Shawano Community Middle School
Mark your calendars for 1-2 p.m. March 6 and 6:30-7:30 p.m. March 13 for an extremely important and informative presentation in the middle school LGI. Principal Daniel Labby, Associate Principal Tami Bagstad and Officer Jody Johnson will be addressing three main topics: middle school minds, technology/electronics use and bullying. If you have a student in middle school, this is a must-see! You also have the option of joining your students for lunch on March 6 before the presentation. Sixth-grade lunch is from 10:46-11:30 a.m., seventh-grade lunch is from 11:33 a.m. to 12:16 p.m., and eighth-grade lunch is from 12:19-1 p.m. Please contact Mr. Labby (dlabby@shawanoschools.com or 715-526-2192, ext. 8300) or Mrs. Bagstad (tbagstad@shawanoschools.com or 715-526-2192, ext. 8301) by Monday, March 3, for your lunch reservation so we can have the proper amount of food prepared. Again, if you have a student in middle school, you won’t want to miss this. We are looking forward to hearing from you and seeing you.
Olga Brener Intermediate School
The fourth-grade classes have been taking turns going to Navarino Nature Center for some winter fun. The students get to spend the morning learning about the history of snowshoes and doing some snowshoeing while exploring the many acres of the nature center in hopes of catching a glimpse of a porcupine and seeing a beaver dam firsthand. After an exciting day of exploration, they head back to the nature center and do some sledding.
Congratulations to the following students for being chosen as the Hawk Way Trait Award winners for their classroom for demonstrating the trait perseverance: Abby Swartz, Brady Anderson, Felix Lyles, Jenna Ainsworth, Layla Miller, Owen Curran, Rachel Cooper, Sophia Bessette, Alexia Powell, Tucker Miles, Faith Lammers, Myron Wayka, Rylie Anderson, Braedyn Kowalkowski, Peter Husby, Miranda Bartelt, Damon Montour, Kaylee Rindt, Joshua Tomashek, Rowyn Rodenbeck, Zac Jurmu, Nicole tePlate, Ray LeMieux, Lydia Beyer, Kody Stuewer, Camilla Doherty, Ethan Kreuser, Taylor Johnson, Ben Hoffman, Payton Steinbach, Grace Huntington, Marissa Milavitz, Nicholas Kohn, Nic Budish, Makayla Belongia, Sierra Laubenstein, Holden Medina, Nathan Edwards and Haley Sheldon.
Upcoming: Feb. 21, Family Game Night; March 13, Knowledge-a-thon; March 14, teacher in-service/no school; March 17, there is school; March 25, Brener Student Showcase; March 26, Grandfriends Breakfast; March 27, spring picture day.
St. Paul Lutheran, Bonduel
Last week, students participated in jumping rope or shooting hoops to gain awareness of having a healthy heart. Students collected donations on behalf of the American Heart Association to the tune of over $3,000. Great job, students!
The fourth-graders are enjoying their own version of P.E. Olympics and have enjoyed participating as the teams of Russia, Norway and Canada. The modified competitions round out this week, in time for the closing ceremonies and medal presentation on Friday. They have also been busy learning about nutrition in science and recently completed a lab to visually test fat content in certain foods. This week’s lab will be to measure sugar content, comparing grams to teaspoons with regard to various beverages.
Lower grade students recently celebrated their 100th day of school. Time flies when you’re having fun learning!
January chapel offerings were collected to help Camp Luther obtain 50 new life jackets, one of the camp’s wish list items. Students stepped up to the plate and raised $1,000 in only four Wednesdays, and Camp Luther was so thrilled that it sent out a tweet with a picture of our wall display.
Sacred Heart Catholic School
Sacred Heart Catholic School and St. Rose/St. Mary School of Clintonville teamed up Friday to Jump Rope for Heart. We worked together to raise money to help the American Heart Association fund research to help people have healthier hearts. The St. Rose/St. Mary students and staff came to our school on Valentine’s Day to take part in heart healthy rotations. They not only jumped rope but also enjoyed a heart healthy snack, hula hooped, did the limbo, made cards for families with children who are suffering from heart conditions, shot free throws and jumped on pogo sticks. Our school record of pogo bounces, formerly held by Erin Norton with over 300 jumps consecutively, was shattered with over 500 jumps by eighth-grader Atty Wagner. So far the two schools have raised over $1,800. Donations are being accepted through the end of this week.
Sue Kenfield, our gym teacher, has our students fully engaged in the Olympics by participating in their own Olympics here at school. They have participated in curling and bobsled, and later this week will be speed-skating. The students are enjoying learning about the Olympics, the countries and the spirit of good competition. We will have a closing ceremony on Feb. 28 and award medals to our top finishers.
All students and staff are geared up to spend the day at Camp Tekekwitha on Monday. We have many exciting activities planned including art, snowshoeing, science and team building. Watch next week’s article for an update on all the fun we had.
A big thank you to Father Mack for celebrating Mass with us on Feb. 12 while Father Luke was on retreat. The students who belong to St. Michael’s and St. Anthony’s were excited to share their parish priest with their school family.
Our Home and School Association will be hosting a fish fry for Lent on March 7 here at school. Watch for more information to come or call the school office.
Reminder: We are enrolling grades 3K through grade eight for the 2014-2015 school year. Our staff consists of classroom teachers and specialists for art, music and gym. Call the office today to set up a meeting with our admissions director or just to find out what our school has to offer.
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