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Jeremy May, Pastor David Birnbaum, Principal Sunday Services: 8:30, 11:00 School: 580-762-9950 Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. website: flspc.org Church: 580-762-1111 E-mail: lutheransecretary@yahoo.com www.flcspc.com Child Care: 580-762-1124 FastDirect: fastdir.com/flcspc

January 20, 2016

CARDINAL CHATTER

1/18-23 FLS 6th Grade Tournament 1/20 Geography Bee, 10:00, Gym 1/21 Freddy’s Night, 4:00-8:00 p.m. 1/22 Mini-Cheer Forms due 1/25-30 FLS 5th Grade Tournament 1/28 Papa Murphy’s Night 2/1-6 FLS 4th Grade Tournament 2/3 7:15 a.m. = Chess Club FLC Fellowship Hall

2/4 Tonkawa @ FLS; 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6;00, 7:00 2/5 FLC Women’s Guild Salad Lunch; $8/$3 2/5 NOC Honor Band;7:45 - 4:30 2/6 NOC Honor Band; 8 - 3; Concert at 2:00 at NOC 2/9 Hillsdale Christian @ FLS; 5:30, 6:30 Mini-Cheer performance 2/11 Glencoe @ FLS; 4:30, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30

SNOW DAY NOTIFICATION: In the event that school may be cancelled due to inclement weather, we

follow Ponca City Public Schools schedule FOR WEATHER-RELATED CANCELLATIONS ONLY. Listen to your radio during the cancellation announcements, and if Ponca City Schools are cancelled, 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 one, or have any questions, please contact the office.

DRESS CODE: As the seasons have changed, here are a few reminders about pieces of the dress code; the complete dress code can be found in the Parent Handbook that was handed out on Enrollment Day, Pages 12 & 13. If you have misplaced your handbook, please stop by the office for another copy.

6. Spandex shorts, bare midriffs, or halter-tops are not permitted. Clothing such as yoga pants, tights, or leggings must be covered with garments that reach to the thighs.

8. Hair should be carefully groomed and kept neat and clean. Hair should not cover the eyes or be a distraction while working in class. Hair that is not a natural hair color or worn in an extreme style may be distracting or unduly conspicuous; therefore it is not acceptable.

CHEER BAKE SALE: The Cheerleaders will be having a fundraising bake sale at the basketball tournament all week. Stop by and purchase some yummy treats, and support the FLS Cheerleaders in the process!

HOODIES! The hoodies are in! If you ordered one and paid in advance, they should come home with your student today. If you chose to pay when they come in, they are in the school office ready to be picked up. You or your student may stop by the office, pay, and pick them up, or you can send a check with your student to school, the teachers will get it to the office, and we’ll send the hoodies home with your student. Thanks for your purchase! Several families have already asked about a re-order. We are going to take additional orders (form & picture attached). If enough hoodies are ordered to warrant a second printing, then we will place a second order (don’t send money in with your order…only pay if we do order). Please have your orders in by Wednesday, February 3 (two weeks). It will take about 2 weeks to get the order in.

FIRST LUTHERAN WOMEN’S GUILD SALAD LUNCHEON will be held on Friday, February 5, 2016 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the First Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall. Prices are Adults $8.00 and children Pre-school-aged $3.00. Tickets are available from Guild members and in the church and school offices.

THE 6TH GRADE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENTS IS CURRENTLY UNDER WAY: We are hosting a basketball tournament for area 6th grade teams, and the proceeds go to sponsor our basketball team (jersey’s, warm-ups, equipment, etc.) We are looking for some volunteers to work the gate, concession, clock, and book. If you are

willing to help for an hour or two this week, please call the office at 580-762-9950. THANKS! MINI-CHEER: is for students in pre-school – 6th grade and practices will be 3:30 to 4:30 the week of January 25-28th

and on Monday, February 8th; performance night will be Tuesday, February 9. To sign up, please fill out the form (attached) and drop it and your $35 off in the school office. More forms are available in the office.

