K5 Classes Welcome Fall With Johnny
Appleseed Day!
LOWER SCHOOL NEWS
Friday, October 22, 2004
The SFCS K5 classes will welcome the cool
weather with a fun-filled Johnny Appleseed Day on
Friday, October
29. The children will come to school dressed as the
famous apple seeder, Johnny Appleseed. Other activities
will include making applesauce and participating in
a Johnny Appleseed parade.
5th Grade Classes Celebrate the Culmination of
Native
American Studies
The SFCS 5th Grade classes experienced
the tribunal customs, make-up and history of Native
American Indians during a recent a celebration of Native
American Cultures held on Monday, October 4. The event
was a culmination of a study during which students
read the Moccasin Trail, wrote research papers and
celebrated their hard work with native food and games.
SFCS parent Denise Lesiak, dressed as “ Pocahontas,” to
serve a wonderful buffet and Shelley Manos, a full-blooded
member of the Lumbee tribe, shared her tribunal customs
with our students.
Parent/Teacher Conferences
Lower School parent/teacher
conferences will be held on both Thursday, October
28, from 1:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Final conference to
be scheduled at 6:00 p.m.) and Friday, October 29,
from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Final conference to be
scheduled at 4:30 p.m.) Lower School students through
the 5th Grade will be dismissed at 11:30 a.m. on both
conference days. Parents wishing to schedule a conference
may sign-up outside your child’s classroom beginning
Thursday, October 21.
Welcome Back Candy Jacobs!
If you see Upper School
students streaming toward the 5th Grade classrooms,
they’re not there to repeat the grade… they’re
there to say hello to a familiar face…Candy Jacobs!
She began on Monday, October 18, as the replacement
for Sue Hornbeck who recently left to work with her
husband in their family business. SFCS will miss Sue
and thanks her for the last four years of hard work
and dedication to her classes.
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