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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

April 27, 2016

CARDINAL CHATTER

4/28 Papa Murphy Day!!!!! 4/30 Auction, 5:30, 6:00, and 7:00 (see below) 5/5 National Day of Prayer 5/6 FLS Track Meet; Apply and/or bring sunscreen

and $ for concessions (if you desire)

5/7 5K Color Run benefitting Living Hope Pregnancy Center; Forms in office

5/8 All classes sing at First Lutheran Church for Mrs. Goll’s retirement; see below for details.

Summer Day Camp is now full, and is starting a wait-list. Please contact the school or daycare office if you would like to be placed on the wait-list.

JANET GOLL'S RETIREMENT - After 44 years of serving First Lutheran School, Mrs. Goll has decided to retire. We hope that she will be able to assist us in a various capacity in the years to come, but she is officially retiring May 31st of this year. We are looking to celebrate her in the month to come, but if you would like to help financially towards a big gift, come by and send it to the school office by the end of this month. We (and she) will GREATLY appreciate it. (Besides money, we are also collecting letters from former/current parents/-students that we can compile into a scrap book. Please consider getting us a letter or two to add to our collection.)

A "Potluck" lunch is being planned for Sunday - May 8 to celebrate Janet's Goll's 44 years of ministry at First Lutheran. The celebration will begin at noon in the School Cafeteria. Please consider providing food to share at the event. If you would like to say a few words, please contact Principal Birnbaum or send a message to be included in a scrap book for her. This will be Mother's Day and also her birthday. A free will offering is being collected now for a big gift instead of many small gifts. (Also, a cake & punch reception is being planned for Friday the 13th at 2:15 p.m.)

ALL CLASSES SINGING FOR SUNDAY - MAY 8 for Mrs. Goll's retirement. The Kindergarten to 8th grade will sing at 9:20 (for the end of the 8:30 service) and again at the beginning of the 11 a.m. service. Please join us for one or both services. (PK classes and younger will sing at the very beginning of the 11 a.m. service only so be at church by 10:50).

TEACHER/STAFF APPRECIATION: Thanks to EVERYONE for making our teachers and staff feel VERY APPRECIATED last week (and always) with all the gifts, notes, and food. We praise God for each of you.

SUMMER SKILLS WORKBOOKS: Studies show that much of what is learned during the

school year is lost over the summer months. Summer Skills Review Books provide students with a review of materials taught the previous year, and can give them an academic edge and self-confidence when they return to school in the fall. Workbooks available include math and language arts for students in grades PK-7th, Spanish 1 & 2 review, French 1 review, and pre-algebra, algebra 1, geometry, and high school math books. They even offer “Math for Life” books, if you want to brush up on your own skills! If you would like to see an example, or would like to order a workbook(s), stop by the school office or visit the website www.summerskills.com. They are $21 each, and orders are due to the school office by May 6.

STUDENT COUNCIL: We’ve concluded our BoxTop collection and our Duct Tape fund collection. Our duct tape challenge brought in $173. Mrs. Goll’s 6th grade class contributed the most. The money will be divided between Habitat for Humanity and the FLS Scholarship Fund. Our BoxTop’s are still being counted and organized. 4th grade brought in the most with just over 800 BoxTops. Final results will be published next week.

PAPA MURPHY’S PIZZA DAY: happens from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 28; the 4th Thursday of each month! 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

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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.

COLLECTING AUCTION ITEMS! If you haven’t brought in your items yet for the school auction, please drop them by the school office as soon as possible! If you aren’t able to get your project in to the office yet, send a description of the item to the office and we can at least go ahead and list it in the booklet. Thanks!

IT’S AUCTION TIME! We haven’t sold 100 tickets for the auction dinner yet; to get some, stop by the school office or return the form (attached) to your classroom.

The annual FLS PTL Fundraising Auction will be held April 30; Doors open/silent auction

bidding begins at 5:30, Dinner at 6:00, and live auction at 7:00. The catered meal (catering provided

by Klein’s Catering) includes your choice of country smoked ham or boneless chicken breast with sides

of baked potato salad and green beans; cherry cobbler will be served for dessert. Get your tickets in

the office now; they are $10 each.

