First Lutheran Church Sunday Services: 9:00 Sunday School: 10:15 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: fastdir.com/flcspc August 19, 2020
CARDINAL CHATTER 8/25
Back to School Night
9/7
LABOR DAY – NO SCHOOL/DAYCARE
9/7
Labor Day; No School
9/16 9/18 10/1
Mid-Quarter Reports Oklahoma Teachers’ Convention – No School Picture Day
ONE- OR TWO-PAYMENT DISCOUNT: If you chose the one- or two-payment tuition option, your August payment is due by August 31 to get the discount. If you need help figuring your total due with the discount(s), please contact Connie in the office.
BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT AND PARENT ORIENTATION is Tuesday, August 25. The Cheerleaders have a fundraising dinner via BBQ Food Truck, “Big Times BBQ”, and you may pick up your grab and go meals in the middle school side drive/4th street cut out from 5:00 – 7:00 pm. Tickets are available in the office for $8 for children 9 and under or $10 for adults or children 10 and older. You may also purchase meals at the event, for an additional $2.00 per ticket ($10 for children 9 and under, or $12 for adults or children 10 and older). The schedule for the rest of the night goes like this: 5:00 – 5:20 First Session (5th grade and down) in your child’s classroom 5:30 – 5:50 Second Session (5th grade and down) in your child’s classroom 6:00 – 6:15 6:15 – 6:30
NEW FAMILIES (in the church) ALL FAMILIES (in the church)
6:30 – 6:40 6:45 – 7:45
ALL 5th – 8th grade families (in the Church) Middle School Families to their child’s middle school homeroom
BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT!
THEME SHIRTS: This years’ shirts reference Ephesians 6:11, putting on the full armor of God. They are a vibrant purple with white lettering, complete with toilet paper zero’s on the numbers on the back. Stop by the office to see an example and to purchase adult shirts. We have sold out of student sizes, but will be ordering more, via the attached order form. Please have the orders turned in to the office or your students homeroom teacher by Thursday, August 27, so that we can get them ordered and back in a timely manner. STAPLES REWARDS ARE BACK! If you shop at Staples (online!), we need some numbers from your receipt! (Or you can do it yourself, of course.) Staples will give us up to 5% back to use on our school purchases, and we will use that to buy ink, colored paper, tape, etc., to help keep your costs down! To help us out, you can enter the receipt yourself, leave a copy of the receipt in the black box out front of the offices, or send a picture of it to me at lutheransecretary@yahoo.com and I'll enter it for you. To enter your receipt yourself, make your purchases at Staples and then visit staples.com/classroomrewards , create an account, and donate it in my name (Connie Erickson) via First Lutheran (I promise, the money goes to the school...not me!), or you can enter it in your teachers’ name if they have signed up on their own. Either way, First Lutheran School will benefit from your purchase, and hopefully it will add up to perhaps a free ink cartridge, ream of colored paper, etc. If you have any questions, just give me a call or stop by the office. Thanks so much! Also, as always, we are collecting used ink and toner cartridges. For every 20 we turn in, we get a credit on our Staples purchases. That translates into less school expenses and less tuition increase. Thank you for everyone who contributes their ink/toner cartridges already! 1
PRINCIPAL – Mr. Birnbaum: We have finally reached the start of the new school year and we THANK YOU for joining us. We praise God for His love and protection during this pandemic. We pray that you will be blessed by our school and that we will share the love of God with everyone we meet. PRE-SCHOOL – Mrs. Colvin: Welcome back to school! I know this is going to be a great year!! PRE-KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Kelly: Welcome back to school! I am looking forward to a great year with you and your child! Back to School Night will be on Tuesday, August 25th. Have a Blessed week! KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Miller: Welcome to kindergarten! Today is our first day and the children are so excited to be back just like me! My phone number is (580) 716-8185, if anyone needs it. Have a great week. FIRST GRADE – Mrs. Birnbaum: Welcome to 1st grade! Happy birthday to Layden on the 20th. SECOND GRADE – Mrs. Powell: Welcome Back! I'm so excited to be able to be in our classroom with these amazing second graders. I pray that God continues to keep all of us and our families healthy. We welcome Juan Aguilar, Bentley Robertson, and Landon Wyatt to our class. It's always great to meet new friends. Remember that Tuesday is Back To School night for you. Please see this Chatter for additional information. Continue to pray for us and we will pray for you. Thank you for entrusting your precious treasures to my care. Blessings! FOURTH GRADE – Mrs. Sibley: Welcome to another Fabulous 4th grade school year! Thank you for choosing First Lutheran. We are blessed to be here at First, and know that we are fully armored with our Lord. We have a Love, Grace, and Protection with Jesus Christ that will never fail! I cannot wait to see how He blesses us together in 4th grade. I am so excited to be with everyone this new school year. See you at Back to School Night on the 25th!
