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Re-Enrollment Application for 2022-2023

First Lutheran Church & School

Pastor Joe Highley 580-762-1111

1104 N. 4th Street – Ponca City, OK 74601

Principal David Birnbaum 580-762-9950

“GROW at FIRST”

School Fax: 580-762-4243

www.flcspc.com or www.flcspc.org

lutheransecretary@yahoo.com

Please complete all of the following information.

Student Name:

 Check if new address or cell number

Student Name:

Parent / Guardian Name: _____________________________

Student Name:

Address: ___________________________________________

Student Name:

City/State/Zip: _____________________________________

Student Name:

Cell #: ___________________________________________

Student Name:

Cell Phone carrier: AT&T Verizon T-Mobile __________________ (please list other) Pre-School 3-year old (age 3 by 9/1/22)

Pre-Kindergarten 4-year old (age 4 by 9/1/22)

Space is limited.

Child’s birth date:______________________

To reserve a place, 1/3 of the enrollment fee must be paid with this form and all paid by April 30. Infant thru Pre-K Kindergarten thru 5th Grade Grades 6th – 8th

Enrollment Fee

Discount rate if paid by April 30

FREE $500.00 $500.00

($390 if paid in full by April 30) ($420 if paid in full by April 30)

Referral Credit: $200 CREDIT to ANY current school family for each new family to our school that enrolls in grades 1 – 6 that states on their application that they were referred to us by that family. The current school family will receive the $200 credit in January for each of those new families with students in 1st – 6th grade that remain enrolled through the first semester. There are multiple discounts available. Please review the financial page and tell us which tuition payment plan you intend to use.

Payment Plan Options:  1 Payment

 2 Payment

 9 months

 12 months (starts in June…  Member …P4 and older only)

Your Signature __________________________ Print Name _________________________ Date _________________

Growing up, Reaching Out, and Walking together with Jesus at First Lutheran Church & School. “Seek FIRST the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” Matthew 6:33

FIRST LUTHERAN SCHOOL - PONCA CITY, OK 2022-2023 FEES We praise God for you partnering with us. Our goal is to provide quality Christian education with the best use of our God given talents and resources. Total tuition and enrollment fees provide a little over 55% of the cost of our school operations. The balance is made up from a generous subsidy from First Lutheran Church, individual/business donations, active parent and family involvement. (If enrollment is an economic hardship, there are scholarship opportunities. Ask for applications.) We also encourage family involvement to reduce costs. High enrollment helps keep the school vibrant and active while spreading the costs over more families. Encourage others to join our school or to consider a tax deductible donation so that others can benefit from a quality, Christian education.

1. ANNUAL ENROLLMENT FEE (This is not a tuition payment but is used to purchase curriculum, tests, classroom supplies, etc.) Per child Enrollment Fee Discount rate if paid by April 30 Infants to PreK 4 year olds FREE Kindergarten thru 5th grade $500.00 ($390 if paid in full by April 30) Grades 6th – 8th $500.00 ($420 if paid in full by April 30) A payment plan is available with 1/3 due immediately. A portion of the enrollment fee is refundable when paid in full and cancellation is necessary: 60% if requested before June 1; 40% from June 1 to August 1. **No refunds on partial payments or after August 1** To reserve a place, enrollment fee must be paid in full by April 30.

2. TUITION DISCOUNTS and PAYMENT PLAN OPTIONS We have four payment plans with multiple discounts: 9 Month Payment Plan; the 12 Month Plan (that must be started by June 15); the 2 and 1 Payment Plans that offer larger discounts. Family Plan: Families with two or more children are offered reduced rates for the second or more children. The most expensive child is considered the "first child." (See Extensive Family Plan Fee & Discounts on back.) ALL payments

are due by the 16th of every month with a $10 Late Fee if not paid in full. Oklahoma Opportunity Scholarship Funds available for K-8th grades (www.osfkids.org) 3. CHILD CARE Child Care is available at the following rates when needed before and after the school day. Child Care is billed by the week and due by the following Thursday. Pre-payment credit is preferred.

DAILY RATES Before School (7:00 - 8:15) After School (3:15 - 5:30) Spring Break, Holidays, Summer Care, etc.

Per child $ 4.00 (Lunch is not included) $ 6.00 (Lunch is not included) $30.00 (Lunch is included these days)

Summer child care requires a $200 deposit for one child ($100 more for each additional child). Half is non-refundable the second half is credit on the final bill.

