Last week 5th and 6th grade gifted students shared a great field trip! Camp Glinodo is located in Harborcreek overlooking lake Erie. It was a beautiful view! It was a little chilly but we were nice and warm inside. We competed in a hackathon against the 6 grade gifted students at FMS and Warren middle school students. The hackathon was focused on trying to combat invasive species. They had to research and develop a prototype. The students won the "innovative impact award!"
Congratulations to our 7th & 8th Grade Robotics Teams for taking 1st and 2nd Place for their Innovation Projects at the FIRST Lego League Robotics Competition held at Penn State Behrend on January 18th. This competition gave the students the opportunity to showcase their months of hard work and made Fairview Middle School very proud. Great job!
Students in Mrs. Yates’ and Mrs. Von Volkenburg’s 5th grade math class used their knowledge of adding and subtracting fractions to find ingredient amounts to create slime! What a fun day with a lot of memories made!
Congratulations to the FMS students who participated in PJAS this weekend. Yuvi Singam, Shri Veeranki, Ray Alkhudari, Lilly Bernstein, Shareen Sheik, Jenna Bull, Maha Rallapalli, and Grace Liu all won first prize. Special congratulations to Grace Liu who had a perfect score!
Mrs. Nicholl’s class was visited by an assistance dog, NASA, and took turns dressing him and brushing him. NASA helps encourage students with their expressive and receptive language, fine and gross motor control, socialization, self-help skills and much more! This learning opportunity is made possible through Fairview’s partnership with the Achievement Center.
Today, 5th grade Lifetime Health and Fitness went snowshoeing with Mrs. Beachly!
For most of our FMS family, it seems like Winter Break just started, but this is a reminder that tomorrow is the last day! Please enjoy these happy memories of just 11 days ago (wow, the time seems so much shorter) with these festive photos. We look forward to seeing everyone back at FMS on Thursday, January 2nd and we wish you all a safe and amazing start to 2025!
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!
