Sheldon Community School District

6th graders sharpen their survival skills. They completed stations of cord braiding, knot making, spear throwing and the favorite, fire making. This activity was a great way for students to make connections with the main character, Brian, while they are reading the book, "Hatchet". Thanks to Matt Jurgens for helping with this activity. #leadon #orabs

Sheldon Volleyball will play at home on Wednesday, October 19 at 7:00 PM vs. Spirit Lake. Tickets must be purchased online using this link https://sheldonschools.hometownticketing.com/embed/all **No passes of any sort will be accepted at this game**

Some of our High School Students participated in SkillsUSA Day in Sioux City. SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce. SkillsUSA helps provide educational programs, events and competitions that support career and technical education in the nation’s classrooms. Our students had a great day of hands on learning in multiple areas of trade. #leadon #orabs

Congratulations to Lewis Scheaffer, Kyler McCuddin, and Theresa Nilles who made the Northwest Iowa Honor Band and another congratulations to Theresa, who also qualified for the All-Iowa 8th Grade Honor Band! #leadon #orabs

This week at Sheldon Community School District! **If volleyball would win Monday, they would play Wednesday night. More information will be posted after Monday if they would win** #leadon #orabs

7th graders are working on developing fraction sense in math class. In class they used pictures to help them determine the smallest, biggest, those close to half, and then ordered them. Being able to "see" the fraction amount helps our students' better understand the variety of fractions that they will be working with throughout their fraction units. #leadon #orabs #math

Students at the Little Orab Preschool had some special visitors this week. The FFA members brought some of the pumpkins that they grew this season to the preschoolers to paint! The students had a great time painting their pumpkins! #leadon #orabs #fall

East Elementary is continuing to focus on the book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," the book by Stephen Covey to help our students develop their leadership skills throughout the year. Second grade students practiced Habit 2, "Begin with the End in Mind" with groups this week. Students were asked to create a paper chain out of one piece of paper, that reached a specific distance. Students were not given instructions on how many circles they needed, rather they were to work as a group to decide how they could create a paper chain, that met the requirements. Our students worked well as a groups through this activity practicing their leadership skills. #leadon #orabs

The 7th graders in Mrs. Woelber's TA spent some of their TA time talking about Habit 5: Think Win-Win. After the discussion students decided to color and write notes for residents of our local assisted living and senior living centers! The students hope to “fill their buckets” when the residents get their pictures and notes! #leadon #orabs

Our Kindergarteners did a Spooky Math Activity where they had to count spiders in tens frames that were hidden around the room. Students loved getting to hurry around the room looking for the spiders! #math #leadon #orabs

Thanks to POET Bioprocessing in Ashton for the tour of their plant this morning. Our high school chemistry students were able to travel to POET and see the behind scenes of what happens at POET daily to produce around 56 million gallons of ethanol annually. Students were also able to learn more about the careers available in this industry. Thank you POET for opening up your plant to our student's learning today. #leadon #orabs #poet

Our Middle School P.E classes have gotten to enjoy being outside the past few weeks with the different P.E units they are covering. The 7th and 8th Grade P.E classes finished up their Disc Golf Unit with a trip to Hills Park to play Disc Golf!

Congratulations to Makayla Van Voorst for being named a Commended Student in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program. Students become eligible for the NMSC by taking the PSAT during their junior year. The test consists of 4 subtests, Reading, Writing & Language, Math no calculator, and Math with calculator. Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 students nationwide. #leadon #orabs

The Sheldon FCA group is hosting Fields of Faith tonight on the football field starting at 7:00 pm. This event is open to all students in middle and high school.

6th graders are continuing to learn more about the different systems of the body. Right now they are learning about the circulatory system, including blood, blood vessels and the heart. After learning what makes up blood (plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets) the students made a model using corn syrup, red hots, mini marshmallows and cookie sprinkles to represent what is all in their blood. The students then had to draw their models, labeled all the parts and described the function of each part. Next up they are going to be learning how the blood moves through the chambers of the heart and to the lungs. Way to go 6th Grade! #leadon #science #orabs

The High School's Life Skills Class came over to East Elementary to do a peer activity group. Students spent some time together frosting and decorating cookies. Seeing our older students form relationships and do activities with our younger students is so great. We have some great student leaders in our district. #leadon #orabs

The district computer science team participated in their first workshop with NewBoCo last week. They dove into the Computer Science standards and worked on how teachers can implement these things into their everyday context areas. Teachers had fun learning and trying out these devices. We are excited to see how these things will be used in our classrooms. #leadon #orabs #technology

Our Preschoolers at The Little Orab Learning Center got to visit the Fire Station this week. Students were able to see the fire trucks, spray the fire hose, learn about fire safety and see Fire Pup! Thank you to the Sheldon Fire Station for letting our students come and visit! #leadon #orabs

Our Kindergarten classes at East Elementary got to go visit the Fire Station for Fire Safety Week. Students learned about what to do if there was a fire, how to get help, see the fire trucks and firefighters and they even got to use the fire hose and spray out a pretend fire. Our students had a great time learning and seeing all of the things at the station. Thanks to the Sheldon Fire Department for letting our students come visit the station! #leadon #orabs

Mrs. Vogel’s class visited Old Jerry McVreeman’s farm last week. They got to feed the animals, rode on tractors and had a snack in the grain bin! It was a great day for the kids to experience and learn a little but more about farm life. #leadon #orabs