FMS EXPLO Newsletter
October 12th, 2018. We're glad you're here!
FMS Counseling: Mrs. Crawford, Mrs. Horstmeier & Ms. Jo
Needing to see the counselor?
Students needing to access the counselor's office can submit a form from their chromebooks by clicking on the apps button. This form comes only to the counselor's. If you have any questions or need help finding the form refer to the email that was sent from Mrs. Horstmeier. You can also ask your teacher for help. Obviously if there is an emergency, students will be sent to the Counselors Office immediately. This is just a great way to help students stay in the classroom for instruction time.
Here are a few ways you can reach out to us in the FMS Counseling Office:
Mrs. Horstmeier works with students with a last name starting with an A-J and can be reached at shorstmeier@fulton58.org and Mrs. Crawford works with students with a last name starting with a K-Z and can be reached at mcrawford@fulton58.org
Ms. Jo is the Counseling Office secretary and can be reached at jwilliamson@fulton58.org.
Counseling Office phone number is 573-590-8208
Transition to 9th grade
Mr. Yates
Feel free to contact me any time!
Email: gyates@fulton58.org
Follow me on Twitter: @MrYatesFMS
Coding
Please visit the site at www.codehs.com. Your kids can log in and show you their progress and what cool things they are able to do. Our Goal is to have up to lesson 2.3.5 complete by the end of the week. We will move forward next week so check with your kids to make sure they are caught up.
Keyboarding
We will be using www.typingtraining.com to improve your kids' typing skills. For fun we use www.nitrotype.com to challenge others in typing races. For an additional challenge visit www.themostdangerouswritingapp.com!
Digital footprint
Continue to be an upstander and make good choices online. Keep up your positive digital footprint! For more resources visit www.commonsensemedia.org.
Projects
Our current projects are 3D printing and iMovie.
Parents, please have your child log into google classroom to show you their daily assignments. You can see the cool things they have created and whether they have turned in what they need to as we move forward towards the end of the term.
1st Quarter proficiency scales for computers
Email: gyates@fulton58.org
Twitter: @MrYatesFMS
Coach Windmiller, Coach Youse, Coach Evans
GAME ON!
Please dress for the weather and be prepared for changing temperatures this time of year. Sweats and long sleeves are encouraged for cooler weather.
Units:
Flag Football with Coach Youse
Softball with Coach Evans
Soccer with Coach Windmiller
Unit Testing on Wednesday, Oct. 17
6th Grade Study Guides
7th Grade Study Guides
8th Grade Study Guides
6th-8th Grade Skills Proficiency Scales
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER!
awindmiller@fulton58.org @CoachWindmiller
myouse@fulton58.org @CoachYouse
jevans@fulton58.org @CoachEvans3
Dr. Moebes
AFTER SCHOOL CHOIR aka HARMONY HORNETS ON TUESDAYS!!! We rehearse after school on Tuesdays, 3:20-4:15! Students should go to their lockers AT the car rider bell, get backpacks, then report to the choir room (G07) on Tuesdays after school!
MUSIC 6
It is hard to believe that we only have 2 class periods remaining together! Thank you for a wonderful Term 1! I am proud of the work you have done this term, and look forward to meeting the next group of Music 6 students! Let's make this the Best Year Yet!
Want to know how this class is graded? Click here for proficiency scales!
Careers 8
We have been studying finance! Our class discussions have been largely centered around grants and student loans. We have been looking at ideas centered on financial responsibility as well. Next week, we will continue our focus on finance using grocery shopping as one of our projects.
Want to know how this class is assessed (how it is graded), click here.
We have the following field trips scheduled for our class:
November 15th: Campus tour/visit to William Woods University
November 27th: Campus visit/tour to University of Missouri, Columbia
Guest Speakers:
October 17th: DeShawn Stallworth, Air Force, Firefighter, DJ
October 23rd: Michelle Kemp, MU
7th Grade Choir (Hornet Pride)/8th grade choir (Hornet Singers)
If your child DOES NOT have an FMS Choir polo, these may be purchased for $15. Bring a check or cash to Dr. Moebes. You will receive a receipt at the time of payment. Shirts will be ordered and delivered to students before the first concert.
