News from the Middle

May Parent Newsletter

May is going to be an extremely busy and exciting month for all of our students and staff members at Fort Recovery Middle School. To begin the month of May, we will be the giving the Ohio Achievement Test for all students in grades 6-8. Following is a schedule for the OAT test

Monday- April 28^th	Reading OAT	All students in grades 6-7-8
Tuesday – April 29^th	Math OAT	All students in grades 6-7-8
Wednesday – April 30^th	Writing & Science OAT	7^th grade will take Writing 8^th grade will take Science
Thursday – May 1^st	Social Studies OAT	8^th grade will take Social Studies

I would like to wish all of our students and teachers good luck next week as everyone has worked very hard in preparation for the Ohio Achievement Test. As always we would like to encourage our students to get plenty of sleep next week, plus eat a good breakfast.

We would like to wish Mrs. Carolyn Anderson a very successful retirement, as she will be retiring this May with over 40 years of teaching experience and with 34 years of those years at Fort Recovery. Mrs. Anderson says that she will definitely miss all of her students and her fellow staff members greatly. She is quoted, as saying that one of her joys is “being able to watch her former students become successful and responsible young adults”. Our staff will truly miss Mrs. Anderson as she is well known as a great cook whom loves to make desserts and specialty cakes and cookies.

On behalf of the middle school I would like to thank Mrs. Jutte and Mr. Patch, and the entire 8^th grade students for an excellent trip to Washington DC. Students that I spoke to said that they had a great time and returned home with tremendous memories and lots of great photos. A special thanks also goes out to the parents who chaperoned the trip. A successful trip to DC could not be made without the help of willing parents.

Reading, like no other leisure activity, sustains the powers of the imagination, allowing us to explore worlds we might not otherwise visit and to hear voices we might not otherwise hear. Reading skills, like everything else, cannot be improved without practice. With this philosophy in mind, FRMS will offer the summer reading program for 2008. Due to summer vacations by staff members and building secretaries the following will be the times and places students can take summer reading counts quizzes:

June 2^nd	High School Media Center	10-2 pm
June 4^th	High school Media Center	10-2 pm.
August 4^th	Middle School Media Center	10-2 pm
August 6th	Middle School Media Center	10-2 pm
August 11^th	Middle School Media Center	10-2 pm
August 13^th	Middle School Media Center	10-2 pm

This summer Fort Recovery Middle School will be offering two very special Summer Camps. The first will be a new STEM camp for next year’s 6^th graders. The camp will run from June 24^th - 27^th from 8:30-11:30 am and will be entitled a “Sticky Situation” geared around the principals of material engineering. The second camp will be a GTT engineering camp for all of our 7^th & 8^th grade students during the week of July 14^th -18^th from 8:30-11:30 am.

Upcoming Dates:

Monday May 5^th Middle School Awards Banquet 6 pm

Thursday May 8^th 5K Walk/ Run 10:00 am

Friday May 9^th Book & Company Field Trip 8:30 am – 3 pm

Tuesday May 13^th 6^th grade Field Trip to Ohio Caverns

Wednesday May 21^st 4^th nine weeks incentive/field day

Thursday May 22^nd End of the 4^th nine weeks

Thursday May 29^th Kings Island Incentive Trip ($5.00 cost)

Students with 3 or less missed days of school