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YEARBOOK: Thank you so much for all the pictures you all have uploaded so far. I have stored through over 1,000 pictures. Please continue to get those uploaded. I ask that if anyone has Grandparents Day, 2-5 Grade Musical, Christmas parties, and any early childhood pictures to upload them to ReplayIt or bring them to the school on a flash drive. Thank you so much!

TAX STATEMENTS: If you would like a printout of your payments to First Lutheran School during 2015 for tax purposes, please stop by the office/send me a FastDirect-mail/or call the school at 762-9950. You can also print them off yourself by logging into your FastDirect account, scroll down to the bar that says “2007 Tax Year Printout”, change the year to 2015, and click the box that has “Tax Year Printout” in it. This will include school-related expenses only; summer daycare tax statements must be requested from daycare. Remember that not all payments to FLS are tax deductible, and you should contact a tax advisor to find out what can be written off, and what cannot.

TAX STATEMENTS FOR SUMMER DAYCARE should be requested from Daycare. The tax statements that you get through the office only include charges for the school year, not summer daycare.

FIRST LUTHERAN SCHOOL CHESS CLUB will meet each Wednesday morning at 7:15 in the First Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall beginning Wednesday, February 3. There is a one-time fee of $35 to help cover the cost of chess sets and clocks for the club, as well as the student’s very own scorebook. Entry forms were attached to last week’s Chatter and are due in to the school office before Friday, January 22; copies are available in the office. For more information, please contact Jennifer Vaughan at 580-716-1931 or jenniferkayvaughan@hotmail.com, and be sure to like us on Facebook: Chess Club - First Lutheran School.

PRINCIPAL - Mr. Birnbaum: Joke of the week - What do snowmen eat for breakfast? Answer - Frosted Flakes Chapel offerings for this quarter are going to help the Pastor Ed Hosch family. The children attended our school in

2nd & 5th grade last quarter. Now they are witnessing Christ to the people of Peru for as long as the Lord chooses. Please consider sending an offering to Chapel to help them or canned food for our food bank to help those in need in Ponca City. May God bless you as you are a blessing to others.

PRE-SCHOOL – Mrs. Herard: January is flying by so quickly! Reminders: Stephen Fite forms and money are due the 27th! Cans may be brought any time for the 100th Day celebration on the 28th. This week our theme is "5 Senses" and our letter is "N". We will be using our senses to explore and learn lots of fun things this week! We will introduce rhyming words, work on spatial concepts, so comparisons, and count to 30. Although we review in class, please work on beginning letter sounds with your child from A-M. God bless your week!

PRE-KINDERGARTEN - Mrs. Kelly: Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your three day weekend! Stephen Fite permission slips and money are due next Wednesday, January 27th. Our 100th day of school is next Thursday, January 28th. Please remember that we are trying to collect 100 cans for the church food pantry by the 28th. Our Bible words this week are, [Jesus said,] "I am the light of the world." John 9:5 We are learning the letter "F" and the number "13" Have a blessed week!

PRE-KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Flaherty: Last Day for book orders will be Friday. This week we are working on the letter "Gg" and we will continue learning about the weather and how it affects the animals and plants. Bible words this week are Jesus said, "I am the light of the World." John 9:5 Next Thursday is the 100th day of school; please look for notes about the activities we have planned.

KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Miller: I hope everyone had a nice Martin Luther King Jr. Day! We are back and working hard on our new number words. Next week on the 28th we will have been in school for 100 days! Have a wonderful week!

FIRST GRADE – Mrs. Birnbaum: Memory for Friday - Jesus said, "Let the children come to Me; do not hinder them, for such belongs the kingdom of God. Mark 10:14. Book orders are due back tomorrow, either online or to me. Stephen Fite concert permission forms and money are due back by next Wednesday. Next week Thursday is our 100th day of school! All of the ECC classes are collecting canned goods and our goal is to have 100 cans! These may be brought in any time until next Thursday. We will also be making a trail mix. Each child can bring 100 food items for our mix (any kind of cereal, marshmallows, M&M's, raisins, pretzels, anything you can think of). Please do not bring the food until next Thursday. Blessings on your week!

