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: flspc.org E-mail: lutheransecretary@yahoo.com Child Care: 580-762-1124 FastDirect: fastdir.com/flcspc October 29, 2014
CARDINAL CHATTER 11/4 11/5 11/6
Band to OKC Philharmonic 7th to Theater, MWC 2:30, Library, Auction Meeting
11/18 Vision Screening 12/2 Pre-K, K, & 1st Cowley Children's Theater 12/6 FLC&S Christmas Market!
PICTURE DAY PORTRAIT PACKAGES: There were some ink issues in the printing process resulting in streaks and splotches on some of the portraits. We have already been in contact with Lifetouch, and they are re-printing them. A few pictures had gone home before we noticed the problem; if your student has already received their picture packet, please return it to your teacher or the office. The replacement pictures should be in by Thanksgiving. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME SATURDAY! Remember to set your clock back one hour this Saturday, night/Sunday morning. And, since you get an extra hour of sleep, please join us for worship at First Lutheran Church at 8:30 a.m. for Traditional Service, Sunday School at 9:45 a.m., and/or Contemporary Service at 11:00 a.m. We would love to see you! PRINCIPAL – Mr. Birnbaum: Colors of the Season - Is October the color of pink for Cancer Awareness, red for Red Ribbon Week/Drug Awareness/Fire Prevention, orange/brown for Autumn? I love this time of year when the heat of summer is gone and before the cold of winter is upon us. I praise God for giving my family this opportunity to experience the changes in seasons which is extremely different from Central Texas. May the love of God and his protection fill you with peace during this changing world. CHATTER ONLINE: If for some reason you don’t get the Cardinal Chatter on Wednesday, you can view it online! It is on our web page at flspc.org, then click on “Chatter” in the dropdown box under “Communication”, or go to http://flspc.org/page127.html to get there directly. You can also find the Cardinal Chatter on our facebook page, “First Lutheran School-Ponca City, OK”. While you’re surfing, be sure to check out First Lutheran Church’s Facebook page, “First Lutheran Church - Ponca City, OK”. BAND: DRIVERS NEEDED. At this point, we do not have enough drivers for our trip to hear the OKC Philharmonic. Please contact Mrs. Jones if you are able to drive (761-6143). Practice sheets are due weekly and are part of the band grade. AUCTION MEETING...spring auction is PTL’s biggest fundraiser of the year. We will be having an auction meeting Thursday November 6, in the library at 2:30. Everyone is encouraged to attend. Those who can't make 2:30, please text or call Darleanna at 580-716-1057 and we will set an evening meeting. You may also use FastDirect. A little help from everyone makes the auction a BIG success. VISION SCREENING VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: We need volunteers to help with the vision screening on Tuesday, November 18. If you would be able to help with this, please contact the office. Thank you! CHAPEL OFFERING: This week will be the last week in October to bring an offering for "Habitat For Humanity" during Chapel on Wednesday. Thank you, and have a wonderful week! STUDENT COUNCIL: This week FLS is celebrating Red Ribbon Week to remind us all to be drug free. We’ll have dress up days all week as part of the celebration. Thursday: Tacky Tourist Day; Friday: Crazy Day or Costume Day. Also, next week, Student Council will sell “Halloween Greetings” for 25 cents each. Any student (or parent) may “order” a greeting through their teacher. Student Council will add a “sweet treat” and deliver to anyone on campus on Friday afternoon, Oct. 31. This is a fundraiser for the Student Council. NEED A FLATBED: Our band class is in need of someone to pull them on a flatbed for the Veteran’s Day Parade on November 8; if you can help, please contact Mrs. Denise Jones at 761-6143. LIBRARY: Tomorrow at lunchtime the Middle School will celebrate their first quarter AR goals. We will be walking to Sonic. Sonic is providing ice cream, but students will need to bring money or a lunch. I would welcome
any parents who would like to join us! I would also like to give a special "thank you" to all of the parents who helped with the elementary scavenger hunt. You are highly appreciated! BOXTOP CONTEST: Are you saving BoxTops? Our fall contest will conclude at the end of October and we’ll declare a winning class for the most BoxTops brought to school. Please attach them to the form attached at the end of the Chatter, and turn them in to your students’ classrooms. Thanks for helping! BASKETBALL SEASON PASS: We have season passes available for home basketball games for the 2014-2015 school year! They will be $20 for adults, $15 for Senior Citizens, and $10 for students. These passes will be good for home games only, not including tournaments. If you would like to purchase one, the passes may be purchased in the school office. 