Family of Christ Christian School
KNIGHTS NEWSLETTER
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October 2022 | Volume 20, Issue 3 | | |
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2
Postponed: USF Volleyball Spirit Night
Will be rescheduled
MON.-FRI., OCTOBER 3-7
Sun Protection Awareness
Volleyball Playoffs
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4
Students wear an orange or yellow
shirt and Friday bottoms.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5
Student Council Installation
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6
Bring Your Bible To School Day
MONDAY, OCTOBER 10
No School, Columbus Day
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14
End of First Quarter
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18
Great American Teach-In Paperwork Due
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19
Fourth Grade Field Trip-Ybor City
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20
Walk-A-Thon Paperwork Due
MON.-FRI., OCTOBER 24-28
Red Ribbon Week
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25
Class Picture & Retake Day
Burgundy Shirts Please
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26
Honor's Assembly
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28
Walk-A-Thon
Early Release @ 11:45 am
No Lunch
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31
Campus Entrance Closes @ 8:45
thru 9:30am for CDC Parade
9am CDC Character Parade
9:45-11:00am Trick Or Trunk
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School lunches served next week (Oct. 3-7)will be from the September menu (Sept. 26-30). If you ordered lunches the last week of September, this is what we will provide. No October menu lunches will be served next week.
The hurricane closing did not allow for all October lunch forms to be turned in. If you turned in your lunch form already, you are all set. For those who have not, please turn those in and we will start those lunches on Tuesday, October 11th. All October lunches ordered for the first week of October will be deleted.
All lunches are $4.75 and includes an entrée, side, fresh fruit and milk/water bottle. Copies of your menu choices come home in Family Folders before the month begins. Our vendors are Dash of Salt & Pepper Catering and Precinct Pizza.
If your child forgets their lunch, they will be provided with an emergency lunch. This may include a hot lunch or a grape uncrustable with chips and a milk/water. Your tuition express account will be charged the $4.75 for lunch.
Lunches are not billed until the end of the month so students can add or take away lunch menu items. Little taste buds sometimes think they will like something and then don't. If that is the case, email Ms. Patti at Pharmon@familyofchristtampa.com or call her at 813-558-9343 Ext. 118 and she will change your child's order for future weeks.
| Sixth graders went on a Science field trip to MOSI for a dissection lab and ropes course. There they dissected a sheep's heart and lung to gain knowledge on dissection practices before high school and learn about the respiratory and circulatory systems. This is a favorite! :) One class dissected while the other class climbed the ropes course and then they switched places. Afterwards they ate lunch and spent the remaining time exploring the Kids In Charge Museum. | |
Don' forget to send your child with a water bottle everyday to school.
Our water fountains are equipped with bottle filling stations. Water bottle fillers are located inside the building and outside on the playground.
Everyone forgets a water bottle now and then. In that case, students will receive a water bottle from the office. Students who repeatedly forget their water bottles will be charged $1 on their lunch form for each water bottle they need.
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SERVING OTHERS/AR GOALS
Students will receive a "Serving Others" slip when noticed by a teacher or staff member for doing something good for another student. Those slips will be collected at the office and names will be drawn each week at Chapel for a prize.
Students who meet or exceed their AR Goal will have their name put in a drawing for a $5 Barnes and Noble gift card at Chapel.
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GENTLY USED FREE UNIFORMS
We have gently used uniform tops and bottoms in all sizes in our clothes closet. There are also sweaters and sweatshirts for the cold weather. These items are Free. The clothes closet is located in the Narthex credenza by the brown chairs.
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WALK-A-THON
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH
EARLY RELEASE, NO LUNCH
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WE NEED YOU!!!!!
The Great American Teach-In, for Family of Christ Christian School, will be held throughout the school year. We would like to have as many people involved as possible. We are asking parents, community members, business owners, and friends to make plans now to be a part of this great tradition for Family of Christ Christian School.
To volunteer to present at the Teach-In, we just need YOU!!! You don’t need teaching experience, just a desire to share your experiences, your hobby, or your career with our children. We love for you to encourage our students to try new things, not give up and continue with their education.
The Great American Teach-In is a perfect opportunity for parents, business leaders, and community members to let our students know that we care about them. The idea is simple- just fill out the form and we will contact you to schedule a date and time to teach a class or two, whatever your time permits. Give yourself about 20 minutes for each presentation that you would like to do.
Simply send the attached form back to school with your child. If you know someone with an interesting career or hobby, please pass this information along. Mrs. Tara King will contact you to schedule. Please plan to gear your presentation to the level of your child’s class, or the grade(s) you are presenting to. Please return this form by Tuesday, October 18, 2022.
