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Fostoria City Schools

Fostoria Intermediate
From the Desk of Mrs. Matz
1202 H.L. Ford Drive Phone: 419-436-4125 Fax: 419-436-4169

December Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 4

WOW! It is hard to believe that December is upon us! In the hustle and bustle of this holiday season, we often seem to get so busy that we lose sight of what is most important to us all of the special people in our lives. So, I would like to take this moment to thank each and every one of you for the privilege of spending my days with each of your children; they are truly blessings! As we enter the winter season, I would just like to remind everyone that we try to get the students outside for recess whenever possible. That being said, please dress them accordingly and send them with proper outerwear (scarves, gloves, hats). This is a busy time of year, and the staff at Fostoria Intermediate School hopes that you and your family spend quality time together enjoying each others company. We also would like to wish you a happy Holiday Season and a healthy New Year! We look forward to seeing everyone January 6, 2014!

Inside this issue


Principals Message..................... 1 Asst. Principals Message ............ 2 Project MORE.............................. 2 Spelling Bee ................................ 2 Characters of the Month............. 3 STEM News ................................. 3 3rd Gr. Christmas Program ......... 4 PTO Fall Fundraiser ..................... 4 Guidance News ........................... 5 PTO News ................................... 6 Literacy Specialist ....................... 7

Dates to Remember
Dec. 2 - P.T.O. Meeting Dec. 4 - One Hour Delay Dec. 9 - 11 - Holiday Shop Dec. 10 - 3rd Grade Christmas Program 7:00 p.m. PAC Dec. 11 - One Hour Delay Dec. 12 & 13 - Spelling Bees Dec. 15 - Band Holiday Concert 3:00 p.m. PAC Dec. 16 - B.O.E. Meeting Dec. 17 - Yearbook Group & Candid Photos Dec. 18 - One Hour Delay Dec. 19 - STEM Club Dec. 20 - Jan. 3 - NO SCHOOL Winter Break Jan. 6 - School resumes

Fostoria High Street United Methodist Church Food Pantry is currently servicing over 1000 families in Fostoria. Currently, the need outweighs the supply so much that families are limited to receiving items every other month. However, through the Thanksmas Holiday Food Drive, the goal is to provide holiday food baskets for all needy Fostoria families. Several FCS student groups, including our FIES Student Council helped sponsor a Thanksmas Food Drive! Thanks to all who donated to help support this worthy cause!

From the desk of Mr. Renz


Get Involved in Kids Online Activities It is wise to take an active role in protecting your kids from Internet predators and explicit materials online. To do that: Become computer literate and learn how to block objectionable material. Keep the computer in a common area, not in individual bedrooms, where you can watch and monitor its use. Share an email account with your child so you can monitor messages. Bookmark kids favorite sites for easy access. Spend time online together to teach your kids appropriate online behavior. Forbid your child from entering private chat rooms; block them with safety features provided by your Internet service provider or with special filtering software. Be aware that posting messages to chat rooms reveals a users email address to others. Monitor your credit card and phone bills for unfamiliar account charges. Find out what, if any, online protection is offered by your childs school, after-school center, friends homes, or anyplace where kids could use a computer without your supervision. Take your child seriously if he or she reports an uncomfortable online exchange. Forward copies of obscene or threatening messages you or your kids get to your Internet service provider. As always everyones priority is to keep our kids safe at school and at home. Have a great Thanksgiving! Mr. Renz

PROJECT MORE
SPELLING BEE
The FIES schoolwide spelling bee will be held on Dec. 12 & 13 for grades 36. Contestants are chosen within each classroom. The top 2 or 3 Spellers of each classroom will then compete in the FIES Schoolwide spelling bee. The 1st -3rd place winners of the 5th and 6th grade spelling bee will advance to the Seneca County Spelling Bee held at the Tiffin Middle School in January. Stay tuned for further details!

