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Independent School District 2154 www.isd2154.k12.mn.us

IN THIS ISSUE Page 2 ISD 2154 Welcomes New School Board Members

Page 3 Spelling Bee Held at Gilbert Campus Franklin Student Council Receives Grant Social Skills Lessons for Franklin Students

Page 4 EGHS One-Act Play Wins Section 7A Contest Orchestra Pops Concert Set Track and Field News

Page 5 Students Attend AAUW Book Sale I Love to Read Month Events Planned Page 6 Snow Week Photos District Assessment Dates

Page 7 Special Project for Third Graders Taxation Without Representation Skit Spanish Lesson at Franklin

Page 8 Community Education Winter-Spring Class Features Back in the Day…..

UPCOMING EVENTS February 1-28 I Love To Read Month

February 11 Orchestra Concert

February 18 President’s Day-No School

March 4 Jr High/Sr High Conferences

March 20-26 Florida Band Trip

March 22 End of 3rd Marking Period

March 28-April 1 Easter Break –No School

Queen Ana and King Zach Reign Over Snow

Week Activities

Ana Senarighi was crowned Queen and Zach Wood was crowned King at the Snow Week coronation and pep fest held on Tuesday, January 29th.

Ana is the daughter of Peter and Senarighi. She is a participant in the E-G chapter of Iron Range Youth in Action. Outside of school Ana likes to read, go shopping and watch movies.

Zach is the son of Jay and Kim Wood. He is a three-sport athlete who has also been captain for the football, basketball and track teams. Zach says his favorite thing is “being a Golden Bear and having an awesome senior year in sports.”

Members of the Royal Court are: Freshman Prince and Princess Nate Muhich and McKayla Koller, Sophomore Prince and Princess Mark Tikkanen and Emily Kelson, Junior Prince and Princess Brennan Addy and Jordan Auel. Emcees of the event were Kayla Young and Matt Muhich. Snow Week Royalty made appearances Girls Basketball game vs. South Ridge January 29th and the Girls Hockey game vs. International Falls on January 31st. Snow Week Winter Carnival activities and a Burger Bash were held on Wednesday, February 6th and included skiing at Giant’s Ridge, floor hockey, badminton and a dance at the high school.

Additional Snow Week photos on page 6.

Quarterly Connections

Leon Schanlaub has resided in Gilbert for the past 31 years and is a 1970 graduate of Babbitt High School. He has been attending board meetings since 2001, and is serving his second term on the board. His first term was 2006-2009. Mr. Schanlaub has served on the Gilbert Planning & Zoning Board and the Gilbert

Public Library Board. He has been active in the Ameri-can Legion, the Retired Enlisted Association since 2001, the Gilbert Senior Citizen Center, and volunteers with Meals on Wheels. He retired from the Air Force/ Air National Guard after serving over 20 years, and is also retired from St. Louis County Public Works where he worked for 30 years. Mr. Schanlaub wants to ensure that the students of the Eveleth-Gilbert School District have the best education possible in order to keep up with the changing times.

Thomas L. Gentilini Sr., a native of Virginia, attended the Virginia schools and lives in Eveleth. He has three grown sons. He served on the Gilbert City Council for three years and was a state-certified youth firearms instructor. Gentilini is a veteran of the U.S. Army and was honorably discharged

with the rank of chief warrant officer. He retired from U.S. Steel’s Minntac plant as an electronics/systems repairman where he designed and manufactured air purification equipment used in industry. In his spare time he enjoys hunting and fishing in Alaska and traveling to Europe.

Mr. Gentilini ran for the Eveleth-Gilbert School Board because he has an obligation to the taxpayers and wants to provide our youth with the best education available to compete in a worldwide society.

ISD 2154 Welcomes New School Board Members

Stay Informed!

Video broadcasts of the

Eveleth-Gilbert Board of

Education meetings are

now available on our

website

www.isd2154.k12.mn.us

Leon Schanlaub

Thomas Gentilini Sr.