SECOND GRADE – Mrs. Powell: REMEMBER: The second graders will be singing at First Lutheran Church this Sunday, January 24 at the 11:00 service. We sound great when we're all singing and I know I'll see ALL of you there. Thank you for checking to be sure your child knows memory work before you drop them off on Thursday mornings. Each child will need a shoe box for Valentine's Day. We'll make our boxes February 1. Blessings!

THIRD GRADE - Mrs. Steichen: Brr... it is cold. Please remember to write your child's name in their coats. We have already lost some and it would get returned if your child's name was in there somewhere. If you are missing a coat, please

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check the cafeteria or the administration building. This week: It is short but we can do this! Test Friday: Spelling, Reading, and Memory (9th Commandment). Math test next week. Paragraph on Thursday. Sunday: We are singing in Church, please meet us in the narthex at 10:45, we will sing at the start of the 11 a.m. service and you are able to leave once we are done singing. Valentine’s Day is coming up so please look for a letter about our at home Valentine's Day Box. Also, be on the lookout for our next book report. Have a wonderful week!!

FOURTH GRADE - Mrs. Sibley: Keep up the good work. Reading for AR & Book It is very rewarding when you make your goal. Make sure that you read the last Friday Letter about our Valentine’s Day Box Decorating Contest. You don’t want to miss out on great prizes. Congratulations to Lanie, Donivan, and Kyle for participating in the Geography Bee today. We are very proud of you, and your effort. Some have already turned in their extra questions for their project, those are due by Friday. Blessings!

FIFTH GRADE - Mrs. Schatte: It was nice to have a three-day weekend. Now we're ready to be back at school and learn. Look for language test 5 early next week. It will cover adjectives and adverbs, as well as subjects and verbs. Please review with your child all blue boxes and Look Closely! boxes on pages 85-102. State reports in social studies will be assigned this week. A guideline on requirements for this report will be sent home soon. Each child will receive a copy for home and one for school. Memory due tomorrow is the 23rd Psalm, verses 1-4. Blessings!

MIDDLE SCHOOL 1/27 7:30 FLSCA 2/20 8th & 9th Grade Pepperette Winter Dance, 7:00, Hutchins

Mrs. Goll: Good luck, Basketball players, as you continue to play in your tournaments and games. Also, Good Luck, Scholars, as you compete in the school geography bee, the regional spelling bee, and the MathCounts competition. What a blessing it is to see you students shine in so many endeavors! In math, 6th is studying ratios and proportions; 7th is studying inequalities; pre-algebra is starting a unit on percentages; and algebra is using substitution to solve systems of equations. God bless you as you strive to give Him the glory this week and always.

Mrs. Harbeson: Greetings! I hope you enjoyed your three-day weekend. Everything is running smoothly in language. We have our second round of spelling and vocabulary tests coming up tomorrow, sixth and seventh classes have language tests coming up, and eighth graders received their new book. Seventh graders have also received their project information for this quarter. If you haven't already, ask your student which project he or she has chosen to do. Lots of basketball tournaments are scheduled for the next month. Please check to see how you can help. Stay warm! Blessings on the rest of your week!

Mrs. Hanson: We are starting tournament season which means all of us will be very busy, so let's manage our time well and remember school comes first!

7th grade parents, please remember to sign up to work the tournament next week and to send concession provisions to school with the kids by Friday.

I will also have the fundraising numbers up from past fundraisers on my website, so check it out to see how much you have already raised and how much you still need to go!

All classes will be doing labs and activities to reinforce concepts. Please ask your student to explain one of these new concepts.

