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November 2015 Frontier Falcons
November 2015
Frontier Falcons
Congratulations to Mrs. Hays for being named our Teacher of the Year.
Wish her good luck as she competes for District Teacher of the Year and
maybe even onto STATE!!!
Frontier Falcons
FALCONS FLY HIGH!!!!!
Estes
is th
e Best
est!!
Mrs. Estes our amazing Enrichment Teacher was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma this summer. In December she will be traveling to Houston for
treatment. Her last week here will be November 9-13. We will be celebrating her ALL WEEK!! If you would like to send letters to her or make a donation for her expenses we will present those to her on November
13th at Falcon Fest!!
Fall Semester Straight A Honor Roll
3rd Grade MaKayla Ames
CaysenArgo
Lizzy Auchter
Jack Barnett
Ethan Benning
Julia Conway
Cambryn Cowherd
Avah Crosson
Brady Davis
Matthew Dodi
Sydney Dunkleberger
Matt Falls
William Graham
Jayden Harrington
Maddie Hayes
Reese Hollingsworth
Alexis Johnson
Elliana Johnston
Subaha Kibria
Jillian McClintock
Joelie Nicholson
Omar Ourani
Paula Padron
Adrian Serrano
Tegan Singleton
Hannah Snyder
Olivia Snyder
Carson Suttles
Logan Tanner
Gavin Tran
Jaxson Warlick
Samuel Webber
Temperance Wellman
Reaghan White
Jasmine Xu
Isabelle Young
Jeffrey Yu
5th Grade
Morris Chi
Carson Chiles
Nolan Dashney
Tyler Dunkleberger
Caden Ellerbee
Jordan Knox
Kadence Mariano
Jacob May
Ella Misialek
Jalen Moran
Aria Murrell
Taha Ourani
Rachel Rayburn
Jacob Schulze
Stefan Srnka
Luke Tanner
Emilee Wagner
4th Grade
Gabby Bunson
Natalie Craig
Noah Ellerbee
Izzy Ferrell
Rachel Fils Aime
Willa Ford
Ryanne Gleghorn
Julia Hall
Allison Heathcock
Ace Hodges
Alice Hsu
Asher Jantz
Alexander Laird
Seth Lietch
Emma Martin
Hadley McLanahan
Mia Miranda
Kate Morrison
Kailee Peeler
Cooper Praytor
Blake Waggoner
Pre-K will be busy getting ready for Thanksgiving. Our Frog Street Units
in November are about "Choices". We will be learning how to make good
choices, healthy choices, and problem solving. Literacy time will find us
learning to use oral language, phonological awareness, alliteration, and
vocabulary. Math time learning will include patterns, geometry, measure-
ment and time. We are thankful for our friends and for our families. Have
a wonderful Thanksgiving!
It's report card month! This is a friendly reminder that report cards have been pushed back to the 30th. Be
on the lookout for them! We hope everyone had a relaxing and fun Fall Break! Before the break we took our
field trip to the zoo and it was a huge hit! Thank you to those who volunteered to go with us. We couldn't
have done it without your support. Red Ribbon week is coming up this month. Please check your teacher's
weekly newsletter for the dress up days.
Can you believe we have already finished Unit 1 in our reading series?! In Unit 2 will focus on communities:
groups of people or animals that work and/or live together. We will be discussing community helpers, citi-
zenship and/or how to be a good citizen, and even a little about dinosaurs! We will also focus on learning
our long vowel sounds with the sneaky/silent "e" at the end.
Have you been practicing counting pennies and nickels? We have! Dimes are coming up next as well as tell-
ing time to the half hour. This comes and goes quickly in our math series! Please try to keep in mind...telling
time to the half hour and mixing coins are tough skills! Take this time to talk about one of our Great Expec-
tation Principles, Perseverance.
PRE-K
1st Grade
KINDERGARTEN
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We cannot believe that November is already here! Kindergarten has lots of learning and
fun things planned for November. We will be participating in a Thanksgiving program in
each of our classrooms, so be on the lookout for more information. We will be reading
stories to learn our comprehension skills each week that have to do with Transportation.
We will continue to learn about and observe fall. We will also be studying about the his-
tory of our first Thanksgiving. Remember to keep practicing your sight words, tying your
shoes, and reading each day! Happy Fall!
