Fairmont Edgewood Campus - Newsletter Wk of May 9th

Mrs. Reynolds will be hosting a "Brunch and Learn" for potential new families. If you have friends, family or colleagues who might be interested in this event, please consider sharing this invite with them. You are also welcome to attend along with them.

The purpose of this time is to introduce potential new parents to Fairmont as well as learn how Fairmont makes the difference at every grade level.

During our time together, we will tour the campus, meet with some faculty members and administrators, and have a Q & A time together.

Location: Fairmont Edgewood Campus
12421 Newport Ave
Santa Ana, CA 92705

Date: May 13th, 2011

Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Sheryl Reynolds - Director of Admissions
RSVP encouraged: 714.832.4867

Parent Morning Coffee & Forum

Hosted by: Mr. Smiens and Mrs. Krulisky

Junior High Forum

Date:Thursday, May 19th

Time: 8:00 to 8:45 a.m.

Elementary Forum

Date: Thursday, May 26th

Time: 8:00 to 9:00 a.m.

We want to extend an invitation to parents of all preschool through eighth grade students to join us for an hour of coffee and conversation. This might be a good time to ask questions about your child's next grade level, to share insights about this past school year, or just "pick our brain." There is no set agenda - just whatever interests you about Edgewood. Please join us for coffee and donuts on the above dates.

Doyle and Darcy

Student Spotlight

Nicolas Vanden Berge, Junior Kindergartener

Nicolas Vanden Berge is one of the most active Jr. Kindergarteners you will meet. His teachers can count on being greeted by his smile and exuberant personality every day. If you want to know which student in Mrs. Jansen's Jr. Kindergarten Nicolas is, just look for the one who is a head taller than the rest. Can we say future NBA star? Nicolas enjoys telling his classmates about his many activities, as he participates in many sporting activities each week. His "share" last week was the game baseball he was awarded during his T-ball game. Nicolas is in the TELL Little League and is on the Red Sox team. Second base is his favorite in the infield, and he also loves batting and running the bases.

Nicolas attends a karate class twice a week. He embraces karate with the same enthusiasm he shows at school and recently earned his yellow belt with his eyes looking toward his orange belt already. If Nicolas isn't running past you, maybe he is swimming. When baseball ends, he will return to weekly swimming lessons which he also enjoys a lot. His height would be an advantage reaching toward the wall during Olympic swimming races.

In addition to the sports in which Nicolas participates, he is an active member of his church community. He is a member of the Cherub Choir at church and sings at various services throughout the year. He will be singing this weekend in honor of Mother's Day. Nicolas enjoys Sunday School, learning many of the stories in the Bible. He is looking forward to attending Vacation Bible School this summer. With all of these wonderful qualities, it will be exciting to see who this young boy grows up to be.

2nd Grade Breakfast with Brian

This morning Brian and I enjoyed breakfast together. Brian Gabriel Brian's name was drawn from tickets earned for demonstrating good character. Brian has been kind to others, respectful of his teachers, and has demonstrated a great sense of humor! Brian, I love having you in my class. Keep up the good work!!

Debate Results

Hello Edgewood Campus,

As you know, the Orange County Debate League Championship was this past Saturday. At this event, we had the top 80 students, 27 teams, and 6 schools in the county present. We are very proud of all of the students for their great work, but we were particularly happy to see our Edgewood "captains" team remain undefeated during the regular tournament and compete in the final public debate where the topic concerned birthright citizenship.

Please see below for specific results to the Edgewood campus and two pictures of the students before the start of the competition. Debate Championship 2

- Mr. Hughes

Congratulations to the Edgewood Students!

Speaker Awards:
3rd Nick Flores
5th Francisco Buitron
6th Amanda Madden
10th Kieran Mital
18th Cassandra Fernandez
20th Sonali Narang

Teams
2nd Edgewood MMF (Madden, Mital, Fernandez)
6th Edgewood NFN (Narang, Fernandez, Lam Nguyen)
10th Edgewood MRB (Liam Murphy, Alison Ren, Buitron)

School Awards
Overall Wins (Most wins as a school)
2nd Edgewood
Tournament Award (Greatest percentage of wins per school)
3rd Edgewood

Congratulations to the Anaheim Hills Campus Students!

