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General
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October 8, 2004
Have a wonderful holiday weekend enjoying this beautiful fall weather! See
you back on Wednesday, October 13.
Amanda A. Burton
LS Technology Specialist &
Communications Specialist
Today the faculty,
staff, and Upper
School students
participated in National Lee Denim Day
to raise money for breast cancer research. As of 3:00 this afternoon our
school raised $1,100 for the Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation! Thank you to all who participated and if you wanted to
contribute and were unable to catch up with a member of the Girl’s
Service Club, you can contribute on Wednesday next week.
You are invited to join us for the
traditional SGA/Alumni Association Barbecue on Friday, October 15. We
encourage you to place an advance order. Adult chicken plates are
$8.00, children’s chicken plates are $6.00, and hot dog plates $4.00. To place your order, please e-mail tomhowell@fcds.org.
Annual Golf Tournament
The Parents' Association will sponsor the Annual Golf Tournament on Friday,
October 15, 2004 at Oak Valley Golf Club. The format for this golf tournament
will be a Captain's Choice. Registration will begin at 11:00 a.m. with a noon
shotgun start. The cost is $125/player or $500/team.
Food, beverages, and prizes will be provided. Sponsorships are encouraged and
available.
Please contact Lee Ross (722-7991 or via e-mail at lross@grahamandboles.com),
Jay Mahoney (722-5080 or via e-mail at jmahoney@triad.rr.com), or Todd Hartung (945-2134 ext. 455
or via e-mail at toddhartung@fcds.org) if you would like to participate or
volunteer at this important fund raising event for the Parents' Association!!
Volunteers needed to serve
refreshments at the Storytelling Festival next Thursday, October 14 at
7:00 p.m. Anyone interested can contact Beth Beeler at naturenut@triad.rr.com or
766-2818.
The Parents’ Association will be promoting the sale of
business retail cards in January and February. These cards can be purchased
for $10 each and used at participating retailers for significant savings. We
are currently contacting various retailers to participate in this program. If
you have a business or business contact that you think would be interested,
please call Patty Sytz at 922-5165 or Amanda Burton
at 712-8234.
PicturePerfect Photo Sculptures:
The Parents’ Association is once again sponsoring the opportunity to
create your own personal photo sculptures. These make wonderful gifts!
Photography dates are October 14-16 by appointment. We still need parent
volunteers to help out on Friday. Also, students will be escorted to and
from class for their appointments so parents do not need to be present for
photo appointments. Photos will be delivered by Thanksgiving.
Sally Foster Update
Sally Foster wrapping paper and gifts has generated a net profit of $19,000
for the Parents' Association! This exceeds our net revenue projections
of $13,000 for Sally Foster sales for this year. Special thanks go to Marian
Wilson for chairing this committee, and to her volunteers, Susan Ross and
Karen Joslin, for their assistance. Parents will
receive notification when their orders arrive in the next few weeks. Online
orders of Sally Foster products will continue through January 15, 2005, and
FCDS will still receive 50 percent of the profits from internet sales. Thanks
to everyone who purchased Sally Foster products and thanks for making this a
very successful fundraiser for the Parents' Association!
November 20, 2004 is our Fourth Annual Fury 5-K Cross-Country Challenge.
There will be a one-mile fun run at 8:00 a.m. and the 5-K will start at 9:00
a.m. Entry fees: $15 for the 5-K and $10 for the Fun Run. A portion of the
proceeds benefits Habitat for Humanity and the Youth Build by FCDS students
and other local high school students. The race also benefits the FCDS Alumni
Association, which is organizing the race. Look for more information and
entry forms in the all-school mailing next week.
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Athletics
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Fine Arts
FCDS
wins Private School Exhibit “Best of Show” at the Dixie Classic Fair. For the first time in the history of the Dixie Classic Fair, the
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County private schools were granted exhibition space
along with the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County public schools. Rebecca
Stone-Danahy, visual arts department chair, worked closely with Dona Martin,
assistant fair director, to coordinate the private school exhibits. Participating independent/private schools
from the area included Forsyth Country Day School,
Calvary Baptist
Day School, Greenhills School,
and Triad Academy. FCDS’s
exhibit was chosen as “Best of Show” out of the non-public
schools.
You still have time to see the
award-winning art (located in the Education
Building): the Dixie
Classic Fair will be open all this weekend through October 10.
Congratulations to all of our talented young artists and Rebecca Stone-Dahany for their hard work!
Congratulations to senior Tim Pennell, who was selected for the North Carolina High
School Honors Chorus to be held in Winston-Salem
on November 13 and 14. Only 200 of the best high school singers in the
state were selected to participate in this highly competitive event. Of
all the second tenors who auditioned across North Carolina, Tim came in fifth place.
