• Port of Subs lunch for those who pre-ordered
• Cross Country Practice 3:15-4:45pm

• Mi Mexico lunch for those who pre-ordered
• PALS Meet up Coffee 7:45am Markell Hall
  
• MS Cross Country Meet @ Hovander Park 4:15 – 6:15pm
  

• Port of Subs lunch for those who pre-ordered
• Middle School - Electives schedule
• Cross Country Practice 3:15-4:45pm

• Mi Mexico lunch for those who pre-ordered
• Picture Re-Take Day at Markell Hall
  
• PALS Meet UP Coffee 3:00pm Robin Hall - PALS office
  
• Cross Country Practice 3:15-4:45pm
• Chess Club 3:15 - 4:45pm

• Port of Subs Lunch for those who pre-ordered
• Cross Country Practice 3:15-4:45pm

• Read-A-Thon - October 8-22
• No School Teacher In Service Day - October 25th
• Girls Basketball Begins - October 26th
• Wear Costumes or have Free Dress on Oct. 29th
  
• Fall Festival outdoors at Cramer's Western Town Thursday, October 28th from 4-6pm.
  

This position will help monitor children during lunch and recess, building rapport while helping create a loving and safe environment. We will pay $15 per hour. The students are outside rain or shine for fresh air and to get the wiggles out.

Candidates contact administrative assistant Rachel Lee rlee@thefranklin.academy

Last year our Read-A-Thon was such a huge success, we decided to make it an annual event!

The Franklin Academy Students Read a Combined Total of 144,282 Minutes last year and raised over $29,000! WOW!

Reading Dates: October 8-22

If Everyone Participates we can raise over $35,000

Reading Goal: 500 minutes per student = 165,000 minutes

How to Donate: By Check, written to The Franklin Academy, or Online at the Read-A-Thon Website.

Your Student's Read-A-Thon flyer came home today. Each flyer has been customized to your student, and contains important information to help you set up your student’s personal reading and fundraising site. Please invite grandparents, aunts and uncles, neighbors, and friends to support your child to reach their reading goal. Kids will earn age-appropriate prizes, and leading readers and fundraisers will earn extra accolades and awards!

Let’s work together to support our school community, and to further encourage a love of reading in our students!

Did you know there are cash prizes too! Check out the Grand Prizes For Most Minutes Read!

First Place:

Kindergarten - 1st Grade $100

2nd Grade - 4th Grade $100

Middle School $100

Second Place:

Kindergarten - 1st Grade $75

2nd Grade - 4th Grade $75

Middle School $75

Third Place:

Kindergarten - 1st Grade $50

2nd Grade - 4th Grade $50

Middle School $50

Class With the Highest Combined Total Minutes Read Prize:

Kindergarten - 1st Grade - Pizza Party

2nd Grade - 4th Grade - Pizza Party

Middle School Winning House - Pizza Party

What does the Read-A-Thon support?

The funds raised go directly to the Annual Fund that supports our general budget. Tuition only covers about 65% of the cost to educate each student so the Annual Fund Donations help cover the difference.

We raised $29,354 last year, and this year will be even better!

Thank you for your generosity! We love our school, students, and teachers and the Read-A-Thon helps to keep our community strong and supported.

READY - SET - READ!!!!

If you have questions please contact Heather Black hblack@thefranklin.academy

Wahoo, the Scholastic Book Fair has been a wild success!

You are all amazing, thank you. Teachers appreciate the books you are buying from their bins as well. With Reading Marathon starting, this is the perfect time for your students to dive in to their newly purchased books.

We cover a number of topics throughout the year in K-4 library class, and one of them is book care. Even with their best efforts, library books do end up damaged or lost. If this happens, we can repair a mild problem, but most likely you will need to replace it. If your book is lost, you will need to replace it. You can email your librarian for assistance:

Markell Hall is tsamuel@thefranklin.academy

Robin Hall is jsnyder@thefranklin.academy )

Typically, the best way is to find a copy on Amazon—we have found that to be consistently cheaper than paying the replacement cost. Lost and damaged books happen! We teach and encourage careful book use, but we know that life happens, and Mrs. Snyder and Mrs. Samuel promise to not be mean ol’ librarians about it!

