The 8th grade trip to Washington, DC was a huge sucess. Pleae enjoy just a few of the good memories captured over the weekend.
In Mrs. Tost's ELA class, students are learning about Greek or Norse mythology. To better understand the complex stories and characters, students are visualizing their learning! Students have created god/goddess Barbies, structured family trees, designed mythical board games, constructed Greek columns, Norse longboats, and Viking catapults!
Mr. Samples' 7th grade Media Literacy class had their last of six visits/presentations from Erie News Now. All the students asked great questions and got to learn more about interviewing leading into their interview project this week. They got to speak with Anchor Eva Mastromatteo, Assistant News Director Adam Snow, and Director/Photographer Brian.
Mrs. Beachly‘s fifth and seventh grade classes are getting pumped in the fitness room, while using the new exercise bikes that were purchased from Bert’s bike shop. We are very grateful for this addition to our fitness room!
This week, in addition to working hard on the ELA PSSAs, 8th grade ELA students from both Mr. Chevalier & Mrs. Brocious' classes are collaborating to create a research-based documentary. Students are researching museums, monuments, and memorials in Washington, D.C., and using the research to plan and produce documentary videos informing their peers about their chosen topic. Students are loving the chance to collaborate between classes, and are refining their research skills in anticipation of the capstone project research paper!
5th grade gifted had a great time at the KNEX Challenge in Edinboro . There were a lot of schools there! Two rooms had to be open whereas last year only one needed to be open to display our projects. The competition was tough with schools from all of Erie county. We may have not won but we gathered valuable information in order to come back stronger and better next year!
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!
