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 On-line pay: http://flspc.org/resources.html E-mail: lutheransecretary@yahoo.com Child Care: 580-762-1124 FastDirect: fastdir.com/flcspc
Sola Gratia, Sola Fide,
Sola Scriptura
October 31, 2018
CARDINAL CHATTER 10/31
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Deadline to return filled shoebox gifts to the office. If you haven’t brought yours back yet, please do so A.S.A.P. 7th Grade to Salt Mine Daylight Savings Time Ends…FALL BACK ONE HOUR! Veteran’s Day Chapel! (See following article)
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Be watching for the Book Fair to arrive! Mid-Quarter reports PS3 and PK4 Grandparent’s Day Kindergarten – 8th Grade Grandparent’s Day Pawhuska @ FLS. First game @ 6:00 No School – Happy Thanksgiving. Sign up now for daycare!
GROWing leaders at FIRST: “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” Harold S. Geneen And now, it’s time for the CARDINAL SHOUTOUT; a place for us to recognize how talented and diversified our students are!
Thank you to these 2nd and 3rd graders who came to sing for us in Church last Sunday (plus Allyson who left before the picture was taken); you all did fantastic!
VETERAN’S DAY PARADE- Mrs. Heitman: This Saturday is the Veterans parade! Each year our cheerleaders walk in the parade, and this year we’re hoping to have some company! The FLS basketball team will join us, and all of our students and their families are invited to join us as well! This is a great opportunity to represent our school, and the blessings we receive through our Lord Jesus at FLS! Wear your Lutheran shirts and meet us in the lineup! Specific time & location will be listed in the Wednesday (Oct 31) Ponca newspaper. VETERAN'S CHAPEL—JOIN US!: On Wed. Nov. 7, please invite a Veteran to join us as we honor our Military Veteran's at Chapel (8:30-9 a.m.). Please wear Red, White, & Blue Clothes, see our scouts lead the pledge, and enjoy Jack Rawlins on the bag pipes before and after chapel, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the end of the GREAT WAR, WW1.
SEARS GIFT CARDS: We have $100 in SEARS Scrip cards that we would like to sell off just in case. The local store assures us that they are fine, and the reorganizing won’t affect them, and they are definitely still taking the Scrip Cards…So…if you are doing some shopping there, please stop by the office and purchase some cards to use while you are there. If Sears isn’t your thing, but you are willing to help us out by buying other cards, we have a variety of gift cards available…some on hand, lots can be ordered! Lowe’s, WalMart, Red Lobster, Wendy’s, Old Navy, Outback, etc. Call or come by to see what’s on hand, or to see a list of what can be ordered, go to https://shop.shopwithscrip.com/ and scroll down and click on “retailer list”. -1-
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD DEADLINE!!!: If you picked up a shoebox in which to pack gifts to share with a needy child, they need to be returned to the office ASAP. If you are not returning it today or tomorrow, please contact the office and let us know when you will be able to return it, so we don’t mail the others off without yours. THE CHRISTMAS MARKET OKLAHOMA COMMITTEE met and decided to design, and create decorative crosses that could be sold at the Festival. They will be created out of wood, tin, weathered wood, smaller decorative crosses, ribbon and lace of various sizes, burlap, buttons, small decorative accents, etc. Should you have any of these things and are not using them, we would be happy to use them in our CROSS CREATIONS. You may place them in the Cry Room on the bench and I will find them there. The WORKDAY is scheduled for SATURDAY, NOV.3... 9 am-1 pm....800 Sugar Maple. Art Supplies will be provided. Please bring a salad to share for lunch. Should you have questions or concerns, you may contact Shirley at 580-761-4657. MARK YOUR CALENDAR and PLAN TO ATTEND. Considerable thanks to our Sponsors who made a donation to last years’ First Lutheran PTL/School Fundraising Auction of at least $500 for the Silver Level, and at least $50 for our Bronze Level. Please be sure to stop by and thank these businesses for supporting YOUR First Lutheran PTL: SILVER Sponsor: Kelly Campbell and Family Vision Care of Ponca City, 1619 North 5th Street, (580) 762-5700 Martin, Jean, and Jackson—Attorneys at Law, 1324 East Grand Street, (580) 765-9967 Auto Intintions/Brett Brown, 411 E. Hartford, 580-762-5283; autointintentions@sbcglobal.net Bronze $50 – 499 - Name/Business weekly in Chatter for rest of Spring 2018, Silver $500 – 999 - Name/Business weekly in Chatter for the Fall of 2018
CAN YOU HELP? We need a volunteer or two who is willing to assist with morning recess for elementary school from 9:30 to 10 a couple of days a week, and lunch/recess for an hour. If you can help us out, please contact the office. PRINCIPAL – Mr. Birnbaum: All Saints Day (November 1), I praise God for all of the saints that have gone before us to make this school a Great Place to Grow! LIBRARY – Mrs. Ware: It's the time of year where we begin thinking about the annual Scholastic Book Fair. One of the biggest keys to its success is volunteers. I am in need of volunteers who are willing to help me set up the book fair, to help during special events, and most especially on our grandparent day events. I appreciate the help so very much, and look forward to speaking with you soon about the upcoming fair. Please contact me through FastDirect or through the office about volunteering. Thank you! PRE-SCHOOL – Mrs. Herard: Another month of PS is done. We are making great progress! We welcome 2 new students to PS-Laken and Raylee. We are so happy to have you join us! Thanks to everyone that provided goodies and joined us at the Costume party. We had so much fun! If students are