Jeremy May, Pastor Sunday Services: 8:30, 11:00 Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Church: 580-762-1111 www.flcspc.com
David Birnbaum, Principal School: 580-762-9950 website: flcspc.com On-line pay: http://flspc.org/resources.html E-mail: lutheransecretary@yahoo.com Child Care: 580-762-1124 FastDirect: fastdir.com/flcspc
Sola Gratia, Sola Fide,
Sola Scriptura
April 10, 2019
CARDINAL CHATTER 4/4
Due Date for returning spring picture packets/money for pictures taken to HR teachers 4/8-12 Testing Week (Grades 2-8). Please try to
avoid tardies and morning appointments this week. 4/17
P3-1st Grade Easter Field Trip
4/18
MAUNDY THURSDAY, 11:20 DISMISSAL
(Please let the daycare or office know if your kids will be going to daycare after they are dismissed at 11:20)
4/19 4/20
Good Friday – School & Daycare Closed Easter Monday – School & Daycare Closed
4/24 4/24 4/26 4/26 5/2 5/3
Schlotzsky’s Night, 3:30 – 8:30 MidQuarter Reports 4th Grade to Rose Hill 8th Grade to OSU National Day of Prayer FLS Track Meet, 1st-8th Grades
SUMMER DAYCARE PACKETS are available in Ms. Heidi’s office and the school office. If you need summer daycare for your students, now is the time to reserve your spot! SPRING PICTURE PACKETS: Please return unpurchased pictures and payment for purchased ones (make checks out to Lifetouch WITH TAX INCLUDED @ .08667%) ASAP to your child’s teacher as soon as possible. Lifetouch will be here soon to pick up payments and unpurchased pictures. Payments and any unpurchased pictures are currently past due. Please turn in immediately. We have some extra class pictures @ $13.04 each; to purchase one, please stop by the school office. COUNSELORS AVAILABLE FOR FREE - Church member Renee Young & parent Jessica Kozarevich are offering their professional counseling services a couple of days a week for FREE to give our students time to talk privately about life. It is here at FLS on Wednesdays and Fridays at 1:00. If you believe your child could benefit from being able to open up about what is going on in their world, please contact Mr. Birnbaum ASAP since space and time is limited. NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER – Mrs. Hanson: The National Day of Prayer is on Thursday, May 2. Each year we have a special prayer event with the whole school. This year we would like to make it bigger by having school families and church families attend as well. Please mark your calendar for this event and join us and the nation as we pray. More info to come. RE-ENROLLMENT REMINDER: ARE YOU COMING BACK IN AUGUST?! WE NEED TO KNOW! Enrollment is now open to the public for next school year! If you need a re-enrollment form, they are available in the school office and at www.fastdir.com/flcspc under the “links” tab. To hold your students’ spot for next school year, return the re-enrollment form and enrollment fee (if applicable). The deadline for the discount is April 30. If you know a family new to First Lutheran School that is interested in enrolling, have them call the school office. If you refer a family with a student in 1st – 5th grades, make sure that they list you as a referring family on their enrollment sheet! If they remain enrolled through the first semester, in January of 2020 you will receive a $200 credit towards your tuition account! One family earned a $200 credit this January by referring friends! FREE DAYCARE! Leave your kids (4 years old to 6th Grade) with us on Sunday morning’s from 9:4510:45 in the basement under the First Lutheran Gym. You can have the hour to do shopping, have breakfast with friends, etc., and your kids will learn about the word of God! We want YOU(R) Kids! Please contact the church or school office with any questions. -1-
TAX STATEMENT: If you would like a printout of your payments to First Lutheran during 2018 for tax purposes, you can print them off yourself by logging into your FastDirect account, click on “Finance” on the top, then click on “tax report” on the left. Now click on the button that says “2007”, change it to the calendar year that you need, and then click “tax year printout”. It will bring up a printable page complete with our tax i.d. number. (This report includes school-related expenses only; summer daycare tax statements must be requested from Ms. Heidi in Daycare.). If you have problems, you can call the office and we can print statements for you as well. Not all payments to FLS are tax deductible, and you should contact a tax advisor to find out what can be written off, and what cannot. Things that make me go hmmm…If you replace the "W" with "T" in "What, Where and When," you get an answer to each of them. PRINCIPAL – Mr. Birnbaum: Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) is a great way for us to compare our students with students around the country. It gives us an idea of how our classes are doing overall but I really LOVE being able to see each individual's progress over the year(s). PRE-SCHOOL – Mrs. Colvin: Our Easter egg hunt will be will be next Wednesday, April 17th. We will go to Shawn Manor Nursing home to sing to the residents. When we are finished there, we will meet at New Life Trails. We will have a story time, visit the animals, and have an egg hunt. Each child needs to bring a sack lunch with a drink. This is a parent drive trip and need all that can to please drive. We will leave the school at 9:45 am. We are singing at 10:00. ***Each child needs to bring 12 plastic eggs stuffed with candy or a small toy by Monday the 15th*** Students will need an Easter