Project MORE is a one-on-one reading intervention program for students at FIES. Students who are reading near grade level are tutored four times a week for thirty minutes at their reading level. Currently, 78 students are tutored by over 100 volunteers. Volunteers are 4th -12th grade students, parents, grandparents, staff members, retired teachers, and community members. We are always looking for adults who are willing to tutor a student once a week for thirty minutes. If you are interested, please contact Mrs. Berrier at 419-436-4125 or pberrier@fostoriaschools.org

STEM NEWS
November is an exciting month for STEM Club as the 3rd and 4th graders will be constructing Pasta Bridges and the 5th and 6th graders will be constructing Pastamobiles. The students will then get to follow up with defining how strong their bridges are as well as racing the pastamobiles next month. Other exciting news for STEM is that the Wednesday Retail Shop has new materials such as mechanical pencils and book covers. The retail shop also offers other school supplies that students may be running low on at this time of year and is cheaper then heading to the store. Last week during Sci-Fi Friday the students tested surface tension on pennies. This week the students will get to find out what happens when they put water, toothpicks and wax paper together in a special pattern!

Characters of the Month


Congratulations to the following students who were recognized for the character trait, Citizenship: Miss Binkley Harmony Costilla Mrs. Kuebeck Elesia Guerra Mrs. Noel Caden Brown Mrs. Reino Andres Sanchez Mrs. Ross Cameron McElroy Mrs. Schermer Keilani Maragne Mrs. Schreiner Megan Crum Mrs. Armstrong Carlos Carbajal Miss Bartz Emma Maynard Mrs. Linhart Lakai Robinson Mrs. Sharkey Alexis St. Clair Mrs. Terres Kaitlynn Desbin Mrs. Wise Celeste DeTillion Mrs. Click Ryann Young Mrs. Costello Ryan Brown Mrs. Hossler Jaden Dessausure Mrs. Hushour Jolie Counts Miss Jennison Grace Huth Mrs. Lewis Adriana Cunningham Mrs. Riedlinger Tyler Stacey Mr. Kramer Ruby Castillo Mrs. Miller Isabella Garcia Mrs. Riley Macey Sheets Mr. Smith Makayla Ray Mrs. Stone Kaitlyn Casiano Mrs. Ward Bethany Powers

3rd Grade Christmas Program


The 3rd Grade Music classes in the Intermediate Building will present their annual Christmas Program THE HAPPIEST OF HOLIDAYS on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM in the Performing Arts Center in the Jr/Sr High School Building. Poor Rudolph, he is not having the happiest of holidays as he has just realized that in the poem The Night Before Christmas there were eight tiny reindeer. All along he thought there were nine reindeer and he was the most famous reindeer of all. He watches as the Mother tries to get the boys and girls to sleep on Christmas Eve only to see that they do not have going to bed on the agenda. Santa arrives in time to help Rudolph understand that he is important and that children should be asleep on Christmas Eve. Elijah Silva is Rudolph, the 9th reindeer, with Drake Ritter as Santa Claus. The Mother is Princesa Villanueva and the Child is Adalynn Duquette. Mkylhy Hunker and Jesse Little will sing a duet about The 25th Day of December and Patrick Porter will sing about losing his two front teeth. Plan to join the 3rd Graders on Tuesday, December 10th at 7:00 PM to enjoy the great songs of the season! Andthere might even be some snowballs flying through the air.

PTO FALL FUNDRAISER


Thank you to all of our students who made our Fall PTO Fundraiser a huge success! We had a total of 31 students who sold 25 items or more and will be receiving a limo lunch in December! Congratulations to our Top 3 fundraiser sellers! These students received $50 Visa Gift cards on top of their other prizes! Keilani Maragne $744 Lamont Fant $613 Connor King $532

Congratulations to the Top Two Sellers from each grade level! These students received a fun Plasma Light in addition to their other prizes: Grade 3: Keilani Maragne & Adalynn Duquette Grade 4: Kharisma Guajardo & Blaine Groves Grade 5: Connor King & Dameon Sauber Grade 6: Lamont Fant & Elena Galvan

Last month s character education topic was citizenship. Fourth and fifth grade students committed to doing one or two things in order to show good citizenship, and some of those commitments included completing homework and turning it in on time, picking up trash, helping other students, and following rules at home and at school. Sixth grade students created laws and consequences, and they discussed how a leader is elected and how they will handle bullying in each of the following lands: Candy Land, Computer Land, Magic Kingdom, Never Never Land, Toy Land, and Tropical Paradise. Students also had the opportunity to vote for their favorite land. December s character education topic is cooperation, and we will focus on teamwork and compromise. Friendship/Social Skills (4th grade), Grief and Loss (5th grade), and Anger Management (6th grade) groups will be finishing up during the beginning of December. Another set of small group sessions will begin in January. In the next few weeks, permission slips will be sent home to 4 th grade students that expressed an interest in participating in a Grief and Loss Group, and to 5 th and 6th grade students that expressed an interest in participating in a Friendship/Social Skills Group. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me by phone at 419-436-4125 ext. 3226 or by email at bsanford@fostoriaschools.org. Happy Holidays!