interested, FLS will be walking in the Veteran's Day parade on Saturday. See the special section by Mrs. Heitman for time and place to meet. Grandparents Day money ($7 per family) and forms with # of grandparents attending is due to me by Nov. 5th so invitations can be printed. Show and Tell is Thursday, Nov. 8th. Grandparents Day is on Mon. Nov. 19th and PS/PK will not have school on the 20th, and be out for Thanksgiving the 21st. 22nd, and 23rd. Blessings on your week! PRE-SCHOOL – Mrs. Colvin: Happy Wednesday! We will be learning all about leaves, tree's, and the letter J this week. I hope everyone is having a great week! PRE-KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Kelly: Thank you for your donations to fill our Christmas boxes! We are still collecting non perishable cans or boxes for the food pantry. Our contest next week is Bedlam! It was great visiting with each of you last week! Show and Tell will be on Friday. Book orders are due to me or online by Friday. The Grandparents Day reservation form is also due back to me by Friday. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, November 28th, Preschool and PreK will sing in chapel at 8:30 am. We hope you can join us. Thank you for making our costume party great! The kids had fun! Our Bible words this week are, With God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26 We are learning the letters Pp, Tt, and Ii. Have a Blessed Week! PRE-KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Heitman: This Saturday is the Veterans Day Parade. Please consider joining our school as we walk in the parade! Next Wednesday we will honor our Veterans in chapel. Please send your student in patriotic colors for school that day. We’re working hard on learning our letter clusters! We’ve gotten through A, S, M, and are finishing up with P, T, -2-
and I. Encourage your child to show you how well they are writing their name as well! We’ve all made a lot of progress! Book orders are due next Friday, Nov 9. Books make great Christmas gifts, and we’ll be doing a book exchange in class for Christmas! This would be a great time to get ahead of the game. KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Miller: We would like to tell all our parents thank you for making our "Fall/Halloween" party so special. Also, a big thank you to Mrs. Wade, our head home room parent, for the party! Please have a safe night trick-or-treating. This Friday Nov. 2nd is show and tell. Please find something that will fit in your backpack. Grandparent's Day will be here soon so please tell your child's grandparents to save the date on Nov. 20th. If your grandparents can't come you can invite a substitute grandparent. Have a remarkable week! FIRST GRADE – Mrs. Birnbaum: Thank you parents for making the time to come meet with me for Conferences. If you have not brought in your Operation Christmas child gift yet, please make sure to get those to me by tomorrow thanks! Bring in your cans of food for chapel offerings this quarter. We will have a different contest each week. October Reading Logs are due by Friday to earn the Pizza Hut certificate. November reading logs will be sent home on Thursday. Memory verse for Friday is Psalm 23:2 - He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters. Thank you Katie Wehunt for planning our fall party and for all the other parents that helped. Blessings on your week! SECOND GRADE – Mrs. Powell: Happy Reformation Day! Thank you all for taking time to visit with me regarding your child's academic success. Your children and I are blessed by your prayers and support. Thank you for bringing your children to sing at church on Sunday. They sounded great! We will be singing in Chapel on November 7 during our Veteran's Day celebration. You're invited to join us. Please remind your child's grandparents about Grandparents' Day at FLS, November 20. With our first quarter Chapel offerings, we were able to purchase a water buffalo!! This quarter we are filling a shoe box with small gifts for a girl or a boy. Please send a small item for one of our boxes. Blessings! THIRD GRADE – Mrs. Steichen: I’m gone this week, but I encourage you all to be extra careful tonight as you go trick-or-treating. Extra special thanks to all of those filling in for me this week, and making it possible for me to be out! FOURTH GRADE – Mrs. Sibley: Happy All Saints Day! Thank you so much for helping out with a memorable pumpkin patch field trip! We love our amazing parents! Keep reading for AR. Make sure that you are getting emails or texts to alert you that your student has taken their test. Some of us are already reading & testing big point books to make 2nd quarter easier; WAY TO GO! Chapel offering is going towards Operation Christmas Child. Our class boxes are a little light - We are packing boxes for a boy & a girl that could be in our class! Get your family boxes from the office, & look in the Chatter for more information. I appreciate the amazing conferences we had! I really see the amazing support God has given our children through families. We have started the second quarter off on a good foot; let’s continue to keep the good pace and steady footing for the rest of the year! Have a great week talking to God! FIFTH GRADE – Mrs. Schatte: Thank you to the parents that drove for our trip to my house on Tuesday. That was short notice, but I wanted a good day before cold or wet weather sets in again. You are a blessing to us. With Halloween right smack in the middle of the week it kind of messes with our ability to concentrate. We're doing the best we can, considering. We will have a regular reading and spelling test on Friday. I had originally planned on language test 3 on Friday, but I am moving it to Monday. I think everyone needs the weekend to study for it more thoroughly. Happy birthday in November to Lauren King (14)! Blessings!