GYM WALL IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT. Tired of seeing the old blue wall tile in the gym? A project is being started to improve the aesthetics of our gym walls. We are open to any ideas including painting, removing the blue tiles, putting up Cardinal-themed wall mats, changing the colors to Cardinal colors (red, black, white), changing the tile on the outside of the gym in the entrance way, etc. All of these ideas have different costs associated with them depending on which options are selected. If you feel called to make a donation to this project, please contact the school office. Your donation would be tax deductible. For questions or suggestions, contact Principal Birnbaum, Bruce Fuller (Property Chairman), or Tim Burden (School Board President).

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.)

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!

PRINCIPAL - Mr. Birnbaum: Short & Sweet - Another quote from marriage sermons "Repeat after me: 'You were right. I was wrong, and I admit it. I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?' A few doses of that each day works wonders!"

Thank you to those who have contributed letters or financially for Mrs. Goll's retirement gifts. Also THANKS to Casey, Michelle, Room Mothers, and everyone who has been working on items for the Auction this Saturday. We have a few $10 meal tickets left so get them early.

PRE-SCHOOL – Mrs. Herard: Thank you for all the sweet gifts and notes. It is such a blessing to be with wonderful students and families every day! Wow! May is next week and we will have our final SHOW and TELL FRIDAY May 6th. That is also track meet day so we will walk over to watch for a bit, weather permitting. Our final book order is due back this week. Look for a special note in backpacks regarding PS/PK classes singing next Wed. in chapel and on Sunday the 8th at the 11 o'clock service. This week our theme is "Oceans" and our letter is "W". God bless!

PRE-KINDERGARTEN - Mrs. Kelly: Thank you for all of the wonderful Teacher Appreciation gifts last week! Thank you PTL for the yummy lunch! This is the last week of our reading challenge; get those reading slips in so that we can fill our board! Our field trip to the library is on Friday, we will leave here at 9:15am and be back around 10:30am. Our last book order of the year is in backpacks and is due back to me or online by Friday, May 6th. We will celebrate finishing our reading challenge next Wednesday, May 4th. Please look for the note in backpacks today. Friday, May 6th is the school track meet; although we do not participate, we do walk over to watch it. Look for the note about the track meet in backpacks today. We are planning our last

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field trip of the year for Friday, May 13th. Please fill out the permission slip and return it to me with payment by Friday, May 6th. Our Bible words are, [Jesus said,] "I am with you always." Matthew 28:30

We are learning the letter "Y" this week. Have a blessed week! PRE-KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Flaherty: This week we are reviewing all of our letter and sounds. We will

have a special visitor Dr. Bowman on Thursday @8:30 to talk with us about taking care of our pets. Friday the 29th we will be going to the Ponca City Library for a tour. This is a parent drive event please remember we will need your child's car seat. Have a blessed week.

KINDERGARTEN – Mrs. Miller: Our class would like to say happy birthday to Kiran (4-21). I would like to thank all the class and parents for so many wonderful teacher gifts! You all made me feel so special. I love all your children and I thank you for sharing them with me this year. I hope everyone has a marvelous week with Jesus!

FIRST GRADE – Mrs. Birnbaum: Thank you, thank you for all of the wonderful gifts. I love all of the flowers, notes from the kids, school supplies, and Dr. Pepper and my favorite candies to get me through the rest of school year! I appreciate all of it! Memory this week is the 9th commandment - You shall not covet your neighbor's house. The field trip form for Library/Pizza Inn trip went home today. Please return the form and $5 by next Thursday, May 5. We will have show and tell on Friday. Our track meet is next Friday, May 6. I hope you are making plans to join us on this fun day. Also, I could use a few more parent helpers. We are getting to end of the school year but please make sure that you are still reading with your child and working on spelling words. Happy birthday to Noah on Friday!

