Each month the teachers at French Camp Elementary pick students who have shown good character and name them Little Chargers. Pictured are February Little Chargers: Ace Alexander, Kayla Sillah, Sadie Meyer, Sam Chesteen, Aly White, Luke Dees, Britton Rushing, Nate Banga, Joshua Thomas, Marcus Lacey, Kambrie Perry, Cristina Demecio, Amberlyn Hutchinson, and Anderson Littlejohn.
FCE sixth graders enjoyed the afternoon sun while working review on ratios and equations.
FCE Second Graders enjoyed a Green Egg Snack Friday while listening to Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.
FCE Kindergarten have enjoyed listening to stories being read to them by the big kids!
FCE 5th graders enjoyed a fraction activity involving basketball. Students made their own fractions based on points scored, combined fractions with unlike denominators, practiced using benchmark fractions for comparing, and made a human line plot.
FCE staff and teachers are so appreciative of our parents! They have spoiled us several times this year, and Valentine's was no different! Thank you, parents!
Pre-K enjoys treats from the parents and teachers at FCE.
Kayden Meyer and River Hutchinson work on third grade math review outside after the week of the Ice Storm.
Normal school schedule for Tuesday February 23! Bus drivers will be contacting those where roads still have ice. Parents on those routes you can bring your students, arrange to meet the bus at a safe location or be virtual one more day just notify the school! #ChargingForward
Due to slippery road conditions CCSD will operate on virtual schedule Monday February 22! Faculty and staff please report at 9:30am. Campuses will be open for those that need WiFi but cafeterias will be closed. Thank you for your patience during time!
Due to another round of wintery weather and hazardous road conditions, all CCSD schools will be virtual for Thursday and Friday February 18 & 19! All campuses are closed! Stay safe and warm!
Due to extreme cold temperatures and dangerous travel conditions, All CCSD campuses will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday February 16&17! All classes will meet virtually! We will announce Wednesday regarding plans for Thursday. Stay safe and warm!
Reminder all CCSD campuses will be closed on Monday February 15 in observance of President’s day!
Fifth graders in Mrs. Telano’s class are researching famous African Americans. They will be writing an informative essay and creating a poster or Google Slideshow to display their research.
Sixth graders in Mrs. Telano’s class traded in their hard earned Class Dojo points! Anderson Littlejohn and Bella Davis chose to use their points not for themselves, but to read to our Pre-K and Kindergarten classes. ♥️
They enjoyed this so much, and hope the littles did too!
The French Camp Elementary School 2020-2021 teacher of the year is Mrs. Tami McKnight. Mrs. McKnight began her school career in 1st grade at French Camp Elementary. She says that the influence of stellar teachers such as Polly Allen, Becky Rogers, and Terry Stacy firmly shaped her decision to become an educator. She joined the Choctaw County School District team in 2008 as a 2nd grade teacher at Ackerman Elementary School for one year. The next year she came to French Camp Elementary where she has taught 1st -5th grade ELA and self-contained
classrooms, 7th and 8th grade girls’ PE, 8th grade science and been the reading interventionist and a Beta Club sponsor. In her five years in 3rd grade, she has seen the implementation of the 3rd Grade Reading Gate test and shared in the success of her students with a nearly 100% pass rate. Mrs. McKnight is in her first year of teaching 1st grade at French Camp Elementary. She has successfully made the transition to 1st grade, and she is doing a phenomenal job closing the gap which was made after the students were out of school for five months due to Covid-19. Mrs. McKnight believes that reading is vital to student success in school and beyond, and she is passionately committed to ensuring the reading success of every student that she has the honor of teaching.
Mrs. McKnight says that each year she has been shaped and stretched as a teacher and a person by the students she has been privileged to spend the year with, and the 2015-2016 school year was no different. During that year, two DHS foster children came to be a part of the FCE family and were in her ELA classroom. She says that through the Lord’s leading and mountains of paperwork and red tape, she and her husband became foster parents to them in May of 2016. In December of 2017, their adoption was finalized and they became a family of nine. The process of working with DHS and children in the system has opened her eyes and heart in a whole new way to the unique needs and circumstances of the students in her care, and shaped her into an educator who genuinely treasures not only the minds of children, but their hearts as well. Mrs. McKnight says that being selected Teacher of the Year by her family at FCE is such an honor and the Lord has used being part of the Choctaw County School District to shape her life and the life of her family in ways she never would have imagined.
Pictured with Mrs. McKnight is Mr. Shane Burton, principal of French Camp Elementary School.
Mrs. Perry’s 3rd grade PACE students celebrated National Bubble Gum Day by researching how bubble gum is made, experimenting with how long the flavor lasted and measuring how big a bubble they could blow using different brands of bubble gum. They ended the day completing a gum ball sudoku puzzle.
The French Camp Elementary School parent of the year for 2020-2021 is Mrs. Sherry Curington. Drawing from a love of children and an affinity for hands-on projects, Mrs. Sherry has made numerous visits to the FCE kindergarten class this year and led students in several educational activities. Mrs. Sherry’s projects have included making lemonade for the letter L, constructing homemade paper for the letter P, and manipulating “Rapunzel Hair” out of sugar for the class fairy tale unit. The students love when she comes to visit, and they have learned many things from her this year.
Mrs. Sherry, her husband Mac, and son Jacob, live in Winona, MS, and they are currently in the process of moving to the French Camp community. Mrs. Sherry’s daughter, Crystal Ray, teaches kindergarten at FCE, and her oldest granddaughter, Kinley Kate is a Pre-K student at FCE. Mrs. Sherry also has a second granddaughter, Kambrie, who is 2 years old. Thank you Mrs. Sherry for all that you do for students at French Camp Elementary School!
Pictured with Mrs. Curington are her granddaughter, Kambrie Ray and Mr. Shane Burton, principal of French Camp Elementary School.
The French Camp Elementary paraprofessional of the year is Heather McIntire. She has been a teacher assistant at FCE for three year. Choctaw County School District is where her education began. She started school at Weir Attendance Center in kindergarten and graduated as salutatorian of the first graduating class of Choctaw County High School. She says that Choctaw County Schools have played a vital role in her education and she intends to make the same impact on the students that she has today. She says that each student that she has had the opportunity to work with holds a special place in her heart and that it inspires her to watch them learn.
Mrs. McIntire is kind and compassionate and treats her students as she would her own. She actively seeks to make them not only better students but better people. She goes above and beyond what is expected of her as an assistant. Her students love and respect her. Mrs. McIntire jumps in wherever and whenever she is needed with a smile on her face. She has a servant heart and it shines daily as she works with our students and staff. She says that it is an honor to be the FCE Paraprofessional of the Year.
Pictured with Mrs. McIntire is Mr. Shane Burton, principal of French Camp Elementary School.
French Camp Elementary School recently held an online RADA fundraiser. The students who sold $500.00 in merchandise received a $20.00 Wal-Mart gift card. Pictured are Ace Alexander, Henley Baster, Jace Latham, and Easton Hunt. Congratulations to these students!!!
