UPCOMING EVENTS

"...at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” -Margaret Atwood

With this week's high temps, it seems like a good time to let you know we have a new bottle-filler, filtered water fountain on campus. Can you guess where? NOTE: This water fountain was a gift from the TFS Sixth Grade Class of 2019. They donated this to the school from the funds they raised for their Philanthropy Project.

Way to go Kosanke fam! We love you and are so proud to have you in our TFS community.

A Montessori education is truly unique. "A three-year-old educated according to Montessori pedagogy becomes a master of his hand and undertakes with joy a variety of human activities. These activities allow him to develop the power of concentration...It is through appropriate work and activities that the character of the child is transformed. Work influences his development in the same way that food revives the vigor of a starving man. We observe that a child occupied with matters that awaken his interest seems to blossom, to expand, evincing undreamed-of character traits; his abilities give him great satisfaction, and he smiles with a sweet and joyous smile." -Dr. Maria Montessori, San Remo Lectures, 1949

Good morning from our resident mama deer on the TFS campus.

The Fulton School is excited to announce that we have been selected as a 2019 ITEF Innovative Award Winner and have received a STEM grant totaling more than $56,000 through the Innovative Technology Education Fund! Our grant, entitled “Innovative Partnerships with Nonprofits,” was designed as a student- and community-based collaboration to collect, analyze and catalogue data in partnership with two other local nonprofits: Friends of the Rainforest (FOTR) and Shaw Nature Reserve. We are eagerly awaiting the start of the new school year so our students and faculty can begin the wonderful projects made possible through this grant. Get all the details at https://tinyurl.com/y6klwrtz Shaw Nature Reserve Friends of the Rainforest Find out more about ITEF at https://innovteched.com/

Meet Stephanie Amant, our new Director of Enrollment. Stephanie is not only passionate about Fulton School from her firsthand experiences (she’s a TFS parent), but her background and skills fit our needs beautifully for this role. With a degree in communications, she served as the Director of Operations for The Legends Country Club in Eureka and later worked for the United States Golf Association. She has also served on several non-profit boards, most importantly to her, the US Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships. Did we also mention she’s heading into her second season as our TFS Varsity Girls’ Tennis Coach? We hope you’ll join us in giving Stephanie a warm welcome and share your family’s TFS journey with her!

So proud of our recent TFS graduate and Eagle Scout, John Eritreo!

TFS is a proud member of the Wildwood Business Association (WBA) -- Check out this fun event coming up!

The Fulton School Board of Trustees recently elected a new member: Erika Schenk. Presently general counsel and vice president of compliance at World Wide Technology, Erika also serves on the boards of the Missouri Historical Society, The Commerce Funds, Character Plus, and Forest Park Forever. A current TFS parent, Erika is a resident of Labadie, where she resides with her husband John and two sons, John and Ryan. Erika joins an impressive list of board members serving The Fulton School community: Pam Cavness (Board President) -- Chief Compliance Officer (retired), Edward Jones Carole Kelly-Frank (Board Vice President) -- Vice President/Senior Business Leader, Product Development, Mastercard Chetan Goyal (Board Treasurer) -- Director of Firm Analytics, Edward Jones Stan Williams (Board Secretary) -- Associate Circuit Judge, Franklin County, MO Larry Hofstetter -- President, Schaeffer Mfg. Company Michelle Strawbridge -- Director of Human Resources, Retail Technology Group

Congratulations to our neighbors, the Bellroses at Fahr Greenhouse

The future of education is here... at Fulton School. Check out this quick read from Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/pascalemmanuelgobry/2014/01/22/the-future-of-education-internet-one-laptop-per-child-ted-sugata-mitra-montessori/#407c4114e1c8 Photo below: "Then and Now" -- Left, a Montessori classroom in the early 1900s. Right, photo taken this spring in The Fulton School preschool/kindergarten classroom.

Geometry + Spanish + MakerSpace = Innovation Our Makerspace Lab has changed the way our students think about projects. Here's a great example: This year, one of our 10th graders made a connection between three of his classes. 1. His Spanish teacher needed a "holder" on the wall to display the ceramic tiles the students had painted in class. 2. He needed to create an end-of-quarter Geometry project that involved graphing different types of functions. 3. He needed to use his Makerspace Elective time wisely :) So, he graphed a sine curve (for Geometry), duplicated it, flipped one on top of the other, uploaded it to the CorelDraw design software program, and sent the file to the laser cutter. Voila: A wall-mounted tile display system for the Spanish classroom designed by a Geometry mind and carried out in Makerspace.

Nothing beats a small school. #ittakesavillage

Our lower school art students created these 3D art pieces, in​​spired by one of Vincent van Gogh's most popular paintings, "Bedroom in Arles." Painted more than 130 years ago in the South of France where the artist lived for nearly a year, this piece was known to be one of VVG's personal favorites. In a letter to his brother Theo​,​ he wrote, "This time it’s simply my bedroom, but the colour has to do the job here, and through its being simplified by giving a grander style to things, to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In short, looking at the painting should rest the mind, or rather, the imagination.​"

Early morning visitors on campus.

Meet some of our favorite TFS friends. Some stayed all year. Some just a few days. Some had feathers. Some had fur. Some had wings. Some had shells. All were loved ❤️.

Image courtesy of Natural Life

**Homemade Waterslide** What a blast these kiddos had during one of the best weeks of the year: Water Week in PE with Coach Sharma!

Look at all these smiles at our Ringing of the Final Bell on the last day of the school year 2018/19.

“Of all God’s gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.” – John Ruskin TFS Photography Club Photo, 2018/19

Congratulations!

We are seeing blue today in honor of our very own St. Louis Blues -- the Stanley Cup Champions! LGB! [Photos courtesy of Photography Club member E. Frank.]

DID YOU KNOW... the first page of our Upper School yearbook has a candid of every single middle and high schooler?