Fairview School Foundation's FHS December student of the month. These students were recognized for our fourth pillar of ROAR, which is Resilience. Congratulations!
While reading the book, The Last Lecture, senior English students practiced Randy Pausch's ideas of teamwork and communication through a series of activities.
Mr. Barbour was a guest presenter in the Law Course this week. He focused on the Supreme Court and landmark court cases throughout the years.
FHS students assisted Fairview Community Council with packing 110 holiday food baskets before leaving for winter break. Thank you to Dr. Katie and all of the generous businesses and community members who donated to make this project possible.
Students will be designing Automata Toys for their final project in Introduction to Engineering Design when they get back from winter break. In order to figure out what 3D printed animal they were assigned, students when through a white elephant gift exchange to find out what animal they got. Good Luck to them all!
Defense Attorney Breyton Graves spoke to Mrs. Nies's Law Class this week on the topics of defense strategy, common crimes and the trial process.
Mrs. Nies's and Mrs. McManus's first period seniors worked together to organize and prepare Christmas food baskets at the Fairview Township building on Thursday.
Music students in the 7th & 8th Grade Band and FMS Choir performed their Winter Concert, "Celebrate December" last evening. The concert featured songs that celebrate Diwali, Chanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas and Winter. Soloists for the evening included Ardra Abi, Jenna Bull and Arianna Herrera.
Sophomore ELA classes created their Lord of the Flies symbolism masks. Students were encouraged to think outside the box and create symbols for the novel through colors, nature, and even movie references. Students also wrote an accompanying essay to explain the symbolism on their masks and how each aspect connects to the novel.
This tree goes WAAAAYYYYYY back to when Carl Servey was the Chemistry teacher. It may even have been in the classroom when he taught HS in what is now FMS.
The ornaments may have been different over the years, but the sentiment is still the same.
Happy Holidays from the Chemistry department!!
On December 14, members of Fairview's Speech & Debate took FIRST PLACE at the 50th annual North Catholic Invitational. Two Tigers earned their third PHSSL bids, both in Student Congress, and therefore have already qualified for the state championships in Bloomsburg next March. What a great day for the team! For more information on individual members, see Dr. Beall's newsletter.
Last week in health and gym, 5th grade was working on their anti tobacco posters. In gym, 5th, 6th, and 7th played gator ball and hand ball this week. It is an awesome game that the kids seem to enjoy.
Attorney Lightner, a prosecution attorney for Erie County and a former Fairview graduate, visited the Law class today to discuss the trial process and provide the students with real-life case examples.
Mrs. Kloecker's 6th-grade computer science class is working in the maker space this week to create computational thinking board games. Students are creating their own boards, game pieces, trivia cards, and directions that model conditional code and review what they've learned in computer science class so far.
Erie County Technical School November Student of the Month. Congratulations!
5th and 6th grade Junior Student Council @FMS participated in Stockings for Soldiers sponsored by Burton Funeral Home. Items were donated and then students were able to stuff the stockings to be given to the residents of the Soldiers and Sailors Home, the VA and a few area nursing homes.
The students in CP Physics class study work, energy and simple machines. Machines are devices that are used to make tasks easier by changing the magnitude or direction of applied force. Using pulleys the calculate the mechanical advantage of the three different class of simple machines.
Students used a choux pastry to make Churros today in Baking Basics!
In recognition of the recent snowfall, Mrs. Huggler’s students engaged in various winter-themed activities within their respective classes. In English Language Arts, the students constructed a penguin and participated in a scavenger hunt to locate concealed winter-themed images. In Mathematics, the students revisited the concept of order of operations through a cryptic visual representation, while simultaneously coloring a snowman by reviewing decimal notation. The other Mathematics class engaged in activities that included snowflake matching, shape counting, and categorization based on type.
Photo 1 had the honor of learning some techniques from Mike Conway Wednesday in preparation for our upcoming portrait project. Mike has spent the last year compiling portraits highlighting the diversity of Erie in his Faces of Erie project.
