SCHLESWIG SCHOOL

HAPPENINGS

Please check out the school’s website at http://www.schleswig.k12.ia.us/ for school

calendars, bus routes, emergency bus routes and school cancellations.

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT By Mr. Galvin

ISASP

This school year will be the first year of the new Iowa State Assessment of Student Progress exam, which replaced the Iowa Assessments (which replaced the Iowa Test of Basic Skills). There are

some differences between this new assessment and the old. The biggest difference for the students is

how the test is taken. It will be all online for the students here at Schleswig. There are also different types of questions. Not every question will be multiple choice, there will be some constructed response

where the students must type out their answer. Due to the constructed response type questions, there will also be a change in when scores are returned. We do not expect to see results before August, mainly

because these responses need to be read and scored. The plan is to improve the system in future years and improve turnaround time.

Another difference will be when the test is taken. We are scheduled to test in the beginning of

April instead of the beginning of February as we have in prior years. Schools no longer have an option of taking the test at other times during the year. Another difference is the tests to be taken. Iowa

Assessments had several tests that were an option to take, including Social Studies. For the ISASP, all students in grades 3-8 (that is another change, no test for 2nd grade) will take Reading and Math while

students in 5th and 8th will take Science as well.

The staff will be doing some training in the coming weeks on administering the assessments and we will be practicing how to take the test as well.

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Conferences for the Spring are scheduled for Monday, March 25th and Thursday, March 28th. Sign up forms for times will be sent home in early March. Schedules for conference times will be sent the

week before. As always, please do not feel that you have to wait for conferences if there is an issue you

would like to address with your child’s teacher.

Flu season With flu season around again, there are several things to keep in mind when trying to keep

students healthy. The first thing that will help is to make sure that if your child is ill, they are kept home.

This will help slow down the spread of illness, and also give ill students the chance to rest and recover and get healthy. Another thing that can be done to slow the spread of illness is to promote strong hand

washing habits with kids. Keeping hands clean can go a long way to keep people healthy. The school works with students on proper hand washing times and techniques. The Center for Disease Control and

Prevention website has Good Health Habits for Preventing Seasonal Flu

(http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/habits/index.htm).

Kindergarten Parent Meeting Kindergarten Round-Up is coming up again for next school year. There will be a parent

information meeting on Monday, February 25th at 6:30 at the school. Information will also be emailed to parents of Kindergarten age students including copies of needed forms. Students that meet the age

requirements for Kindergarten will be brought in from Immanuel Lutheran Preschool again this year to

spend part of a day in Kindergarten. This date has yet to be determined. If your child does not attend Immanuel Preschool, please contact the school and a date can be set for your child to experience part of

a day here. To be eligible for Kindergarten (and TK) your child must be 5 years of age by September 15 of this year. If you have a child that meets these age requirements, what you can do now is contact the

school by phone (676-3314) or me by email davidgalvin@schleswig.k12.ia.us and let us know information about your child and what your email address is for future correspondence. If you have any questions,

please contact me at the information above.

Counselor’s Corner

by Mrs. Bower

Celebrating Student of the Quarter recipients First Quarter students recognized “for achieving at your individual best, making regular progress

in the classroom, setting a positive example for your peers, returning to school ready to learn, following

rules and directions, and being a good listener and active class participant” were: 5th grade- Rachee Nar, 6th grade- Sara Rosener, 7th Grade- Calli Korner, and 8th grade- Ashley Rosener

Second Quarter students recognized "for achieving at your individual best, making regular progress in the classroom, setting a positive example for your peers, academic excellence, and strong

work habits” were: 5th grade- Isabelle Westphalen, 6th grade- Kamryn Larson, 7th grade- Gracie Outhouse and 8th grade- Emily Espinoza

See Saw

You will see that each child in our school has a SeeSaw “class” with me. This enables the students opportunities for guidance focused lessons within the SeeSaw platform. It also allows me to communicate

via that technology and share classroom happenings. Please always feel free to communicate with me via SeeSaw or by using my school email address: jenniferbower@schleswig.k12.ia.us

What is classroom guidance? Every student in our school is involved in classroom guidance during the school year. For T-K

through fourth grade there are weekly lessons. Fifth through eighth grades have guidance class for two

quarters of each year. Each grade level has its own learner outcomes/goals which guide what is taught. We have the opportunity to experience the children's learning when we see positive changes in thinking

and behaviors throughout the school year.

