Good News!

  • Students at Frenchtown Elementary School took on the challenge to fill the principal's trunk with canned goods and other food items donated to the Frenchtown Food Pantry. After a short time the trunk was overflowing and an additional car was needed.  The event held today, April 26, was sponsored and organized by the Frenchtown PTO as a way to help children understand and experience the concept of helping others in the community. Eighth grade students Sarah and Sophie are student council organizers who have helped on this project and other projects supporting the Frenchtown Food Pantry.  They have dedicated numerous community service hours toward helping this organization. (below)


  • Student Council Good News:  A big thank you to the Frenchtown School community. Thanks to all of you, the Frenchtown Student Council raised $429.30 for the New Jersey Association of Student Council's state charity, Good Grief. This valuable foundation is a resource for grieving children and their families. Through a support center and workshops, they help children during a difficult time of their lives while offering support and guidance to the adults in their life as they cope with loss due to death.  
  • Also, the Student Council performed 338 hours of community service this year. This dedication to school and community has earned the Student Council the Community Smile Award from the New Jersey Association of Student Councils. Congratulations to all of you!

  • The 5th and 6th grade Mad Readers participated in this year's North Hunterdon Regional
    Reading Olympics, and brought home a 2nd place ribbon.  Way to go, Mad
    Readers! (below)

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  • Congratulations to Mrs. Toone and her students for competing and having a wonderful experience at the Destination Imagination program on Saturday, March 31st.
  • Two Frenchtown teachers, Jennifer Baker and Pete Moran, were interviewed on the live internet radio station hunterchamberradio.com on April 4, 2012.  The main focus of the interview was the teachers' continued, successful integration of technology in Frenchtown classrooms using Google Apps, the IPAD, and Smart Boards.  The teachers also discussed the importance of sharing best practices in integrating technology into the classroom with other educators.  They discussed workshops they will run in the coming months. Mr. Moran has been asked to present at two workshops at the ISTE convention in San Diego this summer, while Mrs. Baker has been invited to present at the Digital Learning Institute at Montclair State University.
  • Congratulations to Charlotte, a 7th grade music student who, after a recent audition process, was accepted  into the Interlochen Summer Music Camp for 2012.  She will study flute in Michigan at an intensive 3 week program of musical learning, collaboration, and fun!  Her music teacher Mr. Cooney and Frenchtown School are very proud of her acceptance.
  • K,1,2 celebrated Read Across America/Dr. Seuss Day by inviting  Mrs. Petro and Mrs. Scheig to read to them.  The students and teachers made Dr. Seuss stories come alive through various projects.
  • K,1,2 celebrated the 100th Day of school by compiling 100 items in bags individually and participating in multi-age learning centers.
  • 2nd graders brought in 450 cans of food for our food pantry in honor of the 100th day of school.
  • Mrs. Parker has been attending monthly meetings with other kindergarten teachers in Hunterdon County.
  • Mrs. Kloos and Mrs. Okolichany presented Daily5/CAFE reading strategies to Frenchtown and Kingwood teachers.
 
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