4. MEAL PLANS Breakfast is served from 7:50-8:05 for $2.25 ($2.50=adults). Lunch is $3.25 ($4.15=adults). Extra Milk is 50 cents. Applications are available in the office for the National School Lunch Program (free and reduced price meals). This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

5. BAND A beginners and advanced bands are offered a couple of days a week for students in 5th to 8th grade. To encourage continuity, rates are non-refundable but are cheaper for an entire semester. Non-Refundable: $50 a month ($40 for 2nd child) for 9 months or $200 twice a yr ($150 for 2nd) due by Aug. 31 & again by Jan. 31. Please contact Principal Birnbaum if you need an instrument or financial assistance to participate in the band program. We do not want this to be a hindrance for band participation. FREE again for the 2022-23 School Year!!!

6. REFERRAL CREDIT $200 CREDIT to ANY current school family for each new family to our school that enrolls in grades 1 – 6 that states on their application that they were referred to by that family. The current school family will receive the $200 credit in January for each of those new families with students in 1 st – 6th grade that remain enrolled through the first semester.

Joe Highley, Pastor First Lutheran Church Sunday Services: 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Sunday School: 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Church: 580-762-1111 www.flcspc.com

David Birnbaum, Principal School: 580-762-9950 website: flcspc.com E-mail: lutheransecretary@yahoo.com Child Care: 580-762-1124 FastDirect: www.fastdir.com/flcspc February 2, 2022

CARDINAL CHATTER 2/2 2/2 2/3 2/3 2/4

Mid-Quarter Reports 2nd – 5th to Cowley College Play K & 1st Field Trip to Cowley College FLS Night @ PCPS Basketball; see below FLS @ Saints, 5:00 & 6:00

COVID UPDATE:

2/4&5 2/13  2/18 2/21

6th Grade Tournament @ FLS 6th Grade Sings in church Curriculum Writing – No School Parent Teacher Conferences – No School

We had a lot of teachers out last week and one as of today. We had GREAT subs that stepped in and kept things rolling. As of 2/1/22 we have four classes with perfect attendance in PK-8th, one family out with strep, one with Covid quarantine because of exposure, two students out sick playing it safe.

And now, it’s time for the CARDINAL SHOUTOUT; a place for us to recognize how talented and diversified our students are! Way to go to Ms. Colvin’s, Ms. Kelly’s, Ms. Miller’s, and Ms. Birnbaum’s classes for bringing 229 cans of food for the food pantry, to celebrate the 100th day of school! Great Job! JOKE OF THE WEEK: Why are teddy bears never hungry? A: Because they’re always stuffed.

DESPERATELY SEEKING SUBS: We need your help. We have lost several substitutes in the last year, and our list is getting short. We need people occasionally that will help us by subbing. Sometimes subbing as a t.a., sometimes in a classroom, occasionally we need help in the lunchroom, or (rarely) in the office. Do you know someone that could use a few extra $ now and then?! Maybe a student in a local college that could sub in the afternoon? Maybe a stay at home mom? Please send us names and phone numbers of people 18 or older and we’ll contact them when we need help. They can always specify what grades/days/areas they are willing to work, and they can always say no when we call, if the timing doesn’t work out for them. Please, Please, help us find a few subs! VALENTINE’S DELIVERIES: To minimize disruptions to the classroom, Valentine deliveries will not be delivered to the classrooms until it is time for class parties at 2:30. If you are having something delivered for a student in the Early Childhood Building, please give the delivery company directions on where/how to deliver it to the daycare offices (on Albany in-between 3rd & 4th Street). If items for the ECE Building get delivered to the This office, Photo you may need to bring your child to the office to pick them up when you pick your child up after school. by try to get them delivered, but it is a busy afternoon, there is usually more than we can take in one trip, We Unknow balloons have previously escaped in the wind, etc. Thank you for your understanding! n

This Photo by Author TAX STATEMENT: If you need a tax statement from FLS for your taxes, you can print it yourself by loggingUnknown into is Author is FastDirect, click on “Finance” on the top, and then click on “tax report” over on the left. Choose the tax year that youunder licensed licensed under (probably 2021), and then click on “tax year printout”. You can print your payments during that year, and need it has our CC BY-NC CC BYtax i.d. # on the top (It is 73-6083110). OR…you can call/stop by/email me, and I will print one for you. ND