Holiday Care Packages Anticipation and holiday spirit filled the Middle School classrooms of Schleswig Community School

in the week leading up to December 21st, 2018. Students and staff were preparing for care package delivery day! On Friday, December 21st, the 5-8th grade students of Schleswig School delivered 93

holiday care packages in Schleswig, Ricketts, and to former community residents currently residing at care facilities in Denison. Each package, assembled and wrapped by students, contained student made

crafts, a snack mix, “Snowman Soup” (a delicious hot cocoa mix), and a handmade holiday card. Focused

on teamwork, communication skills, and community relations, the project has kindled the spirit of giving during the holiday season for more than 15 years now. Thank you to all who are involved with, and

contribute to, this amazing project!

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN PRESCHOOL By Mrs. Gustafson

We’ve been having a great month at Immanuel! We kicked off our return from Christmas

vacation with a 2-week unit about outer space. Oh my goodness, it was fantastic! We had astronauts

flying all over, tons of creative writing, and great recall on the new vocabulary. We connected it with our unit on heaven which spurred on lots of interesting questions. I think my favorite was, “Is there gravity in

heaven?” We followed our Space unit with an introduction to fairy tales. One thing we’ll never be accused

of is “quiet learning.” We’ve just been so blessed with active engagement. The children got to build a

house (3 Little Pigs) in groups using large boxes. They got to design it, add decor, determine how and where to add doors and windows, and you’ll see in one photo that a few days later one student was

working to build steps to access the top level of the house. It’s amazing to watch how a fun activity teaches recall, fine motor development, problem solving, working together, and handwriting.

We continue to work on our letter identification and formation in both our 3 and 4 year old classes. As our 4 year olds have gained skills in these areas, we’ve done more creative writing. The

children will tell us the story and we’ll write it down for them to model. They’re doing a great job in learning proper spacing between words, moving left to right across the page and including their names.

If anyone is interested in registering a child for next year, you are free to contact us at anytime. We’ll have a Parent Night in the Spring, but if you’d like to register prior to that time, we are accepting

early registrations. If you don’t have a preschooler, we’d love for you to share this information with someone who does!

TRANSITIONAL KINDERGARTEN By Miss Furne

With the second semester in full swing, every day I am surprised with how much the students

want to know and the countless learning opportunities that arise. We continue building our communication skills and work habits as we gain more independence during our daily station rotations.

TK’ers are becoming quite the mathematicians learning to use math vocabulary and be critical thinkers. We have learned to count by 5’s and 10’s and are motivated to try 2’s. We have 5 members in

our “100 Club and one student very close to counting to 1,000, I have had only one other student do this! Keep up the hard work, we will celebrate in a big way when we have reached our goal of having

everyone in the “100 Club!” We continue to build upon our number sense skills by learning early math

concepts such as ordering and comparing numbers to twenty, counting forward and back from a given number, showing one or two more and one or two fewer, and basic addition and subtraction while

distinguishing the difference between combing and separating story problems. Our literacy block keeps us busy learning letters, rhyming, hearing and manipulating sounds in

words, and discovering we all can be writers! We have worked hard to master letter, keyword, and

sound routines for consonants and vowels. Knowing all three components fluently gives students an anchor to refer back to as they form new understanding while learning to read. Our focus has shifted to

hearing and tapping out sounds in words to help us read and write. Students are also using sky line and plane line references while practicing correct letter formation, as well as stroke types (big line, little line,

big curve, little curve, diagonal, slide) and try their best to apply this knowledge to their own writing.

As each student gains more independence with the ability to work on their own, with a partner, and as part of a small group, we have been able to begin using Guided Reading as part of our daily

stations. Small groups are based on student’s ability where instruction is then driven by specific abilities and needs assuring every student will have the opportunity to learn, experience success, and be on the

path to becoming a reader. Be watching for your child’s “reading” bag to come home some nights, please take just a few minutes to talk about what’s inside, practice skills, and most importantly read with

your son/daughter. The bag and contents should be returned to school each day. Reading with and

listening to your child read every night instills the thought that reading is important and enjoyable.