Mark Forte a lifelong resident of Eveleth, and a 1966 graduate of Eveleth High School. Mr. Forte earned an accounting degree from the University of Minnesota and worked as the business manager at Minnesota Outward Bound School in Ely before going to work in the accounting department at Inland Steel’s

Minorca Mine, from which he has retired. Mark’s wife, Judy, is from Clontarf, Minnesota, and they have two daughters, Kristin Troutwine who lives on Ely Lake, and Jill living in Minneapolis. He is member of the Joint Recreation Board, a volunteer coach with the high school football team and has coached youth baseball. Mr. Forte had a good idea of what he was getting himself into when he filed for the School Board last fall because he had served several terms on the Board leading up to and following the successful consolida-tion with Gilbert. Mark has three grandsons attending Eveleth-Gilbert Schools, and wants to do his part in keeping our district a great place for kids to grow up while receiving a great education.

Mark Forte


Spelling Bee Held at Gilbert Campus

The District Spelling Bee was held on Thursday, January 31st at the Feyereisen Auditorium on the Gilbert Campus.

Mr. Landwer was the pronouncer and judges were Mrs. Zika, Mrs. Voss, and Mrs. Ostman. Participants in this years

Spelling Bee were: Kaisa Bradley, Payton Dosan, Brandon Lopez, Carly George, Jordna

Cortese, Zach Otto, Callie Garland, Alex Haas, Sam Albrecht, Elizabeth Stanaway, Mike

Villarreal, Liana Homola, Trey Korva, Zach Lindseth, Sydney Karpik, Molly Albrecht, Chloe

Schechinger, Hannah Adams, Will Troutwine, Quinn Muhich, Molly

Garman, Jacee Zasadni, Ashley Pionk, and Hannah Grahek.

After several rounds of competition, seventh grader, Liana Homola

won this years Spelling Bee after spelling the word fantastically.

Liana will advance to the Regional Spelling Bee to be held in Duluth on February 15th. Four

winners from the Regional Spelling bee will advance to the Multi-Regional State Spelling Bee,

and that winner will advance to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. in spring. Liana Homola

Franklin Student Council Receives

Grant

The Franklin

Elementary Student

Council recently

received a $400.00

B105 and Maurices

Service Learning

Grant. The grant,

written by Student

Council Co-Advisors

Mrs. Carey and Mrs. Stefanich, will be used to purchase

materials to make blankets for donation to children in

need within our school district and surrounding

neighborhoods.

The Blanket Buddies project is a cooperative effort

between the Franklin Student Council and the Eveleth-

Gilbert National Honor Society. The students will be

making tie blankets and working with members of the

community to identify those that could use a new

blanket and they will learn the importance of giving back

to the communities in which they live.

Social Skills Lessons for Franklin

Students—By Mrs. Bittmann Drew Flaschberger, an

intern counselor at Eveleth-

Gilbert, has bee working

with Mrs. Bittmann’s fourth

grade class. “Mr. F” has

been working on building

social skills and self-

confidence with the

students. Hands-on

activities are a favorite among the students.

According to Mrs. Bittmann, “The kids get really excited with

they know Mr. Flaschberger is coming in. He presents the

lessons in a way that relates to

the students. I’ve seen some

kids who rarely talk share

thoughts and ideas they might

not otherwise express.”

Mr. Flaschberger joins the fourth

grade class about three times

per month to share a new social

skills lesson.

The Elementary, Junior High and Senior High Orchestras will be presenting a Pops Concert on Monday February 11, 2013 beginning at 7:00 p.m. at the Feyereisen Auditorium located on the Gilbert Campus.

Each group will be performing a Disney selection. The Senior High Orchestra will perform a medley from “Les Miserables,” the Junior High Orchestra will have a selection from “Shrek” as well as many other light and entertaining pieces.

The Pops Concert is free and open to the public.


EGHS One-Act Play Wins Section 7A Contest

The Eveleth-Gilbert High School One-Act Play production of “Third and Oak: The Laun-dromat” won the section 7A contest which was held at Mesabi Range

College on Saturday. Among the six-show program were high schools from Esko, East Central Sandstone, Ely, Marshall School, Hinckley-Finalyson, and Eveleth-Gilbert. The EGHS one-act cast and crew now travel to the Minnesota State One-Act Play Festival in St. Paul at The College of St. Catherine’s O’Shaughnessy auditorium, which take place on Thursday and Friday, Feb 7 and 8. This is Eveleth-Gilbert’s sixth trip to state for one-act play in the last ten years.

