Ellen Feickert Elementary March Newsletter Happy March! Happy March! With only about 50 days of school left, it

is difficult to believe we are in the third and final

trimester of school! We are committed to finishing

strong – academically and with outstanding citizenship!

Father Daughter Dance We sang, danced, played games, ate sugary treats, and

generally had a great time. Where, you ask? At the

Annual Father Daughter Dance, of course. The girls

scrubbed up and the dads did too and everyone looked

magnificent. DJ Jukebox C spinned the latest hits

including the Whip and NeNe! The PTO decorated the

MP room beautifully in white, pink and red. The

cookies and punch were delicious. We all had a great

time. Stay tuned to your child’s backpack for the

upcoming Skating Party for Mothers and Sons!! Thank

you to the PTO for another wonderful family event!

Dragon Tech Night Our first ever (and hopefully annual) Dragon Technology Night was held last evening, Thursday, February 25, to almost 100 parents and families. (Our students served as tech support!). Thank you Miss Hocson, Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Merrill, Mr. Merrill, Mrs. Murphy, Mrs. Nixon, Mr. Nixon, Ms. Uebner, and Mrs. Thomas.

English Language Advisory Committee On Thursday, February 25, we held our first of two

English Learner Advisory Committee meetings here at

Ellen Feickert Elementary School. Ms. Hocson, Mrs.

Headley and Mr. Murchison presented to parents and

families regarding the requisites for the committee and

its functions. If you would like more information about

our school’s ELAC and DELAC (District English Learner

Advisory Committee), please contact your child’s

teacher. Thank you!

Read A Thon Please see the attached flyer and Reading Log – Please encourage your student to participate and READ READ READ!!!!

Spring We have been enjoying an “Early Spring” with students. As a result, and in accordance with our positive theme (Be Safe, Be Kind, and Be Responsible) here at Feickert School, we wanted to remind students and parents/guardians to be mindful of school rules and whether students are following the three tenets (Kind Safe and Responsible) which truly do anticipate issues before they arise. Moreover, we wanted to provide parents and guardians a gentle reminder about our school’s dress code (from our school parent handbook). Thank you for taking time to read and review and preview these important items with your student. Dress Code: All clothing must be neat, clean and appropriate for a regular

instructional day at school. It must be such a design that it invites only

positive comments from classmates, and promotes self esteem. Clothing

must be safe, and worn in a safe manner. Clothing must not promote

conflict among students. Students who are dressed inappropriately will be

sent to the office to call home for new clothes.

Item Acceptable Unacceptable

Tops- All clothing Overshirts Halters

must cover the Dress Shirts Midriff or half-shirts

upper body so that T-shirts w/ positive Tube or tank tops

no underwear or messages (with low cut arms)

body parts are Coats, sweaters, Spaghetti straps

exposed sweatshirts Shirts with profanity,

violent messages,

negative comments

or gestures,

degrading

statements,

advertising for or

supporting drugs,

alcohol or tobacco

usage

Bottoms - Must Long pants that Cut offs or torn

fit appropriately do not drag or bottoms.

shorts and skirts hang below the Jogging type or

must be fingertip waistline. Gym type pants

length. Shorts/skirts/ that are tight or

Skorts that very short.

reach the finger- Bicycle or skin

tip length. tight shorts

unless worn under

shorts or skirt

pants/shorts worn

below the waist-

sagging.

Acceptable Unacceptable

Shoes – safe Lace-up tennis Flip flops or slides.

shoes are shoes are best Unlaced shoes

necessary at for the daily High heels

all times program or Open toe shoes

during PE Heelies

time. Crocs

Acceptable Unacceptable

Other Items - Hats may be Make up

worn outside Appearance that

only. may distract from

Sunglasses the learning

outside only environment.

Any items that

are a distraction

Basketball Team Congratulations to the coed Dragon Basketball Team. Our team posted a final record of 8-1!! That is correct – 8 wins and 1 loss – The team battled throughout the season and Coach Nixon and Coach Witzke poured over strategies to produce a fine squad with an outstanding record. More impressive is the way the lady and gentlemen conducted themselves with excellent school pride and exemplary citizenship. Congratulations to the team on a great season. Thanks again to Mr. Nixon, Mr. Witzke, Mrs. Nixon and Mr. Martinelli (scorekeepers), all of the students who wore the “Spike the Dragon” Mascot and everyone else who showed up and gave a lot of support to the team. (A small thank you to Mr. Murchison as a referee – although he did make some bad calls!!!). Go Dragons!!

