Progress Reports—Mid – 6 weeks reports will go out on the 19^th of October.

Halloween Activities News—This will be in next Monday’s newsletter.

Head Lice—Remember to check your child for lice.

October 18^th—Earthrise will present a program for the second grade.

Cub Scout Pack 140-- will have its monthly meeting on Monday October 15 at First United Methodist Church at 6:30 p.m. Deadline to register for Nov. 10 trip to Cumberland Caverns is Oct. 15. Cub Scouts is open to boys Grades 1-5. Come and join in the fun. Any questions call Craig Schmitz @ 962-1746.

Girl Scout Juniors—Monday @ 3:00 PM in Ms. Bucher’s room.

Brownie Scouts—Meet Tuesday @3:00 in Ms. Bucher’s room.

Basketball Practice for Girls—3:45-5:15 P.M. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Basketball Practice for Boys—Monday—3:45—5:15 P.M.; Wednesday—5:30 –7:00 P.M.; Friday--3:45-5:15 P.M.

Jr. Pro Basketball signups—will be at North (Scott) Jr. High cafeteria on Monday, October 15^th from 6-to 8:30 PM and on Tuesday October 16^th from 6-8:30 PM. This is for ages 8-16 as of Jan 1^st, 2002. A copy of your child’s birth certificate and a $10.00 sign up fee is required. For more information, call Bobby King @ 967-9366.

More information on tryouts later.

Parenting Skills Training for Franklin County Parents—Jim Williams, director of Parent Education and Asset Development for STARS (Students Taking a Right Stand) will be teaching a parenting course this fall for Franklin County parents. These courses will begin on November 19^th at 6:30 P.M @ Clark Memorial School. The other two dates are November 26^th and December 3^rd. More information will follow on this program.

Parent Opinion Survey—As we are working on our SACS accreditation, we would like some input from the parents. Please fill out the survey that was sent home with your child on Friday and return it to your child’s teacher. We do value your opinion. We have a treat for all that return the survey.

Cafeteria—We welcome your visits to eat with your child. Please call the cafeteria @ 962-2320 to select what you would like to eat. Salads are available only if ordered ahead of time. Ms. Jones

BPTO—October 23rd—6:30 P.M.--VERY IMPORTANT MEETING--Committee members are urged to be at this meeting. We need to start finalizing plans for the Harvest Festival. Mark your calendars—Nov. 17^th is the day of the Harvest Festival. Lots of activities planned.

School pictures—Will be back soon, we do not have a definite date.

Library News-- We will begin a fundraiser to buy much-needed AR books for our library tomorrow.  This will be a magazine drive and I would like to encourage all parents, family members, and friends of students to help make this a successful one.  Sydney Stovall, Nicole Stines, Ashley Walker, and Chris Walker have donated books to our library from their home collections.  Thank you!

Test Day—The fourth grade classes will be taking the Otis Lennon test on Wed. Oct. 17^th—Please make sure that your fourth grader is at school on that day. There is no make up day for these tests.