Flat Rock Elementary School

What better way to wrap up your K4 unit on apples than to create apple pie in a cup? 🍏🥧 Delicious!

On Friday, October 2, we celebrated three of the people who help keep FRES shining every single day! ✨🧹

We are so thankful for Mr. Matthew, Mrs. Elsa, and Miss Madison and all they do to keep our school clean, safe, and cared for. We’d be a mess without you! 💛

Happy Custodial Workers Day! 🧼✨

Fall is finally in the air! Kindergarten students at Flat Rock Elementary celebrated with a Fall Festival where learning was wrapped up in plenty of seasonal fun! From apple picking 🍎 to cow judging 🐄 and more, our little Tigers had the chance to learn, explore, and enjoy everything that makes fall so special.

Sometimes the best learning doesn’t feel like learning at all! 🧡🍁

🍂 Our October Newsletter is here! 🎃 Take a peek at all the exciting things happening at Flat Rock this month—including important dates, Red Ribbon Week, Trunk or Treat, and more! 🧡🖤

Join us at Flat Rock this Friday, October 2nd for "Games with Grandparents" during your grandchild’s Related Arts time! Enjoy games, putt-putt, coloring, concessions, and a visit to our Scholastic Book Fair. 📚⛳️🎨

Check the flyer for grade-level times and details. We are looking forward to welcoming our guests this Friday!💜🎲

We’re excited to celebrate our August Terrific Kids, recognized for demonstrating our Core Value of the Month: Creativity! 💡🌟

👏 Congratulations to these students for thinking outside the box, sharing their ideas, and showing creativity in all they do!

🔗 Click the link provided to view our August Terrific Kids: https://bit.ly/46OJGtW

Today we’re celebrating our 13 incredible teaching assistants who support our K4, K5, and Special Education classrooms each and every day! 💛

From helping little learners grow in confidence to providing an extra set of hands, eyes, ears, and heart, our teaching assistants are such an important part of the Flat Rock family.

Happy National Teaching Assistants Day to a group that truly helps make our school shine! 🌟

Mrs. Fortner’s third graders put the distributive property into action! 🧮✨ Students drew number cards, built multiplication arrays with counters, and then broke those arrays into smaller, more manageable facts. By building, splitting, solving, and recording their thinking, students were able to SEE how the distributive property helps make multiplication easier! 💡➕✖️

Hands-on math = big mathematical thinking! 💙

📚🔎 Putting learning to the test in Mrs. Sears’ fifth grade! 🧪✨ From Literary Elements Bingo to becoming science detectives, these fifth graders have been learning by doing! Students put their reading knowledge to work as they reviewed literary elements through a friendly game of Bingo, then traded their books for investigation tools to observe, investigate, and identify mystery substances during a hands-on science experiment. 🕵️‍♀️🔬 Whether analyzing a story or examining the evidence, these fifth graders are sharpening their critical-thinking skills and having a little fun along the way! 💙💛

🔴🟡🔵 K5 made their mark on Dot Day! 🟢🟣🟠 Our kindergarten students celebrated International Dot Day with lots of creativity, color, and fun! 🎨✨ From one little dot can come a BIG imagination, and our K5 students certainly proved it! We love watching our youngest artists create, explore, and discover just how special their own unique mark can be. 💛

Don't forget... tomorrow is fall picture day! Dress your best! 🍂📸

Rowan Dicce, a first grader at Flat Rock Elementary has been courageously battling Burkitt Lymphoma. After months of treatments, hospital stays, appointments, prayers, and an incredible amount of strength, his family received the news today they have been waiting and praying for:

🎉 ROWAN IS CANCER-FREE! 🎉

We are so incredibly proud of Rowan and the fight he has shown throughout this journey. Our hearts are rejoicing alongside his family, friends, teachers, and everyone who has been cheering him on.

We cannot wait to have you back at The Rock, Rowan! 🐯💪🎗️

Flat Rock is overjoyed to welcome home two of our own who have recently battled cancer: Mrs. Stacie Gibson, 4th grade teacher, and Rowan Dicce, 1st grade student. 💙💚 Both have been cleared to return to school on Monday, September 14, and we could not be more excited to have them back where they belong — with their Flat Rock family. To celebrate their return and honor the strength they have shown, we invite all students and staff to wear lime green in support of Rowan and dark blue in support of Mrs. Gibson on Monday. Let’s fill the halls with love, hope, and plenty of blue and green as we welcome them home. 💚💙

🍂📸 Fall Picture Day is coming! 🍁✨

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, September 16th and come ready with your best fall smile! 🤎📚

🍁 Hello, September! 🍂

A new month means new happenings at Flat Rock! Be sure to check out our September newsletter for school news, reminders, and all the fun ahead. 🤎

And new this month — our full-sized calendar makes it even easier to see all of our upcoming events and important dates at a glance! 🗓️✨

Paper copies will be sent home with students this week. 🍎📚

Another great Football Friday at FRES! 🏈🐅 Good luck tonight! Don't forget, our own Mrs. Carwile and Mr. Gibson will be recognized at tonight's game!

Mrs. Kyle and Mrs. Vice's K4 class say, "Goooo, Crescent tigers!" 💛🖤

One of the most visible transformations from our summer projects has to be the hydroseeding at Flat Rock Elementary! 🌱

Talk about a GLOW UP! The grass is still growing, but talk about a huge improvement! 🤩

Congratulations to Carly Herron our Instructional Coach, on earning her Education Specialist (Ed.S.) degree in Building-Level Administration from Clemson University! 🎉👏 Thank you for your continued dedication to our students, staff, and school community. We are so thankful for all you do for The Rock! 🪨🐯