Fall Festival Is Here!

Fall Festival was a fantastic time for FRCA family and friends. Over
300 children and parents enjoyed the bounce houses, movies and more.

Stories are being told about Mr. Hewlett challenging Mrs. Balgobin to
a duel on the Ultimate Obstacle Race. Mr. Hewlett was close to winning
but has trouble squeezing out of the final obstacle, allowing Mrs.
Balgobin to catch up and tie him at the finish line!

Mr. C and Mr. S were cajoled into a challenge race as well . Mr. C got
off to a quick start and never relinquishes his lead. Round 1 to Mr.
C. Better luck next time Mr. S!

The rains held off so all could enjoy It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie
Brown, and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. All in all, a wonderful
tome together.

A big thank you to the FRCA Parents Club for putting so much work into
making Fall Festival a success.

Thank you to Countryside Shops Publix manager, Ursula, for bringing
out her team and Plato. The children loved it, and we all enjoyed the
food! You were a great community partner.

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100 Preschoolers?!

Here is a sneak peak of "Let's Pretend Day". No matter if your child
is preschool or elementary, you will love this special All-school
Chapel. We hope to see you Wednesday at 9:00am!

Book Fair is Here!

Mrs. Varona, Gilbreath, and a team of volunteer moms did a great job
setting up this years book fair! And Mrs. Lopez' 3rd grade is seen
here getting the first crack at the vast selection. Dinosaurs, Star
Wars, and Boys are Dogs, are all poular this morning. It us great to
see our students so excited about picking books to read.

Part of picking out books even helps students learn about math. How?
Well, they have to calculate the cost of the books, subtract that from
how much money they have and walla, a fun math learning activity!

So, come on out and support reading and math. In doing so, you will
also be supporting our library and computer lab expansion. We look
forward to seeing you at the Book Fair!

Story Time At The Pumpkin Patch

Each year around this time, the air cools, the leaves change color,
birds fly away; all in preparation for the snowy winter! And here in
South Florida, with temperatures in the high 80's, we make our annual
visit to the pumpkin patch. Mr. Pumpkin Patch Man read "Pumpkin Soup", and other Fall selections for our 1st Grade students.

Classes have been using pumpkins to study math, science and reading
over the last week. Visiting the pumpkin patch is a great way to bring
it all to life.

Thanks to all the parent that make the visit with our classes. Having
parents along reallyakes it a fun and memorable experience for all!
Mom, dad, your child is sure to want to make pumpkin pie or carve
faces...take time to enjoy the moment and share conversation. It will
really mean the world to your child.

God We Trust In You...

...and we follow you! Lord may we honor you, and live out loud for you!
Today, chapel was worship "full". Seeing our students raise up voices and hands toward heaven as they cried out the name of God, was a powerful example for each of us to follow!
Our desire is to have as many parents and grandparents worshipping
together with our students and staff as possible. We have had great attendance and support from families already this year, and have been thinking of ways for even more of our families to join us. In this effort to increase families attending, we have decided to move chapel from 8:15am to 1:30pm! Holding chapel at 1:30pm will allow for even more families to join us in worship together! Mark your calendars for each Wednesday at 1:30pm, starting November 4th for Awards Chapel!

We look forward to seeing you in chapel soon.

1st Grade Spelling Test

OK...so my little girl brings home the word list for only the 5th or
6th spelling test of her 1st grade career. Some easy ones, with the
'ck' sound, but wow! Chech out: pumpkin, tricky not following the 'ck'
pattern. Then: thorax, abdomen and metamorphosis! Thank goodness
iPhone has predictive text and spellcheck! For good measure, she is
responsible for reciting the 10 commandments as well! Do you remember these words in 1st grade?!
So here we are on a Monday night, studying hard so we can show
ourselves approved unto God!
Christiana loves a challenge and we actually have fun with these
assignments.....most days.

Bible Alive

Ephesians 6:4 ....do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them
up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
The Bible is real and living, and guides how we do what we do. Our
teachers do a fantastic job of instructing our children in a way that
they love learning.
Here, one of our K3 classes acts out the story of Joseph!

Get Involved!

We have the best parents supporting our school! They lift the school
up in prayer and invest time planning great events! Thank you to all
our parents.

Call the school office to ind out how you may get involved today.

Moms at FRCA

We love our parents. Mrs. Hugh and Murphy joined the FRCA family over 2 years ago. They have both jumped into our school community and been important supporters of FRCA.  With daughters in 5th grade, these moms are looking forward to FRCA Middle School next year.  They are excited about what we have started in the Computer Lab and Library already, and dreaming up ideas for our Science Lab.

Thank you parents for taking time to invest in your children and FRCA!

Working hard at the work of a student

Leaders are readers.

Spirit shirts are here!

Our theme for 2009-2010 is DREAM. And our Spirit shirt design is based on our encouragement to students to seek God and the plans He has for them. They can be anything they want to be!

We encourage our students to have big dreams and to chase after them!
God has prepared huge things for each of our lives...things we can not
even imagine. 1 Corinthians 2:9 tells us "...no eye has seen, mo ear
has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him."

Spirit shirts may be purchased now in the FRCA office for $14.

Mrs Hewlett

In response to the question by Mr. Hewlett, "So, what are you making us for dinner tonight?"

Unforgiveness = Bitterness & Anger

If we do not forgive others, we will live in bitterness and anger.
Whenever we hear the person(s) name, that we have not forgiven, we
will become angry. Why live with this anger?! Call the person and set
it straight. Then, you will be able to live in joy.

Blog updates

Testing of mobile blog updates while in chapel. Pretty cool to have it working! Enjoy this shot of our great chapel today!