The preschool received a new addition to the playground last week…a new playhouse! The preschoolers have been busy cooking and serving food, opening and closing the windows, and ringing the doorbell.
K-5 Classroom Guidance Lessons this week have had students practicing how to effectively communicate with others. Communicating passively often keeps people from being heard or taken seriously. Communicating aggressively often makes others mad, starts fights, or keeps people from liking you because it’s disrespectful.
Although it’s not always easy, assertive communication is the best way to communicate what you want or need at school. Assertive communication is when you hold your head up and shoulders back, you look at the person you are talking to, you use a calm, firm voice and respectful words to say what you want or need.
On Thursday, September 29 Central and Jefferson Intermediate School hosted a family movie night. Families were able to enjoy an outdoor viewing of the movie “Zootopia” on a big inflatable screen. This event took place at the Jefferson Intermediate track. “Zootopia” fruit snacks, animal crackers, M & M’s along with a bottle of water were given to each member of the family by staff. The Jefferson Student Council handed out Glow Sticks for the evening fun. It was a great night.
Julia Cook is a former teacher and school guidance counselor. She has become one of America’s most recognized authors of guidance storybooks for children. She writes practical, easy to use stories that not only make a positive difference, but are fun to read. Julia has the innate ability to enter the world view of a child through storybooks, giving both children the “what to say” and the “how to say it.” Cook’s ultimate goal: make a positive difference in the lives of people both young and old by teaching lifelong problem-solving skills.
Visit her website @ http://www.juliacookonline.com
Book order forms will be sent home the week prior to her visit and will be due Wednesday, October 26th. Please make checks payable to JULIA COOK.
Several teachers, students and administrators attended the Digital Citizenship Symposium in Kearney on Tuesday.
Featured Speakers were Karen Haase, Education Attorney, KSB School Law, Lincoln, Nebraska, Craig Badura, Technology Integration Specialist, Aurora Public Schools, Stephanie Bernthal, Instructional Technology Trainer, Educational Service Unit #17, and Hunter Radenslaben, @AthleteNationCo, Waverly High School, Waverly, Nebraska.
The purpose of the symposium titled “Be The Key” was to share information and educational resources on the topic of digital citizenship.
School personnel and students created a poster of the “Key” takeaways of the day.
The first PTA sponsored program, Rock In Prevention was held Tuesday. Rock In Prevention, along with mentors from the high school provided the message that drugs are bad for your body and bullying should be stopped immediately. This interactive program included lots of fun songs and actions! Each family will receive a Rock In Prevention cd that reinforces these positive messages. Be sure to ask your child about this fantastic program.
The Fairbury football team had a blast Thursday morning greeting the students at Central Elementary. They were there to give high fives, get them excited for the school day, and talk a little bit about the homecoming game this Friday. It was an awesome opportunity to spread Jeff Pride throughout our community and schools. The Jeffs will take on Lincoln Christian this Friday @ 7:00p.m. GO JEFFS!
The State mandatory school health screenings were being completed at Fairbury Public Schools September 12th-14th. FPS nurse Becki Schmidt partnered with SCC Beatrice Nursing Students and Public Health Solutions Dental program to get these done. The State of Nebraska mandates that schools screen student in grades Kindergarten through 4th grade, grades seventh and tenth and any student that has transferred into the district this year. We also screened our Step Ahead Preschool students. The state requires the following screenings to be done: height, weight, BMI, vision, hearing and dental.
This partnership benefited both FPS and SCC students. FPS got their screenings done with very minimal loss of education time. SCC nursing students used the three days as a growth and development clinical rotation. The students had to observe the differences from the high school students vs the early elementary/preschool students, learn how to operate the hearing machine, do some blood pressures, and then fill out their observation paperwork. Many positive comments came from the SCC students as they were able to work one on one with the students. The SCC teachers also voiced how wonderful this rotation was for them and what a wonderful learning experience it was for the students.
Teachers at FPS were also very supportive of this way of screening as the students come by class and do not miss parts of academic time.
Partnering with PHS allowed not only for dental hygienist to screen the dental needs of the students but they also provided sealants and fluoride varnishes to those that had parental consent.
A big THANK YOU goes out to the SCC Students and Teachers, Public Health Solutions, and the FPS teachers and administration, and the staff that helped make the screenings successful!
The TeamMates Program is raffling off two tickets to the Nebraska/Iowa VB game on November 7. Drawing will be held at halftime at the last home football game on October 14th. The tickets benefit TeamMates -Fairbury Chapter. Tickets are $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00.
Dr. Jerold & Mrs. Sharon Ebke have very generously donated these for us.