Happy Reading,

Mrs. Samuel and Mrs. Snyder

What has ears but can’t hear a thing?

A cornfield.

Please pre-pay with Dawn at Markell Hall or Rachel at Robin Hall, or hand an envelope to the folks at drop off.

The cost is $25 Per Family. Payment may be made by Cash or Check made out to PALS.

Fall Festival - (See above)

We need candy for the trick or treat stations at the Fall Festival, please feel free to donate candy. There will be bins at both locations to drop them off starting next week.

Pals Officer Elections

Please don't forget to vote for the last few Pals Officer positions. Ballots close Friday 8th at midnight

Bookfair.

Last day to purchase items from the book fair.

Be sure to look for those Teacher wish list boxes if you'd like to get the items for the classroom libraries

Thanks much.

Co - Presidents

Nneka and Sara

pals@thefranklin.academy

Session 1: October 14th - December 16th

Session 2: January 13th - March 10th

When: Thursdays 3:15 - 4:45pm

Who: 2nd-8th Grade- Beginner, intermediate or advanced

Where: Markell Hall Cafeteria

Cost: $150 (Both Sessions covered by this fee)

Schedule: No meeting Nov. 11th or Nov. 25th

Please complete and return the form below, with payment, to the folks at Drop off or to Dawn at the Markell Hall Office.

Questions:

Stephanie Fox sfox@thefranklin.academy

Morgan Higgins: mohiperformance@gmail.com

Barbara Overson: barbaraoversonMS@gmail.com

You should have received your digital photos and packets by now. If not, check your spam or junk folder. If you do not have them contact the photographer at sales@professionalschoolimaging.com

Picture retakes will be on Thursday, October 14th at Markell Hall (in the chapel). Younger students needing photos taken will need parents to bring them in. Please reserve a time by clicking here: Sign Up Genius

If your child missed picture day, or you were not happy with the original shots, please sign up for a retake. Retake Order Link Here. If you received a packet and you wish a re-take, you will need to bring in the packet to the photographer.

To purchase a packet from the original photo shoot in September, please obtain your student's photo order number from Professional School imaging (, or from the front office for you to preview. You are welcome to purchase one of many packages by clicking Original Photo Shoot Orders Click Here

Thank you,

Rachel Lee

All three Kindergarten Classes had fun with this project!

Suzanne Yorks, one of our Kindergarten teachers shared this:

"Two of our Core Commitments are Caring and Creating. Your warm-hearted child did both this morning! First we created pretty autumn wreaths by coloring a cut-out paper plate circle and gluing on our choice of fall symbol cut-out leaves, squirrels, birds, and acorns. An autumn-colored yarn hanger with a note from the Franklin Kindergarten was tied on, and we set out to deliver our kindness wreaths to our neighbors.

There was such a spirit of generosity with our class! Each student went up and hung their creation on the door, and came back to join the group in our walk. Not a single child asked to keep theirs; they were so excited to think about someone coming home and smiling at the wreath they will find. One person was home, and he came out and called, "Thank you!" We hollered, "You're welcome!" back, and we could see that he really liked it. Most of us chose to write in our journals about our wreath delivery walk. It feels good to show our caring!"

Coach Segebart shared this:

Girls: Our girls team held their 4th place spot, missing defeating Mt. Baker for 3rd place by just 4 points! This was a difficult course with obstacles and hills that the athletes had not encountered in a meet and yet, we had PRs (personal records) from: Adelle Overson, Marin Lane, Adrianna Eddy, and Sunny Stiles. Another honorable mention from our ladies team is Grace DeLuca who moved up to 8th place in this meet.

Boys: The boys gave it their all and TIED Assumption Catholic for 1st place with both teams scoring 43 points! We had PRs from Van Wilson who also moved up to 7th place, and Lassen Raby.

