Today 7th and 8th grade gifted students participated in the Four Seasons of STEM program conducted by the Regional Science Consortium. Students learned how to document shipwrecks by taking measurements used to triangulate and accurately plot points of a shipwreck. They also used grid drawings to recreate diagrams of shipwrecks. The highlight of the day was when they learned to snorkel and SCUBA dive from the instructors of Diver's World in Erie.
Last week, Ms. White's English class worked on visualization and working with poems.
Students were tasked with the activity of taking poetry and adding a scene that depicts what the poet is describing.
Pickleball: The winter session of Pickleball has ended with our 5th grade champions --Ethan Shears & Max Froehlich and 6th grade champions -- Nolan Dzurik & Carter Snoke! Great job to everyone that participated in the bracket!
Today is National Crossing Guard Appreciation Day, and we have one of the best crossing guards around! A huge shout out to Ms. Tina today for always going above and beyond. May she feel our appreciation for her dedication to our students today and every day!
MathCounts Competition: Congratulations to our 8 mathletes that competed last weekend at the MathCounts competition at Gannon University! The top 8 students who represented FMS were Grace Liu, Rayteb Alkhudari, Shri Veeranki, Perry Qiu, Gunnar Carlson, Kadee Qiu, Nick Bloom, and Tanishq Sharma. Fairview took home 4th place as a team, and Grace Liu took home 7th place out of over 120 contestants. Way to go Tigers!
The FMS Choir had a great time at the Erie Otters school day game on February 4th. After giving an exemplary performance of "O, Canada" and "The Star Spangled Banner" the students enjoyed watching the game and participating in the activities. Four of our students even got to play Musical Chairs on the ice between the 1st and 2nd periods; Quinn Gould, Brayden Hadbavny, Molly Murphy and Maha Rallapalli.
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.
