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use the computers and then your parents can pick you DAILY BULLETIN up on their way home from work. School information can be found in our daily bulletin. Assess Fatima’s web site at: www.fatimacomets.org STUDENT OF THE TERM Congratulations to 8th grader Caleb Fischer, Fatima’s PARENT PORTAL 3rd Term – Student of the Term. Caleb was nominated Parents can now sign up to be given access to the by Mrs. Joan Bish and was presented a Certificate of Parent Portal. Instructions for doing so have been Achievement at the January School Board Meeting. placed on our web site: www.fatimacomets.org Alex also received a cash incentive sponsored by Legends Bank of Westphalia. Jacob is the son of Chris STUDENT ALERT FOR ABSENCE: and Michelle Fischer of Freeburg. Our computer system has an automatic alert sent to Congratulations Caleb! parents if their child is absent. This alert will go out about 10 a.m. If you would like to be emailed when CALENDAR your child is reported absent, send your name, your Thurs – Feb 6 – 7 pm child’s name(s), and your email address to Sheila Wed – Feb 12 – JH Academic Bowl Practice Ahlstrom at [email protected] Fri – Feb 14 – JH Valentines Dance 7-10 pm Mon – Feb 17 – NO SCHOOL JUST A REMINDER Thurs – Feb 20 –Term 4 ends Students are not allowed to be on campus after school Fri – Feb 21 – Term 5 begins Fri – Feb 21 – FFA Petting Zoo without teacher supervision. Also, students should Mon – Mar 3 – JH Track Practice Starts not arrive at school before 7:30 in the morning unless participating in an organized activity. SNOW DAY MAKEUP SCHEDULE SKETCHER YEARBOOKS With school cancellations last week we have several makeup days to add to the school calendar. Listed below is our 2012-2013 Yearbooks are HERE! Please pick yours up if makeup day schedule. you ordered one. There is a limited number of extra copies Snow Day #2 May 14 available. They can be purchased for $30.00. See Mrs. Snow Day #3 May 15 Melanie Peters Snow Day #4 May 16 2013-2014 Yearbooks are on sale! Order forms are in the high school office and in Mrs. Melanie Peters’ classroom. Cost is $30.00. These must be ordered by March 15 BUZZER SYSTEM Our new buzzer system (front door access control) was EXTENDED LIBRARY HOURS installed over the break. This system was installed to help The Library will be open each morning at 7:30 and will provide an additional safety measure for our students and staff. After 8:15 visitors will be required to go through the stay open after school Monday through Thursday doors leading to the High School Principal’s Office. Next to until 4:30. Students may come to the library to work the door is a box with a camera installed and a button to on homework or use the computers. They may not push to notify the secretaries in the high school office. Once stay after school if they are unsupervised. So, if your notified, the secretary will identify the person standing at the student needs to stay after school, remind them that door and you will hear the door lock release. Upon hearing they are welcome to stay in the library. the "Buzz" you may pull to open the door. There are signs posted to direct you to the appropriate door. Please note all Junior High students, take advantage of this visitors are required to stop in the high school office where opportunity to get homework finished before you go you will be given a visitor pass. This requirement includes home. You can come to the library and work, read, visitors to the elementary. NEWS FROM THE OFFICE Valentine’s Day Info: points if they practice good keyboarding techniques at home 1. FFA is selling roses for Valentine’s Day. and turn in the sheet on Tuesday. They can do this all Available in Red, Yellow, Lavender, Fuchsia, semester. Peach or White, Single Roses are $2; 7 th Grade English (Ms. Cassmeyer) Triple wrapped $10, in a vase $12; The 7th graders have launched themselves into our second ½ Doz wrapped $16, in a vase $20; essay of the year, this time a Three Wishes Essay, which Doz wrapped $30, in a vase $35. They allows us to learn the five-paragraph essay format but also to will delivered to students K-12 the last hour of the be a little creative with our wishing. Our fables, folktales, day on Valentine’s Day. and myths unit is cruising right along having completed our 2. FCCLA is selling Cookie Grams for Valentine’s fables test and working towards our understanding of the Day. They are $2.50 each and will also be literary techniques employed in folktales and myths. In delivered on Valentine’s Day. This year, a addition to our weekly spelling units, the seventh graders delivery will be made to the Daycare and St. will soon be embarking on a study of the Propaganda Joseph School! All proceeds go to the American Techniques advertisers use to convince us to buy their Heart Association. product or service, so don’t be surprised if your student’s homework is to watch some tv commercials or listen to some Miscellaneous Info: radio ads. 1. If you have questions about, or need help applying for insurance through the government insurance JH Gifted (Mrs. Simpson) marketplace, Certified Application Counselors will th The junior high gifted classes have just begun a new unit be coming to Fatima on Feb 10 to assist you. The titled, “Heroes throughout History”. The students chose an deadline for enrollment in the government st era to study. From this, there was a list of American adult insurance marketplace is March 31 . If you are not heroes and children who may be heroes but definitely shaped eligible for affordable health insurance through history. The students will decide if these children fit the your employer, you may want to consider utilizing description of hero. The students selected a total of four this opportunity. Please visit heroes to research. There are also projects to complete such www.fatimacomets.org for a list of information as a timeline, graph, art project, quiz cards and audacity you will need to bring. project. At the end, the groups will compare characteristics 2. The next Junior High Academic Team practice will of child and adult heroes as well as discuss if the time period be held Wed, Feb. 12 at 3:15. plays a part in these characteristics. The unit is twofold in 3. Fatima will not be in session on Mon, Feb 17 that they will learn about history and American heroes, but 4. Barring additional snow days, Term 4 will end also learn a few more types of technology. Excel will be Thursday, February 20 used to make a graph, wordle, prezi, and audacity to name a 5. The FFA Petting Zoo is Friday, February 