Sheldon Community School District

Sheldon High School students Rachel Beesaw, Emma Boone, Valerie Cook, Sadie Dietrick, and Olivia Prewitt attended the WISE Conference at Iowa State University last week. Students attended four sessions throughout the day, heard two different ISU students share about their program and journey to where they are today. The students ended the day with a panel of ISU students, one of which was Sheldon's own, Lexie Merley! You might recognize Lexi Merley for her time on KTIV as an intern for the meteorology department. Overall the girls had a great day learning more about women in science and the careers that are available. One highlight was that the Sheldon group won the STEM Trivia Kahoot game! #LeadOn #Orabs #sheldon #sheldonorabs #WISEISU #STEM #ISU

8th graders are calculating the speed of a marble and creating a graph to represent the specific speed of the marble during different areas of the track. #LeadOn #science #learning #orabs #sheldonorabs #scienceandmath

The 5th graders at Sheldon Middle School are investigating orbits in the solar system and trying to answer the question, “how does the distance from the sun affect a planet’s path?” #LeadOn #Orabs #science #learning #sheldonorabs #sheldonmiddleschool

Night of the Notables will be Tuesday, April 11 from 7-8 PM at the Middle School. Night of the Notables is an event where the 6th grade students share their presentations on notable people in history. This is also a fundraising event, as people give them a quarter, students will then share their presentation. This money goes to help fund the 6th grade field trip. The students are excited to share their presentations with the public tomorrow night. #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #sheldonmiddleschool #history

The senior band and choir students had an amazing opportunity to go to Des Moines this weekend and see the musical, Lion King! #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #musical #lionking #sheldonhighschool #sheldon

This week at Sheldon Community Schools. Reminder: We do have school on Monday, this is a snow make-up day. #LeadOn #Orabs #sheldon #weeklyupdate

Happy Easter from all of us at the Sheldon Community School District! See everyone back at school tomorrow. #LeadOn #easter #sheldonorabs #learning

2nd graders focus some time each month for Ag in the Classroom. This month students learned more about what is needed to grow different types of crops. The students then did some acting and show their classmates what beans need to grow! #LeadON #agintheclassroom #sheldonorabs #learning #ag #sheldon #orabs

Kindergarten practiced sorting, counting, and their graphing skills with different colors of jelly beans! The students even practiced some addition with combining different color groups. Great work Kindergarten! #Easter #jellybeans #graph #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #math #elementary

Middle School students were able to try some different activities as part of Wellness Day. One activity included finger knitting. These students did a great job learning how to finger knit and then make their own blanket! #LeadOn #wellnessday #sheldonorabs #sheldonmiddleschool #orabs

Preschool celebrated some amazing student accomplishments with a fun Pajama Party today! Pajamas, popcorn, and Easter themed activities were some of the highlights from today. #Easter #preschool #LeadOn #orabs #preschool #littleorabspreschool #learning #celebrate

Duck or Bunny? We will let you decide! Have a GREAT Easter break. Reminder there will be NO SCHOOL tomorrow. We will see everyone back at school on Monday, April 10. #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #easterbreak #easter

We hope everyone has a great Easter Weekend! During art, the 2nd graders used watercolor crayons to decorate an Easter egg. Then the students painted over the design with water to create a beautiful Easter egg. See everyone back at school on Monday! #Orabs #sheldon #leadOn #easter #easteregg #artclass #eastelementary

Congratulations to Mr. Letsche for being an Iowa Teacher of the Year Finalist! Mr. Letsche was recognized for his award this week among the other finalists and Governor Kim Reynolds. Thank you Mr. Letsche for all that you do for our school and students. #LeadOn #teacheroftheyear #orabs #sheldonorabs #teacher #teaching #leader

The Sheldon FFA Chapter hosted the first annual Community Breakfast yesterday where they served over 150 people. Thank you to all that came and supported out FFA Community Breakfast! #LeadOn #breakfast #sheldonFFA #sheldonorabs #FFA #iowaFFA #smalltownsupport

These 2nd grade students are using mini marker boards to segment words. This helpful for our students to see the different parts that a word has and then helps them when they read the word. East Elementary uses the curriculum Really Great Reading as part of their daily reading instruction. Really Great Reading helps our teachers teach the foundational skills that our students will need to be great readers. #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #reading #reallygreatreading

The Elementary Spring Concerts are coming up! The Spring Concerts will be at 6:30 PM in the High School Auditorium. The grades performing will be as followed: April 24 1st and 3rd Grade April 27 2nd and 4th Grade #LeadOn #springconcerts #music #sheldonorabs

Happy National Paraprofessional Day! We appreciate everything that our paras do for our students. Our paras are vital parts to the education of our students in each of our buildings. THANK YOU! #education #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #NationalParaprofessionalDay

Our High School Computer Science Class practiced their skills of computer programming by creating their own website from scratch. They were not able to use templates, rather create everything from the ground up! Great work Orabs! #LeadOn #Orabs #sheldonorabs #computerscience

Family Fun night was celebrated at East Elementary last night with a meal, games, and fun for all! Thanks to all of the families that came and to our staff for their work in putting on this event. #LeadOn #Orabs #sheldon #sheldonorabs #family #familyfunnight #learning #celebration #games