My mom always said, “The years go faster when you get older.” With that said, I must really be getting old because it just seems like yesterday that I typed a “back to school” letter to parents for last year.

As we begin the year, there are always changes and it is amazing how the teachers and staff roll up their sleeves and get everyone settled in. I am fortunate to have such a dedicated staff who truly care about the students they serve. I thank you par-ents, too, for sending us such great kids and understanding that the first few weeks of school are a little chaotic as everyone returns.

There are always challenges like the technology doesn’t work, the schedules need to be changed—several times, communication lines aren’t always efficiently in place, etc. But the one constant is that the Meade School District is focused on providing students with the “knowledge and skills for success today and tomorrow.”

I hope this is another great school year. We know there will be challenges, but we

know there will be many successes, also!

Mrs. Rosenboom, Principal

Students of the Month Elm Springs Elemen-tary

2

Hereford Elementary 3

Enning/Union Center Elementary K-2 Enning/Union Center Elementary 3-5

4

Welcome Kindergarten Students & Staff Music News

5

Opal School Enning/.Union Center Elementary

6

Upcoming Events School to Reach Receipts Student Insurance

7

Atall Elementary 8

Book Fair 9

PTO News 10

Flu Shots 11

Consent Forms 12,13

Vaccination Infor-mation

14,15

Inside this issue:

Rural Newsletter “To Build Knowledge and

Skills for Success

Today and Tomorrow”

Whitewood/Rural Schools Office

603 Garfield

Whitewood, SD 57793

Bev Rosenboom, Principal September, 2015

Notice

We want to remind you that there is no supervision on the playgrounds at each school site before 7:45 a.m. and after 2:45 p.m. If your children are there we do not provide supervision, we cannot take re-sponsibility for any incidents that may take place.

Welcome Back!

What do I know about my child's teacher?

The federal education law called ESEA, requires that all parents in a

Title I school be notified and given the opportunity to request infor-

mation about the professional qualifications of classroom teachers

instructing their child. If you are interested in this information, you

may send your request to the building principal who will provide a

response.

Nurse Notes 16

Camri: Where did you grow up?

Mr. Paulson: I grew up in Aitkin, and went to school there. I am proud to say the I was a “Fight’in Gobbler”, as were all six of my brothers and sisters.

Attison: How do you spell your name?

Mr. Paulson: D-O-N P-A-U-L-S-O-N

Tracy: What is the favorite trip that you have been on?

Mr. Paulson: There are a couple of trips that have been memorable – I rode on a train to California a few years ago. Train travel with my fam-ily was very memorable and enjoy-able. I also went on a trip to Wash-ington D.C. a couple of summers back. I enjoyed that because it was a return trip – I lived there for about 3 years back in the 1980’s.

Rylan: What sports did you play?

Mr. Paulson: When I was growing up, I played football, basketball, baseball, and I wrestled a bit. As I got older, I played some soccer and softball. Whatever season was go-ing on, I wanted to take part in that sport.

Loucasey: Where did you live be-fore coming to Elm Springs?

Mr. Paulson: I lived in Redfield and taught school there for quite a few years. My wife and I moved there in 1992 ( that is my wife’s hometown).

Elm Springs School welcomed in a new teacher this year. Mr. Don Paul-son is now teaching at the school, and the students thought that an interview with him would help the rural schools get to know him a bit better.

These are the questions that the stu-dents posed for Mr. Paulson.

Jimi: What do you like to read?

Mr. Paulson: I am a big newspaper reader. I like to keep up on what is going on in the world. Also, I enjoy reading the books that my students are reading so that we can discuss the stories together and learn more about the ideas in the stories.

Waylon: When is your birthday?

Mr. Paulson: I celebrate my birthday on August 9

th.

Taken: What is your favorite color?

Mr. Paulson: I am a fan of the colors of orange and yellow – I guess that I like most colors.

James: How long have you been mar-ried?

Mr. Paulson: I have been married to my dear wife, Barb, for almost 28 years. Our 28

th wedding anniversary

will be in January of 2016.

Jonnie: Where were you born?

Mr. Paulson: I was born in Aitkin, Min-nesota quite some time ago. J

Elm Springs Elementary Grades K, 1, 2, 3, 4, & 7

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Congratulations ~ September Students of the Month

Kaylee Smith Grade 3

Opal School

Reiny: What is your favorite animal?

Mr. Paulson: I am partial to dogs – I have two miniature dachshunds cur-rently. I have a feeling that living here, I may add horses to my favorites list soon!

Thank you students and families for welcoming me to your community! I am very happy to have to opportunity to get to know you and appreciate all of the wonderful things that you bring to our classroom!

