Chatter 1.26.2022

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 January 26, 2022

CARDINAL CHATTER 1/24-27-29 7th Girls @ Blackwell 1/27 FLS @ Shidler, 4, 5, 6, 7 1/28-29  FLS 4th Grade Tournament 1/31 2-Payment Tuition due 1/31-2/5 HCAA Tournament; VG & VB 2/1 100th day of school!

COVID UPDATE:

2/2 2/2 2/3 2/4 2/4&5 2/13 

Mid-Quarter Reports 2nd – 5th to Cowley College Play K & 1st Field Trip to Cowley College FLS @ Saints, 5:00 & 6:00 6th Grade Tournament @ FLS 6th Grade Sings in church

Had a couple of teachers not feel well on Sunday night so they have stayed away the last couple of days.

(We had said on Friday that we hadn't had any teachers out this month.) Only a handful of students out sick on Tuesday but a lot of basketball this week so we'll see what happens next week.

And now, it’s time for the CARDINAL SHOUTOUT; a place for us to recognize how talented and diversified our students are! Tavionne, Colten, Trenton, Evin, Mason, & Evan for all their help with Saturday's basketball tournament. They swept, picked up balls, took out the trash, etc. They stayed next to the court most of the day helping with whatever needed to be done. We received compliments on how well behaved they were and how they volunteered to help.

JOKE OF THE WEEK – Mr. Birnbaum: What part of the car is the laziest?

A: The wheels, because they are always tired!

2-PAYMENT TUITION REMINDER: If you opted to pay your tuition for the year in two payments, the second half payment is due this coming MONDAY, January 31; after that date, the applied discount will be removed from your account. Please contact the office if you want to change plans.

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!

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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 office, you may need to bring your (1)

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child to the office to pick them up when you pick your child up after school. We try to get them delivered, but it is a busy afternoon, there is usually more than we can take in one trip, balloons have previously escaped in the wind, etc. Thank you for your understanding!

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

Mr. Birnbaum: January is coming to an end. February is re-registration time for current families and then we open it up to the public in March. Congratulations to those families who received the $200 tuition credit this month for recommending students to our school.

CARDINAL CARE – Ms. Vap: Parents, please continue to help us by keeping sick children home. We continue to watch for symptoms of fever, chills, headache, sore throat, congestion and/or runny nose, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, diarrhea, vomiting, or stomach ache. Thank you for your diligence and understanding.

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: Elementary students are learning basic rhythms and doing different activities that show steady beat. Middle school students have learned about half steps and whole steps in relation to the piano. We'll take a break from this, we'll come back to it later in the year. Middle school students have started learning about body percussion and that will be our focus for this week. 6 th grade students sing in church on February 13 th at 9am here at First Lutheran! See you there!

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 new friends, Ellery and Rhea!! We will continue working on scissor skills, matching, opposites, letters T & U, and counting 1-10. It has been fun to watch your children gain dexterity with scissors! Have a blessed rest of the week!

PRE-SCHOOL – Mrs. Colvin: We are almost into February, the school year is flying by! This week we are learning all about the letters P,U and W. The children can bring cans for the 100 th Day of School at any time. I hope everyone has a fantastic week!

PRE-KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Kelly: Wow! thanks for bringing food for our 100 th day of school food drive for the church food pantry! Our 100 th day is February 1st and you can bring food any time before then. Look for the reminder note in folders today for information about our other 100 th day activities. Book orders are in folders and due back to me

by Friday, February 4th. We are starting a letter Master Challenge on the 1 st. Look for more information in folders today.

Our Bible words this week are, Jesus said, "I am the light of the world." John 9:5 We are learning the letters Ll,Kk,Uu and the number 13 this week. Have a Blessed Week!

KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Miller: We are still collecting cans for our 100 day food count. Please send food if you can, thank you. We are looking forward to next week on Thursday, February 3 rd to see Junie B. Jones! Thank you parents for helping with this and driving so we can go. Have an awesome week!

FIRST GRADE – Mrs. Birnbaum: Memory verse for Friday is 1 Timothy 1:15 - Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Book orders are due on Thursday, Jan 27. You may order online or send your order with a check. We will have show and tell on Friday. Bring a special or favorite toy - maybe something that you got for Christmas. Next week Tuesday, Feb. 1 is our 100 th day of school. Our building is collecting canned goods for our Church pantry. We want to collect 100 cans! You may bring them in any time. Our class is also going to make a trail mix. Please bring in 100 food items for our mix (cereal, raisins, marshmallows, candies, etc.). You may bring this next week. Blessings on your week!

SECOND GRADE – Ms. Felton: Wow! We are almost a month into school since Christmas break and 2nd grade has been learning like crazy! Their fables projects are on their way, so presentations should be at the end of this week (they’re telling the class about their fable), then we will move on to next week’s story. Spelling is going well, so keep practicing. The spelling words for the rest of the year-ish went out this week. Memory for next Thursday is the 4 th (2)

Commandment and its Meaning - the students may say it before Thursday or write it on Thursday. In math, we are focused on subtraction within 20 and two-digit addition with regrouping. This week we also spent some time on bar graphs. Social studies is beginning a new unit on historical figures and inventions, which will culminate in a poster project on a historical figure of the students’ choice (with approval). We wrote a persuasive essay for our service project, which will be released soon!

