We will have Books & Breakfast with parents and Administration Update family members in the school Cafe on Friday, The parent survey (English and Spanish versions) has been March 13th from 7:45 – 8:15. th opened on the District Website since Monday, November 10 . Breakfast prices are: It will continue to be open until May, 2015. We encourage our parents to visit the website and complete the survey. This Adults and Children not students at Florosa - $2.25 provides valuable information that helps us to plan for Students at Florosa - $1.80 improvements that supports your child’s learning Reduced Lunch Students - .30

Parents can start shopping with their children at the Book Fair at 8:15 on the day of the Books & Reminder: lost and found Breakfast. Parents: We have numerous lost and found items on The Book Fair will close at 12:00 p.m. on Friday. tables in our cafeteria. Please have your student(s) check for any missing items that they might have lost. You are welcome to come and search through Parent involvement committee the items, as well. Next Meeting will be on March 3rd, Tuesday at 5:00 Our March Early Release is on Thursday, March 5th. p.m. in the Media Center. Please come and join us Please remember to make transportation and to make plans for our school. supervision arrangements for your children. We will be releasing students at 12:50. We will offer Volunteer Orientation on this date during the times In appreciation of 9:15-9:45 in the Media Center.

Dates to Remember: March 5th: Early Release & Volunteer Orientation March 9-13 Book Fair March 10th: Family Book Fair Night March 13th: Books & Breakfast March 20th: Teacher Work Day/No Students The faculty would like to extend a big thank March 23rd-27th: Spring Break you to the owners of Burrito Del Sol! They donated chips, queso, and salsas for our February Testing Dates to Remember Early Release lunch. It was delicious and enjoyed Parents please mark the following dates on your by many! calendar. The owners are Brooks Hammet and Ms. Harr’s Grades 4 & 5 daughter, Laura Harr Hammet. They are located at rd English Language Arts Writing on March 3 201B Miracle Strip Parkway SE; Fort Walton Grades 3 & 4 Beach, FL 32548 and the Phone Number is (850) st English Language Arts-Session 1 on March 31 226-8016. English Language Arts-Session 2 on April 1 Mathematics-Session 1 on April 7th Mathematics-Session 2 on April 8th Grade 5 Computer Based Testing Window English Language Arts Salsbury & Perkins on April 14-15 Holland & Day on April 16-17 Mathematics Holland & Day on April 21-22 Salsbury & Perkins on April 23-24 The Junior Deputy Posse would like to thank everyone who supported the first ever Valentine’s Technology tips Dance at Florosa Elementary. We had such a great For Florida Standard Assessment information and time. We would like to thank our DJ, Austin test item examples, go to Carrico and his father Kelly Carrico, the www.FSAassessments.org photographer, Paula Bobnock as well as all the Or your child can practice taking the FSA by going parent volunteers that helped us out in all areas. A online to the Okaloosa County School District special thank you to Mrs. Deckman and Mrs. Mick website. for all of the running around and setting up they did Practice test items are also located there. for the event. This event was a great success and we cannot wait to do it again next year!

KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION FOR 2015-2016 Florosa’s Book Fair Parents of children who will be 5 years old on or Dates: March 9th – 13th before September 1, 2015, are asked to register their Family Night will be on Tuesday, March 10th children for 2015-2016 kindergarten during the between the hours of 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. period of March 2-20 and March 30–April 3. School staff may not be working March 23-27 due to Spring Break. Florida law provides that any child who will be 5 on or before September 1st is Date / fecha : Friday, March 6 @ 6:00 pm - eligible for kindergarten that school year. It is Viernes, Marzo 6 a las 6:00 pm extremely important that new kindergarten students Where / Lugar: Pryor Middle School, 201 be registered beginning March 2 for the fall Racetrack Road, NW, Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547 (August) school opening. Classes will be formed, teachers assigned, and materials ordered on the Congratulations! basis of student enrollment. Congratulations to Gabby Perez and Elizabeth Registration for kindergarten may be completed at Beyer for winning the 2014-2015 Kids Tag Art any time during the regular school day at the school Award of Distincition. They will receive the reward zoned for the child’s neighborhood. To complete at the Okaloosa School Board Meeting on March 9th the registration process, parents must present proof at 6:00 p.m. of the child’s age (birth certificate), a Florida certificate of immunization, a social security card, and a school physical dated no later than twelve From deputy schill months prior to the first day of school. Further SECURITY: information may be obtained by calling the schools Parents, please remember that Florosa has a single or Curriculum and Instruction at 850-833-4208. point/entrance exit location which is the front office. Parents dropping off their children in the SUMMER VPK REGISTRATION FOR 2015 morning before school, please remember we have a Parents who wish to register their children for designated car rider area for this. The car rider area the Summer VPK Program are also requested to doors open up the same time as the school main enroll their child at this time. Florida law provides doors, 8:40 a.m. All parents on campus while that any child who turned 5 on or before September students are present and school is in session should 1, 2015 and is eligible to attend kindergarten in the be checked in at the front office and displaying a 2015-2016 school year and did not attend VPK yellow visitors sticker on the top portion of your during the current 2014-2015 school year is eligible clothing. to attend Summer VPK. For Summer VPK Respectfully, enrollment, parents must provide proof of Florida Samantha Schill residency in addition to the registration items listed above. To register for Summer VPK, a certificate of eligibility must be obtained from the Early Learning Coalition at 107 Tupelo Avenue, FWB: Business partners Phone number 850-833-9330, or the Early Learning piggly wiggly Coalition at 10 S. 4th Street, DeFuniak Springs: Suncoast Converters, Inc. Phone number 850-892-8560. Summer VPK sites will be Southside Center (Crestview area), and Edwins Elementary, in the South area, enrollment permitting. Parent transportation must be provided for Summer VPK students. Further information for Summer VPK County Line Pizza & pub enrollment may be obtained by calling Ms. Gloria Guiselt Banks Thirty One Mayo, Early Learning Coalition Program Director, at 850-833-3627 or Ms. Debbie Haan at 850-689- 7211.

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Date / fecha: Thursday, March 5 @ 6:00 pm - Jueves, Marzo 5 a las 6:00 pm Where / Lugar: Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 307 Beach Dr. Destin, Fl 32541