Flat Rock Elementary School

📚 Flat Rock Fall Literacy Night
✨ Pumpkins, Pages, & Once Upon a Time
🗓 Tomorrow • Tuesday, Oct. 14 • 5:30–7:00 PM

🎃 Highlights:
📖 Title I Parent Meeting at 5:15 in the cafeteria
🪄 Magical Quests in classrooms (5:30–6:00)
📚 Book Fair open from 6:00–7:00
🎟 Drawings for baskets of books & goodies
👑 Students—dress in your best royal attire!

💫 Complete your quest to earn your ticket to the Enchanted Fall Ball!

🍿 Concessions & face painting (cash only)

Thank you to Jacqueline Richardson and Target for your generous donation of supplies to our school.

✨📚 Flat Rock’s Fall Literacy Night is almost here! Join us for Pumpkins, Pages, & Once Upon a Time — a magical evening of books, prizes, and fairy-tale fun! 👑 Don’t miss the Enchanted Fall Ball and Book Fair next Tuesday, October 14th, from 5:15–7:00 pm! 🪄💜

Happy Coach's Day to our beloved Reading Coach! Carly Herron is an important member of our school family. She works tirelessly and over and beyond to make sure our teachers have what they need to teach, and she models exemplary teaching! We are thankful for the commitment she makes daily to ensure instruction in our building is world class just like her.

Our fall Book Fair is here! Students will be able to shop during their regular library class this week. See your child's Friday Folder for a book fair flyer and informational letter with all the details.

Behind every sparkle is a hardworking custodian! 🧹 We’re so thankful for our incredible Flat Rock custodial team—Mr. Matthew, Mrs. Elsa, and Miss Madison—who keep our school clean, safe, and shining every single day!

🎃🍁 Our October newsletter is here! Stay up to date with upcoming events, important reminders, and all the fall fun happening at Flat Rock.

☕✨ Mrs. Hall, Miss Spires, and Mrs. Loftis' K5 classes perked up their day by celebrating National Coffee Day… because learning is always better brewed with a little fun! 💕📚

Doughnuts, apples, and coffee… oh my! 🍩🍎☕️ Mrs. Vaughn’s 1st graders celebrated their success with meeting their GEMS (Growing Elementary Mathematicians) goals with deletable doughnuts! 🍩 Mrs. Loftis, Miss Spires, and Mrs. Hall’s K5 students sampled different apples, graphed results, and made apple pie in a cup! 🍏🥧 And we can’t forget about our visit from our favorite, Carita Rose Coffee! ☕️

🏠💵 Our 4th grade students participated in a fun, hands-on project where they created a mini store with items and prices. They used their stores to create and solve two-step problems. This activity helped students apply addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in practical situations, solve multi-step word problems, and practice critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Wow! Way to go, 4th grade! ➕➖✖️➗

Don't forget to pay $1 to wear a hat tomorrow! 🎩👒

SAVE THE DATE. 📚🎃 Your quest awaits... 🏰✨

Congratulations to our August Terrific Kids! 🎉 We’re so proud of these students for shining bright with their hard work, kindness, and leadership every day at Flat Rock Elementary! 💛✨

These students will be recognized at our 1st quarter celebration on October 24th.

Link: http://bit.ly/422Fc0G

📸 Say cheese, Flat Rock! Picture Day is tomorrow, 9/16! Don't forget to dress your best and bring your smile! 🤍🐯

We can't forget Mrs. Hall's K5 class! Look at those smiling faces! 🍎🍏

September means it’s time for apples! 🍏 🍎 Miss Spires’ kindergarteners enjoyed wrapping up their Apple unit by tasting the folllwing apple flavored foods: apple butter, chips, juice, and cereal. Afterwards, students ranked how much they enjoyed them. Mmm, delicious! 😋

Fun with Phonics on Friday with Mrs. Moore! 🔡✏️

🚗💥 Our 4th graders explored how speed affects energy transfer through collisions! By changing the ramp’s height and the car’s weight, they investigated what would happen to a car at rest. Hands-on science = big discoveries! 🌟🔬

Mrs. Fortner's 3rd graders are steady finding ways to practice their multiplication fact fluency! 🎲✖️

Anderson 3 is proud to partner with local emergency services for our annual school safety walkthroughs. Representatives from Anderson County Emergency Management, Anderson County Fire, including surrounding volunteer fire stations, Anderson County EMS, Iva Police Department, and Anderson County Technical Services, toured our campuses this week with district leaders. Together, they reviewed changes, noted strengths, and identified ways to further strengthen our crisis plans and safety measures. 🚓🚑🚒

What makes Anderson 3 unique is our commitment to inviting emergency personnel into our schools to provide direct feedback on our procedures. This collaboration has become a yearly practice and continues to shape how we refine and improve safety across the district.

This year’s walkthrough highlighted the addition of even more safety cameras, fencing, equipment and other improvements. Dr. Nixon, Deputy Superintendent, mentioned this year's application for state Building Safety Grant Funds included ballistic film for exterior windows and doors.

We are grateful for the expertise and dedication of our community partners as we work together to keep our students and staff safe. 🏫🔒