Welcome To Our School Blog!
Message From Our FORCE Staff
August 30, 2019
We had a wonderful week here on The Farm with these cooler temperatures here to close out the week, and all the beginning buzz of our Dance A Thon!
We hope you enjoy your 3 day weekend, and when the students return next week, we have many cool things coming up - our after school enrichment programs start, our first general PTC meeting will be held, Dance A Thon pledges will heat up, we'll have our first fire drill, and on Thursday, School SING returns to pump up the students and acknowledge some amazing kiddos!
Our hope is to keep this blog updated weekly so that you can be informed of upcoming events, news, happenings, and important information regarding Fiddyment Farm Elementary and the great experiences your child will be having here at our school this year.
In this blog you will find school updates, important safety reminders, PTC information, acknowledged students and staff, after school enrichment info, community event flyers, and our school lunch menu!
We love feedback from parents on suggestions on how to keep our school amazing! Have any concerns or any new ideas? - Please share them with us and answer our short survey!
As always, we want to thank our community of parents and guardians for supporting Fiddyment Farm School, our students, and our staff!
Have a wonderful weekend and a fabulous week coming up!
Ryan Poulsen - Principal
&
Fiddyment Farm 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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Check out our RCSD Fiddyment Website for all School and Staff Info!
Monday - September 2 - No School - LABOR DAY
Tuesday - September 3 - After School Enrichment - "Early Engineers"
Wednesday - September 4 - Fire Drill - 10am
Wednesday - September 4 - PTC General Meeting - 6:30pm
Thursday - September 5 - Happy Birthday Ms. Richard and Mrs. Jones
Thursday - September 5 - School SING
Thursday - September 5 - After School Enrichment - "Mad Science"
Friday - September 6 - After School Enrichment - "Honeycode"
Wow - we are off to an AMAZING start and so thankful to all of our community for the pledges they have given so far! We are nearly half way to our goal, but can still use your help! Last year was a HUGE success, the students had an absolute blast dancing with glow shirts and accessories in the dark! And we raised a wonderful amount of money to fund our school programs and enrichment!
The THEME for this year!
LET'S LIGHT UP THE WORLD!
DATE - Friday - September 20th!
Check out more details below!!
The Fiddyment Farm Choir is starting up next week! If students are interested, they should speak with Ms. Foree, our music teacher on Monday to see if they can still sign up!
Get a jump start on this year's Yearbook and order early! This way, you won't have to stress about it and rush to get it bought in the Spring!
And - ordering is ALL ONLINE - super easy - check out below!
Thank you so much to our families that took our call for Safety First to heart and helped ease the concerns and traffic flow at drop off and pick up by following all the proper procedures and showing courtesy to each other - awesome!
GREAT NEWS for families that must cross Hayden Pkwy. to and from Fiddyment! They just installed a 4-way stop sign!!! Thank you to all the families who pushed the city for this, I know this will make traveling to and from school for those families so much safer!!!!
GREAT NEWS for families that must cross Hayden Pkwy. to and from Fiddyment! They just installed a 4-way stop sign!!! Thank you to all the families who pushed the city for this, I know this will make traveling to and from school for those families so much safer!!!!
Parent Teacher Club (PTC)
We truly value the partnership between the school and our families, and no one fosters that better than our Fiddyment Farm Parent Teacher Club! The parents/guardians that help volunteer with school events and activities are very special and very much appreciated!
Our 1st General Meeting for the PTC is next week
WEDNESDAY - SEPTEMBER 4th @ 6:30pm
Check out the August Edition of the PTC Newsletter with some info on upcoming events and information to start off the year!
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!
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, with 93% of her class sporting Spirit Wear and/or school colors - Mrs. Bews' 4/5 combo class keeps the Spirit Stick! - Way to show that spirit!
School SING will return this coming week on Thursday - where we will acknowledge more amazing FORCE students for being FOCUSED at school - Check back here next Friday for a list of students and picture!
This school year, we are re-focusing our PBIS (Positive Behavior Expectations and Supports) structure to be more simplified for our students. We are going to continue with our character themes of F.O.R.C.E. - Focused, Organized, Respectful, Compassionate, Encouraging, and put more emphasis on good character traits and habits.
On the behavior side, to simplify the "behavior" expectations, we have chosen
Be Safe - Be Responsible - Be Respectful
These are very simple for our students to understand, and are easy to reinforce and celebrate when students follow expectations and make good choices! These 3 main behavior expectations, will also carry over to Chilton Middle School, as they use the same 3.
When students do make good choices and follow behavior expectations, and show great character qualities of the F.O.R.C.E., they will be acknowledged at different times of the year, in different ways, from awards, to FORCE Tickets, to prizes - we want to acknowledge our FORCE students for showing up every day and being a true "FORCE" in our school!
If your child comes home with a FORCE ticket stub - they made a really good choice at school and should be encouraged to continue their positive choices and behaviors in the future!
Our REMIND account is back online this year and we are excited to have another outlet to communicate with our families! Last year we were unable to use it because of district guidelines, but now they have been approved for district and school use again!
The app is downloadable on ios and android and is basically a way to receive text message reminders from the school on upcoming events, with no privacy concerns or personal phone numbers shared.
If you are already signed up from before, you will start getting text reminders soon - and you can always opt out as well.
If you are new to Fiddyment, or new to Remind and you would like to receive school reminders via text, here is how to do it:
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, Science, Engineering, Coding, and Spanish.
Thank you for reading our blog and supporting Fiddyment Farm Elementary School!
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