STEAM DAY WAS LOTS OF FUN!

Your students had a BLAST this past Thursday at STEAM Day. We traveled to many different activities and experiences, each one better than the next...

Students started the day with taping Principal Sener to the wall for the fundraising of Destination Imagination Team and traveled to many wonderful activities such as Reptiles, bubbles, marshmallow shooters, handmade musical instruments, origami, Cosplay, astronomy, string art, face painting, magician, lasers and more!

A huge thank you to our parent volunteers who helped make this day a major success. It was an amazing day for everyone. The best STEAM day we ever had for sure!

Enjoy a few photos below:

FSAPS STUDENTS VISITED GOOGLE HEADQUARTERS

Fulton Science Academy student team NYAN, second place finalists of the 2015 Tag-Ed Web challenge, was invited to Google headquarters in downtown Atlanta for an awards ceremony on May 6, 2015. Team members Elena Juarez, Elaine Wen, and Shreya Rekapalli enjoyed a lovely evening meeting with other finalists, company representatives, teachers, and Google employees. The trip gave team members a very insightful and inspiring learning experience. Thanks to Mr. Sanal for being an awesome mentor! For all that are interested in entomophagy, the link to the website is: http://newfutureoffood.weebly.com/

- NYAN (Elaine, Elena, Shreya)

(credits to Ananya Terala)

2ND GRADERS PREPARED FLOWER POTS FOR OUR WONDERFUL MOTHERS!

2nd grade had a great time reviewing the plant life cycle, while also creating flower pots for our wonderful mothers. The students decorated the pots themselves, and planted their very own flower in the pot using loam soil. We discussed the benefits of loam soil verses sandy soil or clay soil. What a fun and messy hand-on experience! Happy Mother's Day from 2nd Grade!

KINDERGARTEN CLASS BUTTERFLY FUN!

We have had the best time watching our caterpillars turn into butterflies. Today we set our 7 butterflies free! Your students said 'goodbye' to each one as they flew out of our butterfly net. It was an awesome experience to see the life cycle of these butterflies happen right in our very own classroom!

1ST GRADE MOTHERS ENJOYED MUFFINS WITH MOMS

​First grade had a terrific time this morning celebrating with our moms at Muffins with Mom. Students had breakfast with their moms and drew portraits of each other. They also gave them some gifts that they had worked on this week. It is so special to see our moms and kids together, and it was a wonderful way to wrap up Mother's Day weekend. We love our moms so much!

FSAPS STUDENTS HAD A GREAT TIME AT SPACE CAMP

Please see some pictures from our recent end of year field trip to Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama here.

Students returned from Space Camp during Mother's Day and they gave roses to their mothers who came to school to welcome them.

END OF YEAR PICNICS WERE LOTS OF FUN!

End of year family picnic was lots of fun! Please see some pictures here:

LEAF AND TREE STUDY WALK

On Saturday, 2nd May, Elementary Science Olympians studying Leaf and Tree Finders went on a Tree Identification Nature Walk. Kavitha Kuppusamy, Lakshya Jasti, Raaga Ajay and Niyomi Shah spent two hours on Big Creek Greenways with their coach Ms. Doraiswami. They identified and saw the leaves, bark, fruit, seed balls etc. of many trees from their list of 20+ trees including Black Tupelo, Loblolly Pine, American Sweetgum, American Sycamore, Yellow Poplar, River Birch and Red Maple. They ran short races with Avinash on the boardwalk, drank water, took notes, had cookies, saw a green snake whip hrough the water into swamp grass, saw a duck, drake and ducklings swim in the water, saw some bracket fungi and had a lot of fun! Each student had a parent accompany them on the walk and they served as backpack carriers, water bearers and pullers of tall branches!

Leaf and Tree Finders are preparing hard for their State Tournament on May 16th and this Nature Walk helped them get a hands on work for their event. Thank you for putting this together Ms. Przedpelski & Ms. Minor!