3RD ANNUAL CHRISTMAS MARKET: The 3rd Annual Christmas Market Oklahoma Festival will be held Saturday, December 6, 2014 on our church and school campus. Booth fees benefit the First Lutheran School Scholarship Fund. We are currently accepting applications from artisans, crafters, and vendors. If you, or a church/school group or class would like to have a booth to raise money for a specific need, we would be delighted to have you participate. For more information, please contact Mr. Birnbaum (762-9950) or Shirley Zimmerman (7614657). PRE-SCHOOL – Mrs. Herard: Thanks to everyone that came for P/Teacher conferences. I loved getting to visit with you! This week is full of excitement-dress up days, parties! Our costume parties are Th/Fri at 10:30. You may come early to set up while we are at recess and stay for the fun. We will try to keep costumes as clean as possible. SHOW AND TELL IS NEXT TH/FRI, Nov. 6th/7th. Book orders due on the 7th as well. This week we are learning about spiders and comparing them with insects, and our color this week is black. PRE-KINDERGARTEN - Mrs. Kelly: We have been having fun with the dress up days this week. We loved pajama day! Tomorrow is tacky tourist day and Friday will be costume day/crazy day. It was great visiting with each of you during conferences. Thank you for coming. Our costume party is on Friday at 2:30. Grandparent’s day is coming up. Please look for the note in backpacks today. Fill out the information sheet and return to me by Wednesday, November 5th. Book orders are due back to me on Friday. Offering for November will be a canned food drive for the church pantry. PK and PS will sing in chapel on Wednesday, November 12th. We hope you can join us. The box top contest ends on Friday, so get yours brought to school. We are still collecting Sunny D labels until the end of November. Our Bible words this week are, My times are in Your hand. Psalm 31:15 We are learning the letter "S" and number "4". Have a blessed week! KINDERGARTEN - Ms. Miller: Our "Fall Costume Party" is this week on Friday Oct. 31st at 2:30 pm in our classroom, and all parents are welcome! Please, have your child wear a costume that day to school but no scary costumes. This week is the last week to bring back your child's "Book It" list of 20 books read for October to get a free pizza from Pizza Hut. If you have lost your sheet, just write down the 20 book titles on a sheet of paper and turn that in to the kindergarten room and I will get your child a coupon for a free pizza! This Book It program will last from October to March and your child can get one pizza a month. Happy reading this week! FIRST GRADE – Mrs. Birnbaum: Memory verse for Friday - The Lord is near to all who call on Him. Psalms 145:18. Thank you for taking the time to come meet with me for conferences. Thank you also for taking time to read with your child each day and helping them with their homework. Friday is show and tell day! Book It reading charts and box tops are due on Friday. Our Fall Party is on Friday at 2:30. The children may wear costumes to school. Have a wonderful week and keep reading! SECOND GRADE – Mrs. Powell: Thank you so much for taking time to discuss your child's progress. What a blessing for the children and for me to have your support! Continue to keep us in your prayers as we grow. Thanks to Mrs. Hamre and all the parents who helped make our AR party such fun. We're really motivated to keep reading. The Red Ribbon dress up days are a real hit. Thanks, Student Council, for your great planning. Send your box tops to school by Friday. Be safe if you trick or treat! Blessings. . . THIRD GRADE - Mrs. Steichen: What a fabulous Red Ribbon Week we are having! Everyone is getting so into it and I love the costumes everyone is coming up with. This week: Memory: 2nd Commandment and its meaning, due Friday. Reading and Spelling Test on Friday. Book Orders: Due Friday. Science: Project due Friday, November 7th. Grandparents Day: We are starting to work on our play for Grandparent's Day please ask your child about their part. Start thinking about a costume. Box Tops: The last day of the contest is Friday; please keep bringing in your Box Tops. Friday Lunch: Our class had the best attendance this quarter. To celebrate, we will be having Pizza Hut for lunch. Please bring a drink with a lid. FOURTH GRADE - Mrs. Sibley: Happy Birthday to Chivas Today! May God continue to bless you as He already has in your life. He has begun a wonderful work in you, and He will always be there. I appreciate the
wonderful conferences we had. I really see the amazing support God has given our children through their families. November book orders are due Monday, November 10th. The Science project is due November 7th. Keep reading books for Pizza and AR. Some already have our new AR bowling pieces up! Saturday begins new Pizza Goals. Remember 600 pgs per month. FIFTH GRADE - Mrs. Schatte: We're enjoying celebrating Red Ribbon Week this week. Thanks to the Student Council and Mrs. Goll for planning fun activities for us. Tests this week include spelling and reading on Friday. We're working on our Grandparent's Day song. Grandparent's Day is Tuesday, November 25.