THIRD GRADE – Mrs. Steichen: Man, this year is not starting off too hot. Kids out sick, missing work, low grades, please check planners and FastDirect. All grades are currently updated. Everyone is rushing on their work and not reading the directions; this is leading us to have lower than normal grades. If you have any questions, please let me know. This week: New Student: We want to give a huge shout out to Libby! We are so excited to have you in our class.

This brings our number to 15. Reading: We have started The One and Only Ivan. Please ask your child about this. They are really enjoying it so far. We will be reading this for the next couple of weeks. Math: test today and no homework for the rest of the week. We will be doing in class work. Multiplication Quiz over 10’s on Friday. Spelling: Review words this week, next week we will be on Unit 4 week 1 words (The Man Who Invented Basketball). Science: Sound was a very short chapter, look for a test next week. Social Studies: We are starting the 3 Branches of the Government. Reminder: Field Trip next Wednesday afternoon. Prayers for all our students who are sick and prayers for all the rest of us not to get sick. Have a wonderful week!

FOURTH GRADE – Mrs. Sibley: We are working on long division now, with remainders. Continue to help the kids with the details, process, showing work, and questions kids have to ask themselves with long division. Following directions, especially for a new process is a good practice to have. They can do it! Keep practicing math facts and concepts. This helps to ensure that we have speed and accuracy for more difficult math problems, like the long division we are now doing. We are now really ramping up since we are working on being fifth graders and preparing for the future. Mid Terms are next week on Wednesday. Next Wednesday is also our field trip. Thank you to those driving. Keep reading for AR! The States & Cap test MW is on Wednesday the 16 th! The kids know great tools to practice this and all regions. Remember to bring in your chapel money for Compassion International for Victor and Rosario. Peace as we serve the Lord.

5th Grade & Middle School 5th GRADE RELIGION – Mrs. Brey: There will be a short quiz on Thursday, January 27 th. We have been focusing our attention on prayers, and we have now started looking at the geography of the Holy Land in Jesus' time compared to now.

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 and 7th Hooray we finished chapter 6. This week we will review and take the chapter test.

7th and 8th Yes, we finished chapter 6 as well. We will also review and test this week.

SCIENCE – Mrs. Porter-Cain: January is flying by!

5th Grade is learning about chemical and physical changes and their differences!

6th Grade- We have covered 1-30 on the periodic table and will QUIZ over them on FRIDAY! 7th Grade- We are reviewing Chapter 6 and will TEST on THURSDAY!!

8th Grade- We are reviewing Chapter 5 and will TEST on THURSDAY! PE- we are playing various games and working on track running!

Basketball- your Cardinals are deep in games this month! Varsity is playing in the Blackwell tournament as well as two regular season games, for both JV and Varsity, this week. 4 th Grade tournament is Friday and Saturday! Come out and support your Cardinals!

LANGUAGE – Ms. Kester: In seventh- and eighth-grade English classes, we're closing out our lessons on commas as we close out the month of January. Seventh graders are also completing chapter 2 of their original stories for composition; they are due Thursday. Sixth graders are diagramming compound subjects and verbs while fifth graders are working with principal parts of verbs and book report outlines that are due Friday.

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In Religion, students are leading roundtable discussions on John 14-15, which holds their memory work to be recited next Friday. I am enjoying hearing their thoughts, questions, and experiences related to the chapters, as they interact with and learn from one another.

Other upcoming items include literature quizzes Thursday, reading logs Friday, and IXL assignments that resume this week. If your child has missed classes during the last two weeks, remind them to speak with me about making up the missed tests, quizzes, and homework assignments. With both of us doing so, they'll get back on track. Thanks!

SOCIAL STUDIES – Mr. Brey: 5th Grade: We are learning about the age of exploration. We are taking a step back in time to finish up the state standards.

6th Grade: Students are learning about government. They will be exploring the different branches and what they do this week.

7th Grade: We are learning about the build up to WWII. Students will be able to define different government types and learn about the different "Cult of Personalities" that influenced the 1930s and 1940s.

8th Grade: Students are learning about slavery and comparing how slavery in the Americas was compared to slavery in different eras and civilizations.

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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. and 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 is at: www.fastdir.com/flcspc.

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PAYMENT OPTIONS: To make tuition and other payments a little less of a hassle, we take cash, checks, & credit cards. Additionally, if you desire, we can store your credit card number and run it weekly for daycare / lunches / whatever you need, monthly (on the 16th), weekly (every Friday), or only when you call or email and request it. In these cases, we can send your receipts home with your students or email them to you. Autowithdrawals are also available, where your specified amount is automatically drafted from your bank account on the 16th of each month and applied to the accounts that you designate. If you have any questions about any of these services, or would like to sign up for them, please stop by or call the school office at 580-762-9950.

That's NOT Trash!!

First Lutheran Church and School collects used (or even new but you don’t need it anymore) ink and toner cartridges!

Black and/or color? YES! Those little tiny ink cartridges? YES! Those giant toner cartridges out of the copy machine? YES! Every size and color in-between? YES!!

If you have any ink or toner cartridges, new or old, please send them to school with your child, drop them off at the school office, or pull up out front and call us and we’ll come get them. We use the proceeds from these items to purchase playground equipment, get discounts on office supplies, etc…which all helps to keep your costs down! THANKS for your help!

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