2-22-18 FSE Thursday Blast

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, February 22nd

• Spirit Night at Chick-Fil-A from 4:00-10:00 pm

Friday, February 23rd

• Spirit Night at Chipotle from 4:00-8:00 pm
• FSE Spirit Assembly at 3:30 in the gym

Tuesday, February 27th

• Lifetouch class picture day in the gym

Friday, March 2nd

• Dr. Seuss Day-Dress up like a Dr. Seuss character
• FSE Spirit Assembly at 3:30 pm in the gym
  
  

PTO Fundraiser!

Students will be coming home with a butter braids order form on Monday, February 26th.  

Please help PTO raise some money for our wonderful teachers!  All order forms need to

be returned to your child’s teacher on March 12th.  Pick up for the butter braids will be

March 27th from 3:15 to 5:30 in the cafeteria.  We cannot store them so if they are not

picked up they will be donated.

Access to 1000’s Books at Home

Please see this new resource from our librarian Mrs. Petrillo!  

OverDrive Online Library

Volunteers Needed:

If you would like to volunteer for spring class picture day, please contact

Kellie McKenzie at Kellie.McKenzie@dcsdk12.org.  

CMAS (Colorado Measures of Academic Success) Testing

CMAS Testing will take place at FSE once we return from Spring Break.

Students in grades 3-6 will take the English/Language Arts (ELA) test, as

well as the Math test. In addition to the ELA and Math test, our 5th graders

will take the Science test.  Our testing dates are as follows:

April 3-5:   3rd and 6th Grade ELA

              4th and 5th Grade Math

April 10-12: 5th Grade Science

4th and 5th Grade ELA

April 17-19: 3rd and 6th Grade Math

To learn more about the testing, you can visit our State Mandated Testing

tab on FSE's website, connect with your child's teacher, or reach out to our

school's Assessment Coordinator, Meg Jacques, at mejacques@dcsdk12.org or 303-387-5233.

Cold weather reminder:

Parents please make sure your kiddos are bringing appropriate cold weather

gear for outside recess. We do let them go outside if it is 25 degrees.

A Message from Mrs. Brown

Thank you all for the wonderful food donations for our Backpack program.

We are currently looking for hygiene products such as shampoo, conditioner,

soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, chapstick, etc. Thank you for helping!

FSE Enrichment Programs:

Mad Science-New Dates

Camp Invention

Community:

Ian Byrd Parent Night

2-15-18 FSE Thursday Blast

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, February 15th

• Crazy for Kindness Day, wear crazy hair and crazy clothes

Friday, February 16th

• No School-Professional Development Day

Monday, February 19th

• No school, Presidents Day

Wednesday, February 21st

• PTO Meeting from 7:00-8:00 pm in the Learning Commons

Thursday, February 22nd

• Spirit Night at Chick-Fil-A from 4:00-10:00 pm

Friday, February 23rd

• Spirit Night at Chipotle from 4:00-8:00 pm

Tuesday, February 27th

• Lifetouch class picture day - Gym

FSE Enrichment programs:

Girls on the Run

Mad Science at Flagstone

Flagstone Fitness Club

Community:

Ian Byrd Parent Night

Volunteers needed:

If you would like to volunteer for spring class picture day, please contact Kellie McKenzie at Kellie.McKenzie@dcsdk12.org.  

2-8-18 FSE Thursday Blast

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, February 8th

• Rink at the Rock Night from 4:00-8:00 pm

Friday, February 9th

• Spirit Assembly-3:30 pm in the gym

Monday, February 12th

• Feeder SAC Meeting from 5:00-7:00 pm Douglas County High School

Monday, February 12th-Friday, February 16th

• Random Acts of Kindness Week

Thursday, February 15th

• Crazy for Kindness Day, wear crazy hair and crazy clothes

Friday, February 16th

• No school-Professional Development Day

Monday, February 19th

• No school, Presidents Day

Student Safety

Please remember that if you are on campus to sign in at the office and get a visitor badge,
this includes the playground.  Please also remind your child that they should not run
up to the kiss and go lane during their recess time if they see you picking up a sibling.  
Thanks for your attention to this matter.

Flagstone School Accountability Committee

We have an opening for one parent liaison on our Flagstone School Accountability Committee (FSAC).

Flagstone  SAC is an advisory committee, not a governing body, that advises the principal on school
performance, budget priorities and parental engagement. The purpose of the committee is to inform,
encourage and provide opportunities for parent and community members to be involved in the input of
planning and evaluation of the school’s instructional program and quality improvement processes.  
Each SAC is comprised of parents, community members, principals and teachers.

