FCMS EXPRESS

• 20-24th - Safe Passage during gym classes

• 20th-24th - Red Ribbon Week Dress up days posted below

• 24th - Quarter 1 Reward

• 27th-31st - Fall Break *NO SCHOOL*

• 5th - Early Dismissal, student's release at 2:50

• 5th - Academic Team Meet - time and place TBD

• 11th - Veterans Day Program - 8:30 breakfast, 9:00 program

• 10th-14th - FCMS Bookfair

• 17th & 18th - 7th grade Ag field trip to Michaela Farm

• 11/26 - 11/28 - Thanksgiving Break *NO School

--Jillian Glisson, Journalism

--Jayla Callahan, Journalism

Shout out to students Camden Creek, Aubrie White, and Harper Mainous for speaking at this month's school board meeting. These students are only a few table leaders FCMS has during lunchtime. Having table leaders gives students the chance to take ownership and responsibility for their behavior and cafeteria environment.

The eighth grade computer science class has been working on robotics projects for the first quarter. This week is the final week of robotics in this class. Students are working on line following robots. Each group has to build a robot that tracks a line on the ground. Students are being timed on how fast they can complete three laps, and also the fastest lap of the class. With one day remaining of competition, the fastest lap so far is 12.33 seconds. The fastest time for three laps is 39.21 seconds set by group 5, which consists of Braydn Buckler, Wyatt Reese, and James Tirey.

Congratulations to Emerson Gabbard who received Mrs. Ariens’ “Reading Rockstar of the Week” recognition. Emerson is a prime example of kindness, responsibility, and respect in the classroom. Keep up the great work, Emerson!

Mrs. Ariens’ 6th grade Science classes participated in a “corn maze” STEM activity as part of their “Halloween Science Week”. Students learned how corn mazes are made, planned out a diagram, and built models with a partner or triad. Then the mazes were tested, and a winning maze was declared. Students showed top-notch teamwork and problem-solving skills during the lab!

Wednesday, students and staff wore pink to raise awareness for breast cancer.

Thank you to all parents and families who supported our Hurts Donut fundraiser. We raised enough money to pay for all of the students who earned the incentive to go bowling. Thanks so much to all those who helped!! Our goal is to help our FCMS students see that hard work pays off.

Thank you parents for coming out Thursday evening and Friday morning, for conferences. If you were unable to attend conferences and would like to meet with a teacher, please send them an email separately.

We will be starting practices for the upcoming Crops, Forestry and Entomology career development events this week. Practices will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays afterschool at the FCHS Ag Shop from 3:20 pm until 4:30 pm. We have had several students sign up, but have room for a few more to fill out our teams (there are 3-4 per team). You can only compete in one of the three contests. There is a lot to learn!

The Area VII Crops, Forestry, & Entomology CDEs contest will be Thursday, November 13, 2025, at the First Bank Kuhlman Center, at the Wayne County Fairgrounds. We typically go during the school day, there are several time slots to choose from, so the time is TBA. We have to know who would like to attend so we can be sure to get online waivers signed, and our teams registered so please sign up by this Friday, October 17.

If you'd like to know more about what the competitions entail, here are some links to the official websites, note the event dates are for the state events:

Crops

Forestry

Entomology

(Important Reminder to our FFA charter members (those 8th graders not enrolled in an ag class this year): you may participate in the area contests, however you can not advance to the state event if you qualify, these are state rules.)

I know this is a lot of info, so please reach out if you have any questions. Thanks!

--Angie Riffle ariffle@fccsc.k12.in.us