Pizza Party!

The classes are competing for a pizza party! The class who raises the most for Haiti relief will earn a pizza party. Remember to check consoles of cars, under couch cushions, and dad's pocket for all that loose change! We will collect until February 11th.

M.O.M. group is having a meeting Thursday, 28th in the break room at 9:15. All interested moms are invited.

In our never ending quest to keep accurate records of tuition and fees, we have been working on our records. You may be sent a note tomorrow if we are missing records on a specific payment. Details will be in the note tomorrow. If you feel there is an error, just e-mail me, Once again - please DO NOT mail checks to the church. We cannot guarantee that we see the check and record it unless it ends up in our hands! We appreciate your cooperation on this.

REMEMBER - TUITION IS DUE ON THE 15TH FOR THE NEXT MONTH - JANUARY 15TH'S PAYMENT WENT TO FEBRUARY'S TUITION. LAST TUITION PAYMENT FOR THIS SCHOOL YEAR WILL BE APRIL 15TH.

AND FINALLY - registration forms for next year are due tomorrow. We will open up registration to new students beginning in February.

FYI

January Scholastic orders are due this Tuesday the 26th.

Dental Health day Thursday, February 4th - special guest coming to visit the children!

Valentine Sock Hop - Thursday, February 11th. Dress your child in 50's attire. Sock hop and soda shop sundaes that day! The children will also exhange valentines that day. Please read teachers' notes for more specific info about class activities that day.

Upcoming Curriculum:
1/26 - Community Helpers - Doctors
1/28 - Nurses
2/2 - Veterinarians
2/4 - Dentists

Our chapel curriculum has been focusing on the life of Jesus. This week our lesson will be the boy Jesus at the Temple (Luke 2:39-52).

The new FCC website is up and going. If you have friends who would like to be a part of FCC MDO next year, have them check it out.

And finally, don't forget that if your child is planning to return next fall, registration forms are due 1/28. Registration fees will not be deposited until placement is secured in a class.

$1000

Help for Haiti - we began our coin drive for Haiti this past Thursday. We asked the children to ask for spare change around the house and better yet(!) to do a chore for some extra spending change that they could donate - i.e. empty the dishwasher, clean their room, help with trash, etc.. We have a competition going with a pizza party riding on the class who earns the most.

If each family could raise $10 worth of change, we would have more than $800 to raise toward Haiti relief.

Encourage your child to bring a baggie of coins this Tuesday. Help FCC MDO be that small part that helps the greater whole!

OUR GOAL - $1000 by February 11th!

Upcoming Events

Upcoming events at MDO:

1/21 - 2/11 - Help for Haiti - there is a message to our story tomorrow "Stone Soup" - it is that alone we can only do a little but together we can do great things. With that in mind we are going to start a coin/spare change drive in each class to raise money for the children of Haiti. We will continue the coin drive until February 11.

1/26 - Scholastic orders due for January

2/4 - We will have a special guest that day coming to talk to the children about dental health to go along with our "Community Helpers" unit.

2/11 - Get your child's 50's clothes ready as we do our first Valentine Sock Hop! Ms. Maria and I are planning it now, and we hope to have the M.O.M. group help out too. Details soon!

Illness and Car Lane

We got hit hard yesterday with a stomach bug among our teachers (and believe that several children had it too including my own). FCC MDO is blessed, however, with some wonderful substitutes who jumped in and handled things so well. Even Ms. Maria, our music teacher, was ill! In addition Ms. Tonya and I had lost a dear friend suddenly and had a funeral to attend. So yesterday was just a little stressful, and we do apologize for canceling car lane at the last minute. In order for car lane to run smoothly and efficiently, it takes everyone being there and prompt especially when we have some parents bringing their children in also.

So for future reference - if you do NOT see the orange cones in the parking lot, you know that for some reason beyond our control, we cannot do car lane that day.

Please say a prayer for MDO this weekend that everyone will return next Tuesday healthy and well. We have several moms who are expecting, and some who have lost loved ones recently, so I would greatly appreciate you asking God to bless us and be with us.

Thank you - have a great weekend!

New E-mail address

MDO new e-mail address: mdo@franklinchristianchurch.com. Please do not use mdofcc@yahoo.com or mdo@fcctn.org. Thanks!

MDO E-mail

Okay, spent a long weekend in Las Vegas with 65 degree SUNNY weather, and I was not prepared for Franklin to still be freezing cold when I got home!

I have mentioned that FCC is revamping the website. With all the changes somehow the MDO e-mail address got forwarded to my personal e-mail instead. My personal e-mail has driven me nuts lately with all kinds of junk mail to the point that I quit looking at it much.

Imagine my surprise when I found e-mails on there recently inquiring about MDO! So, until further notice, use mdofcc@yahoo.com for any e-mails that you may want to send to me.

Tuition is due Thursday for February. Our Stone Soup day has been moved to January 21st because of our snow day. I hope to have it all planned out by this Thursday.

We will start a unit soon on "Community Helpers" with an emphasis on the medical field. If you know of a doctor, nurse, veterinarian, or dentist that spends time teaching children about their field, please let me know. We would like to schedule a visit by one of these professionals if we can.