We will also continue quizzing over vocab by the end of the week. Mr. Covert: I hope and pray today that everyone found the long break relaxing, and now that it’s over, we’re ready

to pick up right where we left off! 8th grade is wrapping up our look at Pre-Civil War America. Our next step is to take a look at the split itself as it

occurred, and then the Civil War. In 7th grade, we’re starting our unit on Europe in the Western half of the continent, such as the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. 6th grade is still in Rome, looking at the fall of the Roman Republic, and the rise of the Roman Empire.

I pray that God blesses us all this week and continuously as we continue to grow in knowledge of Him and all He has done for us!

First Lutheran Church & School—Growing up into Jesus, Reaching out with

Jesus, Walking together in Jesus

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It’s Time to Order 2015-2016 Yearbooks!

(A limited number of extra 2014-15 yearbooks are available in the office f0r $20)

Complete the order form below, attach $25 per yearbook ordered ($20 if paid

before March 31, 2016), and return to the school office on or before Friday, May 20, 2016.

Remember there’s a $5 discount if ordered/paid for by March 31, 2016!

We want to have additional pictures of every student in the yearbook, and you can

help! The best way to make sure that we have pictures of your child in the yearbook,

is to submit your pictures! Replay It is a free app from Jostens that is used to

share photos to the yearbook staff. We have an account set up, and once you

download the app and link it to our school, you will be able to upload pictures right

then and there; it is incredibly easy to use. NO more saving the photos to a flash

drive, tracking someone down to give it to, and worrying about getting it back. The

pictures only take seconds to upload and share with everyone. If you forget your

camera at a school event, you may go out and look at all the photos submitted by

other school families. So please download the app today and start sharing your

pictures!!!

Yearbook Order form:

Student Name:_________________________________ & Current Grade:_____ Number of Books: _________ X $25 each = $__________ due -- OR -- X $20 each if ordered/paid by March 31, 2016

Total Paid $_________ (___cash or ___check/check #_____)

Contact number or e-mail address:_____________________________________

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Business Owners/Parents/Grandparents/etc…

Buy an Ad in our Yearbook!

Parents and business owners: Pictures are included in your ad space at no additional charge! Please

email them to jessica.steichen@cune.org, or call the office at 580-762-9950 for more details.

Deadline for Ads is June 1, 2016, but prices will increase April 1, 2016, so return

the order form below to the office today with your check to First Lutheran School.

Business Ad or Personal Ad (circle one)

Business & Contact Name or Parent Name:

Address (if business):

Phone Number:

I would like to sponsor this page(s): (example pages to sponsor are class pages, sports, middle school dance, graduation, musical, band, family fun night, etc.)

Ad Content:

Payment Enclosed $___________ Cash or Check #_______ (make checks out to First Lutheran School)

Deadline for Ads: June 1, 2016; Ad prices increase April 1, 2016

Full-

Page

Ad $300

Half-Page

Ad $150

Quarter-

Page Ad

$75

Business-

Card

Ad

$40

Imagine the surprise on your student’s face as

they are flipping through the yearbook and find

their picture with a personal message from you!

You can use this space to congratulate them on

their first school year, graduation, an individual

achievement, missing tooth, 2-digit birthday, or

anything that you want to celebrate!

Business Owners: Our

enrollment nearly 250

students. We can help you

reach these families by

advertising in our yearbook.

We have a variety of

advertising options for you.

Or sponsor a page for $20; this is your

sentence at the bottom of the page such

as…”3rd Grade class pictures page

sponsored by the Jane Smith family”

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First Lutheran Church & School

2015/2016 Hoodie Order Form

# of each size shirt:

____YS ____YM ____YL ____YXL x $20 each = $_______

____AS ____AM ____AL ____AXL x $25 each = $_______

____2X ____3X ____4X ____5X x $30 each = $_______

$________ Total due

Pay When Comes In__________

Return order form to the office by Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Family name:____________________________ Ph:_____________

Send home with ___________________ (student name) ______ (student grade)

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