Welcome To Our School Blog!
Message From Our FORCE Staff
March 2, 2020
Happy Monday FORCE Families!
Welcome to March and officially welcome to Trimester 3 here at Fiddyment Farm! We are excited for our final third of the school year, as our events are going to be ramping up along with the excitement of finishing strong by preparing students for end of year tests, and/or skills to take them to the next grade level! It's going to be a wonderful month here on The Farm!
Just a REMINDER, that TOMORROW is Spring Picture Day! This is an optional picture day for students TK-4 - students will only take pictures if they plan to purchase them. However, ALL 5th graders will get their picture taken, so dress to impress, as their Spring picture will be used on their End of Year Certificate! (Purchase of the pics is optional).
Our hope with this blog is to try to keep it 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 week!
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!
Coming Up This Week!
March 2 - 6
Monday - March 2 - "PLC" Early Release Schedule
Monday - March 2 - "PLC" Early Release Schedule
Monday - March 2 - Jedi Council School Spirit - Book Character Dress Up Day
Monday - March 2 - After School Enrichment - "Young Rembrandts"
Tuesday - March 3 - Spring Picture Day
Tuesday - March 3 - School Musical Practice
Tuesday - March 3 - After School Enrichment - "Early Engineers"
Wednesday - March 4 - After School Enrichment - "Spanish"
Thursday- March 5 - School SING
Thursday- March 5 - School Musical Practice
Thursday- March 5 - After School Enrichment - "Mad Science"
Friday - March 6 -Father/Daughter Dance!
Friday - March 6 -After School Enrichment - "Spanish"
Friday - March 6 -After School Enrichment - "Honeycode"
Have you gotten your Yearbook yet?
No....why not? Now is the time to order! Don't wait until May when you are scrambling to get the last few we have - grab them while you can!!!
Just click the link below and enter the FF ID number to gain access to ordering!!!
Link to Lifetouch: Lifetouch
Fiddyment Farm Yearbook ID: 13391320
For our 3-5 Grade Families
State Testing is coming up in Spring!
Check below for an overview of the tests, and check your email for a letter from the school regarding testing as well! - 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 PTC Newsletter with some info on upcoming events and information!
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 it was Mrs. Bews' 4th/5th graders with 96% representing the black and gold!!!!
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 will return Thursday, March 5th - where we will continue to acknowledge more amazing FORCE students for being COMPASSIONATE to others at school - Check back here next Friday for a list of students and picture!
As we begin the second half of the school year, we want to make sure to remind our students and families of our PBIS (Positive Behavior Expectations and Supports) structure to increase positive student behavior. 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!
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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