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Mr. Humphrey’s homeroom is starting a new tradition, food day once a month.  To kick off the first food day of the new year, many treats were brought by all, but the highlight of the morning was Westin Nottleman’s pancakes.  She came prepared with a griddle and all the pancake fixings.  She even took the time to coordinate her outfit with an apron and a Chef Westin hat. Several ideas were kicked around for starting new traditions for the new year, but the freshman homeroom settled on a food day once month, and the new tradition was a delicious success!

 

vs. Brownell-Talbot — Taya Skelton 27, Hanna Lazure 15, Erica Bruening 14, Tessa Dethlefs 6, Hannah Warner 4, Rylee Marshall 4, Lauren Nelson 4, Kloey Appel 2, Kennedy Bradburn 2.

 

Due to the upcoming storm, Family Game Night is cancelled.

 

 

You and your family are invited to attend Family Game Night on Monday, January 16^th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the Elementary Gym. You will learn to play several games, which teach skills and promote quick thinking as you and your child laugh and have fun together. There is no charge to attend. At the end of the evening, you will have the opportunity to order any or all of the games for your family and/or your child’s classroom. Each purchase will contribute money toward providing new games for your school. Please come and have fun!!!

 

If you cannot attend and still want to help out our school, you can go to www.shopcrtoys.com and enter the code: fc2017. Using the code will give our school credit and shipping will be free, since your purchase will be delivered to the school. The code will be valid through January 30^th.

 

Elementary HAL Art Show

The Language Art HAL students had the opportunity to present their art to the school. Each art exhibit had to include a minimum of 4 pieces of art with display cards that explained their logic or reasoning of what they created. The mediums included sculptures, acrylic, watercolor, electronic art, music, pencil, and collages. On each individuals exhibit was a brochure that they created. The brochures included an autobiography, two features artists, and their favorite medium. I am very proud of the effort and hard work that each student put into their project. All of the students from the Elementary were able to come in and critique each art exhibit as well, everyone involved enjoyed the show!

Mrs. Pace took the Introduction to Theatre class to watch Ballet Nebraska’s, The Nutcracker, on Friday, December 2nd at the Orpheum Theater. It was a great opportunity to experience the concepts we had been learning in class firsthand. The production was incredible, and the whole group thoroughly enjoyed it. After watching the production, we ate lunch together at Spaghetti Works and discussed the effectiveness of the many elements of stage production we had been learning about.

 

HOPE begins with you!

The Fort Calhoun girls and boys basketball teams just completed their first Kindergarten-2nd grade basketball league! They had 40 participants that went through three weeks of skills instruction courtesy of the high school basketball teams. The session ended with three weeks of games and a tournament. The teams were coached by high school players that donated their time to benefit our basketball programs!

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!!