Feed My Starving Children Promo Video

1.6 Million Meals For Haiti

Thanks For Giving

Wednesday we wrapped up our Thanksgiving Food Drive. We enjoyed a special Dream Factory chapel service outside in the beautiful weather. How wonderful to see our students taking great joy in helping others in need. Collected food was given to Sheridan House Family Ministries. Single moms and families in need will have a Thanksgiving meal this year because students got involved!

What 'Egg'sactly Is Going On?

Madison, from Mrs. Rodriguez's 4th Grade, prepares to put her creation to the test. 4th Grade teams designed carriers to keep their eggs from breaking when dropped from the second floor. Most were successful at protecting the egg, and received great cheers. But it was the couple that broke and splattered yellow goo all over the sidewalk that drew the loudest response.
Throughout the project, students learned about gravity, kinetic energy and force. This hands-on project really added to the learning opportunity. Each student has a real understanding of the concepts and memories that will last forever.

1st & 4th Grade Reading Buddies

Each week, students from 4th Grade match up with 1st Grade students for Reading Buddies. The 4th Grade students get great enjoyment from reading to the younger schoolmates. The 1st Graders think it's cool to hang out with some big kids, and it is a nice change from teachers reading all the time.

The weather today has been absolutely amazing. These students and their friends spread out across the courtyard and enjoyed reading in the refreshing air!

Little do both groups of students realize; but in all the fun, they are really learn a lot. 4th Graders reading out loud and 1st Graders listening, helps each develop skills important to the learning process.

David vs Goliath, Preschool Style

M&M's + Excel + Math = Yum!

Let it be known that Mrs. Iglesias loves M&M's, and it was only a matter of time before she worked them into a lesson plan! Mrs. Lopez' class enjoyed a creative, and tasty way of learning how to graph using Microsoft Excel in computer class today. Using our new interactive computer board and projector, Mrs. Iglesias was able to expand student learning by illustrating the project for the entire class to view. Students were then able to sort and count their M&M's by color, enter data points into Excel spreadsheets, and create pie graphs to show results! Way to go 3rd Grade and Mrs. Iglesias!

New technology has allowed teachers to bring lessons to life in fresh ways. In addition to weekly computer classes, grade level teachers are able to bring students into the Computer Lab for learning in every subject area. We would like to see all grade-level classrooms outfitted with similar technology tools that will allow for continued excellence in the classroom. Fundraising events like Fall Festival, help us move toward this reality. You may email Mr. Hewlett at bj.hewlett@ilovefrca.com to find out how you may participate in this endeavor.

Mrs. Hewlett's Readers!

Accelerated Reader is a big deal at FRCA. Our students love to compete
against each other, and together against other classes. This reading
competition encourages students to set goals and read toward them.
In Mrs. Hewlett's class, each student has individual reading goals.
Students that met their goal for the first 9 weeks, were rewarded by
having lunch and rootbeer floats with Mrs. Hewlett!
Lucky for Mr. Hewlett, he was walking by and was able to get a
rootbeer float of his own. Mmmm yummy!
Top Accelerated Readers and classes will be announced at Awards Chapel Wednesday, November 4th. Awards Chapel starts at 1:45pm. See you there.