The concert, conducted by internationally renowned composer Rene
Clausen will be Sunday afternoon, November 14 at the Stevens Center.
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Library/Technology
Students continued to pack the Clay Library, studying,
writing papers, researching (the Japan/China class learned about the best
sites for topics about Japanese culture), reading, and creating Publisher
brochures and PowerPoint presentations. We love to see so many people using
the library—let’s just keep the facility clean for us all to
enjoy. Please remember that there is no food and drink allowed in the
library—this includes bottled water. And if you move the chairs around,
please put them back from where you got them.
 Ninth Annual Storytelling
Festival
October
13-15, 2004
Featuring
Donald
Davis
Family
Night Performance
Thursday,
October 14, 2004
7:00
p.m. Auditorium
Donald Davis was born in
a Southern Appalachian mountain world rich in stories. "I didn't learn
stories, I just absorbed them," he says as he recounts tales and more
tales learned from a family of traditional storytellers who have lived on the
same Western North Carolina land since 1781.
Davis grew up hearing gentle fairy tales, simple and silly Jack tales, scary
mountain lore, ancient Welsh and Scottish folktales, and-most
importantly-nourishing true-to-life stories of his own neighbors and kin.
For Donald Davis,
storytelling is a way of giving and living life. He invites each listener to
come along, to pull deep inside for one's own stories, to personally share
and co-create the common experiences that celebrate the creative
spirit. For Donald Davis, storytelling "...is not what I do for a
living...it is how I do all that I do while I am living."
Check the FCDS Web
Site (www.fcds.org)
for daytime performances on Thursday and Friday, October 14-15
This week in the Jeanette M. Smith Lower School Library,
Pre-Kindergarten students experienced fall stories to ring in the new season;
we read two stories about what leaves and animals do in the fall, and we sang
the song “Autumn Leaves are Falling Down.” Kindergarteners, in
the midst of “D” week, heard the classic P.D. Eastman story, Big
Dog Little Dog, on tape, read the hilarious Chip Wants a Dog, and
sang the catchy song, “I Have a Dog and His Name is Rags.” In
first grade we have been reading alphabet books and studying the concept of
“alphabetical order” in preparation for talking about how books
are organized in the library; this week we practiced putting ourselves in
alphabetical order! Second graders are working hard to learn how to find
books on the library shelves by identifying “neighborhoods” in
the library based on a book’s call number found in the catalog. They
also continue to love using the Accelerated Reader program. Two third grade
classes had booktalks this week, while the rest of
the third and fourth graders continue to enjoy checking out lots of great
books and using Accelerated Reader.
Dates: October 25 - November 2
Times: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Place: Jeanette M.
Smith Lower
School Library
Cash,
checks, and all major credit cards accepted at the fair.
Family Event
“Milk and Cookies
and Bedtime Stories”
Thursday, October 28
6:00-8:30 p.m.
(Coordinates with Lower School Open House)
Drop
in and join us for a bedtime snack and story while you browse the fair!
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Upper School
This is a reminder that the PSATs will be administered to all sophomores and juniors
on Wednesday, October 13 from 8:15 – 11:00 a.m. Students need to
be in their designated rooms no later than 8:10 a.m.
Testing Locations:
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Auditorium: Sophomores with last names A-S
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Lecture Hall: Sophomores T-Z and Juniors R-Z
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Dining Hall: Juniors A-Q
HabitatForsyth’s Second Annual YOUTH United Build
is being led by high school seniors from Bishop McGuiness, West Forsyth, R.J.
Reynolds and Forsyth Country Day
High Schools. These energetic and dedicated students are spearheading a
county-wide effort to raise $50,000 to support the hard construction costs of
a Habitat home.
On Saturday, October 9, 2004, youth
leaders involved in this year’s YOUTH United Build will host a special,
hands-on event for the children of Habitat homeowners. A central tenet of the YOUTH United
initiative involves creating projects that provide
meaningful opportunities for Habitat homeowner children to be a part of the
project. Audrey Dalton and her two young children, Sayyid
and Syasia, are the future homeowners of the
Habitat home presently being funded and built by YOUTH United enthusiasts in
2004.
The walls were raised on the Dalton
home on October 2. The home is presently under construction on Humphrey Street
in the historic Happy Hill Community.
To comply with Habitat’s strenuous safety guidelines, construction will
cease from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. on October 9 for this special
event. Each child, under careful supervision from youth builders, will paint
his or her hand and place it upon the wall of the home. The child will then
write his or her wish for the family in the handprint.
