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SohCahToa – Using Trig to Solve Right Triangles

Geometry students study right triangle properties as they prepare for the ACT.  After mastering Pythagorean Theorem and its converse, students worked with special right triangles (45-45-90 and 30-60-90) before learning a valuable trigonometry concept.  Right triangles exist everywhere!  Math skills allow us to apply our knowledge to life outside the classroom and beyond the ACT.  

SohCahToa is an acronym used to solve not only for sides of a right triangle, but also for angles.  Mrs. Petersen’s geometry students calculated the height of objects around Fairbury High School while using not only their calculator, but also a tape measure and clinometer.  The height of the classroom is 13′ 4″.  The height of the entryway to the building is 20′ and the flag pole is 35′.  

A popular question that Mrs. Petersen hears and answers frequently is “When am I ever going to use this?!”  As you may have experienced, story problems are challenging in a math class.  Labs are like a real live story problem!  Students enjoyed using a new tool, called a clinometer, to measure angles.  The frustration was not with calculations, but with the tape measure!  But hey!  There’s an app for that.
Marching our way up Bloom’s Taxonomy Pyramid for education, the next thing students get to do is create their own story problem using Adobe Spark.
Here is an example and this is another example.

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Fairbury Farm to School

Fairbury has been fortunate to have several donations of pork and beef throughout the last two years.    The DeBoer families donated two beef to kick off our Farm to School Program in the spring of 2018. Since that time, we have had more beef and pork donated by several generous families.  We have also had many monetary donations. Monetary donations are used to help defray the cost of processing the beef and pork. In addition to pork and beef, in the fall we have had donations of fresh garden produce.

The Farm to School Program is great for our school.  It gives our students pride in where there food is produced.  They get fresh from the farm foods. The cafeteria staff does a great job in serving the foods in creative and tasty dishes.   Some of the beef dishes served have been, fresh 100% ¼ lb. hamburgers, roast beef, beef and noodles and beef enchiladas. The variety of pork dishes include: Pork Tetrazinni, Pulled Pork Sandwich, Southwest BBQ Pork Pizza, Roast Pork Loin and Pork Tacos.  Fresh salsa was prepared with some of the locally produced and donated tomatoes and peppers. Fresh cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes have enhanced flavor and color of the fruit/vegetable bars. Nothing is better than a home-grown tomato. Yum…

Donations are accepted throughout the school year.  Please contact Mr. Grizzle at the district office (402-729-6104) for more information on donating beef or pork.   For donations of fresh produce, please call Jane Rhine at the high school cafeteria, (402-300-3094)

A big thank you goes out to everyone for all generous donations. Our students really appreciate all the fresh local food.  

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New Members Selected for NHS

National Honor Society has selected new members based on the criteria of scholarship, leadership, character, and service.  These new members include Bret Cole, Brylee Yantz, Brynn Novotny, Chance Amundson, Devin Wanamaker, Ellie Ohlde, Jillian Caroon, Josh Robertson, Kacy Starck, Keely Schramm, Lindsey Korthals, Maggie Layton, Page Nippert, Rielee Achtemeier, and Taylor Gustafson.  They will participate in a formal induction ceremony on Thursday, March 21 at 7:00 p.m. in the BFAC.  

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Copacabana 2019

Saturday, March 16th brings the promise of the Fairbury Music & Art Boosters presenting another wonderful night of entertainment at this year’s Copacabana. 

During the meal, catered in part by Billy D’s, not only will student artwork be on display, but there will also be several entertainment acts.  After the meal, the night will continue with even more student performances on the big stage.  Other than the large instrumental and vocal ensembles, the audience will be delighted by many solo, duet, and group performances.  To host the night again this year are student emcees.

The meal starts at 5:00pm in the Fairbury High School commons, directly followed by the program at 6:30pm in the Fine Arts Center.

Tickets are available now at Maatch’s and the High School: $5 for program only, $10 for meal and show.  You may also email theater@fairburyjeffs.org and specify how many of each kind of ticket you would like to reserve.

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Elementary Family Night 2019

Central & Jefferson Family Night, Give the Gift of Reading was held Thursday, February, 28th.  Families gathered at the Fairbury Jr/Sr High School to enjoy a pancake supper sponsored by the Fairbury Kiwanis.  Teachers, staff and volunteers operated many Dr. Seuss-based activities.  Students and families enjoyed playing games, making arts & crafts, taking silly Seuss pictures and listening to guest readers.  Each PreK-6 student received a free book from the Kiwanis pancake feed.  It was a SEUSS-tastic night!

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FFA Entertains Students and Staff With Ag Olympics

by Brynn Novotny
Photos by Nichole Harris and Hannah Knigge

The annual Ag Olympics were held in the high school gymnasium on Thursday, February 21. The entire student body and all staff attended a series of games and activities based around a central theme of farming and agriculture.

The convocation was led by FHS’s own FFA. Members Kennedy DeBoer ’20 and Taylor Runge ’20 acted as student leaders for the event. Their work during the Ag Olympics was only part of what had to be done to achieve success.

“It was a very stressful day because we had the teacher breakfast and Ag Olympics together,” DeBoer said. “Mr. [Thomas] Dux and I met a ton over the past week just trying to plan what we were going to all do. We had to get people to let us borrow all the materials we used, I had to boil 7 dozen eggs, we had to line up the sheep, and then put the tarp [down] and get the gym set up.”

Teacher representatives and students from every grade competed against one another in the various games and activities. This interactive aspect remains a favorite for many students.

“I had lots of fun doing something I’ve never done before,” Beckett Chappell ’23 said. “They picked great teams. That made it even better!”

Teams of FFA members worked to set up every event during small intermission periods. Each individual was assigned a task in order to function as a cohesive group and prevent long waiting periods. Runge was personally pleased at the organization’s output. 

“I would say it was a success overall,” Runge said. “We were able to keep things moving in an efficient manner and hardly had any time between games.”

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Students Celebrate the Love of Reading

Sixth graders from Jefferson Intermediate traveled to CentralElementary to “share the love of reading” with Kindergarten students.  Reading aloud improves listening and vocabulary skills.  It’s a fun, easy way to connect with people of all ages.

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