SECOND GRADE – Mrs. Powell: We're flying through this week! Mrs. Patterson has been teaching and is doing a great job. We are learning a great deal from her. Remember that our field trip to Leonardo's is Monday, May 2. We will leave FLS around 8:45 and return before 3:15. The children will need to bring a sack lunch. Watch the weather, I think it's supposed to be cooler and part of our day there will be outside. Several children have already brought pool noodles. Each child will need a $1 type of noodle by Friday. The Lutheran track meet will be next Friday, May 6. You are invited to spend the day with us. It's always a wonderful day! Thanks again for all of the great gifts and notes last week. You are a blessing!

THIRD GRADE - Mrs. Steichen: THANK YOU!! Thank you again for all my wonderful gifts last week, I felt very blessed. I am so thankful for the opportunity to teach your children this year. This week: Spelling Test on Friday: review words. Memory due on Friday: Jeremiah 29:11. Math Test next week. Book Reports: Notes page is due this Friday, April 29th. Track meet next Friday, May 6th. Field Trip next Thursday, May 5th. Have a wonderful week!

FOURTH GRADE - Mrs. Sibley: We have our in-town field trip this Friday. Pack a lunch that needs not to be heated. We will have a S.S & Math test next Thursday. Track day is next Friday. Put your sunscreen on before you come to school. Remember to have your concession money for lunch also. We will take our spelling and reading test on Friday before we leave for the track meet. Cardinal bucks continue to be earned. Ask the kids how they are earning them. Our classroom auction will happen the last week of school. So please continue to be on the hunt for treasures at the store. Some are really on the move for AR to go to the Poncan for a movie! WAY TO GO. See you at the Auction this Saturday!

FIFTH GRADE - Mrs. Schatte: I look forward to seeing everyone at the auction Saturday evening. It is always a lot of fun, and we have an awesome project up for grabs. Have you checked your child's grades on Fast Direct lately? Some of us have just quit, and grades reflect that. It is still important to study for tests and do our best on daily work. Tests this week include spelling and reading on Friday. Blessings!

MIDDLE SCHOOL 4/28 Pawnee Track Meet; 5th & 6th 4/28 8th Grade to OSU 4/28 2016/17 7th & 8th grade girls PCPS

Softball Tryouts, West Jr. High, 4:00. BYO Equipment

4/28 2016/17 8th grade Volleyball Meeting, 6:00 p.m., Po-Hi Assembly Center

5/5 2016/17 9th Grade Boys Basketball Tryouts, 4:30, Robson Fieldhouse

5/8 All classes singing at First Lutheran Church for Mrs. Goll’s retirement; see above for details.

5/18 8th Grade Graduation, 7:30 p.m.

VOCAL CLUB: Come to our vocal club! We meet every Wednesday after school until 4:30 p.m. Anyone (boys or girls) in middle school who wants to join is welcome; please notify Jayna Johnson or Gabby Costello.

8th GRADE FLS AUCTION BASKET: The 8th Grade will be auctioning off a “Made in Oklahoma” Basket at this years’ PTL Auction on April 30. Each 8th grade student should bring a “Made in Oklahoma” item to contribute to the basket to Mr. Covert by Thursday, April 21. The item can be purchased or made by you or someone you know (cash donations are welcome, also). If you have questions, please contact Martha Long at 580-716-0686.

Mrs. Goll: Thank you so much for all of the neat treats for teacher appreciation week! I’ll enjoy each of them. My mom used to say the best gift we could give her was just being good to each other (she had 8 children). That’s my favorite gift, too; I love it when I see the students going out of their way to help and befriend one another. Wasn’t the musical a great treat? Such fine actors and singers and dancers! Thanks, Mrs. Hanson, for using your great director skills to produce a fine program with a timely message. And thanks to the behind the scenes workers who dealt with the sound; that’s a tricky job and they did great. We enjoyed the NED yo-yo show. If we take Ned’s advice and Never give up, Encourage others, and Do our best, I know we’ll end the year on top!