Later in the building process, the walls will be insulated and sheetrock will
cover the messages. The homeowner family will always know that the
handprints, big and small, and placed with much love and joy, are still there
with their messages of inspiration. These messages will be an integral
element in the building of their new home. During the event, homeowner
children also will be creating a special hand banner for the Dalton home.
Habitat’s YOUTH United Home
will be sold, at no profit, to this hardworking, low-income family. Students
aged 16-18 from Bishop, FCDS, Reynolds, and West will work in partnership
with the homeowner family, faculty from both schools, and the Habitat
construction staff in building the home during their fall break, October
11-15 and Saturdays thereafter until the home is completed.
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Middle School
The 8th grade
Girl’s Service Club will be holding a car wash Saturday, October 16th. The
car wash will be held from 10-2 at the Norman Stockton building on Stratford Rd. The
car wash is free and donations are welcome. Please come out and support our
students. We hope to see you there!
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Lower School
Pre-K - Second grade will participate in the annual CROP Walk to raise money for people in need of food. One quarter of the money
goes directly to Crisis Control, The Samaritan Inn, Sunnyside Ministry, and the
Second Harvest Food Bank. The need is great. At Crisis Control alone, the
requests for food are up by 38 percent. The rest of the money goes overseas
to assist countries in empowering their people to meet their daily needs of
food and shelter.
We will be hosting our CROP Walk at Forsyth Country
Day School October 14 and 15.
The students will run on the Childress
Center’s indoor
track during their PE period. We are asking families to donate $1.00 for each
lap their child runs. Pre-K and Kindergarten will be running a maximum of
five laps and first and second graders will run a maximum of 10 laps. As you
can imagine, once we add Pre-K-second grade’s laps and monies together,
Forsyth Country Day School
will make a difference in someone’s life.
On the day of the event, your child will receive a pledge envelope and a
letter noting the number of laps he or she ran. We would like you to place
your pledge money in the envelope and return it to school. Checks can be made
out to: Church World Service.
Please note we are not encouraging students to seek donations outside their
family. On Monday, Oct. 25, Pre-K through-second grade will present a check
to Peggy Dayton, chairperson of CROP
Walk.
Pre-kindergarten: This has been Review Week for the Pre-K classes. We
have introduced the letters M, T, F, and H and we are taking some more time
to visit with these Letter People. We have also been doing fun things
learning about our new season. We have painted fall leaves and trees and cut
out different colors of leaves. We have been on a Fall Hike to see how things
are changing around our school. We also have been singing songs about fall!
Next week, we have a couple of days for break and then we come back to see
our friend Mr. N.
Kindergarten: Dads are Delightful! We have had a wonderful week in
Kindergarten! We began our dads’ visits to our classrooms on Tuesday.
This is a kindergarten tradition at FCDS. We have been doing this as an
activity for the Dd letterbook
for more than 20 years. It is such a special time for each child—to
have his or her dad talk with the class about what he does at work and/or
other interests he may have. The children come up with some great questions
to ask! We will complete these visits next week after fall break. As we work
in the D Letterbook, we are also learning to sound
out words like “dog” and “odd.” In math we are
playing with dominos and graphing DooDads. Moms,
your time will come in the spring when we begin the Mm letterbook.
First Grade: First grade had a
great time on Friday at the Apple Orchard. We saw how apple juice was made,
which was fun! We also went for a hay ride and picked a bag of our own apples
to take to our friends and family. It was a great day!
This week we have been
reading about corn and how it grows. We took a vote and our favorite kind is
popcorn! We are getting ready for harvest with our apples and corn.
Second Grade: The second graders have been learning about Christopher Columbus in
preparation for the holiday next week. This coordinates with our study of
continents and oceans. In math, we have been doing a great job with our
weekly tests on addition facts. Keep practicing nightly! Enjoy the cooler
temperatures and have a safe Fall Break!
Third Grade: This week we wrapped up
Social Studies Chapter 2 about what unites Americans, national symbols, and
the three levels and branches of government. Please take every opportunity to
discuss current events regarding the election and our system of government
between now and November 2; one opportunity would be letting your child
accompany you to the polls.
Fourth Grade: In The Lion, the
Witch, and the Wardrobe, fourth graders completed their journey to Narnia by eating authentic Turkish Delight. Some of them
enjoyed the different flavor of Turkish food; however, most were not as
enthusiastic about it as was Edmund. Drop by the library in two weeks to see
their wonderful castles and wardrobes.
Art: The students in third grade have been researching their heritage and
collecting information in their regular classrooms. From this information,
the students have brought their ideas to art to create their own
“Ancestor Doll”. Through wire, wood, and papier-mâché, their
dolls will reflect a past relative whom they have researched.
