This past summer, our school received a grant for 25 brand new HP laptop computers! We are very  thankful for the work of John Davis, Wendy Davis, and Tom Sinex for all their hard work to help us provide this blessing for our middle school students this year. The grant was received from Mobile Beacon (www.mobilebeacon.org) - and they will help our school by providing a new wireless lab in the middle school, and a keyboarding class for our middle schoolers through Florida Virtual School  just for starters.

The specs for the laptops are: Windows 7 Professional,  64bit, 15.4 inch display, Intel Core I3-2310M processor, 4gig of ram, 250gig hard drive, DVD/RW drive.

- 2011-12 Calendar as of 9/19/2011 – school calendar 11-12

Order the latest in FMCS school spirit clothing! Spirit and Pride offers t-shirts starting at just $9.45 and a really cute pink shirts and hoodie that all the girls love!!  They also sell the only hooded sweatshirt that students are allowed to wear during the school day.  These make great Christmas gifts that your students will use throughout the year.  Visit www.spiritandpride.com and enter the school name or school ID #31843.

Would you like to find out what is taught in each grade level at FMCS? do you want to see how we are working on aligning with our state’s standards? Welcome to our new “curriculum map” website provided by Rubicon Atlas.

BEFORE YOU GO THE SITE: FMCS teachers have been working very hard for many years uploading and updating information for each subject and each grade level. Not every subject and level is complete…yet. (Overall as a school, Bible will appear in 2011; teachers are still working on other subject areas) This will never be a finished product – it is ALWAYS updating every year if we want to provide the best for your children.

Please be sure to read the directions so that you understand these are not lessons plans, they are maps that will help you see the road to learning at FMCS – the content, skills, and the very important, faith integration,  that takes place. FMCS would like to thank former Principal, Shelton Gwaltney and Assistant Principal, Denise Encarnacion – they helped us get this process started in 2004.

Benefits of Mapping (From the Rubicon Atlas Site)

Atlas allows educators to look through the macro lens at a student’s learning experience and build on what students have learned in previous years to prepare them for future classes and achievement.

Using Atlas, curricular information can be assembled and used by curriculum decision makers to:

• Determine what is taught, as it actually occurs in the classroom.
• Understand how students are being taught.
• Make appropriate, immediate modifications to the curriculum.
• Determine “why” certain performance results have been achieved.

Atlas can also allow parents a larger view of what their children are experiencing in the classroom and the requirements needed to excel. It has the capability to enable community leaders and board members to see how schools are planning students’ educational careers and what support is needed to ensure success.

TO GO TO THE FMCS PUBLIC SITE, CLICK HERE

General
We are now accepting applications for potential job openings for the 201-12 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 2012-2013:

SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS and SUBSTITUTE VPK TEACHER AIDES: We are accepting applications for teachers that love the Lord, love children and have at least a Bachelor’s 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.

COACHES NEEDED: Coaches should be 21 years of age or older, love the Lord, sports, and kids! Sports include soccer, basketball, golf 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.

BUS DRIVERS FOR FIELD TRIPS: Looking for drivers who love children, love the Lord and have a CDL with an P endorsement. Contact the school at 939-4642.

We want to thank everyone for their support this year of the 2011 FMCS Annual Golf Tournament. Mrs. Anne Kearns, golf tournament event chairperson, and a great staff of volunteers did a outstanding job. We also want to thank every golfer and every sponsor. Over $5000 was raised for the David Benton Scholarship Fund! FMCS is also thankful for the support of The Forest Golf and Country Club – see you May 5, 2012.

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

Platinum Sponsors:
- First Assembly of God
- KAIO Student Ministries
- Mathis, Gnatek, Jessen, & Associates, Inc
- Wittenborn Plastic Surgery

Silver Sponsors:
- Ft. Myers Masters Commission
- Hatfield Tree Service
- Lusk, Drasites, Tolisano and Smith P.A.
- Prestige Health Choice, L.L.C.
- Prudential Florida Realty – The Ryba Team
- W.C.I. Inc.

Bronze Sponsor:
- Merril Lynch

Hole Sponsors:
- Flint Financial Group
- Osterhout, McKinney, & Prather, PA
- Pool Doctor

COMPREHENSIVE LIST – CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE:

Our 2011 winners: left to right,Bob Legters, Jeff Brinkert, Mike Gronow, and Richard Hubbard.

Recap from 2010: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! 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!

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

Students and parents had a great time on May 7th and 8th with Field Day, 8th Grade Missions Night and our intramural track meet. For more info and pictures, go to The Principal’s Blog!