Fostoria Intermediate 1202 H.L. Ford Drive

Phone: 419-436-4125

Fax: 419-436-4169

Fostoria City Schools

Inside this issue

Principal’s Message ..................... 1

Drop Off/Dismissal ...................... 2

Guidance News ........................... 2

PTO ............................................. 2

REDMEN Pride ............................ 3

Collections .................................. 3

Waiver Days ................................ 3

State Report Card ....................... 4

STEM/ESL .................................... 4

Parent Involvement .................... 4

Right To Know ............................. 5

Text Messaging ........................... 5

Literacy Specialist ....................... 6

Redmen Club .............................. 6

Dates to Remember

Sept. 1 - Labor Day - NO SCHOOL

Sept. 4 - PTO 6:30

Sept. 5 - Home Football Game

Sept. 9 - Frundraiser kick-off

Sept. 12 - Home Football Game

Sept. 15 - BOE Meeting 6:00

Sept. 16 - Fall Pictures

Sept. 19 - Midterms home

Sept. 19 - Home Football Game

Sept. 23 - Fundraiser ends

Sept. 30 - 3rd Grade Dental Screenings

Oct. 1 - United Way Kick-off - 4th Grade attends

From the Desk of Mrs. Matz Welcome to the 2014-2015 school year at Fostoria Intermediate School! It is hard to be-

lieve that September is upon us and that we have already been in school for over a week! It

has been a fantastic start to the year, and we hope to move forward with as much enthusi-

asm and excitement as we have seen these first few days. I would like to recognize the im-

portant role that parents play in the education of their children and the need for an active

partnership between home and school. I encourage you to be an active participant in your

child’s education. Please assist us by reviewing school work daily, staying in contact with

teachers, joining our Elementary P.T.O., or volunteering whenever possible. Part of this

active participation is communication—as part of our efforts to keep you informed, I’ve

signed up for a service called Remind this year. Remind is a free service that lets me send

one-way messages via SMS, push notifications or email to everyone. Signing up for my

messages on Remind is a quick and easy

process. See below for instruction on how to

join!

OPTION 1: Download the Remind app. It’s free!

Enter the correct class code (based on your child(ren)’s grade level. If you have more than one child, you can add multiple to your account! @fiesgrade3 @fiesgrade4 @fiesgrade5 @fiesgrade6 OPTION 2: Visit the following link(s) online: www.remind.com/join/fiesgrade3 www.remind.com/join/fiesgrade4 www.remind.com/join/fiesgrade5 www.remind.com/join/fiesgrade6 OPTION 3: Join Via SMS by texting 937-595-0684 the correct class code in the message (below) based on your child(ren)’s grade level. @fiesgrade3 @fiesgrade4 @fiesgrade5 @fiesgrade6 If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me at 419-436-4125 or

tmatz@fostoriaschools.org.

September Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 1

WE NEED YOU-

ELEMENTARY PTO

Please join us! We invite all

PreK-6 parents to become

involved in their child’s

Parent Teacher Organiza-

tion. The first Elementary

PTO meeting of the year

will be held on September

4th in the Fostoria Intermedi-

ate Library. The meeting

will begin at 6:30pm and

will last about an hour. We

will be electing new offi-

cers—please plan on attend-

ing!

Welcome Back! My name is Bethany Zambori-Sanford (Mrs. Sanford), and I am the guidance counselor at Fostoria Intermediate Elementary School. I have been a guid-ance counselor with the district for nine years, and this is my fourth year at the In-termediate Building. Before becoming a guidance counselor, I taught English.

I am married, and I am a mother of four. I have an eleven year old daughter and six year old triplets. My daughter is in the sixth grade, and my triplets just started Kin-dergarten. I love spending time with my family and friends, and I especially enjoy camping.

I look forward to continuing to work with students and their families. I will be meet-ing with students one-on-one through self-referral, parent-referral, teacher-referral, and administrator referral. I will be visiting classrooms and sharing lessons and ac-tivities that include the following topics: responsibility, respect, bullying, coopera-tion, and attitude/self-control.

I will also work with students in small group settings. I met with all students last week, and I gave them the opportunity to sign up for one or more of the following small groups: Anger Management, Family Support, School Success, Self-Concept, and Social Skills. If students expressed an interest in participating in a small group, a permission slip will be sent home in the next couple weeks. Please sign the permis-sion slip and return it by the date listed on the permission slip.

If you ever have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call me at 419-436-4125 ext. 3226, email me at bsanford@fostoriaschools.org, or stop in for a visit.

It has been a wonderful start to the year, and I look forward to what’s ahead!

