Sheldon Community School District

East Elementary would like to say THANK YOU to all that came to eat with our students this week! Our kids loved having all of the visitors in the lunchroom! Thank you to the Sheldon Fire Department, Sheldon Medical Center, the Sheldon EMS team, the Police Officers, and the Sheldon High School Athletes that all came! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #kindnessweek #sheldonorabs

5th graders have been learning about how to find the different parts of a story using the plot diagram. A plot diagram is a line graph of the story's events, beginning with the story’s start on the left and continuing toward the right, ending with the story’s conclusion. Different parts of the plot diagram that the students are learning about include the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and conclusion. Great work 5th Grade! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #reading #plotdiagram

In High School Chemistry, students observed what happens to the temperature of water during the phase changes from a solid to a liquid to a gas. They collected temperature data every minute for about 20 minutes while heat energy was constantly being added to the system. Students then graphed their data, identified the different variables of the experiment, and gave a reasoning to the results they obtained. Great work Chemistry students! #Sheldon #Chemistry #orabs #sheldonorabs #leadOn #highschool

Kindergarteners took the lead today during the East Elementary school assembly and taught the rest of the school what it means to, "Sharpen the Saw." Sharpen the Saw is the 7th habit from the book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The Sheldon Community School District focuses on the habits from this book each year to help our students learn how to grow as leaders in their life, at school and in the future. 4th Grader Eli Becker was also recognized for his leadership in doing the school announcements every morning at East Elementary. A lot of our students know the voice, but they were able to see who Eli was today! Great Job Kindergarten!! #LeadOn #Leaderinme #schoolassemlby #Elementaryschool #sheldonorabs #orabs

3rd graders spent time playing multiplication games with friends during math time. These games were multiplication themed games that helped reinforce their memorization of the multiplication facts that they are learning! The 3rd graders had a lot of fun practicing their multiplication facts! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #math #mathreviewgames #orabsinmath #mathtime #multiplicationfacts #multiplication

Congratulations to the Students of the Month at the Middle School. Cole Dobbins, Claire Nilles, Natilie Schmith and Caiden Jager have shown what it means to be an Orab each day! Congratulations on your selection this month. #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #sheldonmiddleschool #students

The Middle School gym was full of laughter, learning, cheering and movement this morning for their school wide assembly! Students participated in a relay race with five kids from their homeroom or TA to kick off the assembly. They had to suck air through the straw to hold the paper heart up, while they went across the gym and then drop it in the cup held by their TA advisor. Teachers and students then switched roles in a skit to demonstrate how to follow directions. "Mrs. Lang" and "Mrs. Wolf" (two 8th grade students) helped lead the review with their class, played by the teachers. To end the assembly the whole school body practiced following directions by dancing to the "Cupid Shuffle." #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #sheldonmiddleschool #assembly

Not only did we celebrate Valentines Day today, but we celebrated the Middle School Staff for reaching a big goal they had! The Sheldon Middle School has now been labeled as a high performing school based on the Iowa School Performance Profile, which includes ISASP student test scores and some other measures. The middle school staff has worked hard to help their students improve their academic skills so they could then perform well on their ISASP tests. Today Mr. Meyer and Mrs. Zoet invited the staff into the library before school today to congratulate them on their hard work. The staff enjoyed some donuts, muffins, and breakfast pizza to start their day. Thank you to all of our staff that works hard to help our students improve each day! We appreciate the work you do for our district! #LeadON #Orabs #Sheldon #middleschool #testscores #congratulations

Happy National Kindness Week! #Kindnessweek #bekind #orabsbeingkind #orabs #kind #LeadOn

Lunch this week! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #menu

Kindness week will be celebrated at East Elementary and the Middle School with some dress up days. They are listed on the calendar this week. Good luck to our participants at State Wrestling and All State Speech this week! Have a great week ORABS!

Quickwrites are done twice a week in English 10 at the High School. Students write about different topics during this time in a variety of different writing styles throughout the year. The length of each Quickwrite gets longer throughout the year to increase their writing stamina. They also have specific revision time to work on continually making their writing better! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #writing #improvement #englishclass

Welcome to the District Nick Miller! We are happy to announce the new High School Principal has been hired for the next school year. Mr. Miller is currently the secondary principal (7-12) at Tekamah-Herman Schools in Tekamah, Nebraska. He has a northwest Iowa connection, as his wife Maggie is an MOC graduate. Nick and Maggie have two young children, and the family is excited to make Sheldon their home and join our school family. Mr. Miller attained his B.A. degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, his M.Ed. from Dordt, and his Ed.S from Wayne State. Prior to serving as secondary principal at Tekamah, he was the associate principal at North Platte for a couple of years. Mr. Miller enjoys spending time with his family, being outside and being active and watching the Nebraska Cornhuskers and Cleveland Guardians. Welcome to the District Mr. Miller! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon

Kindergarteners are learning how to read more and more each day. Part of learning how to read is to be able to identify and know their heart words. Heart words are words that students are unable to sound out and need to know by looking at them. The students all were given a new heart word "name". The students then did a scavenger hunt and wrote down everyone's new heart word name. The kindergarteners had such a fun time practicing their heart words. #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #reading #games #teachingideas

We have very talented students in our buildings. These 6th graders did some outstanding figure drawings. The students could not use any tracing or grid work in their drawings. This is just an sample of some of the incredible drawings that our students have done. If you are ever in the Middle School building, be sure to check out some of our student art work on display next to the art room. #LeadOn #art #drawings #middleschool #sheldonorabs #orabs #famouspeople

These two students at East Elementary worked together to make a continuous chain of sight word cards as they practiced each of their words. A fun and interactive way to practice their sight words! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #sightwords #elementary #learning #reading #practice #teamwork

Sheldon Middle School students are learning how to set personal goals and work towards reaching them. The 6th grade students set some personal reading goals for the months of December and January. The students worked towards their goal each day. As a reward, the students who reached their goals were able to enjoy a afternoon of Bingo with some great prizes. Great work 6th grade! #goalsetting #LeadOn #Orabs #sheldon #middleschool #readinggoals #reading #bingo

This week at Sheldon Community Schools! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon

Students in Mrs. Fox's room at East Elementary had some hands on fun during art time. The students had so much fun getting to be creative and see their finished work! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #art

East Elementary 2nd graders have been learning about how to be good volunteers in their communities. The 2nd grade students practiced their volunteering skills by traveling to Village Northwest Unlimited in town and took some time to play games with some of the residents. Our students and residents had fun doing a variety of different activities together. #LeadOn #Orabs #Volunteering #sheldonorabs #villagenorthwestunlimited