basket as well to put their eggs in. PRE-KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Kelly: Our Egg hunt field trip forms were due today! Please return them to me by tomorrow, if I don't have yours. There is a reminder note in folders today. The information for our May 8th field trip will come home next week. We still have a couple of picture packets out. Let me know if you paid online. We will walk over to the track meet on May 3rd to watch, if you would like to join us. Remember to write your books on the slips and return them so that we can fill the board for our reading challenge. Our Bible words this week are, Jesus said, "Love one another as I have loved you." John 15:12 Have a Blessed Week! PRE-KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Heitman: If you still haven't returned your pictures or money, please do so ASAP. We're doing a great job working towards our reading goal! Keep reading at home! If you need more slips, I have extras in the classroom. Please remember to turn in your field trip permission slips today! Each student needs to bring a dozen eggs (filled) for our Easter egg hunt next week. You can begin bringing those in now if you'd like. We need drivers for this event, so if you're able to drive please let me know ASAP. Keep an eye out for more information about our May field trip to Lost Creek Safari in the weeks to come. We are continuing to review our letters and sounds, and working on self control. Have your student practice writing their name at home. Hard to believe we're in our last few weeks of school! Keep working hard! This week’s Bible time we're learning more about Jesus' triumphant journey to the cross and the Last Supper. Our Bible words this week are [Jesus said] "love one another as I have loved you" John 15:12. KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Miller: Please return your pictures or send the money to school if you have not done this yet. Also, our field trip egg hunt paper is due today on April 10th and the 12 filled plastic eggs are due by April 16th (send anytime). If you haven't, please sign and return your report card to school and I will give you another copy. Thank you and have a great week! FIRST GRADE – Mrs. Birnbaum: Memory for Friday is the 6th Commandment - You shall not commit adultery. Our field trip is on Wednesday, April 17 to Via Christi to sing and to New Life Trails for an egg hunt. Field trip forms are due today, so if you have not turned it in yet, please turn in tomorrow! Also, each child needs to bring in 12 plastic eggs stuffed with candy or a small toy by Tue, April 16. Parents, please help your child remember to bring their AR book to school on Wednesdays and that they have read it. We are having a lot of students forgetting their book! Also, there is a fee for lost books. Hope you are making plans to join us for the track meet on Friday, May 3. Have a great week! SECOND GRADE – Mrs. Powell: Achievement Tests are going well! We're already tired of listening and we have several testing days to go. I was very proud of our students at the trampoline park on Friday. The manager commented on the children's great behavior. Way to go! Thanks, too, to all of you who drove and joined us for the day. Memory work for Thursday is Psalm 23. No math homework or spelling this week. Blessings! THIRD GRADE – Mrs. Steichen: It's Testing week!! Thank you so much for all the snacks, prayers, and support this week. The kids are doing amazing!! The stress of it all can have an effect on us; hang in there we are almost done. This week: NO Spelling, Reading, or Memory this week. We will pick back up with it all next week. Reading: We have -2-
started a new chapter book in class called The One and Only Ivan. Math: you may see light math homework this week, we are a bit behind in our lessons. Science: We are talking about motion. This is a short unit so look for a test in the coming weeks. THANK YOU: thank you so much for those who drove us on our AR party last week. We had a BLAST!! The owner said we were the best group he has ever had there. We have some amazing and wonderful kids! Have a wonderful week. FOURTH GRADE – Mrs. Sibley: I hope you had a great weekend being back into the swing of fourth quarter. We received our eggs for the incubator yesterday. The kids are so excited! Chickens should hatch around the 30th of the month. Some are leading the last quarter off ready on the right foot; while others are having a having a bit of trouble getting going. Let the office know if you are having trouble logging into Fast Direct to see student grades. We are already working on earning our AR goals for fourth quarter. I have seen many diligent students reading during every spare moment they have. Please continue to look at planners nightly, ask the kids what we did in school, and their assignments. We are taking the ITBS. Please pray for the kids’ diligence, focus, and effort. If you wish to bring in a snack for the class, you may, just let me know. Continue to have the kids get plenty of sleep and eat a good breakfast before coming to school. Make sure you have seen the Rose Hill note and permission slip. We are working on becoming fifth graders! FIFTH GRADE – Mrs. Schatte: We're testing away here in 5th grade. We thank the parents that have provided snacks for us so far this week: Kristen Zimmerman and Holly Blackstar. We appreciate your generosity. We are doing some regular work each day when we are done with testing. There are no regular tests or memory work this week. Blessings!