Providing meaningful opportunities for both reading and writing lets our youngest learners know they DO have the beginning skills to be true readers and writers.

Our last class party will be held on Thursday, February 14th. We will be decorating valentine bags/boxes in class, so please no boxes from home. Your child may bring a valentine to deliver to each

classmate, a class list will be posted on SeeSaw. Parent-teacher conferences will be held the week of

March 25th, I look forward to seeing everyone then!

KINDERGARTEN Q2 By Miss Tschetter

This quarter the kindergarteners have learned so much, and they are loving how fun learning can

be. The kindergarteners started the quarter off being introduced to what it means to vote. They each got to ‘run’ for a classroom job, give a speech as to why they would be great for that spot, and then they got

to vote! They had a great time doing this, and they learned a great deal about being confident. They got to hear all about turkeys! Then when winter came around the class got to be elves for our school. Being

elves for a week taught them how amazing it feels to give back to others. They made cookies for their

classmates, and made gifts for our middle school helpers. They handed out gifts to each other, and some even helped Santa feed his reindeer. They made their own new years resolutions, as well as classwide

resolutions to be kind and stay organized. The kindergarteners are currently hard at work trying to generate ideas as to how things are put into motion. They are eager to learn and try new things

everyday!

Learning to vote All About Turkeys

Elves for a Week

Exploring Force and Motion.

1ST GRADE By Miss Hibma

The first graders are busy working on sound and light in our science foss kits. We have started to

explore a science learning website called mystery science. In our last lesson we were able to make a thunderstorm just by using sounds that we can make in the classroom.

In math we are working on mastering our related addition and subtraction facts. We are also

working on working with ten more and ten less on a 100’s chart. If you have a first grader or know a first grader, please remind them to be practicing their facts 1-20 in both addition and subtraction in order to

become more fluent with their math facts. All of the first graders have been busy working on mastering all 9 of their sight word levels. We

have 7 of our students who have currently mastered all nine levels. The rest of the students are working

hard to get all of their lists mastered. The class has started reading accelerated reader books. We go to the library and find one book a

week, and then each student takes a quiz pertaining to that specific book. This has been a great check of each students reading comprehension skills.

We continue to work hard in all subject areas, and are ready try and do our best in the upcoming

months.

2ND GRADE By Miss Allen

Wow! Where has the time done this year! The second graders have been very busy this past

quarter! They did a great job in their Christmas concert back in December! We definitely have some great dancers in this group! They also had the privilege to perform at the Veterans Day Program this year.

They worked so hard to be able to go up there with their parts memorized, and wow they did a great

job! We have recently just celebrated the 100th day of school! In science we have been working on our Solids and Liquids Foss Kit. We have been talking a lot

about the materials that different things are made out. Discussing what materials are best used when building different things such as a bridge or a tower. They will get the chance to be engineers and

construct their own objects with various materials! The students have learned that materials have

different properties! Some of the properties we have talked about are flexible, rigid, transparent, smooth, or rough. The next step is to begin working with liquids and how they affect solid objects when they are

combined. In math the students have been working on addition with regrouping! They have really picked up

on it quickly! We will be moving on to subtraction with regrouping next!

In April we will be heading to the Henry Doorly Zoo for our field trip. We will be learning about endangered animals before heading there. It is such a great experience to be able to go to the zoo, they

have done so much to make the experience wonderful!

3RD GRADE By Mrs. Heffernan

It has only been a new year for a few weeks and we have already done so much learning! These

