Fall River Elementary Newsletter

Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, There has been an interesting phenomena across the United States since the COVID pandemic: daily school attendance has dipped.  In fact, one of the most recent reports from the National Center for Education Statistics stated that the average daily attendance rate in US schools is only about 90%. In […]

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Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, With the recent snow, we’ve had an up-tick in parents dropping items off for their children at the front office during the school day.  Drop offs of gloves, snow boots, ski pants–and even water bottles have been pretty frequent.   With this year’s focus on Courage and Character, […]

Fall River Elementary Newsletter

Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, In my old gray haired principal opinion, the best years of our lives are the years spent as parents of our elementary age kiddos.  And believe me, these years go by fast. This holiday break represents the half-way point of this school year.  Yes, this year is […]

Fall River Elementary Newsletter

Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, Just a quick reminder, we are right in the middle of our holiday canned food drive.  The competition is too tight to determine just yet, but I can say we’ve got a half-dozen classrooms in position to take the traveling trophy this year, and the pizza party […]

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Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, I hope you had a great time at Winterfest.  We had no idea we would have the huge turnout that we had.  After counting up all the cups of hot cocoa we, unofficially, counted over 600 people in attendance.  Not too shabby considering we were predicting about 200.   […]

Fall River Elementary Newsletter

Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, We will be kicking off our annual food drive at our Fox Winterfest on Wednesday, December 4.  Every year we work together to donate canned and boxed food items to help community members in need.  Last year our Fall River families raised over 10,000 items!  Here are […]

Fall River Elementary Newsletter

Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, We are sometimes asked for recommendations to share with parents about the appropriate use of technology at home. Though technology is a highly effective learning tool—especially in a STEM based setting like Fall River—it is very important to maintain a healthy balance at home when it comes […]

Fall River Elementary Newsletter

Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, Our theme this year is Courage and Character.  Our foxes know that courage means having the willingness to try hard things.  They also know that character means never giving up–even when things get hard.   Our Spirit of the Golden Fox award recognizes students who have done an […]

Fall River Elementary Newsletter

Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, Wow, the Halloween Parade was awesome and the kids looked great! Thanks to our entire Fall River Family for coming out to support the festive day with all of the students. Don’t forget Wednesday is a Late Start day. Onward and upward! Quinn O’KeefeFall River Principal PICTURE […]

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Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, One celebration and one reminder: 100% Turnout! Once again we had a 100% turnout for our Fall parent/teacher conferences three weeks ago.  I’d like to offer a giant thank you to all of our families for working so closely with the Fall River team to support all […]

Fall River Elementary Newsletter

Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, We are super excited to announce our Halloween Parade coming up on the morning of Thursday, October 31.  We encourage all of our parents to attend and have fun cheering on our costumed foxes. Here are the details: * The parade will be held outdoors–weather permitting–and will […]

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Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, The Fall River team has been working hard at raising the bar with our STEM learning experiences.  As I visit classrooms, I’ve noticed quite a bit of excitement across every grade level.  When kids engage in high level experiences to stretch their critical thinking skills, their confidence develops.  […]

Fall River Elementary Newsletter

Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, Well, a deal is a deal.  Our foxes earned it. Onward and upward! Quinn O’KeefeFall River Principal KidZing at Homecoming! Our very own KidZing Choir, along with other local choirs, will be singing the National Anthem at the Skyline Homecoming football game tonight Friday, October 4th. We are really excited […]

Fall River Elementary Newsletter

Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, Just a few quick reminders as we head into the weekend. Fox Trot We had our most successful Fox Trot ever!  We surpassed our goal and raised a record $57,807!  This means our kids will continue to have our expert reading interventions, field trips, STEM materials and more.  […]

Fall River Elementary Newsletter

Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, Holy cow!  We did it!  We met our goal of raising $50,000! Talk about Courage & Character; our foxes showed so much heart today! Together we were able to pull off one of the greatest Fox Trots ever.  Congratulations, everyone; we’ve earned the Ultimate Fox Party! See […]

Fall River Elementary Newsletter

Courage & Character Hello Fall River Fox Families, The biggest event of the Fall River year is right around the corner.  It’s our annual Fox Trot fun run.  This event is a long standing tradition that has come to be regarded as a Fall River rite of passage.  The Fox Trot is a community celebration […]

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Dear Fall River Parents & Students, Welcome to the 2023-2024 school year!  We are so excited to get started into another year of cutting edge exploration and learning.  Teachers have been working hard to set up colorful and inviting classrooms, and planning fun learning experiences to set all of our Foxes on this year’s path […]