7th grade and 8th grade choir classes have their first choir concert on Monday, October 15th! All singers need to arrive at Southside Baptist Church by 5:50pm on October 15th. The concert begins at 7pm. Students should arrive IN UNIFORM: black shoes, black socks (if visible), khaki pants, black choir polo shirt.
Field Trip Information: Thursday, October 18th, choir classes AND Arts Alive 7 will be traveling to St. Louis to see a performance at The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries. We will leave at 7:55am (after breakfast is served) and return by 3pm. Students will be back at FMS in time to leave school in the way they do any other school day.
If you have not EITHER responded to my emails, OR returned a signed permission slip, please do so ASAP! This is most important so that I order enough school lunches for everyone who would like one!
Want to know how grades are assessed in choir? Click here!
Arts Alive
We are making great progress as we work on staging our show! So far, we have Scene 1, Scene 2, and Scene 6 staged! We are continuing to stage new scenes as well! Keep up the great work.
Field Trip Information: Thursday, October 18th, choir classes AND Arts Alive 7 will be traveling to St. Louis to see a performance at The Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries. We will leave at 7:55am (after breakfast is served) and return by 3pm. Students will be back at FMS in time to leave school in the way they do any other school day.
If you have not EITHER responded to my emails, OR returned a signed permission slip, please do so ASAP! This is most important so that I order enough school lunches for everyone who would like one!
Want to know HOW this class is assessed? Click here!
Please feel free to contact me at any time: bmoebes@fulton58.org. For pictures and daily updates about Vocal Music at FMS, follow me on Twitter: @MoebesMusic
Mrs. Blandford and Ms. Neudecker
We are so excited to see you all in the band program this year! There are going to be so many exciting things!
6th Grade Band:
Next Week:
Post Test - Fingerings and Note Names (Tuesday)
Percussion you will need your snare practice pad and books for next week.
The points for Band Olympics will be added soon. The first playing assessments has taken place and will be updated in the grade book very soon. Students were assessed on correct pitch and intonation. Please make sure your students are practicing. The prize for the winning team will be something that they do not want to miss!
If your student ordered a book through the school, they are in and they cost $10.99. These can be paid for with cash or check. Checks should be made payable to FULTON MIDDLE SCHOOL. Please let me know if you have any questions!
Also, if your student needs any reeds, valve oil, slide grease or any other accessory for your instrument, you can always buy these through the school as well!
7th Grade Band:
7th Grade Band is doing so well already!
We have started our new book, and if you would like to buy one for your child that they can keep at home that is more than welcome. Please let me know if you would like to go that route, and I will get one ordered. You can then pay the school as soon as they come in.
The 7th grade band will be playing at a Veteran's Day assembly at the middle school and we just received that sheet music to start sight reading today. Please encourage them to be practicing at home.
8th Grade Band:
8th Grade Band is off to a strong start. We are doing a lot of review, and the students are responding very well.
Students will be starting new sheet music for the December concert. More information will be sent home when it becomes available.
7/8 Wire Choir:
This week in 7/8th Grade Wire Choir we will be working on the Am and Em chords. As well as adding G and G7. Students will be working on chord progressions as well as looking at reading music in TAB.
Students have received new books, please make sure that you are encouraging your students to take care of their books, as well as the equipment.
Feel free to contact us with any questions at sblandford@fulton58.org or kjneudecker@fulton58.org.
Proficiency scales for each class can be found below in PDF form.
Mr. Chapman
News from the Art Room
6th Grade:
Students this week will begin our new objective:
ELO: 4 Students will analyze and evaluate art using vocabulary
Pop Art, Factory Process, Andy Warhol, Opaque, Pop Culture, Objective and Non-Objective Art
Students this week and next week, will be learning about artist Andy Warhol, and his contributions to the art world. We will discuss pop culture in Andy’s times as well as make connections in modern times. Preview music and art of this era that helped create the culture and how the world sees art. Students will work in groups for a friendly competition where there are no losers, and work through a simulated factory process.