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FLS NIGHT AT PO-HI BASKETBALL!: Each school student will come home this week with a free ticket to the February 3 (Thursday) game at Po-Hi. The game begins at 6:00 and is at the Robson Fieldhouse at Po-Hi. Please wear a FLS shirt and cheer the Wildcats to victory! Mr. Birnbaum: Welcome to the short month of February. Today is the Mid-quarter again and March will be busy. Please keep on top of grades. CARDINAL CARE – Ms. Vap: Parents, we encourage everyone to make sure your FastDirect account is up and working with the inclement weather we are expecting later this week. They will send a message from there if the school will be closing. I will also send out a message via Brightwheel to all parents if the decision to close is made. Everyone stay safe! COMPUTER/LIBRARY – Mrs. Manning: Please remember that each student needs to have a set of cheap, corded earbuds with them when they come to computer lab! Please check with your student and see if theirs are still working. MUSIC  – Mrs. Brey: Sixth grade is singing in church at 9am on Sunday, February 13th! In the classroom, middle school students have started learning about our composer of the month: John Williams. We will spend this month looking more into his music and learning more about percussion and drumming techniques. Elementary students are working on solfege and learning high notes and low notes. All classes are working on the direction of notes and what that looks like when it's written down. Middle school students are performing in church at 9:00 a.m. on the following dates:  6th Grade: February 13  7th Grade: April 10  8th Grade: May 8 PRE-SCHOOL – Mrs. Daine: Welcome to February. This year is already flying by! We will continue working on scissor skills, opposites, matching, counting to 10, and making sets of 1,2, & 3. Our letters for the week are V & W. Have a blessed rest of the week! PRE-SCHOOL – Mrs. Colvin: This week we are continuing the letters P, U, and W as well as working on Numbers. Have a wonderful blessed week! PRE-KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Kelly: Happy 101st day of school! We had a great day celebrating the 100th day of school yesterday. We collected 229 food items and had a yummy trail mix for snack! Thank you for sending food for the food drive and ingredients for our trail mix! Book orders are due to me or online by Friday. January Book It calendars are also due by Friday to earn a free pizza. I hope you all found your Letter Challenge note and cards. We will start the weekly assessments on Friday. Hopefully you are able to practice at home. Our Valentine party will be on Monday, February 14th at 2:30. Look for the note in folders today. Our Bible words this week are, O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. Psalm 107.1 We are doing 100th day activities this week. Have a Blessed week! KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Miller: Happy birthday Olivia (yesterday)! We will have show and tell this Friday the 4th. Please bring something that will fit in your backpack. Also, happy 100th day of school (yesterday)! We had fun counting our cans so thank you parents for making this work for us and giving us canned food! About our Field Trip on Thursday to Cowley College at 12:15, we will go if the weather permits it. Just a heads up, we will have our Valentines’ party on Monday February 14th at 2:30 in the afternoon, but parents cannot come due to covid; sorry. Please have an outstanding week! FIRST GRADE – Mrs. Birnbaum: Welcome February! This week was our 100th day of school, Groundhog Day, and a trip to see Junie B Jones. As I am writing this on Tuesday morning, the weather is not looking good for Thursday, so we will have to keep an eye on that! There is a chance that we may have to cancel our trip. But if we do go, we will plan on leaving around 12:15. Memory verse for Friday is Philippians 4:13 - I can do everything through Him who gives me strength. Thank you for the canned goods - we counted 229! Turn in your January Reading Logs by this week to get the Pizza Hut Certificate. I pray that we all stay healthy! SECOND GRADE – Ms. Felton: Happy day of TWOS (2/2/22)! We will also be celebrating an even bigger TWOSday on Tuesday, 2/22/22, especially since we are 2nd grade (so many 2s!)! On that Tuesday, students can either twin with someone or dress as a dynamic duo. Our field trip for today was postponed, which is a bummer for sure, but we will have another field trip coming up this spring. Students will have a math test next Tuesday over adding doubledigit numbers with and without regrouping. We are looking at a social studies assessment over historical figures next Friday, which will be notes from reading and a poster project of a historical figure selected by each student. The guidelines and rubric for that will be out this week. Spelling lists and the 10 Commandments with Meanings were sent –6–