Drop-Off/Dismissal Procedure Reminders:

FROM THE GUIDANCE COUNSELOR

I would like to remind everyone of some important policies and procedures here at Fostoria Intermediate—please keep in mind that these policies and procedures are in place to ensure the safety and well-being of all of our students: In the morning, students may be dropped off between 8:00am and 8:30am. When dropping off your student(s) before the tardy bell (8:30AM), we ask that you enter through the SOUTH Parking Lot and drop your student in front of the SOUTH doors. There is absolutely no parking on this side of the building. All parents wishing to park must do so in a designated parking space in the NORTH Parking Lot. Parents will not be permitted to enter through the South doors in the morning beginning in September—if you would like to walk your child into the building you will need to enter through the attendance office to get signed in and receive a visitor’s badge. In the morning, when you drop off your student(s) after the tardy bell (8:30 AM), you need to park on the NORTH side of the school and bring your child into the school and sign him/her in at the office. No students should be sent in without an adult. All doors to the building will be locked after 8:30am. To enter the building you must use the buzzer located at the NORTH Entrance and wait to be buzzed in by the office staff. Please note that students who wish to eat breakfast should arrive no later than 8:15am. At the end of the day when you arrive to pick up your student(s): Enter through the SOUTH Parking Lot and wait in a single file line in the designated area. The first cars will stop in the drop-off / pick-up zone while following cars should line up behind. Please keep a single line of traffic to ensure students are not crossing through traffic, etc. There is absolutely no parking (do not exit your vehicle) along the sidewalk or in the parking lot during drop off or dismissal. If there is a need to enter the building, parents wishing to park must do so in a designated parking space in the NORTH Parking Lot and enter through the attendance office. You may also park in the South Lot of the Jr/Sr High School and have your students walk to meet you there. Dismissal will begin at 3:00PM

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Welcome to another great year at Fostoria Interme-diate School! We will be participating in two differ-ent ways to earn cash and prizes for our school. We will be collecting both Box Tops and Labels for Edu-cation (formerly Camp-bell’s Soup Labels). Just clip Box Top coupons from hundreds of partici-pating products and send them to school. Box Tops coupons are worth 10¢ each when our school re-deems them from Box Tops for Education. La-bels for Education allows us to earn materials and equipment for our school. Simply place the coupons/labels in an envelope or baggy with your child’s name and teacher on it and turn it in to your child’s teacher. Please turn them in separately, as these are being turned in to different organiza-tions.

We also will be collecting aluminum pull tabs for the Ronald McDonald House.

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NO SCHOOL

Fostoria City Schools will be conducting in-services for all

teachers Prek-12 on Thursday, October 30 and Friday,

October 31. There will be no school for students on

those two days. Transportation will be provided for stu-

dents attending Vanguard/Sentinel.

Parent Involvement

The district believes that significant learning by stu-dents is more likely to oc-cur when there is an effec-tive partnership between the district, schools, and s t u d e n t s ’ p a r e n t s /guardians. Such a part-nership means a mutual belief in and commitment to significant educational goals for each student, a plan for the means to ac-complish those goals, co-operation on developing and implementing solu-tions to problems that may be encountered and con-tinuing communication regarding the progress of accompl ish ing these goals. The district, in col-laboration with par-ents, has outlined its com-mitment to parent involve-ment in the District Parent Involvement Plan. In addi-tion, each elementary school has a parent in-volvement policy that was developed jointly by the district, schools, and par-ents and is reviewed and revised annually.

Ohio School Report Cards to Measure Schools in Two New Areas

This year I have the opportunity to be a part of the STEM (Science, Technol-ogy, Engineering, and Math) Team. I will be teaching the Engineering por-tion of STEM, as well as, continuing to give instruction to our ELL (English Language Learners) students. This year at FIES, your child has the opportunity to participate in a series of excellent problem solving, critical thinking and engineering tasks. Your stu-dent will be grouped with 4-6 students to cooperatively work with each other to create a design that will solve our engineering problems and com-plete them in a timely manner. I am definitely excited to watch as the stu-dents use their skills to work together, problem solve, plan, persevere, and get ecstatic when they successfully present their projects to the class. Again I am very excited to be a part of the STEM team bringing excellence to your student’s education at FIES. Mrs. Stevenson

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ESL/ Stem Instructor for 2014-15

Most students receive report cards showing how well they are performing in school. Like-

wise, each fall Ohio issues report cards to its school districts and schools. Using A-F letter

grades, Ohio School Report Cards detail how well schools and districts are doing in areas

that affect your child’s education.

The reports contain information such as how students are scoring on annual achievement

tests and how much they have learned from the beginning of the school year to the end.

The reports measure districts and schools on how many of their students are graduating on

time as well as whether students of all incomes, races and cultures are getting the support

they need to learn.

The Ohio Department of Education will release school and district report cards for the

2013-2014 school year in September 2014. This year, the reports measure two additional

areas:

K-3 Literacy: This grade relates to Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee and meas-

ures how well schools and districts are helping young students who are reading below

grade level.

Prepared for Success: These measures report how well schools and districts are pre-

paring their students for college or a career. There are no letter grades, but data are re-

ported for six categories. Among them are how many students graduated with honors or

earned college credit or industry credentials by graduation.

The Ohio School Report Cards also report financial information showing spending and

performance for districts, community schools and STEM schools. From them, you can

learn how much is spent and how much is directed to classroom instruction. The data also

report how your school and district’s spending compares to that of others. The financial

data is added to Ohio School Report Cards later in the school year.

For more details on the Ohio School Report Cards, visit reportcard.education.ohio.gov.

