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Please
note: contracts and payments are due June 1, 2005.
Academic Technology
“Top Sites”: Please check out our “Top
Sites” list of websites. This month features “Summer Fun in
Cafeteria
Appreciation Day: On Wednesday,
May 18, the Freshman/Sophomore Girls' Service Club made FCDS history by
holding the first annual Cafeteria Appreciation Day. This was truly a special
treat for our wonderful friends at
Sophomore Class Car
Wash
on Saturday, May 28 at Advance Auto Parts on
Congratulations
to FCDS Tenth Grader Carrie Worcester and to Eighth grade civics teacher Mr.
Pat Rimron, who successfully participated in
the Wake Forest Excellence Triathalon to prevent
Domestic Violence on Saturday, May 21 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
Oct. 8 9/ 7 9/14
Nov. 5 9/30 10/12
Dec. 3 10/28 11/ 9
Jan. 28
12/22 1/ 4
*SAT late registration fee of additional $20
Registration for the test is available online at www.collegeboard.com.
ACT
Registration
Registration
Deadlines
Test
Date
Regular
Late*
June 11 5/6
5/7-20
Sept. 24 8/19
8/20 – 9/2
Oct. 22 9/16
9/17-30
Dec. 10 11/ 4 11/5-17
*ACT late registration fee of additional $17
Pre-Kindergarten: Pre-K is busy
preparing for the end of the school year. The children made a special
Father’s Day gift to take home. They have reviewed all the Letter
People and numbers this week. The children had exciting visitors on Friday:
the horses from Cash/Lovell stables made a special visit. The Pre-K teachers
would like to thank you for sharing your child with us this year. It is so
exciting to help them grow and learn!
Second Grade: Second graders had an exciting last full week of
school! We finished reading Charlotte’s Web and watched the
movie all together. Mr. Danforth came to talk to us about Andrew Boyce, an
FCDS alumnus serving in
Foreign Language
Pre K: We
closed our year with a review of songs and dances that we learned throughout
the year. It was fun to sing “Colores”
“Periquito” “Yo voy de verde, Tu vas de Azul” and many others. And last but not least, we had
a fruit tasting adventure and had our last opportunity to identify fruits by
name, color, and shape. Felices
vacaciones!
(Have a wonderful vacation).
Kindergarten: We will be closing our year next Tuesday with a tropical fruit feast
and a review of songs, poems, and expressions learned throughout the year. We
will play the game “El
sombrero mágico” (The
magic hat) and as we pass the hat we will take out a piece of paper and
perform what appears on the paper. See you on Tuesday. Nos vemos!!
First Grade: We enjoyed our last Spanish project! We took turns making our own
“quesadilla”, and learned the following chant to help us remember
how to make it: una tortilla, un poco
de queso, doblar, que delicioso! (a tortilla, a bit of cheese, fold, delicious)! Disfruten el verano!
(Enjoy the summer)
Second Grade: We closed the year completing our beautiful bird books! During the
previous class, we took our binoculars and went bird watching on our
school’s trail. We were able to see le cardinal rouge, (red cardinal) le geai bleu, (blue jay) and la corneille noire (black crow). We
closed the year with a tic-tac-toe game to help us review phrases learned
throughout the year.
Third Grade: Third graders organized their last fiesta complete with a piñata. We also had our last cooking
experience: quesadillas con queso and took turns presenting a vignette from the
Muzzy videos. Thus some acted out the role of la princesa Silvia, el rey, la reina, Corvax, Muzzy, and Juan. We had fun! Felices vacaciones! – May you all have
joyful vacations!
Fourth Grade: We played word and sentence completion games and played the Muzzy
tapes. We experimented, listening to them in English, then suddenly stopping
the DVD and translating what we heard into French. We cooked crepes Suzettes and celebrated our
passage to Middle School. A bientôt les Amis!
Music
We are wrapping up the year. It has been a terrific year for singing! Each
class displayed a love and joy for music. It will be exciting to see new
Pre-K students come in next year. However, it will be sad for me to see the
second graders move up to third grade! Thank you for sending your children to
FCDS. It is an honor for me to work with each and every student. “Aloha”
will be the song for the Pre-K – third graders to sing, saying goodbye
to the fourth grade students as they move up to Middle School. Have a
wonderful and safe summer. Aloha!
Science:
Well, this will be the last update for the year. It’s hard to
believe it went so fast!
Pre-K: This week Ms.
Holland’s class came to science for the last time this year. They have
been wonderful little scientists and have really learned a lot! We finished
up this week by learning a little about what kind of things make up our
world. For example, we noted that some things around us are classified as
solid objects, while other things around us are classified as liquid objects.
We read a wonderful book which helped us practice our classification skills
entitled Liquid or Solid? by Tobi Tobias. The children
were asked to look at various pictures of everyday objects and try to put
them in the appropriate category of either being a solid or a liquid. Some of
the pictures were pretty tricky! Then, we really enjoyed one last experiment
where we learned even more about different types of liquid matter. Through
our experiment, we saw that some liquids are very thick and move very slowly,
while other liquids seem to be thin and move very quickly. Some of the
liquids we looked at included syrup, rubbing alcohol, oil, and water. We then
wondered what would happen if we tried to combine some of the liquids
together in a container. Would they mix? Would some liquids be heavier than
others? After careful experimentation we saw that they would not mix, and the reason had to do with how heavy or dense the
liquids were. Each time, no matter what order we poured the liquids into the
container, they separated out and formed layers in the container in the exact
same way. The water went to the bottom, while the oil floated on top of it.
Cool! I have really enjoyed teaching Ms. Holland’s class this year and
wish them all the best! Mrs. Shomaker Signing off!
Second Grade: I appreciate so many
second graders coming to science team this week! They made up the majority by
far! It makes me so happy that they love science and science team so much. I
have loved teaching each and every one of them this year and will miss them
all. Keep up the great work next year for Mrs. Chance
Third Grade: We just loved
visiting the Brain Pop website this week as we looked at several of the
“clips” on rocks and minerals. Children loved learning about the
many different activities they can use on this wonderful website. In
addition, we finished off the year with an all-time favorite edible
experiment; we made Metamorphic Rock Pancakes! Ask your third grader
to tell you about it. To all my third graders, A BIG THANKS for the great
year. We’ve learned a lot and have many happy memories! Keep up the
great work, scientists!
Fourth Grade: The children worked
hard this week to finish up their owl pellet dissections. They sorted and
classified their bones and then glued them onto a card. We have really
enjoyed this activity. I hope you learned many wonderful things this year-I
know I’ve loved every minute teaching all of you! Good luck in fifth
grade.
I will miss the
children and the many wonderful families of FCDS so much.
Thanks for
three great years and all the support you’ve shown me!
Technology:
Pre K and Kindergarten Technology: This week will be our
last computer class for this year. The girls and boys have had a wonderful year
and have learned so many new and fun computer applications! Look for the
"end of the year" newsletter that your child will be bringing home.
There are many websites listed at the bottom of the newsletter that will
allow you to access and download the programs that they have learned in class
this year. Your children may enjoy playing with these programs on rainy
summer days. This week in class the students were allowed to choose from the
many fun games and programs they have enjoyed this year. They were able to
choose software such as: Putt Putt, Freddi Fish and Jump Start as well as drawing
applications such as Drawing for Children, Tux Paint and MS Paint.
They were also able to play educational "freeware" such as Study
Dog and Sebran's ABC's. I have
enjoyed getting to know your children and I hope you all have a great summer!
Mrs. Gebbia