"Mission Possible" Writing Assignment

TODAY AT 8:30 am: Students in grades K-5 are working on their writing skills for our new "Mission Possible." Each month a day is chosen randomly and a topic is given - today's was read to the students by Miss Lizzie Swiersz, winner of the January writing assignment. When the time comes, Mr. Mitchell asks the students to put all their work to the side, watch the announcement on the TV (To the "Mission Impossible" theme), and then they have 45 minutes to organize their thoughts and write their assignment. From grade level to grade level, teachers are working with our students to help improve on their story writing/expository/essay writing skills.  


The students with the best papers from each class in January were:

K –K- Arden Wheeler

1^st grade – Jackson Miller

2^nd – Jessica Purves

3^rd –Drew Keller

4^th – Lizzie Swiersz

5^th - Aidan Bennett

Today's assignment was: We all have games that we enjoy playing. Before you write, think about one particular game that you enjoy playing. Now explain why you enjoy playing that particular game.

 

S Is For Scrambled

PK4A students focused on eggs and scrambled eggs this morning! Miss Schreiber read them a book featuring eggs, each student was able to crack an egg and Miss Lourdes was ready to cook the eggs - scrambled for the letter "S".






"Oh the humanity..."






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Congratulations Malyia!

Congratulations to Malyia Madden, sixth grade, who won third place in the Middle School Division (6-8) of the Burrowing Owl Festival 2012 Art Contest. Malyia will receive a check for $10.00 and a one-year free family membership to Cape Coral Friends of Wildlife. (her drawing is in the middle of the picture, blue ribbon) - Mrs. Sue Sinex, Art Teacher

And the Results Are In:

This in from Miami and the Association of Christian Schools Speech Meet:

The highest score, "Superior", went to: Chaz Roark, Tori Weller and Sarah Swiersz!

Tyler Williams, Avery Praxaya and Edwin Fenelus received a "Good" mark for their efforts.

GREAT JOB EAGLES AND MRS. MITCHELL - THIS WAS OUR FIRST YEAR OF TAKING MIDDLE SCHOOLERS TO COMPETE! 

More breaking news: first grader, Kaatja VanZanten won first place for first grade at the Association of Christian Schools Spelling Bee!

A Busy Day!

WOW - what a busy and awesome Friday:

Middle school science class is dissecting frogs:

We have middle school students at the ACSI Speech Meet:

We have elementary students at ACSI Spelling Bee:

First graders at Frontier Day:

Grandparent's Day 2012

FMCS welcomed over 200 grandparents today on our campus for our annual Grandparent's Day. We continued with our "Make Your Mark" theme and honored all those that served in the military. What a blessing to have all these great people on our campus - we are thankful for the difference they are making in our children and in our school!

Guest Speaker in Middle School

As an introduction to their "Flight" unit, Glenn Firth of ACI Charters spoke to the 6th graders about flying a small aircraft  focusing on using their map skills including latitude/longitude, reading maps and filing flight plans - Mrs. Mitchell, middle school teacher 

ABC WRAPPING UP

ABC - anti-bully campaign is wrapping up this week in middle school. Our students and their bible teachers have studied bullying, worked on a project, discussed causes, how to handle it, and how to stop it. Today, John Davis and Wendy Davis, from our campus technology staff are helping us address cyber bullying. Pray for our kids and the pressures they face these days.


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Third Grade MOSI Trip II

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Third Grade Field Trip

Great opportunities for the third graders today on the field trip to MOSI in Tampa.










GO MRS. TUMA!

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Blast Off!

Sixth graders are working on Making rockets to explain Newton's 3rd law of motion.





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Guest Alumni Speaker in Chapel

Today we were blessed to have Derek Anderson speak to our middle schoolers. Derek graduated from FMCS, attends FH High, captain of their football team - and proud to be a Christian!


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The Flag Goes Back To....

...second grade for their stewardship at lunch time last month!


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Digital Learning Day

Across the nation, February 1st was Digital Learning Day. A recent quote is an eye opener:

January 2012, Google Chromebooks Group Product Manager, Rajen Sheth:

"How many of you," he asked, "remember the world before the Web?" Nearly every hand in the room went up. "It's interesting," said Sheth, "Not long ago it occurred to me that this year's graduating class of high school seniors will be the first group of students to not know the world before the Web. Every student in every classroom from here on out will be part of the Web generation." That, he said, has serious implications for how we educate.

Here some examples of how our teachers integrated technology in the classrooms:

PK3, Mrs. Peek: with the use of the iPad2, we watched Animal Planet’s video shorts of actual black bears getting ready to hibernate.  Ended with Sesame Street’s word of the day- Study on hibernation. 

K, Mrs. Weber: We researched online how to make a robotic device, researched online, then created our own on paper. They thought it was cool. 

2nd grade: activities using a new Brightlink interactive projector - more news on that coming soon! 

4th grade: virtually dissecting an owl pellet in preparation for dissecting an actual owl pellet Thursday.

5th, Mrs. Couch: used the website, www.classdojo.com - a new interactive, real time, behavior management system.

NJHS Leadership Academy

Many thanks to our guest speaker today, Pastor Will Hutcherson from Next Level Church.


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