Chef Matthew Young, CTE Culinary Arts Teacher at WSWHE BOCES, and professional photographer, Erica Woodward, visited with our fourth graders for our fifth career exploration day! Chef Young spoke to our students about becoming chefs and brought chocolate chip cookies to teach some culinary terms and, of course, to eat! Mrs. Woodward gave the students hands-on photography lessons and let them take photos of each other! Thank you to Ms. LaVine for organizing this event!










Pajama-palooza starts next week!

Miss Moulton’s class has been doing a great job - participating during lessons, following directions, staying focused, and walking nicely in the hallway! To celebrate, Mrs. Wood came to class as a mystery reader and even played a game of 7-Up! Keep up the great work!

Help Fort Ann’s backpack program when you shop at the Hannaford at 3758 Burgoyne Avenue in Hudson Falls in February! A great bag and a great way to help! ❤️

Hieroglyphics name art from Mrs. Irish’s class! The students loved becoming ancient scribes for the day!










Our second graders connected their recent ELA unit on animals with their current lesson on helping the community through recycling, by making toilet paper rolls into bird feeders!








Now you can donate to the Fort Ann Backpack Program online! Every Friday that school is in session, a bag filled with non-perishable food items is sent home with participating students, free of charge to families. Click here https://give.regionalfoodbank.net/fundraiser/6942489 to make your donation today and help us with this valuable program.

Congratulations to Mrs. Irish's class! They are #62 in the top 100 for the third grade conference for Week #1 of the READ Bowl!!!
The READ Bowl, created by former NFL player and children's book author Malcolm Mitchell. Over 20,000 classrooms from across the US, Canada, and internationally are grouped into conferences to compete to see who can read the most minutes. Great job to all of our readers!!
The READ Bowl, created by former NFL player and children's book author Malcolm Mitchell. Over 20,000 classrooms from across the US, Canada, and internationally are grouped into conferences to compete to see who can read the most minutes. Great job to all of our readers!!




Our second and third graders loved their time in the snow! ❄️❄️😁










Our fourth career exploration day brought Deputy Des, School Resource Officer with the Washington County Sheriff's Office (NY) and Jon Lashinsky, Fire Chief, Fort Ann Fire Company to our fourth graders! Deputy Des shared about what it takes to be a police officer and how he helps students here at Fort Ann. Chief Lashinsky explained how to become a fire chief and brought equipment to show our students.





After reading and comparing many gingerbread stories this past week, Jingles, the classroom gingerbread friend, led our pre-k students on a gingerbread hunt around the school! When we returned to our classroom, he had left gingerbread cookies for us to decorate!










🤩 The 3rd annual Alphabet Fashion show! Each of our kindergartners showed off their incredible costumes from A all the way to Z! Thank you to our families for their help and to everyone who came to the show!








PLEASE NOTE!
The December 17 Board of Education meeting will now be held at 5:00 pm instead of 6:00 pm.
The December 17 Board of Education meeting will now be held at 5:00 pm instead of 6:00 pm.

Who is ready to get in the HOLIDAY SPIRIT?!?!⭐️🌲⭐️ Please join us next week for Holiday Spirit Week!

🎶🎵The Musical Theatre Revue will now be held on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17!

Fort Ann Central School District will be dismissing at 11:30 am today, December 10, due to the predicted weather. After school activities, including the Musical Theatre Revue and Music Bingo event, are also canceled. K-8 students will be provided lunch before being dismissed.

For our third career day, fourth grade students learned from Mackenzie Mehnert and Chauncey Wallace with Fort Ann EMS and Peru Allen, a pharmacist. We thank them for sharing their time and expertise with our students!





Grateful and giving! We delivered 23 Thanksgiving meals to families last week, and Key Club members collected and donated 500+ items for a local church to feed families on Thanksgiving!


Our elementary students had so much fun exploring traditional Japanese music and instruments in an interactive assembly! 🎵🥁✨









🎵🎶 Congratulations to our talented students who performed at the Washington County Area Music Teachers Association All-County Choral Festival!



