The Art Students at Fort Calhoun High School created a 9′ x12′ mural made up of 108 canvas panels. The figure is of our school mascot, The Pioneer. This has been in the making since last Spring but it was just recently hung on the wall of the Commons. The original design was created by Junior Skylar Wear but the painting of each panel was done by many of our Art Students.
Congratulations to our 2016 State Wrestling qualifiers Lonnie Albertson, Jacob Tegels, Dylan Hartline and Cole Welchert. Lonnie and Jacob were district champions. Wish them luck at the State Meet this weekend Feb. 18th-20th at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha. They will wrestling 1st round each morning at 9:30 am.
Miss Juranek’s 1st grade class was chose as a stop on Kat 103.7’s Book Tour. Gina came to the classroom on Monday, January 8th to read to our students, answer questions about her job as a country music DJ and record the students saying the Pledge of Allegiance. The Pledge was then played on-air on Friday, January 12th. The students had fun and did a great job saying the Pledge.
Congratulations to our Senior High School Wrestlers, Jacob Tegels, Cole Welchert and Lonnie Albertsons. They each have 100 plus wins in their careers. They are pictured here with their coaches Monte Christensen, Jim Meyer and Brody Welchert.
Senior, Grace Herold, and juniors Dani Dross and Chris Hansen were selected for the UNO honor choir held January 29-31, 2016. The students collaborated with over 100 other students from other area high schools for a weekend full of music with the UNO choral director, Shannon Gravelle. The weekend ended with a final concert on Sunday January 31 at the new Baxter Arena. The concert featured the honor choir as well as the honor band, honor wind ensemble and honor orchestra.
Fort Calhoun Robotics Team competed this weekend at Benson High School. Over 60 teams competed, and all Fort Calhoun teams finished inside the top 20. Two of the teams advanced to the elimination matches, but did not make it past the quarter finals. Regionals and Nationals will be up next for one team, while the rest will participate in the Skills USA State competition.
In conjunction with the current unit they’re studying, a memoir called Night, the students in English 12 attended a Holocaust field trip called “Searching for Humanity”. Here they toured an exhibit, watched a video about local survivors and liberators, and listened to a survivor speak. The students learned so much and were touched and grateful for the experience.
The 6th graders’ Trout in the Classroom project sponsored by the Nebraska Games and Parks Commission is underway! About 160 rainbow trout eggs arrived on the 13th. The first eggs hatched three days sooner than our predicted date of Jan. 22nd. We’ll continue to research and investigate the trout life cycle and anatomy as they grow large enough to be released to a stock pond at the AkSarBen Aquarium in May. We shared a close up look at newly hatched alevins with our pre-school reading buddies.
Family Game Night was a success. Everyone had a lot of fun playing all the different games. Many families purchased games at the end of the night. These purchases contributed money toward providing new games for our school
If you did not attend and still want to help out our school, you can go to www.shopcrtoys.com and enter the code: fc2016. Using the code will give our school credit and shipping will be free, since your purchase will be delivered to the school. You must make your online purchase by February 1, 2016. The games will arrive in time for Valentines Day!
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Kim Szlachetka
402-468-5830
Photos courtesy of Joe Burns, Enterprise Publishing.