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Message From Our FORCE Staff
September 20, 2019
We had a wonderful week here on The Farm, and topped it off with a phenomenal Dance-A-Thon Event today! The students had an amazing time at the Dance-A-Thon, it was brighter and better than last year. Unfortunately, about 10 minutes into the 5th grade dance time, something in the multipurpose room, broke one of our fire sensors and the alarm went off. The entire school evacuated as trained and they all did an amazing job following drill procedures and keeping our students safe until we were sure it was a false alarm. There was never a fire danger, and the school was able to resume normal activities for the final 20 minutes of school. The PTC and the 5th Grade team will be working on a best way to reward the 5th graders with an activity of some kind, to make up for the final 10 minutes of dance time they missed. Beyond that little hiccup, the Dance-A-Thon was a complete success - see below for more info, link to pics, and appreciation shout outs!
Check out the blog below for some important news and updates, including an important message to our families from Derk Garcia, our Superintendent, regarding the new elementary school in our West Park Community, Riego Creek Elementary!
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.
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 23 - Happy Birthday Mrs. Grilione and Mrs. Javier!
Monday - September 23 - Early Release Schedule
Monday - September 23 - SPCA Visits 5th Grade
Monday - September 23 - After School Enrichment - "Young Rembrandts"
Tuesday - September 24 - Hear Screenings - K, 2nd, 5th Graders
Tuesday - September 24 - After School Enrichment - "Early Engineers"
Wednesday - September 25 - School Assembly (1st-5th Grade) - "What Bugs You"
Wednesday- September 25 - After School Enrichment - "Spanish"
Thursday - September 26 - After School Enrichment - "Mad Science"
Friday - September 27 - School SING
Friday - September 27 - Progress Reports Go Home
Friday - September 27 -After School Enrichment - "Spanish"
Friday - September 27 -After School Enrichment - "Honeycode"
Remember FORCE Families - there is an upcoming meeting for all parents of Fiddyment Farm to hear from our Superintendent about how the new Elementary School, Riego Creek will impact current FF families and the RCSD boundaries. The meeting is this coming Monday - September 23, 2019, 6:00 p.m. at Fiddyment Farm Elementary School, 4001 Brick Mason Circle.
We can't THANK YOU enough FORCE Families for all of your generous donations for the Dance -A-Thon that will help fund numerous programs and projects for our teachers, students, and for the school as a whole! We had a PHENOMENAL turnout and families pledged around $42,000!!!! This beats our mark of $38,000 last year! You are all very much appreciated for your efforts!
And congrats to Mrs. Cianci's class for being the top class that raised the most funds - over $2,600!!!! Their class will win a class party, and many other students throughout the school will win prizes from the PTC for earning specific amount of funds - stay tuned for info on those soon!
As for the Dance A Thon event itself - it was absolutely amazing! The kids had such a fun time, dancing along with the music and the projected dancers, the neon lights and clothing, the hula hoops and balloons, and the games on the floor - it was an absolute blast!
ANOTHER HUGE THANK YOU to Nikki Bolan and Jessica Landis, our 2 PTC D-A-T Chairs for this event who did such an outstanding job with organization and pulling it all together - you ladies did a wonderful job and should be so proud of all the people you made happy with this event! And THANK YOU to all of our amazing parent volunteers who came out today and helped with set up, supervision, and clean up - your time and effort is truly appreciated!!!!!
We took a TON of pics of the Dance A Thon - If you have Facebook, you can check them out at the link below:
Dance A Thon Pics on Facebook!
SAVE The DATE! - Our amazing Scholastic Book Fair is right around the corner and this year's theme - "Arctic Adventure" is going to be awesome!
The Book Fair will run from Monday, 10/14 through Friday, 10/18!
Check out the Save the Date letter below, along with the Book Fair Flyer, that includes info on our annual GRAND EVENTS! - There is also a call out for donations to help out the decorations of the Book Fair to make it look amazing for the students and families!!!!!
Our annual Harvest Festival is also right around the corner! To coincide with our Book Fair, the Harvest Festival will take place on the final day of the Fair - Friday, October 18th!
It will be a night of Trunk or Treating, Costumes, Games, Food, and Fun!
An official letter with more info will be coming to your email next week - but for now:
SAVE THE DATE!
As for the Dance A Thon event itself - it was absolutely amazing! The kids had such a fun time, dancing along with the music and the projected dancers, the neon lights and clothing, the hula hoops and balloons, and the games on the floor - it was an absolute blast!
ANOTHER HUGE THANK YOU to Nikki Bolan and Jessica Landis, our 2 PTC D-A-T Chairs for this event who did such an outstanding job with organization and pulling it all together - you ladies did a wonderful job and should be so proud of all the people you made happy with this event! And THANK YOU to all of our amazing parent volunteers who came out today and helped with set up, supervision, and clean up - your time and effort is truly appreciated!!!!!
We took a TON of pics of the Dance A Thon - If you have Facebook, you can check them out at the link below:
Dance A Thon Pics on Facebook!
The Book Fair will run from Monday, 10/14 through Friday, 10/18!
Check out the Save the Date letter below, along with the Book Fair Flyer, that includes info on our annual GRAND EVENTS! - There is also a call out for donations to help out the decorations of the Book Fair to make it look amazing for the students and families!!!!!
It will be a night of Trunk or Treating, Costumes, Games, Food, and Fun!
An official letter with more info will be coming to your email next week - but for now:
SAVE THE DATE!
We are collecting Box Tops for Educational funds again this year! Our box top contest is just around the corner - and this year- it is even easier to collect Box Tops - you can scan them digitally with the app - Check out the flyer below - Thank you for your support!
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!
Hey FORCE Families - the city is planning on installing a CROSSWALK on the West Side of Fiddyment near the bus loop to make for safer crossing, and we would really love to have a parent or community volunteer to work as a Crossing Guard for us when it is installed! If you are interested, please see the flyer below and reach out! - Thank you!
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!
Check out the newest September 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, since most students wore NEON colors for the Dance A Thon, we didn't have competition! Stay tuned to next Friday to see who gets to grab the coveted Spirit Stick!
Every School SING, we acknowledge some amazing FORCE students here at Fiddyment who consistently demonstrate our character traits, of being FOCUSED, ORGANIZED, RESPECTFUL, COMPASSIONATE, AND ENCOURAGING!
School SING returns next Friday, September 27 - where we will acknowledge more FORCE students for showing how Focused they can be in the classroom!
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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