Music:
Pre-K: It’s a new month so that means new songs.
We are singing songs about apples and pumpkins. “A P P L E” is a great song to teach children how to
spell apple!
Kindergarten: “There’s an Alligator in the
Elevator” is such a cool song. This wonderful rhyming tune is written
in a minor key which gives it a different feel. The children are counting the
floors on the elevator stops and hoping not to get eaten by the alligator.
First Grade: The first graders will probably be singing for the
all-school Thanksgiving Day program. We began this week to learn an African
piece called “Amani Utupe.”
It’s a song asking for peace and courage. The children already have the
long African phrase memorized. They sound wonderful!
Second Grade: We read the book “The Diary of a Worm.” This is such a
funny book about worms. It talks about the life of a worm and its importance
to the earth. Then we sang the song, “My Roots Go Down.” This
song stresses the need for trees and plants to have strong roots for a stormy
day. We also need strong roots in our families to support us on weary days!
PE: PE classes for grades Pre-K-2 will be
participating in Crop Walk on October
14 and October 15. The event
will take place on the Childress track during each grade’s PE
class. PK and first grade will run on Thursday, October 14, and
Kindergarten and second grade will run on Friday, October 15. Mrs. Chance
apologizes for the confusion in the letter sent home in Wednesday’s
folder. Thank you for supporting this special community event.
Science:
Pre-K: Mrs. Alley’s class came to science and we learned all about
color. They enjoyed reading the book, Samuel
Todd’s Book of Great Colors. Then we discussed three important
colors: red, yellow, and blue. We learned that these three colors are called
the primary colors of paint, because these colors combine to make all other
paint colors. We then experimented by mixing our own colors. Children did a
great job on their first lab sheet of the year and keeping a record of the
new colors they created.
Kindergarten: We continued to learn about air this week. We
learned an important concept about air; that is, that hot air rises, makes things expand, and weighs less than cool air.
Cool air makes things shrink. We read the book Hot Air Henry, which is a great story about a cat that gets lost
in a hot air balloon and has many wonderful adventures, plus we thought about
the cat’s balloon and what makes a hot air balloon work. We loved
experimenting with the ideas of cool air by putting a balloon in the refrigerator
and then measuring it to see how it changed in size. Ask your kindergartener
what happened!
First Grade: Our first grade botanists are observing
their lima bean seeds. We discovered that seeds do not germinate in the cold
and without water. Some of the students were surprised to discover that seeds
will germinate in a dark closet as long as they are watered. We viewed a
video on plants and seeds.
Second Grade: We took on the role of a paleontologist this week in
second grade science! We learned about the job of a paleontologist and some
of the tools they use to help them excavate fossils. We discussed some of the
different types of fossils that paleontologists find. Then, students had the
opportunity to really “dig for fossils” on their own. Whatever
they uncovered, they got to keep. Be sure to look at their collections!
Third Grade: Children loved tie-dying their “science socks” this week.
This was a fun activity that culminated our learning about the relationship
between light and color. Children used the three primary colors of light
(red, green, and blue) to tie-dye socks. Be on the lookout for the socks to
be sent home next week, and soon the children can wear their new socks when
we have our annual “science sock day”!
Fourth Grade: We have now finished the first half of our first unit on magnetism.
Now, children begin to explore the concept of electricity and learn about the
relationship between these two phenomena. This week we began discussing the
similarities between magnetism and electricity, like how the charges of
electricity behave the same way as poles on a magnet. Opposite charges
attract much like opposite poles attract. Children spent time this week
investigating one type of electricity: static electricity. They began to see
what types of objects are the easiest to charge with static and that static
is created by friction, or rubbing two items together. They learned that like
magnetism, electricity is created by moving electrons. We sure had fun
rubbing balloons on our heads to see the effects of static!
Technology
Pre-K & Kindergarten: We have completed our
lessons on learning the basics of “MS Paint”. Last week the
children learned how to use the shape tools and had fun creating shape
drawings. “Paint” is a fun and creative program the children can
continue to do at home to develop basic computer skills such as moving the
mouse around the mouse pad; clicking and dragging to make shapes, lines, and
picture drawings, as well as being exposed to the “desktop”,
“toolbars” and “icons.”
This week, the children were exposed to a new computer program called
“Kidspiration”. They used the program
to do a review of alphabet letters they have learned in class. First, the children
did a hands-on matching game using picture cards designed to match the
pictures on the computer program. We did this so all students would be
familiar with each picture and recognize the beginning letter and letter
sound. When they sat down at their computers, they were ready to play the
“Letter-Matching” game!! We will continue to use the “Kidspiration” program for various activities
throughout the year.
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