Manners Count!

Fifth graders are all decked out today for their manners/etiquette luncheon today! Many thanks to Mrs. Interbartolo for the training - still important these days!



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Happy Birthday Jesus!

PK4 celebrated Jesus's birthday with - what else? - a birthday party!

Merry Christmas from FMCS

Can you tell it's almost Christmas?



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The 2011 Christmas Program

Mrs. Benjamin and our K-5th grade plus the middle school ensemble presented "The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever."

Gingerbread Houses

Third grade's annual gingerbread house event was today. All the houses will be auctioned off tonight at the Christmas Program. You can see all five houses right now on our twitter account -#FMCSEAGLES








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Christmas Grams

Many thanks to our National Elementary Honor Society and Mrs. Couch for providing the opportunity for students and parents to purchase Christmas grams.








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Preschool Christmas Program

We are proud of our three and four year olds, teachers, and aides for the program in front of parents and friends today!









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Congratulations Alumni

Courtesy of Facebook posts on the evening of December 13th, i read that the following alumni were all accepted to FSU:

- Katie Leigh
- Sarah Branthoover
- Kaysee Donathan

Great job!


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A NEW School Record...Already?

Congratulations to fifth grader, Alanna Dukas, who has already set the school record for Accelerated Reader points in one year! She now has 612 AR points - and it is only December! The past record for an entire year was 594.6.  Amazing job Alana - keep it up!

PK Mission 25:40

Preschool has "pajama day" to represent the "Pajama Project" that provides warm sleepware & nurturing books to children in need. Families brought in 32 PJ's and books so far! THANK YOU!

Heroes Of The Faith

Sixth graders from Mrs. Mitchell's social studies class just turned in their creative reports on a great missionary!

















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Going To The Edison Regional Science Fair!

We are very excited to announce that the following students have qualified to enter their projects at the Thomas Edison Regional Science Fair. This year the event will be held at FGCU on January 14th.

Tyler Goguen (7th grade): "Wood or Aluminum? Which baseball bat works best?"

Austin 0'Grosky (7th grade) : "Does GermX really kill 99.9% of all bacteria?"

Kelsi Bevington (7th grade): "Music to the Ear: Which genre of music has the greatest impact on your hearing?"

Sarah Swiersz (8th grade): "Burning Calories: How much energy is stored in different types of food?"

Butterfly Garden

Today. Becky Bentley, from our home church: First Assembly, came to our hands-on science elective class to help us re-establish Matthew’s Garden located near the middle school building. She is supplying all of the plants and is teaching the kids about butterflies. We have 4 chrysalis and 1 caterpillar. Next week we are going to plant some host plants. Here are  a few pics for you:

Mrs. Stacey Leatherman, Middle School Science

Parent University Christmas Store

Every year our Parent University team provides an opportunity for students to shop for their parents and family! MANY thanks to chairpersons, Sabrina Greene and Addy Tansacha, and an army of great volunteers in the store and wrapping areas! Good report - no one used pepper spray to gain an unfair shopping advantage! (Black Friday current event reference)








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Seventh Grade Projects

Mrs. Mitchell's seventh grade class represented various countries today with posters, artifacts, authentic food and dress:














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Teacher's Convention

Many of our teachers are attending the two day ACSI (Association of Christian Schools International) convention. In this picture, Mr. Blikstad volunteers for an interactive SMARTBOARD lesson.



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Seventh Grade Trip

The Seventh grade is studying history head-on at Medieval Times!















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Presidential Dress Up

The eighth grade class had a presidential dress up day. Mrs. Mitchell had gave them the option to either dress up to represent something about the person, or carry an object that represented the person.

Our two "best dressed" are Herbert Hoover (Gabby Duenas, left) representing the coal miner portion of his life; and dressed in military clothes is President (General) Dwight D Eisenhower (Riley McAtee)!




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Technology Integration

Mrs. Jennings is using PowerPoints and interactive slides to work on second grade vocabulary and verbs.


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PK Harvest Fesitval

Great job Friday by the teachers, staff, parents and students - the weather was fall-like, and the students had a great time with all the interactive activities.

King Richards Prize

The final prize from the Move-A-Thon fundraiser: middle school winners to King Richards in Naples.











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