21. few. I look forward to the final discussion and listening to Sports Info: the students present their findings. th 1. If you have a JH student interested in participating 8 Grade English (Mrs. Bish) in Track & Field, they must have a current sports The eight graders are examining figurative language, physical form on file before they will be allowed to such as metaphors, similes, hyperboles, personification, practice. Practices officially begin on Mon, March alliteration, and other types of imagery. We have reviewed 3. those literary techniques in the Buckle Down booklets and in 2. If you have not yet met the $100 family cap for the our brown literature anthology. We are currently studying activity fee and your son/daughter plans on the use of figurative language in poetry while reviewing how participating in Track & Field, they will need to to take notes. pay the $20 activity fee before practices begin. Each eighth grader should have a calendar for English 8 3. If you son/daughter participates in any sport, please that tells him/her what we are doing each day, what keep in mind that you will most likely be in the assignment is due on a particular day, and when we have rotation of parents to work in the concession stand. quizzes and tests. Assignments/Tests 8 th Grade Reading (Mrs. Bish) The eighth graders are still reviewing the basic elements of reading. After a test over these concepts in a couple of weeks, we will begin our first class novel, Flush. There will 8th Grade Computers (Mrs. Temmen) be a reading guide, periodic quizzes, and a final test over this Students will be learning how to create a Prezi for a novel. presentation. One student described it as "PowerPoint on Students are also expected to read at least one book on steroids." The students are very excited about this new their own each term and fill out a Reading Worksheet software. It is a free on-line software that students can do at over that book. The Reading Worksheet is due toward the home, too. BONUS POINTS--students can earn bonus end of each term. The fourth term ends February 20, 2014, so the students only have a couple of weeks to finish their Tiffany Schaefer Leona Weider independent novels and fill out the Reading Worksheets. Kaitlyn Schubert Hannah Eisterhold Mariah Ball Madison Hogan 7 th Reading (Mrs. Rolwes) We are busy in Kaci Bocklage Teagan Humphrey Reading Class! We have begun the semester by Myranda Deluca Isabell Laughlin learning about different characteristics and types of Alaina Helton Cody Meyer non-fiction. The students have had to take some notes, Max Muenks Gavin Owenbey but they should have all the information they will need Avalon Papunta for most of the reading we will do throughout the Jordan Pope semester. Students will be required to independently Hayden Schwartze read one non-fiction book and one fiction book over Andrew Mengwasser the course of this semester. They must take an AR test on the fiction book and then complete reading 7 th Math (Mrs. Stegeman) worksheet on both the non-fiction and fiction books. We are working in the Buckle Down book to prepare for Students have chosen their non-fiction books from the the MAP tests later this year. Today we took a quiz on library and have been give some class time to read. In ordering rational numbers. An example would be ordering mid-February we will begin reading a mystery novel 7/8, 25%, 15/4, and 3.25 from least to greatest. I think together as a class called The Westing Game by Ellen students are “kind of “ enjoying having math twice a day, Raskin. Students will have the opportunity to make because they do not have much homework. If you have any corrections to homework, quizzes and tests as long as questions, please let me know. I tutor after school until 4 . work is turned in on time, and they should take advantage of this opportunity! Please contact me at any time if you have any questions. The best and quickest way to reach me is through my e-mail address at [email protected], or you can also leave a 7 th Grade Pre-Algebra ( Mrs. Kesel) voice mail message at 455-2375 ext. 239. Students recently completed work on Chapter 6 where we learned about ratios, rates, proportions, and probability. Ask JH Band/Choir (Mr. Cardwell) them how many possible combinations there are for a four- digit password…they should be able to tell you! Test scores Congratulations to the following students who have averaged 81.8% (B-), not great and lower scores were been chosen for the Jr. High District Band. You have mainly due to not following directions or other careless been selected by a panel of music directors in our mistakes. Please encourage your student to carefully read all district to represent our school. This will be a of the directions before working on a problem. I was tremendous experience. You will be a part of a band pleased with how many students attempted a difficult bonus question; they are becoming more comfortable with thinking from 32 schools in our district. We will have a guest beyond the exact problems we’ve done in class. We have clinician who will work with you all day at already started work on Chapter 7 Percents. Please make Waynesville HS. Jr. High Band was postponed due to sure your student has plenty of pencils and notebook paper, wintery weather. We are in the process of rescheduling this and that they haven’t lost their calculator! concert and will keep everyone notified. We will then have a Concert for your parents at 5:00pm. 8 th Grade Pre-Algebra ( Mrs. Kesel) 7 th Graders 8 th Graders Students recently completed work on Chapter 5 where we Samantha Reeves Josh Maasen learned about Percents. They should have their test scores Abbey Jobe Isaac Abbott soon. Next we move on to a chapter on Geometry. We will be learning many formulas, and it will be important for Dakota Minder students to keep their work organized! Our Chapter 5 Congratulations to the following students who have been Vocabulary Test went very well…the best one yet! The day chosen for the Jr. High Choir. Members need to be here by before the test we took a verbal practice test and talked about 7:00am Sat, Feb 1st. We will key words in each definition; students said that was helpful. return by 6:30pm. The key words are something students can work on 7 th Graders 8 th Graders themselves for each vocab test. Please make sure your Chandler Amick David Anderson student has plenty of pencils and notebook paper, and that Kaitlyn McConnaughhay Andrew Eisterhold they haven’t lost their calculator! Alexis McKee Brian Eisterhold Skyler Naab Caleb Fischer Emma Rolwes Austin Mueller

