From the Director

Hi FFAM families. I pray that everyone had a very blessed Christmas and is ready for an AMAZING New Year!!! I wanted to remind all of our students we will begin classes back on Tuesday, January 3, 2012. We will begin teaching our dances for the recital in the New Year. If you have NOT yet paid your recital costume fees, please pay them ASAP. They were due on Dec. 15, unless you have spoken to me in regards to paying them after that date. In addition, some people still owe for the T-shirt and skirt worn at the Christmas Performance at The Avenues Mall. If you have NOT paid for these items, please pay them ASAP.

There is one change for the classes in the upcoming year. Kelsea Gutierriez, our Tumble Teacher will only be able to teach on Monday's now. I will be taking her place on Tuesday's teaching the Pre 2 age group and on Wednesday's there will NO LONGER be a 3:45-4:30pm Tumble class. ALL students (Beg B and Int/Adv) will come at 4:30-5:15pm for their Tumble class. If this is a problem for your child, please let me know ASAP so I can try and assist in any way possible.

Thanks and as always, if you have any questions, please contact me via Email at Rfras1@aol.com.

Blessings,

Rhonda Surber, FFAM Dance Director

Dates and things to Remember

NO DANCE CLASSES Wednesday, Nov. 23 or Thursday, Nov. 24 in lieu of The Thanksgiving Holiday.

We will resume classes on Monday, Nov. 28 and continue through Dec. 1. This will be our last scheduled class for 2011.

We will then take the WHOLE MONTH of December off and resume classes on January 2, 2012.

There is NO TUITION due for the month of December. However, we do ask that you pay your child's recital costume fee in December.

The cost of costume fees are $50 for all the Pre 1, Pre 2 and Pre 3 classes.

The Beg A, Beg B, Intermediate and Advance classes recital costume fees will vary according to how many classes your child takes.

Avenues Mall Christmas Performance

It is already time for our Christmas performances at the Avenues Mall!

We will be performing at the mall December 6th @ 6:30pm.

These are the classes that will be performing:

Beg A Ballet (class is on Monday, 5:30-6:15pm)

Beg Lyrical (class is on Tuesday, 6:15-7pm)

Intermediate Tap (class is on Thursday 6-6:45pm)

Advance Tap (class is on Thursday 4:30-5:15pm)

Advance Lyrical (class is on Thursday 3:45-4:30pm)

Advance Jazz (class is on Thursday 6-6:45pm)

The Beg A Ballet class will be wearing a short sleeved black leotard, black tights and "snowflake skirt". We will be ordering the skirt from Liberts and the cost is $5.00.

The remaining classes will be wearing a red studio dance t-shirt and black leggings. We will be ordering the t-shirts on Friday, November 18th. The cost of the shirt is $12.00 and we will need to know the size to order for your child.

Any and all are welcome to order the t-shirts! Please let a member of the staff know if you or any others are interested in ordering along with your size.

Please let Rhonda or Melissa know if you have any questions regarding the performances or "costumes".

We are so excited to see all our wonderful dancers perform! 

Bake Sale

Bake Sale

November 14th-17th

Sign-up for donations will begin

November 7th-10th

       ☺Donated items may be homemade or store bought.☺

All proceeds go toward the Dance Ministry. 

Director's Hours

These are the are the hours that Rhonda will be available at the studio:

Tuesday - 3:30-4:30

Wednesday - 4:00-5:15

Thursday - 5:30-6:45

As always you can contact her outside the studio via email or phone:

705-6027 & rfras1@aol.com

October News

Our first month of dance at FFAM has already come and gone. It has been a great kick off so far. We are BUSTING at the seams of our Tumbling Tots, Pre 1, Pre 2 and Pre 3 classes. What a blessing that is. The only sad thing is having to turn away interested students for those classes.  If you have other friends/family interested in enrolling their children in that age group, please let them know we are full at this time. We do have room in our Beg A, Beg B, Intermediate and Advance classes. 
We would like to personally thank all of you who have been flexible to change days or times due to class changes. As we have said in the past, FFAM is a ministry first and a dance studio second. We will sometimes have to make changes to accommodate our growth and I appreciate in advance your understanding of this.
Our first shoe came in and they all look great. We now have sizing kits for tap, ballet and jazz for children up to size 3. We are going to be ordering larger sizing kits in the future. We have to make some exchanges for those that didn't fit, so if you would like to place an order please email Melissa (blissfamily3@bellsouth.net) or Rhonda (rfras1@aol.com) to see if we have already done so. We are able to place orders at any time, but if we don't have enough others looking to order you will be responsible for the cost of shipping.

Dance Shoes...

We are now selling dance shoes!!!

We are purchasing these through a wonderful dance company, Revolution. Please contact me, Melissa, @ blissfamily3@bellsouth.net to order or for more information.

Please read...

Notice to Parents:

We changed the day of the Pre 1 (3-4) and Pre 3 (5-6) classes. Pre 1 will now attend on Wednesday's from 3:30-5:00 and Pre 3 will now be on Monday's from 3:30-5:00. This was done in regard for those children who will be attending Kindergarten. It may be difficult for them to go to school all day, then dance for a hour and a half and then to any Wednesday night church activities.

We are very sorry if this inconveniences anyone. We look forward to seeing many of you this Saturday at registration from 9-12 at the dance studio.

From the Director

Hi FFAM families. Hope you all are having a blessed, safe and happy summer!!! We had dance camp last week at FFAM and had a GREAT time. We had 40 children in our morning session where we taught 3-7 yr olds tumble, ballet and had devotion time with art and crafts. In our afternoon session we had 12 girls ages 8-14 who participated in tumble and lyrical, as well as 3 boys who participated in tumble. Our focus was on Determination... Hebrews 12:1.

We are now looking forward to our fall classes. We have registration day on Saturday, August 6, 2011 from 9am. - 12pm at the dance studio at Faithbridge Church. If you would like to review the class schedule and tuition fees look under the Studio Information tab at top of blog. During registration we will have an orientation where you can meet with your child's teacher to inquire about their skill level if you are unsure which group they belong in.We will have the orientation beginning at 9am and another at 12pm on August 6th. If you are unable to attend the registration, you will need to contact me at rfras1@aol.com and mail your child's registration fee. You will need to attend an orientation before your child begins classes on September 6, 2011. Time and date of that orientation will be announced at a later time.

In addition, we are considering adding a Hip Hop class for children ages 6-8, ages 8-10 and ages 10-14. If you are interested in your child taking one of these Hip Hop classes, PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP!! We need to add the classes to our schedule. I would like to know the interest of our students before I add it to the fall schedule.

I CANNOT wait to see all of your children this fall. God bless and have a great rest of your summer!!

Blessings,

Rhonda Surber