Mrs. Harbeson: I hope you all are well as I'm writing this on Tuesday afternoon before the storm comes in. All of the kids and I have prayed for God's protection today (Tuesday). With just 3½ weeks left of school, things are quickly coming to an end. On Thursday, the 8th graders, a few parents, and I will be traveling to Stillwater for our annual college visit. I know we'll have a great time, and I truly appreciate all those parents who are accompanying us. We couldn't do things like this without you! College reports for everyone are due Monday, May 9, by the end of the school day. The track meet is set for Friday, May 6. This will be a fun day for everyone! Please plan on buying your snacks and lunch at the concession stand as this is a fund-raiser for the 7th graders who are traveling to Washington D.C. next year. Graduation will be Wednesday, May 18, and our last day of school is Friday, May 20. Keep on working...it will be summer break before we know it! Blessings to you all on the rest of your week!

Mrs. Hanson: I am so pleased and proud with how the musical turned out! It was an awesome performance! Thanks to all the actors who worked so hard, to all the singers who sang beautifully, and to the audience who came and supported!

I also wanted to thank you for the thoughtful and awesome teacher appreciation gifts. I know I appreciate each and every one of you!

This week: I still need gift cards from a few 7th graders. 8th grade will have a test Friday. Other grades will have vocab quiz this Friday. Cheer parent meeting has been moved to Thursday due to the weather. Mr. Covert: It’s hard to believe that April is almost over! I hope that everyone is doing well as we start

to work our way through these last few weeks! The challenge in classes now is making sure we get through the things we absolutely need to. In 8th

grade, that means we’re going to wrap up World War I this week. We’ll take a quick look at the 1920s, the Great Depression and its causes, and then move into World War II. In 7th grade, we’re working our way through South Asia, and should wrap up the entire Asian continent by the end of the year. 6th grade is working through the Renaissance and Reformation, looking at how the new ideas from that period still influence us, 500 years later.

7th grade parents, just a reminder: I need your DC info sheets by the end of the school year so I can get a flight list and room list made up, as well as requests submitted for the White House, Capitol, and Pentagon. Please send them to school with your students or bring them directly to me. Thank you!

I pray that God continues to bless our school and all the families that make it up as we move towards the end of another school year!

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IT’S TIME FOR THE

FIRST LUTHERAN SCHOOL

PTL FUNDRAISING DINNER &

LIVE/SILENT AUCTION!

The auction will be held on Saturday, April 30, 2016. Doors open at 5:30 for viewing, the catered meal (catering provided by Klein’s Catering) will begin at

6:00 p.m. and includes your choice of country smoked ham or boneless chicken breast with sides of baked potato salad and green beans; cherry cobbler will be served for

dessert. The auction will begin at 7:00. Meal tickets are $10 in advance, and we are limited to 100 tickets. (We do not guarantee food tickets will be available at the door.)

Why attend the auction? The PTL will use proceeds from the evening to provide support to

First Lutheran School. Previous items the PTL has purchased for the school include the playground awnings, security systems, bounce house, promethean boards, assistance with Washington D.C. and Lutherhoma Trips, and the Accelerated Reading and Math Programs.

Your involvement at the annual dinner and auction will help us to raise funds for our school’s improvements.

Note that this is an adult-only event; limited childcare will be provided at a cost of $10 per

child for the evening, and will be billed to your school childcare account. Pizza will be provided. (please RSVP for childcare above).

To purchase auction tickets, please fill out the form above and return it to the school

office.

Return this form to the school office on or before Monday, April 25, 2016

We haven’t reached the 100 mark, and have some auction dinner tickets still

available. Please return this form to your students’ teacher or stop by the school

office to purchase your tickets to the auction!

I would like to purchase: ______ Adult tickets x $10 each = _____________ (enclosed)

Please send the tickets home with my child :______________________________________in _________________class.

_____YES!! My _______(#) child(ren) will be attending childcare during the Auction at a cost of $10/child

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