STUDENTS PERFORMED FOR THEIR FAMILIES

Our recital was on Thursday, May 7th, (S.T.E.A.M. Day at FSAPS) at 7 PM in the school cafeteria! During the recital students in the Private Music Lesson Program shared their music with the families and friends of Fulton Science Academy Private School. Please see some pictures here:

FSAPS STUDENTS AND FACULTY PREPARED A FLASH MOB FOR PRINCIPAL SENER ON HIS BIRTHDAY

This is what happens when you have wonderful students and teachers. This Tuesday, May 5th was my birthday and I was called to the main hallway at the end of the morning announcements. I went there not knowing what to expect. It was a big surprise. It's amazing to me that all of the students, faculty, and even my own children kept this a secret right up until it actually happened. I must revisit the confidence I usually feel that I always know what is going on at our school. Haha! This is a birthday I will treasure for the rest of my life. I am very happy to be part of Fulton Science Academy. You made my day. THANK YOU!

THE EPIC FSAPS YARD SALE WAS A HUGE SUCCESS!

A BIG THANK YOU to all of our wonderful parents and faculty who donated items and time to make our yard sale a big success!!!!
We were able to raise $1200 for our Destination Imagination team.

ELAINE WEN WON 1ST PLACE IN 2015 SPANISH POSTER CONTEST

Congratulations to 8th grader, Elaine Wen. Elaine has done it again!! She won 1st place in the 2015 State Spanish Poster Contest. Her poster was selected as the best Spanish Language representation picture in the State of Georgia. Way to go!

CHLOE RICHARDSON IS INVITED TO NATIONAL EVENT TO PERFORM!

FSAPS 8th grader, Chloe Richardson earned a perfect score on her individual event (IE) during the Junior Thespian Festival in Nashville, TN. Not only was she invited to perform her IE on the main stage during the convention, but she is also invited to attend the High School Level Thespian Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska and perform in the National Individual Events Showcase! Congratulations, Chloe on your spectacular achievement!

GREAT RESULTS IN 2015 GCTM MATH COMPETITION

Once again, FSA Math Team shined like a star @ the GCTM’s 15th Annual Middle School Math Competition on Saturday April 18th in Centerville, GA. Our team received 2nd place as a team out of 17 teams participated from all over GA. All FSA Math Team members placed among top 10 students and received an individual trophy as the recognition of their spectacular performance at this math competition. Individual placements are as follows:

Mira Mutnick – 3rd place
Charlie Furniss – 4th place
Karuna Kumar – 6th place
Katherine Li – 8th place

At the end of the competition, during Fright’ning Light’ning fun & challenging round members of each team answered oral relay questions at the stage. FSA Math team won 1st place as a team @ the Fright’ning Light’ning fun & challenging round among 17 school participated and won a big bag of candy!!

Congratulations to FSA Math Team!! Way to go!

END OF YEAR FAMILY PICNICS

Dear Student, Faculty and Parents,

Please be reminded that all FSA families are invited to the end of year family picnics at the following dates for each grade:

May 11 - 7th and 8th Grade Family Picnic at 6:00PM
May 12 - 6th Grade Family Picnic at 6:00PM
May 13 - 2nd Grade thru 5th Grade Family Picnic at 6:00PM
May 15 - Pre-K thru 1st Grade Family Picnic at 6:00PM

The picnic will be at the Istanbul Cultural Center Complex at 591 North Main Street, Alpharetta. We will have the picnic rain or shine since Istanbul Center has a big closed placed reserved for our picnic as well.

Our teachers will prepare barbecue chicken, hot dogs, veggie options and salad.

We kindly ask parents to bring the following according to their last names:

A to K - Drinks
L to Z - Deserts and Fruits

We will have fun activities as well.

Families with children in multiple grades may join all the picnics their children are in.

This will be a wonderful event for our students, faculty and parents to enjoy together.

Please bring the whole family!

SPRING BREAK TURKEY TRIP WAS LOTS OF FUN!

FSAPS students, teachers and parents enjoyed another wonderful Turkey Trip this spring break. Our group visited Istanbul, Izmir (Aegean Coast) and Antalya (Mediterranean Coast). Next year, beside the Turkey Trip, we will also offer a Costa Trip to our families. Please see some pictures from this year's trip here:

HAPPY EARTH DAY! EARTH BALLOON WAS LOTS OF FUN!

This past week Earth Balloon was at our school. Students visited the Earth Balloon and it was AWESOME! We were able to sit together inside a giant balloon of the Earth and discuss the different parts of the Earth including: continents, oceans, landforms... Students had some great questions while we were discussing. It was a fun adventure! A BIG THANK YOU goes to one of our wonderful parents, Mrs. Debra Mutsch and Mrs. Kate Webster for arranging and coordinating Earth Balloon for our students.