Sheldon Community School District

We need your help! We are looking for all former Orabs that are serving or have served for our country. If you have a son or daughter, brother or sister, father or mother that has served, please send a picture and a quick description of their service to brittany.maassen@sheldonschools.com. We would like to pay tribute to them in a special way for Veterans Day. **All pictures and descriptions need to be emailed by November 8 at noon**

The Sheldon FCA Group is excited to be helping to distribute and fill boxes for Operation Christmas Child! Their goal is to fill at least 120 boxes, this goal is 5 more boxes than they filled last year. They are asking for your help in reaching their goal! If you are interested in helping out or have questions, please contact Mr. Letsche at the High School for more information. A rough estimate is the cost to fill a box is around $25. In addition there is also a suggested $10 donation for shipping. There are instructions inside the boxes as to what things can and cannot go in the boxes. Also, information about age appropriate gifts. #orabs #leadon

Dr. Erin Anderson from Sheldon Family Dental Clinic in Sheldon came to talk with the seniors in Physics class on Friday about undergrad and graduate programs. Students learned the difference between the two, what you can do with a degree from both and students were able to ask any other questions they had about college. Thanks Dr. Anderson for coming in to talk to our students! #leadon #orabs #collegeprep

Sheldon Middle School will be celebrating Red Ribbon Week this week. Here are the dress up days for the week. Reminder we do not have school on Friday. #leadon #orabs

This week at Sheldon Community School District. Reminder if you plan to go to the regional volleyball game on Tuesday in Sioux Center, you will need to get your tickets online (Link will be posted in the comments of this post) To do this, you will need to create an account through Bound. Click the Purchase Tickets option at the top of the screen in green. Get logged in or create an account to log in and purchase your tickets. #leadon #orabs

The Sheldon CAPS Program hosted the "Friday Coffee" for local Sheldon businesses this morning. The CAPS program shared more about their program and what they do. CAPS has Student-Associates that develop problem-solving and professional skills to work on real projects for real business clients. This experience along with focused development on career exploration helps prepare each of them for their purpose beyond their life as a student. CAPS is an example of how business, community and education can partner to produce personalized learning experiences that educate the workforce of tomorrow. Thank you to the businesses that came to learn more about CAPS.

Check out the amazing work coming out of our Intro Art class! There is no tracing here, all freehand drawing! Congrats on your hard work, it's wonderful seeing all your art skills grow!" Abby Van Beek, Tyson Getting, Grace Gomez and Alissa Porreca are pictured holding their pencil drawing of their self portrait. #leadon #orabs #art

The second graders at East Elementary led this month's all school assembly! Students did a reader's theater to give examples of how to make the right choices when it comes to school work and balancing all of the other things they like to do. Great job second grade! #leadon #secondgrade #orabs

5th graders have had some exciting days of hands on learning in Ms. Nordahl's science class. Students observed chemical reactions with elephant toothpaste. Students then had to find evidence from the experiment to prove why it was a chemical reaction in a write-up that followed. The 5th graders also made Oobleck, which is a Non-Newtonian fluid. Students were able to see how Oobleck acts like a solid and a liquid.

Students in Biology did a cell membrane lab to observe its function, structure, and behavior. Students were able to learn the different concepts associated with cell membranes: Concept 1: Membranes are fluid and flexible. Concept 2: Membranes can self-repair. Concept 3: Eukaryotic cells feature membrane bound organelles. Concept 4: Proteins provide a passageway for large or electrically charged molecules. This was a great lab for students to "see" what is happening in the cell. #leadon #orabs

Middle School Student's are preparing for Red Ribbon Week next week. One of the things the students did in preparation was to design posters to put around the school for Red Ribbon Week. Students posters were then judged for the top 4 winners. This year's Red Ribbon Week Poster Winners are: Margot Michels, Alexis Cannoy, Claire Nilles and Theresa Nilles. These and all of the posters created by our students will be up around the school next week! Next week the Middle School will be dressing up for Red Ribbon Week. Here are the dress up days. Reminder there is no school next week Friday.

3rd graders went on a mystery scavenger hunt during library class. Students practiced looking for mystery books throughout the library. They've practiced searching for books before, but this time Mrs. De Zeeuw and Mrs. Freymann added a twist—students had to hunt in the dark with flashlights to find the correct books. #leadon #orabs

6th graders sharpen their survival skills. They completed stations of cord braiding, knot making, spear throwing and the favorite, fire making. This activity was a great way for students to make connections with the main character, Brian, while they are reading the book, "Hatchet". Thanks to Matt Jurgens for helping with this activity. #leadon #orabs

Sheldon Volleyball will play at home on Wednesday, October 19 at 7:00 PM vs. Spirit Lake. Tickets must be purchased online using this link https://sheldonschools.hometownticketing.com/embed/all **No passes of any sort will be accepted at this game**

Some of our High School Students participated in SkillsUSA Day in Sioux City. SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce. SkillsUSA helps provide educational programs, events and competitions that support career and technical education in the nation’s classrooms. Our students had a great day of hands on learning in multiple areas of trade. #leadon #orabs

Congratulations to Lewis Scheaffer, Kyler McCuddin, and Theresa Nilles who made the Northwest Iowa Honor Band and another congratulations to Theresa, who also qualified for the All-Iowa 8th Grade Honor Band! #leadon #orabs

This week at Sheldon Community School District! **If volleyball would win Monday, they would play Wednesday night. More information will be posted after Monday if they would win** #leadon #orabs

7th graders are working on developing fraction sense in math class. In class they used pictures to help them determine the smallest, biggest, those close to half, and then ordered them. Being able to "see" the fraction amount helps our students' better understand the variety of fractions that they will be working with throughout their fraction units. #leadon #orabs #math

Students at the Little Orab Preschool had some special visitors this week. The FFA members brought some of the pumpkins that they grew this season to the preschoolers to paint! The students had a great time painting their pumpkins! #leadon #orabs #fall

East Elementary is continuing to focus on the book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," the book by Stephen Covey to help our students develop their leadership skills throughout the year. Second grade students practiced Habit 2, "Begin with the End in Mind" with groups this week. Students were asked to create a paper chain out of one piece of paper, that reached a specific distance. Students were not given instructions on how many circles they needed, rather they were to work as a group to decide how they could create a paper chain, that met the requirements. Our students worked well as a groups through this activity practicing their leadership skills. #leadon #orabs