MIDDLE SCHOOL Ms. Kester: Bonjour! I'm excited to join the First Lutheran family as not only a parent but also a teacher this year. I enjoyed meeting some of you at Registration and Open House, and I look forward to meeting your children in the classroom. The first day of school will consist of introductory matters and overviews then we'll dig into some engaging course content as the week ends. Be sure to participate in Backto-School Night; it wouldn't be the same without you. Until then, au revoir!
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2019-2020 YEARBOOKS 2019-2020 Yearbooks are in! (We did not pre-sell any last year, because we weren’t here to do that! If you didn’t purchase one in the last 10 days, you don’t have this one yet.) You can purchase them in the office, or fill out the order form below, attach your payment, and drop it off with your students’ homeroom teacher. We’ll send the yearbook over to go home with your child. If you want to peruse the yearbook before purchasing, they are in the school office. We also have past years available in case you missed a year and want to purchase one.
Yearbook Order form: Student Name:_________________________________ & Current Grade:_____ Number of Books: _________ X $25 each = $__________ due Total Paid $_________ (___cash or ___check/check #_____) Contact number or e-mail address:____________________________________ 2
First Lutheran Church and School is packing and sending school kits to Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
Imagine having to choose between a meal or purchasing your child a notebook for school. Project Promise School Kits are sent to places where even the few required school supplies may be more than a family can afford. Pencils and paper can help write a positive future.
Why School Supplies?
Each School Kit Contains:
4 – spiral wide-ruled 70-page notebooks 1 – ruler (12 inch with centimeters) 1 – small manual pencil sharpener 1 – blunt-ended scissors 5 – unsharpened #2 pencils 5 – blue or black ball point pens (no clickers) 1 – box of 24 crayons 1 – 2½” rectangle pink eraser
To the children who receive School Kits, these supplies mean the difference between getting an education or not. Public school is usually free, but in the places where LWR works, supplies like pens and paper may be more than many families can afford. And when parents can only afford to send one of their children to school, girls rarely get priority. Yet the education level of mothers has the biggest impact on child development.
We support
How Can YOU Help?! We are asking each student/family at First Lutheran School to donate their choice of any of the supplies on the list, as few or as many as you would like. Or, if you are able, consider donating enough supplies to create one complete kit!
Thank you for your help with this project!
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2020-2021 First Lutheran T-shirts This years’ shirts are a vibrant purple with white lettering, complete with toilet paper zero’s on the numbers on the back. Stop by the office to see an example, or to purchase adult shirts. We have sold out of student sizes, but will be ordering more. Please return order form to the office on or before August 27, 2020 Send home with student (Name) _______________________________ Grade ______________ Please mark the number of t-shirts in each size you wish to order. Example: ___2__S ______M ______L ______ XL _______XXL ______XXXL
Youth Sizes ______YXS Adult Sizes ______S
______YS
______M
______YM
______L
______YL
______XL
Number of Youth Shirts
______XXL
______XXXL
_______ x $12 = $_______
Number of Adult Shirts (S -> XL) _______x $12 = $_______ Number of Adult Shirts (for XXL and XXXL) _______x $12 = $_______ Total Cost
$_______
(school use only: paid _______check# OR ______cash)
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