Topics discussed at FSAC include:

Parent Engagement

Flagstone Budget Priorities

Flagstone Unified Improvement Plan (UIP)

FSAC meetings are held quarterly or as needed/determined by our committee.  They begin at 4:15 and last
an hour or so.

We invite you to join us as we strengthen our school and community together!

• Learn more by attending the DC Feeder  Accountability Committee meeting this Mon. Feb. 12th

at DCHS 5 - 6:30.

• Read about SAC by following this link. https://www.dcsdk12.org/district-accountability-committee/sac-responsibilities
• If you would like to apply for our SAC opening please email rossanaurbina@comcast.net

---Flagstone Elementary SAC

Student Council Reminder:

All Student Council Representatives have a meeting tomorrow, Friday, February 9th, at 8:15 in the
Learning Commons.   Please encourage your student to wear their Student Council t-shirt every Friday.

We Want Your Input!

It is that time of year where we are planning our school budgets for the next school year.  Our staff,
and school accountability committee, have both weighed in on what they would like to prioritize for our
school budget for the 18-19 school year, and we wanted your input too. Our staff selected the following
four priorities as the most critical to consider and our school SAC agreed.  They are:

1. Writing Curriculum (the investigation and purchasing of a comprehensive program)

2. Class size  (staffing to keep them as low as fiscally possible)

3. Completion of our instructional student books (this was started by PTO with our fun run money but not
finished)

3. Intervention support (reading, math, and behavior) for students that need extra support.

Please let us know what you think about these recommendations or other ones that you might have.  As you
know, our budgets are limited, so if we prioritize one idea or program, another idea or program would need
to be reconsidered.  On another note, our specials programs will continue the same as this year, including
full-time teachers for these important parts of our curriculum.

Link to TWO question survey

FSE Enrichment programs:

Girls on the Run

Mad Science at Flagstone

2-1-18 FSE Thursday Blast

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, February 1st-Friday, February 2nd

• Last 2 days of 2nd Annual Backpack Program Food Drive

Friday, February 2nd

• Go Red Day-WEAR RED to increase awareness of having a healthy heart
• Spirit Assembly-3:30 pm in the gym

Tuesday, February 6th

• 2:30 Fire Drill
• Battle of the Books 5 and 5:30

Wednesday, February 7th

• Battle of the Books-FSE vs DC

Thursday, February 8th

• Rink at the Rock Night

Friday, February 9th

• Spirit Assembly-3:30 pm in the gym

Monday, February 12th

• Feeder SAC Meeting from 5:00-7:00 pm Douglas County High School

Monday, February 12th-Friday, February 16th

• Kindness Week

We Want Your Input!
It is that time of year where we are planning our school budgets for the next school year.  Our staff, and school accountability committee, have both weighed in on what they would like to prioritize for our school budget for the 18-19 school year, and we wanted your input too. Our staff selected the following four priorities as the most critical to consider and our school SAC agreed.  They are:
1. Writing Curriculum (the investigation and purchasing of a comprehensive program)
2. Class size  (staffing to keep them as low as fiscally possible)
3. Completion of our instructional student books (this was started by PTO with our fun run money but not finished)
3. Intervention support (reading, math, and behavior) for students that need extra support.


Please let us know what you think about these recommendations or other ones that you might have.  As you know, our budgets are limited, so if we prioritize one idea or program, another idea or program would need to be reconsidered.  On another note, our specials programs will continue the same as this year, including full-time teachers for these important parts of our curriculum.
Link to TWO question survey

Choir!!

3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th Grade Choir starts next Friday!

4th, 5th & 6th Grade Drama club starts the Monday after that and there is still time to sign up.

Choir Permission Slip

Drama Club Permission Slip

WISH WEEK!
Thanks for all your donations to our Wish Week Fundraiser.  FSE raised $1883 dollars for the Make a Wish Foundation.  We contributed to the total amount collected by the Douglas County High School Feeder for a total amount of $47,000!  What an amazing community event!  This money will go to grant 7 wishes for children across Colorado.

DCSD Open Enrollment Round Two

If you live outside Flagstone’s boundaries and have a younger sibling to register you much
complete Open Enrollment.  If you did not complete Open Enrollment during first round,
you will be able to apply for Open Enrollment now, this window opened on January 22nd.
 If you have a current  6th grader and live outside Mesa/DCHS boundaries, you must open
enroll to attend Mesa in the fall.  Please contact Kellie McKenzie in the office should you have
any questions regarding this process.

Community:

YESS Parent Academy

Dinner Drive

Girls on the Run