Congratulations to Josh Novakoski, Anthony Jarecki, and Isaac Yochim who were awarded third place for their creation of the Soil Saver at this years 2024 STEM Design Challenge in Edinboro. Students were prompted to identify a problem facing Pennsylvania farmers and develop a prototype using only K'Nex pieces that could mitigate the problem.
On Friday, April 12th six students represented Fairview Middle School at the PMEA IU5 Elementary Chorus Fest. Ardra Abi, Hayden Devine, Arianna Herrera, Jaliyah McCall, Chloe Snyder and Claire Thompson spent the day rehearsing with 190+ other fifth and sixth grade students from the tri-county region. The day concluded with a public concert.
Mrs. Carrara's ELA class has been studying poetry. Students followed the traditional requirements for creating Haiku poems. Perfect timing with the total eclipse!
The Chess/Challenge 24 Exploratory ended last week, and the students had a great time competing against each other! The winner from 6th grade was Anthony Kuzmin-Fremer. 8th grade's winner was James Lin. The ultimate winner was a 7th grader, Aaditya Girish. If you are interested in playing more Challenge 24, stay tuned for a school competition in April to see if you qualify for the regional competition in Edinboro on May 22nd! Thanks to everyone who stayed after school and played!
Student in Mr. Cotton's Technology and Engineering class put the finishing touches on their clocks in the time leading up to Spring Break.
The Math Counts State Competition took place this weekend. Two students traveled to Harrisburg, PA to compete on Friday and Saturday against other state qualifiers. Lennon Cook and Grace Liu represented Fairview at the competition and did an awesome job. We are so proud of them!
Students in Mrs. Mummert's 6th grade Music Class have been creating original songs in GarageBand, using the Live Loops feature. Once they have recorded their song, the students learn the steps necessary to manage access and create a QR code for their song. From there, they use a Sound Wave Generator to create a sound wave representing their song. Once all the pieces have been completed, the students use Canva to create a poster displaying the name of their song, its sound wave and a QR code to allow friends and family to listen to their song. Pictured are the posters created by Mini 5.
The fifth grade class recently took a trip to visit the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History. They viewed artwork by some of the most influential artists of all time and took a guided tour focused on cultural history.
Recently, Fairview Middle School students competed in the county-wide Art in the Mansion exhibition, hosted by the Woman's Club of Erie. The show featured artwork from 10 different schools. In the 6th-8th grade sculpture division, Maryn Mackenzie won first place, Rachel Liccardi, Faith Helfert and Jalyn Bull took second place and Caroline Strobel took third place. In the 6th-8th grade 2D division, Greta Naber won first place.
The 7th and 8th grade boys soccer team recently won back-to-back weekend tournaments. The boys defeated North East in the final of the North East Indoor Soccer Tournament and beat Harbor Creek in the final of the Erie City Indoor Soccer Tournament.
A big shoutout to all of the 2024 talent show participants. Thank you for sharing your talents with all of us!
The FMS Career Fair took place on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The event was a huge success! There were 34 organizations represented to the 8th grade class for the morning half of their day. A shout out to all the business who took part in our day. Your commitment to our students is greatly appreciated.
Congratulations to the boys 7th and 8th grade soccer team on winning the North East Indoor Soccer Tournament on Saturday. Over the entire tournament, our winning team scored 24 goals and conceded only two. The boys defeated North East 4-0 in the tournament final.
In Mrs. Flaherty's 8th grade science class, students are currently learning about cell structure and function. They have been hard at work on a lab where they are making slides for different cell types (including onion cells and cheek cells) and using microscopes to identify the organelles that they observe. Everyone has been working very hard!
This year, with the help of the Fairview School Foundation, students at FMS had the opportunity to join MathCounts! MathCounts is a national middle school mathematics competition that builds problem-solving skills and fosters achievement through four levels of fun, in-person “bee” style contests. This year's competition took place at Gannon University for students who qualified in 6th-8th grade this past weekend. Great job to Grace Liu (7th), Lennon Cook (8th), Aaditya Girish (7th), James Lin (8th), Chloe Smith (8th), Noah Estrich (7th), Shri Veeranki (7th), and Shoaib Essa (8th) who represented FMS at the competition! Fairview took home 3rd place for the team round, consisting of Grace Liu, Lennon Cook, Aaditya Girish, and James Lin. Lennon Cook took 4th place and Grace Liu took 5th place individually, qualifying them for the State Competition in Harrisburg next month! We also held a school competition for 5th grade students, and are happy to congratulate our winners Jeffrey Lin, Cadan Robertson, Giovanni Imbrogno, Tanishq Sharma, and Nicholas Bloom! We are so proud of all our mathletes that took an interest in this program!
FMS 6th grade class trip to Kalahari.
Several of the ROAR Club members at FMS participated in a community service activity. Students volunteered at Orphan Angels Cat Sanctuary, helping with many cleaning tasks and showering the cats with love and affection.
The FMS Robotics teams, the Fairview Tigers and Cyber Tiger Techs, competed at the First Lego League regional competition at Penn State Behrend on Saturday, February 10th. The teams presented their projects, core values, and robot missions that they have been working on for the past 5 months. Out of 26 total teams, the Fairview Tigers took home 1st place for Core Values and the Cyber Tiger Techs took home 2nd place for Core Values. Congratulations to both teams for a successful season! Go Tigers!
Some students in Mrs. Hedstrom's math class used sweet treats to practice their identification and classification of lines and angles. Students used Twizzlers and Skittles to create lines, line segments, rays, angles, and some 2-D shapes with specific lines. Students enjoyed the hands-on learning, and of course the yummy treat at the end!
Kids from 14 local schools took over the Erie Insurance Arena on Thursday, February 1. Students cheered on the Erie Otters during the annual School Day Game.
But before the puck dropped, some kids were out on the ice, singing not one, but two, National Anthems. These singers are part of the Fairview Middle School Chorus, kicked off Thursday's match-up by singing the Canadian National Anthem and the Star Spangled Banner , all in front of a crowd of hundreds of school-age hockey fans.
