R. J. FISHER MIDDLE SCHOOL
May 20, 2015
Principalʼs Corner
Dear Fisher Parents,
Congratulations to Fisher’s Math Olympiad Teams!
Fisher Middle School had two teams competing in Math Olympiad this year.
A team of 6th grade students competed in Division E, and a team of 7th and 8th grade students competed in Division M.
Math Olympiad students complete five monthly contests, each with five challenging problems, from October through
March. Fisher’s Division E and Division M teams both earned plaques for Highest Achievement (Top 10% nationwide)
and all students improved their problem solving skills.
Congratulations to 6th grade student, Nicole Krockenberger, for her perfect score in Division E. Nicole is the first
student in LGUSD to earn a George Lenchner Award from the Math Olympiad Foundation for a perfect score.
The high scorers and trophy winners for the Division M team were 8th grader Laura Herron and 7th grader Arto
Mihalache.
Congratulations to all participants for their dedication to math and their perseverance in problem solving!
We are very proud of you!
Lisa Fraser
Principal
6th Grade Students
Adrina
Tang
Alexander Fairchild
Amelia
Grabinski
Anjali
Vaidya
Ankita
Khanna
Beatrice
Mihalache
Camellia Nakhjiri
Carol
Li
Charles
Wang
Christopher Ye
Felicia
Nguyen
Jack
KiuDu
Jacqueline Lou
Jaewon
Lee
Jensen
Koch
Jeremy
Eriksen
Kersha
Azim
Nicolas
Evenden
Nicole
Niki
Noah
Oliver
Priyanka
Sandy
Sasha
Sasha
Siddharth
Simar
Sophia
Meera
Sherman
Leyfman
Krockenberger
Tsuruta
Wang
Pulikeshi
Jang
Prostota
Ryu
Pai
Malhotra
Zhao
Keswani
Wong
7th Grade Students
Anoushka Rao
Ariel Qian
Arto Mihalache
Bradley Ma
Cathy Wang
Celine Kugler
Christina Wong
Cyrus Tau
Eddy Byun
Elizabeth Lu
Ethan Mader
Jadis Chen
James Deboskey
Joshua Chan
Lauren Lee
Mira Sharma
Naren Srinivasan
Nikolay Usanov
Sarah Eapen
Simon Adler
8th Grade Students
Alice Martynova
Angelica Wang
Fiorella Chen
Andrew Chrissan
Hanna Aceves
Hannah Lin
Jerry Zhang
Katrina Nguyen
Kiyavash Azim
Laura Herron
Talon Page
Viola Zhao
FISHER SCHOOL CALENDAR
May
20!
!
School Advisory Council Meeting @ 7:00pm in
Library
25!
Memorial Day - No School
26!
Creative Writing Club @ Lunch in R6
27!
!
Picnic and Pops Concert from 5:00pm - 9:00pm
in the Fisher Quad - All Music Groups perform
29!
!
8th Grade Dance 6:30pm - 9:30pm in the Fisher
MPR
FOR CURRENT AFTER SCHOOL SPORTS
INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT THE SPORTS
PAGE ON THE FISHER WEB-SITE!
Questions? Please call or email Ms. Mitchell or Ms. Rynn Athletic
Directors at 335-2368 or [email protected] or
[email protected]
For future sports tryouts, game schedules, or directions to offsite
locations, visit the Fisher sports page at
CLICK HERE!!
Go Trojans!
June
01!
Late Start Monday - 9:10am to 3:03pm
01!
7th and 8th Grade Speech Assembly for students
02!
MINIMUM DAY BELL SCHEDULE - No Zero Period
03!
MINIMUM DAY BELL SCHEDULE - No Zero Period
03!
!
6th and 7th Grade Carnival @ Fisher 10:00am 12:25pm
03!
!
8th Grade Great America Trip leaving @ 10:00am
(expected to return to Fisher @ 5:00pm)
04!
!
!
MINIMUM DAY BELL SCHEDULE - No Zero Period
Last Day of School - Graduation - 6:00pm @ Oak
Meadow Park!
Don’t Forget!!!!
Tuesday, May 26th is the LAST
DAY to order tickets
for the 8th Grade Dance and Great
America!
Order your tickets TODAY!
Hi Friends in LG
We have 3 opportunities to gather this week!
This Thursday - May 21 we will be hiking in Saratoga at
Fremont Older. If you plan on joining us, please meet in the parking
lot at RJ Fisher at 9am, and we'll carpool (I can take 6 people).
Bring a sac lunch to eat on the hike and plan on being back at Fisher
by 1pm. Dogs are welcome on this hike!
Friday we'll do our regular hike at 9am, meeting at the Main
Street bridge area. I won't be there, as the high school freshman
class is doing a Fun Run and I'm volunteering (you'll see the
students running the trail, so you may want to hike the wider trail up
to the Reservoir, so as not to get trampled).
Friday at 11:30, Pia Jacobsson, one of our Swedish Friends In
LG members, has invited us to her house for a pot luck lunch. Please
come, and bring something to share (she'll be making a couscous
salad). She welcomes dogs into her back yard if you want to bring
your pooch.
Pia's address is 139 Newell Ave, phone 669-2267840.
Please RSVP if you plan on joining us on Thursday or on Friday
at the pot luck.
Best,
Janet Stimson - 408-309-5844
(Parent of Luke Stimson - 8th grade and Jake in 9th at LGHS)
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Yearbooks Sales
Information!
Yearbooks are still on sale. Please bring a cash or check
(made out to Fisher Middle School for $60) in an envelop ℅
Mr. Fanderl. Last day to reserve will be May 22. See Mr.
Fanderl's website to see if you purchased one.
