Forest City Elementary is off to a fantastic start to the school year! We have around 52 new students so we are excited to see all of the new faces in the building and we want to welcome them to our community.

We are looking forward to the month of September and there are a number of activities that will take place that I want to highlight. Homecoming will be September 8th and prior to the start of the parade, the High School Football team, Cheer Squad, and members of the Marching Band will come through our building so our students can give them high fives and cheer them on. Our students will then watch the parade from their traditional viewing point outside of the building. The football game is at 7:30 p.m. Students have been reminded that they are not to be playing their own football games or messing around behind the bleachers. We also reminded students to remain on our home side (north) unless they are sitting with a parent on the hill (south).

Due to the flooding that has taken place in Texas, our building will be doing a fundraiser during the week of Sept.11th. Pam Montgomery’s daughter, Cassie, teaches in Katy, Texas, and they are in need of classroom books that teachers purchased with their own funds and have been lost due to the flooding. We will be utilizing a classroom challenge for a week where grade levels will compete against each other in order to collect the most funds. The winning grade level will get to attend a movie at the Forest City Theater. With the funds raised, we will purchase new books and ship those down to help those in Katy.