On Wednesday, October 7, the Fort Calhoun Fire and Rescue Department celebrated Fire Safety week with the elementary.  At this time they brought the fire truck, rescue vehicle and fire gear for students to try on.  This event was a great opportunity for students to learn about fire safety.  Thank you to the FC Fire/Rescue Department for this wonderful opportunity.

The Drama One Act Show this year is called “OZ.” Reviews have been excellent so don’t miss your opportunity to see the show on December 6th at 6:00pm in the High School Commons.

You are now entering the land of..

                                 OZ

                                                                 by Don Zolidis

Reeling from her sister’s death, Beth suddenly finds herself journeying through a world suspiciously resembling the film The Wizard of Oz. But with the yellow brick road sold to foreign investors after a financial meltdown, the Scarecrow reveling in his ignorant bliss, the Cowardly Lion acting like a

paranoid sociopath, and the Tin Man embracing his emotional numbness,

Beth wonders what role she plays in this classic story gone awry.

Congratulations to the Fort Calhoun High School Marching Band. They earned a superior at the State competition on Oct. 24th. The students put in many hours of hard work to accomplish this goal and were able to celebrate with ice cream sundaes on Friday. Seniors this year were Ben Namuth, Aage Namuth, Nolyn Appel, Tessa Stevens, Grace Herold, and Ethan Shaffer. Great job students!

As a means to advocate for breast cancer awareness, students and staff purchased t-shirts from FBLA during the month of October. The club raised $400 from the t-shirt orders, which will be donated to the Kamie K. Preston Hereditary Cancer Foundation and will be able to cover one single site genetic test. October 27th was designated as a Pink Out day at school and pink was worn at the last home football and volleyball games in October as well.

The GREATRACE is making its return to Fort Calhoun Jr. High!

Join us Tuesday November 10th at 6:30 pm. to begin the adventure.

This is your family’s chance to show its “world dominance” as you compete in challenges in cities from around the world.

Is your team up to the challenge?

 Teams will be given a passport to travel through each of the cities around campus. At each stop, your team will complete a challenge to receive a clue and passport stamp. Once you have obtained your 10 stamps and clues, those clues will lead you to your final destination.   You must work together and use your wits to be victorious!

 Amazing prizes for the top three finishing teams!

 Please RSVP to Mrs. Johnson at karlijohnson@ftcpioneers.org to join THE GREATRACE!

Congratulations to our Cross Country State Medalists Colton Folkers and Taya Skelton. Colton Folkers came home with a 13th place medal with a time of 17:52.1. Taya Skelton was the Class C State Champ with a time of 19:55.4. Taya’s time is a Class C State meet record. Way to go Pioneers!

Second grade has been talking about the components that help make up a classroom family. Today we read How Full is Your Bucket by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer. We discussed what we can do to be bucket fillers and how filling others’ buckets, also fills our own. The students filled each others’ buckets with written comments. Then we reflected on this activity and how it made them feel.

Photo by Joe Burns, Enterprise Publishing

Congratulations to Tessa Stevens who is a semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program.
About 1.5 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2014 Preliminary sat/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (psat/nmsqt®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest- scoring entrants in each state. A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record through-out high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn sat® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.
Tessa is a stellar student who loves to learn.  She is taking courses at UNO this year as part of her school day during her senior year.  She is an amazing leader – active in a number of organizations here at the FORT including our band, cross country, speech team, quiz bowl, POPP, and National Honor Society. Good Luck in the final round Tessa.

Plus, what student doesn’t enjoy finger painting? They made Fall leaf pictures using shaving cream, paint and glue. The Kindy 500 is off to a good start.