Latest Newsletter

In case you missed it, Assistant Principal Susan Kennedy Marx posted the latest school newsletter on the Fort River School website last Friday (Nov. 5). It includes a cool Powerpoint presentation made by Fort River students about the recent rescue of the Chilean miners. Click on the link to view it: http://fr.arps.org/node/2394.

FORT RIVER READS!!!--Book Event and Community Marketplace

SAVE THE DATE!!!

The Fort River Scholastic Book Fair will take place during the week of December 6, and this year it will start with a BANG!

On Monday, December 6 you will be invited to join the community for an evening celebrating literacy, music, entrepreneurs, and families at the FORT RIVER READS!!!--Book Event & Community Marketplace. We will offer a chili dinner, dessert, and coffee for your enjoyment at a very reasonable cost. The annual Winter Sport Swap, where you can drop off/pick up terrific gear for your kids (for FREE!) will also take place on this evening. More information and details on this exciting event will follow in the coming weeks.

At this time members of the Fort River community who own small businesses are invited to have a table at the Marketplace to sell their products or services. Please contact Shari Abbott (shariabbott@mac.com or 256-2353) for details and to reserve a place at the Market.

Volunteers are needed to plan and run this event. This is a fantastic way to get involved with something that really impacts kids at Fort River! If you love books and want to support the Fort River Library, your help is needed. Again, please contact Shari (shariabbott@mac.com  or 256-2353) to volunteer for committee or event work.

All proceeds from the Book Fair and this Event will go directly to the
Fort River Library for books and educational materials.

FORT RIVER READS!!!

Fort River Yearbook Committee Meeting, Nov. 10

Come join the yearbook committee as we plan and design our next yearbook. We need parents to be involved in:

--Yearbook cover design with the 6th grade students 

--Communicating with teachers/parents to collect digital photographs
--Photographing missing staff/students

--Photographing events, specials classes, and instrumental performances

--Creating yearbook pages, distributing proofs to classroom teachers for review, and editing 

Come and find out how you can help at our first meeting on Wednesday, November 10th at 7:00pm, or contact Kathy Niedzielski at stonyhill4@verizon.net. Location: Fort River Library.

School Picture RETAKE Day is Monday, November 8, 10am-1pm

School Pictures went home yesterday with students. If you are dissatisfied with the photographs and wish to have them retaken please bring your entire packet to give to the photographer on retake day. Please do keep the class photograph. If your child was absent, please send in the envelope and payment if you wish to order a package. In some cases your child's teacher may have the envelope.

Original Works Workshop--Thanks from the PGO

The PGO would like to thank Carmela Gravante-Gunnells and Barbara Davis (whose children came to Fort River 10 years ago) and Multi-Arts teachers for their support of the event at Fort River.  In additon we would like thank Multi-Arts Director Catalina Arrubla organizing this fun event!

This event was supported by Guild Art Supply.

Also, please note that orders are now being collected.  They can be dropped off in the PGO mail box in the main office.

Tour of Hawthorne Property

We Want You To Come!

THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL  INTER-ELEMENTARY CROSS COUNTRY CHALLENGE

Where: 

On fields behind the Amherst Regional High School

When: 

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 (see time schedule below)

How far:   

1K (.62 miles) for Kindergarten through second grade

1.5K (.93 miles) for grades three and four

2K (1.25 miles) for grades five and six

How much:  

Donation requested, but not required

Schools Invited:   

Crocker Farm, Wildwood, Fort River, Shutesbury, Pelham, Leverett, Common School, Amherst Montessori

Time Schedule

K-2 boys and girls (3:30)

3-4 boys and girls (3:50)

5-6 boys and girls (4:10)

(Please register as close to 3:00 as possible)

  

Sponsored by the Amherst Regional Boys Cross Country Team.

Please note: this event is not sponsored by the Fort River PGO.