Our next meet will be held at Hovander Park next Tuesday at 4:15. Come cheer on our Franklin Force athletes and see what they're capable of!

Art Specialist Rachel Simpson shared this:

"These are some adorable K-1st grade Apples with Kandinsky circles of oil pastels in color, that have caught my heart. K-1st graders learned how to draw apples and some about the artist Wassily Kandinski"

Be Kind, Let's Shine! - Miss Rachel Simpson

Spanish, Humanities, Social Studies, Math, Physical Education/Health, Science, Technology/Coding, Art, and Science Fair Research/Economics.

Recently in Art with Ms. Simpson, students are learning how to sketch a shell in still life using the following Art Elements: line, value, and shape.

"When enrolled at The Franklin Academy, each student is assigned to one of our four Houses: Ershig, Ferlin, Hess, or Kaiser. In middle school, students meet every morning and end each day with fellow members of their House. This creates comradery between grade levels and gives students a place where they feel at home," shared House Council Lead, Ms. Grace Schmidt.

The Houses also participate in friendly competitions to receive points and work their way to the House Cup! Each House has an animal mascot and a corresponding color:

Ershig: Cougars, Red

Ferlin: Sharks, Purple

Hess: Lions, Yellow

Kaiser: Eagles, Green

Mrs. Pickerill shared this:

"Last week in art we used different colors of liquid paint on coffee filter maple leaves. We also outlined our names with small cut-out leaves.

During our math time, I introduced a dice game to the children. First, we worked as a group and rolled different dice to see how many small acorns we needed to add to our trees. Then later in the week, the children worked individually on matching the number of dots on the dice to the number on their leaves worksheet. The math skills that preschoolers can practice by using dice are subitizing, which means looking at the dots and knowing right away what number they represent instead of counting each dot, number recognition, counting, and matching."

Ms. Camaya shared this:

"For art, we made paper bag owl puppets, they loved making them today!! I think they loved my owl friend “Hedwig” chatting to the class and playing Simon says with them."

The students had a wonderful time outside on a sunny day!

Ms. Dizon shared their Daily News:

“I had a fun day because…”

Lola: “we had snacks outside.”

Toby: “we played a game during recess.”

Jena: “I like doing daily news.”

Samara: “I ate my snacks.”

Xia-Mari: “we had Music.”

Caden: “we had an autumn scavenger hunt.”

Jaxon: “I played with my friends.”

Yarinka: “I got to see my friends.”

Savitri: “my favorite friend came back.”

Kellan: “I saw my brother Asher.”

Knox: “I learned my sight words.”

Owen: “I sat quietly in Music.”

Uniform and PE shirt information

Please note that PE shirts are sold via PALS and must be purchased one of two ways:

- In person, during uniform shop hours (Tuesdays from 8-8:30am).

- Online at: https://tfa-pals-store.square.site/

Our online shop also includes Spirit Wear and a limited amount of new uniform items. We hope to have more new items for sale soon.

Note that due to variations in sizing and item condition, used uniform items are not sold online.

Please allow 72 hours for fulfillment and delivery of online orders. Purchased items will be delivered to your child's classroom or advisory teacher, for your child to bring home.

If you need help or have questions about items in the uniform shop, please email uniforms@thefranklin.academy

A supportive community with STEM focused education in a safe, small class environment for all grades.

Website: https://thefranklin.academy/
Location: 1509 East Victor Street, Bellingham, WA, USA
Phone: (360) 733-1750
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Gretchen Bucsko, Head of School: gbucsko@thefranklin.academy

Melanie Hurley, Associate Head of School: mhurley@thefranklin.academy

Dawn Regier, Administrative Assistant, dregier@thefranklin.academy

Rachel Lee, Administrative Assistant, rlee@thefranklin.academy

Natalie Bennett, Admissions Director, nbennett@thefranklin.academy

PALS (Parents Actively Lending Support) pals@thefranklin.academy