Mr. Paulson, Classroom Teacher

Bailey Stover, Paraprofessional

Hunter Rhoden Grade 1

Enning/Union Center

Elm Springs students made this US flag.

Welcome back! I hope everybody had a great summer and is settling into their class-room routines.

We definitely started our year out with a bang! We continued our 11-year tradition of riding horseback on the first day of school.

We have hit the ground running with schoolwork and daily routine. Students at Hereford work on Daily 3 skills (Reading, Spelling and Writing) to improve daily on those abilities. In Science, we are exploring Life Science. Also, as a school we are studying water with our Foss Science Kits. We have explored surface tension, density and how water acts at differ-ent temperatures with our Science kit.

In math, 5th graders are working on improving Multiplication and Division skills through factoring. They are working on

factoring 3 digit numbers! In 7th grade we are investigating probability along with showing probability in the form of frac-

tions, ratios and percents.

For reading, 7th graders are divining into the different forms of prose. We have read various stories about boxing and

various cultures around the world. In 5th grade, students are studying story elements, making inferences and cause and

effect. They are busy showing their knowledge of their skills.

Our next adventure is our 180-pound pumpkin in our rock garden. We are going to paint and decorate it for the fall, as well as, salt the seeds to make a delicious snack to enjoy.

We wish you all a good school year.

Miss Benda and Mrs. Howie

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Once again, we had a great start to the new year with our first day ride to school. There were 35 riders this year including preschoolers, parents, grand-parents, and teachers. Kris Hubbard was there to take pictures for the Rapid City Journal and for the South Dakota magazine which will be doing an article about the tradition in their July issue next summer. It was a beautiful morning for a ride. We love coming back to school!

We have two new kindergarteners in our room this year. Levi McPherson and Tel Elshere have joined first graders Trik Elshere, Shea Deering, and Casper Hammerstrom; 3

rd grader Porter Deer-

ing; and 4th grader Veronica Grubl. We

are also happy to have a new parapro-fessional this year, Mrs. Niederwerder.

We are really enjoying our Scholas-tic News. One of our third and fourth graders’ favorite articles so far was about a St. Bernard named Boo.

Boo is a service dog for a girl with severe peanut allergies. Boo is spe-cially trained to detect peanuts and other nuts so she can keep her owner away from them and from people who have been around them. We learned that a dog’s nose is 100,000 times as sensitive as a human’s. We have also enjoyed articles about the writing of the Constitution, the lost leaders of Jamestown, and the disappearing honeybees. Kindergarten and first graders have been learning about tools that scientists use and different kinds of animal families. The strang-est animal family we learned about was a mama dog who adopted 3 tiger cubs.

In art class we have been learning how to paint with watercolors and made some really cool trees. We also made some beautiful butterflies with markers, coffee filters, and pipe cleaners.

Wishing everyone an enjoyable year!

Mrs. Barry and Mrs. Niederwerder

This Sign commemorates the fact that " THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER" became our National Anthem from a

suggestion that started at this fort.

Did you

Know?

Ft. Meade, Sturgis, SD

H e r e f o r d S c h o o l

Grades 5th & 7th

FOR

SEPTEMBER

“SPORTSMANSHIP”

“Teamwork is the fuel that

allows common people to

produce uncommon results.”

Author Unknown

Enning K-2 has really been enjoying

our new playground equipment! It has

been reported that several adults even

tried out the equipment. We are very

busy learning about each other in So-

cial Studies. Everyday a different star

student is asked questions by eager

fellow student reporters. Teachers re-

cord the facts about the star student

and then each student writes or draws

about that student.

Mrs. Meadows, Classroom Teacher

Mrs. Brink, Paraprofessional

Mrs. Ketelsen, Paraprofessional

Enning/Union Center Elementary Grades 3rd, 4th, 5th

Superhero theme this year.

Exciting new adventures!

Presidents, government, and

elections are our Social Stud-

ies focus.

There are 14 students this

year.

Experiments and exploration

will be our Science journey.

Math is patterns to be found.

Beginning of a new school

year.

Expect to learn, grow, and

have fun.

Reading and writing about

all sorts of possibilities.

