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Fall Creek Elementary School: Where Learning Takes Flight

March 6, 2018

Cardinal Creed: Be Safe, Respectful and Responsible

Main Line: 281-641-3400

Absence Line: 281-641-3419

Nurse: 281-641-3405

Cafeteria: 281-641-3408

Website: https://www.humbleisd.net/fce

Twitter: @humbleisd_fce

Campus Information Dates to Remember

3/5-3/9 Book Fair

3/7 Spring Individual & Group Pictures

3/8 FCE Open House & Book Fair A-L 5:00-6:00 PM; M-Z 6:30-7:30 PM

3/9 K-5th Grade Spring Run: Lucky Laps

3/12-3/16 Spring Break

The PTO is accepting applications for the 2018-2019 PTO Board positions. The board is comprised of almost 30 parents who are responsible for anything from running our two fundraisers, coordinating special events, cultural arts events and much more. If you think you would like to be a part of the 2018-2019 PTO Board, please complete an application and return it to Tricia Krebs at fceptopres@fcpto.com or drop it off in the PTO box in the front office. Applications can be found at www.fcpto.com. All applications should be submitted no later than March 28, 2018. All applications will be voted on during our annual meeting on Thursday April 5, 2018. Please direct any questions to Tricia Krebs at fceptopres@fcpto.com.

Spirit Shop is on SALE!! All shirts are now only $5! Limited sizes available so buy yours before we run out. Visit our table at the Open House on Thursday, March 8th and grab some bargains! Order here today!

Book Fair The spring Book Fair will continue through Friday, March 9th. The Book Fair will open daily from 7:30 am to 3:00 pm. On Friday, the Book Fair will be

open from 7:30 am to 12:00 pm. The Book Fair will also be open the night of Open House on Thursday, March 8th. Family members are welcome to shop with students from 7:30 am to 8:00 am, during the students lunch/recess, and during the students’ Specials block. All students are welcome to shop on their own during their specials. We will have volunteers to help students who are shopping on their own. Thanks for supporting the Fall Creek Elementary Library.

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Volunteer Opportunities

Book Fair, March 5th-9th Picture Day, March 7th Lucky Laps, March 9th

Mother-Son Adventure, April 6th

Please sign up at https://fcpto.membershiptoolkit.com/home.

Marquee Birthdays

Want your child’s birthday celebrated on the new FCE Electronic Marquee? Due to high demand, we have decided to open up birthday sales for the new electronic marquee year-round. In order to effectively manage birthday marquee sales year-round, parents will need to purchase their child’s birthday announcement by the 15th of the month prior to their child’s birthday. For example, if you child’s birthday is December 5th, you will need to place your order by the 15th of November.

Orders placed on the 16th of the month will automatically be placed in the next month’s announcement. In the example above, if you placed your order on November 16th for your child’s December birthday, their birthday will be displayed the week of January 5th, instead of December 5th. When ordering, you may select “Happy Birthday xxx”, “Belated Birthday” or “Half Birthday” to cover any birthdays that may have been missed. The marquee will run year-round, so don’t forget to order your child’s summer birthday celebration. All summer birthdays must be submitted no later than May 15, 2018. We hope you enjoy this new option available to your family.

To order your child’s birthday, go to https://fcpto.membershiptoolkit.com/Open_Forms If you should have any questions regarding birthday celebrations, please contact Tricia Krebs at fceptopres@fcpto.com.

If your child is missing a lunch box, sweater, jacket, water bottle, or other item, be sure and check the lost and found. It is a good idea to place your child’s name on all belongings. All items will be donated to charity after Friday, March 9th.

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Volunteers Needed – JA BizTown The 5th grade team needs parents/guardians to help at the upcoming BizTown field trip. We are looking for approxi-mately 16-28 volunteers to join us on a trip to JA BizTown on

April 16th from 8:30 am-1:30 pm. This is such a fun program to be a part of with your child! Click here to view the flyer that includes full details and instructions on how to sign up.

