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.

FSAPS TEACHERS CELEBRATED COMPLETION OF THEIR GIFTED ENDORSEMENTS WITH DR. GOLLMAR

As you might already know, a group of FSAPS teachers were taking gifted endorsement classes from Metro RESA for the last two years. The classes were every other Wednesday between 5pm and 7pm. We truly enjoyed and benefited from this gifted endorsement class and will always treasure the time we spent with our amazing professor, Dr. Gollmar. Dr. Gollmar has years of experience in gifted education and she designed the class in most beneficial way for our teachers. With the competition of this gifted endorsement our teachers have the knowledge and the tools to better serve the big gifted population we have at FSAPS. It certainly takes us to the next level. FSAPS teachers thanked Dr. Gollmar with a party organized for her honor during last class this April. THANK YOU Dr. Gollmar!

We plan to start another gifted endorsement cohort for the new teachers next year.

FSAPS ENROLLMENT UPDATE & NEW CAMPUS TOURS

We are pleased to inform you that we now have a waiting list for our 1st and 2nd grade classes for 2015 -2016 school year. Seems like soon we will have a waiting list for most of our grades. Beginning next year, we will no longer do rolling admissions as we will not have that much space in each grade. Instead, we will place a deadline and announce accepted students after the deadline just like other well established private schools do.

As you know the campus will be ready on June, 2015. The new campus is about 75,000 square ft. and have 35 classes. We are currently reserving some classes for our high school grades which we plan to start in August, 2016. As announced earlier, we will have two classes of each grade in elementary level and four classes of each grade in middle school level.

Many families have toured new campus on Saturdays. Our wonderful construction manager, Tony enjoys giving guided tours to our families personally. You are most welcome to bring your children to new campus tours as well. If interested, please contact Mr. Turan at nturan@fultonscienceacademy.org.

Our official opening ceremony for the new campus will be on Thursday, August 13 noon with the attendance of State Superintendent Richard Woods, the world's tallest man, and many other specials guests. It will be a great day for our students, teachers and parents.

Next year will be an exciting year!

CONGRATULATIONS TO FSAPS MATH TEAM!

The FSA Math team continues its trend of competing and bringing home awards at every level! This past weekend, FSA Math Team competed @ the 6th Annual Cheetah Cup Math Competition, a Math Competition for 4th, 5th and 6th Graders at Creek View Elementary School in Alpharetta, GA. Our 6th grade team received 3rd place @ the 6th Annual Cheetah Cup Math Competition on April 25th among 40 teams participated! Congratulations to our students & FSA Math Teachers! We are proud of them! Keep up the good work!!

DUKE UNIVERSITY TALENT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM CEREMONY

Dear Parents,

FSAPS will be providing transportation for the State Duke TIP Award ceremony on May 6. If you are a winner and interested in bus transportation for your child and possibly yourself and other members of your family, please send an e-mail to Mr. Turan by this Friday and let us know how many people from your family will attend.