Congratulations to our 2015 Prom Royalty
L-R: Princess Hailey Hansen, Prince Sam Winter, King Kyle Warthen, Queen Destinie Bradberry
2015 Prom Royalty
2015 Science Fair Winners
Congratulations to our 2015 Science Fair winners.
Junior High
3rd Easton Fritz – What lubricant is best?
2nd John Wiese – How does PH effect plant growth?
1st Julie Klemm and Taya Skelton – What’s Cracking?
High School
3rd Hannah Warner and Abi Nelson – How does color affect heating by absorption of light?
2nd Kloey Appel and Lizzy Namuth – Eyes vs. Ears
1st McKenzie Cottle and Bailey Bannister – Meltdown
Overall Winner Nicole Swanson and Morgan McNew – Does calcium affect the strength of egg shells?
Dr. Seuss Week 2015
Fort Calhoun Elementary had a blast celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday this week. They had many different dress up themes, contests and story times. Some favorites were decorate your hair day and dress like your favorite Dr. Seuss character. Students also earned Cat Cash for every Dr. Seuss book they read. The students made a Seuss Soup Snack to enjoy during their time reading Dr. Seuss books throughout the week. Families joined into the fun by decorating a Dr. Seuss themed sock with their student. The week wrapped up with an assembly to announce contest winners. A highlight of the week was watching the students who earned the most Cat Cash, dump water on the Principal, Mr. Wagner’s, head.
State Wrestling Qualifiers 2015
Congratulations to our State Wrestling Qualifiers!
Riley Lake, Dylan Hartline, Jacob Tegels, Lonnie Albertson, Vince Hartline, Cameron McNew, Cole Welchert.
District Results : Go to Browse at top of screen. Select Tournaments. Search: City: Malcolm, State: Nebraska. Then on the left of screen you can view brackets by weight class.
State Brackets at Track Wrestling: Go to Browse at top of screen. Select Tournaments. NSAA State tournament at Century Link Center is right there on the front screen. Select weights. Then you can view each class brackets. We are class C.
We will have a PEP Rally for our State Wrestlers at 12:15 pm on Thursday Feb. 19th in the HS gym. Please come support our athletes!
Congratulations to Jake Polesky
Congratulations to Jake Polesky. He was one of the top entries in NETA’s 2015 Infographics Contest. He created an infographic over the grammar concept Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement using the website Piktochart.com. An infographic visually organizes both text and graphics to communicate information. His work will be published in an upcoming NETA newsletter, which is received by educators all over the state of Nebraska. Hopefully, educators will use his piece as an inspiration to use this technology in their own classrooms.
His teacher, Sara Wellman-HighHorse, will also be recognized in the upcoming NETA newsletter for her efforts in using the application website in class. She will also receive a free membership to this years NETA Conference held in Omaha. Mrs. Wellman-HighHorse commented saying, “I had originally learned about this creation-based website at least year’s NETA conference. I decided to utilize it in my classroom, as it aligns with my philosophy of more project-based assessments. In addition, knowing about this contest fueled my ambition to use it even more.”
2015 Engineering Competition at UNO
Mrs. Shields took 2 teams to the TSA TEAMS (Technology Student Association Test for Engineering Aptitude in Math and Science) Competition on Tuesday, February 17 at UNO. The teams placed 1st and 2nd in their respective division. The students participating were James Borsch, Sarah Determan, Kyle Owen, Tessa Stevens, Alex Tietz, Daniel Crump, Zane Fickbohm, Riley Grosse-Rhode, Bret Klabunde, Erin Schulz.
Robotics Contest
Fort Calhoun Robotics class participated in their first contest this weekend at Benson High School. Teams did really well with this being their first contest of the year. They will be participating again at Skills USA State April 15-17 at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha.
Geometry Project
The student took a picture of a pioneer, put a 1-inch grid on it and then increased it to 8 foot tall pioneer. Making a shape bigger is called a dilation.
Kindergarten Math Exploration 2015
Mrs. Clausen’s kindergarteners, this school year, have been working on identifying the shapes: rhombus, pentagon, hexagon and octagon. They partnered with their 3rd grade reading buddies in Mrs. Leishman’s room on January 16th to do a hands-on project building these shapes with spaghetti noodles and marshmallows. The 3rd grade students were able to walk the kindergarteners through step-by-step on how to make these shapes, as well as a few three dimensional shapes such as cubes and pyramids. The students discovered that they can use these shapes to create tents, catapults, skyscrapers, race cars and much, much more! We enjoyed working with our partners and discovering new characteristics of shapes all around us!
UNO’s Middle School Honor choir 2015
Friday, January 9th, six Jr High students participated in UNO’s Middle School Honor choir. These students went through an audition process in September and were chosen to take part with 160 other Middle school students across the state. For the auditions, students sang a solo song and a scale to show their voice capabilities. The UNO Middle School Honor Choir staff chooses the final list of participants. Throughout the day, students worked with guest conductor, David Puderbaugh in a music clinic setting and ended the afternoon with a final concert at 3:00 pm in the Strauss Performing Arts Center on the UNO campus. The students have been individually preparing the music on their own since they found out they were selected in November. This honor choir gave the students an opportunity to go above and beyond and challenge themselves with new music. It also gave the students a chance to really expand and grow in themselves as musicians.
These student were selected:
Oliva Evans (8th grade)
Julie Klemm (8th grade)
Jordan Wear (8th grade)
Joshua Nachtigall (7th grade)
Riley Mitchell (7th grade)
John Crump (8th grade)
The songs they sang on the concert were:
The Falcon
I Will Arise and Make Music
Amavolovolo
He Never Failed Me Yet
O Swiftly Glides the Bonny Boat
