From the Principal's Desk

Greetings FWAFA Family,

Hope your week is off to a GREAT start! It's time to get out your planner or calendar and mark the dates for all of the events happening during October. They are not to be missed!

This week features a Student Council High School Town Hall during lunch and a school-wide Student Council sponsored Spirit Event on Friday.

Also, PTSO is wrapping up their Membership Drive on Friday. Please join this worthwhile organization that tremendously helps our school. You can join for as little as $10. See more information below.

Creatively yours,

Dr. Jackson

Congratulations to Alexa Flores, the new Sophomore Class StuCo Rep! The election for the open class office was held on Wednesday, September 21st. It was a tight race among five candidates. Many thanks to all participants who will continue to be assets to the Class of 2025—Hannah Hines, Anna Gonzalez, Celeste Jenkins-O’Reilly, and Embry Stringer.

A Town Hall for High School will be held during high school lunch in the auditorium on Tuesday, September 27. Come to this fun and informational meeting to find out more about the FWAFA high school experience and to socialize with your high school peers!

Student Council is hosting a “Who Dunnit” Spirit Event this Friday, September 30th, during the school day. Elementary, middle, and high school students will receive clues to solve the mystery at FWAFA. What crime has happened? Who is involved? What will happen next? Stay tuned for more information during morning assemblies this week!

Monsteriffic: Monster Art Show & Theatre Performance

Sponsored by FWAFA National Art Honor Society

Oct 5 | 5PM

The Monster Art Show is a FWAFA Favorite. This annual tradition connects our youngest artists to our high school students in a collaborative effort to raise money for the FWAFA Art department.

Third grade students spend time designing and creating a monster straight from their imagination. High school students then take that creation and bring it to life with their phenomenal artistic skills. Monster artwork can range in medium, anywhere from paintings to digital renditions, to glass sculpture, to crochet.

Third grade parents will have the opportunity to purchase their child's monster to take home. There will also be additional monsters to purchase and some fun trinkets for anyone to purchase. All proceeds will go to the Visual Arts Program, benefitting our budding artists.

Theatre Performance:

"Calling All the Monsters or You're Going to be in Big Trouble!"

Starting at 6:30 p.m. in the FWAFA auditorium, "Monsteriffic" is a combined performance for our 3rd & 4th grade Theatre students. "Monsteriffic" will showcase poems and stories by our 3rd grade students, group scenes by our 4th grade students, and a combined performance with both grades. This should be a scary good time!

Event is FREE and appropriate for all ages.

RSVP Here: https://fb.me/e/2INRdEtyp

Goosebumps: FWAFA Combined Choirs Fall Concert

Buy Tickets: https://bit.ly/3AxWBjo

Calling all foolish mortals: join the FWAFA Choral Department and special guests from FWAFA Dance for a spooktacular concert celebrating all things October!

Come celebrate the season with TBC as they take you through the incantations of the Wayward Sisters or ride along with CCT as they conjure up the sights and sounds of the Great Hall at Hogwarts. Maybe you'll even travel on the back of an Alebrije to cross the Marigold Bridge with SGT and FWAFA Dance as they explore the culture and beauty of Dia de Los Muertos!

Dress up in your favorite costume, get on your broomstick, and fly in to see "Goosebumps" on Friday, October 14th at 7:00 p.m. at Birchman Baptist Church. There will even be a few sweet treats for the ghouls and ghosts who show their spooky spirit!

We are off and running on our first theatre production of the year, Oklahoma! This production is in collaboration with our dance department, and we can’t wait for you to see the finished product!

Our next step is to start the build of our set the amazing Bob Lavallee has designed for us this year. Bob is helping us to be as frugal as possible by using the same lumber for both Oklahoma, Peter and the Starcatcher and maybe even our middle school musical, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown.

THIS IS WHERE WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!

Lumber is still so expensive, and we need lots of it for our sets so if you are able to help us with ANY SIZE gift card to Home Depot, we will put it to excellent use. Check those kitchen drawers and see if there just happens to be a gift card you don’t need right now. No amount is too small (or too big)!

You can drop off your gifts at the front desk or send them with your student in an envelope that says SET DONATION. Cash works too or if you want to write a check, you can make it out to TCAA and write SET DONATION in the line item. Please include your name with your gift if you feel comfortable doing that so we can thank you in our program!!

HOME DEPOT GIFT CARDS
Are all greatly appreciated. We do not need donations of actual items at this time as the needs are very specific.

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Here are the number of memberships each grade needs to take the lead:

The 7th grade turned up the heat nearly doubling their number of memberships(!) but 5th grade is on the hunt and only needs 5 memberships to pass 7th grade. The 8th and 6th grades are still in the running and only need 7 memberships each to pass the 7th grade.

Families: Please support our school by registering for a PTSO membership. You can join for as little as $10.

3rd - 13

4th - 17

5th - 5

6th - 7

7th - Winning!

8th - 7

9th - 19

10th - 14

11th - 13

12th - 14

Follow this link to join our amazing PTSO!

Levels of Membership:

Single student membership with free FWAFA directory - $10

Single adult membership with free FWAFA directory - $20

Family memberships:

Family Membership #1 - 1 directory and 1 PTSO shirt - $50

Family Membership #2 - 1 directory and 2 PTSO shirts - $70

Family Membership #3 - 1 directory and 3 PTSO shirts - $100

Please let us know if you have any questions! We are excited to meet all our new members!

The grade level that has the most membership by September 30 will be awarded a pizza party! Join now!

If your student is tardy or absent, please send notes to attendance@fwafa.org. Also, a student needs to bring in a doctor or parent note within 3 days after the absence for an unexcused absence.

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Need to submit an attendance note?

attendance@fwafa.org

TCA+A Covid-19 Information Center

Tuesday, September 27 - High School Student Council Town Hall

Friday, September 30 - School-wide Student Council Spirit Event

Monday, October 3 - TBC Poinsettia Sale Starts

Wednesday, October 5 - Monster Art Show at 5:00 p.m., 3rd and 4th grade Performance at 6:00 p.m.

Thursday, October 6 - Early Release at 12:15 p.m., Parent Conferences (more details coming soon), Sophomore Class Sponsored Doo Dah for Elementary Grades 3-6 (more details coming soon as well)

Friday, October 7 - School Holiday

Monday, October 10 - School Holiday

Tuesday, October 11 - APEX Fun Run Kick-Off for Elementary Students

Wednesday, October 12 - PSAT for 9th, 10th, and 11th grade

Thursday, October 13 - PTSO Fashion for $5.00 Day

Friday, October 14 - Goosebumps - Fall Combined Concert, End of 3rd Week

Monday, October 17 - National Honor Society Trick or Treat So Kids Can Eat Food Drive starts

Wednesday, October 19 - Progress Reports Distributed

Friday, October 21 - Junior Class Sponsored Boo Bash for Elementary from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, October 22 - Middle School Dance/Haunted House from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., High School Dance/Haunted House from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Monday, October 24 - National Honor Society Red Ribbon Week starts

Thursday, October 27 - High School Musical Oklahoma at 7:00 p.m.

Friday, October 28 - Literary Character/Work of Art Day, High School Musical Oklahoma at 7:00 p.m.