FMS @ a Glance
October 10-14, 2016
Weekly Calendar
Monday, October 10th
AMLE National Convention
2:00 pm PST meeting
Tuesday, October 11th
Vision and Hearing checks
District Staff Development
Wednesday, October 12th
Department PLC
Cyberbullying Assembly 6th and 7th hour
Thursday, October 13th
Flu shots at the D.O.
8:05 am Para meeting
3:30 pm Middle School Model meeting
Friday, October 14th
7:30 am FMS Tech Committee meeting
Upcoming Events:
17th Picture Day
18th Picture Day
Parent Teacher Conferences
19th Parent Teacher Conferences
20/21 No School - MEA
FMS Media Center News
I have applied for a $2,500 grant through Farmer's Insurance. If award this grant, the monies will be used for some new seating in the Media Center.
I need VOTES, and you could vote everyday if you have the time.
If you would be willing to vote, go to:
https://www.farmers.com/thank-americas-teachers/
ThankAmericasTeachers.com
Click the red VOTE now button
Choose the $2,500 proposals
Type Wilker in the "search for a proposal"
Click on proposal and vote
You will then be sent an email to verify the vote, the vote is not submitted until you verify it
Thank you!!
Kristen Wilker
Librarian
Middle School
333-6417
Shout, Shout, Let it all out.....
Our first mugging!
On Your Mark Grading Conference
Athletic Information to be aware of:
Attention Middle School Athletes!
Below are the Winter Registration Windows for Girls Basketball, Wrestling, and Boys Basketball. Please be sure to get registered - you will not be allowed to participate unless registration is entirely complete. Visit www.faribaultfalcons.com for more information, forms and a link to the registration pages on Fee Pay.
o HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Dance Team: Sept 26 – Oct 7th
Girls Hockey: Oct 10 – Oct 21
Boys Hockey/Girls Basketball/Gymnastics: Oct 24 – Nov 4
Wrestling/Boys Basketball: Oct 31st – Nov 11th
Boys Swim & Dive: Nov 7th – Nov 18th
o MIDDLE SCHOOL SPORTS
Girls Basketball (7th/8th): Oct 3rd - Oct 14th
Wrestling: Oct 24th - Nov 4th
Boys Basketball (7th/8th): Dec 5th - Dec 16th
District Health Office notice:
Just a friendly reminder that teachers who are taking their students on field trips need to get a class list down to your building nurse at least a week before the field trip. It is very important that you are aware of students you take on these field trips who have life threatening medical conditions and how to respond to them. The nurses need time to gather the needed information to give to staff, educate them, as well as any medications that need to go with.
If Correen or myself have already met with you this year regarding medical conditions in students such as asthma, etc. then future trips this year you can go to the building nurse for a brief review.
If you receive an email from the health office requesting to meet with you regarding medical conditions before the field trip, please reply within a timely manner. It is everyone's responsibility to keep our students safe in the school setting.
Again, we need time to do our part and this means getting the class lists to the building nurses at least a week if not more in advance of going on a field trip. I understand that some field trips can come up sooner than a week. In these instances, it's important to remember to get the list to the building nurse as soon as possible and that we still need to meet to go over the emergency plans prior to the field trip.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions.
Thank you in advance for your teamwork.
Amy Schak RN, BSN, LSN, MA
District Health Coordinator
Faribault Public Schools
330 9th Avenue SW
Faribault, MN 55021
Office: 507-333-6104
Fax: 507-333-6111
THINK ABOUT THIS.......
Do you average your student's grades to come up with a final quarter grade? Is that an accurate way to calculate grades? Think about this, if Le Bron James and two teachers from FMS walked into the office, the average yearly income of the three people is about $16,000,000. Is that an accurate way to determine income averages?
Something to think about!
Library books:
Please encourage your students to return any library books they are not reading or to renew the ones they are still reading.
There are roughly 560 overdue books just from September....
Thank you for your help.
Kristen Wilker
Librarian
Middle School
333-6417
Scent free building.
Our handbook identifies us as a scent free building. Please visit with me if you feel there is a pressing issue that requires your classroom to have some sort of scented plug-in or room deodorizer.
Thank you.