Bob Folsom Elementary School

Farmington Public Schools welcomes Allie Patterson! She will be teaching 2nd grade at Williams Elementary! #Cardstudentsareworthit

If you haven't seen the news Mrs. Dowdle and her friends want to let you know that Beanstack and our Summer Reading Challenge is LIVE! Last week we had 9 students already log minutes, yay! Use your clever card to log in and look for the heart logo. If you need your clever card email Mrs. Dowdle at jdowdle@farmcards.org Bonus: If you can read more than Mrs. Dowdle you will be invited to a special party when we return in August. #cardstudentsareworthit #ESED #BFEreads

Thank you to Centennial Bank and U of A students for sponsoring this wonderful project. Several 3rd graders had the opportunity to write and publish their very own books during CARDS Time. They all worked so hard and were so proud of their work. #cardstudentsareworthit #ESED

Beanstack is LIVE! The Reading Summer Challenge is ready for students that were at Folsom In K-3rd this past school year. Teachers can also participate! Here are two videos on how to log in and start reading. I will also post this on our Facebook page in case these links o not work nicely. Video 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/121gDakj34GKRby7ovjsniW6CTWezikvc/view?usp=share_link Video 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wPO3yv3GEXSaLPrHCZbSYHQmGGsErK4v/view?usp=share_link #cardstudentsareworthit #ESEC

Parents of all K-8 students- If your child has at least one A on their report card, please take advantage of this great offer from the Northwest Arkansas Naturals on June 9th! Who: All K-8 students who achieve at least one A (or equivalent top grade) on their end-of-year report card. What: Each qualifying student will receive two free premium tickets to the Sunday, June 9th game at Arvest Ballpark and will be recognized on the field/videoboard! Bonus: After Sunday games, all kids are invited to run the bases at Arvest Ballpark! To claim their two complimentary tickets, students simply need to bring their report card to the Arvest Ballpark box office, accompanied by at least one parent or guardian, and show their report card.

The Simple Simon's Cardinal of the Month at Folsom Elementary is Ellie Harshfield! Cardinals of the Month exhibit traits of excellence, integrity, compassion, service, or kindness within their schools! #Cardstudentsareworthit

Read-a-Thon update: This week we will be finalizing the Read-a-Thon, if your child has not spent their RAT bucks please do so as soon as possible. If you are not planning to spend it please let me know. Once again I want to thank you all very much for your support, the response to this has been overwhelming. I will be posting top readers and fundraisers soon. #cardstudentsareworthit #esed

We invite everyone in the community to join us in celebrating our amazing Farmington teachers during teacher appreciation week! Share your own messages of appreciation on social media! #Cardstudentsareworthit

A huge shout out to Blooming Gayle's for being a sponsor of our Read-a-thon! #cardstudentsaresorthit #esed

The reading portion of our Read-a-thon has ended, but now for the fun part...spending RAT bucks. If you have not already done so please log into your child's account and spend any RAT bucks they have earned (I would love for this to be done by the end of the weekend so I can completely close it out). I am working on a special post to announce top readers and earners for next week once everything is closed. Just a small hint...we have never read nor raised so much that I am already planning some great things for next year as well as a summer challenge that all current K-3 students will benefit from. Thank you! Mrs. Dowdle #cardstudentsareworthit #esed

Sadly this is the last day for our Read-a-thon. Please be sure to record any last minute reading times by 7 pm tonight (Monday the 29th). I will announce total minutes read tomorrow when I have an accurate count, just know that we are over 60,000 minutes already (record #2 this year)! Once I have closed the Read-a-thon students are welcome to spend their earned money in the RAT store. They have a few days to do this. If you find that your child has spent what they want and have extra or in the rare case don't want anything, please let me know and I will use it for library prizes. If you have any questions please reach out to me at jdowdle@farmcards.org or call the school. Thank you all for your amazing support of this event. Final totals coming soon!! #cardstudentsareworthit #esed

The Simple Simon's Cardinal of the Month at Williams Elementary is Blakely Henandez! Cardinals of the Month exhibit traits of excellence, integrity, compassion, service, or kindness within their schools! #Cardstudentsareworthit

Again I must say our families are amazing. I had 3 goals for this Read-a-thon. Goal 1: have over 50,000 minutes of reading….we just hit 50,342 as of this evening! Goal 2: Raise more than what we have in the past (over $9000 for the library)…we have surpassed that goal by $2,500!! I can’t even begin to thank you for this. (Hint…we will be getting a fun summer reading program because of this). Goal 3: have at least 300 active accounts…we are currently at 236. It is not too late to activate your child’s account, it is free to do the reading portion. https://www.read-a-thon.com/readers/r/323739373530 Thank you and Happy Reading! Mrs. Dowdle #cardstudentsareworthit #esed

This month's Bethel Brew Staff Spotlight at Folsom Elementary is Jeremy Oxford! #Cardstudentsareworthit

The Simple Simon's Cardinal of the Month at Folsom Elementary is Aubrey Freeman! Cardinals of the Month exhibit traits of excellence, integrity, compassion, service, or kindness within their schools! #Cardstudentsareworthit

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I continue to be blown away by your generosity! Of the three goals I hope to meet we have met 1 already (see yesterday's post). Goal 2: minutes read I would love to see 50,000 minutes we are at 38,000 (we are getting there). Goal 3: to have at least 300 active accounts (even if you just participate in the reading part) we are at 230. Here is the link to activate accounts: https://www.read-a-thon.com/readers/r/323739373530/1 Happy Reading and don't forget to send those pictures! #cardstudentsareworthit #esed

Folsom families and friends: I told you I would come back to the records we are breaking... As of today you have raised more for the library than has ever been done before. If you would like to see where we are check out: https://www.read-a-thon.com/school/_61143 (the library gets 75% of the donations, students get to spend 15% of what they raise). I cannot begin to thank you all for your support. We have a 227 of our 400 students registered (see last post to see how to register). Last but not least we have read over 31,000 minutes...this time last year we were already at 49,000 minutes (we have some catching up to do). I would love to see us get at least 300 students registered and over 50,000 minutes read to break all three records this year. If this were to happen Mrs. Dowdle may have to color her hair Cardinal Red!!! Happy Reading and don't forget to log those minutes and send Mrs. Dowdle pictures! #cardstudentsareworthit #esed

Folsom Families and Friends! You are all amazing! As we enter into week 2 of our Read-a-thon we are about to break some records (more on that in a second!). It is not too late to sign up to participate (whether it is to read or help raise money). Click the link to sign up (students earn a prize by just signing up and reading) https://www.read-a-thon.com/readers/r/323739373530/1 Let's make this a record year! Happy Reading!! Mrs. Dowdle #cardstudentsareworthit #esed

Day 3 of our Read-a-thon and there has been tons of reading going on! This reader is taking advantage of the beautiful weather. Don’t forget to activate your child’s account so they can participate in the reading portion of this activity https://www.read-a-thon.com/readers/r/323739373530 we have just over 200 active and I would love to see that number get at least into the 300s. Our school has read almost 12,500 minutes so far and it is just day 3!! Way to rock it! Thank you for your continued support. Send pictures of your readers to jdowdle@farmcards.org #cardstudentsareworthit #esed