Every child is a different kind of flower, and all together make this world a beautiful garden.

Parents/Guardians have the right to know about the teaching qualifications of their child’s classroom teacher in a school receiving Title I funds. Longfellow Elementary, Riley Elementary, Fostoria Intermediate Elementary and Fos-toria Junior/Senior High School receive Title I funds. The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires that any local school district receiving Title I funds must notify parents that they may ask about the professional qualifications of their child’s classroom teacher. These qualifications include: 1. Whether the teacher has met the Ohio teacher licensing criteria for the grade level and subject areas in which the teacher provides your child instruction. 2. Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency or temporary status that waives state licensing requirements. 3. The undergraduate degree major of the teacher and any other graduate degree or certification (such as National Board Certification) held by the teacher and the field of discipline of certification or degree. 4. Whether your child is provided services by instructional paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications. Parents should contact the school office for this information.

Aviso del Derecho a Saber, Aptitudes de los Maestros Los padres / tutores tienen el derecho de saber acerca de los títulos de enseñanza de los maestros de su hijo en una escuela reciben fondos del Título I . Longfellow Primaria , Primaria Riley , Fostoria Intermedio Elemental y Fostoria Junior / Senior High School secundaria reciben fondos del Título I . La ley federal Que Ningún Niño Se Quede Atrás ( NCLB) requiere que cualquier distrito escolar local que recibe fondos de Título I debe notificar a los padres para que puedan hacer acerca de las calificaciones profesionales de los maestros de sus hijos. Estas calificaciones son: 1 . Si el maestro ha cumplido con los criterios de concesión de licencias profesor de Ohio para el nivel de grado y las materias en las que el maestro proporciona a su instrucción de los niños. 2 . Si el maestro está enseñando bajo un estatus de emergencia o temporal que renuncia a requisitos de licencia del estado . 3 . La principal licenciatura del maestro y cualquier otro título de grado o de certificación (por ejemplo, certificación nacional ) que tenga el maestro y el campo de la disciplina de la certificación o título . 4 . Si su hijo recibe servicios de paraprofesionales y , de ser así , sus calificaciones. Los padres deben comunicarse con las oficinas de la escuela para obtener esta información.

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Notice of Right to Know Teacher Qualifications

FCS Adds Text Messaging to Parent/Guardian Automated Communication System

Dear Parents and Guardians, Fostoria City Schools is pleased to announce that we are now able to send announcements (i.e., closings/delays, etc.) via SMS text messaging to your mobile phones. If you would like to receive these announcements as text messages, please do the following: 1. Ensure your school has your cell phone number on file.* *If the school did not have your cell phone number on file and you contact them to add it, wait at least 24 hours before proceeding to Step 2. 2. From your cell phone, text the word Join to the number 56360.** **If our School Connect messaging system finds a match for your number in its database, you will receive a confirmation message “thank you for joining school alerts”. At any time, you can unsubscribe by texting Stop to 56360. 3. Create a contact on your phone with the name of your school or school district (if you have children in multiple schools in the district), or another meaningful name, and the phone number 56360. Then when you receive a text from this number, you know who is sending it. Thank you.

Welcome Back! It’s hard to believe summer is over and we’re

into our third week of school. I’ve enjoyed catching up with our

returning 4th-6th graders, as well as, meeting our incoming third

graders! I very much look forward to working with our stu-

dents this year.

During the nine years I’ve been a Literacy Specialist in Fostoria

I have worked at Longfellow, Field, Riley, and for the last four

years, at FIES. This year I will primarily be working with stu-

dents in the areas of reading and writing. I will also be assist-

ing teachers with curriculum, assessment, and professional de-

velopment.

This year my portion of the newsletters will focus on the Read-

ing Wonders program the district adopted last year. While last

year was a year of learning for everyone with the new reading

program, this year we had a little more training with the hopes

we can stream line our instruction. Some of the topics I will be

covering this year are: Close Reading, Complex Text, Vocabu-

lary, Context Clues, Morphology, Syllable Types, Fluency, and

Writing. I hope this information will be helpful when you are

working with your child at home.

If there are any additional topics you would like me to cover,

please feel free to contact me at school or send and note with

your child.

Happy Reading,

Mrs. Dawn Skornicka

FROM THE LITERACY SPECIALIST

Fostoria City Schools

Fostoria Redmen Club

The Fostoria Redmen Club

is looking for new members.

The club meets once a

month on the last Tuesday

of the month at 7:00 p.m. in

the cafeteria of the Fostoria

Junior/Senior High School.

Please come and support

“The Fostoria Redmen Ath-

letes”.

Together We Make a Difference...

I dreamed I stood in a studio and watched two sculptors there.The clay they used was a young

child’s mind, and they fashioned it with care. One was a teacher who used such tools as books

and music and art. One was a parent with a guiding hand and a gentle, loving heart.And when

at last their work was done they were proud of what they wrought, for the things they worked

into the child could never be sold or bought. And they both agreed they would have failed if

each had worked alone, for behind the parent stood the school, and behind the teacher the home.

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