3rd graders have been so excited to finally dig deep into nonfiction texts and write an informative piece of writing. Luckily, some of their nonfiction texts are also AR books. The students were very excited about

that! Keep encouraging your child to read at home! Reading at home and at school will help them meet their goal and improve their reading skills. Many students are very ambitious and doing a fantastic job

applying learned strategies while reading their books. However, some have been rushing lately and

percentages are starting to slip. We have talked about slowing down while reading and remembering to retake books to help their percentage grow. 1st quarter, many students were extremely motivated and

passed their AR goal. 2nd quarter the motivation was not as high. I am hoping 3rd quarter will be better! Thank you for all your help at home with multiplication. It has definitely paid off, especially when

multiplication has been linked to our next topics. We have completed division and are now working on fractions. Your child is beginning to recognize fractions all around us and is learning that fractions are

equal parts of a whole, a set, or a length. The 3rd graders are also learning to name fractions and to

locate them on a number line. Seeing fractions on a number line will help your child enhance his or her number sense. This work with fractions on a number line will also serve as a basis for future work with

fractions in measuring length. Any practice at home with fractions would be greatly appreciated! Science has been full of discovery this quarter. We have continued our water unit. Now we are

connecting what we know about water to the climate and world around us. Students have learned so

much about the clouds and how to predict the weather. It has been a lot of fun watching them learn new things and grow from their discoveries.

Pretty soon we will be finishing our unit on map skills and starting a creative project. Each student will be constructing their own map with a key and symbols, a compass, and a scale. It could be a

made up town, mall, farm, or even a zoo. They even get to create questions someone would have to use their map to solve!

4TH GRADE By Mrs. Petersen

We started out this quarter doing our Literature Circle jobs with the book, Shiloh. Students get

to work with several different people during this time. This is the first time 4th graders have ever read this book during Lit. Circles. It’s such a fabulous book! So many of the kids can relate to having a pet

and the love they have for an animal. Next, we will be working on partner books and using the FRAME to

help the kids with their main ideas of another book. In Math, the students have been working very hard on long division. I think they understand

now why we have been working SO hard on our basic facts during CRUNCH the first half of the year. Those basic facts help a ton when we do our long division steps. We just finished Topic 10. Students

have been practicing 2, 3, and 4 digit numbers divided by a one digit number. They are realizing that

they keep repeating their steps over and over until they run out of numbers to do the steps with. They also have been estimating quotients to see if their real answers are reasonable.

Students have started writing their opinion papers. First, they picked a topic of interest to them that they feel strongly about. Next, they used a graphic organizer to help them organize their 3 reasons

and specific details about each reason to help them with their thinking. Then, they will write a rough

draft with the information they had in their graphic organizer. Finally, they will edit their papers before writing and presenting their final copy.

In Iowa History, students created their first Animoto using mostly pictures and a few words to teach the rest of the class about their Iowa Industry. Once we got our accounts set up and figured out

that we had to copy their pictures or save their pictures in their folder on the computer to use for Animoto, then things went pretty smoothly. As always, technology is great when we figure it out and when it works. ☺ The last thing they did was copy the link to their Animoto to put into their Iowa

History power points. That way, they can access it later to look at or to show it to you. Now we are

working on research about their famous Iowan to make into a Blabberize. They are writing this information in 1st person point of view to teach the other students about why their person is famous.

In Science we finished up our unit about Soils, Rocks, and Landforms. Each student used PiktoChart on their computers to create a colored poster of 6 different landforms. They did a nice job

with this. They also learned about the differences between weathering, erosion, and deposition through

a variety of activities. We had Dad’s Night on Thursday, January 24th. We had a great turn out and the kids really

enjoyed spending time with their Dad or guest. First, they enjoyed supper with their guest. Then they got to play 2 Kahoots in the lunchroom and solve a digital Breakout box in the classroom. Fun was had

by all!

5th Grade Mrs. Pritchard and Mrs. Moeller Don’t forget to check your child’s Seesaw Journals. The 5th graders are posting regularly and love seeing likes and comments from home! Try giving you’re Seesawer a complement like:

• I can tell you improved in…

• It makes me proud to see that…

• This was interesting to me because…

• I love how you… HOT This fall during HOT, we had the opportunity to work with RSVP, Retired Senior and Volunteer Program, in Crawford County through a program called Speak UP! For 5 weeks, volunteers came into the classroom to work with the 5th grade classes. The class spent one day learning what an informative speech was and the parts it included. They also spent a day learning other important speech day jobs and planning their speech. Then the next 3 meetings were spent with students giving their speeches and informing the class about topics like animals, sports, and much more. While classmates were giving speeches, others were assigned other jobs like the master of ceremonies, time monitor, word monitor, and voice monitor. Each student had a chance to share their speech, be a part of a “job” and get important feedback from the volunteers.

