Fulton Middle School Explo Classes
Team FMS: Together, We Can! - April 25, 2016
Welcome to the FMS EXPLO Newsletter!
Kids' Choice Website of the Week!
Look here each week for engaging websites for your kids to use at home! This week's pick is Cargo Bridge. http://www.engineering.com/GamesPuzzles/CargoBridge.aspx This is one of many STEM-like apps made by the Engineering Grad School at Purdue that we have been using this week. Once a student conquers a game, he/she teachers it to the class. Cargo Bridge was one of the games that was taught this week during WIN class.
Mrs. Schenewerk
As we continue MAP testing it is more important than ever to make sure chromebooks are brought to school each day with a complete charge. Please help your student remember to plug in their chromebook at night, making sure both charging ends are in place.
As always, feel free to contact me at tschenewerk@fulton58.org with any questions or concerns.
Mrs. Bailey
The 8th grade students enrolled in Computer Applications continued with their goal setting along with choosing strategies to help them reach their goals. This is a year long process, increasing 3 wpm each month. For April our benchmark goal is 37 wpm with 90% accuracy for the month. 7th and 8th grade Computer Applications students took an in depth look at QR Codes, their meaning, creating, and reading them. 7th and 8th grade "wheel" had a mini-lesson and activity on QR Codes, along with practicing their keyboarding skills. 6th grade students participated in many activities while completing a QR Code lesson
All grade levels participated in an Hour of Code challenge on Friday. This week we did the coding challenge: Code Maven at this site: http://www.crunchzilla.com/code-maven
Please feel free to contact me at jbailey@fulton58.org if you have any questions or concerns.
Check out the QR Code below! Ask your child how it was made.
Practice at Home!
Coach Masek, Coach Windmiller, Coach Youse
If weather permits us to be outside, we will be involved in activities such as kickball, lacrosse, capture the flag, and ultimate
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Mr. Chapman
From The Art Room
8th Graders are have started their altered book project which will take us about four or five weeks roughly. It was a confusing start for them as I expected, but they are doing a fantastic job getting started and problem solving and working out preliminary ideas. As with anything new, there is always hesitation, and fear of the unknown, but I have confidence they will turn out some really great things. They are off to a good start. This is one of my favorite lessons, and something that really teaches students how to enjoy the process of Art making.
7th Grade Just finished up an aboriginal design project, and are now starting on a stained glass type of project using paper. The lesson is a problem solving exercise with the challenge in seeing positive and negative space correctly.
7th Grade Wheel classes are working on Illuminated letters as we continue with the "art about you" theme moving into their own Personal Coat of Arms next.
6th Grade are working on one point perspective buildings with a twist. They are working on small cities from a birds eye perspective. This has been somewhat of a challenge, but it has been a great introduction to challenging them to think outside the box a little more.
WIN: ( 8th Grade Art Enrichment)Students are working on drawing old barns, and pushing value in their drawings.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at cchapman@fulton58.org
Coach Youse
7th Grade is finishing up with our Body Systems unit. For the remainder of the school year, we will be studying the damaging effects of illegal drug use and alcohol consumption. Please be sure to check your child's grade. If you have concerns, grades can be brought up by completing missing work and getting it turned in as soon as possible.
8th Grade students are now studying sexually transmitted diseases. We will be discussing symptoms, transmission, treatment and prevention of STDs. Finishing the week, we will be covering the importance of teens practicing abstinence as well as the effectiveness/side effects of using contraceptives. Please be sure to check your child's grade. If you have concerns, grades can be brought up by completing missing work and getting it turned in as soon as possible.
Please feel free to contact me at myouse@fulton58.org if you have any questions or concerns. Don't forget to follow me on Twitter @healthyfms and sign up for text reminders by texting @youse(child's grade) to 81010.
Ms. Lehman and Dr. Moebes
The Hornet Singers have shown great growth through the year thus far and I'm excited to see what they can do for their final performance of the year. The students will be starting in depth work on their new repertoire this week with the theme "I Dream A World".
SO proud of what this group continues to produce in the classroom everyday.
Harmony Hornets are having a great time at their weekly Tuesday rehearsals and can't wait to showcase all they've accomplished (and will accomplish) in May!
If you ever have any questions, concerns, or comments, feel free to contact me at llehman@fulton58.org.
Hornet Pride Choir (7th grade) has begun our final round of concert repertoire. We are working on a wide variety of repertoire selections, and are excited to share them. We are preparing two songs for Coach Turner's play that will be performed in May! Choir students ARE NOT required to participate in the play, but will know the music should they choose to volunteer their time for performances!
6th grade Arts Alive students have been Michael Jackson! We are learning about his life, his music, and his dance abilities. We are also practice our rhythm skills by learning the dance to "Thriller"! We are wrapping up our study of rhythm and music notation. We will have a test over rhythm in the coming week. Our next featured artists will be Luke Bryan and Silento.
7th and 8th grade Arts Alive classes recently studied Southern Rock. We listened to and evaluated the music to Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Allman Borther Band, and The Charlie Daniels Band. We talked about the basic characteristics of Southern Rock, and its roots. We have begun our final concentration area: HEAVY METAL! We are listening, creating a list of characteristics, and learning music terminology in this unit of study. After we finish this concentration area, we will begin work on individual music genre projects!
Please feel free to contact me any time! bmoebes@fulton58.org.
Ms. Glynn and Ms. Neudecker
This week 6th grade band will be focusing on learning new exercises in their book. The band has received sheet music for their next concert and they are so excited to show you what they have learned this year. Next year in 7th grade we will be finishing up what we can in the book and then moving on to book 2 of the Essential Elements Series. Please continue to encourage your student to take their instrument home and practice. We are working on two pieces of sheet music titled Bravado Tango and the Gladiator. Our next concert is scheduled for Thursday May 12 at 6:00 PM in the middle school gym. More information will be sent out as it becomes available.
7th grade band is still using book 2 in the Essential Elements series. Please make sure that if you have not bought a book that your student brings money to do so. Woodwinds and Brass are $8.00 and Percussion is $15.00. Please make sure you do this as soon as possible so your student can practice at home. Students are also working on more complex rhythmic patterns. Please make sure that you are encouraging your students to practice at home. The music is harder, and we are so excited that the band is stepping up! One of the pieces is a march and one of the pieces is a traditional folk song. They are titled Lone Eagle March and Shepherd's Hey. The band is also getting pulled out one section at a time for sectionals. If your student feels that they need extra help or attention MS. Neudecker and myself are available for practice after school on Wednesday's from 3:30 - 4:30. The next concert is scheduled for Thursday May 12 in the middle school gym. More information will be sent home as it becomes available!
8th Grade band has received new scale sheets and are working on more complex music for their end of the year concert. We are very excited to show everyone what we have been working on all year. The band is working on 2 selections for our Spring Concert, Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral and a Medley from the Little Mermaid. Please encourage your students to work on their make up assignments for their rhythm sheets, emails are sent home to parents and students weekly. Please encourage your students to get these turned in! There will also be a parent meeting for any students that will be entering high school band next year on Tuesday May 17 in the high school band room at 6:30 PM. Please come and become a parent volunteer, we are always happy to have you! More information about band camp will also become available at this meeting!
Please make sure that students are getting their missing work in as soon as possible! If you need to know if your student has a missing assignment please do not hesitate to get a hold of me. I have sent home emails about missing rhythm sheets.
As always, if you ever have any questions please feel free to contact Ms. Glynn or Ms. Neudecker at sglynn@fulton58.org or kneudecker@fulton58.org. Thank you for your continued support!