On Wednesday April 20th twelve students participated in a conference wide art exhibit hosted by Arlington High School. The students had an opportunity to create a work of art inspired by Bellevue artist Bart Vargas who has named his sculptures bottleballs, which are made primarily from discarded plastic bottles. The idea behind the sculptures is to bring awareness to the amount of waste our society produces. The twelve students that participated entered a total of forty-seven works of art into the competition. Forty of those pieces earned awards. Skylar Wear earned the award for Outstanding Artist from Fort Cahoun, which was voted on by all conference students who participated in the event. Arlington High School is hoping to make this an annual event.

Fort Calhoun Elementary School held a 7 week March Madness contest, a reading incentive program, designed to encourage kids to read at home. Preschool through grade 2 competed against each other, and grades 3 through 6 went head-to-head, so they had 2 winning classrooms: Mrs. Clausen’s kindergartners and Mrs. Leishman’s 3rd graders. The prize was a catered lunch of Godfather’s pizza and time with Creighton players. Zach Hanson and Malik Albert were great sports. They played ball with the kids, signed autographs, and posed for pictures.

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Fort Calhoun Elementary had a blast celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday. They had many different dress up themes, contests and story times. Some favorites were MIxed Up Monday and Wacky Wednesday. Students also had the opportunity to enter the “decorate a hat at home contest” and make a Seuss Soup Snack to enjoy during their time reading Dr. Seuss books throughout the week.  The week wrapped up with an assembly to announce contest winners. A highlight of the week was watching the students who won the contests race their teachers and Mr. Wagner in various events.

Winners of the decorate your door contest were Mrs. Gross for PreK-2nd and Mr. Teeter for 3rd-6th. Mrs Royuk was the overall winner.

The Winners for the Dress up days were Ellie Duros in Preschool, Dehlia Hallberg in Kindergarten, Will Duros in 1st Grade, Natalie Lammers in 2nd Grade, Samantha Thomas in 3rd Grade, AJ Pace in 4th Grade, Grace Genoways in 5th Grade, and Payton Pohlad in 6th Grade. These lucky winner got to compete against their teachers in fun races.

The winners of the decorate a hat contest got to race Mr. Wagner on a scooter around the hallway. The winners were Lucie Larsen and Grady McDonnell.

There was also a contest to see who could be quietest in the lunch room. These winners were Kindergarten, Third Grade and 6th Grade. Their teachers were rewarded by getting a shaving cream “hat.” It was a lot of fun.

Everyday, the students had a surprise guest read them a Dr. Seuss story.

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Left to Right: (Juniors) Prince Caleb Grosse-Rhode, Princess Dani Dross, (Seniors) Queen Hannah Nieto and King Riley Grosse-Rhode