Bethany Zambori-Sanford, Guidance Counselor

For the month of November, your child has been discussing what being a good citizen is in our character lessons. We want them to understand that there are many levels of citizenship from the school to the world, but that the ways we identify a good citizen are similar in every situation. The focus in the third grade classrooms was showing the students how all the character words we discuss throughout the year are blended together. The previous months, we discussed Responsibility and Respect in the classrooms. For this month, we discussed how being a good citizen possesses both Respect and Responsible characteristics. During our lesson this month, we further explored the steps to resolving conflicts with others while remaining respectful and responsible in those situations. Each student was encouraged to think of a current problem situation of his/her own and begin to brainstorm possible solutions to solving the conflict. Throughout this discussion, it was encouraged to take out the feeling of anger to have a more clear and focused mind to think of solutions. The students came up with some fun and creative solutions to solve those everyday conflicts with peers that involve: going first, what game to play, someone cutting in line, what tv show to watch, etc. Ask your child what solutions he/she came up with during this lesson. The best way to show our children how to solve conflicts is through talking and modeling ourselves. Happy Thanksgiving!

BAND HOLIDAY CONCERT


Fostoria City Schools Instrumental Department will be presenting a holiday concert on December 15 at 3:00 p.m. in the Jr/Sr High School Performing Arts Center. This concert will include all Band students from grades 5 through 12. Please make plans now to attend and support our students!

PTO News!
Candle Sale Thanks everyone for your help supporting the candle sale! Spirit Wear Our shipment of Spirit Wear has just arrived and will be distributed this week. If you missed out, dont worry therell be another opportunity coming soon with new designs to choose from. Santa Shop Our Santa Shop will be open Dec 9, 10th & 11 at FIES School. Your children will be able to choose from hundreds of gift items for their family members. Dec 10th we will be open after school hours so planning on bringing your Longfellow and Riley students shopping too! Carnival Carnival plans have begun. This years theme is A Day at the Beach Please contact Mindy Lance if youre interested in helping. (419) 934-2676 Box Tops for Education If youre Shopping On Line this holiday season remember to use: https://www.boxtops4education.com/marketplace 0r select the Shop and Earn button. Register and as you shop youll be earning points for our schools! Thank You! Questions or Comments: Facebook.com/RileyLongfellowP Email: ptopresident@fostoriaschools.org Happy Holidays! Caryl

PLEASE JOIN US AT OUR NEXT MEETING ON DECEMBER 2 AT 5:30 P.M. IN THE FIES LIBRARY

FROM THE LITERACY SPECIALIST


While looking for information to share in this months newsletter, I discovered an article about how iPads and iPhones are at the top of childrens wish lists this holiday season. This doesnt completely shock me since my two year old is fascinated with technology and has discovered functions on my phone and iPad that were previously unknown to me. In the spirit of kids and technology Id like to share some apps that will be both fun and helpful. Apps Gone Free-This app offers daily freebies on apps that typically cost. Apps are often available for several days. The typical cost will be crossed out to show its free. If its no longer available it will say expired. It can be found by searching apps gone free within the App Store.

Everyday Math has a variety of apps for their math games. These apps typically cost $1.99, but in the past they have been found on Apps Gone Free. They can be found by searching Everyday Math.

Reading Wonders, our new reading series, also has a variety of apps for their grammar games. The lite versions are free, but there is a charge for the full versions. They can be found by searching Reading Wonders.

There are many free addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division apps. This one was found by searching multiplication.

This is a free sentence-building app. There are three levels in which students are timed and can earn stickers for correct answers.

Happy Gaming! Dawn Skornicka Literacy Coach

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