Cookies and The Holidays

I would like to thank Mrs. Tina Williams, her Cookie Exchange staff, and parents who helped to make our first Christmas Cookie Exchange a success - over 1500 cookies came through the school and out to families and friends!


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A Busy Friday

Friday was filled with all sorts of special events leading up to the Thanksgiving break:

Third grade colonial days:






A special around the world party that featured apple pie sponsored by 5th grade for PK & K








And a special thanksgiving family time in PK4:








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Alumni Volleyball Standouts

College Volleyball
FGCU's Holly Youngquist (Class of 2003) tries for a dig against Campbell in the first round of the Atlantic Sun Volleyball Championships on Thursday, November 19, 2009, at Alico Arena.


Ciara Brown signs with Virginia Commonwealth
On Thursday, Bishop Verot senior Ciara Brown (class of 2006) signed a letter-of-intent to play Division 1 volleyball at Virginia Commonwealth University. Brown, a setter for the Vikings, is the FACA District 16-3A Player of the Year with over 715 assists in the 2009 season.

Christmas Shoeboxes - Mission 25:40

Mr. Mitchell and our NJHS representatives delivered 190 CHRISTMAS SHOEBOXES to the drop off station in Cape Coral! Thank you for your participation and pray for them as they "go into all the world" to reach the children for Jesus.

NJHS Leadership Academy

Every Wednesday our National Junior Honor Society students have "leadership academy" class. They have been learning HOW to lead this year. Today, Pastor Jeff Swearingen, from Crosspoint Christian Church, shared leadership principles with the students.





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Congratulations to Miss Shrader and the 08-09 Yearbook Staff

"Congratulations to Ms. Shrader and last year’s yearbook team. We just received the awards for the ACSI (Association of Christian School International)competition that we enter each year. They received an excellent rating and the award for Best Theme!

What a great way for Jay to end her time as the advisor! Great job!"

Mrs. Stacey Leatherman, 09-10 yearbook coordinator

National Junior Honor Society

Today, November 17th, FMCS held their 22nd annual National Junior Honor Society fall induction. Congratulations to:

- Austin Johnson
- Sarah Mathis

- Anna Rosenblatt

NATIONAL JUNIOR HONOR SOCIETY (NJHS): The Ezra Chapter at Fort Myers Christian School began in 1985 with Ezra 7:10 being the keystone verse: "for Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it...". Chapter officers are elected at the beginning of each school year. All members are expected to uphold high standards of scholarship, service, leadership, character, and citizenship.

Preschool Harvest Fest

A beautiful day to watch preschoolers, parents, family, friends and teachers enjoy hands-on activties centered around the fall and Thanksgiving:

THANK YOU

The fundraising efforts from the Silent Auction are "bringing forth fruit." The first step of improvements has taken place with all new widescreen, flat screen monitors in the Children's Center lab. Next step: replacing as many older computers as we can with the remaining funds in the classrooms. THANK YOU!





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BLESSED By Our Veterans

FMCS does not take Veterans Day off of school - if we did, we would miss out on an awesome day like today! We would miss out on eleven of our nation's finest service men coming in and speaking to our children about their experiences in war, service and committment to our country. Among the speakers today was 90 year old, World War II and D-Day survivor, Jim Pancoast. Let us never forget the price that has been paid for our freedom! Thank you to all of our veterans! Thank you to our National Junior Honor Society for being their hosts today.

(Jim Pancoast with our kindergarten class)

More pictures will be loaded on my blog later today!

Shoebox Construction in Mrs. Jenning's Class

The deadline for Christmas shoeboxes is approaching Friday! Mrs. Jenning's class was busy preparing, securing, and praying over shoeboxes for their donation to Samaritan's Purse this year. THANK YOU

8th Grade Missions Day

Today, the 8th grade missions team took another step closer to their spring missions trip to Corpus Christi, Texas. Students and parents took shifts washing cars and raised close to $700. Students also worked with Mrs. Mitchell for the first time on their dramas. The students did very well today!





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Praise Report From Miss Shrader

"Every year our third, fourth and fifth grade students enter the Lee County Bookmark Contest. They create a bookmark during library class following the guidelines provided by the Lee County Public Library. Every year has a different theme. This year was "Dive Into Reading." Today, Sherry Hill, a librarian from the Lee County Public Library System visited our school to tell us that one of our students won second place! Congratulations, Celina!!" - Miss Jay Shrader, Librarian

Thank You

Thank you to Mrs. Carefoot and the Kindergarten class for bringing the Big Red Bus on campus from the American Red Cross! BIG thanks to all those who gave blood today.







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Character In Action

"The passing of the flag from Mrs. Sanders class who held the reign last month, now passes it on to our our new lunchroom champs this month Miss Mc McLaughlin's class. They were very diligent in making sure they had a clean table and encouraged each other during the NO Talking time (by signing of course) They didn't even give up when 4th grade was ahead of them for a while. Good Job Miss McLaughlin's class on your hard work." - Mrs. Edwards






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Mission 24:40 Assembly

Ft. Myers Christian School officially kicked-off their missions year with the Missions 25:40 Assembly. Each grade has their own mission/volunteer outreach organization to help us be a "light" off of our campus - to the local community and the world. Students also become very educated about each organization and, you never know, they could be working with these organizations some day as adults. Here are this year's organizations:

Preschool: The Pajama Project

Kindergarten: American Red Cross

First: Salvation Army

Second: Senior Friendship Center

Third: WAY-FM and Gabriel House

Fourth: Ronald McDonald House

Fifth: New Missions Systems International

Sixth: American Heart Association

Seventh: The Barnabus Ministry

Eighth: Missions trip, March 31-April6, in Corpus Christi, Tx

All School outreach of this year: Operation Christmas Child. From 2001-2007, FMCS families have donated 2387 shoe boxes! The deadline this year will be November 13th.