home with students. We will do the 5th Commandment and Meaning for next Thursday. In Reading, we are learning about expository texts and text features within this genre. Our assessment for that will not be for a couple of weeks. Writing will also be focused on expository writing for the next two weeks. THIRD GRADE – Mrs. Steichen: Happy February! This month is starting off crazy already. Field Trip: I will keep you all posted if we are able to go another time. I am so sorry for any inconveniences this may cause. With the weather coming up, remember if Ponca City Public Schools are out that means we are also. Stay safe! This week: Memory: 1 st Article : I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. Spelling: test on Friday. Creative Writing: persuasive letter to the NFL. Science: Test on Friday over sound. Social Studies: working our way through the branches of the government. Book Reports: It’s February; reports are due in 15 days. Have a wonderful week! Stay safe and warm. FOURTH GRADE – Mrs. Sibley: Make sure to dress appropriately for the weather as we are in still in full winter mode. Keep up the good work reading for AR. It is very rewarding when you stay on track of your goal as the goal goes on. Log on to see current progress! Remember to show ALL details on work, in particular math assignments, especially with long division. We never get results we are happy with when we rush & give half effort for anything. This is true for any task in life, sports or academics. Mid-terms are out today. Continue to work on being amazing 4th graders & giving the prep for 5th grade as we ramp into routine. Blessings! 5th GRADE RELIGION – Mrs. Brey: We've been studying the geography of Israel. Students are working on posters that will be due this Friday, February 4th. Next week we will wrap up this unit and our prayer unit. We will have a test on Tuesday, February 15th. Students will receive a study guide for this on Monday, February 14th. STUDENT COUNCIL – Mrs. Harbeson: Put this on your calendar! Middle School Winter Dance, Friday, February 25, 7-9:00 p.m. 6th – 8th MATH – Mr. McKinley: 6th & 7th Chapter 7 algebraic equations along with IXL to help reinforce. 7th & 8th Chapter 7 percents and ratios with IXL to reinforce. SCIENCE – Mrs. Porter-Cain: OHHHHH YEAAA!!! Hope everyone has their snow gear ready, looks like we may have a White.... February! 5th Grade Science- we are testing over Chemical and Physical changes! 6th Science- we are movin and groovin our way through the Periodic Table! 7th Grade Science- we just started Chapter 7- Mountains and Hills 8th Grade Science- we have started Chapter 6- Genetics of Organisms PLEASE KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR CHILDS GRADES! MISSING ASSIGNMENTS WILL CATCH UP TO THEIR GRADE QUICKLY! PE- this week 2nd-4th are playing scooter soccer! 6th-8th are staying active on the court! Basketball- Varsity Girls and Boys both won their opening round in the HCAA tournament and are looking for a second win on Thursday! JV Lady Cardinals and Cardinals will start their home 6th Grade tournament on Friday! Come out and support your Cardinal ballers and help support our athletic program! I AM STILL ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR A TRACK COACH/ COACHES! We have a volunteer for some field event coaching but need some more help! Please let me know if you are willing! LANGUAGE – Ms. Kester: It's February! And the love of education is in the air. Your children are advancing in their lessons of appositives (G8), commas (G7), compound-subject and -verb diagrams (G6), and participles (G5). All grade levels will take a quiz this week on their respective lessons if the weather is in our favor. Additionally, grammar tests are scheduled for next week. Please encourage your child to ask questions during class and to visit me for extra help if they need it. I allow entire class periods specifically for this, even this week. For the quiz schedule for literature, all dates and chapters have been posted for a while on your child's Google Classroom page under Literature. Eighth graders have even had a study guide for a while for their books. IXL assignments are now assigned every Thursday and due by class time the following Monday. Your child is allowed the entire class time each Thursday to work on them. For parents who do not yet know, students are also given the entire class time on Fridays to read and/or prepare for their upcoming literature quizzes and reading logs. In Religion, students are differentiating among original intent, interpretation, opinion, and application concerning Bible passages, namely their memory work for this week. The test for their memory work is Friday, weather permitting. As always, reach out if you have questions and reach up if you have troubles. :-) God bless! –7–

SOCIAL STUDIES – Mr. Brey: We are currently in the Age of Exploration. Students are discovering how Spanish and Portuguese explorers found and then controlled parts of the Americas. 6th Grade: We are learning about our government. Students have learned about the branches of government and now will learn how they work with one another. 7th Grade: Students are about to start learning about WWII. They have just been able to explain multiple ideologies including Fascism, Nazism, and Communism. 8th Grade: Students are learning about the build up to the Civil War. We will hopefully get into reconstruction at the end of next week.

First Lutheran Church & School—Growing up into Jesus, Reaching out with Jesus, Walking together in Jesus This institution is an equal opportunity provider

SNOW DAY NOTIFICATION: ARE WE HAVING A SNOW DAY?! IS SCHOOL & DAYCARE CLOSED? Right away, like before the next weather event, please make sure that you have your FastDirect login I.D. & password. In the event that school may be cancelled due to inclement weather, we will send a message on FastDirect. It will email and text you the message also, if you have chosen that option, but it is limited in how many characters will be texted, so PLEASE…if you don’t know your login i.d. and password, contact the office at 580-762-9950 to get set up right away. The site can be found at: www.fastdir.com/flcspc.

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