Author: SUMMER NICHOLS

Our Bulldogs were able to enjoy refreshing Kona Ice on a warm, sunny, early release Wednesday!! Our early release events encourage high attendance on early release days and gives our students the opportunity to end the day with a sweet treat! Taking the opportunity to reward our students for coming to school is a good way to teach good attendance habits and share a positive interaction with our amazing students. We love celebrating progress and success for our students. Our attendance Committee has consistently worked to improve our students’ attendance over the past two school years and will continue to … Read More

Forest Grove Middle School Principal and “A” Honor Roll Assembly We appreciate all of our parents and families for coming out to support our students and our school during this honor roll celebration! Parents are the first teachers in their children’s lives! By instilling perseverance, accountability, and determination in the lives of our students, it provides an opportunity for them to reach their highest potential. It all begins with a loving and caring adult! Thank you to the mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and etc. that ensure that our BULLDOGS are successful! We love celebrating our students’ academic successes and … Read More

Mrs. Brick’s 6th Grade class was calculating GPE in their class. This means that our 6th grade students are utilizing algebraic skills in science class. Gravitational potential energy. m x g x h= gpe m = mass in kg. g = 9.8mls2. h = height in meters SC.6.P.11.1: Explore the Law of Conservation of Energy by differentiating between potential and kinetic energy. Identify situations where kinetic energy is transformed into potential energy and vice versa. Big Idea: Energy Transfer and Transformations -A. Waves involve a transfer of energy without a transfer of matter. B. Water and sound waves transfer energy through … Read More

Mrs. Jason’s 8th grade students engaged in a friendly competition with their peers for their IXL performance. All students are provided an opportunity to complete IXL lessons in their Language Arts class. Our 8th grade Social Studies teachers support our ELA classes by providing additional time for students to engage in IXL lessons for ELA. Ms. Jason’s 3rd period class won the IXL challenge. The students in this class achieved the highest proficiency on their ELA lessons for a two-week period. The students won freeze pops for their hard work and effort. IXL is a digital resource that we utilize … Read More

STEM students are having a great time while reviewing different kinds of forces. They worked as a team creating friction on the balloons for the balloons to be able to lift up the tissue paper due to the electrostatic force. Static friction acts on objects when they are resting on a surface. For example, if you are hiking in the woods, there is static friction between your shoes and the trail each time you put down your foot. Without this static friction, your feet would slip out from under you, making it difficult to walk. In fact, that’s exactly what … Read More

Photo booth fun at the PBiS Valentine’s Day Event. It’s always a pleasure to celebrate the positive behavior our students display!! Our monthly PBiS events are incentives for students that follow our BARK expectations. All students have the opportunity to attend these events. Every month we start every student off with a clean slate! We communicate the expectations every day! No referrals, and no excessive amount of BIRs or attendance issues within identified dates. We utilize resources to recognize our students for behavior and academics. Our school is a learning institution that will continue to implement practices that promote student … Read More

Great things are happening at Forest Grove Middle School! Our 6th grade Marine Oceanographic Academy students identified different habitats such as the habitats in the Indian River Lagoon, the near-shore waters, and the Oculina reef. Students also participated in a scavenger hunt, examining the 6 different tanks modeling the different habitats searching for the marine organisms that occupy each. In addition, the students had an inside tour of how the aquarium cares for their organisms. Finally, students observed and identified plankton from a sample of water from the dock along the Fort Pierce Inlet. At FGMS our students are exposed … Read More

Forest Grove Middle School had over 400 students participate in our Nacho Average Student celebration. What does this mean for our school and our students? It means that these students were either proficient (Level 3,4,5s) and/or made significant gains from the PM1 to the PM2/Mid-Year assessments. As a school community, we look to our families to continue to encourage our students to strive for excellence. We offer before and after-school tutoring for Civics, ELA, Math, and Science. Our students are expected to continue to track their academic progress and create goals for the end-of-the-year PM3 assessments. Our mission is for … Read More

FGMS 1st Annual Purple vs Gold Basketball PBIS Event was one for the records! Fort Pierce Central High School Varsity Basketball and Cheer Teams did an amazing job representing the Cobra Nation. The players were AWESOME. They were respectful and polite, and did a phenomenal job entertaining our middle school students with an exciting and high-performance basketball game. The cheer team led the crowd with school spirit and filled the gym with positive energy! It was great to see the team interact with our students and they went out of their way to please the crowd with three-pointers, slam dunks, … Read More

Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida! 2025 was scheduled for the week of January 27-31, 2025. The goal of this year’s Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida! is to inspire a love of reading and writing while strengthening literacy skills in the students of Florida. This year, our Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida! theme is Building Literacy: Constructing the Foundation for Success! At Forest Grove Middle School every week is LITERACY WEEK!! However, this week we used it to…Get Caught Reading, Wear College shirts, Build Goals for PM3, Create Book Covers, and to Drop Everything and Read!! Our students participated in daily activities to motivate … Read More