MIDDLE SCHOOL Wednesday’s, 3:30 – 4:30, MathCounts & Friday’s during study hall Wednesday’s, 5:30 – 7:00, Youth night in the gym! (details below)
11/9 FLS Middle School Winter Dance, 6:30 – 9:30, FLS Gym
STU-CO DANCE – Mrs. Harbeson: Please join us for the middle school winter dance on Friday, November 9. The theme this year is "The Night Before Christmas." Time - 6:30-9:30 Dress - dressy (no jeans, sweats, or t-shirts) Where - FLS gym Who - all currently enrolled FLS middle school students Admission - 3 or more cans of food for us to add to the church's food pantry Student council parents, we will need your help chaperoning and cleaning up. We will be done by 10:00. I hope you all can join us for a great evening of fun and fellowship! -3-
"FLY" NIGHT TONIGHT! in the gym! Middle school through high school students are welcome to join us for some fun and fellowship! We will meet each Wednesday evening from 5:30-7 in the FLS gym. Parents are invited to join our 5:30 Bible study during this time. Hope to see you all there, and bring a friend or two!! PATRIOT’S PEN PROGRAM: The Patriot’s Pen Program is a 300-400 word essay contest sponsored by the VFW and open to students in 6-8th grades, who are enrolled in a public, private, or parochial school or home study program in the U.S. and/or its territories. The deadline to submit an essay is October 31. See the office for more details. FLS CHEER-Mrs. Heitman: Middle school students! Keep coming up with name ideas for the student section for basketball season! I will compile a list to be voted on next week, and the winning name will be announced in chapel next Wednesday! Also be sure to make plans to join us for each of our home basketball games... we’ll have theme nights and prizes at each game! Mrs. Harbeson: Greetings! I hope you all are doing well! There's LOTS going on in middle school right now... Wednesday, Nov. 7 - join us for chapel and help us honor our veterans. Wear red, white, and/or blue that day! Friday, November 9 - is the middle school winter dance from 6:30-9:30. Dress is "dressy." No jeans, sweats, or tshirts. The dance is for FLS middle school students only. Congratulations to our essay winners! All middle school students submitted essays on "Why I Honor the Flag." Paige Liston (6th), Dalton Laughlin (7th), and Aidan Strange (8th) are our class winners, and their essays will move on to the district level. 7th grade students have started their bloom ball projects on "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." Information and due dates went home yesterday. All students have begun both their lesson 4 Wordly Wise lessons and their next novels in literature. With basketball and cheer starting up, I encourage everyone to stay on top of their school work! Remember, you are a STUDENT/athlete. (Student comes first!) Blessings on the rest of your week! Mrs. Hanson: Last Friday we had a STEM challenge and we got to work with the 5th graders. Everyone had a lot of fun bobbing for apples without getting wet. Teams engineered devices to help them get the apples out so they did not have to use their mouth. Take a look at our fun on our Insta and Twitter pages. This week, classes are having direct instruction to explain material and will be assessed on Friday with a quiz. 7th grade is going to Strataca Salt Mines on Thursday. Ms. Pacey: Fall Break is decidedly over and we are well into the second quarter. We will be starting our Survey Project in Course 2 math soon. They have already created their surveys and are learning all of the types of graphs they will use to display their data. Algebra and PreAlgebra are both reviewing how to solve multi-step equations. Course 1 is working on decimal operations. Musical practices have begun. Our show this year is "The Greatest Love Ever Shown." We are excited to be able to share God's word with everyone in a few short weeks! Mr. Covert: November is just about here! I hope everyone is doing well, and that everybody is safe on Halloween night! Classes are moving right along. 8th grade is moving into the 1810’s, including the War of 1812 with Britain. In 7th grade, we’re finishing up our chapter on Canada and we’ll be moving onto Mexico afterward. 6th grade is working through the Greeks, with a focus on the city-states of Athens and Sparta. I pray that God continues to bless our school family as we move into November and the holiday seasons. Blessings on your week!
First Lutheran Church & School—Growing up into Jesus, Reaching out with Jesus, Walking together in Jesus
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Y’ALL BE SAFE OUT THERE TONIGHT!
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SNOW DAY!
Yes…it’s coming…
SNOW DAY NOTIFICATION: In the event that school may be cancelled due to inclement weather, we follow Ponca City Public Schools FOR WEATHER-RELATED CANCELLATIONS ONLY. Listen to your radio during the cancellation announcements, and if Ponca City Schools are cancelled due to snow/ice/etc, First Lutheran will be out, also; however, there will NOT be a separate announcement for First Lutheran. This only applies to weather-related cancellations; at all other times, follow the First Lutheran School Calendar. If you need a new calendar, go to www.fastdir.com/flcspc, click on the “links” tab on the left, and then click on “2018-2019 Calendar”, or stop by the school office for a new one.
Since you’re getting an extra hour of sleep, we invite you to spend it in worship with us! Early service is at 8:00 a.m., Sunday School is at 9:45, and late church is at 11:00. We would love to have you! -5-
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