It was so great to meet with our 2nd grade families for Parent/Teacher Conferences last month! Our 1st quarter report cards will be sent out Oct. 30
th and we are so proud of the effort each of our students are put-
ting forth in school! For November in Language Arts, our genre focus will be Animal Folk Tales and Animal Fantasy stories. We will be diving deeper into our Writing curriculum and working on paragraph structure. In Math we will look at using concrete models to develop the concepts of place value, telling time on digital and analog clocks to the quarter-hour, and identifying and counting money up to a twenty dollar bill. Government
and Early America will be our focus in Social Studies. In Science, we will be studying environments and habitats, as well as gearing up for our amazing Robot Project! Be on the look-out for detailed information to come home mid-month. This is always an exciting project for the students as they have the opportunity to
hone in on their creative and constructive skills!
Now that we are in the 2nd quarter, students have started Accelerated Reader! Thank you for encouraging your child to read, earn points, and meet their A.R. Goal! This is a great way for students to understand
what it means to be a self-motivated reader! We will reward our A.R. readers with a party at the end of the 9 weeks, right before the Winter break!
We hope everyone had an amazing Fall Break!
November is an exciting month in 4th grade. It brings the Explorer's Unit!! We have many fun activities
planned, and will end the unit with the Explorer's Feast on November 20th. Students will need to dress as the
explorer assigned to them the day of the feast. Information about the feast will go home soon.
We will be doing a biography study in reading. Students will be learning about Harry Houdini, Amelia Ear-
hart, The Wright Brothers, and Eleanor Roosevelt. They will also be reading and researching about presi-
dents. The students will be giving a speech over their assigned president.
In math, we will be working on map skills as part of the Explorer's Unit. We will also start diving into deci-
mals.
We are also continuing our Earth science study. We have several experiments planned to accompany this
unit.
Reminder* Please be checking our 4th grade website regularly to see what we our doing on a weekly basis,
along with other important information! https://sites.google.com/site/mrsmcfaddensmoviestars/
2nd Grade
4th Grade
3rd Grade
Hello Third Grade Families!
We hope everyone had a restful and relaxing fall break! Third graders are continuing to work hard and de-
velop many skills. We will be reading fantasies and folk tales during the month of November. We will prac-
tice identifying cause and effect relationships, plot and theme, and summarizing. We will be writing narrative
pieces, as well as conducting research on ants to create an informative writing piece. Math will focus on the
relationship between multiplication and division, as well as place value including decimals. We will begin to
learn about Oklahoma's early explorers, the early 1800's, and Native American Removal in Social Studies as
we prepare for our third grade field trip to the Oklahoma History Center, which will be in March. As always,
we appreciate your continued support in reading with your child each night, and please remind them that
the AR period ends on December 18th. We hope you have a great start to the holiday season!
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Social Studies – This month we will be studying all about the 13 Original Colonies. We will com-
memorate Celebrate Freedom Week (Veteran’s Day) by memorizing the social contract selection
from the Declaration of Independence. We will also be holding 5th grade Colonial Day on November
24th. Be looking for more information coming home about this exciting event! Science – We are beginning our unit on energy and energy transfer and then moving on to Life Sci-
ence and our study of ecosystems and food chains! Math - We have just wrapped up our unit on decimal operations and now we are moving on to divi-
sion. Your student will learn how to divide up to four-digit dividends by two-digit divisors, interpret
remainders, and divide decimals.
Reading – This month we will be starting our first novel study on the book “Blood on the River.”
Frontier’s fall book fair was again a success! Thank you to all students, parents,
and teachers for shopping! Based on our sales total, we put 2,950 books into
the hands of our students. A portion of our sales came from the All for Books
coin donations. Congratulations purple pod for bringing in almost half of our
coins!! As a school, we raised over $1,800 in change! We bought books for
students at Frontier, and all teachers were given books to put in their class-
room libraries. Additionally, Scholastic is going to donate 1,800 books to kids
in two different charities. Thank you for helping to give kids access to reading!
5th Grade
Media
Ms. Busby, Ms. Moody, Mrs. Singletary
Nutrition
Veterans
Manners
I'm Thankful for...
Maps
Community Living Application Skills
for Success (CLASS) will be at a res-
taurant this month.
