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- 1 - Growing up Into Jesus, Reaching Out with Jesus, Walking Together in Jesus

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: [email protected] www.flcspc.com Child Care: 580-762-1124 FastDirect: fastdir.com/flcspc

March 23, 2016

CARDINAL CHATTER

3/23 Talent Show Auditions 3/24 Maundy Thursday Chapel (moved from

Wednesday) Papa Murphy’s Day 3/25 Good Friday; NO SCHOOL 3/28 Easter Monday; NO SCHOOL 3/31 Deadline to order yearbook at discounted

price (form attached) 4/1 ECE to Wondertorium 9-2

4/1 Talent Show, 2:00, Gym 4/1 State Geography Bee (Way to Go, Alex!) 4/3 St. John Lutheran Hymn Festival, 7:00 4/8 8th Grade Graduation pics 4/9 Ponca City 5K Kolor Run, 9:00; flyers in office 4/11-15 Iowa Skills Tests; 2nd – 8th grades 4/13 7:15 a.m. = Chess Club FLC Fellowship Hall 4/22 Middle School Musical 4/30 Auction

APRIL 11-15 We will be having ITBS testing for students in grades 2-8

in the morning’s only. If you could avoid planning appointments for

your students during these few days/hours, so that the students can

concentrate on their testing, we would appreciate it greatly! Thanks!

Applications are now being taken for summer daycamp. Please stop by daycare or the school office to pick one up before we fill up! We will need the

enrollment pack and the $200 deposit to hold your child’s spot. Space is limited and we fill up fast!

PICTURES ARE IN: The spring portraits and class pictures are in, and have been handed out. If you would like a class picture, but didn’t order one, stop by the office. We have a few extra we can sell for $8 each, on a first come, first served basis. For the individual spring portraits, the actual pictures are enclosed in the envelope; if you want to purchase any, follow the instructions on the sheet and insert the required amount of money into the package along with any pictures you aren’t purchasing, and return the picture packet to your students’ teacher. (You can also order additional portraits online.) Please have any payments and non-purchased pictures returned to your students’ teachers by Friday, April 1, 2016.

YOU ARE INVITED! First Lutheran Church will host the St. John’s Lutheran Youth choir from Seward, Ne. on April 3 at 7:00. Please join us for an evening of great music featuring a group of about 50 junior high and high school children from Seward, Nebraska. For info on their previous tours, visit: http://www.singboldly.org/tour/

STUDENT COUNCIL: Would you like to see Mr. Birnbaum duct taped to the gym wall? (I know I

would!!) Student council is hosting a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity and the FLS Scholarship Fund. We’re selling duct tape for $1 a foot. If we raise $400, Mr. Birnbaum will stand still while we tape him to the wall. If we raise $1000, we get to tape both Mr. Birnbaum and Coach Redwine to the wall.

TALENT SHOW AUDITIONS are being held today (Wednesday) after school in the gym. If you missed it and you want to be included, please talk to Mrs. Sibley or Mrs. Goll this week. The Talent Show will be held on April 1.

PAPA MURPHY’S PIZZA DAY: happens from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on March 24! Papa Murphy’s donates 15% of pizza’s sold up to 99 pizza’s; if more than 100 are sold, we get 20% of the proceeds! Thanks for your support! Proceeds from this fundraiser will go to update the early childhood playground and provide age-appropriate playscapes for our 2 and 3 year old classes.


If you haven’t been there yet, Papa Murphy’s is located in the strip mall in front of WalMart (with Hibbett’s and Game Stop). You order a pizza from them, dressed however you want, and then take it home, cook it, and have an easy dinner at home with no mess! (Note, you cook the pizza at home! There is no place to eat there.) You can also take the pizza home and freeze it for later use.

The Deadline is this Thursday to order your yearbook at a discounted price! Yearbooks are

$20 if ordered/paid for by March 31; after that, the price goes up to $25. If you haven’t already, fill out the

attached order form and return with your payment to the office or your students’ teacher tomorrow!

CAMPBELL’S SOUP LABELS FOR EDUCATION PROGRAM IS ENDING…We have until the end of this school year to finish collecting labels and get them sent in before the program is discontinued. If you have any Labels for Education, please cut off the rectangle like the picture to the right, and send it to school with your student. We can use these labels to purchase p.e./recess/classroom supplies for our school!

DAYCARE: I would like to thank all the families that have completed and turned in the parent survey's, we have more copies in daycare if you would like to participate.

BOXTOPS CONTEST: Keep saving and bagging your box tops! We'll end this contest at the end of March! Thanks! Send your box tops with your child in a ziplock bag, 50 per bag please.