In December, we spent some HOT time learning about our annual care package outing and working to be ready for care package delivery day. We spent a couple days creating reindeer books and another day learning how to wrap a present.

As the New Year has started, we have focusing on the beginnings of our Academic Fair projects. Academic Fair is scheduled for Thursday, March 14th. That evening, the 5th graders will be taking you on various tours around the United States. We can’t wait to share these tours with you! Math The 5th graders have developed some strong computational skills! They have been busy multiplying and dividing decimals. We will continue to use these skills in our Algebra unit. I shared with them that Algebra is a scary word for many adults because when we were younger it was a pretty challenging class in 8th or 9th grade. I told them that they are lucky that they get to learn a little at a time. In this unit we are focusing on using variables to write expressions for phrases and story problems, learning the correct order of operations (Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally), and looking at patterns in tables. I assured them that it wouldn’t be as hard as they think! 5th ELA (English Language Arts) During whole group, we have been focusing on the comprehension skills of finding the main idea and summarizing text. We read a lot of short nonfiction texts in order to practice these skills. Not only are these texts high interest, but they help us focus in on what we need to practice. We have also completed genre studies of information text and science fiction. Science fiction has allowed student to experience space travel and tales of aliens in various story lines. Fluency practice is the 3rd week in each of our units. Before winter break, each class split into groups and performed reader’s theaters to show off their expression, pausing for punctuation, and voice intonation.

In work on writing, we are currently writing a narrative (story) based on the prompt of being stuck in a snow globe. I am soooooo excited to read the finished products! There have been some very creative things and thinking going on. The 5th graders are also utilizing a Google Docs add-on called Writing Reviser. Writing Reviser can help each of them improve their writing in various ways, but we are currently using it to help us understanding sentence structure. Many of the 5th graders are filled with so many great thoughts that when they start typing, they forget to split up their thoughts by adding punctuation. That leads to run-on sentences for days! The add-on identifies the run-ons allowing student a focus of where sentence fixes are needed instead of the unknown hunt. Accelerated Reader (AR) is used to practice our many reading and language strategies. Each student has an individual goal he/she is working toward. The 5th graders have broken their goal down even further by making short term weekly goals. This has helped students aim toward a something each week, rather than a number at the end of the quarter. Throughout the 3rd quarter, each 5th grader will need to read at least 4 nonfictions and earn their individual points and percentage. Take a few minutes to read with your child each night or weekly and encourage conversations about what they’re reading. Ask your child questions about their book, its characters, setting, or even a short summary of the story. Before winter break, we celebrated the upcoming break by critically thinking our way through a digital Break-Out Box. It took team work, problem solving, reading for detail, math skills, and puzzle solving to get BREAK OUT! Between the two classes there was one group that was able to break out and with a little more time and second group was very close!

Social Studies Throughout the 2nd quarter, the 5th graders continued their discovery of the United States. Not only did they learn their 50 states, but they learned about the climates, natural resources, and landforms found throughout the states. They also were able to discover how all of those concepts work together to influence how Americans live. For the remainder of the 3rd quarter, they will be digging into their Academic Fair projects and digging into major landforms and landmarks to tour the United States.

For the rest of the year, they will be working hard to learn the capitals and abbreviations of the states. We continue to use sites like www.sheppardsoftware.com and www.ixl.com to practice these skills. Science Our second unit for the year is Mixtures and Solutions. This is a physical science unit that is very hands on! We have come to know that matter is made of particles too small to be seen and are developing the understanding that matter is conserved when it changes state, when it dissolves in another substance, and when it is part of a chemical reaction. Our investigations have been filled with making mixtures, solutions of different concentrations, and reactions that form new substances. During these investigations they are engaging in engineering experiences with the separation of materials.

Class Character Throughout the month of December, we talked and learned a lot of kindness. It seemed to be a repeated topic amongst several classes. We created a kindness tree, and our goal was to fill the tree with 5th grade kindness. I’d say they did a great job of that!