MIDDLE SCHOOL MathCounts: Wednesday’s, 3:30 – 4:30, & Friday’s during study hall 4/8-11 4/11 4/15 4/16 4/16 4/17 4/23
FLS Cheer Tryout Clinic, 6th & 7th graders Mannford Track Meet, 7th & 8th CANCELLED! FLS Cheer Mock Tryouts, 6th & 7th Grade DCLA Track Meet, 7th & 8th FLS Cheer Tryouts, 6th and 7th Grade DCLA Track Meet, 5th & 6th FLS Cheer Parent Meeting, Library
Youth night in the gym!: Wednesday’s, 5:30 – 7:00, (details below) 4/26 4/29-4/30 5/2 5/3 5/7 5/9
8th Grade to OSU Po-Hi Boys Basketball Tryouts, 3:30 p.m. National Day of Prayer FLC&S Track Meet! 9th Grade Volleyball Tryouts, Po-Hi Gym, 3:30 Po-Hi JV/V Volleyball Tryouts, Po-Hi Gym, 3:30
CHANGE IN TRACK SCHEDULE! We will NOT be attending the track meet on the 11th due to testing here at home. Future track events are: - Mannford 7th/8th, April 14th- PC 7th/8th, April 16th- Deer Creek Lamont 7th/8th, April 17th- Deer Creek Lamont 5th/6th, May 3rd- FLS track meet – All. CHEER – Mrs. Heitman: Tryout clinic is under way! I'm so excited for this group of girls! We're having fun at practice, and can't wait for tryouts! Remember, no clinic on Friday (hopefully you'll be at the Spring Dance!). Mock tryouts will be Monday at 3:45, and tryouts will be Tuesday at 3:45 (this allows them a little extra time to get ready for tryouts). Please have a black tank top and red shorts for tryouts. Our parent meeting will be held Tuesday, April 23rd @ 5:00 in the school library. "FLY" NIGHT TONIGHT! in the gym! Students 6th grade and up: Join us for food, fun, and fellowship! During the Lent season our FLY activities will last 5-8 pm. FLASHLIGHT EGG HUNT: The Youth Group will again this year have an Easter egg hunt by flashlight! This year it will be indoors in the church/narthex building. We'll meet in the youth house Friday, April 12th at 7:30 for snacks and opening devotions. The hunt will begin around 8:00 or as soon as it's dark and we will wrap up by 10:00. This event is for sixth grade through high school, so grab a flashlight or two and a friend, and we'll see you there! We are in need of candy to stuff the eggs to make our Egg Hunt a success. Small, individually wrapped pieces work the best. Also, if you would like to volunteer to help us stuff eggs and/or hide them, we would appreciate that, too! Thanks for caring about and supporting our youth! (Please contact Becky or Susie with any questions.)
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WEDDING BELLS ARE RINGING: For those of you that haven’t heard the news, Ms. Pacey and I (Mr. Covert) are getting married on June 8th! We would like to extend an invitation to the reception in the FLS Gym at 5 PM that evening to all middle school families. Please use the link below to RSVP to the reception so we know how much chicken to have catered! We hope to see you as we celebrate our union in Christ! - Mr. Covert Website: www.theknot.com/us/covertweddingok
STUDENT COUNCIL: Spring Dance THIS FRIDAY!... When: Friday, April 12 Who may attend: Any current First Lutheran middle school student Where: FLS gym Theme: It's a Hawaiian Luau! Dress: Casual/Hawaiian Cost: Donation to First Lutheran Church food pantry Time: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Mrs. Harbeson: Greetings from Middle School! ITBS testing is almost complete. The kids have been real troopers, and I so very much appreciate everyone being present and being on time! A BIG thank you to Kendra Mayer and Deena Lorett for providing the 6th graders with some tasty treats to make testing week a little more bearable! It really helps us teachers out! Just a few things in language... All classes have begun lesson 12 in Wordly Wise. We are also reading our novels for literature and continuing in grammar. The middle school Spring Dance is this Friday, April 26, from 6-9 p.m. We hope you will be there! Our 8th grade OSU trip is Friday, April 26. Permission slips were due yesterday. If you haven't turned those in to me, please do so ASAP. That's all for now. Blessings to you on the rest of your week! Mrs. Hanson: 7th and 8th grade are finishing up units this week and will review next week to test next Wednesday. 6th grade will be getting some hands-on experience this week with our content as we race HotWheel cars to find average speed and which type of car has the best acceleration. National Day of Prayer is on Thursday, May 2. Each year we have a special prayer event with the whole school. This year we would like to make it bigger by having school families and church families attend as well. Please mark your calendar for this event and join us and the nation as we pray. More info to come 7th grade parents: a few things to mark on the calendar; 1. track meet- May 3, 7th grade uses the concession stand as a fundraiser. If you would like to help organize this event to earn money for D.C., please let me know. 2. graduation- May 21, 7th grade students will serve dinner that evening from 5:30-7 pm. If you would like to help organize, please let me know. Ms. Pacey: It is testing week! We are halfway done with this year's ITBS tests. We are working on blueprints in PreAlgebra, and we are learning about how to describe land using the township and range system. Have a great week! Mr. Covert: We’re almost to Easter! This week is also ITBS week, so I’m hoping everyone is getting the rest and breakfast they need to succeed!