Orchestra Pops Concert Set Track & Field News

Track and Field practice for boys and girls in grades 6th-12th begins on Monday, March 11 after school in Eveleth.

A parent/athlete meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 5th at 6:30 pm in the high school gymnasium on the Eveleth campus. This meeting is required for all athletes and their parents. Track schedules, paperwork, sign up and additional information will be presented.

Questions call Coach Kerzie at 218-780-2987 or Coach Zupetz at 218-390-0850.

Gilbert Campus Book Fair

February 25th

through March 1st

In the show, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman depicts two lonely strangers—an older woman and younger woman—who meet by chance at a Laundromat and who come to grips with their own individual circumstances through conversation with the other. The show is directed by Jack Gritzmacher, with Jeremy Liimatta assisting. The cast includes juniors Jaimie Maki and Anne Olafson; the crew, senior Becky Boudreau, juniors Sam Larson, Kara Nyhus, Katie Boudreau, and Zach Sandnas; sophomore Mason Isaacson; and freshman Christian Van Orsdel. The public is invited to attend the 2013 Minnesota State High School League One Act Play Festival. Admission is $10.00 per four-play session for students and adults, and there are two sessions per day. A daily pass is available for $15.00 per day. O'Shaughnessy Auditorium is located at 2004 Randolph Ave., St. Paul.

Jaimie Novak and Anne Olafson


Students Attend AAUW Book Sale By—Mr. Ufford

February is I love to Read Month, and on Friday, February 1st, 43 Eveleth – Gilbert students from grades 7 – 12 went on a field trip to the book sale, at the Hibbing Armory, sponsored by the American Association of University Women. When we arrived, the students jumped right in looking for books, helping each other, and other customers find books. We brought 43 students and we bought 443 books. I heard about 12th grade students offering to buy books for 7th graders who ran out of money. I saw our students helping the workers organize the tables as they searched for books. I am very proud to show off our students at this event.

I always receive complements about our students from the members of the AAUW working the sale, as well as the other customers. The excitement of our students is a big topic of conversation for everyone at the book sale. I couldn’t begin to guess how many people approached me to complement the school district that is willing to provide this opportunity to for its students. The faces of the workers and other customers reflected the excitement of our students. They truly appreciated having these young people be a part of this wonderful event.

As the students finished up and began to buy their books, the sat in groups to talk about the treasures they had found. People continued to comment on the excitement our students showed and how polite and helpful our students are. This experience reflects the positive way in which our school community affects Eveleth – Gilbert students.

“I Love to Read” Events Planned

Students and staff “kicked-off” I Love to Read Month on Monday, February 4th.

Amy Terrio, Senior High student and daughter of 3rd grade teacher Karen Terrio, entertained Franklin students with a concert sing-along at their kick-off event. Franklin’s theme this year is Everybody Reads and goes along with the fact that everyone, everywhere reads.

There are several activities planned at Franklin, including guest readers and dress up days. Students will be playing READ-O for the entire month and each class has been working on an alphabet quilt which are displayed in thehallway. There will be contests and prizes donated from local businesses for the class with the most reading done in February, as well as the top 15 readers in each grade.

I Love to Read Month will be celebrated at the Gilbert Campus and the theme is: Story Laboratory: Reading Makes You A Superhero! The reading goal is for students to reach a

combined total of 2400 Accelerated Reader points in the fifth and sixth grades as well as the seventh and eighth grades.

Students will have the opportunity to enter a poster contest and a story writing contest. A Super Hero Parade will be held each Friday at which time the class who read the most during the week will have an opportunity to go on parade throughout the school dressed as super heroes. There will be a medallion

search from February 19th until the 22nd in the Media Center and an Ice Cream Social sponsored by the Gilbert Campus PTO will be held on February 28th.