FA1 Using opaque paint to overlap brush strokes to create a smooth even area FA2- Identify and demonstrate color value.
Students will practice watercolor techniques and focus on layer as well as other effects. Students will design and select six different fruit combinations and place them into a panel grid with work on background and color emphasis.
7th Grade:
Students are working on our objective:
ELO: 1 Students will select and apply media, techniques and processes to solve challenging visual art problems.
FA1- using pencil to create simulated and implied texture. Create an original artwork that communicates nature. FA2-Identify the use of implied and simulated texture. Identify and demonstrate value and a range of values.
Students will be studying “old barns” and landscapes. Students will be looking at and practicing the use of value and discovering how to create texture with various line and shading techniques. We will be very drawing intensive for the next several weeks. Students will make several drawings of their “old Barns” and place emphasis on the layering work it takes to build up a finalized drawing. These often turn out amazing and challenge students to think about value, and perspective as well.
8th Grade:
We are wrapping up lesson 2 and will continue to do more work in portrait study
Lesson 2: American Gothic Reimagined, Six Panel Parts of the Portrait, and the Tree Trilogy
Objective: ELO 4: Students will explain the connections between art and the world around them
Students will continue working a portrait study and do practice on facial features in a six panel as a breakdown component of this lesson. I feel the extra drawing practice is crucial for them to fully understand the visual literacy component, and more challenging part of this objective. Students are also shifting into our tree trilogy lesson which will be the second part of this objective. This portion of the assessment will reflect on second quarter reports since it will take a few weeks. Student will be using what they have learned in the texture and shading process and applying it to drawing trees. They will then experiment with multiple medias and do a triptych of their tree using multiple mediums to connect the three.
Reminder: Art club will now meet every first Wednesday of the month.
If you have any questions, or concerns, please contact me at cchapman@fulton58.org
Artfully yours,
Mr Chapman
FMS Art Teacher
The FMS Thrive Hive
The Fulton Middle School Thrive Hive opened for business on Monday, August 21st. The store is open 7:25 to 7:45 each morning. If students aren't able to shop then they can email Mrs. Horstmeier @ shortmeier@fulton58.org or Mrs. Yates @ hyates@fulton58.org for an appointment to shop.
The Thrive Hive is designed to allow students to use their Hornet Bucks--earned through the Positive Behavior Support Program--to purchase items from the store. The Thrive Hive was created to help the needs of the FMS Student Community.
Items currently needed for the store are:
Any age appropriate toys, DVD's for the holidays.
As we gear up for winter: Hats, gloves, scarves, and coats.
Snack items: Nutella snack packs, Slim jims and pop tarts.
Other needs are ear buds and water bottles.
We will be gearing up for the holiday season so baskets to make gift packages for students to purchase would be great.
All other items are appreciated as well.
If you would like to donate, please call Fulton Middle School at 573-590-8200.
http://www.fultonsun.com/…/thrive-hive-gets-middle-…/646415/
Hooked!
Change the book title to something spooky.
Have you seen the AC Lab pumpkins?
Mrs. Jessica Lairmore
Class visits are going great. I really appreciate you going above and beyond in the Library! We will be starting some fun activities in the Library soon.
If you have time, stop by the Library and vote for your favorite Book Club Pumpkin!
I NEED YOU FOR BOOK TALKS!
Please let your ELA teacher know that you would like to record a book talk with me. We will set up a time and get it going. If you don't want your face to be part of our morning announcements, I have lots of tricks up my sleeves and we come up with a fun way to do your book talk!
If you have a book request for me, please write it down on the Wanted poster by the book check out desks. I'll try and get those ordered soon! Don't forget to return or renew your books every 2 weeks so you don't get an overdue notice from me.
The Library now has a Snapchat & an Instagram Account! Find all the ways to follow the Library happenings below.
See you in the Library!
If you want to see some things happening in the Library:
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ALLERGY TO NUTS AND POPCORN
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