FALCON FOUR
I’m Positive
I’m Respectful
I’m Responsible
I’m Ready to Learn
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I have so much to be thankful for and your students definitely make it to the top of my list! We have been super
busy in the music classroom and here are some upcoming events for the month of November:
Wednesday, November 11th- Falcon Fortes will perform for Veteran’s Day Assembly
Saturday, November 14th- Falcon Fortes will perform at Bass Pro for the opening of Santa (Details will come
home, chorus parents J)
Thursday, November 19th- 2nd Grade performances of, “How Does Your Garden Groove?”
Afternoon performance at 2:30 p.m.
Evening performance at 7:00 p.m.
November is going to be quite the busy month and I know December will be busy as well! 3rd Grade Falcons have
started rehearsing for their musical which will be Thursday, December 17th. 3rd Grade parents please be looking for
details to come home within your student’s Thursday folder.
Blessings!
Musically,
Mrs. G J
Counselor
Fall Running Club Stats:
3rd grade had 15 runners and ran a total of 78.8 miles
4th grade had 10 runners and ran a total of 45.2 miles
5th grade had 18 runners ran a total of 101.9 miles
They ran a total of 226 miles
Top 3rd grade runners: Sydney Dunkleberger ran 9.2 miles, Camryn Penny ran 8.8 miles
Top 4th grade runners: Trent Johnson ran 9.7 miles, Kyler Russell ran 8.5 miles
Top 5th grade runners: Tyler Dunkleberger ran 14.4 miles, Trey Martin ran 13.0 miles
Great job Falcons!!
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Music
Starting in November we will be teaming with Calm Waters, a Center for Children and Families. Calm Waters offers a free 6-week group for students at Frontier who have experienced loss through a family death, divorce, deployment, incarceration or foster care. If you are interested in more information about this program please email or call me at [email protected] or 726-4853.
BOOSTERTHON!!
IMPORTANT DATES: 11/1 – Daylight Savings Time Ends
11/2 - $1 Dress Up: Pajama Day Proceeds benefit Hudson Haws
11/5 - Chick-Fil-A Night
11/9—Estes is the Bestest or Maroon Colored shirts $1
11/11 – Veteran’s Day Assembly, 2:45
11/11 – PTO Meeting, 4:00
11/12 - $1 Dress Up: Pirate Day Proceeds benefit Mrs. Estes
11/13 – School Psychologist Appreciation Day
11/13 Impact Day Assembly
11/16-11/20 – Bedlam Canned Food Drive
11/19 – Papa Murphy’s Night; pizza party contest
11/19 – 2nd Grade Music Program, 2:30pm & 7pm
11/20 – Spirit Day
11/20 – 4th Grade Explorer’s Feast, 12:30pm
11/24 – Kindergarten Thanksgiving Program, 2:30pm
11/24 – 5th Grade Colonial Day
11/25-11/27 – Thanksgiving Break
12/1 My Schools Cool Receipt Deadline
12/4 – Santa Pictures
ATTENDANCE LINE: 726-4855
PARENT PORTAL INFORMATION This year, a NEW student information system, Infinite Campus, will replace PIV. It will provide parents, guardians and students with real-
time access to course schedules, assignments, grades, attendance and report cards for grades 6-12.
If you have established a portal account, go to:
https://edmondschools.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/edmond.jsp
Setting up a Parent Portal account:
To set up a new account, parents/guardians will need to show up in person (with a photo ID) at the Frontier office. Parents/
guardians will then receive an email that will contain a link with instructions on how to set up a new portal account.
Once the account is set up, it will allow parents/guardians to utilize one login to see information on one or multiple children. Also new with this
product is the ability for parents/guardians to update their home phone number and email address as well as add non-household contacts. So it
is very important, once you set up your account, please verify and add to your student’s non-household contacts. This will advise the office on
who may pick up your student.
Mobile App Set Up After you have created a parent portal account, you will be able to install the mobile app to get information when you want it, anytime, any-
where from your IOS or Android Device.
Step-parents Step parents who are not court guardians with documentation on file at the school site, will not be able to access their step children’s infor-
mation. Accounts can only be set up for natural parents or legal guardians. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes your family and
deeply appreciate your understanding as we strive to protect the privacy of all students.
This year we are excited to be partnering with a fun, free, and truly easy fundraiser called Shoparoo!
Schools nationwide are already earning hundreds and even thousands every year through Shoparoo and it’s
a great opportunity for us to really make a difference this year!
