FAME Academy @ Brookhill
Newsletter for Students, Staff, Parents, & Community
Vol. 2 Ed. 18. Week of January 7th
FAME Academy Front Office Staff
Jeff Mathheus, Principal
Katrena Allen, Assistant Principal
Susan Wales, Counselor
Susie Holmes, INOW Specialist
Leah Oakley, Bookkeeper
Shemeeka Yarbrough, Nurse
Welcome Back
FAME Academy Family,
We are excited to see all of our students on Monday January 7th. We have had an exciting and successful first 16 weeks of school. Our teachers have been working extremely hard planning and implementing arts integrated Project Based Learning. This is a new approach to learning for our students that utilizes team work, collaboration, problem solving, and creativity. Thank you to our wonderful parents and stakeholders for your support and involvement with your children in their education journey.We are anticipating a great turnout for our new awards program, The FAME Celebration Day. This day will consist of a Sight Word Parade that will recognize our students that have accomplished their grade level sight words and will be followed by our Student Showcase in our classrooms where students will demonstrate and present their projects they have worked on during the first and second Nine Weeks of school. Our teachers have spent countless hours in training and preparation for the units and activities they have implemented this year with our students on arts integrated Project Based Learning. This has been a great experience for our students to be involved with and to see the amount of learning they have experienced has been incredible.
Finally I am proud to announce that we received an 85 on our State Report Card. We increased our score from an 84 last year. This wouldn't have been possible without the hard work from our students, staff, and parents. The story of our school is more than a report card score. We have students that take pride in their learning, teachers that do more than just teach students, and parents that do whatever it takes to support their children and our teachers. All of those things put together is what makes FAME Academy a special place.
We are looking forward to a successful second half of this school year. Thank you for entrusting us with your children. If there is anything we can do to assist you with your student, please feel free to come by or contact me anytime.
Sincerely,
Jeff Mathheus
FAME Celebration Day
Friday, Jan 25, 2019, 08:15 AM
Brookhill Elementary School, Brookhill Drive, Athens, AL, USA
FAME Celebration Day Sponsors
- Strain and Sons Nursery
- Athens Cinemagic
- Herbs and More
- Abbie Cooper
- Salon Blush
- Phillips Concrete
Thank you for supporting our students and teachers!
Updated FAME Lab Supply Needs
- Large Coffee Filters 7.5 inches
- Condiment cups with lids
- Old fashioned wooden blocks
- Mix & Match Puzzles
- Any Manipulative located in the Target Dollar Section
- Legos- Regular or the Duplo Legos
- Building Blocks
- Storage Containers- Small and Large
- Golf Tees
- Balloons
- Cardboard
- Pony Beads
- Pom Poms
- Sidewalk Chalk
- Jars
- Q-Tips
- Glue
- Pipe Cleaners
- Popsicle Sticks
- Tennis Balls
- Magnets & Magnetic Letters
- Toothpicks
- Straws
- Rubber Bands
- Duct Tape
We greatly appreciate any donations made for our lab. We will have a container outside of the school if you would like to drop off your items. We are excited to have this experience for your students beginning this fall!
Flu Season Information
T.R.A.I.L. Student Art Studio
Spanish Connect Class Information
Latch Key
PTF Membership
PTF Membership is $10 per family. Please send in your money if you would like to join the FAME Academy PTF.
2018-2019 PTF Officers
President- Tricia Biggs
Vice President- Amy Shelton
Secretary- Sommer Goodwin
Treasurer- Cortney Owen
ACS Transportation Information
FAME Cafe Menu's
Breakfast
Lunch
2018-2019 ACS Calendar
2019-2020 ACS Calendar
Important Dates
January
- SCANTRON Winter Assessment (2nd & 3rd Grade) Tues. Jan. 15th & Wed. Jan 16th
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day (No School)- Mon. Jan 21
- Teacher Work Day (No School)- Tues. Jan 22
- 2nd Nine Weeks Report Cards go home- Wed. Jan 23
- 1st Semester FAME Celebration Day & Student Showcase- Fri. Jan 25 8:00-9:30
- Kona Ice- Fri. Jan. 25
February
- Candy Bar Fundraiser Kickoff- Friday Feb. 1
- President's Day- No School for Students- Mon. Feb. 18
- 3rd Nine Weeks Progress Reports- Wed. Feb. 20
- Kona Ice- Fri. Feb. 22
- Winter Book Fair- Week of Feb. 25th
March
- 3rd grade Field Trip- Me...Jane, Tennessee Performing Art Center- Fri. March. 8
- Kona Ice- Fri. March 15
- Spring Break- Week of March 18
Dates and events are Subject to Change