UPCOMING CONCERT AT FIRST LUTHERAN: On Sunday, April 3rd, at 7:30 pm, a hymn festival featuring a group of about 50 junior high and high school children from St. John Lutheran in Seward, Nebraska, will take place. Info on their previous tours may be found here: http://www.singboldly.org/tour/

ENROLLMENT has opened up to the public. If you have lost your enrollment papers, you can get a new set by going to the FastDirect login page (www.fastdir.com/flcspc), and clicking on the “links” button on the left before you log in. You can also stop by or call the office and we’ll get you a new set. You only need to pay 1/3 of the enrollment fee up front.

103 students have already enrolled for next year, and we have several new families wanting in. If you already know that you are not returning, please let the office know that we can fill your spot with a new family.

If you refer a family with a student in 1st – 5th grades, and they remain enrolled through the first semester, in January of 2017 you will receive a $200 credit towards your tuition account! Tell your referred family to be sure and list your name as the referring family on the enrollment sheet. Three families earned a $200 credit this school year just by referring friends!

AUCTION DATE CHANGE: THE AUCTION WILL BE HELD ON APRIL 30 DUE TO A CONFLICT WITH PROM GYM RESTROOM REMODEL - We are beginning the fundraising process to remodel the School gym

restrooms. We would like to convert the two small restrooms on the South into one large girl’s restroom and the other two on the North to Boys only. The expected cost is $125,000. $7,500 has been given and will be matched by Phillips 66. If you or a person or business you know could contribute, we would greatly appreciate it. (These are tax-deductible gifts.)

LOST HOODIES AND T-SHIRTS: Please write your students’ name on your school hoodies and t-shirts. Many students have the exact same t-shirt and hoodie, and it impossible to tell whose it is when one is found. We

already have one of the new hoodies in lost and found! If your student is missing theirs, please stop by the office to claim it. Other lost and found items are in the cafeteria, so that the kids can look them over each day when they go to lunch.

TALENT SHOW: The show will be presented on April 1. Auditions will be held on March 23. TAX STATEMENTS: April 15 is almost here. If you need a statement on payments to the school so that you can finish your taxes, you can print it yourself from FastDirect, or contact the office and we’ll print one for you.

PRINCIPAL - Mr. Birnbaum: No Joke this week - We remember this week leading up to Easter, the pain and suffering that our Lord Jesus endured on earth for OUR SINS. We will have Chapel on this Maundy Thursday (instead of Wednesday) to remember the night of the LAST SUPPER that He had with His apostles before being led off to be crucified on a cross. But we look forward to next week when we celebrate His resurrection from the dead on that first Easter Sunday, the day that the Son rose.

First Lutheran Spring Olympics was a memorable event. We were greatly impressed in how well the 8th grade led their chapel families and each team of students produced quality work and performances in a WIDE array of events and activities. Fourth place for the girls division was a tie and went to Somalia and Peru with KaSandra Lyons and Ryley Beard as captains respectively. Third place was Landrie Payne's Bora Bora. Second went to Lyric

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Cervantes' Canada and taking home the gold in the girls division was Rylee Webster's Thailand. The boys fourth place finish was Kale Gilbert's Brazil. Third went to Jordan George's China, Second place went to Grant Jackson's United Kingdom, and Jamaica took the gold with Zac Lee as captain. We hope to have Winter Olympics in 2018.

PRE-SCHOOL – Mrs. Herard: Hope you all enjoyed Spring Break and are ready to rock and roll to the finish of another school year! Wow, there is a lot going on the next few weeks! First of all, we welcome Addylyn Bourasaw to our classroom. We love making new friends! Don't forget, bring a dozen filled eggs if you haven't yet for the field trip to The Renaissance Egg Hunt Thursday. Notes in backpacks! Wondertorium field trip forms and $5 per child are due now. Book orders are in backpacks and due the 30th to me or online. Individual pics were taken the same day as class pics. If you do not wish to purchase them, please return to me. No school Fri or next Mon for Easter. Our theme this week is "Easter" as we celebrate our risen Savior. God bless your week!

PRE-KINDERGARTEN - Mrs. Kelly: Happy Birthday Will! I hope you all enjoyed your spring break! Pictures are in backpacks today. Please look at them and send the money back for the ones you want to keep. Return any pictures that you do not want to keep. Report cards are in backpacks today, please sign and return the envelope only to me by Wednesday, March 30th. Book orders are in backpacks and are due back to me or online by Friday, April 8th. Our egg hunt and Easter party is tomorrow. Look for the note in backpacks today. We are having a box top contest, bring in all of your box tops by the end of March. Our Bible words this week are, Hosanna in the highest! Matthew 21:9 We are learning the letter "J" and the number "18". Mark your calendars for April 29th, we will visit the Ponca City Library and May 13th we are planning a PreK end of year trip to the Lost Creek Safari in Stillwater. More information will come home later. This is Mrs. Patterson's last week in PreK, we have loved having her and wish her well in her future! No school on Friday or Monday! Have a blessed week and a happy Easter!

