Sheldon Community School District

This last Sunday & Monday some of the Sheldon High School FBLA students along with Mrs. De Grote, attended the business club's United Fall Leadership Conference in Des Moines. This was attended by students involved in FBLA, BPA & DECA in Iowa. It was an opportunity for our students to learn more about business, leadership & about our various business clubs. #Orabs #LeadOn #FBLA

Pottery students are in the beginning stages of working on their clay tripod vases. Once they are formed students will be able to paint them to their liking and take them home. Some of our student's parents might be getting new vases for Christmas! #LeadOn

This week at Sheldon Community School District! #LeadOn #Orabs #Sheldon

The Sheldon Middle School will be hosting a Food Drive from November 14-18. Donations can include non-perishable food items and personal hygiene products. The images have examples of what would be acceptable to bring. Items an be sent with your child throughout the week. #LeadOn #Orabs #fooddrive

Did you know that East Elementary is a 1-1 School? This means that each of our elementary students, K-4 has their own device to use at school for different learning assignments, research and assessments. Some of the things our students do on their devices allow for teachers to see immediately how the students are performing, teachers can easily tailor work at different levels for specific students, students can each actively engage in the lessons and students are able to learn the valuable computer skills that many of them will need in their future careers. #LeadOn #Orabs #technology

Congratulations to Natilie Schmith on being selected as this year's winner of the Congressional App Challenge in Iowa's Fourth Congressional District! Natilie created a mental health app and was selected as a winner! As a winner, Natilie will be invited to the Day of Code at the US Capitol building, in Washington DC, in the spring. Her app will also appear on the US House's Website alongside winners from across the country. Congratulations Natilie for your work and selection! #LeadOn #Orabs #DayofCode

Preschool students at the Little Orabs Learning Center are currently doing a pumpkin study. They made a pumpkin salt painting using glue, salt, and watercolor paints! The pumpkin was drawn on the page and students had to put the salt and glue on the lines and then paint the pumpkin. This was not only a good way to help our students see what happens when you mix the glue, salt and paint, but it was also great way for our students to practice their fine motor skills. Didn't they do a great job? #Orabs #LeadOn #Preschoolactivity

7th and 8th graders attend class daily in the technology lab. These students are currently learning how to build a robot that moves. Throughout the year students rotate to different "Expeditions" to learn more about that specific content area. At the "Expeditions" students participate in hands on learning, building, testing and more. Some of the Expeditions that students rotate to include: Rolling Robots, Optical Solutions, Flight Dynamics, Design Time, Communication, Tower Power, Thermal Physics and more. This is an awesome opportunity for our students to learn more about different content areas that they otherwise might not be exposed to and could potentially lead to some future career interests. #LeadOn #Orabs #Technology #STEM

The Sheldon Middle School will be hosting a Food Drive from November 14-18. Donations can include non-perishable food items and personal hygiene products. The images have examples of what would be acceptable to bring. Items an be sent with your child throughout the week. #LeadOn #Orabs #fooddrive

Students in Family Consumer Science are working on their sewing unit. Their current project is making baby blankets for babies that are in the NICU. Once the students are done with the blankets, they will be donated to a hospital to use for their NICU babies. Not only are students working on their skills in this project, but the finished project will be used for a great purpose outside of our school! #orabs #LeadOn #NICU

Congratulations to our East Elementary Book Mark Contest Winners! 1st grade: Brynley Cooke from Mrs. Sandbulte's class 2nd grade: Melody Adame from Mrs. Fischer's class 3rd grade: Makinley Vermeer from Ms. Wittrock's class 4th grade: Kailey Jorgensen from Mrs. Naser's class All students at East Elementary designed a bookmark to enter the bookmark contest. A special committee then narrowed down the bookmarks to a few finalists. Each grade level and teachers voted for their favorite bookmark from their grade. Congratulations to those that won! These bookmarks will be printed and used by students at East Elementary for the year. #Leadon #Orabs #bookmarks #reading #elementary

5th grade students in Ms. Nordahl's Science Class are learning about the four spheres of the Earth. Students have learned about the biosphere, geosphere and today the students dived into learning more about the hydrosphere. As an introduction to learning more about the hydrosphere, students worked in groups and traveled around the room to different learning stations. At each station they had to scan a QR code to bring up a video that would give more information about the hydrosphere. Students were responsible for recording information they learned about the hydrosphere as they traveled to each station. This was a great way to put the learning in the students hands and see what pieces of information they thought were important as they learned more about the hydrosphere today. #LeadOn #Orabs #technology #science

Tickets for the Sheldon Fall Play "Did Someone Say Murder?" will go on sale Monday morning starting at 8:00 AM in the HS office. Student tickets are $6 and adult tickets are $8! You can also purchase your tickets in the High School Office before the show on Friday and Saturday starting at 6:45 pm.

This week at Sheldon Community School District!

3rd Graders are excited to be learning how to write in cursive during writing time. Students have learned all of their lowercase letters and next week will move onto learning their uppercase letters. They are excited to be able to write in cursive for some of their writing assignments coming up. #Leadon #orabs #handwriting

Kindergarteners have learned so much in the first quarter of the school year. Students are now working on taking the sounds they have been learning and writing CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words and reading them aloud. Before long, these students will be reading! Way to go Kindergarteners. #LeadOn #Orabs #Kindergarten

8th grade students have been learning about the Revolutionary War in History Class. As a cumulation assignment for the unit, students were given some of the historical events, important individuals involved and battles that happened during that time and were asked to create a timeline and organize the events, along with the people associated with those events. This was a great way for students to organize all of the information from the unit and review for their test coming up. #orabs #LeadOn #history

Reminder, there will be NO SCHOOL on Friday, November 4. Enjoy the day off and we will see you Monday!

Reminder Conferences are tonight. If you are scheduled for Thursday, please make sure to come hear how your student is doing! #LEADON #ORABS

This past week twelve of our Sheldon High School FFA members headed to Indianapolis for the 95th National FFA Convention. They attended many sessions and convention activities. FFA members participated in National Days of Service, toured many businesses and museums including the John Deere Museum, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum and The Fair Oaks Dairy. Our members had an amazing time and experience at the National FFA Convention. #LeadOn #Orabs #FFA