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On Friday November 11th, Fort Calhoun Community Schools honored our Veterans by having a Veteran’s Day Ceremony. The event was hosted by our Skills USA students. The High School Band and Choir both performed several patriotic songs including the Armed Forces Salute.  The 4th Graders also helped us celebrate by performing a song about the American Flag. Walter Paul “Butch” Kirkland III was the Keynote Speaker.  Several service members from the Military were in attendances and enjoyed a luncheon prepared by the school kitchen staff and served by the Skills USA students. Thank you to everyone who helped with the event. Once again, Fort Calhoun Schools would like to thank all our Veterans for their service to our country.

 

Thank you Fort Calhoun students and staff

Students and faculty collected over 650 items during a two week food drive held during November sponsored by Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA).

The items collected were donated to the Washington Country Food Pantry in Blair.  The sophomore and  junior classes brought in the most food items. The juniors received donuts as a result of donating the most items.

Thank you to everyone who donated!!

 

 

MCC has organized a CPR class with Christi Jones and the American Red Cross Association. It is on Saturday, December 17th from 9 am to 1 pm at Christi Care. The cost is $55 or if you are willing to babysit for just 1 PFE meeting this year, it is only $35. See Mrs. Lloyd for a registration form. There is a limit of 10 so get yours soon before space fills up. Download the registration form below and return it to the High School with your payment. Email Anna Gepson at agepson@ftcpioneers.org with any questions. Please consider learning to save a life.

 

Congratulations to our Marching Band for receiving a superior rating at the NSBA State Marching Band Competition. Great job on all the hard work and time spent to reach this goal. Seniors pictured are Taylor Thalman, Sarah Johnson, Rachel Schumaker, Mandy Hansen, Ian Edie, Montana Cottle, Tessa Dethlefs, Dani Dross, Ellie Shafer, Travis Fitzgerald, Justin Drowne, Christopher Lopez, Autumn Kestel, Nick Deyen, Bradley Lester, and Dalton Ashby.

As a means to advocate for breast cancer awareness, students and staff purchased bracelets from FBLA during the month of October. The club raised $470 from donations and selling pink bracelets, which will be donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to help the fight against breast cancer. October 18th was designated as a Pink Out day at school and pink was worn at the last football and home volleyball games in October as well.  Thank you to everyone who donated money and bought bracelets!

Wow! We are so proud of the awesome students and staff we have here at the elementary! They donated 1,049 pairs of socks to the Open Door Mission and Lydia House and 304 single socks to the Put a Sock in it campaign. Socktober has come to an end, but their generosity will continue to give to others during these cold winter months. Also, Crazy Socks Contest was a success! Thanks to those who participated in this contest! Our Autumn Pointe residents and Student Council members enjoyed seeing your creativity! The top 5 winners were Brenner Wright, Ali Bell, Addy Musser, Carly Finch and Caleb Larsen.  The upstairs class with the most socks was Mrs. Clausen’s Class and the class with the most socks downstairs was Miss Carlsen’s class.  Student Council wants to thank you all again for supporting the cause. And most importantly, thank you for making a difference in another person’s life.

 

• Congratulations to the boys and girls Cross Country teams.

  The boys finished the team race in the top ten at 8th place with Colton Folkers medaling at 9th. The girls brought home the state runner-up team trophy with Avery McKennan finishing 7th and Taya Skelton repeating has the Class C state champion

 

 

This year’s teams include-

Girls

*Montana Cottle, *Kyla DeLuca, *Anna Gepson, *Mandy Hansen, Dianna Janecek, Nickie King, Sophia Irvine, Hanna Lazure, Savannah Lukasiewicz, *Avery McKennan, Morgan Miller, Dilara Onigkeit, MaKayla Perry, *Kelsie Premer, Ellie Shaffer, Molly Shannon, *Taya Skelton.

Boys

Kyle Deyen, *Colton Folkers, *Ben Haggar, *Jake Haggar, *Hunter Howell, Aaron Johnson, *Bradley Lester, *Nathan Premer, *John Wiese

Managers

Jessica Gravert, Rachel Schumaker, Dani Dross

*District meet Varsity Team Members

Fort Calhoun Elementary School held a fire safety awareness day on October 24th. Fire is the second major cause of accidental death and injury to children, with the vast majority of these injuries and fatalities occurring in the home. This program provided students with fire safety information and skills, while also allowed students a chance to practice those skills in a realistic, controlled environment under the guidance of the Fort Calhoun fire department and the Nebraska State Fire Marshal. The fire safety trailer is a mobile travel trailer in which students were able to: walk through a kitchen, living room, and bedroom and spot fire hazards, practice simple methods of eliminating potentially dangerous situations, feel a “hot door” and locate an emergency escape route, recognize a smoke alarm and exit using a ladder as the fire safety house fills with a non-toxic smoke. The goal of the program is to demonstrate what to do in the event of a fire within the home. The fire safety trailer gives us the best opportunity to simulate a residential fire and to have the students practice how to exit safely.

Students in Mrs. Clausen’s 1st grade class enjoyed the program very much. We heard students say “I want to do it again!” several times upon exiting the van. “One student said it was a little scary but still fun.” and many students said it was “cool.” Thank you to Fort Calhoun Volunteer Fireman, the Fire Marshal and Cadets Caleb Grosse-Rhode and Colton Mallory.

Our recent field trip to Sixth Grade Conservation Day at Summit Lake near Tekamah lucked into a perfect weather day. We spent the morning observing nature on a guided hike through the hills. We also had a chance to get up close and personal with some interesting critters! The afternoon included experts who spoke about the importance of conserving our natural resources as we rotated though soils, forestry, water cycle, and fishing stations.