MIDDLE SCHOOL 10/27 10/28 10/30
4:45 – 6, Varsity boys vs. Saints, scrimmage @ home 3 - 4:15, Varsity girls vs. PC East, scrimmage @ home Middle School AR party at Sonic Time 6:00, Varsity boys vs. PC West, scrimmage @ home
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3 - 4:15, Varsity girls vs. PC East, scrimmage @ home 5:30, 6:30; FLS @ Pawhuska 4:30, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30; FLS @ McCord 5:30, 6:30; FLS @ Pawhuska 4:30, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30; FLS @ McCord
Mrs. Harbeson: Hello, Everyone! I want to thank all the parents who came on Friday for parent/teacher/student conferences. I really enjoyed talking with you! Several of you reviewed your child's grades and work at home and sent back a note saying that you didn't feel it necessary to meet. For some, I haven't heard back through FastDirect or by note. For those 6th grade families, I will be contacting you to "touch base." I may ask that you and your student meet with me to go over a few things. 7th grade...our theater trip is quickly approaching. We will be heading to Midwest City next Wednesday, November 5. I will be setting up the ride list by this Friday, so I need a final count of all who are going. (It might be possible to order more tickets. Please FastDirect me if you would like to go, but didn't originally sign up.) We are getting into a very busy time of the year, and I want to encourage both parents and students to keep up-to-date with assignments and important dates. Between basketball and cheer, we have A LOT of activities going on in the next few weeks. Be sure to check out the school FaceBook page, your teachers' bulletin boards, and the weekly Cardinal Chatter that comes home every Wednesday. As always, if you ever have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to call or drop me a note on FastDirect. Blessings! Mrs. Hanson: 6th Grade will test Thursday, and 7th Grade will test Friday. 7th and 8th Grade have projects that are due at the end of this week and beginning of next, respectively. Cheerleaders need to reserve hotel rooms for the Hope tournament. Information is on my website. 7th Grade will be visiting the Hutchinson Salt Mine Friday, November 14. I will need only 6 drivers. A permission slip has gone out and needs to be returned by Friday, Oct. 31. Mrs. Goll: It was good to visit with you on Friday at conferences. If we did not have a conference and you would like to schedule one, please contact me. We have had or are having math tests in all classes this week. The scores range from outstanding to not so great. With second quarter, more new concepts are introduced and students will need to spend more time reviewing and studying to remember all that they need to remember to make good progress. One of the best ways you can help your student is simply by asking him to spend a few minutes each evening telling you the specifics of the lessons of the day. Sixth and seventh graders are studying fractions; prealgebra students are studying inequalities, and algebra students are reviewing linear equations. God bless you as you continue to seek Him first…. Mr. Covert: Welcome to another week here at FLS! We’re moving right along to get in what we can before Thanksgiving hits, so we’re moving at a decent clip. In 8th grade, we’re just about finished with the Intolerable Acts, and we’ll be into the Revolutionary War at that point. In the 7th grade, we’re working our way through Central American and the Caribbean. And 6th grade is about wrapped up with Greek history, at which point we’ll move into the contributions the Greeks left the world. I hope everyone is having a pleasant 2nd quarter so far, and God’s blessings as we continue forward in it!