February 14, Music provided 2014by: Lifetime Entertainment Time: 7:00- 10:00 in the Fatima High School Cost: $5.00 per person

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_____ Art Camp (Grades 3-8) -$66 July 7-11------(1:00 pm- 5:30 pm) All Materials Provided

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Mail Check to Sonya Walker 281 County Road 526 Freeburg, Missouri 65035

1/3 of the profits will be used to purchase a new computer programs for Fatima’s Graphic Arts Class.

If you have any questions please contact Sonya Walker at 573-645-0152 or email [email protected]

Health Insurance for Adults and Children Come let us help you

In January 2014, most Americans will be required to have health insurance. People who do not have health insurance will need to buy it or pay a penalty. If you can’t get affordable health insurance through your job, you can buy coverage for you and your family through the government insurance marketplace. The deadline for enrollment is March 31, 2014. Certified Application Counselors are coming February 10th. Private rooms will be available to assist you in signing up or answering questions you may have.

Monday, February 10, 2014 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Fatima High School (please enter through middle door in front of school)

Information you need to bring:  Most recent tax return (2012)  W2 form or last 2 pay stubs  Proof of Social Security or Disability income  Information from Family Services/Child Support Income  Any other income  Social Security Numbers for household members  Policy numbers for any current health insurance plans covering household members

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Please return this form to Fatima school nurse if you plan to attend and the information will be forwarded to the counselors. Public Service announcements for the Health Insurance Marketplace do not represent an endorsement of this product by the Osage County R-3 School District.

Inclement weather conditions will cancel this event!