NEW (as of 6/14/2010) – the first posting of the 2010-11 school calendar - school calendar 10-11

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Download:

- Summer Scoop II July 2010 new

- 10-11 Student Supply 

Parents: Open House is August 19th, 2010 – we will have welcome packets for each family. Those packets will include a copy of the calendar and handbook. Call 939-4642 and ask for Mrs. Thomas, if you have any questions.

Friday, May 28th was the last day of school for the 09-10 school year! The last two days were filled with parties and award ceremonies.

Here are some of the highlifghts from our school awards ceremonies:

1) The winners of Mr. Mitchell’s Principal Award (Top Student) – elementary: Moragn Tyson; and in middle school: Austin Johnson.

2) We announced this year’s members of the Principal’s 90 Club – click here

3) Accelerated Reader record for 2009-2010: Blair Colbert, click here

 4) The Grandma Betty Scholarship provided by the Reese family in the name of Elizabeth DiFebio was given to 7th grader, Julia Gentil (pictured far left with last year’s winner, Taylor Lowry)

 4) Here are the recipients of the Christian Character and Citizenship Awards in each grade:  

General
We are now accepting applications for potential job openings for the 2010-11 school year. You must have a bachelor’s degree and teach in the field of your degree.  

Please fill out this teacher application and return it to Fort Myers Christian School, 1550 Colonial Blvd., Fort Myers, Florida, 33907; you can also fax it to 239-936-5016 or email it to Principal Mitchell. Thank you.

Job openings posted for 2010-2011:

POTENTIAL TEACHER OPENING PK4 VPK PROGRAM: FMCS is working towards approval to have a VPK program at our school. In anticipation of the program and enough students to open a class, we are accepting application for teachers that love the Lord, love children and meet all the certification guidlelines for a VPK teacher. Please fill out this teacher application and return it to Fort Myers Christian School, 1550 Colonial Blvd., Fort Myers, Florida, 33907; you can also fax it to 239-936-5016 or email it to Principal Mitchell. Thank you.

Coaches Needed
Coaches should be 21 years of age or older, love for the Lord, sports, and kids! Sports include soccer, basketball and volleyball. For more information, please contact our Athletic Director, John O´Brien, at 939-4642. Please fill out this application and return it to Fort Myers Christian School, 1550 Colonial Blvd., Fort Myers, Florida, 33907; you can also fax it to 239-936-5016 or email it to Principal Mitchell. Thank you.

Many thanks to Miss Julie Issenmann, our PE teacher, for our special Olympic Field Day 2010! In the week leading up to the field day physical competition, classes were each assigned a country to represent. Pre-Olympic events included:

• Door decoration- decorate your door in a way that represents your country.
• Students speaking your language- hi, by, bathroom –little things
• Making a banner that will hang in the gym for a week.   
• Taking a virtual field trip
• Making a country flag that you can carry around with you during field day
• T-shirts representing their country to wear on Friday
• Opening and closing ceremonies

On Friday, May 7^th, events included the downhill ski water slide, scooter luge, torch relay, tug-o-war (always an annual favorite) and more!

Thanks to the MANY volunteers and parents for their support during the week! EXCELLENT JOB MISS ISSENMANN!

FMCS is honored to induct new members in the National Junior Honor Society and National Elementary Honor Society for the spring of 2010. The ceremony was held Thursday, April 29th in the Colonial Chapel with over 180 students, friends and family in attendance. 

The National Elementary Honor Society, Josiah Chapter, is only in its second year and new members are: fourth graders – Jordan Bergman, Lauren Hearn, Christine Jennings, Molly Krieger, Madison Leatherman, Ethan Liebetre, Malyia Madden, Akmet Moran, Emma Ravish, Emily Reeves, Alyssa Snodgrass, Kendra Stonefield, Kristina Taylor, Austin Thomas, Morgan Tyson; Fifth graders – Celina Interbartolo , Dillon Martino, Cheyanne Miller, Rebecca Moran, Sierra Niles and Avery Praxaya. Their teacher-sponsor is Mrs. Robin Couch.

The National Junior Honor Society, the Ezra Chapter, inducted the following new members:    Elijah Benzon, Andrew Crouch, Joshua Harriott, Joshua Harvey, Chastity Roark, Sarah Swiersz, Victoria Weller, Tyler Williams, Arianna Bergmann, Remy Fenelus, China Haisley and Josiah Vega. Their teacher-sponsor is Mrs. Jennifer Crouch.

