Ferndale Elementary School

TK Families: Please check out our sign-up sheet. You can bring in goodies any day this week. Our festivities will start Friday. Thank you for your support TK families! https://signup.com/go/iKeMJgw

Today is the last afternoon to shop the Book Fair, we will be open from 12:30pm -3:30pm and tomorrow morning from 8:00am - 9:00am.

Only two days left to shop at the Book Fair. Shop Wed & Thursday 12:30-3:30, or Friday 8:00am-9:00am. The latest Dog Man book, THE SCARLET SHEDDER arrived this afternoon.

2024 Book Fair Information

It's here! The 2024 Book Fair. Sale starts Monday in the gym. Thank you to our Book Fair Team that makes the annual sale possible. See you there.

The Scholastic Book Fair has arrived. Sale starts Monday March 18 at 12:30pm. See you there.

This is just a quick reminder that conferences are next week. If you haven't signed up yet and would like to, click the link I sent last week. Otherwise, I'll see you next week!

Exciting Opportunity: Join the FUSD Board as a Student Representative FUSD is looking for an 8th-grade student from FES and a 9th-12th grade student to join the Board of Trustees for the 2024-2025 term. Develop leadership skills, advocate for student needs, and make a difference in our school community. Apply now for this impactful role!

Congratulations to Our Outstanding 7th and 8th Graders! We are thrilled to announce that our amazing 7th and 8th-grade students have been chosen to move forward to the California State History Day! The judges were absolutely amazed by the project topics our students presented, inspired by the Great Depression. These topics ranged from the creation of banking regulations to safeguard the public's deposits and investments to Adolf Hitler's manipulation of the banking crash to further his destructive agenda. Such incredible achievements from our students genuinely make us proud!

Are you interested in becoming a school bus driver?

Hello Wonderful TK Families! Tomorrow is our 100th day of school. To celebrate, students are all invited to wear their pajamas. Students may also bring in one sharing item. We’re sharing an item of something we wish we had 100 of. We’ll also be making a "100 days of friendship snack." Students are invited to bring mini pretzels, raisins, mnms, cheez-its, teddy grahams, etc… We’ll combine our treats into a celebratory friendship snack at the end of the day tomorrow. Thanks for all you do! Mrs. Boyd

Now enrolling TK and Kindergarten Students.

Please join us for information regarding Transitional Kindergarten for the 2024-2025 school year.

Come support your varsity Wildcat football team TODAY as they leave for the regional bowl! Gather at 4:00 p.m in the FHS parking lot. Bring signs and your loudest voices and let’s give these boys the send off they deserve!

Good Morning, The school year is flying by. Please save the date for our annual Christmas Concert. Thursday, December 21, 2023 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Parents and Community Members are encouraged to attend either performance. Ferndale Elementary School Gymnasium The performance can be found on our FES YouTube page.

Conferences are next week, December 4-8. Here is the link to sign up in case you missed it the first time. I am looking forward to meeting with each of you! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C45A4AE29AAFEC16-46058835-mrs#/

We received these informational flyers to help students and their families determine when their child may be "too sick" to attend school. Does your student experience anxiety? Does it impact their school attendance? Here's a helpful resource. We hope you find these helpful.

Good Evening Ferndale Elementary School Parents, Today many of you received attendance letters that included the days that your child may have been ill and the attendance was excused. Last school year 22.2% of Ferndale Elementary students were chronically absent. The California Department of Education's definition of a student who is chronically absent includes excused, unexcused, and tardies greater than 30 minutes. We will be sending out truancy letters that include the absences listed above. Our mandate from the California Department of Education is to reduce the percentage of students who are chronically absent. At Ferndale Elementary School we are committed to improving attendance and that is why we review your child's attendance as well as their learning benchmarks. We understand that the number one way to improve attendance is through positive relationships with students and teachers. We understand that illness and unexpected events happen. If your child will be gone for 3 or more days, we can place them on short-term independent study and that will not count as them being absent. Your child must complete their independent study or it will be marked as an absence. For more information regarding Ferndale Elementary School's 2022-23 chronic absenteeism, here is the link. https://www.caschooldashboard.org/reports/12753746007843/2022/academic-engagement#chronic-absenteeism California Definition of Chronic Absentee A "chronic absentee" has been defined in EC Section 60901(c)(1)External link opens in new window or tab. as "a pupil who is absent on 10 percent or more of the schooldays in the school year when the total number of days a pupil is absent is divided by the total number of days the pupil is enrolled and school was actually taught in the regular day schools of the district, exclusive of Saturdays and Sundays." Thank you, Mrs. Carmesin

Spending the morning with Mrs. Boyd's TK class.