Teams:
1st Anaheim Hills TCL (Tawfik, Crosson, Lee)
3rd Anaheim Hills KBC (Bach, Crawford, Kim)
4th Anaheim Hills PPK (Patel, Patel, Kim)
5th Anaheim Hills JLW (Joo, Lee, Wang)

Speaker Awards:
1st Kayla Bach
2nd Yvonne Kim
4th Kyle Patel
8th River Crawford
12th Austin Lee
13th Sabrina Tawfik
14th Timothy Kim
17th Nikasha Patel
19th Nicky Crosson

School Awards:
Overall Wins
1st Anaheim Hills

Tournament Award
2nd Anaheim Hills

Congratulations to the Mable Campus Students!

Teams:
9th Mable NIC (Niu, Ismael, Courelli)

Speaker Awards:
9th Vasiliki Courelli
15th Meeran Ismail

Edgewood Bookmark Contest Winners 2011

Lam Nguyen, 8th grader

Leyla Jackson, 5th grader

Myra McCants, 2nd grader

Edgewood Campus Parent Association News and

Meeting Dates

CHANGE OF DATE TO:

Monday, May 16th at 8:30 to 9:00 a.m.

Special Guest Speaker: Scott Hendrickson, FPS IT Director

SAVE THE DATE for the Last ECPA Meeting of the 2010/11 Year:

Monday, June 13, 8:30 a.m.

Fairmont's IT Director, Scott Hendrickson, will be attending the May 16th ECPA meeting to give you an overview of our technology initiatives at Fairmont! Scott will recap the previous year, discuss where we are today, and let you know where we are going in regards to Technology at Fairmont. Scott will be available for questions and looks forward to meeting you!

ECPA Board Member Opportunity & ECPA Volunteers

The ECPA is has an opportunity for you! We are looking to recruit a new Ways and Means ECPA member - whose duties will include organizing special events such as the Back to School Picnic, school assemblies, fundraisers, and the Annual Spring Fun Run.

We are also looking for parent volunteers to assist the Ways and Means Office to chair some of these same events.

We Need You! If you are interested in working with the ECPA board, please contact Lina Ruiz at fresitalina@hotmail.com.

ANNUAL FUN RUN - May 20th - Sponsored by ECPA

Please turn in the pledge form that was sent home with your child this week.

Edgewood Parking Lot Safety Reminders

Parking lot:

1) Parents need to enter the churchparking lot from Vanderlip ONLY. We want to have one way traffic in that parking lot. If parents ask another person (grandparent, friend etc) to pick/drop off their child, they need to inform that person of the procedure.

2) No running in the parking lots.

3) Children need to stay by their parents' side in the parking lot at all times.

4) Parents need to slow down in all the parking lots. Please no speeding.

5) No parking on the red curb.

4th Grade Return From Sacramento

"Wagons Ho!" to Sacramento!

"It was an amazing trip!" Candy Promprasert said soon after returning.

The 4th graders of Mrs. Howe and Miss del Carmen's class, joined by Mrs. Reynolds and Mrs. Lottes, spent two nights and three days visiting San Francisco and Sacramento. Some of the tourist hot spots we visited during our one-day tour of San Francisco were Pier 39, Chinatown, and the Exploratorium.

We spent the next two days in Old Sac, as well as visiting the Capitol Building, the Railroad Museum, Sutter's Fort, the Gold Bug Mine, and an old-time schoolhouse.

When asked about the trip, our students had a few things to say...

Athena Pham said, "I enjoyed going to Pier 39 and it was really fun going down into the mines."

Huda Khan stated, "My favorite part was going to the beautiful Capitol building."

Shreyas Peruvemba said, "My favorite part of the trip was panning for gold because I've never tried it before!"

Emin Torlic shared, "I liked when the zoo ladies had the ferret crawling all over them."

Aycia Sada said, "The carriage ride around the city was fantastic!"

Megan Trivedi stated, "I liked the boat ride around San Francisco Bay."

The fourth graders want to tell all the younger grades that going on this trip is definitely worth it!

May Field Trips