This year, both groups have been active with activities that included raising money for muscular dystrophy, Susan B Komen Breast Cancer Fund,  leadership academy class, sending care packages to soldiers, welcome packets for new students and picking up trash on the campus to do their part in keeping the campus clean.

ANNOUNCED MAY 26, 2010 – The 2010-11 members of NJHS had the opportunity to submit their names to run for the officers positions for next year. The students have made their speeches and the NJHS members have voted – here are the winners:

President – Mallory Dillon
Vice-President – Robin Mitchell
Treasurer – Sarah Swiersz

Our Annual FMCS Golf Tournament was held  Saturday, May 1, 2010 at The Forest. This has been  one of best days of fun, fellowship and food on the school calendar every year. Our chairpersons, Wendy Fulton and Anne Kearns, did a great job. Many thanks to the parent volunteers that came out that day!

SAVE THE DATE: SATURDAY, MAY 14TH, 2011 – all the proceeds help our financial aide funds at FMCS!

Summary of 2010: We had 43 golfers that signed-up to join us for a sunny day at the Forest Golf and Country Club. Congratulations to the team of (from left to right in their photo): Ron Tyre, Chuck Basinait, Kevin Kearns (FMCS parent of Thomas Kearns), Chris Parker. They shot a 57!

Cast of great volunteers: (L to R) : Sue Sinex, Relena Zabala, Stephanie Roark, Rita Massaro, Wendi Fulton and Anne Kearns (also Mr. Tom Sinex, not pictured)

 Recap from 2009:  May 3rd was a great day for golf, food and fellowship! The end of our three busy days of great events ended today with our annual golf tournament at The Forest Golf Club. We want to thank the 76 golfers that joined us today – we had an excellent turnout on a beautiful day. Many thanks to The Forest – first class all the way! And to Colleen Marinello, Sissy Felice, John Ryba and all our volunteers – including alumni, Christine O’Brien, who is faithful to join us every year. Congratulations to the top three teams: Third: Pastor Dan Betzer, David Betzer, Joe Micale, and Chocky Warriner; Second: Charlie Fulton, Ash Fulton, Butch Fulton and Randy Cline; and First Place: Bill Miller, Bill O’Connell, Jeff Hemenway, and Gene Taylor

And now a word from our sponsors…FMCS would like to thank:

Results from the ACSI Math Olympics From Today at SFCA. This is a list of the students that placed in each of the grade level categories:

Reasoning (listed by Grade Level, Student Name, & Place)

3rd Carsyn Baxter – 4th place
4th Molly Krieger – 5th
5th Blair Colbert – 3rd
5th Austin O’Grosky – 1st
6th Victoria Weller – 5th

Computation (listed by Grade Level, Student Name, & Place)

3rd Alex Bryant – 5th place
3rd Nicholas Sanabria – 4th
4th Lauren Hearn – 5th
5th Cheyanne Miller – 1st
6th Elijah Benson – 5th
8th Holly Branthoover – 2nd

Many thanks to Mrs. Sanders, Mrs. Couch and Mr. Blikstad! Congratulations and great job Olympians!

Well, the results are in and regardless of who won I have to tell you the result in today’s totals alone were outstanding.  The students brought in $1,328.00 today alone for the Parent University Coin Drive, bringing us to a grand total of $1,904.80 for the entire week.  An amazing job by all the students working together!  BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THE COIN COUNTING VOLUNTEERS! 

The winning teachers and classes are as follows: 
Elementary – Mrs. Harrington with a final total of $291.23.
Middle School – Mrs. Leatherman with a final total of $289.18.

Each winning teacher will receive a $50 gift card to the store of her choosing and the winning class will receive a pizza party courtesy of Parent University. Thank you everyone for all that you do!  The STAR Math program is well underway!

 Rita Massaro, President of Parent University

With STAR MATH, we can:

• - Assess students’ math levels in less than 15 minutes.
• - Receive accurate, reliable, norm-referenced math scores including grade equivalents, percentile ranks, and normal curve equivalents.
• - Determine the appropriate level of challenge for each student to personalize practice and individualize instruction.
• - Predict results on state and national standardized tests including ITBS, CAT, and TerraNova.
• - Save money by administering assessments throughout the school year at no extra cost.
• - Track growth in student math achievement longitudinally, facilitating the kind of growth analysis recommended by state and federal organizations.

We’ll have prizes for the top elementary and top middle school class (all based on percents, not totals). This year’s goal is $4050.