6th Grade ELA and Social Studies

By Mrs. Larson We have sure been busy in 6th grade! In ELA, the students finished up research reports. They researched everything from Mythology, Arlington National Cemetery, Labrador Retrievers, to Netflix. Once

they finished researching, they presented their information. It was fun to share reports and information with the class.

We continue to work in centers each day in the classroom. We have finished up whole group

lessons on comparing and contrasting, determining importance in text, and summarizing. Then we moved into the features of myths. We read several and the students compared them. We ended our unit with a

reader’s theater of the story Hercules. The lessons were all very effective. In word work we continue to practice 6th grade skills. Recently we have dug into spelling grade-

appropriate words correctly, varying sentence patterns for meaning, interest, and style, and writing

sentences to maintain consistency in style and tone. These activities get the students to think about what they are writing and to adjust it to fit the guidelines.

Throughout social studies, we’re learning about cultures in the Eastern Hemisphere. We have learned about population density and population growth. The students have also focused in on cultures of

countries in the Eastern Hemisphere. They’ve learned how social groups, language, and religion affect

groups of people. The students have also learned about the different economic and political systems. Lots have questions have been asked and answered!

Student Council: In November, student council had the opportunity to help install the HAWK PRIDE sign in the fence out front of the school. It was a blustery day, but we were glad to help!

Student council was very busy during the month of December. They came up

with the idea of Jingle Bell Grams- an opportunity to send a holiday message to others in the school for a $1 donation to TAP, worked to sell them, create them, and then deliver them to classrooms around the school.

After all of sales and deliveries were made, we sold nearly 630 Jingle Bell Grams

and were able to purchase almost $600 of needed supplies to TAP- temporary aid program- in Crawford County. Student council members had the task of shopping for supplies and then loading them on the shelves at the TAP building.

Social Studies 7th Grade The last few months the 7th graders have been continuing working through the book,

while completing writing activities after every chapter crossing writing into social studies to show their learnings. We have also been working weekly on different types of map skills, which we will continue through the rest of the year. Through the rest of the year, we have more hands on projects which the students tend to enjoy! Math 7th Grade Students have reviewed proportional relationships, the connection of ratios, rates and unit rates, and unit rates with ratios of fractions. With the knowledge of proportional relationships they were able to learn and understand constants of proportionalities, graph proportional relationships and apply proportional reasoning to solve problems. After students gained a good understanding on proportional relationships, we moved onto analyzing percents of numbers which lead them to connecting percent and proportions. They learned how to use the percent equation(part=rate*whole). The comprehension of the percent equation lead to percent error and percent change along with markup and markdown problems. We then moved onto simple interest, which seemed to be a new concept to most students as they were asking questions like “why would you borrow money from a bank and pay back more than you borrowed?” or “why wouldn’t everyone put money in the bank to collect interest?” We worked through equivalent expressions, which includes factoring and distribution, both of which they have seen before, and leads to solving equations. The coming few months are going to be a challenge, but just as important as the beginning of the year when learning to add, subtract, multiply, and divide positive and negative numbers. Just as everything built off that, solving equations will be something they see for the next two+ years in any math class they may take. It is essential for them to get a good understanding of the basics prior to reaching the ‘tougher’ problems. Congratulations to the five 7th graders for making the 2019 Math Bee team. They will compete in Orange City on April 4th. Izzy Clark, Marissa Galvin, Elli Heiden, Calli Korner, Brody Schneider Computers 7th & 8th Grade The computers classes have completed a handful of mini assignments through the year thus far after completing their beginning video project. They have used online webtools, google tools, video editing, and the green screen for different assignments and we have discussed online safety, including different platforms of social media. Science 8th Grade The 8th graders have successfully worked through and mastered earth system, and waves and their applications in technologies for information transfer. We are currently working on some engineering design, Earth and human activity, energy and matter and its interaction standards by having students determine which materials maximize and minimize thermal energy transfer, where the materials come from and designing their own insulated cup. Math 8th Grade These students have worked long and hard on mastering solving equations, solving system of linear equations using substitution, graphing and elimination, using functions to model relationships and and moved onto a little bit of geometry. The pythagorean theorem is something that students usually find easy at the beginning, so that is where we began with geometry. We will move onto the converse pythagorean theorem, then congruence and similarity before solving surface area and volume.