Musical Mayhem Productions It is that time of year again when the MMP Team visits

the Feickert Campus in order to prepare for the next

production. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will be

the Spring production! Tryouts are happening

beginning March 15. If your student has an interest,

please contact your child’s teacher or the school office.

This will prove to be an exciting and amazing

performance by our own students. Good luck everyone

and we will see you on Show Night!

Summer School Please mark your calendars for June 6 – June 30,

Monday-Thursdays, as Ellen Feickert School will host

Summer School again this year. Much, much more

information will be coming home about this year’s

program. Please stay tuned and watch your child’s

backpack as well as your email inbox.

Spring Break – School Closed March 21 – March 25

Attachments – Please see the attached informational flyers for the:

READ A THON

MULTICULTURAL FAIR

HELPFUL WEBSITES (INCLUDING PRACTICE

TESTS FOR THE UPCOMING STATE TESTING

FOR GRADES 3-6 CAASPP TEST)

As always, we thank you for your continued support of

Ellen Feickert Elementary School. We look forward to a

strong finish, a commitment to academics, and an

enjoyable rest of the school year while maintaining high

expectations for students and their behavior. If you

have any questions, concerns, compliments, please

don’t hesitate to contact your child’s teacher or myself

(emurchis@egusd.net), or call (686-7716).

February Royal Lunch Recipients Gr. 1/Gr. 2 Lunch Gr. 3/Gr. 4 Lunch Annika Don David Hale Ryan Sangpanjun Lila Brockmiller Autumn Hunt Rebekah Arpilleda Tiber Smith Ainsley Canty Quinn Potter Niara Clinton Matthew Wilton Kamari Simpson Tristen Bartlett Aria Sandefur Alex Silva Christopher Haywood Jonah Momola Gr. 5/Gr. 6 Lunch Jane Oliveria Gabriela Raderchak Lana Nunez Reina Gullion Riley Stuard Majeed Nazem Kyle Tran Aiyanna May

Sincerely, Mr. Murchison Principal Ellen Feickert Elementary School

FEB. 29 – MAR. 4

2ND

ANNUAL

FEICKERT

READ-A-THON

GET 5 FOR $5.00 CHALLENGE

Last year, your contributions helped us surpass our goal of raising $5,000

for new books and materials for our school and classroom libraries! We

greatly appreciate your participation and generosity! Ellen Feickert

Elementary is hosting its 2nd annual school reading fundraiser. This year,

we hope this student driven fundraiser will help us raise funds to further

support our literacy and technology needs. 100% of the profits from

this fundraiser will be used for continued support of the Feickert

library and school-wide literacy and technology programs. This

fundraiser is a great way for families to support our school and for

students to take pride in working hard on their reading skills while

earning money for our library. Students will ask family and friends to

sponsor them for minutes read during Read Across America Week.

Students will keep a reading log to keep track of their reading and will

collect the donations from their sponsors at the end of the week. Our

school will help promote reading with guest readers, classroom

incentives, and a spirit week.

EVERY DONATION HELPS!

Help us get new

books for our

library, Chrome

books for our

classrooms, and a

subscription to

Newsela.com!

Get 5 for $5

Challenge!

Our school goal is to raise

$5000 with this Read-a-

Thon. If every student

raised $25 in reading

sponsorships, we would

beat this goal!

_____________

Every $25 in sponsorships

will earn a raffle ticket for

a chance to win a Chrome

Book!

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Students can gather pledges

on their sponsor sheet from

the time they receive their

packets through the end of the

reading week on March 4,

2016.

Sponsors can pledge their

support as a flat donation for

minutes read.

Students will log their reading

from Feb. 29th through March

4th.

Sponsorship collections and

reading logs are due by March

11th.

FEICKERT 2ND ANNUAL READ-A-THON FEBRUARY 29 – MARCH 4, 2016

Student name _________________________________________________ Grade ___________ Teacher _______________________________________

“My goal is to read for __________ minutes this week.”

Reading log

Monday, Feb. 29:

“Crazy Hat Day!”

Today I read for ________ minutes. Parent or Teacher initials: ______

Tuesday, March 1:

“Twin Tuesday!” Today I read for ________ minutes. Parent or Teacher initials: ______

Wednesday, March 2:

“Wacky Wednesday!”

Today I read for ________ minutes. Parent or Teacher initials: ______

Thursday, March 3:

“Crazy Sock Day!”

Today I read for ________ minutes. Parent or Teacher initials: ______

Friday, March 4:

“School-wide Read-OUT and Dress as Your Favorite Story Book Character Day!”