Thank you to all those families that have already turned in their forms!!!!
|  | Information on how your family can contribute to a gift will be coming home in Family Folders next week . | Let's all congratulate Miss Aniah E. (third grade) the winner of this year's Mads Recyclable Fashion Show. She made the dress herself out of trash bags bubble wrap, box labels, duct tape, fairy lights and tissue paper. She won this year's USA Lifetime Star Little Miss 2022/23 for her continued support and community service. This group helped raise more then $300.00 for Saint Jude's Hospital. | |
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SUN PROTECTION AWARENESS
OCTOBER 3-7
Family of Christ is committed to doing our part to protect our community members from skin cancer. This year we will have an entire week, October 3 – 7, 2022,dedicated to “Sun Protection Awareness”. There will be a lesson incorporated into every classroom each day and Dr. Lisa Manalo (Dermatologist, Pediatrician, and 6th grade parent) will lead an educational assembly on the importance of sun protection Tuesday, October 4th . Students may dress in orange or yellow with jean bottoms on Tuesday, October 4th, to encourage awareness.
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Bring Your Bible to School Day is a nationwide, student-led movement to read and treasure Scripture as God’s Holy Word, to encourage others with the hope we have in Christ Jesus, and to celebrate our religious freedoms in the United States. It all culminates with Bring Your Bible to School Day on the first Thursday of October. This event empowers Christian students of all ages to speak God’s grace and truth into the culture around them, starting with two simple steps — bringing their Bibles to school and sharing what God’s Word means to them.
Remember the words of 1 Timothy 4:12: “Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity” (ESV).
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2022-2023 PTL BOARD
(Parent Teacher League)
President: Meghan Greene
Vice President: Barbara Ito
Treasurer: Stacey Coe
Secretary: Jessica Gozevich
Look for PTL information on the school Facebook page and PTL newsletters on the 15th of the month.
PTL By Laws and Meeting Minutes are available at the school office.
Volunteer Hours will be recorded electronically through Sign-Up Genius.
More information will be coming.
Families are required to complete 20 volunteer hours by the last day of school (May 24, 2023). This can include classroom volunteering, field trips and volunteering at PTL events. In addition, up to 5 hours may be completed donating products such as cases of water or multi-packs of Clorox wipes or tissues to the school. Through out the year your child's teacher may ask for special items that can be counted towards your five hours. Families may only record a maximum of five hours for all the above donations.
| Families stopped by to eat in or pick up a delicious Italian meal. Thank you to all the families that participated to support the school. | |
TRICK OR TRUNK
When: Monday, October 31st
8:45am Entrance & Parking lot will close
9am CDC parade
9:45am-11am FOC elementary and middle school students going around for trunks
FOC will have 6 trunks participating (parents can team up).
If any families donate a bag of Halloween treats (no chocolate), or $5, they will receive 1 volunteer hour.
Students are encouraged to dress up or wear a Halloween shirt. However, nothing scary, nothing political, no Halloween masks or weapons.
| LOWEGEAR, a local school family owned company, has been added this year for your convenience. Fast turnaround and free shipping to the school for pick up makes shopping for uniforms and sweatshirts affordable and convenient. | |
Uniform Tops- Purchase with logo through Landsend.com
School Number: 900095951
Uniform tops can be navy, burgundy or white.
Uniform bottoms can be navy or khaki. Bottoms may be purchased at retail stores.
| First quarter chapel donation offering will be sent to the LCMS Disaster Response ministry to help Florida residents. | |
RED RIBBON WEEK
Monday, October 24-Friday, October 28
Look for an exciting event list to come home in Family Folders.
| Please do not send Pokemon cards to school. Cards have become a distraction during the school day. | |
Class Picture & Retake Day
Tuesday, October 25th
Please wear Burgundy Uniform Tops
If you don't have one, we can provide one that day from the clothes closet.
If you would like a retake, please respond to this email or fill out and return the form coming home in Family Folders.
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SPORTS CORNER
Play offs are next week.
Go Knights!
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We would like to thank all of our candidates for making
this year’s election a great one! Congratulations to our
2022-2023 Student Council Members:
President: Natalie H.
Vice President: Jordan W.
Secretary: Aury M.
Treasurer: Neal W.
Commissioner of Religion: Eleanor D.
Commissioner of Ecology: Sofia S.
Commissioner of School Spirit: Jacey L.
Commissioner of Hospitality: Kyla M.
5th Grade Class Representative: Garrett S.
4th Grade Class Representative: Luis F.
3rd Grade Class Representative: Edison D.
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CHURCH SERVICES
Please join us for church services. We hope to see you there.
Saturday, 5:00 pm Traditional (New Time)
Sunday, 9:00 am Traditional
Sunday, 11:00 am Contemporary
Sunday School will resume in the Fall.
CHILDREN'S MINISTRY PROGRAM
There are Sunday school classes for children attending the 9:00 am service. At the 11:00 am service, we are offering “Children’s church” for kids between the ages of VPK thru 5th grade. Children’s Ministry Leaders and volunteers will lead this.
We will need volunteers for both Sunday school and Children’s church. Please contact Leanne (Lgreen@familyofchristtampa.com)in the church office or reply to this email if you can serve in this way.
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SAVE THE DATES
CANCELLED:VOLLEYBALL SPIRIT NIGHT
Sunday, October 2
Will Be Rescheduled
WALK-A-THON
Friday, October 28th
Early Release @ 11:45 am
NIGHT OF KNIGHTS
Saturday, February 4, 2023
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