Shoparoo is school fundraising made easy: the free app turns pictures of your everyday shopping receipts
into cash donations and sweepstakes entries for our school! Yep, it’s that simple. No more cutting labels, selling door to door, or time-consuming coordinating. All you have to do is shop as you normally do, snap
pictures of your receipts with the app, and voila Just shop, snap, earn!
Get started today:
1. Download the free Shoparoo app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store
2. Select our school from the list and start taking pictures of your receipts - shop anywhere, buy anything!
3. Earn even more Roo Points, or cash donations, by inviting others to join using your personal referral
code
4. You can even select a grade to support and have fun with grade competitions!
There’s no limit to how much money we can raise with Shoparoo - the more supporters, the more we will
raise for our school. Schools with just 40 supporters are earning an average of $1,000 every year. That’s
free, easy money that we could be fundraising too. Check out shoparoo.com to learn more about this
awesome app!
Thank you for your support!
Boosterthon was a huge success with many thanks to our wonderful volunteers! Also, thank you to everyone that pledged, if you have not turned in your pledges, please do so as soon as possible. We hope you had a great time at our Fall Family Fun Night! Thank you to all of our volunteers that helped make this a great night for all of our families! Our PTO meeting is November 11th at 4pm in the school Media Center, we would love to have you join us! The Bedlam Food Drive is November 16th - November 20th, please bring a can good or non-perishable food item. November 5th is Chick-Fil-A day at the location on Penn & November 11th is Papa Murphy night, come grab a bite to eat and mention Frontier!
PTO
KC Club Kadence Mariano Jamie Williams Marley Hall Carson Chiles Callie Stoddard Tyler Dunkleberger Campbell Cloer Mia Austin Brad Moreland Aria Murrell Amina Hassan Addye Skinner Blake Goodrich Nicholette Johnson Emma Martin Leah Hubler Jillian Moreland Jannah Behi Spencer Windholz Troy Hays Natalie Craig Julia Hall Noah Ellerbee Hannah Grimmett Carlee Risley Ellora Shaw Cooper Praytor
Frontier Falcons
Be sure to check the trophy case to see pictures of all our Impact
Team members.
FRONTIER FIELD TRIPS
2015 Pumpkin
Decorating Contest
Congratulations to Ella Misialek for
winning the Grand Prize in our Pump-
kin decorating contest!!! She will
Kendall Robertson Most School Spirit Pumpkin (PK-Kdg)
Emery Akin Most School Spirit Pumpkin (1st-2nd Grade)
Caleigh Stoddard Most School Spirit Pumpkin (3rd-5th Grade)
Annabel-la
Williams Most School Spirit Pumpkin (3rd-5th Grade)
Taylor Jorgensen Most Creative Pumpkin (PK-Kdg)
Anna Boutwell Most Creative Pumpkin (1st-2nd Grade)
Jalen Moran Most Creative Pumpkin (3rd-5th Grade)
Olivia Newberry Spookiest Pumpkin (1st-2nd Grade)
Gabby Bunson Spookiest Pumpkin (3rd-5th Grade)
Kaelin Hatton Spookiest Pumpkin (3rd-5th Grade)
Skyler Welch Spookiest Pumpkin (3rd-5th Grade)
Mia Perkins Fanciest Pumpkin (PK-Kdg)
Isabella Welch Fanciest Pumpkin (PK-Kdg)
Kambri Lakin Fanciest Pumpkin (1st-2nd Grade)
Julia Hall Fanciest Pumpkin (3rd-5th Grade)
Avery Welch Fanciest Pumpkin (3rd-5th Grade)
Grayson Gantz Cutest Pumpkin (PK-Kdg)
Hallee Hoggatt Cutest Pumpkin (PK-Kdg)
Alayna Hoggatt Cutest Pumpkin (1st-2nd Grade)
Alexa Hoggatt Cutest Pumpkin (1st-2nd Grade)
Dalton Goodwin Funniest Pumpkin (PK-Kdg)
Alden Martin Funniest Pumpkin (1st-2nd Grade)
Delaney Steckel Funniest Pumpkin (3rd-5th Grade)
Pumpkin Winners
As you know Frontier is a very caring school. We have many staff members and families willing help in any way. Please let me know if you need anything for the upcoming holiday season. Please complete the form below and send it back to Mrs. Singleton in a sealed en-velope. You can also email me the information. All information will remain confi-dential.
