Dear Falcon Families,
Can you believe that we have already celebrated 100 days of school and our Kindergarteners have already been Florence Falcons for 100 days?  They celebrated in a BIG way this week, as they were welcomed by our Keller High School drumline.  I loved seeing the creativity of our students and their parents as students paraded into the school in their 100 year old attire and 100 day t-shirts! So many of our students really got into character, playing the part, and asking that we call them "Pa-paw!"

This was also counselor appreciation week and our students have showered our wonderful counselor with cards, posters, and extra  hugs!  We are so fortunate and blessed to have Mrs. Bowen serving our students and school each day with her incredible presence, love for our students, and dedication to our school!  She is such an important and impactful member of our staff and in the lives of our students as she is always there to encourage them, to help them to grow and to be there to help them when they need! Thank you, Mrs. Bowen!   

We also had the opportunity to celebrate our PTA reflections artists this week in a special reception and hear about their work related to being hopeful. Artists shared their visual arts, videos, or photographs that they took and shared their artists statements.  Thank you, Karen Grabow, for facilitating the reflections program, workshops and reception for our students! 

Our 4th grade students did an outstanding job in their STAAR field test this week, which provides the state with some baseline information and out students with an additional opportunity to interact with the test.   

Throughout this week, I have been in several of our classrooms and seen students engaged in writing.  Even from one week to the next, I am so impressed with how much our students are growing as writers and the depth of their ideas and connections they are making in texts and between texts!  Growing is our goal and our students are on a roll! 

In efforts of continuing our focus on safety and security, we conducted a lockdown drill yesterday with the support and participation of Southlake Police Department. The SPD corporal commented on how well executed our safety procedures were and what a great job our students and staff did at moving quickly and quietly into their designated safety areas!  Way to go, Falcons! 

As a reminder, there are no classes for students  on Friday, February 16 and Monday, February 19th and mark your calendars for our Open House Olympics on February 26th!  We hope to see all of our families there (see more details below)! 

We wish everyone a wonderful weekend and a great week ahead!  

In Falcon Spirit! 

Courtney Brandel