February 23, 2023

  

  

TSIAA Tournament Results

They're back and we're excited to announce that both Varsity teams did well in last week's TSIAA Tournament. Here are the deets:

• Varsity Girls came in 2nd place.
• Season All-Tournament went to: Kayte Madison Bjornstad, Presley Applegate, Gracie Tidwell, and Bryleigh Dempsey
• Tournament All Star went to Kayte Madison Bjornstad

• Varsity Boys won TSIAA State Championship
• Season All-Tournament went to: Parker Applegate, Judson Bjornstad, Tripp Walker, Noah Pence
• Tournament All Stars went to Judson Bjornstad and MVP was Parker Applegate

We're super proud of each of you and congratulations on a great year! 

 

You Have Been Warned, 3/3 

Next Friday, March 3rd is the end of the quarter. Which means, at the end of the day on Friday (next week. Don't panic yet), you need to have all your quizzes, tests, and homework finished and turned in. 

Why would we keep harping on that? Because if you don't have all your tests, quizzes, and homework turned in and if your grades were good enough, you won't make it onto the honor roll paper. Yes. The piece of paper that your mom wants to frame or keep to make copies and send with the Christmas cards. Don't do that to mom. Let's get it all finished.

Wax Museum, 3/3

6th grade will be having their annual (except for that year of which we don't speak) Wax Museum Friday, March 3rd and you're invited to come see why this is one of the most anticipated sixth grade events every year. 

If you like to wander around and people watch, come to the gym March 3rd from 1:20-2:30.

If you just like to meander around groups of people and smile, come by the gym March 3rd from 1:20-2:30. If your student is dressing up like Amelia Earhart, Fredrick Douglass, or Abraham Lincoln and you have questions you want to ask, come by the gym March 3rd from 1:20-2:30.

You won't be able to miss it.

Unless you're at the wrong school. That would be a problem.

Don't Be Fooled

I know we've had a couple days of glorious weather lately, but don't let that fool you. It's still only February. Please, I beg you, please send a coat in with your student. I mean, we can have three seasons in one day here in Tennessee, and we would really hate to not let your child go outside because they were coatless. We aren't interested in sending home frosty children. Frosty children usually means an uptick in sickness and I've had quite enough sickness, thank you very much.

Fun Times at FRCS

Do you like science? Is it your passion? Or are you one of those people (like me) that starts to panic a little whenever someone mentions the word? Whatever your opinion is, our preschoolers through 3rd graders had a blast with Mr. Bond the Science Guy last Friday. Honestly, by all the shiny eyes and happy smiles I saw as classes paraded by my office, it was a big hit. See for yourself...

 

Re-enrollment

I know you probably either think I'm hitting this subject way too hard, or you think this article is a re-run. It's not. And yes, it's difficult to find different words to get your attention. I mean, I've already told you several times that re-enrollment has begun. I've told you more than once that the registration fee is what holds your child's spot in the next grade. And I do believe I've mentioned that enrollment opens to the public March 1st. Which is next week.

One thing I haven't said yet is that some grades are already full. But it's true and I know it may cause some to panic and I'm sorry. 

Moral of the story is: if you haven't enrolled your student, be sure to do so as soon as possible.

Lost & Found Sale

Did we or did we not just have a Lost & Found sale?! Oi, by the looks of our bins, it needs to happen again. As in, next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Parents, if your child is missing something, you're more than welcome to stop by and dig through the bins and see if you find the item. If you find it while it's still in the bins (and not on the tables in front of my office) you're more than welcome to take it. If you find it while it's on the sale table, it's gonna be $1. 

Senator Tim Scott for South Carolina

Tim Scott is no stranger to struggle and hardship. Failing four classes in his freshman year and moving every few years as his single mother worked hard to keep a roof over their heads, it wasn't a surprise that he made bad choices. Maybe it was friends, maybe it was peer pressure, maybe it was all of those things or maybe it was none, but Tim Scott had a decision to make. 

Keep going the way he was or he could break the cycle he found himself in and meet the challenges head on.

With hard work and determination, as well as the encouragement of a mentor who helped him see things could be different and a mother who never gave up on him, Tim Scott dug deep and turned his life around. Moving forward instead of dwelling on his past mistakes, he made a conscious decision to do better. Be better. To positively affect the lives of others around him.

All those hardships and knocks taught him what many of us fail to see. 

When you're down that doesn't mean you're out. 

You're just down. Get up. Dust yourself off and keep moving forward.

Tim Scott did just that. After becoming a public servant in the Charleston County Council, he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives, then he went on to the United States House of Representatives, and finally to the United States Senate where he continues his mission to influence and better the lives of others.

Each of us can learn something important from Senator Scott's story. We're human beings and that means we're going to make mistakes. We will not always be successful. There will be hardships and struggles, but it's what you do with those things that make the difference. When you're knocked down, do you stay down? Or do you pick yourself back up and try again? Have you seen yourself being a positive, Christlike influence on someone else?

What you do for others may seem like a tiny, insignificant thing to you but it could end up being what one person needed to succeed. 

Someone who believed in them and didn't give up on them.

101 Random

• Did you know that graphite was discovered under a tree after it had been felled (that means cut down. I had to look it up) in the 16th century and eventually became what we now use as pencil lead? Which really makes me wonder why someone would pick something like that up and try to write with it. We do some odd things, don't we?
• What goes with pencils? Erasers, of course. Did you know that people used to use a blob of wet bread to wipe the mistakes off their paper? I am so glad we don't have to do that anymore. Can you imagine what the classrooms would look like if we still did that?
• Just read that you can make your very own silver tarnish remover using a blender, water, and...banana peels. Think I'm going to have to try this. I'll let you know how it turns out.
• And lastly, did you hear about the guy who was injured in the freak peek-a-boo accident? He's in ICU.

Trivia You Don't Need to Know

• Is there salt water or fresh water in the Hudson Bay?
• Is a grape a berry?
• Who jumps farther - a skateboarder or a frog?
• What is a hiker's "gorp" - tent glue, a trail snack, or a type of rope?