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Please
note: contracts and payments are due June 1, 2005.
Academic Technology
“Top Ten”: Please check out our “Top
Ten” list of websites. This month features “
ATTENTION – Senior Parents and students
The College Counseling Office is in the process of collecting
scholarship data to be printed in the graduation program. We include both
scholarships offered and accepted as well as scholarships offered and not
accepted! We need to know the exact name of the scholarship, college or
university, corporation (or other entity) offering, and the amount granted.
Please be sure that we have this information as we do not want to omit any or
to have incorrect information in the program.
Thanks,
Pattie Stoltz,
Director of College Counseling
AP Exams
began Monday, May 2 and run through Friday, May 13. AP teachers will let
their students know the time and location of their exam. All but four of the AP exams will be held at FCDS.
The four held off-campus will be at
Upcoming
Deadlines for SAT/ACT Testing are:
When registering, please always
include the ETS/College Board code for
FCDS: 344421
(This ensures your scores are sent to the school and included on
your transcripts.)
SAT Registration
Registration
Deadlines
Scores
Available Scores
Test
Date
Regular
Late*
Online/By Phone Mailed
June 4 4/29 5/11 6/20 7/1
*SAT late registration fee of additional $20
Registration for the test is now available online at www.collegeboard.com.
ACT Registration
Test
Date
Registration
Deadlines
Regular
Late*
June 11 5/6
5/7-20
*ACT late registration fee of additional $17
**Optional writing portion available for the first time and on
all future ACT dates.
Please remember to
access the April edition of the Middle School paper at MS
Voice online.
First Grade: First grade continues
to strive to learn as much as we can until June 2! This week we have been reading
about frog and toad in our books. Please remember to read every night at
home. It becomes more fun when it is part of your lifestyle! We are getting
ready to sing at Salemtowne next week. The students have been having fun
learning the songs and singing them with Mrs. Frack. We have all been looking
forward to today – it’s May Day. Don’t forget Friday is a
half day - rain or shine! We hope to see you there!
Second Grade: Second graders have been enjoying the book Charlotte’s
Web by E.B. White in class and various take-home readers for homework.
Next week the second graders will visit The Children’s Museum on
Thursday, May 12 for a tour and program about the Underground Railroad. If
you would like to chaperone, please contact your child’s grade mother.
We have been busy making gifts for Mother’s Day, and we hope all of you
enjoy the weekend with your families!
Art: The students in third
grade have just begun a pastel study of the ocean. They students have learned
how light affects the appearance of the water and how to illustrate movement
in the waves. The contrasting blues and greens help to give their work an
impression of depth. Their pastel paintings, when completed, will have lots
of shells in the sand with water washing up with foam.
Music:
Pre-K: The children love the
new song, “Swimming!” It is a movement song. Each time we sing
it, we get faster and faster. We’re ready to jump in a pool by the time
we’re done! This month we’ll also be using the book/song
“Twist With A Burger!”
Kindergarten: Now that the children have completed the musical and singing for the
nursing home, they have one more big event. They
will be singing the “Goodbye Song,” “It’s Nice To Be
Important,” and the “FCDS Song” for the graduating Seniors
on Awards Day.
First Grade: We were praying for sunshine this Friday for May Day (and we got
it—it just took a little while). On Monday, we will travel to
Salemtowne to sing for the residents there. The children are prepared and
excited to perform next week. They will be singing songs written from 1835 to
the present!
Second Grade: The children learned a popular song of today. It took them about five
minutes to have it down pat. It is the great tune, “Give Me the Beat
Boys.” This group definitely loves to sing!
Science:
Pre-K: This week in Pre-K
science, Mrs. Alley’s class enjoyed taking a nature walk. We discussed
several important scientific words like “ecology,” and
“environment,” before we headed outdoors, then we collected
different nature items, observed our environment, and even listened to our
surroundings to try and name as many things as we could in our environment.
Several students even collected leaves, flowers, grass, and other samples and
made beautiful collages from the objects they found. Some of us really
enjoyed doing “leaf rubbing,” too!
Kindergarten: This week in
kindergarten science, we continued to learn about the different systems and
organs in the human body. We discussed the skeletal system today and added
“bones” to our T-shirts. They are really looking great!
Second Grade: This week we
discovered something else about density…we experimented with various
liquids to see how their densities are different. We noticed that the dense
liquids sank to the bottom, while those liquids that weren’t as dense
rose to the top. Ask your second grader what kinds of liquids we used for our
experiment!
Third Grade: We moved on to our
investigation of the different rock types. This week it was all about igneous
rocks. We learned that there are two kinds of igneous rocks: those formed
intrusively, and those formed extrusively. We had fun illustrating a diagram
of a volcano and observing the differences between some intrusive and
extrusive igneous rocks. Ask your third grader if he or she can remember some
of the examples from class! Don’t forget, the field trip to Reed Gold
Mine is next Friday (May 13). A permission slip and information letter was
sent home in this week’s Wednesday folder. Please return it to your
child’s homeroom teacher as soon as possible.
Fourth Grade: Students finished the
rough drafts of their biome spreadsheets this week. Now, they are busy
working on the final drafts during their computer time. Next week we will
begin our investigation of food chains and webs in preparation for our
upcoming owl pellet dissection. We can hardly wait!
FYI: The next science team
meeting is scheduled for Thursday, May 12.
Technology:
Pre-K Technology:
This week we listened to some circus poems from the book Circus,
Circus: A Book of Poems. The children created a circus scene using
the Drawing For Children
program on their computers. We also finished our Mother’s Day gifts;
the children were very creative with their designs! Hope everyone has a
wonderful Mother’s Day!
Kindergarten Technology:
This week the children practiced typing “Words I Know”
using Microsoft Word. We reviewed font and font size and the children were to
choose their favorite font and start typing their words from a word list
provided. They enjoyed trying different font styles and sizes. We also
completed our Mother’s Day gifts. The children worked hard creating
special gifts for their Moms. Hope all have a wonderful Mother’s Day!