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Award-Winning Books!

The results are in.

Frankencrayon is the 2017-18 Red Clover Award Winner! Dragon was Terrible was the FMS winner.

Projekt 1065 is the 2017-18 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Winner. The Wild Robot was the FMS winner.

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Matt McElligott Author Visit, May 8th!

Author and Illustrator Matthew McElligott visited this week.  We had a blast listening to his inspiring presentations.  He even did an interactive drawing presentation and created some writing prompts for our students. Thank you to the Essex PTO for funding this visit, and to Mr. McElligott for sharing your talents with us!

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Family Reading Book Club, 2018!

On Thursday, March 29th, FMS families gathered for a schoolwide family book club. In 18 concurrent book discussions, families discussed one of 7 books they had preselected and read out loud at home. 140 family members attended the book club. 156 books were distributed to interested families in February. Thanks to the FMS PTO, students were able to keep or swap their book for another on the list. Students ate ice cream and participated in rich book discussion with their family members. The program is organized by the FMS Library.