Sheldon Middle School

Math students at Sheldon Middle School have been working on memorizing common fractions, their decimals, and their percents. Students played memory and the card game spoons with a few variations to help them review these skills! *Image created by Sheldon High School Mass Media Student, Carlie Westra** #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #math #mathpractice #learningisfun

Please note today is the last day to request an absentee ballot. You can find more information about voting under the "Bond Info" tab on our website: www.sheldonschools.com

Satellite Voting Locations and Times. For more information head to www.sheldonschools.com #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #bondissue #voting

Sheldon Middle School will be celebrating Red Ribbon Week this week. Students and staff at the Sheldon Middle School are invited to dress up for each themed day. #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #redribbonweek #drugfree #dressupday

All of our Sheldon Middle School Students get the opportunity to take computer programming during their 7th and 8th grade years. This is a great opportunity for our students to enhance their critical thinking, problem solving, and technology skills. here our Computer Science students are working together on a computer programing project. **Image created by Sheldon Mass Media Student, Maria Hinojosa** #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #computerprogramming #computerscience #STEM

ATTN: O'Brien County Voters You can vote early with an absentee ballot at Parent/Teacher conferences! East Elementary School will be hosting satellite voting. #LeadOn #Orabs #sheldonorabs #voting

Students in Mrs. Vogel's room enjoyed painting pumpkins for a fun fall activity! **Image created by Sheldon Mass Media Student, Heather Honkomp.** #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #pumpkin #fall

Some Sheldon teachers were able to attend the Iowa Technology and Education Conference this week to learn more about how to engage, equip, empower, and transform education for our students using technology. #leadon #ITEC_ia #iowacsta #Sheldon #sheldonorabs #orabs #STEM #computers #tech #learning

A perfect fall day for some disc golf! 7/8 PE finished up their Disc Golf Unit with a trip to Hills Park to play the disc golf course. It was a beautiful day to spend outdoors playing the course! #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #discgolf #outdoors #PE

Thank You Bus Drivers! First graders worked on a thank you for the bus drivers for driving the whole school body around for the bus parade during East Elementary's Blue Ribbon School Celebration last Friday. #LeadOn #Orabs #sheldonorab #blueribbonschool

Happy Boss's Day to all of the amazing people that make our school great! Thank you for your leadership and everything that you do for our schools. **Image created by Sheldon High School Mass Media Student, Heather Honkomp** #LeadOn #Orabs #sheldonorabs #bossday

Important Information Regarding Parent Teacher Conferences We will be having a 1-hour early dismissal for Parent Teacher Conferences on the following days: Monday, October 30 Thursday, November 2 Wednesday will still a 1 hour early dismissal like normal. Tendremos las 2:15 p.m. Salida temprana en estos días de conferencia: Lunes 30 de octubre Jueves 2 de noviembre Por favor planifique en consecuencia. **Image created by Sheldon High School Mass Media Student, Carlie Westra** #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs

Fishing in Math! 8th graders in Mrs. Woelber's math class worked on proportions by determining how many fish were in their lake by tagging fish and then recapturing them. They set up proportions for 3 different trials to determine their totals and then talked about why their numbers weren't always the same and what might distort their data. #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #learning #math

The Book Fair is Coming to the Sheldon Middle School! The Book Fair will be set up at the Sheldon Middle School from October 30-November 2. Stay tuned for more information. #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #bookfair

The 6th graders were able to test their survival skills! 6th grade students are reading the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. Matt Jurgens, with Osceola County Conservation, came to give the students some real experience with things that are happening in the book. Mr. Jurgens had three Survival Skill stations for the kids to try, cord making, atlatl throwing, and fire starting. #LeadON #orabs #sheldonorabs #sheldonmiddleschool #reading

Mrs. Woelber loves to use her new whiteboard table in math class to help students be able to collaborate as well as show their work in one area! #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #learning #teaching #math

Congratulations to Mrs. Kiezer for being voted the McTeacher of the Month from McDonalds! Thank you for everything you do for our students, you are a fantastic part of our team. #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #McTeacher #teachers

7th graders at Sheldon Middle School had a special Instagram Influencer visit with them this week. The 7th graders just finished reading some articles about internet influencers in class and were lucky enough to have one come and speak to them yesterday. Katie Koenecke, known for her life coaching and influencer work with Scooters, talked about her job as an influencer and what it takes to be in the business. Thank you Katie. for coming in to share more about your career with our students. #LeadOn #Orabs #sheldonorabs #influencer #orabs #sheldon #reading #lit #ELA

5th graders tested salt with different particle sizes to see if the size of the particle affects the amount of time it takes to dissolve in water in one of their science lab this week at Sheldon Middle School. #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #science #learning #testing

5th graders worked on creating comic strips to show what they have learned about immigrants adapting to and shaping America in social studies at the Middle School. #LeadOn #orabs #sheldonorabs #socialstudies #learning