During the 2021-2022 school year, we will be stocking the staff lounge with treats and drinks for our treasured Fairmount faculty. Each month families of a designated grade level will be invited to participate. This month, we welcome our 1st-grade families to sign up to bring in an item(s) to help stock the lounge. Items will be due on January 11th, and collected by the main doors from 8:40 am-9:00 am. Sign up here!

Thank you to our 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th-grade families who already donated treats for our staff this year! We appreciate your generosity!

Communications will go out this week with resident/family matches and wish lists. Families who requested two or three residents may only receive one wish list due to high participation levels from our school. 

Please bring your gifts to the main entrance on December 13-15th at dropoff (8:40-8:55 a.m.). Thank you to all who helped continue this 50+ year tradition at Fairmount! If you have any questions about this program, please contact Michelle Henriksen.

We will pause the Book Cart program the week of December 13, and we're asking to have all books returned by December 17. Please help us with our mid-year inventory by returning books promptly. We're so proud of all the books the kids have been reading. Thank you to Beth Reichardt for coordinating and all of our volunteers who have made sure our kiddos routinely go home with books!

Yearbook packages and individual items are now available online at Fairmountpta.org through Friday, April 1, 2022.

Yearbooks are distributed at the end of the year and can be signed by classmates. Purchase now, as you must preorder for end-of-year distribution.

5th Grade Baby Pages
Baby pages are on sale and a great way to commemorate continuation to middle school. Submissions are due by 12/23. Space is limited, reserve now! Check out more details here. 

Join us on Wednesday, December 8th from 4 pm to 8 pm at Basic Kneads in Golden for our restaurant night. You can order online at  www.basickneadspizza.com or go in-person. Just make sure you mention Fairmount in the comments (online) and when ordering (in-person). 

Basic Kneads Pizza
17525 S Golden Rd,
Golden, CO 80401

 Open Positions:

• Fairmount 5K Committee to help organize our spring 5K fundraiser. No running experience is necessary! 
• Sponsorship Coordinator to help with business and family sponsorships, and inclusion in our events.
• Staff Appreciation Coordinator(s) to plan and facilitate staff appreciation week during the first week in May. 

If you're interested in helping us, please contact PTA VP, Laura Warren for more information. 

If you're shopping on Amazon this holiday season, make sure you're using Amazon Smile! Amazon donates 0.5% of your purchase back to Fairmount PTA at no additional cost to you. Learn more about Amazon Smile.

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Book Tasting Event
Our 2nd and 3rd-grade students participated in a book tasting event in the library the week before Thanksgiving Break. The library was transformed into the Firebird Cafe, and students were able to "taste" or sample many of our new books along with trying out different genres. They had so much fun and were able to check out some exciting new reads! Our other grade levels are looking forward to their turns soon. 

The 7th Annual Hour of Code Is Coming!
For the 7th year, all students at Fairmount will participate in an Hour of Code in December using Chromebooks or iPads. They will practice computer coding in a kid-friendly way. Besides supporting our district's technology standards, Hour of Code will give students a chance to try coding and hopefully spark their interest. There are tutorials/puzzles for every age. Go to code.org to try it yourself!

Robotics Club
The Fairmount Robotics Club is rocking and rolling! We have 24 students designing and building robots to work on the VEX Robotics challenge called Pitching In. The game's object is to score points by placing balls in goals, clearing corrals, and making their robot hang from a bar. Our big event is scheduled for early April. 

Spelling Bee--Save the Date!
The Fairmount Spelling Bee written qualifying pretest for 4th and 5th graders will be on Monday, January 10, 2022, at 9:00 am in the cafeteria. We will send lists with practice words home with those students who qualify after January 10. The school bee will be in the library on Tuesday, January 25, 2022, at 2:00 pm.