Amy Terrio sings “The

Wheels on the Bus”

Mrs. Negen’s students with their

Alphabet Quilt

Mrs. Seboe and Mrs. Oates welcome

students to the kick-off event

Jr. High students balance books on their head

assisted by elementary students during the

“Minute to Win It” competition


Snow Week Photos

Additional Snow Week photos are posted in the Photo Gallery on our website

www.isd2154.k12.mn.us

April 9-11: Grade 5 Reading Test

April 16-18: Grade 6 Reading Test

Grade 7-8 Reading Test

April 16: Grade 11 Math Segments 1-2

Grade 9 Written Comp

April 17: Grade 11 Math Segments 3-4

April 23-25: Grade 3 Reading

Grade 4 Math

Grade 5 Math

April 30-May 2: Grade 6 Math

Grade 7-8 Math

Grade 10 Reading

May 7-9: Grade 3 Math

Grade 4 Reading

May 14-16: Grade 5 Science

Grade 8 Science

Grade 10 Science

District Assessment Dates

ATTENTION E-G JUNIOR HIGH!

Reserve your copy of the

2012-2013 Junior High Yearbook.

Order forms are available in the office and the cost is

$25.00

Don’t miss out on the fun and memories!


Mrs. Jensen’s fourth grade class performed a skit recently representing Taxation without Representation.

The students drew a letter to determine what group they would portray: a colonist, a loyalist, members of the parliament, and of course the King! The King, played by Molly Thiel would then tax the colonists taking away some of their tokens and rewarding the loyalists with candy. The King could even tax the colonists for complaining too much.

Taxation Without Representation

Skit

Special Project for Third

Graders

Bob Hendrickson, parent of 3rd grader Jordan Hendrickson, provided materials for a special project for Mrs. Young’s class work on.

Mr. Hendrickson hand-cut wood into the shape of a hat rack and the students were able to paint and design the wooden rack however they wanted to.

This was an awesome project and the students were very excited to bring them home!

Queen Molly and her Parliament

Mr. Hendrickson and students work on wooden hat racks

The “colonists” rebel against taxation.

Mrs. Jensen gives instructions to the “loyalists” while King Molly observes

Spanish Lesson at Franklin Valeria Elguezabal, a

foreign exchange

student who

attends the Senior

High School came to

teach the Spanish

names for colors to

Mrs. Terrio’s and

Ms. Young’s classes.

Community Education Winter—Spring Class Features 2013


Back in the Day…….

Independent School District 2154

Getting to Know Your iPad or iPhone

February 19

6:00-8:00 p.m.

C. Wiegman

Franklin Media Center

Cost: $20.00

Become familiar with your device.

Learn what “apps” are and how to

load them. Learn to change your

settings, use the camera, download

and iBook and more!

Scrapbooking Workshop

February 21 6:00-9:00 p.m. Cost: $20.00

A. Johnson Franklin Media Center

Whether you are a beginner or experienced at scrapbooking join us

at this workshop! Three scrapbook pages will be made and materi-

als and tools will be provided. Bring pictures to use, or add them

later. Experienced “scrap-bookers” can bring a project that they

are working on and ideas to share.

Creative Cardmaking

March 5, 7, 14 7:00-8:00 p.m. Cost: $5.00 per session

A. Johnson Franklin Media Center

Making homemade cards is easy and fun! Participants will create

two unique hand-stamped cards each sessions. All materials will

be provided. Register for just one night or all three!

The Art Of Felting

February 12, 19, 26 5:30-6:30 pm. Cost: $15.00

K. Yuretich EG Junior High Room 6A Gilbert Campus

The process of felting involves knitting a project of 100% wool,

march larger than needed and then shrinking the item on purpose

using heat and agitation creating a soft, durable and more water

resistant fabric. Come and learn to make a small and easy felted

project such as a felted bowl or small drawstring gift bag.

Beginners welcome, but all participants should already be comfort-

able with the very basics of knitting.

Call 744-7774 for a list of required supplies or download the list on

the Community Ed webpage at www.isd2154.k12.mn.us

Snowmobile Safety

Trail Hawks Snowmobile Club Cost: $5.00 DNR Course Fee

February 26th & 28th 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Gilbert Campus Cafeteria

Test: March 2nd 7:00-10:00 a.m. DNR Office

Safety training for ages 12-16 to be able to safely operate a snow-

mobile. Parent must attend first session for information on the

new online self-certification process.

This training is also available online, however the test must be

taken at the DNR office on March 2nd. Call Bill

Petersen 218-865-4664 for online class information.

Franklin Elementary I Love to Read Month, circa 2005 Nelle Shean Elementary I Love To Read Month,

circa 2005

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