Joe Highley, Pastor
David Birnbaum, Principal
First Lutheran Church School: 580-762-9950
Sunday Services: 9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Sunday School: 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Church: 580-762-1111
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March 22, 2023
3/28- Basketball Banquet (3/4 grade awards will start at 5:30, Cheer, JV and Varsity awards will start at 6! We appreciate everyone’s support this season!)
3/29 Awards Ceremony 10:00 A.M.
3/31 Golf Tournament @Wentz 8:45 A.M.
3/31-Christian Comedy@Poncan 7:00 P.M.
4/1-Basketball Games (Varsity Vs. Alumni) See attached Schedule
4/1-Dinner-Auction-Dance @ Osage Casino -see attached Schedule
4/2-Palm Sunday -Middle School Choir Singing
988 Saves Lives - Anyone can now call or text 988 to reach the national suicide prevention lifeline. The hope is that the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline becomes synonymous with mental health care, just as 911 is with public safety. (Texas Co-op Power magazine, February 2023, p. 5)
CONGRATULATIONS - Oklahoma House Bill 1935 passed last week so your tuition payments to our school should count as tax credit for 2023. If I understand it correctly, since OK has 5% max tax rate and you earn $100,000+ then $5000 in OK income tax translates to $5000 tax credit fully. And for the median family income of about $60K that would give $3000 tax back which still AMAZING!
Time to re-enroll your child. We will begin accepting new applicantsMarch 1st. So, get your spot reserved ASAP.
Room Parents - Room Parents - Class projects for next weeks auction are due ASAP. THANK YOU!
SHOUT OUT to Dr. Kelly & Chris Campbell for sponsoring our comedian Dave May here at 2:15 on Friday March 31.
Palm Sunday is April 2 and the middle school choir is singing so mark your calendars and worship with us. We would love all the children to help carry Palm Branches during the first song.
Chess Club is now available to 2-5 graders in the middle school on Mondays and Tuesdays from 3:15-4. We will have it divided up between those who are brand new to chess and those who have an idea of what they're doing. If you have any questions, please let me know! Mr. Brey
The SCHATTE MEMORIAL COOKOFF: May 7th we will be hosting our 4th annual Schatte Memorial Cookoff! If you’re interested in signing up as a vendor or Cookoff team, contact Jennifer Heitman at flcsnextgen@gmail.com . (Flyer attached to chatter)
Mr. Birnbaum: So much going on with field trips, golf tournament, auction, and reunion celebration. Please keep informed with the Chatter. Report Card awards will be given out at the end of the 10:00 chapel on Wednesday - March 29.
CARDINAL CARE – Mrs. Becker: Remember to send jackets and extra clothes
MUSIC – Mrs. Brey: Elementary students are continuing to work on their Spring musical, "The Lions, the Switch, and the Warm Robes." This will be performed on Thursday, May 11th at 6:30pm. 5th Grade students have received a schedule of when their speaking parts need to be memorized. If you (parents/guardians) are willing to help with costumes or stage design, please speak with me or any elementary teachers! Thank you!
PRE-SCHOOL Mrs. Daine: Monday was the first day of Spring! We will study all things Spring for the next 3-4weeks: Baby farms animals, plants/crops, and weather. This week’s letters are ‘B’ & ‘E’. Have a blessed rest of the week!
PRE-SCHOOL – Mrs. Colvin: I hope everyone had a fabulous spring break!! We will be reviewing our alphabet this week. Our Bible words are: [God sys,] "Call to Me and I will answer you." Jeremiah 33:3. Have an awesome week!
PRE-KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Kelly Happy Spring! I hope you had a fabulous Spring Break! Our Egg Hunt at New Life Trails is on Wednesday, April 5th . Information is in folders today. Report cards are in folders today. Please sign and return it and I will send a copy for you to keep. If you have any questions please let me know. Keep practicing the alphabet, some of us are so close to becoming Letter Masters. Friday is the last day to return Reading Bingo sheets for a prize. We started our letter a day on Monday and are reviewing Aa,Bb,Cc,Dd and the number 19 this week. We are also working on some sight words. Our Bible words are, Hosanna in the highest! Matthew 21:9 Have a Blessed week!
KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Miller: I hope everyone had a wonderful spring break! The kids and I are ready for some warmer weather! We are all happy that spring is here! Please look for your child's report card today. I will need a parent to sign the card and then send it back to me at school. When you do this, I will give you another copy to keep at home but this way I know that the parents got the cards. I have great news; Mrs. Paula Cargal changed her mind and she is not leaving! Please also look for a field trip form in your child's backpack today. We are going to a performance of Flora & Ulysses on Wednesday, April 26th at Cowley College in the Robert Brown Theater at 1:00 and we will leave school at 12:15. Tickets are $1.00 for students and any adults that attend. Thank you, and have a magnificent week!
FIRST GRADE – Mrs. Birnbaum: Happy Spring and welcome to the 4th quarter! I pray that you all had a great spring break! We are refreshed and ready to get back to learning! Memory for Friday is the 3rd Commandment - Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Report cards are coming home today. Please sign one of your copies and return back to me by Friday. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. Also coming home today is a field trip note and permission form for going to see the play of Flora and Ulysses at Cawley College. Mark your calendars and plan to come to events for the Reunion Celebration Weekend on March 31-April 2. See Chatter for details. Blessings on your week!
SECOND GRADE – Ms. Felton-I hope you had a refreshing Spring Break! 3rd quarter report cards are coming home with the Chatter today, so please sign and return that to me by next Tuesday. If you’d like to meet, please message me or write a note on the report card when you return it. We will do AR fourth quarter, but it will look different as we focus on chapter books with mini-book reports every few weeks. A note about what that looks like will be sent home this week. March Book Madness has begun - we are listening to books and voting through a bracket to find a champion! Social Studies: economics two-week unit, culminating in a chocolate shop project. Grammar: prefixes, suffixes, base words. Math: please practice subtraction within 20. Memory this week is the 9th Commandment with meaning and next week is the 10th Commandment with meaning. Upcoming dates are OKC Zoo April 14 and Cowley College April 26. Second grade raised $193 for Heifer International, so THANK YOU! Our next chapel focus is Camp Lutherhoma!
THIRD GRADE – Mrs. Steichen: Welcome back!! It sounds like everyone had a great and relaxing spring break. We are going strong in this last and final quarter. Look for report cards today, please sign and return them as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please let me know. Next Wednesday, March 29th at chapel we will do awards. Everyone is welcome to join us. This week: Memory: 1 Cor. 6:11; due Friday. Spelling, Reading, Language quiz all on Friday. Math 6x fact, quiz next week. Book Report: I need the name of your child's book by next week please. We need to make sure we have no two people doing the same. Who Was? is a great book series for people, there are over 200 books to choose from. IOWA - believe it or not testing week will be here shortly. I would love for each of you to send a note to me to leave on your child's desk on Monday morning. This helps with their testing anxiety. Also, I would love to provide a snack each day. Please send me a text or FastDirect with the day you claim for snacks. If you have any questions regarding the test please let me know. Keep working on the test prep worksheets, these do help. A.R.: new goals have been set. Please ask your child where their goal is this last and final quarter. Have a wonderful week!
FOURTH GRADE – Mrs. Sibley: We are back in school for the 4th quarter! We ARE here together to finish up a strong 4th grade year to be prepared for the future with Christ as we WALK by FAITH! I am so thankful that we get to focus on Jesus’ love for us on the cross as HE gave the ultimate sacrifice so we may follow Him. It is only through this love that we are able to love each other. Continue to read for AR as we have new goals to earn. It is a brand-new quarter, and a new fresh start for grades. Please use Fast Direct to keep track of grades from the beginning, along with using the planner. Report cards go home today. Please sign and return by Friday after going over grades with kids. Blessings as we stay warm!
RELIGION – Mrs. Brey: Students are learning about the chronicles of Daniel. Memory work for Friday, March 24 is 1 Corinthians 13:1-13.