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Today I read for ________ minutes. Parent or Teacher initials: ______

I READ A TOTAL OF ___________ MINUTES THIS WEEK!

Sponsorship collections and reading logs are due by Friday, March 11, 2015.

Educational Websites – Feickert School

California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress:

(This is the SBAC/CASPP practice test site):

https://login3.cloud1.tds.airast.org/student/V135/Pages/LoginShell.aspx?c=California_PT

Reading Websites: Web Address Abcya (Primary) ......................................... http://www.abcya.com/

Game Goo (Primary) .................................. http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html

KidsSpelling ............................................... http://www.kidsspell.com/

Literacycenter ............................................ http://www.literacycenter.net/

Pbskids ....................................................... http://pbskids.org/lions/games/

Rhlschool (Printable Worksheets) ............. http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm

Scholastic Reading Counts......................... http://www.scholastic.com/readingcounts

Starfall (Primary) ....................................... http://www.starfall.com/

Story Maker ............................................... http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker/embed.cfm

Math Websites: Web Address A+ Math ..................................................... http://www.aplusmath.com/

AAAmath ................................................... http://www.aaamath.com

Arcademic .................................................. http://www.arcademics.com/

Coolmath4kids ........................................... http://www.coolmath4kids.com/

GoMath ...................................................... http://www-thinkcentral.com

Handwriting For Kids (Math) .................... http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/math/index.htm

Math Activities ........................................... http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/preview/harcourt_math/activities.html

Math Magician ........................................... http://oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/mathmagician/maths1.html

Mulitplaction.com ...................................... http://www.multiplication.com/index.htm

Power Lines ............................................... http://oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/powerlines/powerlines1.html

Rain Forest Math ........................................ http://www.rainforestmaths.com/

Scholastic ................................................... http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/clf/tguidesitemap.htm

TeachRKids (Primary Worksheets) ........... http://www.teachrkids.com/

Virtual Math Manipulatives ....................... http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/index.html

xtraMath ..................................................... http://xtramath.org/

Science Websites: Web Address Edheads ...................................................... http://www.edheads.org/

Keyboarding Websites: Web Address Bitesize ....................................................... http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr

Gamequariuam ........................................... http://gamequarium.org/learntousekeyboard.html

Learning Games ......................................... http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html

Sense/language ........................................... http://www.sense-lang.org/typing

Typing lessons ........................................... http://www.typing-lessons.org

Typing Web ............................................... http://www.typingweb.com

Feickert School Website:

To access Feickert School’s website: www.egusd.net/feickert

These websites can be accessed at the Feickert website links page:

Scroll down to Recommended Educational Sites

These sites are especially recommended:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/clf/tguidesitemap.html

K-5 ELA, Math, Science

http://www.arcademics.com/

Grades 1 – 6, Math, ELA, Typing

http://pbskids.org/games/all-topics/

younger crowd, Math, ELA

http://oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/mathmagician/maths1.html

Grades 1- 6, timed Math practice

http://www.abcya.com/

Grades 1-6, Math, ELA, does have ads

http://www.edheads.org/

Grades 4 – 6 Science, STEM

http://www.Starfall.com

Grades K – 1, has free matching worksheets to extend/reinforce lessons

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr

Grades 3 – 4 Great typing intro

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/powerlines/powerlines1.html

Grades 3 – 6 addition and problem solving

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker/embed.cfm

Grades 2 – 6 Create your own story with online characters and props, kids are able to share their stories

Feickert Elementary School’s 9th Annual Multicultural Night

Thursday - March 10, 2016 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. ~ Multipurpose Room

$5 donation per family at the door

Parade of Nations and Multicultural Show performed by Feickert Students from 5:30 – 6:15 p.m.

International Food Sampling from 6:15 – 7:00 p.m.

We need your help! Please help us celebrate the diversity of our community by:

Bringing a Dish to Share - The dish can be traditional to your culture or

represent another culture other than your own. Servers will plate samples of

your dish for others to try. Please bring it in a disposable container.

Wear Traditional Attire – Represent different cultures with traditional

dress.

Volunteering at the Event – We need help with set up, service, and/or clean

up.

Please check any and all boxes that pertain to you and list the culture(s) you wish to

represent: ___________________________________________________________

Name:_______________________________________________________________

Student’s Name: ______________________ Teacher: ______________________

Contact Number(s) _____________________________________________________

Please return this interest form to your classroom teacher by Friday 2/26/16

Thank you for your participation!