Enning/Union Center Elementary

Kindergarten, 1st & 2nd

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Mrs. King, Classroom

Teacher

Mrs. Delbridge, Paraprofes-

sional

SEPTEMBER

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Welcome

Kindergartners Joni Spring

Tayah Young

Taken Anders

Jimi Ties

Waylon Wilson

Theron Andrews

Kason Barry

James Butler

Shanni Cammack

Logan LaMont

Dylan Long

Colter Rhoden

Tel Elshere

Levi McPherson

Bridger Frei

Liberty Schultes

Cassie Smith

Don Paulson, Elm Springs Teacher

Lindsay Young,

Paraprofessional Atall

Jonni Anders Rachel Cammack Mariah Spring Camri Elshere Shaniah Spring Jalynn Grubl Jaycie West Jaysee Jones

Lexi Long Cassidy Schuelke Kylie Shaw Sydney Shaw Coach: Ann Shaw

Dally Jensen—Atall School Blake Vig– Opal School

Skylar Vig-Opal School

Patty Trask– Enning/Union Center School

We are off and running with music in the rural schools again! All the kids are eager and ready to learn

new things that I have prepared for them.

There are many new young faces this year, so the kindergarten and lower grades have been working on

steady beat with a fun song "Time for School", where they get to clap, walk, stomp, skip, hop, tiptoe

and swim their way through the song! Of course, everyone loves the song "Everything is Awesome"

from the Lego movie.

We've also learned a "Swiss Hiking Song" which has given everyone a turn at yodeling... I have some

fabulous yodelers! I always love to throw in an oldies song, so the kids have enjoyed "Rock Around the

Clock" from the 50's era... this one is always a hit.

For a touch of classical inspiration, the students have followed a listening map for Ludwig Von Beetho-

ven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor. This is the same song they heard last year with the book

"Beethoven's Wig", a very funny book set to a very famous piece of music.

To wrap things up, we have also covered a traditional spiritual "Over My Head", in which the students

sing through the first verse legato at a slower pace and then sing the last 3 verses with more energy in

a gospel style.

All in all, we are singing up a storm out here on the prairie! Looking forward for what is yet to come in

the year ahead.

Keep a song in your heart!

Mrs. Wicks

Rural Music

Welcome back to school!! The summer seemed to fly by. It was exciting to see how much each of us have grown and changed over the summer vacation. We all seem pretty glad to be back in school and are ready to have a great year. We have eighteen students at Opal this year. We welcome five new kids to our group. Libby Schultes, Cassie Smith, and Bridger Frei are our kindergarteners this year. They are excited about school and are having a great time so far. Blake Vig joins the other 7

th graders, Brayden Price, De-

laney Smith, and Dillon Smith. We are super glad to have him on our team. His sister Skylar joins us as a fourth grader. She is also a great addition. We return Colby Skogen to the first grade. Brynlie Price and Tyler Martin are our second graders. Third grade includes Bentley Frei, Emilee Smith, and Kaylee Smith. Landon Fisher and Brigg Price make up the fourth grade this year. And Traylin Martin and Cassidy Schuelke are in the 6

th grade. We welcome TyAnn Schuelke

as our paraprofessional for the first nine weeks of school. We also are glad to have Mrs. Price here two days a week as well. We have a full house here this year. A full house of eager, excited, and driven students who want to make this the best year ever!!! We wish all of you a great year, too!

Mrs. Schuelke, Classroom Teacher Ms. Schuelke, Paraprofessional Mrs. Price, Paraprofessional

September 17, 2015, marked the 128

th anniversary of the

signing of our United States Constitu-tion. Throughout the summer of 1787, fifty-six men who have since become known as our Founding Fathers wrote, debated, and revised this important document. Five of them are introduced here.

George Mason was born on De-cember 11, 1725 in Fairfax Farm, Vir-ginia.George real name is George Ma-son IV when his father was George Mason III. George had five boys and had four girls.When the Constitution was written he was 62 years old. Some of his occupations were; Planter and a Slave Holder Lending and Invest-ments, Real Estate Land Speculation, Public Security Investments, and a Land owner. He was delegated from the state of Virginia.George Mason was related to George Washington through marriage. George Mason IV died on October 7,1792 and died in Fairfax farm, Virginia.

By: Lexi Long, Billie Kilness, and Robin Kilness

William Paterson was a very smart person. He was born on Decem-ber 24, 1745. He was born in Ireland then immigrated to the U.S. in 1747. He was a very busy person. Over the period of his life he was a New Jersey Statesman, an Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, a U.S. Governor, a U.S. Representative, and a Lawyer! He was a delegate from New Jersey and was 41 when the Constitution was written. He died on September 9, 1806 and is buried in the same cemetery as President Chester A. Arthur. He died at the age of 61.

By: Jalynn Grubl and Beau Austin

Governor Morris was born on July 31, 1752. Morris was born in New York but represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention. He had a brother named Lewis who signed the Declaration of Independence. Gover-nor Morris was not married until he was 57. He married Anne Cary Randolph. Randolph was 10 years younger than Morris. Together they had one son named Gouverneur Mor-ris, Jr.