PRE-KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Flaherty: Hope everyone enjoyed Spring Break! Tomorrow will be our egg hunt at the Renaissance Assisted Living; bus will leave at 9:45, also classroom Easter Party at 2:30. Permission slips for the Wondertorium were due back today Please get them turned in tomorrow. This week we are working on letter "Ee" and learning about Easter. Bible words "Hosanna in the highest!" Matthew 21:9 No school Friday or Easter Monday. God Bless!

KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Miller: Our Easter party will be Thursday the 24th at 2:30 in the classroom (parents are welcome). Also, we will take a bus to the Renaissance Thursday morning at 9:45 for our egg hunt. We would love to have you join us at the Renaissance too. Please look for your child's report card today in their bag. Our class would like to thank T.L. Walker and her dog Wesley for coming to our room on Tuesday to teach us about Standing Bear. I hope everyone had a great spring break last week and I hope everyone has a blessed Easter! We don't have school this Friday or Monday. Have a great week!

FIRST GRADE – Mrs. Birnbaum: I pray that everyone had a great spring break and now we get ready to celebrate Easter! Notes for tomorrow - We will leave on the bus at 9:45 and return at 11:00. We would love to have you join us! Parking is limited at the Renaissance; we encourage you to carpool with other parents or we will have some room on the busses. Please bring an Easter basket, bucket, or bag for hunting Easter Eggs. Make sure your child's name is on it somewhere. Memory verse for tomorrow is the 4th Commandment. Honor your father and your mother. We will also take spelling and reading tests on Thursday. The children chose an AR book today - we will take our AR test next Wednesday. Report cards came home today. Please sign and return 1 copy; the other copy is for you to keep. Field trip forms for the Wondertorium were due today - please return ASAP! Easter blessings!

SECOND GRADE – Mrs. Powell: Spring Break was AWESOME! Our God blesses us with just what we need to be rested and rejuvenated. We have just nine weeks left of this school year. Report cards are coming home today. Please sign and return them. Let me know if you have questions or concerns. We are happy to welcome Marshall Blackstar and his family to First Lutheran. We love having new friends. Each child has helped to choose his or her AR goal for this final quarter. We will be reading a chapter book for our first AR test and will be doing a book report on that book. The book report form is coming home today. Note that only several steps will be completed at school. Again, let me know if there are questions. Save the date of May 2 for a field trip to Leonardo's. More information will be sent home as the date draws nearer. Memory work for tomorrow is 1 Timothy 1:15, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners--of whom I am the worst. We will be celebrating our AR success with our game day on Thursday. The children may bring a snack and a drink (with lid). I pray that this Holy Week will be filled with awe as we ponder Christ's sacrifice on our behalf. Blessings on your long weekend and your Easter worship of the Risen Savior!


THIRD GRADE - Mrs. Steichen: I hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break!! This week is Holy Week, please remember everything the Lord has done for you. No school Good Friday, and also Easter Monday. This week: memory - 1 Timothy 1:15 due on Thursday. No Spelling Test this week, the test for these words will be next Friday, April 1st. This Thursday, March 24 is our A.R. party - please bring your games (board games, Ipads, etc.) for us to play all morning long. Also, they may bring a drink with a lid and a snack. We will also be having our Easter party at 10 am. You are more than welcome to come for the pinata. IOWA Test are coming up fast, you have been seeing packet pages coming home for homework. These will continue for the next couple weeks. Please check over these and talk out any issues with your child. If they know this information they will be set once testing week comes.

FOURTH GRADE - Mrs. Sibley: Welcome to our newest paragon Madelyn. We are all having a great time getting to know her. What a wonderful and relaxing spring break we all had! We took time to unwind, recoup, and prepare for the final quarter of the year. We have new AR goals. Ask scholars what those goals are. Help the kids to stay on top of their new goal by reading chapter books daily. 3rd Qtr AR Party is tomorrow. Qualified readers may bring a snack, a drink with a lid, and games (board and electronic) to play. We all want to finish the year out strong, & to do our best. Scholars need to make sure that they are being thorough in all work. Cardinal Bucks are being earned daily. Ask the kids how to fill in their transaction registrar, they are doing great. We have a Math test tomorrow. Remember that we have a four day weekend. Take time to worship our Lord and Savior as he died on the cross to save our sins. We would be nowhere without Him.