Please check all that apply: Thanksgiving Meal Help - ____. Christmas Help – I need help with a Christmas meal ____. I need help with food over the holiday break ____. I need help with gifts ____. Children’s size and ages (please add all children even if they don’t attend Frontier).
Names Ages Sizes Likes ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Parent’s Name _____________________________ Phone __________________________________ If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at [email protected] or 726-4853. Leslie Singleton, School Counselor
Annie Graham
Eli Boutwell
Analeigh Cook
Eden Lodge
Siri Turner
Cheyanne Wagner
Eileen Womack
Addison Bockus
Arielle Cook
Avery Bartlett
Aubrey Daniel
James Graham
Ashby Jantz
Addison Smith
Tatum Jerome
Isabella Martin
Evelyn Lodge
Bella Ross
Zoelie Deaton
Gillian Gillaspy
Aidan Windholz
Evie Curtner
Ashelynn Benton
Taylor Nichols
Eleiyah Schultz
Caelen Montgomery
Julia Conway
Will Graham
Paula Pardon
Tegan Singleton
Zander Hanson
Asher Jantz
Emma Martin
Ellora Shah
Loralai Castillo
Isabelle Gulickson
Derrick McIntosh
Emilee Wagner
And More AWESOME Pumpkins
Hudson Haws is a Senior at Bethany High School. On Friday, October 23rd he was injured during the football game. He still remains
paralyzed from his injuries. Mrs. Jernigan's children attend Bethany HS with Hudson and Mr. Haws, Hudson's dad, has brought staff to Frontier to collaborate with our teachers. Please continue to keep
Hudson and his family in your thoughts. We will continue to donate our $1 days to him throughout the year. If you have questions please
feel free to contact Mrs. Singleton.
Soon Hudson and his family will be travelling to Colorado to see a specialist. We will continue to encourage him throughout his
journey.
Hudson Haws
School Based Groups
Calm Waters will conduct FREE grief support groups in your school!
One place where children’s grief is often apparent is at school. Calm Waters sends staff/personnel into schools to
conduct free school-based grief support groups utilizing a 6-week curriculum created specifically for this program.
Children who have experienced significant loss in their lives, such as the incarceration or deployment of a parent,
death of a loved one, divorce, or foster care, will benefit from these school-based groups.
Provide help to grieving children who may not have the opportunity to attend support groups at Calm Waters
Conducted weekly for 6 weeks
Offered in schools (PreK – 12) throughout the Oklahoma City metro region
Assist children with a variety of losses, including death, divorce, foster care issues and the incarceration or
deployment of a parent/guardian
Help children deal with their feelings and experiences, positively impacting self-esteem, behavior
and .achievement
Frontier is teaming with Calm Waters, Center for Children and Families
to offer school-based support groups. If you are interested or would
like more information please contact Leslie Singleton, Frontier School
Counselor at [email protected] or 726-4853.
Frontier Families,
October receipts from Quail Springs Mall are du! Send back to school with
your child original receipts (or copies of receipts) from any purchase made
at the mall during the month of Octoberand help our school earn points
toward the goal of a $10,000 cash reward as part of the Quail Springs Mall,
"My School's Cool!" program. We are so excited about the receipts that
have already come in! Thank you for your continued support!
We are off to a tremendous start in the "My School's Cool" program spon-
sored by Quail Springs Mall! In this program, we compete with 6 other
schools from Piedmont, Yukon, Putnam City, and OKC, for the grand prize
of $10,000. Each school earns points for every dollar spent at the mall.
Monthly receipts are turned in and the school with the highest accumula-
tion of points earns the grand prize! You can help us by sending back to
school with your child, monthly receipts (originals or copies will do) from
any purchase at Quail Springs Mall. This includes purchases made at any of
the stores located in the mall. Receipts from mall kiosks, the AMC movie
theater, the food court, and the following outparcel restaurants also count:
TGI Friday's, BJ's Steakhouse & Brewery, and Longhorn Steakhouse. Tell
your family, friends, and neighbors to save and donate their receipts too,
but don't hold on to them for too long! Frontier must submit all receipts
monthly or they "expire" beyond the month in which the purchase was
made. Are you ready to shop? The following retailers will earn DOUBLE
POINTS in October:
Crazy 8 , Children’s Place, H & M, Journeys, Hibbett Sports!!
"Thank you to Trish Martin with Keller Williams Realty
for sponsoring this years Spirit Store Pom Poms!"
ATTENDANCE LINE: 726-4855
