Welcome To Our School Blog!
Message From Our FORCE Staff
October 4, 2019
We hope you all had a wonderful week! We enjoyed these awesome, eager to learn students we have here! Lots of fun and exciting things on the horizon in a couple weeks, we will host the Scholastic Book Fair with our "GRAND" Events and our Community Harvest Festival is also around the bend. Next week, we have School SING returning and we will hold a basic lockdown drill for our students, to make sure they remember and are prepared for emergency situations, that we hope never have to happen.
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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Monday - October 7 - Early Release Schedule
Monday - October 7 - After School Enrichment - "Young Rembrandts"
Tuesday - October 8 - TK Field Trip to Bishop's Pumpkin Farm
Tuesday - October 8 - After School Enrichment - "Early Engineers"
Wednesday- October 9 - After School Enrichment - "Spanish"
Thursday - October 10 - School SING
Thursday - October 10 - Lockdown Drill - 10:45am
Thursday - October 10 - After School Enrichment - "Mad Science"
Friday - October 11 -After School Enrichment - "Spanish"
Friday - October 11 -After School Enrichment - "Honeycode"
The FOLLOWING Week!
Book Fair & Harvest Festival!
Our "What Bugs You?" school assembly was awesome! The staff and students got to get interactive with some cool little creatures!
Our amazing Scholastic Book Fair is coming up IN 2 WEEKS!
The Book Fair will run from Monday, 10/14 through Friday, 10/18!
Check out the Flyer below, 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!!!!!
The Book Fair is in great need of more volunteers to make this the best experience for our students and families as possible. There are many different choices of days and times throughout the week, where you can help out!
If you can sacrifice some time - we would truly appreciate all of your help!
CLICK HERE for the Sign Up Genius that shows which areas during the week still need support and hopefully you can give time and sign up - THANK YOU!!!!!
It will be a night of Trunk or Treating, Costumes, Games, Food, and Fun!
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!
We are overflowing!!! If you know your child did not come home with a jacket, sweatshirt, hat, lunchbox, etc, etc, etc, - please come claim it! The LOST and FOUND rack is located by the front gate every day at pick up time! - 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 newest 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 our rockin' spirited class was MRS. DYAS' Kindergarten Crew! Way to go!!
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 Thursday, October 10 - where we will acknowledge FORCE students for showing how Organized 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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