FIFTH GRADE - Mrs. Schatte: What a blessing Spring Break was for us! Now we're ready to dive into our last quarter together. We have some very busy days ahead. Please refer to my Fast Direct Bulletin Board for information on state oral reports and 4th quarter book reports and expectations. I have given detailed information there. Tests this week include spelling, reading, and social studies on Thursday. Memory due Thursday is John 3:16. God's blessings to you and your family as we contemplate Jesus' suffering and death during Holy Week and His glorious resurrection on Easter.

MIDDLE SCHOOL 3/30 4:00 p.m. High Stepper Try outs 3/31, 4/1, 4/4, 4/5 Po-Hi Cheer Clinic

4/6 Po-Hi Cheer Tryouts 4/8 8th Grade Graduation Pictures

GRADUATION PICTURES: 8TH Grade Graduation pictures will be taken Friday, April 8th. Pose and

background preference forms have been handed out; if you didn’t receive yours, please ask your 8th grader about it. The office has a few extras if yours cannot be found. Send no money now; money will be collected at a later time.

STUDENT COUNCIL: Would you like to see Mr. Birnbaum duct taped to the gym wall? (I know I would!!) Student council is hosting a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity and the FLS Scholarship Fund. We’re selling duct tape for $1 a foot. If we raise $400, Mr. Birnbaum will stand still while we tape him to the wall. If we raise $1000, we get to tape both Mr. Birnbaum and Coach Redwine to the wall.

MIDDLE SCHOOL: Your teacher has information on the radio contest sponsored by Team Radio. This is a chance for you to write a Public Service Announcement and present it on the radio.

8TH GRADE GIRLS! Po-Hi Drill Team tryouts are at 4:00 pm on March 30th. Mrs. Goll: What a great break! It’s good to be back in school. Fourth quarter will go very quickly so hold on

to your hats. We are pleased to welcome Mallory, Margaret, and Kaden as they join our sixth grade group. We know that they will be a blessing to us and that we will be a blessing to them. Sixth graders are finishing a unit on geometry. We will test on Thursday. Seventh graders are in the middle of a geometry unit. Pre-algebra students are studying applications of the Pythagorean Theorem and Algebra students are working on operations with polynomials. God bless you as you celebrate the Resurrection this Easter.

Mrs. Harbeson: Welcome back, everyone! I hope you all had a great Spring Break and are ready to finish the school year strong. This last quarter of the year always goes by quickly, so be prepared! In language this week, all classes have jumped back in to vocabulary and grammar. All classes have also started their new novels for this quarter. With all the "busyness" of our day-to-day lives, please take time to reflect on the sacrifice that Jesus made for you and for me. I invite you all to attend church this Sunday as we celebrate the risen Savior! If you don't already have a church home, you are always welcome to worship here at First Lutheran. Blessings on the rest of your week!


Mrs. Hanson: I pray everyone enjoyed their Spring Break. We are back in the saddle again, if only for 4 days. We will be finishing presentations in 7th and 8th grade. Since all projects have not been graded/presented, this will be one of the first grades for this quarter.

7th and 8th graders will have a binder check this week. The musical will be here before you know it! We will begin practicing as a chorus this week. We are very

limited to in-school practice time, so I would love to meet every Wednesday after school from 3:30-4:30. This practice is just for speaking parts and solos.

6th and 7th graders have started a new learning module called "choice boards" ask your student what these are and how they will be learning.

Mr. Covert: Spring Break is over and the fourth quarter is underway! I hope that everyone had a chance to get a bit of a recharge over the break so we can hit this last quarter running.

In 8th grade, we’re starting a look at the Progressive Era of the early 1900s, and seeing the reforms that they pushed that we still have today. 7th grade is studying East Asia’s geography and history, and the impact they’ve made in the world. 6th grade is back in Europe, as we’ve started a unit on the Middle Ages in Europe.

7th grade parents, we’ll be having our first logistical meeting for the Washington DC trip on Wednesday, April 5, at 6:00 PM, in my classroom. We’ll go over the cost of the trip, the flight plans, a sample itinerary, and the information I’ll need to get us into the federal buildings.

I pray that God continues to bless us this week, as we find ourselves about to see the empty tomb and the work of salvation that was accomplished by our Lord Jesus Christ!

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

Jesus, Walking together in Jesus

We invite you to join us this Sunday, March 27, for an Easter Celebration at

First Lutheran Church! Our early service begins at 8:30 a.m., we have a

Pancakes/Eggs/Sausage Breakfast from 9 to 11:00 a.m., an Easter Egg

Hunt/Bible Class at 9:45 a.m., and late service at 11:00 a.m.

Celebrate our Risen Savior with us and/or

the Church of your choice this Sunday!

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:___________________________________

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 [email protected],

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, graduation, musical, band, family fun night, picnic, 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”

mailto:[email protected]

April 2016

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