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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Last week 7th and 8th grade gifted students traveled to Presque Isle to conduct water quality sampling and analysis. Samples were gathered by students and then taken back to the Tom Ridge Environmental Center where they conducted laboratory tests on the samples to determine the health of the local ecosystem.
Students in Mrs. Hedstrom's ELA class just finished reading the short story "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl as part of their suspense unit. After reading and analyzing the text, students used their creativity (and characterization) to create a WANTED poster that best identifies the Landlady, the crimes she committed, and the reward for any information that could help lead to her capture.
This weekend, 7th graders Lucia Moritz and Chloe Snyder represented FMS at the PMEA IU5 Jr. District Choir festival. The event was held at Northwestern High School and took place on Fri. 11/15 and Sat. 11/16. Lucia and Chloe joined approximately 140 other 7th, 8th and 9th grade choral students from the tri-county area in rehearsals followed by a public performance under the direction of Mr. Zachary Covington.
In Mrs. Flaherty’s 8th grade science class, students just finished up several units on Biology, including cell structure and function, cellular reproduction, and genetics. Students created wet-mount slides to observe various types of cells using microscopes, made edible cell cakes, analyzed a case study regarding cellular respiration, and completed a simulation decoding strips of mRNA codons. Students worked really hard and showed great effort!
Student representatives from 5/6 Junior Student Council helped place the flags for the FSD Field of Flags display in honor of Veteran's day on Monday, November 11. A special thank you goes out to the FMS PTO for organizing this special event
The halls of FMS were decked out in a creative mix of spooky and scary door decor! Thanks to all who participated in the Student Council Door Decorating Contest! Congrats to Mrs Yates tiger time on their victory!
On Tuesday, 5th grade students took a field trip. Those currently in Social Studies visited the Yahn Planetarium.
Students continue t to visit our ROAR store & cash in on their tickets! We have added new items including district tee-shirts and a crew neck sweater. Thank you to everyone who has visited the store so far this year, and we look forward to seeing you soon!
As part of the FMS ROAR program, students could enter a raffle to win the chance to travel to FES to read to younger students.
Mrs. Curren's ELA classes started the year off right! Students were challenged to choose one word as a motivator to have a great school year. #OneWord Project
Students in 8th-grade ELA celebrated the end of their novel study on The Outsiders by participating in Greaser Day. They did a great job capturing the essence of the characters. Teachers had fun participating as well!
The ROAR Store is open for business! Dozens of students stopped down for the grand opening and spent their well- earned ROAR tickets!
Last week in social studies 7th grade students have been looking at global population demographics and graphing the data in fun ways. Students took their data and conducted a data analysis looking for trends and connections across the data set.
The 7th and 8th grade student council elections took place on Thursday! Earlier in the week, over a dozen candidates presented their platforms to their peers. Every candidate would be a wonderful officer! Best of luck to all candidates as we wait for the results!
8th Grade Honors ELA students have been focusing on elements of author's craft. Last week, we applied our understanding of imagery & sensory details to create Paint Chip Poems. This creative writing task was also a perfect time to implement all stages of the writing process, with a focus on prewriting and peer review.
