10-26-17 FSE Thursday Blast

FSE Thursday Blast 10-26-17

Upcoming events:

Friday, October 26th

• 3:30pm spirit assembly

Tuesday, October 31st -3:20pm

• Halloween Parade:  See map below

November 6th - 10th

• Parent teacher conference week

Tuesday, November 7th

• Professional Development day, no school

Friday, November 10th

• Veteran’s Day assembly - 3:15pm: We would love all our Military to come and join us for a special celebration.

Reminders/Updates:

2018-2019 ENROLLMENT CONFIRMATION

It's hard to believe, but we will be starting the planning process for next school year soon.  In order to assist us in this planning, complete the enrollment confirmation survey for your child(ren) by Friday, November 17th.  Please click here for the enrollment survey.  This will help ensure your child's classroom placement for the next year.

Volunteers/Visitors

• Please make sure to sign in at the office if you enter Flagstone for any reason.  All visitors are required to wear a badge and sign in at the office.

The Discovery Application Process for the 2018 -2019 school year is now open!

• The application process may be initiated by a teacher or other professional, parent, or student. The application deadline for the 2018-2019 school year is November 17, 2017. For applications submitted after that date, students identified for the program are placed on a space availability basis. Please visit the DSCSD Gifted Education Webpage linked HERE for more information and application materials.

PTO

• PTO October newsletter

Keeping our Kids Safe

• Please keep in mind that our Kiss and Go Line is a kid zone where our young children are breathing in gas fumes.  We have signs posted that when you are waiting in Kiss and Go that you turn your cars off to reduce the amount of pollution our students are breathing.  Thank you for adhering to this policy.
• NO PARKING in our Kiss and Go lane.  We have had a lot of parents parking in our Kiss and Go lanes during drop off and pick up.  If you need to come in the building please take an extra minute and park in our parking lot.  When cars park in the line it slows down traffic and causes a lot of congestion out on Lovington street, making our student crosswalk dangerous.  Thank you for adhering to this policy.

Halloween Parade

Please see this map  parade route  if you are interested in watching our 2nd annual Halloween parade at FSE.   Our classes have assigned exits and entrances in order to ensure that parents are able to see their children and take pictures. If you do not celebrate Halloween you may pick your child up at 3:15 and they will not be marked absent.  Here is a copy of our Halloween Policy.

Jump Rope For Heart

We are wrapping up Jump Rope For Heart with the American Heart Association THIS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd!  Thank you so much for helping our campus stay heart healthy and save lives at the same time!  If you haven’t had a chance to join the squad there’s still a little time left to earn the #ScareSquad monsters.  Sign up now atwww.heart.org/jump_flagstone or download the Jump/Hoops App (App Store for iPhone or Google Play for Android).

Thanks for making our community heart healthy!

DAC Fall Forum Information HERE

FSE Thursday Blast 10-19-17

Coming up events:

Thursday, October 19th 4-8pm Panera Spirit Night-- please use the flier that came home in

backpacks

Tuesday, October 31st

• Halloween Parade @ 3:20pm

November 6th-10th

• Parent Teacher Conference week

November 7th: PD Day No Students

November 10th: 3:15 Veteran’s Day Assembly

Conferences are Coming!

• By Friday, October 20th you should have received your child’s conference sign up.  Your children are excited to share their progress so far and their upcoming goals!  Please expect to spend time hearing your child talk about their academic progress and next steps, in addition to time with your child’s teacher during this 30 minute time block.  As always, nothing in this conference time should be a surprise.  Your child’s teacher is always available to meet in person or talk over the phone should any questions come up during the year.  Please reach out to your child’s teacher if you have questions about conferences.

Halloween at FSE:

• Please read guidelines and information on our 2nd annual Halloween parade here.

Veteran’s Day

• We are inviting all military to come to our Veteran’s Day Assembly on Friday, November 10th at 3:15 for a short presentation honoring our hometown heroes.  We hope you are able to attend.

Fun Run Money Raised

• Please let Kelli Smith know if you are interested in serving on the staff committee for the update and purchase of new literature books with our fun run money.  We are looking for one parent representative to serve on this committee.

School Accountability Committee

• We had one of our parent representatives let us know that they are no longer able to serve on our committee.  If you are interested in becoming part of this committee please email our SAC chair, Rossana Urbina at rossanaurbina@comcast.net.

From Student Council:

Friday, October 20th-Student Council meeting at 8:15 in the Learning Commons for ALL Student Council representatives 3rd-6th grade.

At tomorrow's Friday Assembly we will be announcing the 2017-2018 Student Council President, Vice President, Treasurer, and School Story Manger.

Box Tops for Education-Families, please continue to send in any Box Tops for Education that you have clipped from food items.  This is a very easy way for Student Council to raise money to support their initiatives.   Student Council will be collecting box tops from classrooms on October 27th.

Enrichment opportunities:

Lego Club

FSE Happenings

10-5-17 FSE Thursday Blast

Upcoming events:

Friday, October 6th

• 3:20 Jump Rope for Heart Assembly/Spirit Assembly

October 9th - 13th  No school, Fall break

Monday, October 16th

• SAC Meeting @ 4:15 in the Learning Commons

Tuesday, October 17th

• Red Ribbon Week (Wear red)
• Black Hawk helicopter landing 10:15am-11:15am  Field with Anti Drug Message

Thursday, October 18th  

• PTO meeting 7pm - 8pm Learning Commons

Friday, October 19th  

• Spirit night at Panera Bread (4pm-8pm)

Red Ribbon Week

The week we come back from fall break we will honor Red Ribbon Week with announcements about staying drug free, the contest below, and a visit from the National Guard in their Black Hawk Helicopter to talk to the kids about staying drug free.  Please join us in wearing red on Tuesday the 17th when the National Guard visits to support our pledge to stay drug free.

Red Ribbon Week Photo Contest Link

It’s time for Douglas County’s Annual Battle of the Books!

If you aren’t familiar with the Battle of the Books program, teams from different schools read the same set of books and compete against each other by answering questions about the books. All the questions in the competition begin with the words, “In which book…” and the correct answer is the title and author of the book. For an application please have your child ask their teacher.

Applications are due October 17th and selections will be made on Friday October 20th.

Practice will begin Thursday, October 26th and our first battle will be the last week of January.

Teams will be decided based on the following criteria:

• Application
• AR Record - Consistently reading at or above grade level
• Teacher Recommendations
• STAR Reading Scores

Halloween at FSE:

• Please read guidelines and information on our 2nd annual Halloween parade here.

Volunteers

• Please make sure to sign in at the office if you enter Flagstone for any reason.  All visitors are required to wear a badge and sign in at the office.

Community opportunities:

Discovery Information Night for Parents

Huskie Pup Pom Clinic

Halloween 5K

FSE Happenings