Forest Grove Middle School is very grateful for our community partnerships with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) and First Priority! These organizations meet weekly and provide mentorship and leadership opportunities on our campus. The students who voluntarily attend these group sessions (during lunch with an assigned teacher) receive resources to positively interact with their fellow students and effectively navigate the challenges of middle school and beyond. Our community partners and stakeholders are an important part of our school community. They consistently support our student growth, providing opportunities for them to make better educational and life choices. Our students are … Read More

Forest Grove Middle School’s National Junior Honor Society students took time out of their Winter Break to visit a local Nursing Home. Our students took the opportunity to interact with the residents, playing board games and dominoes. We are so proud of them and the impact they have in the community and our school environment. Our student members who participate in the National Junior Honor Society strive to make a positive impact in our community while demonstrating leadership skills. We would also like to give a huge thank you to Ms. Turner for organizing and facilitating our community service efforts … Read More

Forest Grove Middle School hosted their 8th-Grade Pinning Ceremony, celebrating the upcoming end of their middle school journey and welcoming the bright futures our 8th-graders will experience as high school students. We would also like to give a special thank you to our guest speaker, Westwood Academy’s Assistant Principal Ms. Smith. Ms. Smith shared an inspirational message to our 8th-grade students as they prepare for their transition to becoming high school students. Although we will miss them tremendously, we know that our Forest Grove faculty and staff have prepared them for success! Once a Bulldog always a Bulldog!  

This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Theme was “The Change Begins With Me”. Our school theme is “The ‘B’ Begins with ME”! The similarity between the two is that our future is determined by each and every one of us as individuals as well as a team. We encourage our students and staff to take pride in all that they do. We gathered ideas shared and creatively organized every detail of our display. Forest Grove also has community pride and every inch of that pride was poured into our float! With FGMS spirit our cheerleaders entertained the crowd and it … Read More

Forest Grove Middle School welcomed Gabe Jacas from the University of Illinois (graduate of Fort Pierce Central High School) and Roger Walters from Iowa Western University (graduate of St. Lucie West Centennial High School) to our school. They delivered amazing messages full of valuable advice and inspiration to our students. These messages included what they did to stay focused and keep what was most important to them in their daily goals and plans.  It was awesome to see how much the kids appreciated them and the priceless interactions that followed! These two young men are great examples of athletes, students, and … Read More

Forest Grove Middle School welcomed Fort Pierce Westwood Academy to speak to our 8th-grade students. FGMS is a school that is committed to exposing our students to all things that will have an effective and positive impact on their futures. The visit was proactive, purposeful and exposed our students to what is soon to come. On a daily basis we communicate the importance of perseverance, goal setting, leadership, and accountability, and having the Principal of Westwood, Mr. Alfonso, and the Assistant Principal, Ms. Kennedy communicate the exact sentiments was reassuring and presented a powerful message! We hold the futures of … Read More

The Arts Dept. presented a phenomenal Winter Concert in the Forest Grove Gym. We’re extremely proud of our talented students and dedicated Band, Chorus, and Art teachers. We appreciate Ms. Allen, Mr. Ames, and Ms. Grant for their hard work and diligence in preparing this concert to be such a success! The band and chorus students who performed in the concert presented a real musical treat for the audience. In addition, our talented art students created a beautiful oil pastel holiday treat that was organized to display as guests entered the concert. Music is a magic like no other, which … Read More

Participation in athletics and extracurricular programs at Forest Grove Middle School is on the rise! SY25 has already brought us an exciting girls’ volleyball season and our intramural soccer team advanced to the second round wrapping up a competitive run at a championship. Boys’ and girls’ basketball already played two exhibitions in preparation for their tournaments, while our very animated BULLDOG CHEER TEAM brings energy and enthusiasm to the gym every game! Coaches have already held conditioning for track and flag football – which kick into full gear after Winter break. Let’s give a huge SHOUT OUT to our Athletic … Read More

Hard work, perseverance, focus, and effort are consistently recognized at Forest Grove Middle School! Our students got a taste of this firsthand. Ms. Collins and Ms. Jason recognized their 8th grade ELA students’ performance on their PM2 ELA assessment by providing them with a special lunch of their request. Ms. Jason’s students enjoyed pizza, while Ms. Collins students feasted on wings and fries. Celebrating student progress is commonplace at Forest Grove and helps our students take pride in their work and continue to give their best efforts throughout the year. We are so grateful that our teachers are dedicated to … Read More

Mr. Tygesson’s 8th-grade Advanced Science students demonstrate their knowledge of the composition of a star by utilizing their artistic ability to create a model of the Sun. In this activity, students worked collaboratively in groups to create a model of the Sun’s interior layers (core, radiative zone, and convection zone), atmosphere (photosphere, chromosphere, and corona), and solar activity (prominences, solar flares, and sunspots) and implemented the properties of all layers into their model. Standard: SC.8.E.5.6 Create models of solar properties including: rotation, structure of the Sun, convection, sunspots, solar flares, and prominences.