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We’re going to continue classes after we do testing each day. In 8th grade, we’re getting into World War I this week. 7th grade is focusing on Southeast Asia this week. As for 6th grade, we’re still working through the Renaissance and Reformation. I pray that God continues to bless our school family as we move through this testing week. Blessings on your week!
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First Lutheran Church invites you to attend Lent/Easter Services with us: Wednesday, April 10 - Lenten Supper – 5:30 to 6.45 p.m. Wednesday, April 10 - Lent Worship – 7:00 p.m. Sunday, April 14 - Palm Sunday Worship – 8:30&11:00 a.m. Thursday, April 18 – Maundy Thursday Worship – 7:00 p.m. Friday, April 19 – Good Friday Worship – 7:00 p.m. Sunday, April 21 – Easter Worship Service – 8:30&11:00 a.m. Sunday, April 21 – Easter Breakfast – 9:45 a.m. – FLC Fellowship Hall We’d love to see you here!
The deadline for the $75/$60 enrollment fee discount is April 30! To get the discount, please have your enrollment fee payment turned in by the end of the day, Tuesday, April 30, 2019, or call the office at 580762-9950 to run your credit card over the phone for your enrollment (or any other) fee.
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It’s Time to Order 2018-2019 Yearbooks! (A limited number of last years’ yearbooks are available in the office f0r $20)
Complete the order form below, attach $25 per yearbook ordered ($20 if paid on or before April 30, 2019), and return to the school office on or before Friday, May 17, 2019. Remember there’s a $5 discount if ordered/paid for by April 30, 2019! We want to have additional pictures of every student in the yearbook, and you can help! The best way to make sure that we have pictures of your child in the yearbook, is to submit your pictures! Replay It is a free app from Jostens that is used to share photos to the yearbook staff. We have an account set up, and once you download the app and link it to our school, you will be able to upload pictures right then and there; it is incredibly easy to use. NO more saving the photos to a flash drive, tracking someone down to give it to, and worrying about getting it back. The pictures only take seconds to upload and share with everyone. If you forget your camera at a school event, you may go out and look at all the photos submitted by other school families. So please download the app today and start sharing your pictures!!!
Yearbook Order form: Student Name:_________________________________ & Current Grade:_____ Number of Books: _________ X $25 each = $__________ due -- OR -- X $20 each if ordered/paid by April 30, 2019 (___cash or ___check/check #_____)
Total Paid $_________
Contact number or e-mail address:___________________________________ 7
Business Owners/Parents/Grandparents/etc…
Buy an Ad in our Yearbook! Imagine the surprise on your student’s face as they are flipping through the yearbook and find their picture with a personal message from you! You can use this space to congratulate them on their first school year, graduation, an individual achievement, missing tooth, 2-digit birthday, or anything that you want to celebrate!
Business Owners: Our enrollment is over 230 students. We can help you reach these families by advertising in our yearbook. We have a variety of advertising options for you.
Parents and business owners: Pictures are included in your ad space at no additional charge! Please email them to jessica.steichen@cune.org, or call the office at 580-762-9950 for more details. Deadline for Ads is May 24, 2019, so return the order form below to the office today with your check to First Lutheran School. FullPage Ad $300
Half-Page Ad $150
QuarterPage Ad $75
BusinessCard Ad $40
Or sponsor a page for $20; this is your sentence at the bottom of the page such as…”3rd Grade class pictures page sponsored by the Jane Smith family”
Business Ad or Personal Ad (circle one) Business & Contact Name or Parent Name: Address (if business): Phone Number: I would like to sponsor this page(s): (example pages to sponsor are class pages, sports, middle school dance, graduation, musical, band, family fun night, etc.)
Ad Content:
Payment Enclosed $___________ Cash or Check #_______ (make checks out to First Lutheran School)
Deadline for Ads: May 24, 2019
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