Flat Rock Elementary School

Doughnuts, apples, and coffee… oh my! 🍩🍎☕️ Mrs. Vaughn’s 1st graders celebrated their success with meeting their GEMS (Growing Elementary Mathematicians) goals with deletable doughnuts! 🍩 Mrs. Loftis, Miss Spires, and Mrs. Hall’s K5 students sampled different apples, graphed results, and made apple pie in a cup! 🍏🥧 And we can’t forget about our visit from our favorite, Carita Rose Coffee! ☕️

🏠💵 Our 4th grade students participated in a fun, hands-on project where they created a mini store with items and prices. They used their stores to create and solve two-step problems. This activity helped students apply addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in practical situations, solve multi-step word problems, and practice critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Wow! Way to go, 4th grade! ➕➖✖️➗

Don't forget to pay $1 to wear a hat tomorrow! 🎩👒

SAVE THE DATE. 📚🎃 Your quest awaits... 🏰✨

Congratulations to our August Terrific Kids! 🎉 We’re so proud of these students for shining bright with their hard work, kindness, and leadership every day at Flat Rock Elementary! 💛✨

These students will be recognized at our 1st quarter celebration on October 24th.

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📸 Say cheese, Flat Rock! Picture Day is tomorrow, 9/16! Don't forget to dress your best and bring your smile! 🤍🐯

We can't forget Mrs. Hall's K5 class! Look at those smiling faces! 🍎🍏

September means it’s time for apples! 🍏 🍎 Miss Spires’ kindergarteners enjoyed wrapping up their Apple unit by tasting the folllwing apple flavored foods: apple butter, chips, juice, and cereal. Afterwards, students ranked how much they enjoyed them. Mmm, delicious! 😋

Fun with Phonics on Friday with Mrs. Moore! 🔡✏️

🚗💥 Our 4th graders explored how speed affects energy transfer through collisions! By changing the ramp’s height and the car’s weight, they investigated what would happen to a car at rest. Hands-on science = big discoveries! 🌟🔬

Mrs. Fortner's 3rd graders are steady finding ways to practice their multiplication fact fluency! 🎲✖️

Anderson 3 is proud to partner with local emergency services for our annual school safety walkthroughs. Representatives from Anderson County Emergency Management, Anderson County Fire, including surrounding volunteer fire stations, Anderson County EMS, Iva Police Department, and Anderson County Technical Services, toured our campuses this week with district leaders. Together, they reviewed changes, noted strengths, and identified ways to further strengthen our crisis plans and safety measures. 🚓🚑🚒

What makes Anderson 3 unique is our commitment to inviting emergency personnel into our schools to provide direct feedback on our procedures. This collaboration has become a yearly practice and continues to shape how we refine and improve safety across the district.

This year’s walkthrough highlighted the addition of even more safety cameras, fencing, equipment and other improvements. Dr. Nixon, Deputy Superintendent, mentioned this year's application for state Building Safety Grant Funds included ballistic film for exterior windows and doors.

We are grateful for the expertise and dedication of our community partners as we work together to keep our students and staff safe. 🏫🔒

Big cheers to our Flat Rock Elementary stars who aced the SC Ready test with PERFECT scores! Axton Senn and Karter Wentzky truly “SC-shined” and showed what it means to rock the test at Flat Rock! 🌟👏

🍂✨ Our September Newsletter is here! Check out all the fall fun, important dates, and reminders to keep your month running smoothly at Flat Rock Elementary. 🍁📚

Our 3rd–5th grade mathematicians are hard at work! 🧮✨ With a focus on hands-on activities, students are exploring math in meaningful, engaging ways that bring learning to life.

🎲 Games with Grandparents! Join us September 25th in the gym during your grandchild's Related Arts time for board games, pickleball, coloring & more! Free coffee and a water bar will be provided for grandparents, and concessions will be on sale for students! 💛

Related Arts times are listed below:
K4 & K5: 9:00-9:45
1st Grade: 9:50-10:35
2nd Grade: 10:40-11:25
3rd Grade: 1:45-2:35
4th Grade: 12:50-1:35
5th Grade: 12:05-12:50

✨🦔 Meet Quillo, Miss Cobb’s spiky little study buddy! He’s been “hedging” his bets on 3rd grade math and loves watching students solve problems with sharp thinking. Way to quill it, 3rd graders! Your math skills are on point!

📚🐹 Meet Meeko! 🐹📚 Mrs. Vaughn’s 1st grade class has a new furry friend who has quickly become part of the family. Meeko joins them for read-alouds, activities, and all the excitement of first grade life. At this rate, we might need to go ahead and add sweet Meeko to the class roster! 💕✏️📖

What’s in the box?! 👀 Our 4th graders completed Fear Factor themed science experiment last week! Students braved mystery items while practicing how to describe them using qualitative and quantitative characteristics. 🔬 Would you be brave enough to take on this challenge?

Second week snapshots, including a visit from our Teacher Cadets at CHS! 📸