Please let the attendance
office know if your
student will be out for
any reason.
Please call or email attendance every day that your
student is out ill.
Remember students need to be fever free without meds
for 24 hours before returning to school.
Attendance Line: 408-335-2385 or
[email protected]
The Fisher music department welcomes 5th
grade families and the entire Fisher
community to Picnic and Pops on the Fisher
Quad and in the Cafeteria and Library
x Enjoy performances by all of our Fisher
music groups AND (new this year) our
Elementary Honor orchestra and band.
x Get your t-shirt for the fall at reduced
rates!
x Find out more about our fun
September 19 fundraising event.
MAY 27, 2015
FISHER PICNIC & POPS
Wednesday 5:00pm – 9:00 pm
Performance
Schedule
5:00-5:07- Elementary Honor Band
5:07-5:15- Elementary Honor Orchestra
5:15-5:30- Open Band
5:30-5:45- Open Strings
5:45-6:00- Percussion
6:00-6:15- AWARDS
6:15-6:45- Jazz Band
6:45-7:00- Open Choir
7:00-7:15- Concert Band
7:15-7:30- Women’s Choir
7:30-7:45- Symphonic Band
7:45-8:00- Orchestra
8:00-8:15- Raffle Winners announced
8:15-8:30- Sing! (A cappella vocal group)
8:30-8:45- Mixed Choir
Purchase hot pizza and fresh salad from Pizza My Heart, cupcakes from Shuly's
bakery, and ice cream from Baskin Robbins (proceeds benefit Fisher Music)
NO PRE-ORDERS; Bring cash and your family for an evening of music, food & fun!
Contact Margaret Kvamme
at musicboosters1@fisherhsc.
com or (408)472-0087 with
any questions.
GRADUATION TICKETS HAVE BEEN MAILED
Hang on to your tickets! Any lost tickets will NOT be replaced. If you lose your tickets, you will not be permitted access to the
seating area until 6pm. If you have tickets that you will not be using, please return them to Jane Babb in the front office and they will
be distributed to other families.
Please read the information provided with the tickets. It gives you all of the details for graduation day including drop off times,
parking options and dress code.
If you indicated on your ticket order that a member of your party is disabled and needs assistance at the ceremony, and you have
not yet spoken with Donna Fox about your needs...please contact her @ 408-206-0327 ASAP!
****Please note that an updated version of the Oak Meadow Map provided with your tickets has been posted on the graduation
info section of the Fisher website. We have added a 3rd drop off site for graduates!
Home & School Club Happenings for the week of May 20, 2015
Stay Informed, Be Involved, Make A Difference!
More H&SC info can be found at h4p://www.ﬁsherhsc.com
Please consider volunteering to help out at 8th grade dance! We need your HELP! The 8th grade dance is next Friday, May 29th, and volunteers are sUll needed! Please volunteer at: hDp://
ﬁsherhsc.ivolunteer.com/graddance_015
8th Grade Dance & Year End AcIviIes:
May 26th is the last day to order your Uckets for the 8th Grade Dance AND Great America!!!
Don't Miss Out on the FUN!!!! Order today!!!
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H&SC Calendar Month in View
May 20th – 6:45-‐9:00 pm H&SC/Site Council Mtg.
May 26th – Last day to order 8th grade dance & Great America Uckets!
May 29th – 8th Grade Dance 6:30-‐9:30 p.m.
June 4th – Last Day of school & 8th grade graduaUon
The slate for the 2015-‐2016 Home and
School Club Board of Directors will be voted on May 20th at H&SC / Site Council meeIng @ 6:45 p.m. (new 5me!)
President -‐ Tracey Calassa
Vice President -‐ Kathy Granger
Secretary -‐ Kathy Smedt
Treasurer -‐ Kerry Lindholm
Asst. Treasurer – Anna Leung
Parliamentarian -‐ Kim Schenkel
Director of Volunteers -‐ Allison ValenIne
Leadership Liaison -‐ Amy Cato
CommunicaIons – Cindy Waler
VOLUNTEERs Month in View Check out our end of year volunteer needs:
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A special THANK YOU to all of our Fisher Volunteers! You have been a lifesaver and we appreciate all that you do! THANK YOU!!!
Attention Fisher Friends and Families
The Fisher Leadership Class is hosting their annual 6th and 7th grade Carnival on June 3rd and we need your help! We have
expanded this event to make it as much fun as possible for 800+ kids! We need over 60 volunteers to help make this event safe and
fun. We have a variety of jobs like running fun old-fashioned carnival games, face painting, general supervision or selling
concessions.
Please follow the link below to sign-up.
http://fisherhsc.ivolunteer.com/carnival15
Please also consider donating a small commercially prepared cake or other dessert for our cakewalk. Cakes can be donated on
June 3rd outside the main office before school – or brought directly to the cakewalk booth if you are also volunteering to help.
Music parents - Picnic and Pops is just
around the corner!
Please sign up to volunteer for a shift during the evening, or to donate
supplies:
http://fisherhsc.ivolunteer.com/pops_2015
8TH GRADE DANCE
Parent Volunteers Needed!
Friday, May 29th
We have planned an awesome celebration
for our 8th Graders and need your help
to make it happen!
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Parent Volunteer
Opportunities
Next year’s 6th and 8th grade classes each need a parent volunteer (ideally two for 6th grade) to track community service hours monthly. This is a very Mlexible opportunity as the work can be completed from home and whenever it’s convenient for the volunteer. Volunteers need to record community service submissions from students, track cumulative community service hours throughout the year and report back to students regularly via email with updated ytd community service hours. Requires 2-‐4 hours/month. Please contact Karen Boncher for more information: [email protected]. Thank you!