The 2018 Science Fair is Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Permission forms have been sent home. If you need another, please contact your child’s teacher. For more information, please click this link.

Judges Needed for Science Fair: Calling All Volunteers! The Fall Creek Science Fair is just around the corner, and we are searching for volunteers! We will need volunteers the day before the fair for setup, the day of the fair and for our judging exchange with other schools. No Fall Creek parents can judge our own fair.

Our most pressing need is for the judging exchange. This is our opportunity to judge other Humble ISD campus science fairs. In return, Fall Creek will have volunteers from other schools come and participate at our fair. This helps judging remain fair (no parent judges for home campuses). The judging process is very fun and engaging! You need no science background to come out and volunteer. Please feel free to e-mail for any questions or concerns. For more information and to sign up click here.

March 12th-16th

Lucky Laps March 9, 2018

8:10-9:05 AM - 4th Grade 9:10-9:55 AM - 5th Grade 10:00-10:45 AM - 3rd Grade 10:50-11:35 AM - 2nd Grade 12:50-1:35 PM - Kinder 1:40-2:25 PM - 1st Grade

5th 4th 3rd

Williams - Red Spurlock- Purple Nelson- Purple Ririe- Green Hurta- Blue Smith- Blue Austin- Black Alfred- Orange Hudson- Orange Roberson- Purple Rassmussen- Yellow DiRosa - Black Howard - Orange Clayton-Red Boyd- Red Whetzel - Blue White-Green Afutu- Green

Watson- Pink Gober- Yellow Andrew – White Taylor- Pink

2nd 1st Kinder

Schmollinger- Purple Steadman- Turquoise Heineman- Purple Shelton- Blue Edson- Green King- Blue Renfrow- Orange Suarez - Yellow Taylor- Orange Flowers- Yellow Peterson- Pink Glover- Yellow Whaley- Red Hathorn- Orange Gonzales- Red Moreno- Green Jaeger - Purple West- Green Roberts- Black Eakin- Blue Kubichek- Black Wagner- White Lewis - Red Surawski - White Lewis - Pink Please make sure all students have athletic shoes and water bottles! When you come out with your class, you will sit at your colored cone. After receiving instructions, you will go to your colored cone staggered around the track. You will have a volunteer(s) designated to hand out popsicle sticks for your class. For every lap your students, their parents, grandparents or whoever is walking or running with your class, will receive a popsicle stick. Once time is called, collect sticks and get a grand total for your class and tell it to either Coach Edmonds or Coach Marion. At the end of your rotation time, whichever class has the most overall sticks, will receive a popcorn party! Invite as many parents and relatives as you can. Every lap matters!

 

Dear FCE Parents, Teachers & Staff,

On behalf of the PTO I wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU! Thank you for coming out to our 9th annual FCE Spring Fundraiser Live & Silent Auction: Fall Creek’s Back Yard Bash and making it such a fun and successful evening for our kids and our school. Without the support of our sponsors, donors, parents, teachers & staff we wouldn’t be able to raise the amount of money that this fundraiser does every year and for this we THANK YOU! The funds we raised will allow the FCE PTO to be able to continue funding various academic, cultural, and technological learning activities and improvements for our students.

I would also like to take this time to put a spotlight on the amazing committee of ladies that have poured countless hours working to put on this fantastic event! These ladies have worked hard at collecting donations, perfecting decorations, monitoring and testing our auction system, creating graphics, finding entertainment and so much more pulling it all together to ensure that the event is a successful one. Thank you for helping to make our school and our community a better place!

Yours Truly, Nicole Scott FCE PTO 2nd VP

2017‐2018 PTO Spring Fundraiser Committee Members Amy Abbott  Evie Granville  Cynthia Putnam Tara Brown  Nicole Jones  Kathy Reisch 

Brianne Bruner  Tricia Krebs  Patty Standley Connie Carey  Becky Kuntz  Kristin Urbano Beth Creller  Kristin Price  Allyson Wojtalewicz