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Faribault Middle School students have begun Community Service projects. Each week, our students volunteer at the Faribault Education Center helping adults in the community build their English Skills. Every other week, our students help out at Roosevelt Early Childhood Center. Our students have many more projects they are planning in the coming weeks and look forward to helping out the Faribault Community as much as they can!

Faribault Public Schools’ students are learning valuable skills through makeshift coffee shops at both the middle school and high school that provide students with the opportunity to work on their oral communications skills, practice their workplace social skills, time management, and apply their math skills. Students take orders from staff members and deliver coffee and other treats every Friday.

The teachers shared, "The goal of the Falcon coffee shops is to teach our students valuable life skills that they can apply not only in our classrooms but in real-life situations. We also hope that what they learn now will help them have a positive experience when they get their first part-time job. Last spring, we started the process of connecting with the Faribault Area Chamber of Commerce to perhaps expand and connect these life skills to other types of businesses in the community. We are still in the beginning stages but hope to expand our program.”

Roosevelt Elementary students are LOVING ”The Farm” in P.E. Class! The obstacle course has kids smiling and sweating.

Faribault Area Learning Center students choose to volunteer at the Faribault Area Community Action Center every week.

Area Learning Center Coordinator, Cora Packard-Emery, shared, “Our students love giving back to their community by helping stock shelves with resources they might’ve needed or used at one time. I think it makes them feel really good to give back to a place that has given to them.”

Donation boxes can be found at:

* Faribault Middle School

* Faribault High School

* Faribault Area Learning Center (ALC)

* Faribault Public Schools District Office

* Star Sports and Apparel

* Fourth Avenue United Methodist Church

* Erickson Chiropractic

Please donate by December 16!

Ms. Knudson-Griffiths' Leadership class volunteers at Feed My Starving Children

The Faribault DECA program made 20 tie blankets and filled out over 50 holiday greeting cards for the residents of the Mill City Senior Living facility. Pictured are the students making tie blankets and a group of the officer team delivering the blankets and cards.

Mark your calendars! Faribault Public Schools' Kindergarten Registration Event is on January 13th from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. Principals and school staff will be at the Faribault Community Education Center to answer your questions and help you register your child for Kindergarten. Registration is done online and available to all incoming kindergartners beginning December 13th. Parents and legal guardians are invited to this event to get support in registering from school staff, ask questions, and pick-up a gift bag of books and toys for their future Falcon!