Sheldon Community School District

WINTER FORMAL INFORMATION: Due to the predicted weather tomorrow, the High School Winter Formal scheduled for Saturday, January 28 will be postponed to Saturday, February 4. The Winter Formal will now be held at the Crossroads Pavilion Event Center from 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 4. #LEADON #Orabs #sheldon

Our Kindergarteners are loving their Bee-Bots. Bee-Bots are a perfect starting point for teaching control, directional language, and programming for our Kindergarteners at East Elementary. Students have been learning how to work with the Bee-Bots throughout the year and are already learning how to program the Bee-Bots in more complicated ways. Way to go Kindergarten! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon

1st graders led the school wide assembly today at East Elementary. The 1st graders talked about how important it is to work together to get a job done. The whole 1st grade class built a large snowman during the assembly to demonstrate how everyone could work together and do their part to get the job done. Great work 1st grade! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #elementary

Sheldon High School students in English 9 started working on their #LeadOn seminars this week. They are researching Indigenous ideas behind the idea of leadership. Leadership has been a large focus for the Sheldon Community School District. The district's goal is to help teach and prepare our students to be leaders in school, life, and future work. #LeadOn #Orabs #sheldon #leadership

The 7th graders worked on practicing their integer addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division rules with a fun warm up game in math class. This is a great way for our students to practice their skills in a fun and different way. #math #LeadOn #Orabs #sheldon

East Elementary students got to enjoy some fun activities of their choice after learning more about Habit 7 from the book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People." Habit 7 talks about Sharping the Saw, which means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have—you! It means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual. Our students got to practice Sharpening the Saw, by taking some time to do some activities that they enjoy and have some fun with their friends. Each classroom had a different activity that the kids could pick from. Some of the activities included Legos, free drawing, playdough, board games, puzzles, darts, and more! It was so fun to see our students get to Sharpen their Saw and enjoy some fun activities of their choice! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #7habitsofhighlyeffectivepeople

8th Graders put their poetry knowledge to the test to try to escape the Poetry Escape Room. Students worked in groups to try to escape by analyzing poetry and depicting the meaning of the poems. This was a fun and interactive way for our students to review poetry before an upcoming test. Great work 8th grade! #LeadOn #orabs #poetry #sheldonorabs #middleschool

This week at Sheldon Community School District. Make this week a great one! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #sheldonorabs

Mrs. Buenger's 1st graders made some winter snowmen during their art class. The students did so well with this very large art project. It's safe to say that the students could make a real snowman outside, just as big or bigger with all the snow that we have had this year! If you drive by East Elementary, you can see these snowmen waving to your from the window! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #snowman #winter #art

Sheldon CSD will have a 2-hour late start on Friday, January 20. There will be no AM preschool.

This week Mrs. Vogel's class practiced some of their cooking skills and made a meal for each other! The students enjoyed getting to eat the meal that they prepared for each other. Great work Orabs! #lifeskills #orabs #sheldon #LeadOn

Sheldon Community Schools will have NO SCHOOL on Thursday, January 19. High School term tests scheduled for today will now be on Friday. Evening activities TBD. Stay Safe!

Sheldon CSD will have a 2-hour late start on Thursday, January 19 due to weather. There will be no AM preschool.

Congratulations to David Arizmendi, Gavin Van Holland, Hallie Robinson, and Nora Bunkers who are the new Students of the Month at the Middle School. These students have shown what it means to be an Orab each day! Great work Orabs! #Sheldon #orabs #leadon #leaderinme #sheldonorabs #studentofthemonth

Join Our Team! The Sheldon Community School District is hiring an Executive Assistant to the Superintendent. Apply on-line at https://www.sheldonschools.com/page/employment-opportunities or contact the Superintendent’s office for an application. Sheldon Community School District, 1700 E. Fourth Street, Sheldon, IA 51201 The Executive Assistant to the Superintendent is responsible for managing and coordinating the day-to-day administrative work performed in the Office of the Superintendent of Schools. Working with minimal supervision, the Executive Assistant to the Superintendent will perform duties of a varied and responsible nature, requiring accuracy, good judgment, extreme confidentiality, and the ability to work well with people under pressure. The Executive Assistant will also serve as an assistant to the Business Manager, with specific duties relevant to payroll. Full-time, year-round position Competitive Salary and Benefits Package District paid Family Health Insurance, and Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System (IPERS) #jobs #leadon #orabs #sheldon #sheldonorabs #sheldonjobs #iowa

Reminder today will NOT be an early dismissal. All Wednesdays moving forward will be full days. This is part of the snow day make-up plan. #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon

The Orab fans enjoyed some special guests tonight at the basketball game. Kirk Ferentz, head football coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes and assistant coach, LeVar Woods, came to visit Orab Gym. Thank you to Coach Ferentz and Coach Woods for visiting Sheldon! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #Basketball #Iowahawkeyes #hawkeyes #coachferentz #football #iowafootball #hawks #sheldoniowa #iowahighschool #students

Seventh and eighth grade students attended the first middle school Computer Science Art Show. They talked about their Pixel art and digital paintings, as well as admired the enlarged Mario mural designed by Parker Kamstra and assembled by seventh and eighth grade volunteers. Congratulations to all eighth grade students for a successful semester of coding and computer science! Seventh graders begin their first semester of computer science this week. #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #art #pixelart

Preschool students are doing a Transportation Study this week and they are having so much fun and learning a lot! In dramatic play, students have been pretending to be mechanics working on different cars. They even have got to dress up like mechanics. We might have some future mechanics in this class! Preschool students have also learned about different types of transportation vehicles and the jobs that they do. Our students are having so much fun learning about transportation this week! #preschool #leadOn #orabs #transportation #dramaticplay

Congratulations to Lillian De Zeeuw, Claire Nilles, Devin Huitink, Ben Frahm, Libby Martens, Bentley Green, and Samuel Van Maaren for being selected to be part of the Strong Foundations Honor Band. These students practice with other Honor Band members from the area on Monday and then performed a concert that night in Sioux City that was open to the public. We are proud of your hard work and practice. Congratulations! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #honorband #band #middleschoolband #middleschool