    CHECK OUT THE CURRENT PTC NEWSLETTER BELOW 
    FOR UPCOMING PTC EVENTS!

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    Want To Volunteer at Our School?
    We would LOVE your help!  If you are interested in volunteering here at Fiddyment Farm, please click on the link to our district website - Volunteer Policy Page.  There  you will find information about the policy, the difference between Category I and Category II Volunteer, and all the needed paperwork in PDF form to get started! - Thank you for your time!


    School Spirit and School SING
    Each Friday is spirit day - students and staff are encouraged to wear their school spirit shirts, or sport the school colors - black and gold!  The class with the most students to sport their spirit for the day, wins the coveted "Spirit Stick" as a reward, to keep in their classroom for a week!  This week Cianci's 4th graders retained their title and the Spirit Stick with 90% of their class participating in wearing Fiddyment spirit wear!

    Our School SING will return on Friday, March 1st!  Check the next blog for a list of recognized students who will be acknowledged for being Compassionate!

    After School Enrichment At "The Farm"
    If you are you looking for some amazing enrichment opportunities for your child, we have some awesome after school programs starting up in September at Fiddyment!  There is a wide range of selection, from Art, Engineering, Coding, and Spanish.
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    RCSD Approved Community Flyers!
     
     
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