Fairfield Middle School

Meet this week's Staff Shout Out! Shawn Klehm from Fairfield Middle School. https://www.fairfieldsfuture.org/vnews/display.v/ART/626aa3ecf1a13

Students took over life skills class today and presented on habit # 4, think win-win. We have been studying this habit in our Trojan time groups as well as in life skills class. The students did a terrific job presenting with readings, videos, and through fun games like Kahoot. Way to go students! You are leading the way.

The BOGO book fair is happening this week at FMS Library! Please stop by and help support the library to buy new books, furniture, and more! The book fair will be open late on Thursday, April 28th until 5 p.m.!

Well the weather wasn’t the greatest but our students had fun yesterday at the Jefferson County Park! EB caught two fish and improved in his casting significantly! Lincoln caught LOTS of stick fish! 😊 A big thanks to Davis Lowenberg and Ryan Holthus for volunteering their time for this incentive program!

This past week in Trojan time we focused on community service and identifying needs in our community, nationally, or internationally that we can support. Students in trojan time collaborated, developed a plan, and created a goal to achieve this. Most of the groups will carry this out later in May but Mr. Rebling’s Trojan time did theirs this week. They recognized our awesome police force and served them this week. So proud of this group!

Congrats to Aries, Kendra, and Nolan for receiving the 8th grade shout outs this week! We are super proud of your hard work in classes! Keep up the great work!

Students are hooked 🪝 and engaged in science today as they dissect fish and learn about the anatomy! So neat and interesting! I could have stayed all day! 🎣

Finally! Some great weather. Students enjoyed pickle ball during PE today.

Well this is amazing! 🎸These four students have been working hard in their new LIFT enrichment groups. They are working with Mr. Roush on constructing guitars out of materials. This is a rough cut of the guitar body. Can’t wait to see the finished product! 🎶🪕🎶

This week has already been filled with lots of great learning for our staff. Staff took time to analyze our community day feedback forms from local businesses to identify celebrations and opportunities for growth for next year. This time to analyze our feedback and collaborate with one another was wonderful!

SIAC Highlight #2 Every school in the district is either acceptable or commendable! (See attached picture) MTSS and the foundation and reading and the success is paying off. (Check out our FAST Data)

FCSD is looking for applicants interested in a job in their Custodial Departments. Below are links to the job descriptions and a link to the application website. All applications must be submitted online. You can also search for these jobs and more here: https://www.applitrack.com/fairfieldsfuture/onlineapp/default.aspx Middle School Evening Custodian -https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NG7SjDl_NC3vKxLFmCE2UOsJLt1r9OSbBiDf4f24TFc/edit?usp=sharing Full-Time Custodian - Middle School (Hours to be assigned) - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KN5cH9iJKYrJ3lzHEMGEPInBTkOUhkZ0uZ31f5wVQII/edit?usp=sharing High School Evening Custodian (3:00 PM - 11:30 PM, or as assigned) - https://docs.google.com/document/d/19-183OoXO9bw7hMgVzMZvuoCqmXxlTKsBMBaO3l_wzY/edit?usp=sharing Pence Evening Custodian (3:00 PM - 11:30 PM, position subject to change) - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NSmml0niGHIzKXyIgRiTYjB9Ok8p88ZN3SfNkmPGJ-Q/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you to the high school band and vocal groups for their amazing performance today!

The Trojan Athletic Booster Club needs your help! Volunteer help is needed in the concession stand at our home soccer and track meets this spring season. Below is a list of the dates, events, and worker slots that are still needed to be filled. You can sign-up to help for one or more of these worker slots by clicking on this link https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e084eaaad2ba57-spring The Trojan Athletic Booster Club is the major funding source for all of our 7-12 athletic teams so it's ability to keep the concession stand operational is vital to our programs! Thank you in advance for any help you can provide! Go Trojans! Today, April 14 - V Girls Soccer Game - 0/2 slots filled, V Boys Soccer Game - 0/2 slots filled Thursday, April 21 - V Girls Soccer Game - 0/2 slots filled, V Boys Soccer Game - 0/2 slots filled Monday, April 25 - MS Girls Track 1st shift - 6/8 slots filled, 2nd shift - 5/8 slots filled Tuesday, April 26 - V Girls Soccer - 2/2 slots filled - EVENT COVERED! Thursday, April 28 - V Boys Soccer Game - 0/2 slots filled, JV Boys Soccer Game - 0/2 slots filled Monday, May 2 - V Girls & Boys Track 1st shift - 4/8 slots filled, 2nd shift - 3/8 slots filled Tuesday, May 3 - MS Boys Track 1st shift - 0/8 slots filled, 2nd shift - 0/8 slots filled Thursday, May 5 - V Boys Soccer Game - 0/2 slots filled, V Girls Soccer Game - 1/2 slots filled Monday, May 9 - MS Boys Track - - 0/8 slots filled, 2nd shift - 0/8 slots filled Thursday, May 12 - V Girls Soccer Game - 0/2 slots filled, V Boys Soccer Game - 0/2 slots filled Friday, May 13 - V Boys Soccer Game - 0/2 slots filled, JV Boys Soccer Game - 0/2 slots filled

The University of Iowa is hosting a Wildlife Camp at Lake Darling July 25th-29th for students entering 3rd-7th grade this fall. See flyer for more details. There is a cost of $100.

POSTPONED. Today's (April 14) Middle School Boys Track Meet in Ottumwa has been postponed.

REOPENED!! The Nohema Memorial Walk webstore is now open: https://stores.teamelitesports.com/fairfield.../shop/home... Store Close: 4/17/22

Our first community Leader In Me event happened today! This is something that we have planned for all year, and we were so thrilled and excited for such a successful day. Over 100 student leaders helped to pull this event off today! During this event we had over 80 guests and over 30 local businesses represented. Students signed up for these leadership roles and created their own scripts and presentations. We were so proud of their hard work. Students discussed an overview of the seven habits of highly effective people, our successes with morning trojantime groups, and other great things happening the FMS. Following the student presentations our student tour guides took our community members around the school on a tour of the school and into classrooms. It was a great event and huge success. Our goal for this event was to showcase what awesome work our students are doing as well as to bridge the gap between our community and schools. We have an outstanding community and lots of opportunities for our students to explore. We want to thank all the community members who came out to visit today!

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The B I G day is finally here! Tomorrow we will host our first community Leader in Me event at FMS. We have invited local businesses to FMS to share not only the awesome things happening at FMS but also to work on community partnerships. This event is going to be student led. Our student leaders have been working hard to prepare and practice for this huge event. We are super excited for tomorrow! More to come!