Orientation Day - August 12th
You thought you wouldn't miss us, but...yeah, you did. You can try to deny it, but I won't believe you. I've got your number. You missed us terribly. You missed your friends, you missed the teachers, you missed PE, but especially, I know you missed me! (If you didn't, I don't want to hear it so just keep it to yourself. There is not one thing wrong with me living in my little dream world, okay? Let an old lady have her moment.)
To make things super simple and easy and hopefully convenient, (because that's just how we roll here) here's a copy of the Orientation Day schedule. Have questions? Gimme a call. Hopefully I'll answer. Unless I'm grumpy. Then...well...good luck. ;)
Watch the General Session here!
Smart Cards and More Ways to Help FRCS!
Have you heard the good news? Smart Cards are now available in the elementary office! Stop by and pick up, oh I don't know, 8? 10? Feeling spunky and need to feel the burn as you walk up and down your street selling cards to your neighbors? Fine. Take 20. But, whatever you take, remember to return them September 2nd or...well...you'll be charged $20 per unreturned card. Which could get expensive if you didn't sell all 20. Just throwing it out there so you're prepared.
Why in the world would you do this? Why, oh why would you go house to house on your street or person to person at work and ask them to purchase a Smart Card? Well besides each sale benefits your child's class to help with things the classroom needs, you yourself can earn up to 2 free cards. How? So glad you asked. (Imagine me cracking my knuckles as I prepare to explain this to you with a maniacal grin on my freckly face. Thank you, I feel better now that you know I grin and can be a maniac.)
Here's the deets. Sell 4 cards, you get 1 free. Sell 6 cards, you get 2 free cards. Sell more than 6? (You are an amazing salesperson that should perhaps consider becoming a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman because you obviously have a gift) you earn bragging rights to selling all 20 of your cards, but you will still only receive 2 free cards. Sorry but let's be realistic, shall we? I mean, what're you going to do with more free cards than that anyway?!
Smart Cards really not your thing? Are you more of a shopper than a seller? Me too. Now, you can earn rewards for FRCS via Kroger with their Community Rewards program here, at Publix Partners over here, and Amazon Smile over this way.
Things You Probably Want to Know
I understand that you probably already know this but I'm going to throw it out there anyway. Here are a couple items of interest for you. Please pay attention.
- School starts at (wait for it...please say that part in a sing-song voice as it really adds so much. Thank you. If you didn't do that the first time, go back and do it. You'll see that I'm right.) 8:00 am. Which means, your child needs to be in their seat in their classroom at 8 am. If you're running a little late, please please please do not encourage them to sneak into their classroom and hope their teacher will not notice. First of all, it's just not nice. Some of us at advanced ages (ahem, Mr. Kramer) wonder if you're trying to make us think we're going crazy. Second, once the advanced aged teacher (again, ahem, Mr. Kramer) realizes what has happened will send them to the office to sign in. This is not optional.
- School dismisses at 3:00 pm. Late stay starts at 3:15 pm. And again, this is not optional. If your child is still here and you are not and the clock says it is now 3:16, just come to grips with the fact that they have been signed into the late stay kiosk and must be checked out by you or another pickup person on their list. No. They may not hide in the bathroom until you text them that you're here. Don't try it. Trust me. We know. And if you think we don't know, we do know so now you know that we know and you probably wish we didn't know but we really do.
Forms
If you haven't turned in your child's forms yet, please do so as soon as possible. This is super important not only to make sure your child is being picked up by the right person (I mean, how horrible would it be if Uncle Fred picked Molly up and Fred wasn't even on the list because you didn't want Molly in his souped up hot pink Fiat with mud grabber tires because let's face it, that would just be embarrassing) or maybe Molly had a bad headache and needed some Tylenol but the nice office staff didn't give her any because we didn't have her form yet and nobody answered the phone when we called home? See where I'm going with this?
These forms are important. I understand that it makes your hand cramp and you don't really want to do it, but look. The adult life is full of doing things we don't want to do and we need you to do this. I myself have at times regretted becoming an adult but as hard as I've tried to find it, there's no escape. It was a trap that no one warned me about. The good thing about adulting? Yes, you actually can eat dessert before dinner, which often makes dinner itself a non-issue because dessert has become dinner. That is one of the beauties of adulting. That and raw cookie dough. (I do not want to hear your negativity on this issue. I won't listen. I will cover my ears and hum until you go away if you try to tell me all the blah blah blah about raw cookie dough.)
We, and Molly, thank you in advance for helping us in this matter.
101 Random
- There is a school in the Philippines made entirely out of soda bottles. Which really makes me wonder - were the students who attend required to drink a bottle and bring it to class, kind of like how we have glue sticks on our supply list?
- The largest attended school is in India with over 56,000 students attending on a daily basis. I do believe I would have a hard time remembering each student's name if I worked there. Just saying.
- The lowest attended school was in Italy in 2014 with only 1 student and 1 teacher. Which would make it extremely interesting if that student suddenly started complaining that the child next to him was taking his things. The plus side? Parent Teacher Conferences were really quick that year.
- In the United States, we have subjects like Math, Science, Health, etc. France adds one more: Mealtime. While we do encourage our students to eat here at FRCS, we don't really grade our students on table manners. Which is very good for some of you because I've seen you eat. Some of you should be ashamed.
- In South Korea, students are expected to stay and help clean up after school is over. I think we should do that here in the U.S. I mean think about it. If the kids had to clean up after themselves, I think there'd be a lot less mess left behind. But then the janitor would be bored and we can't have that.
- Trivia: What is a camel's hair brush made of? check back next week for the answer!
Every year, we have these things called Teacher Favorites lists where you can come by and see what goodies your child's teacher likes either for Christmas or Birthday or as a thank you for putting up with my child who has been a little bit of a precious challenge this week (I really am kidding on that last part) here in the Elementary office.
While we still have those and I will upload them and have them here on the blog hopefully next week (cross your fingers) for you to peruse, there is now an Amazon Wishlist for some of them as well. (Which is awesome, let's admit it.)
You're curious now aren't you. I knew you would be. So check it out here at this link and have a great time. :)