Governor Morris, Sr. was only 12 years old when he entered King’s college and then graduated when he was only 16. He was only 35 years old when he signed the Constitution.

Governor Morris was a politician who was very wealthy and involved in politics. Gorvernor was one of the tallest signers of the Constitution. He also signed the Articles of Con-federation. Morris also joined a club for the protection of New York.

Morris died from internal injuries on November 6, 1816 when his son was only 3.

By Kylie Shaw and Tayson Jones

Roger Sherman was born on April 19, 1721. When he was 2 years old they relocated from Mas-sachusetts to Dorchester which is present day Stoughton. When the Constitution was being written he was 66. He was a delegate from Connecticut. His occupation was a lawyer, merchant, public security interests, statesman, and a cobbler. He went to Yale University. During his life, he was a representative for Connecticut from 1789 to 1791. He was also Connecticut’s Senetor from 1791 to 1793. He was married to two women since his first wife died. They were Rebecca Minot Prescott and Elizabeth Hartwell. On July 23, 1793 he died of typhoid.

By: Sydney Shaw and Tegun Spring

Charles Pinckney was a Founding Father. He was born on October 26, 1757 and died October 29, 1824. At the time of the Consti-tutional Convention he was 29. Pinckney fought in the American Revolution and was captured by the British. His wife was Sarah Middle-town. He was a Senator from 1798-1801. He resigned June 6,1801. Charles Pinckney died three days after his birthday at sixty seven. He was buried at St.Philips Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC.

By Emily Gray-Smith and Rachel Cammack

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Enning/Union Center Elementary

Grades 6, 7, & 8

Student Insurance Meade School District 46-1 does not assume responsibility for acci-dents that may occur. However, district officials recognize the advan-tage of making school accident insurance available as well as school dental protection by cooperating with companies offering these ser-vices. The brochure/enrollment form is currently available online at www.1stAgency.com. From there, go to "Find Your School," select the state and then hit "Go." From there, you can download and print the brochure/enrollment form. You can enroll online or mail the enrollment form. For information about Delta Dental Insurance, go to the company's website at www.deltadentalsd.com Please keep in mind that Meade School District does not sell in-surance, nor does it process claims. You contact the company when proper settlement is not made, or if you have questions about your claims.

Tuesday, October 6—Parent Teacher Confer-ences

Thursday, October 8—Parent Teacher Confer-ences

Friday, October 9—

Inservice No School

Monday, October 12—Native American Day—No

School

Wednesday, October 28 - Flu shots (0-18)

Union Center School

2:00-4:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 5 -

Picture Retake—CMCCC

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Rural Schools are now collect-ing:

Lynn’s County Da-kota Mart grocery re-ceipts & Family Thrift gro-cery receipts.

There is an envelope at the Bull Creek Café where

you may drop your re-ceipts off, at the Rural Office, or give to Becca Smith.

The money raised from

these programs goes to the Rural Fund to support the Pierre Trip, Outlaw Ranch and other student

programs.

Elementary students living more than 2.5

miles from the bus route to which they are as-

signed will receive mile-age payments of the number of miles in ex-

cess of 5 miles.

School To Reach

The message is voice activated

so it will only relay if someone

says “Hello” or something like

that.

The message will only

download to an answering ma-

chine if the machine is set to record at 4 rings or

less. Some people have their

machines set to record after

more rings than that.

When a person picks up, it

may seem like a telemarketer call because there will be that

empty pause before it kicks

in— If they don’t say anything

and hang up, it will show on

my report as a “Failed” call.

Atall Elementary ~ “students doing our news in a different way”

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Kindergarten News

Joni went to the zoo and saw all the animals there. She saw zebras, snakes, penguins, giraffes, kangaroos, ostriches, and flamingoes. She bought a stuffed monkey at the gift shop.

Tayah went to Washington D.C. this summer. She stayed at a hotel and watched Rio 2. She got a stuffed lion named Liony.

First Grade News

Tance brought some ants to school today. He saw some ant hills by his dad’s shop. He picked up some of the dirt and ants, and put them in a jar. Some of the ants bit Tance!

Everett has a stuffed fish. His grandparents gave it to him. They bought it in Alaska while they were on a fishing trip. The fish is special to Everett.

Second Grade News

We are doing our news in a different way! We have to write our own sentences. Everyone takes a turn to write sen-tences. We have a main idea. Our sentences support the main idea. This is how we write paragraphs.

