Kindergarten celebrated the 100th day on Jan 23rd! We had fun doing STEM building stations with 100 different objects including: plastic cups, popscicle sticks, base ten blocks, legos, pipe cleaners and linking cubes! We made a 100 day snack and had show and tell with our 100 day items from home! We compared how much these items weighed and how far we could stretch them across the floor! We are 100 days brighter here at Fort Calhoun!
Dance camp was held January 14th. They had around 50 girls in grades Pre- K through 6th grade participate. The theme was Grease and as you can see from the pictures, they had a lot of fun. They ended the night with a performance for parents at half time of the Boy’s Basketball Game. Dance team captain, Taylor Thalman, said the girl’s really seemed to enjoy the dances to song such as “Beauty School Dropout”, “Summer Night”, and “We Go Together.” Thank you to the Dance Team members, Taylor Thalman, Molly Shannon, Nicole Swanson, Lizzie Namuth, Olivia Evans, Autumn Kestel, Hailey Greenwell, Bailey Bannister and Ashley Thalman and their sponsor Ali Romans.
Congratulations to Sarah Johnson who has earned a RHOP (Rural Health Opportunities Program) Scholarship to Wayne State. RHOP is a cooperative effort between WSC and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and encourages students from rural areas of Nebraska to return to rural settings after graduation to pursue their career, Sarah plans to become a nurse. Students who are selected to this prestigious program earn guaranteed admission to UNMC upon successful completion of studies at WSC and receive a FULL-tuition waiver at WSC. Hard work pays off!
Fort Calhoun TeamMates Bingo Fundraiser
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!
Congratulations to our Girl’s Varsity Basketball team for winning the Holiday Tournament vs. Brownell-Talbot, Elmwood-Murdock, and Logan View. They beat Elmwood-Murdock 69-61 and Brownell-Talbot 78 – 23. The game included many exciting moments including a half court shot by Lauren Nelson during the Elmwood-Murdock game and many 3 point shots.
Scoring-
Fort Calhoun vs. Elm-Wood Murdock— Skelton 26, Nelson 11, Lazure 10, Marshall 6, Bruening 6, Dethlefs 5, Warner 5.
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.
You and your family are invited to attend Family Game Night on Monday, January 16th 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 30th.