Algebra The few students we have in Algebra are chugging away at the standards day-by-day. They are now able to write equations of lines from a given slope and point, or two points. They understand three different forms of equations and how to get there, including standard form (Ax+By=C), slope-intercept form(y=mx+b), and point slope form(y-y1=m(x-x1)). These students can also identify, by looking at equations, whether two lines are parallel or perpendicular. They have mastered linear inequalities and all they have to offer, including solving using any method, solving compound inequalities, inequalities involving absolute value, and graphing inequalities in two variables. Algebra students have also been expected to keep up with the 8th grade math work as well. They will move on to review exponents and expand onto exponential functions and rational exponents. Once that is mastered, they will get into quadratic expressions and equations and the more difficult topics of statistics and geometry. Congratulations to the five 8th graders for making the 2019 Math Bee team. They will compete in Orange City on April 11th. Kaitlyn Bruhn, Emily Espinoza, Timberlen Koch, Koen Miller, Jakob Wigg

Visual Art Happenings By Mrs. Godbersen

Schleswig Artists have entered works for the 2019 Art Educators of Iowa Youth Art Month Show. Juried selection will take place in Des Moines and our school will be notified in March. Pictured are students with their entered works: Front row: TK Kory Nepper (Color Mix Insect), K Taryn Johannsen (Weaving), 1st Aubryana Hoffmeier (Friendly Dragon With Socks), 1st Brenna Bubke (Printmaking Double Image), 2nd Noah Westphalen (Touch, Press, Lift Flowers), Second Row: 4th Hunter Wilson (Style as Okeeffe), 4th Kezia Mullen (My Matisse), 5th Kysa Neddermeyer (Remington Trike), 7th Elli Heiden (Charcoal Vases), and 8th Sonia Sanabia (Dorset Button).

Box Tops Andrea Gurney

TO EARN THIS:

WE NEED THESE:

We have already earned $170 towards our goal of $4,000 this year. We are over HALF WAY there! Please continue to clip Box Tops and send them to school! Our next mail-in date is February 22nd.

MUSIC By. Mrs. Rosener

The music department has had a LOT of things happen since our last newsletter in October. Emily Espinoza was selected to perform at the SWIBA honor band festival held in Atlantic on November

9th. She was one of the 180 students selected from the 500 kids that auditioned. Each student was

required to memorize several scales, the chromatic scale, and assigned etudes. A very patriotic ceremony was held in honor of our veterans on Monday, November 12th. The

students, all dressed in red, white, and blue, looked and sounded wonderful! Once again, thanks to everyone who helped make the Veterans Day program a success.

Congratulations to Kamryn Larson, Sara Rosener, and Jakob Wigg for being selected to participate in the 33rd annual Opus Honor Choir Festival! This is the highest vocal honor for middle

school students across the state of Iowa. Around 3,000 students from Iowa sent in audition CDs for the

720 positions available in the four different Opus honor choirs. The festival took place on November 15th in C.Y. Stephens Auditorium at the Iowa State Center in Ames.

Our TK-4th grade Christmas concert was held on Monday, December 3rd and our 5th-8th grade Christmas concert was held on Monday, December 10th. All of the students did a fabulous job of putting

everyone in the Christmas spirit with their festive music. Thanks to everyone for their support!

Music is off to a great start in 2019! All middle school band students are busy preparing their solos for the annual contest held each spring. The students have been working on their solos during

band time and at their weekly lessons. Their hard work is really paying off! Three students have been selected to participate in Wayne State College's "Festival of Honor

Bands." Emily Espinoza, Kayla Neddermeyer, and Ashley Rosener were three of the 280 students chosen from the 600 that auditioned. Kaitlyn Bruhn was selected as an alternate. Each student was required to

play the chromatic scale and an etude during the online audition process. The festival will take place on

Saturday, January 26th in Wayne, NE.

Opus honor choir festival in Ames SWIBA honor band festival in Atlantic WSC honor band festival in Wayne,

NE

Veterans Day program

TK-4th grade and 5th-8th grade Christmas concerts

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