5th GRADE– Mrs. Sibley-Here we are in the Fourth Quarter! The time has flown by since Christmas! We are studying adjectives in Language. We read a story in our reading book called "Ghost Towns in the American West!" We are traveling to India for our religion lessons. Such great information we are learning! We have learned how to say "hello, please and thank you" in Hindi. We have also worked very hard on our spelling words! Parents-don't forget to pay the $ 10.00 for yourself if you are going with us Friday to the Science Museum! Otherwise, you will have to pay $20.00 to enter the Museum!! Money and permission slips are due ASAP!! Have a great week!
MATH – Mr. McKinley5th this week we will review the properties of math and look at sequence of resolution. We should finish chapter 1 and test early next week.
6th this week we will look at proportions and different ways to solve them as well how they relate to scale drawings.
7th This week we will be diving into square roots and then work into the Pythagorean theorem.
8th grade Math- Mr. Aaron McKinley will be taking over the 8th grade regular math class this last quarter for me but I will continue to teach the 8th advance class. Regular math will continue to work on square roots while the advance class will continue quadratic formulas.
SCIENCE – Mrs. Porter-Cain: Hey Cardinals! I hope everyone had a wonderful spring break! It is crazy that fourth quarter is already upon us!
6th Grade- we are doing all things SPRING! Weather, plants, etc!
7th Grade- we are talking water cycle this week!
8th Grade- we are finishing up the Science side of Creation and will be moving on to bacteria and viruses and then onto Animals!
P.E.- K-1- we are going to continue to work on throwing!
2-4 we will be playing indoor kick ball
5-8 Monday we played outdoor kickball, Friday we will play Blitz ball!
Basketball-Basketball and cheer banquet will be March 28, 2023! 3/4 grade awards will start at 5:30, Cheer, JV and Varsity awards will start at 6! We appreciate everyone’s support this season!
LANGUAGE – Ms. Kester: It's comma time! Middle schoolers have begun their foundational, gradelevel lessons that will thrust them into the beautiful world of punctuation. As marks such as commas require prior knowledge of adjectives and conjunctions, we will review those parts of speech as well. This will be the final set of our heavy lifting as we look forward to next month's ITBS testing. Also, remind your child to read the class book daily. It is due May 1. As for Religion this week, students are wrapping up the Gospel of Luke and will receive their first memory work of this final quarter. Here's to staying true and enjoying God's view!
SOCIAL STUDIES – Mr. Brey: 5th: We are just doing a review on IXLs this week to make sure we haven't forgotten too much information. Next week we are going to start learning about things the students want to learn about as we are done with state standards.
6th: Students will once again learn about Rome. We will hopefully get to the transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire this week.
7th: First of all, these students did great on the finals. For the rest of the quarter, students are going over the state standards they missed in the past. They will have a textbook for the rest of the school year. Please make sure they are bringing it home as many of the assignments will be on readings assigned to them.
8th: Now that we have finished state standards I gave the students the option to either have a laid-back quarter or a quarter where we learn what they teach in high school and 100% of students who responded picked the high school option so here we are. Students will explore the Gilded Age and Progressive Era this week before we work our way into WWI.
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Washington D.C. trip fundraising opportunity for all 6th - 8th grade students!
FLCS is hosting a golf tournament on Friday, March 31 at Wentz Memorial Golf Course. All 6th-8th grade students will have the opportunity to sell sponsorships for the tournament. Students will keep 20% of each sponsorship they secure, and it will be applied to their D.C. accounts. Just to give you an idea of how this can add up...
$100 - hole sponsor ($80 FLS/$20 student)
$300 - Cardinal Sponsor ($240 FLS/$60 student)
$800 - Corporate Sponsor ($640 FLS/$160 student)
You do not have to know anything about golf to participate! We will be meeting next week to discuss and answer any questions you may have. Here are the details:
Date: Tuesday, February 21 Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: FLC Fellowship Hall (the green doors at the top of the stairs to the church)
Who: all FLS parents/students in grades 6-8
What:
- Explaining how the fundraiser works
- Explaining the hole sponsor breakdown
- Handing out sponsor sheets and tournament information
- Signing up to secure sponsors for our golf tournament
- Answering any questions you may have
Questions: contact Mrs. Harbeson through FastDirect