Second grade is hard, but it is also a lot of fun. It is hard to learn cursive, but it is also amazing to write like an adult. Us-ing iPads is sometimes hard, but it is fun to play with them. Spelling is hard, but writing in my notebook is fun. By Trailin Young, Emma Spring, and Alanah Spring

Fourth Grade News

So this summer I went to summer school which was super fun. I had a great summer school teacher. Also we went back east and went swimming in a hotel. We also moved this summer, and then I moved to a new great school. I’m having a great time. By Dally Jensen

Fifth Grade News

It is fun to be in a new grade; doing new things and having fun. Everything is harder, but I am learning new things and reading new books. We have thirteen students, seven different grade levels, and two teachers. One is new and she is awesome. Our other teacher is awesome, too. September 15

th was International Dot Day and I wore all dots. Peter Rey-

nolds made a book named The Dot and it was so good that they made an International Dot Day. September 9th was

Teddy Bear Day. By Shaniah Spring

The first day our teacher Mrs. Urbaniak took a picture of us. We got a new kid, Dally, he is amazing, now we have thir-teen kids in our school. Mrs. Urbaniak let us do a jelly bean test. It was good, and gross. On September 15

th it was Inter-

national Dot Day and we colored a dot picture. Dot Day is about a book called The Dot. They made it a holiday because it was such a good book. I hope this year is going to be amazing! By Mariah Spring

Sixth Grade News

This summer I went to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. My favorite part was going to meet Mickey Mouse. This sum-mer I also went to Farmer’s Union Camp. At camp we roasted marshmallows. Though the traveling was fun, I had the most fun being at home. It’s the beginning of school and I like being a sixth grader because I have harder work to do. Picture Day and the Book Fair are my favorite parts of September. By Kody Komes

Seventh Grade News

I didn’t do a lot this summer, but I did rake hay. My teacher is reading the book I am Malala to us. It is very interesting and scary. My goal is to read 30 books in the school year. In social studies I am labeling maps. By Sam Rounds

The time has come to go back to school! The summer was long and fun. We went salmon fishing, I raked in the field, we swam in our pool and made lots of good summer memories. Now’s the time to make school memories. I like to go to school because I get to see my friends and learn more. I also read lots of books during the summer, and now I have a goal to read 35 books this school year. In September I colored dots for Dot Day and did a true or false game for Consti-tution Day. By Bailey Urbaniak

Mrs. Urbaniak, Classroom Teacher Mrs. Young, Paraprofessional

An eventful day ~

Thanks to EVERYONE for making Picture Day, Book Fair, and PTO serving snacks a great success. Even with the nurses doing eye testing and height and weight. It still went in a timely manner.

A special THANK YOU to Sarah Rounds for chairing the Book Fair and Roxanne Remington for helping in setting up and taking money. Boxing up the books to re-turn were Sarah Rounds, Roxanne Reming-ton, Hillory Rhoden, Shelane Graham, Beau Austin and Tayson Jones. It would have never been as successful without your help. The book fair just keeps get-ting better and better every year. So we appreciate the students, parents, and all the people who support the book fair.

Kaylee Smith and Skylar Vig looking at books.

Trik Elshere and Dawson Deering eating

the breakfast treats on sale by the Rural PTO members

Photos by Kris Hubbard

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PTO Meeting Dates

Atall —Tuesday, Oct. 6, 6:30 p.m.

Elm Springs-Tues. Nov. 10,

6:30p.m.

Enning –Tues. Jan. 5, 6:30 p.m.

Hereford—Tues. Feb. 2, 6:30 p.m.

Opal –Tues. Mar. 1, 6:30 p.m.

Union Center, Tues. April 5, 6:30

p.m.

Rural Meade County PTO Meeting Minutes

September 1st

Union Center Welcome Members Present: Shelane Graham, John Nachtigall, Heidi Komes Secretary/Treasurer: Reports were read. Old Business:

Discussed T-Shirts and Visors that where given to all the teachers along with getting ones for the new teachers. New Business:

Book Fair September 24th at CMCCC

PTO Serving Breakfast at Book Fair/Picture Day Representatives needed for Enning and Opal Dues - $5 per family – Please turn into your school representative or to school teacher 2015-2016 Meeting Dates

October 6th – Atall

November 10th – Elm Springs

Dec – No Meeting January 5

th – Enning

February 2nd

– Hereford March 1

st – Opal

April 5th – Union Center

May – No Meeting

Meeting Adjourned

Next Meeting will be at Atall School on October 6

th

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Wednesday, October 28,

2:00—4:00 P.M.

Union Center School

SEE page 12 and 13 for

CONSENT FORMS

0-18 years of age –Influenza

5th & 6th grade—Tdap

In Touch

Flu Shots

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