First Lutheran Church & School—Growing up into Jesus, Reaching out with Jesus, Walking together in Jesus
DON’T THROW THAT AWAY!!: First Lutheran School collects, and benefits from, donations of used/empty ink cartridges, old cell phones, BoxTops for Education, Campbell’s soup labels, and Coke points! Do you throw away ink or toner cartridges @ work? Do the kids on your child’s team drink Powerade’s or Dasani water (with Coke points under the lid)? Possibly your youth group had a lock-in and served cans of Coke, Sprite, Minute Maid or Fanta, (with Coke points on the inside flap of the box they came in?) Those ring binders that your school office uses may have BoxTops points on the labels! Please send all of these items to school with your child or drop them off at the school office, and your school will benefit from it! We can use the proceeds/points from these companies to purchase playground balls, classroom and office supplies, and discounts on our toner/ink needs, which all helps to keep your costs down! THANKS for your help!
FASTDIRECT FEATURES: FastDirect is the program that we use to communicate with families! Your student’s teachers may email you via FastDirect, and you can email them. You can check your student’s grades, your account balances, print out tax statements showing your payments to the school all on FastDirect! If you haven’t used FastDirect before and would like your log-in information, or need to have your password re-set, please contact the school office. FASTDIRECT NOTIFICATIONS VIA EMAIL: If you would like to have your FastDirect communications forwarded to your personal email account, log in to your parent account on FastDirect, click the button at the top that says “Display Parent Data”, and then scroll down to the box that says “Allow Email forwarding of FDmail to “. If your email address is listed there, then click the box to the left to enable the forwarding of your messages. If your personal email address is not listed, scroll up a few lines, and enter it in the box above, and then scroll back down to click & enable the email forwarding. After all of that, be sure to click on the yellow “change data as shown above” button, or nothing will be changed. On this same page, you can also click a choice to enable text message notifications to be sent to your cell phone when you receive a message on FastDirect, just be sure to save after you make any changes. If you don’t know what your FastDirect login i.d. or password is, or need to have them changed to something more memorable for you, you can change it in there as well, or call the office and we can change it for you. As always, please contact the office if you have any questions.
November 2014
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Monday 3 Corn Dog Carrot Sticks Orange Smiles Milk B: Cereal
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10 3:30 Teacher Mtg Chicken Soft Taco Refried Beans Tortilla Chips/Salsa Mandarin Oranges Milk B: Cereal
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Tuesday 4 Band to Orchestra Meat Loaf Mashed Potatoes & Gravy Green Beans Pineapple Milk B: Oatmeal/Toast 11 2:30 PTL Board Lasagna Lettuce Salad Toasted Bread Mixed Vegetables Mixed Fruit Milk B: Cereal
18 Vision Testing Chicken Pot Pie Nachos/Meat & Cheese Biscuit Ranch Beans Green Beans Stawberries/Bananas Scalloped Potatoes Mexi corn Grapes Milk Milk B: Cereal B: Oatmeal/Toast 24 PS-PK Grandparent's 25 K-8 Grandparent's Study
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Grilled Cheese/Tomato Soup Applesauce Milk B: Cereal
Turkey/Stuffing Mashed Potatoes & Gvy Green Bean Casserole Hot Roll Pumpkin Dessert, Milk B: Cereal
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6 7 Frito Chili Pie Chicken Nuggets Spaghetti/Meat Sauce Ranch Beans French Fries Corn, Peaches Mixed Fruit Broccoli - Fresh Hot Roll Jello Bananas Puppy Chow Milk Milk Milk B: Scrambled B: Cereal B: Pancake/Sausage Eggs/Toast 12 7:30 am 13 14 FLSCA;Veteran's Day Little Smokies Hot Dog Chapel; Mid-Quarter Mac 'n Cheese French Fries Reports;7th Grade Menu Broccoli w/Cheese Carrot Sticks Pizza Pears Apples Lettuce Salad Milk Milk Pineapple B: Biscuit/Gravy B: Cereal Puppy Chow, Milk Ham/cheese/omelet 19 6th Grade Menu 20 1 pm Elementary @ 21 Chicken Patty Sandwich Roosevelt Rib Patty Sandwich Pizza Broccoli w/Cheese Baked Beans Lettuce Salad Mandarin Oranges Chips Pineapple Hot Roll Carrot Sticks Toasted Bread Dirt Cup Apple Crisp Ice Cream Sundae, Milk Milk Milk B: Blueberry Muffin B: Sausage Biscuit B: Cereal 26 No School 27 No School 28 No School
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5 7th OKC Theater;8th
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Grade Menu
Veteran's Day Parade
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