This week at Sheldon Community School District
**Reminder: Parent-Teacher Conferences will be Tuesday and Thursday**
Our High School Library Club had their Halloween Party last Thursday night. Students came in their costumes and enjoyed a night of games, food and a movie.
Our Library Club keeps the High School Library decorated for each month, picks out books for the monthly display, hosts book club meetings and recently performed some Readers Theater performances at East Elementary.
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Our third graders practiced improving their reading fluency this week by performing a Readers Theater for their classmates.
Readers Theater is a story that is broken down into "parts" that are read by each student in more of a play like structure. Readers Theater helps students with fluency, speaking skills, comprehension and engages those that get the opportunity to listen.
Great work Third Grade.
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In Physics class, students constructed devices to safely land an egg from varying heights around the school grounds. Students had to account for gravity's effect on the egg and air resistance as the heights increased.
All but one, succeeded at the tallest height tested, the top of the football field bleachers.
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Reminder, there will be NO SCHOOL Friday, October 28 due to a Teacher Professional Development Day.
Enjoy your day off and we will see you on Monday!
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The first graders got to enjoy a special performance during library time this week.
The High School Library Club came over to do a readers theater of the story, "The Leaf Thief"
Thank you to our High School Library Club for coming over to share your talents and stories with our Elementary students.
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8th Grade Students have started their Science Fair preparation. The Science Fair process lasts six weeks and the students are now into week four of the journey.
The first three weeks were spent 1) determining their central question to be investigated and formulating an hypothesis, describing how they expect the project to turn out; 2) designing a method that can be used to FAIRLY test each of the samples they choose to test; and 3) researching their topic to find out about the science concepts, principles, and laws that will dictate and help determine the final outcome of their testing.
Students are truly in the driver's seat as they develop the central questions for their project, in addition to formulating an hypothesis and designing a method for testing.
Science Fair is off to a great start this year!
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Our High School P.E class got to enjoy a beautiful fall day on the turf field playing Ultimate Frisbee.
The turf field has been a great addition to our facility for not only our high school sporting events, but for our P.E classes, band performances, Sheldon Rec teams and soon to be NCC's soccer program.
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4th Graders got a little competitive in their reading review game today.
Students played Gimkit as a way to review some of the skills that they had been working on in reading class.
Gimkit shares questions on each of the student's screens, once answered correctly they earn "money" and depending on what game setting in Gimkit, the money can be used for various things to help move the individual student to the leader board in the class.
Students love getting to review with this game.
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The shop class is applying their woodworking skills to make a battleship game piece. Once completed, students will get to use their game pieces to play others in the class.
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We need your help!
We are looking for all former Orabs that are serving or have served for our country.
If you have a son or daughter, brother or sister, father or mother that has served, please send a picture and a quick description of their service to brittany.maassen@sheldonschools.com.
We would like to pay tribute to them in a special way for Veterans Day.
**All pictures and descriptions need to be emailed by November 8 at noon**
The Sheldon FCA Group is excited to be helping to distribute and fill boxes for Operation Christmas Child! Their goal is to fill at least 120 boxes, this goal is 5 more boxes than they filled last year.
They are asking for your help in reaching their goal! If you are interested in helping out or have questions, please contact Mr. Letsche at the High School for more information.
A rough estimate is the cost to fill a box is around $25. In addition there is also a suggested $10 donation for shipping.
There are instructions inside the boxes as to what things can and cannot go in the boxes. Also, information about age appropriate gifts.
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The Middle School will have the Book Fair set up next week in the Library!
This is a great opportunity to get your students some books while supporting the school with each purchase.
The book fair will be open during the school day and during conference times.
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This week at Sheldon Community School District.
Reminder if you plan to go to the regional volleyball game on Tuesday in Sioux Center, you will need to get your tickets online (Link will be posted in the comments of this post)
To do this, you will need to create an account through Bound. Click the Purchase Tickets option at the top of the screen in green. Get logged in or create an account to log in and purchase your tickets.
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Sheldon Middle School will be celebrating Red Ribbon Week this week. Here are the dress up days for the week. Reminder we do not have school on Friday.
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Dr. Erin Anderson from Sheldon Family Dental Clinic in Sheldon came to talk with the seniors in Physics class on Friday about undergrad and graduate programs.
Students learned the difference between the two, what you can do with a degree from both and students were able to ask any other questions they had about college.
Thanks Dr. Anderson for coming in to talk to our students!
#leadon #orabs #collegeprep
The Sheldon CAPS Program hosted the "Friday Coffee" for local Sheldon businesses this morning.
The CAPS program shared more about their program and what they do. CAPS has Student-Associates that develop problem-solving and professional skills to work on real projects for real business clients. This experience along with focused development on career exploration helps prepare each of them for their purpose beyond their life as a student.
CAPS is an example of how business, community and education can partner to produce personalized learning experiences that educate the workforce of tomorrow.
Thank you to the businesses that came to learn more about CAPS.
Check out the amazing work coming out of our Intro Art class!
There is no tracing here, all freehand drawing! Congrats on your hard work, it's wonderful seeing all your art skills grow!"
Abby Van Beek, Tyson Getting, Grace Gomez and Alissa Porreca are pictured holding their pencil drawing of their self portrait.
#leadon #orabs #art
The second graders at East Elementary led this month's all school assembly!
Students did a reader's theater to give examples of how to make the right choices when it comes to school work and balancing all of the other things they like to do.
Great job second grade!
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5th graders have had some exciting days of hands on learning in Ms. Nordahl's science class.
Students observed chemical reactions with elephant toothpaste. Students then had to find evidence from the experiment to prove why it was a chemical reaction in a write-up that followed.
The 5th graders also made Oobleck, which is a Non-Newtonian fluid. Students were able to see how Oobleck acts like a solid and a liquid.
