FMS @ a Glance
November 19-26, 2018
Proud to be
Thank you to Michael Sloane, Julianne Dahlin, Liz Barron, Amelia Tesdahl, and Jonathan Rydberg for a fabulous performance put on by your students at the Veterans Day Assembly. The music program is really shining this year and we thank you all for your effort and hard work.
April Coppess- Thank you for all of your hard work with Falcons for Change. Students are really enjoying the opportunity to give and volunteer in a number of meaningful ways.
Thank you, Lori Larson, for always greeting our students with a smiling face in the lunchroom.
Thank you, Pat Freeman, for always being so patient and caring when working with students. It is wonderful to see.
Shout out to Steve Franck for all the moments you drop everything to assist with a student. You're a lifesaver!
Ted Aleckson for helping sixth-grade teachers deal with temporally confused individuals.
Deb Kittleson and Hope Briggs for patiently working with America's youth.
Marsha Helgeson and Deb Kittleson for being positive role models and bringing treats to meetings, THANKS!
Nate Rockow for helping share his vast knowledge of technology with those who aspire to greatness.
Shout out to Alicia Sheehy for creating all the Advisory Activities for November and December and to TJ for creating all the daily news announcements, greetings and CPR shares for advisory.
Jackie Fleischhacker- You are a wonderful addition to the FMS team. Students are really enjoying Coding class and we thank you for all your hard work and effort.
Great job by Kevin Steinkamp for all the EXTRAS he did to make the room changes happen!
Caleb Case and Katie Bisping for welcoming two elementary teachers into their classroom to complete an assignment for their masters class.
Ted Aleckson for helping teachers uphold the academic integrity of their classes.
Kevin Harman and Pat Sexton for coaching the girls basketball team to an upset of New Prague in exciting, buzzer-beating fashion.
Glen Pearsall
Important reminder:
Due to the short week next week, please see the schedule below for submitting your Academic Seminar classes to Flex Scheduler.
Monday, November 19th: Classes submitted to Flex Scheduler before you leave
Tuesday, November 20th: Class lists put on Schoology for students to view
Monday, November 26th: Students register for Academic Seminar
*The Fab Lab is available for both sessions on November 29th. Contact me if you are interested. First come, first serve.
Please contact me with questions.
Thanks, Alicia
Week @ a Glance
Monday, November 19
9:00 am Student Services meeting
1:30 pm Admin Restorative Justice meeting
3:00 pm New Teacher Induction meeting
Tuesday, November 20
Meihak out of the building
6:45 am SITE Council
9:00 am Admin Designee meeting
Wednesday, November 21
Development Day - No school
Thursday, November 22
Thanksgiving - No school
Friday, November 23
Thanksgiving break - No school
A look ahead:
11/26 Admin to visit CPT's
11/26 Student Services meeting
11/26 Academic Seminar Committee meeting
11/27 FMS Admin meeting
11/28 PST
11/28 Staff Development Day meetings
11/29 Meihak visit to Northfield MS
11/29 Principal PLC with Ryan K.
11/30 Falcon for Change - McKinley visit
11/30 District Principal's meeting with Mr. Sesker
Community School News
- Kayla Tromborg is starting a fitness club on Mondays & Wednesdays after Thanksgiving break
- Britta Peterson-Linde started her girls yoga club this week! She decided to do girls zumba on Mondays and girls yoga on Wednesdays.
- Riverbend also started up again with a nature photography club. They will do this for the next 6 weeks.
- Tuesday night we had Spanish Cooking, Zumba, and Teen Vaping. We had around 30 adults and 9 kids. It seems like a small night, but compared to past nights, this was a win!
- Eric from MDE made a visit this week. Overall, it went really well. He offered some great ideas on how to continue making our programs great.
- Tuesday, November 20th, Community School will be passing out chickens (dead) to families in need. I believe we will have around 25. They were donated to us from Growing Up Healthy. I gave Lisa, Brent, April, and Amanda flyers to pass out to kids.
- Myranda Splett will be starting a club after Thanksgiving! Hand sewing projects will go Thursdays until winter break.
- College Q & A was Thursday night. We had 8 people show up!