Sheldon Community School District

Reminder that the Elementary Christmas Concerts are coming up! December 5 - 1st & 3rd grade Concert, 7pm HS Auditorium (TONIGHT) December 15 - 2nd & 4th grade Concert, 7pm HS Auditorium Please have your musician dress up for this event. Students will meet at 6:30pm the night of their concert. A high school classroom will be assigned for each section to use as a homebase. This will be where you can drop off and pick up your child. This is also where they can keep their hats and coats. Each night, the youngest grade will begin promptly at 7pm. Once they are done there will be a short intermission before the older grade level performs. #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #concert

Sheldon Community Schools will be running a 2-Hour Late start on Monday, December 5. No AM Preschool.

December 5-10 at Sheldon Community School District. This week is full of activities, Christmas Concerts, a Blood Drive and more! Be sure to come see our students in action this week! #Sheldon #LeadOn #Orabs

2nd Grade had some fun in the snow this week sledding at recess. Sledding at recess is one of the student's favorite things to do once there is snow on the ground! #snowday #LeadOn #recessfun #snow #orabs #Sheldon

Our TK students stay busy and engaged in many different learning activities throughout the day. Students have been learning more about sea life this week in class. During center time, students have done different learning activities that relate to the sea. Some centers included a water table with different sea animals in it, sea animal matching game, fishing for numbered fish and more! #Learning #LeadOn #Orab #Sheldon #activities

Reminder that the Elementary Christmas Concerts are coming up! December 5 - 1st & 3rd grade Concert, 7pm HS Auditorium December 15 - 2nd & 4th grade Concert, 7pm HS Auditorium Please have your musician dress up for this event. Students will meet at 6:30pm the night of their concert. A high school classroom will be assigned for each section to use as a homebase. This will be where you can drop off and pick up your child. This is also where they can keep their hats and coats. Each night, the youngest grade will begin promptly at 7pm. Once they are done there will be a short intermission before the older grade level performs. #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #concert

Congratulations to Mr. Letsche for being an Iowa Teacher of the Year Finalist! Mr. Letsche teaches Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Pre-Algebra and Foundations of Geometry at the Sheldon High School. This is his 6th year in this position for the district. Mr. Letsche is also a Leader in Me High School Coordinator, Fellowship of Christian Athletes huddle leader, Assistant Track and Field Coach and Offensive Line coach at Northwestern College. When asked what his favorite part of Sheldon is he said, "My favorite part(s) would be the outstanding staff and students that I get to interact with each day! Also, I would like to have say the support that our school systems gets from community and businesses. This support allows our education system to give our students an excellent education and experience." Mr. Letsche mentioned that, "My favorite part of teaching would have to be growing relationships with students. Also, leading students to believe in themselves and to discover their full potential of who they are intended to become!" Congratulations Mr. Letsche on this honor! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #teacher #Iowa

Sheldon will be having a Pink Out at the home basketball game on January 9 and home wrestling meet on January 10. Order forms need to be turned in to the office no later than noon next Wednesday, December 7. Students will be coming home with the slips this week, or you can print off the order form and return it to one of the buildings BEFORE December 7. All proceeds will be given to Sanford Sheldon. #Orabs #Sheldon #Pinkout #basketball #wrestling #leadon

We know some of you enjoyed the snow day yesterday, but it was great to be back at school today to see the students and staff again! #Sheldon #Orabs #middleschool #LeadOn

UPDATE: Due to weather, there will be NO SCHOOL on Tuesday, November 29.

Sheldon Community School District will be running 2 hours late today due to weather. There will be no AM preschool.

2nd Grade has been working on improving their reading fluency. One way that students can improve their fluency is by doing choral reading. Choral reading is when students read together in unison. Choral reading helps build students' fluency, self-confidence, and motivation. Because students are reading aloud together, students have built-in support. This is also a great way to read with your child at night to help them gain confidence and become a more fluent reader. #Leadon #Orabs #reading #choralreading

We hope you had a great Thanksgiving Break. This week at Sheldon Community Schools kicks off a lot of our winter activities both home and away! Come support the Orabs this week at home! #Sheldon #Orabs #LEADON

Biology students have been learning about DNA in class. Students performed a strawberry DNA extraction lab to see what DNA actually looks like. Many people assume that because DNA is so small, that you can't see it without powerful microscopes. But in fact, DNA can be easily seen with the naked eye when collected from thousands of cells. Through this lab students were better able to see the DNA of a strawberry and better understand the structure of purpose of DNA. #Orabs #Biology #LeadOn

Happy Thanksgiving Orab Nation! We hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving with friends and family. The Sheldon Community School District is thankful for all of our staff, students, parents and community members that support our district! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #Thankful #Thanksgiving

Kindergarteners reviewed their number recognition with a fun Turkey review activity before Thanksgiving break. Kindergarteners have been working hard to learn all of their numbers 1-20 by recognition, counting, grouping, writing and sorting the numbers in various ways. Before long they will be adding and subtracting basic facts!

Our 1st and 3rd graders are thankful for their reading buddies! Each week the 1st and 3rd graders get together to do a different reading activity. This week they did a fun turkey activity with with their reading buddies after reading a book about turkeys! #LeadOn #Orabs #thanksgiving

The 5th through 8th grade students each got a feather today to write something that they are thankful for. Once everyone had their feather done, students brought together their feathers to create a "Thankful Turkey." We have so much to be thankful for at the Sheldon Middle School! We hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! #Thankful #LeadOn #Orabs #Thanksgiving

Today from 3-6 PM, the Sheldon Community Schools will have their garage sale items available for purchase and viewing. Items will be available in the East Elementary basement and in the shop space on the north end of the preschool building at The Little Orab Learning Center. See more information and some of the items for sale on our website under the "Garage Sale" tab. #LeadOn #Orabs #School

What do you see when you look underwater? The 5th graders have been working on an art project showing what you would see if you looked underwater. The students had the option to draw or paint what they would see. Some students showed what it would look like in the ocean, while others picked what you would see if you looked in a lake. It is great to see how creative and talented our students are. #LeadOn #Orabs #art