Sheldon Community School District

This week Mrs. Vogel's class practiced some of their cooking skills and made a meal for each other! The students enjoyed getting to eat the meal that they prepared for each other. Great work Orabs! #lifeskills #orabs #sheldon #LeadOn

Sheldon Community Schools will have NO SCHOOL on Thursday, January 19. High School term tests scheduled for today will now be on Friday. Evening activities TBD. Stay Safe!

Sheldon CSD will have a 2-hour late start on Thursday, January 19 due to weather. There will be no AM preschool.

Congratulations to David Arizmendi, Gavin Van Holland, Hallie Robinson, and Nora Bunkers who are the new Students of the Month at the Middle School. These students have shown what it means to be an Orab each day! Great work Orabs! #Sheldon #orabs #leadon #leaderinme #sheldonorabs #studentofthemonth

Join Our Team! The Sheldon Community School District is hiring an Executive Assistant to the Superintendent. Apply on-line at https://www.sheldonschools.com/page/employment-opportunities or contact the Superintendent’s office for an application. Sheldon Community School District, 1700 E. Fourth Street, Sheldon, IA 51201 The Executive Assistant to the Superintendent is responsible for managing and coordinating the day-to-day administrative work performed in the Office of the Superintendent of Schools. Working with minimal supervision, the Executive Assistant to the Superintendent will perform duties of a varied and responsible nature, requiring accuracy, good judgment, extreme confidentiality, and the ability to work well with people under pressure. The Executive Assistant will also serve as an assistant to the Business Manager, with specific duties relevant to payroll. Full-time, year-round position Competitive Salary and Benefits Package District paid Family Health Insurance, and Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System (IPERS) #jobs #leadon #orabs #sheldon #sheldonorabs #sheldonjobs #iowa

Reminder today will NOT be an early dismissal. All Wednesdays moving forward will be full days. This is part of the snow day make-up plan. #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon

The Orab fans enjoyed some special guests tonight at the basketball game. Kirk Ferentz, head football coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes and assistant coach, LeVar Woods, came to visit Orab Gym. Thank you to Coach Ferentz and Coach Woods for visiting Sheldon! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #Basketball #Iowahawkeyes #hawkeyes #coachferentz #football #iowafootball #hawks #sheldoniowa #iowahighschool #students

Seventh and eighth grade students attended the first middle school Computer Science Art Show. They talked about their Pixel art and digital paintings, as well as admired the enlarged Mario mural designed by Parker Kamstra and assembled by seventh and eighth grade volunteers. Congratulations to all eighth grade students for a successful semester of coding and computer science! Seventh graders begin their first semester of computer science this week. #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #art #pixelart

Preschool students are doing a Transportation Study this week and they are having so much fun and learning a lot! In dramatic play, students have been pretending to be mechanics working on different cars. They even have got to dress up like mechanics. We might have some future mechanics in this class! Preschool students have also learned about different types of transportation vehicles and the jobs that they do. Our students are having so much fun learning about transportation this week! #preschool #leadOn #orabs #transportation #dramaticplay

Congratulations to Lillian De Zeeuw, Claire Nilles, Devin Huitink, Ben Frahm, Libby Martens, Bentley Green, and Samuel Van Maaren for being selected to be part of the Strong Foundations Honor Band. These students practice with other Honor Band members from the area on Monday and then performed a concert that night in Sioux City that was open to the public. We are proud of your hard work and practice. Congratulations! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #honorband #band #middleschoolband #middleschool

The students in 1st grade got to experience the Star Lab last week. 1st graders were able to go inside of the lab and see how the night sky looks during different seasons. Such a great experience for our students to learn more about the stars. Thanks to O'Brien County Conservation for making this possible for our students. #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #starlab #elementaryeducation

Reminder, we WILL have school on Monday, January 16. This will be a snow make-up day. This week we will also start full days on Wednesday with no early dismissals.

This week at Sheldon Community School District Reminder we WILL have school on Monday, January 16. This is a snow make up day. All Wednesdays moving forward will also be full days. No early dismissal. Have a great week Orabs! #LeadOn #orabs #sheldon

The 8th graders have been learning how to solve different types of equations in math class. One way that the students have practiced improving this skill is by using manipulatives to help them visualize the equation. This is a great way for our students to not only learn how to solve the equation, but also for them to "see" the equation and understand how and why they got the answer they did. Great work 8th grade! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #math #middleschool

What is a Leader? The Sheldon CSD School Board was able to learn from the East Elementary students and teachers what it means to be a leader at school. Some of our Kindergarten through 4th grade students came to the board meeting last night and answered some questions from board members and building principals about how they work to be a good leader in their school each day. The teachers also shared with the board how they implement leadership skills in their teaching each week to help the students grow their leadership skills. We are proud of our students and teachers for their leadership work for our district! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #elementary #leadershipskills

The School Board approved the snow make-up days last night at the board meeting. See below for a more detailed breakdown of the snow make-up day plan. Reminder we WILL have school next Monday, January 16 and all Wednesdays moving forward will be full days. Wednesdays, starting January 18, will be full days of school for the remainder of the school year, to allow us to reclaim lost instructional time. Teachers will have Wednesday professional development starting at 3:30pm and they will make up some additional professional development during Flex PD Days. This adjustment will account for our first five snow days. • Snow Day #1 – November 29 .... No Make-up Day Required • Snow Day #2 – December 9 .... No Make-up Day Required • Snow Day #3 – December 13 .... No Make-up Day Required • Snow Day #4 – December 15 .... No Make-up Day Required • Snow Day #5 – December 16 .... No Make-up Day Required • Remaining three snow days already missed: • Snow Day #6 – December 22 .... January 16 Make-up Day • Snow Day #7 – January 3 .... February 20 Make-up Day • Snow Day #8 – January 4 .... March 31 Make-up Day #LeadOn #Orabs #snowday #snowmakeupday

Across all of our buildings and classrooms chances are that if you walk into a classroom, you will see a "Bell Ringer" posted or being discussed at the beginning of class. Bell Ringers are used to engage students in short assignments or assessments, review key concepts that have already been taught, stimulate classroom discussion or used to find misconceptions and misunderstandings students may have before the new lesson starts. Whether its a number sorting activity in Kindergarten, identifying which words are verbs in 5th grade, asking your partner to make a list of pros and cons to a new school rule in 8th grade or completing a sample math problem at the high school our teachers do a great job of starting class off with Bell Ringers to get our students focused on the learning target for the day. #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon

The 7th and 8th grade students just finished up their Archery Unit! In this unit students worked on their hand and eye coordination in their attempts to hit the targets around the gym. Some of our students even hit the target right in the bullseye! Way to go 7th and 8th grade. #Leadon #Orabs #Sheldon #PE

The Sheldon High School FFA Chapter held a friendly toy drive competition between TA groups during the month of December at the High School. The toys that were collected, were then donated to Love INC in Sheldon to be used for their Life Together gift room. Thanks to all that donated to this amazing cause. #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon #FFA

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